Ramblings of an Englishman

In a wolrd where content upon content is the way many streaming services go many companies arm themselves with the rights to comics and various other Intellectual Properties (IPs) to turn into series or movies to release on their platforms. One of the first major moves when it comes to aquire IPs was when Disney bought the rights to both Star Wars & Marvel Entertainment which this will focus on the later. Bought for $4 billion in 2009 Disney have more then made their money back and then some. Having the largest media franchise will help massivly when getting people to pay for a product and as we have seen even in the last 12 months that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is still making big money. At box office Spider-Man: No Way Home made $1.901 billion (before its rerelease, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness made $954.9 million and as of the date of writing (14th August) Thor: Love and Thunder has made  $720.5 million all huge numbers in a time where...

Spoilers for Spider-Man No Way Home and potential spoilers for Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness and other future Marvel shows and films  Marvel Phase four finally got a kick in the right direction. While I really enjoyed Shang-Chi a so so Black Widow film and the divisiveness of The Eternals meant that we were for sure on a comedown from Endgame film wise and that was always going to be the case. Ignoring what are smaller stories for the TV shows (which I do enjoy all of them some more then others) the big screen . However, following Spider-Man No Way Home I think people will be changing their mind on it. While the story and characters of Shang-Chi shouldn't be slept on Spider-Man brings a big concept to the big screen in the multiverse.  Between the villains and the Spider-Men of the Sam Raimi and Mark Webb universes we are moving ahead with another massive idea one which can raise the half universe ending stakes of Thanos in Multiversal domination. It opens a lot ...

With San Diego Comic Con happening it was the perfect time for Marvel to announce their next slate of movies. The Infinity Saga is now done allowing Marvel to move on with some new and fresh ideas. I am to go through all of them to give my thoughts and excitement. But first of all I am really happy that Endgame is now the highest grossing film of all time. Even if it for a small moment in time it is a massive achievement for all at Marvel Studios and they deserve all the credit in creating a historic film such as this. Black Widow The next film for the MCU is the long awaited Black Widow film. I'm really looking forward to them expanding on the story to one of the original Avengers. The main thing I want to look into with this is the characters these movies and series will introduce Red Guardian, Yelena Belova and Taskmaster, that's a strong list a new characters to enhance this universe and Taskmaster is someone I have been hoping to see in the MCU for a while. The one main...

As this is an ever updating title this has a SPOILER alert. (Please note this is an old post made by me on a previous blog which I am moving over to here) For me there is nothing currently going that gets my attention more than the workings of Marvel with their Cinematic Universe. Ever since I was 11 with the release of Iron Man the characters and stories told have hooked me. Speaking of those characters, when it comes to the MCU there is a load of characters at the disposal of Marvel from those based on Earth to all around the cosmos, and the potential to release content set in the MCU is at an all-time high for years fans have wanted the stars of the films and stars of the TV & Netflix show to interact but never have had the chance. Perhaps they didn't have a better chance than with Lego Marvel Avengers a few years ago however  I was left disappointed at the game as it had the potential to deliver upon the use all these characters to tell a vast original story but decided t...