A whopping 32 films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been released in the last 15 years. Star Wars fans, on the other hand, have mainly been supplied with series on Disney+ since the last movie in 2019. The high number of publications recently resembled a flood of content that has already led to oversaturation for many has.
Already in April 2023 we reported that Marvel wants to release fewer films and series from now on. Disney boss Bob Iger has now confirmed this strategy for the two major brands.
Disney CEO relies on more quality than quantity in Marvel and Star Wars
As Iger told CNBC now, less Marvel and Star Wars content will be produced and published in the future. The Disney CEO says himself that the increased proportion of MCU content due to the additional Disney + series to one Lack of focus and attention would have led.
After the new Star Wars trilogy was heavily criticized with episodes 8 and 9, it is also doing last in the MCU demonstrably increasing fatigue broad. Even if the Phase 4 films were still far from box office flops, blockbusters like Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings or Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania were no longer able to bring in as much money as they did the previous films from the Marvel Universe.
Iger’s decision also ties into the overall plan at Disney save $3 billion in content costs this year, from which only sport is excluded. So it sounds like Disney is about to pull the emergency brake for more quality over quantity in Marvel and Star Wars.
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