Disney CEO Bob Iger says it's time for 'newness' from Marvel movies

After a 4th Thor movie and a 3rd standalone Ant-Man film, adjacent Disney CEO Bob Iger wants thing caller retired Marvel.

"Sequels typically worked good for us," Iger said during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference connected Thursday. "Do you request a 3rd and a 4th for instance? Or is it clip to crook to different characters?"

His comments travel connected the heels of the disappointing container bureau show of "Ant-Man and the Wasp successful Quantumania." As of Sunday, the film, which has been successful theaters for 3 weeks, has tallied conscionable $420 cardinal globally.

Domestically, the movie has floundered with $187 cardinal successful full summons income aft premiering with a $104 cardinal opening weekend. While that outpaces the full gross of the archetypal Ant-Man's home container bureau successful 2015, it's a crisp autumn from pre-pandemic averages. Especially, considering the movie features the Marvel Cinematic Universe's adjacent large villain, Kang.

"There's thing successful immoderate mode inherently disconnected successful presumption of the Marvel brand," Iger said. "I deliberation we conscionable person to look astatine what characters and stories we're mining, and you look astatine the trajectory of Marvel implicit the adjacent 5 years, you'll spot a batch of newness. We're going to crook backmost to the Avengers franchise, but with a full antithetic acceptable of Avengers."

Iger's remarks travel arsenic helium orchestrates a broad restructuring of the company, with an oculus connected slashing $5.5 cardinal successful costs – with $3 cardinal of that coming from content.

Disney has been releasing caller contented from the MCU astatine a somewhat frenetic gait implicit the past fewer years. The institution has utilized streaming work Disney+ arsenic a conveyance to present caller characters — Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk — arsenic good arsenic to much profoundly research bequest characters (Loki, Falcon, the Winter Soldier) betwixt theatrical releases.

As the MCU grows, immoderate person rallied down the franchise, excited for caller entrants and content. Others person recovered the required viewing of further bid to beryllium arduous and wonderment if Disney should dilatory down its complaint of releases.

The company's breakneck gait of contented organisation has besides enactment a batch of pressure connected ocular effects groups tasked with turning greenish surface enactment sequences into a feast for the eyes. The accrued output from the workplace has exacerbated accumulation woes these 3rd parties faced successful the aftermath of shutdowns owed to the pandemic. The effect has been immoderate disapproval astir underwhelming superpower effects oregon slapdash CGI backgrounds that look muddled.

Marvel has begun spreading retired its releases. After "Quantumania" successful February, the workplace volition merchandise "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" successful May and has postponed "The Marvels," antecedently acceptable for July, until November.

Additionally, the magnitude of clip betwixt Disney+ Marvel bid has grown. A caller Marvel bid has not debuted since the last episodes of "She-Hulk" launched successful aboriginal October. "Secret Invasion" and play 2 of "Loki" are adjacent connected the list, but Disney has not provided merchandise dates for either arsenic of yet.

"There are a batch much stories to tell," Iger said Thursday.