THE RUSSOS WILL OVERSEE THE X-MEN REBOOT AFTER AVENGERS?

[@MarkSkiban]

You were more aware of Oscar movies in the '90s because the major studios still made mid-budget movies back then and put their marketing muscle into them. In the mid 2000s, they went all in on IP, and that left the mid-budget movies out in the cold. The indie studios and streamers then grabbed them up, and they don't have the marketing budgets of a major studio. The corporatization of movie studios is to blame, as are audiences for only showing up for the big brands.

[@NickMear]

Dueling Big Balls had me dying, that was gold.

[@KyleFromSouthPark1995]

When it comes to the russos , the majority of marvel fans wont care what they did outside of marvel. And thats okay. Alot of directors made their name by being in 1 genre.

[@EleventhCubFan]

Woah! No hat Harloff? Lookin Good!

[@SubhashPandey-p8r]

Someone please put timestamps 🙏

[@williamdaniels9728]

⌚⌛☀

[@hakimzane]

I have come to loathe The Acolyte and it's diehard fans that refuse to acknowledge the shows failings, and continue to blame "fans" for it's downfall. They refuse to see that the show was a failure due to budget, viewership, and it's creative shortcomings. No one said you can't enjoy it, but blaming anything else besides the actual issues is madness. Also, I thought the High Republic books ended up doing really badly? Did I miss something?

[@piusdoe8984]

You are on the weird side of internet if acolyte fans are who you loathe. With all the incel content out there, that is a very weird take

[@hakimzane]

@piusdoe8984 Did I say they were the only ones I can't stand? I can't stand either extreme side of the fan base and the discourse around most SW projects.

[@SM-pk7pg]

I was out due in part to first scene ' Yes, my child?' 😂😂😂😂 Horrendous.

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

You loathe The Acolyte? That’s a very edgy take. Bravo.

[@hakimzane]

@@SoulStylistJukeBox snarky comment on KZbin? How bold an original. Congratulations 👍🏾

[@richardlogan850]

Russo’s Extraction movies are 🔥🔥🔥 now gray man is different story lol which is a shame because the novel was awesome

[@ItsRafts]

The end killed me 😂😂😂😂

[@TheKeller1992]

Rocha's comments about the Acolyte are so correct, I watched the first 2 episodes got hyped at the cool moments and even was excited to see a Selkath alien in the Jedi Temple(shout out to Manaan and KotoR) but all their positive momentum from the first 2 episodes was instantly drained in that flashback episode(ep3) like I don't even care about the twins yet and this is such a massive slow down from how cool episode 1 and 2 were I just checked out

[@EleventhCubFan]

I’m okay with this. The Russo’s work best when they have someone like Kevin Feige overseeing them.

[@piusdoe8984]

Very true

[@HellBoy-jn9qm]

They're both horrible. You cappin

[@R17759]

@@HellBoy-jn9qmHow so

[@SPACEKNOCKERZ76]

@@HellBoy-jn9qmin marvel how have they been horrible?

[@matt1372]

I’m more than okay with this they made the best 4 mcu movies lol

[@P.E.NumberOne]

Kristian playing that soundbite of the person talking at slow speed every time soccer is mentioned is how I feel every time you talk about wrestling and football...my God it's painful.

[@playedout148]

American football is just advertising, replays, shots of coaches.

[@brothaghost6554]

Marvel needs a new writing team. The MCU direction right now feels lost

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

FYI: The theee Bob Dylan songs Timothy performed on SNL were: Three Angels, Outlaw Blues and Tomorrow is a Long Time. All three songs were previously released.

[@DustoMan]

You made your wife watch Team America? The poor woman.

[@mikeschmurf]

Win a gold fish here!

[@adeolaatitebi4575]

The Superman haters are going to hate. It won't change the fact that the DCEU is dead and buried. And as much as I loved Henry Cavill as the man of steel, his time as the character is over. Life goes on. People say he didn't have a chance to fully fresh out his character. Two things: one, then that's the fault of Zack Snyder for not fully realizing the character. Two, at least Cavill's Superman was in three movies. And if you count Black Adam post credit scene, he was in three and a quarter. Poor Brandon Routh would have loved to have as much screen time as Superman as Cavill did. David Corenswet is our new man of steel and I'm happy for both him and the new DCU.

[@NathanielWhitehead-vg3lc]

6:00 In my honest opinion, Ayo Edebiri as Storm is a TERRIBLE choice, if that rumor is true. I have said many times that Angela Bassett's interpretation of Queen Ramonda was 100% Storm under a different name; beautiful, elegant, statuesque, powerful, regal, commanding, motherly, and will not hesitate to throw hands when needed. Nothing that I've seen from Ayo gives off any of Storm's aura. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of talented no-name actress out there around the world. If Sarah Halley Finn (Marvel's casting director) really needs a known actress, then she already has a solid option that's recently worked under the Disney umbrella; Jodie Turner-Smith. I really, really hope that Sarah Halley Finn takes her time when it comes to casting Storm. Not just going for well-knowns that are readily available, but whoever checks off the most boxes on who Storm is, both visually and presence-wise, no matter where in the world she can find them. She's my all-time favorite fictional character and has been done so dirty by FOX. She's the one character I most want Marvel to get right in live-action.

[@JohnDoe-tm9wz]

Jeez, Harloff joined the army

[@parsman9914]

😄

[@marshallmecham1787]

looks good though ngl

[@Wolfhunter5607]

always thought F4 should of taken blades spot around family time for marvels first family instead of being up against Superman

[@matthewheywood8532]

I really hope when they do the X-men movies they also do a Disney plus show along side of them but have it centered on Xavier’s school. With that they can introduce new characters thru the school and move ones that are hits on the show into the movies . It’s a great way to introduce lesser known characters and they don’t all have to be young kids as some can be teachers at the school

[@josephashley4122]

Glad catch early live show. Very very early show

[@TheeBGShow]

The Russo disrespect is insane. They’ve made arguably 4 best mcu movies. Winter soldier civil war. Infinity and endgame

[@P.E.NumberOne]

I know right? It's almost as if there's a bias going on with these movie pundits. All this sudden hate out of nowhere is frustrating. The Russo's Marvel films are the best written and executed in the MCU and everyone is acting like they're the Gunn or Zack Snyder of film directors

[@Zethonring23]

And they made nothing good outside of that, they can't make a decent film without Kevin Feige holding their hand

[@TheeBGShow]

@@Zethonring23 “besides being the core Pilar of the most successful franchise ever they’re done nothing” 😂😂😂

[@ChrisTheAspergerGuy]

I think the Russos are just the right guys to oversee X-Men and various other MCU projects going forward. Their movies in this franchise always knock it out of the park, so they clearly know what they're doing. With the DCU, I very much like the idea of Eisa Gonzalez as Wonder Woman. That photo was very well done. As for Star Wars, I'm still not holding by breath about James Mangold's movie until it's actually in production. Then time will tell whether or not Kathleen Kennedy fires him and replaces him. And the box office results are pretty much expected for January. Although, I have to push back on that article saying Presence was a flop. No, it isn't. It cost only $2 million to make and made over $3 million. That's a good opening for a budget that small and it'll make more in the coming weeks. Good movie too.

[@JediMaster4Lyfe]

I did not have a chipmunk voice off on my calender for this episode 😅

[@akaDannyJenkins]

You want to dual had me rolling lol Rocha sounds like Joe Pesci as a chipmunk low key

[@MrZomg17]

Some of the Younger Mutants should be written in as having been created by the 3 Snaps of the Infinity Gauntlet because according to Sebastian Shaw a character from Xmen First Class the Mutant Gene can be activated by Gama Radiation ..other Mutants Xgene was activated by torture or extreme emotion..So it should be from all different sources that mutants come to be.

[@PrayerofSerenity14]

Rocha is so off on Drake showing up at the halftime show 😂

[@nathandrake253]

Lol yeah what's new

[@michaeljeacock]

The Grey man wasn't terrible. Cherry was, but that one wasn't written by Marcus and McFeely, and The Electric State hasn't come out yet. They have produced a lot of other stuff, but those three are the only movies they have directed after Endgame.

[@H20forlife]

Lynda Carter is simply the best Wonder Woman to date . She’s perfection , 🥰😍

[@idrathernot8459]

I’ve used Trade sine they sponsored before. I’m still very happy with my subscription.

[@kevinrudy]

It feels desperate more than anything to have these people come back to the MCU, it's a hard pivot back that I really don't see working.

[@MindofMike35]

I want the origin story of this vendetta rocha has with Jennifer lopez!!! What did she do to you, John, I gotta know!!! 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

[@Theprophet524]

Drake is not showing up at the Super Bowl, John. There is no way that happens. It would be the coldest day in hell. I understand the thought behind it because Nas joined Jay-z on stage when Jay-z had a concert but this is different.

[@SydneyPayne87]

Your squid game reaction is out??? I didn’t even get a notification for it wtf

[@MarkSkiban]

All of those Dylan songs are released.

[@thechewatson]

As an actor living in London I find theatre audiences (plays not musicals) quite an exclusive crowd. Dare I say pretentious? I feel the ‘cinema’ crowd is becoming the same way. Gate keeping cinema and poo pooing popular (broad appeal) movies. It essentially becomes a class issue within the education levels of general public. The Oscar’s are not helping this separation

[@Scott.Millis.Duluth]

All hail Big Balls vs. Big Cajones!

[@mnoir7257]

I love Marvel movies. Seen most of them a dozen times but there is no doubt that they are emblematic of America's dumbing down. John's point about people being into more challenging material in the past rings true. These days most people are just seeking sugary entertainment.

[@metallicnole4514]

They entertain people, which is ultimately the point of movies. They’ve also been keeping theaters alive

[@mnoir7257]

@ like I said, I’m a fan but it doesn’t make his point any less true.

[@josephashley4122]

Sorry its Prince.. when you think of Minnesota its Prince

[@jim1242]

24:13 The fact Star wars and Marvels movies are usually amongst the biggest movies of the year, but the Disney+ shows from 2024 (like Acolyte, Agatha All along etc) are all have way less watch minites than the overall top 10 streaming, just shows there is a big mainstream disconnect or lack of interest in seeing this franchises on television at the moment

[@ludwigvanbeethoven8448]

Im not sure if that's the case, relatively speaking. Mainly because of the specific special instances of each show mentioned. Im struggling to re-find the secondary source data I was looking at earlier but I think the initial viewing numbers for Acolyte was comparable to the other Star Wars shows but they took an absolute nose dive, which might be more an indicator of audiences judging the quality of the show rather than SW TV in general. As for Agatha, I dont think it ever had mass marketing as a tent pole MCU show, which was fine as it was crafted on a low budget to tell a story that would be enjoyed by its target audience. And it seems to have achieved that. If it was a flagship show it might suggest yes there's a lack of appetite for MCU TV on D+ but for a spin off that wasn't heavily marketed and recieced positive reviewers it's done more than well enough for its budget. Sometimes even Disney can make shows that are for target audiences, if the budget is right. Im not saying you are 100% wrong, I suspect there is audience fatigue at both franchises TV shows (im increasingly less excited for each new one as they so often have failed to deliver) but I don't think we can draw such a definitive conclusion off this data set for the reasons above.

[@herryjulianto8720]

Long Live Russo Brothers.

[@MindofMike35]

Before I saw Argylle, Matthew Vaughn was my choice to direct the X-men movie. Now, not so much!!!

[@josephashley4122]

Deepseek is new ChatGPT

[@josephdepina6191]

Pop quiz.? Name the director that Mr Rocha says at least once in almost every video that I have seen for the last month or so.?

[@scottelement]

Will you still watch “The Batman” with Sadie?

[@zaywhitt502]

I was watching the game and my goodness superman looked like an alien for sure in the face. They gotta fix that CGI or whatever it is 😂

[@HellBoy-jn9qm]

That's not CGI. That IS his face. You just need glasses like the rest of marvel phonies

[@mattheendpod2659]

Avengersvs xmen can only ever be phase six. It had ten years in the comics

[@mnoir7257]

I would wager a lot of money the Rey movie never gets made.

[@blackbeardbarkbark]

Disney only has Disney to blame for Star Wars being in the awful spot it’s in. Some of the content is brutally bad.

[@katevand]

Wrong show but I wanted to ask- do you plan on showing Sam Wandavision before Doc Strange 2 or The Marvels, I think she'd love it and I know I'd love to watch you watch it with Sam. Sam is great too, just a real awesome gal, ya'll friendship is so real it shows.

[@DustoMan]

He's mentioned fitting in Wandavision and Loki for sure since those are shorter. He wasn't sure about Falcon and Winter Soldier.

[@Grimbear13]

I know you guys are conference rivals but youre acting like the Eagles have been on a 90s Cowboys run... this is the 4th Super Bowl in 60 years lol. Its a HIGE deal to Philly fans and we love it. As long as its not the Cowboys Id probably be rooting for the Giants or Commanders but not really pay attention to it... but this is the first kind of hot streak we've had to this degree.

[@Grimbear13]

Also good shit to the Commanders and Rocha for your team purring out a good show. I was glad we could seal it out so I wasn't stressing to thr last second. But you guys are definitely going to be a threat!

[@josephashley4122]

Drake trying get state of louisiana to prevent kendrick from performing Not Like Us. Real Karen stuff. I agree itll hurt kendrick

[@godfr012]

Lol @ Drake for the Superbowl. No chance! 😅 Kendrick far too petty. Drake is too

[@MindofMike35]

We need dueling chipmunks!!! Big balls with a cowboy hat would be hilarious!!! 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

[@SM-pk7pg]

That was..... magnificent.

[@_PhillipBarajas]

Hey Kristian, i know this is a ways of a way but when you finally have Sam watch Doomsday and Secret Wars instead of her reviewing the film post watching, could you maybe record her in theater reaction? Obviously not pointing the screen but maybe a camera is facing her during the screening?

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Huh? 😂 Creepy, dude.

[@_PhillipBarajas]

@SoulStylistJukeBox an in theatre reaction is creepy? K then.

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

@@_PhillipBarajas You want a camera on her as she’s sitting in a movie theatre? Dude, you gotta chill.

[@charlesl5251]

New Blood please. We need fresh ideas, fresh styles, new vision.

[@nathandrake253]

Lol thats what they've been trying but no one liked it. Chloe zhao, Nia Dacosta, Taika are all new blood but everyone complains about those movies. Now they're going back to the old reliable people

[@mikeschmurf]

Blaming the refs is a losers reaction.

[@MindofMike35]

To Marvel and Kevin Feige... Stop caving to the opinion of "Fans" and just tell your story moving forward. I love the MCU, and it's my honest opinion that it started to fall off the cliff when they started to cater and panic at the slightest bit of criticism.

[@gleekthemonkey4570]

Kristian downplaying the Russos not being capable of developing a movie on their own is crazy. It doesn’t diminish their work in the MCU but it’s totally reasonable to question their ability to develop the x men themselves. Their successes have been working under Feige. Kristian’s argument that the fans haven’t seen their other work is also nonsensical. What does that have to do with their abilities as producers?

[@gamerforever5105]

F Love your hoodie men if fire ,were you get that KRISTIAN H

[@ludwigvanbeethoven8448]

I knew as soon as I saw The Acolyte story headline on my timeline on twitter it would be wildly misconstrued. The data - on viewership minutes, drop off trends and costs - supports exactly the same conclusions Kristian has been talking about since it aired. And yet youll find several thousand people on twitter today stating the exact opposite as its not been explained. I dont blame Deadline for reporting a bare fact - the fact it was second most watched viewership minutes - but the big mainstream Star Wars commentators who just shared the article without comment as if speaks for itself frustrated me. I think you have a duty to do some due dilligence and contextualisation when reporting on it if you are a big channel. Its refreshing coming to the comments section here under this video and people seem to 'get it' re. looking at the relative figures to other Star Wars shows and the relative budgets.

[@josephashley4122]

We get a new Chipmunk? 2:02:02 2:05:26 2:05:53

[@mnoir7257]

Russo’s ain’t done shit since the MCU. I think they mostly lucked out by getting well written movies in a peak spot in the release order.

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

“ I made 30k on those Pollo Loco commercials…” 😂

[@katevand]

Usually I'd feel like bringing Russo's team back would be the wrong choice, like why go back when there are other creators out there but after the CA: Civil War watch a long with KH and Sam, I missed that competent type of story telling, with so many moving parts

[@P.E.NumberOne]

Everything the Russos has done under Marvel is better than anything Gunn did under Marvel and DC combined.

[@HellBoy-jn9qm]

They made garbo propaganda with zero soul. How dare you compare them to Gunn

[@IndianaJake]

@@HellBoy-jn9qmpropaganda?

[@MindofMike35]

Let's be real... The "big idea" was a dump truck full of money that Kevin Feige dumped on The Russo's lawn!!! 💰💰💰

[@NerdsEngage]

The jumpscare scream John did at the sight of BB @ 2:02:15 cracked me up!

[@NerdsEngage]

If you do 2.7 billion minutes divide by 30 the average length of an episode divide by 8 the number of eps is 11.25 million viewers. Not great, and I liked the show.

[@ludwigvanbeethoven8448]

The outlook is also pretty bad when you crunch the numbers on "cost per minute aired" too. Acolyte cost at least $700k per minute of screen time. By contrast Agatha All Along (a show with similar viewership figures in the same data set today) cost I think >$150k per minute of screen time aired, hence why Disney are quite happy with its performance.

[@NerdsEngage]

​@@ludwigvanbeethoven8448Great point!

[@ludwigvanbeethoven8448]

​@@NerdsEngagethanks! I actually tweeted a bunch of figures in a few replies to Mike earlier today in case he raises it on the show at any point as I was so frustrated by how many people were doing exactly what Kristian described and not looking at the relative costs per minute as well as minutes viewed. It's nice to be in a comments section where people 'get it' about how to put the data in context!

[@NerdsEngage]

@@ludwigvanbeethoven8448 exactly, one of the great things about being apart of the community.

[@knight4urtv775]

Why are we still talking about Acolyte? It's long long been over so we should all just get over it. It was a TV show and not the first TV show or film to go way over budget

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

I enjoyed The Acolyte. Sadly, there are people out there who STILL get a big kick from gloating about its underwhelming rating. As for Rocha, his opinion on The Acolyte depends in which show he’s on. 😂

[@ludwigvanbeethoven8448]

Unfortunately it's just a data reporting story in (Deadline I think it was) that made it a talking point. Thousands of people saw "Two billion minutes" and "2nd most watched show" and leapt to conclusions ill supported by the very same data that they had been lied two about the cancellation and it was taken by them - without merit of grounds - as conclusive proof the show was cancelled due to an online hate campaign. It's the sort of stort where people see a headline out of context and then it's going to be fuel to the fire of any online discussion about Star Wars for weeks, months maybe years to come.

[@alexisnaranjo]

Huh what shit forgot about time

[@mikeschmurf]

Chieeeefs!!!!

[@joshuaflask3091]

So Russos directing a bad movie; um what Netflix movie because like 99 out of 100 of them are bad, last I remember was that Cherry one with Tom Holland but I can't remember what that on. Squid Game Season 1 is great; however not worth watching reactions., no offense everyone who does it has either bad quality or has to ruin the quality in some way so it's rare. Can't wait for X-men and mutants.

[@jonpaxton4987]

We need more of that double big balls talk. Rocha!

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Nice to see Mr Rocha taking a break from the many Blake Lively Hate Videos he makes each week.

[@txsiimk]

Russos are overrated. Seriously the least interesting big budget filmmakers out there today

[@nathandrake253]

I loved their MCU stuff but The Grey Man was so average that it really tainted what i thought of them as filmmakers

[@scottelement]

Maybe their non Marvel movies. But Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War & End Game are universally considered some of the best MCU movies.

[@txsiimk]

@scottelement so they're only good when they're dealing with humans in spandex lol

[@metallicnole4514]

It’s not just the russos but the combination of feige and writers Markus and mcfeely. They are the dream team that made the best mcu films.

[@PatrickCollins-j5j]

Rocha says the dumbest stuff for attention. There's no other logical reason for what he says.

[@godfr012]

Acolyte was great. Episode 3 was problematic enough to get it cancelled. I went back and watched it without watching episode 3 and found it to be a much better show where admittedly my memory fills in some of the gaps left in episode 7(which replaces episode 3 in my mind). The finale was great, and I don't think they need a season 2. I would like a spinoff that's truly Sith based and 0 Jedi involvement, unless Venestra tries to go rogue and figure things out on her own and dies later? We also need more Plagueis the wise... Maybe he kills Mae early on? Because unlikely they want too much to do with that character, and the actress may not want to return, so use her stunt double that she was fighting in Acolyte. Manny's character was excellent