Welcome to Would You
Like To Know More, a new category of post where I deal with geek news. In these articles I’ll be relaying news
stories, expanding on announcements and events, explaining obscure nerdy news,
and speculating on what’s to come.
With all that said let’s talk about Ant-Man’s
box office returns.
So, the opening returns are in on Ant-Man and while the film is making solid bank and managed to take
the #1 spot from Minions it is coming
in a bit bellow predictions and has had one of the weakest openings of any
Marvel studios film. Audience
reaction seems to be pretty evenly spread across the spectrum with some people
like myself really liking the film while others have at best found it
forgettably enjoyable and at worst emblematic of Marvel’s bigger issues with
diverse representation in their films.
However, Ant-Man’s role in the
ongoing ‘Marvel Problem’ is a discussion for a different blog post, for right
now I want to talk about the impact of Ant-Man’s
more modest success might have on how Marvel produces films and the future of
these characters.
