I hope this does really well since in a way this is Foxverse's No Way Home. All the characters, big and small, from 2000 to 2018 Foxverse movies, sounds exciting. Its going to be cameos galore in the theaters in July/August!
But also, I hope this will give goodwill to the mcu movies coming out next year, most especially the Fantastic 4.
If I was Marvel Studios, I would attach the trailer of Brave New World with Deadpool & Wolverine.
Brave New World is
definitely going to be attached. The whole reason that trailer released when it did was to have it attached.
For Marvel now, if a film is good - it’ll do good. If a film isn’t good, it won’t. Generally the same deal for every other movie made with rare exceptions.
That is to say The Marvels and Quantummania to the general public were far from good films in comparison to the rest of the MCU. Both received the lowest MCU cinemascore alongside The Eternals. Both failed on their
own merits rather than due to the MCU brand. One required TV viewing beforehand and the other went completely against type by changing the genre up, both undoubtedly counted against them as well. Bad films doing bad isn’t surprising.
Dr. Strange 2 box office dramatically rose from the first film and came close to a billion (a number, contrary to popular belief, that very
few non-Avengers MCU films reach). Thor Love and Thunder made more domestically than the other Thor films, internationally it didn’t play in as many countries as the previous ones did. Black Panther 2 while not meeting a billion, did
great especially considering it is the only action blockbuster sequel soon after the fact that changed the protagonist (which is far from an easy feat).
On DC side, their films kept being tarnished review-wise by critics and audiences alike. The only exception that had a good reception was The Batman.
Bad films - perform bad. Last year emphasized that superhero films aren’t invulnerable to that (but I don’t remember a time when that wasn’t the case).
That’s how it should be too. Otherwise studios will fall into a pattern of putting in less effort due to oddly believing that bad films do good.
If Fantastic Four is a good film - it’ll do good. From everyone attached to it and the kind of attention put into it, not seeing why it wouldn’t be. The hardest hurdle there is the same one Batman Begins faced - proving it’s better than the last one/s.
