Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that Disney should be spending its $1 billion-plus profits from the Avengers: Endgame film on paying all it’s employees middle-class wages.
NEW YORK (AP) — The universe belongs to Marvel. “Avengers: Endgame” shattered the record for biggest opening weekend with an estimated $350 million in ticket sales domestically and $1.2 billion globally, reaching a new pinnacle in the blockbuster era that the comic-book studio has come to dominate.
Avengers: Endgame, the culmination of ten years of Marvel superhero movies, has already smashed the global box office record after only two days in theaters. By Friday, the latest Marvel blockbuster had already made $644 million, making it the biggest opening of any film in history, according to CNN Business.
Disney announced Friday that it has reinstated disgraced A-list Hollywood writer-director James Gunn to direct the third in installment of the wildly popular Marvel superhero franchise film Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 after firing him over social media posts he made about committing child rape and jokes about the Holocaust, Mexicans and AIDS.
NEW YORK (AP) — James Gunn may have been fired from Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” but DC Comics will welcome him with open arms.
The primary cast of Guardians of the Galaxy came out in support of director James Gunn, but failed to address his connection to Huston Huddleston, a man convicted of possessing child pornography.
The cast of Guardians of the Galaxy franchise issued a joint statement Monday showing their full support and expressing that Disney rehire James Gunn to direct the third film following after several tweets surfaced showing the director joking about child rape, pedophilia, and the Holocaust.
Actress Selma Blair deleted her Twitter account over the weekend in support of “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn.
“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” has checked into the No. 1 spot at the box office in its opening weekend and left the Dwayne Johnson action thriller, “Skyscraper,” in the dust.
