1/6/2024 0 Comments Bomb in that box videoInstead, Cameron washed his hands after two epic Terminator films. Who’s to blame for the steady decline of Terminator films after the groundbreaking T2? Well, it was Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna who surprised James Cameron and bought his baby out of bankruptcy, thinking JC would forgive them and continue the saga of cyborgs and Skynet. Production cost here ballooned to $200 million, with the lowest worldwide gross ever for an X-Men film at $252.M. The future of X-Men is now in the hands of MCU boss Kevin Feige. Kinberg fell on the sword for a film that got a CinemaScore of B- but a dreadful Rotten Tomatoes score of 23% both were the lowest scores ever for the franchise. It also didn’t help that staff promoting the movie was being laid off. 14, which not only confused fans, but sent a message that the movie was damaged goods. The last-minute release date change occurred two days after Fox dropped the second trailer, which listed Dark Phoenix’s release date as Feb. There were multiple release date changes - early November became February 14 and finally June 7. Dark Phoenix was never intended to a be summer film, but an offseason release before Captain Marvel became Marvel’s first female superhero in a stand-alone film. And they wanted a bigger climatic ending where the heroes battle (versus the intimate finale that was released). Ultimately, test audiences thumbed down endings where Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) died. Dark Phoenix was originally conceived as two films, but the studio had second thoughts. What went wrong? Some believe the eye of the studio wasn’t on a first-time director as much as would have been the case if Fox wasn’t being inhaled by Disney. X-Men star Jennifer Lawrence lobbied for Kinberg. As the writer and producer and creative spine of recent X-Men movies, Simon Kinberg was finally entrusted to direct his own movie after backstopping others, including Josh Trank in Fantastic Four.
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