The actors strike is over, Marvel release dates post-strike, Kevin Feige will not make Star Wars After all

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It’s devastating news for MCU fans everywhere - The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Deadpool 3 will be the ONLY MCU film released in 2024. The shift starts with Deadpool 3’s release date - now July 26 instead of May 3 - and trickles down to the other MCU films. Captain America: New World Order’s new release date is February 25, 2025, Thunderbolts is moved to July 25, 2025, and Blade is now pushed to November 7, 2025. Blade and Thunderbolts did not have scripts going into this year’s Writer’s Strike.

Rather than make his mark in the Galaxy Far, Far, Away, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is going to turn his space laser focus back to projects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A simple “no” answered the question as to whether he would be producing a Star Wars film. The news that Feige would helm a Star Wars film broke in 2019, with Loki writer Michael Waldron being signed on in 2021. 

A vote last Friday brought a tentative agreement between the majority of SAG-AFTRA’s National Board and the studio CEO’s of the AMPTP, ending the 118-day actors strike. The guild stated that the total package is valued at more than $1 billion in new wages and benefit plan funding. The 80-page summary of the agreement is not yet public, but was made available to guild members on November 13. Ratification voting for the 160,000 plus members of SAG-AFTRA runs from November 14 through the first week of December. 

Sony released the first trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which is set for theatrical release on March 29, 2024. Gil Kenan directs the follow-up to Jason Reitman‘s 2021 movie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which helped give the series new life.

Disney released a trailer for upcoming Pixar film Inside Out 2. The trailer for the sequel introduces a new emotion: Anxiety. Inside Out 2 is set to release in theaters on June 14, 2024, almost nine years after the first film.

The first trailer for The Garfield Movie has been released. Chicken Little and Emperor’s New Groove director Mark Dindal is the director and the film has a script written by David Reynolds, known for Finding Nemo. The film, which stars Chris Pratt, Hannah Waddingham, Nicholas Hoult, and Samuel L. Jackson in voiceover roles will hit theaters on February 16, 2024.

The trailer dropped for Mean Girls. The musical movie is based on the 2018 Broadway musical, which is based on the 2004 movie, which is based on the 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabees.

Reacher Season 2 has an official premiere date at Amazon Prime Video, with the streamer also dropping the first trailer for the new season of the popular series.

Netflix released The first full trailer for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire. The film begins streaming on December 22.

The long-awaited live-action series version of Avatar: The Last Airbender from Netflix revealed its first teaser trailer. The first, eight-episode season will premiere sometime in 2024.

Netflix has dropped its first trailer for Damsel, an epic fantasy film starring Millie Bobby Brown, Robin Wright, and Angela Bassett. The film is set to hit Netflix sometime in 2024.

We also got a first look at upcoming anime spinoff The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. The film is expected to arrive on Netflix sometime in late 2024.