Is the Superhero Era Finally Ending?

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss whether the recent stretch of superhero flops is a sign of things to come or simply a blip on the radar. Four of the last six Marvel films have underperformed, DC’s ‘The Flash’ just bombed, and Marvel has pushed back the release date of its next line of Avengers films. So is it officially time to hit the panic button on the superhero genre? For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.2	We're now more than 20 years since that first Spider-Man movie launched Hollywood into its superhero age in 2002.
1:11.5	I shudder to think how many hours I've spent watching these movies since then.
1:15.1	Smarter people than me can figure out why we've loved these movies.
1:18.5	Arguably, post-9-11, America and the rest of the world has been desperate for heroes
1:22.5	in this age of anxiety and constant threats.
1:24.7	And that coincided with the rise of technology that enabled visual effects that weren't possible in those first Batman and Superman movies.
1:31.3	Then Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion in turn what was a movie business built on making hits and then making a few sequels to those hits into a never-ending franchise conveyor belt, dozens of interconnected movies.
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