Marvel To Reduce The Number Of Films & TV Series Spinoffs Per Year

[Outsiders]

During a conference call with analysts on Tuesday, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that the company will reduce the number of Marvel movies it produces each year to a maximum of three, with a focus on ensuring the quality of these films. Previously, Disney had been releasing around four Marvel movies annually.

Additionally, there will be a decrease in the number of TV series spinoffs for the Marvel franchise.  Marvel will reduce the number of series it produces each year from four to two. The CEO referred to the current output as a remnant of a previous goal to increase the quantity of shows. However, the company is now moving towards gradually decreasing the volume of its production.

Source: Deadline

[tarot]

That's good. They just kept pushing it too much and it became quantity over quality.

[AndyL]

Yes this is a great thing. Had they still been doing the kind of quality work they were doing in the early MCU I would be all about as many movies or shows as possible. But somewhere they lost their way. If I had to pick a spot it is right around the time of Cap Marvel. No shade to Brie or to lady supers but I really feel like they tried to shove a really mid tier, not too likeable, boring, never that popular charater down our throat by sandwiching it between the two biggest movies in MCU history and then due to that consequential success of it started picking out pretty much every fence line character and make a show or movie. Yes GOTG was a massive surprise success but it had a great director with a great vision. But She-Hulk, Moon Knight, Hawkeye and Echo were put in the hands of a bunch of film school flunkie directors and low talent tween novel writers and filled them with terrible CGI to put a cherry on top. Go back to what worked. Use popular character. Pay proper respect to the history and source material. Write good stories without all your self serving and self identifying markers and lectures and bring back cool fighting scenes. It's seriously that easy. Saying there's superhero movie fatigue is like saying there's slasher movie fatigue. It's just not the case. It's terrible movie fatigue. That is the problem. Just make a good movie and people will watch.

[Lord_Scareglow]

Sure, sounds like a fine plan, as much as I'm a huge fan who watches every movie and loves most things, I'm easily amused when it comes to Marvel, it's likely a good thing to keep the quality over quantity, there has been a lot of Marvel Entertainment in the last few years and a ton of movies/shows get lost because of it, trimming it all down likely will make things matter to people more and hit harder. There has been a lot of unnecessary movies and shows, that kinda just seem like they made them for the sake of it, like really we didn't need an Echo show, Love & Thunder should have never happened, we didn't really need Eternals or Shang Chi, I liked both those movies but we didn't really need them. Moon Knight was poorly executed in the end, Just some stuff like that.

 

[Hordak Rules]

Perfectly fine with this. There hasn't been much I haven't liked but there's only been a handful of things that I genuinely loved. I think that's the important thing. You want things that keep people coming back and watching and they were producing a lot of "meh". 

[Reno]

I understand the quality over quantity thing, but they definitely shouldn't expect people like me to keep a Disney+ subscription for 2 tv shows per year. I've been a subscriber since Day 1 and have never cancelled for even a month up to this point. However I'll be cancelling now as soon as X-men '97 is over and will then only re-subscribe for one month at a time after all episodes of the next Marvel shows are out, and then immediately cancel again each time after I binge them over a weekend. I'm not paying any longer for a monthly service all year long that is only giving me a dozen or so episodes per year of new content that I care about. I never re-watch anything and don't care at all about anything outside of their Marvel content. I've watched the Star Wars shows as well while I've been an active subscriber but would never subscribe just to watch those. There are 52 weeks in a year. If they can't provide at least 50 hours of new content per year that I want to watch then there is no way that I can justify paying for a subscription, period - especially as they keep raising their price.

For the movies, I'll still go see each one in the theater. I definitely prefer quality over quantity here - but more than anything I think that Disney just needs to lower their expectations. There probably won't be many more slam dunk $1 billion movies like the Avengers movies did. That ship has likely mostly sailed on comic book properties, although it was nice while it lasted. I think that James Gunn and Warner Bros are going to learn that the hard way very soon. I won't be surprised if they can their whole "10-year plan" after 2 movies. Warner Bros has never had any patience and can never stick to a long term plan. If that Superman movie doesn't do at least $1 billion, that whole thing is probably over right out of the gate. The studios need to lower their budgets and lower their performance expectations. Not everything can be a blockbuster.

[ransomz]

I'm all for quality over quantity. I will be keeping my Disney+ year round because there is still plenty of stuff on there I like to watch. I do the dine and dash with Paramount+, though. 

[Reno]

On 5/7/2024 at 5:00 PM, ransomz said:

I'm all for quality over quantity. I will be keeping my Disney+ year round because there is still plenty of stuff on there I like to watch. I do the dine and dash with Paramount+, though. 

I'm one of those guys that had been long time loyal subscribers to many of these services since I don't have cable/satellite, but just recently dropped Paramount+ and AppleTV. Will be doing the same with (HBO) Max and Disney+/Hulu later this month. Netflix, Prime and Peacock will likely be the only ones that I keep every month going forward. Will only be adding the others for a month at a time when they have something I actually want to watch (once or twice per year).