Movie Biz: Lauren Shuler Donner On Gambit, New Mutants Hulu Rumors & Future Of X-Men Under Disney

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Lauren Shuler Donner On ‘Gambit’, ‘New Mutants’ Hulu Rumors & Future Of ‘X-Men’ Franchise Under Disney – TCA

by Anthony D'Alessandro

February 4, 2019 4:59pm

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• BREAKING NEWS
• TCA
• DISNEY-FOX DEAL
• GAMBIT
• LAUREN SHULER DONNER
• LEGION

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Lauren Shuler Donner is ready to hand off the X-Men franchise to Disney and Marvel’s Kevin Feige, and she has no worries — it’s in good hands.



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“Kevin (Feige) and I started the first movie, he worked for me, he has a great story sense when it comes to weaving each world together, I trust him and I trust where he will take it,” said Shuler Donner.

The fate of the long-in development Gambit with Channing Tatum; its final result will be determined by the new Disney Marvel when it comes to fruition. The film is currently not bubbling in development. There’s no director attached to the pic even though Fox has it dated for March 13, 2020. That said, Shuler Donner, whose credits have generated in excess of $6.6 billion at the global B.O., says that there’s been some thoughts about a new Wolverine down the road.




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However, “it’s all in Disney’s playground and they get to decide,” said the producer.

Will she remain aboard the X-Men franchise as it comes into the Disney fold?

“I don’t know, I don’t think so, certainly in name credit, it’s up to Kevin (Feige),” said Shuler Donner, “I don’t know what Kevin is thinking, I think he’s still dealing with the wealth of characters and trying to make sense of it all.”

The producer was at TCA today here in Pasadena, CA for FX’s Legion panel. The cable network announced today, ironically in a year when Disney is set to acquire Fox’s Marvel X-Men assets, that the series’ third season in June, will be its last. Creator Noah Hawley has said that it was always part of his design to do three seasons.

The New Mutants
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What Shuler Donner did warn in a scrum with reporters is that “you cannot have too many Marvel, X-Men superhero movies out there: We’ll cancel each other out. Each one has to be distinctive. You have The Avengers to follow through; there are so many distinctive canons to follow through and you have to have new ones to focus on. For us, it’s a lot and people will get sick of them. We have to be careful; he (Kevin) has to be careful. You can’t have more than four (franchises out there).”

In regards to the rumors of New Mutants heading to Hulu, Shuler Donner, who yielded production oversee of the project to Simon Kinberg, says that she’s “hopeful” that the teen-horror pic will receive a theatrical release. The pic is currently scheduled to hit theaters on Aug. 2. “They worked hard on it,” said Shuler Donner about the film’s production team, “I want to see it released (theatrically), I’d hate to see it thrown at Hulu.”

Whether New Mutants goes straight to Hulu or not; we’ve heard that those hard decisions will be made once Fox is completely in the Disney fold. As of right now, the pic is scheduled to be released theatrically.

 

[Mr.Mojo]

Does anybody here watch any of those mutant shows? Are they any good? Legion..new mutants etc..I'm so out of touch with marvel television.never even finished one season of shield.

 

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Does anybody here watch any of those mutant shows? Are they any good? Legion..new mutants etc..I'm so out of touch with marvel television.never even finished one season of shield.

Legion is mind bending..it is a LOT a lot of attention and focus needed but its like nothing else

NOT PERFECT by any means

The Gifted is good but VERY uneven.

 

[Mr.Mojo]

Legion is mind bending..it is a LOT a lot of attention and focus needed but its like nothing else

NOT PERFECT by any means

The Gifted is good but VERY uneven.

Thank you sir..when I was younger and jobless I would have watched every single thing marvel related.now it's like I'm too busy or too tired or I'm watching something else.still ain't finish binging the second season of punisher.

 

["THE MAN"]

They need to let go of that Gambit movie. Give us a good Rogue and have them both in a couple of X movies then give them a movie together.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

Legion on its way out..rumor is The Gifted may follow

 

[TENT]

The Gambit movie needs to be a heist movie with a mutant in it.
It has to revolve around him being an orphan and a thief.
No lame co-stars. If Rouge is in it. It has to be for a very brief scene that builds.
I would appreciate Deadpool and Wolverine in it before Rogue.

 

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The New Mutants Heads to Home Video, Deleted Scenes and All
By Chris Lee@__ChrisLee

In the midst of a pandemic, the X-Men spinoff is unlikely to break even at the box office, so it’s turning to collectible DVD sales instead. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Despite the film’s much-remarked-upon shortcomings, you’ve got to give the critically lambasted New Mutants credit for a kind of startling consistency — confounding expectations about how and when the average person is actually able to see the PG-13 superhero movie. The horror-slanting X-Men spinoff saw its theatrical release agonizingly delayed four times over the last three years only to finally hit screens at a time when more than a third of movie theaters were still closed owing to coronavirus lockdown measures. Since August 28, The Breakfast Club meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest comic-book caper has remained one of the few new titles at the multiplex in the latter half of 2020, standing firm while audiences display an alarming reluctance to return to the public-viewing forum and event films such as No Time to Die and Dune pull up stakes and flee into release corridors next year.
And now, on the heels of Mutants’ $42 million worldwide theatrical run — ranking it next to Howard the Duck as one of the lowest-grossing Marvel-associated movies to date — Disney has announced the asylum thriller will arrive on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD DVD, and Digital HD formats on November 17. Befitting a troubled production that underwent numerous roundelays of rewriting and spent years in development hell, the “Ultimate Collectors Edition” will feature seven deleted scenes in a naked bid to appeal to X-Men completists. Which all points toward The New Mutants bucking another film trend of the COVID-19 era by side-stepping streaming and going straight to home video.

Since the first quarter of the year, Disney — which folded the Fox-produced title into its existing slate of films as part of last year’s $71.3 billion megamerger — has pressed reset on its traditional distribution methods. The studio famously forwent a theatrical release of Mulan to offer rental of the $200 million China-set period thriller on its streaming platform Disney+ for $29.99. Likewise, the House of Mouse’s filmic version of the smash Broadway musical Hamilton skipped multiplexes to become available on the platform in July.
The choice to follow up Mutants’ theatrical bow with a DVD rollout just over three months later can be understood as standard operating procedure; many titles wind up on home video after a 70- to 90-day “window” from their box-office arrival has closed. But amid 2020’s pandemic-panicked movie marketplace, the move to Blu-Ray is more unusual. In March, Universal made three of its films, The Invisible Man, Emma. and The Hunt, concurrently available for both streaming rental and in theaters in what was considered an industry first. Since then, the migration of theatrical movies to streaming or PVOD has eclipsed any conversation surrounding DVD sales.
However, according to recent reports, studio attempts to recoup expenditures on their higher-profile features via paid streaming releases are facing the rise of a somewhat expected consequence: piracy. The website TorrentFreak (which tracks pirating activity on public servers) noted that unlicensed downloads of Mulan have outpaced those of all other movies since its September 4 debut, remaining at the top of its list of “most torrented” movies. (While video-disc piracy remains an ever-present concern, recent raids in nearly two dozen countries around the world have plunged the DVD-piracy diaspora into chaos.)
To hear it from Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian, The New Mutants is unlikely to hit financial break even at the box office before arriving on DVD (the film’s production budget is reported to be between $60 million and $80 million, and movie theaters generally take about half the box-office gross). But the film may ultimately be able to parlay its notoriety as one of the scant few major releases to see the inside of theaters this year into a DVD selling point — bonus materials and all — that could push it toward profitability.
“Even though [New Mutants] only came out and did $7 million over its opening weekend, by keeping it in theaters this long, Disney makes it more coveted when it hits home video — especially in these strange times,” Dergarabedian says. “Any of these movies like Unhinged, Tenet, New Mutants, they have a very good shot at doing well on home video … There’s the curiosity factor. The buy in is much lower.”
Although Disney has not publicly stated its rationale for releasing the movie as physical (as opposed to exclusively virtual) product, X-Men-branded video discs remain top sellers and the studio has an illustrious history of using its movie IP as revenue drivers for a dazzling array of consumer products such as toys, clothing, and theme-park rides. Despite craptacular reviews and catastrophic box office, last year’s franchise low point X-Men: Dark Phoenix debuted at No. 1 on the NPD VideoScan First Alert chart. And boxed sets such as X-Men: The Cerebro Collection 3D, X-Men and the Wolverine Adamantium Collection, and X-Men Trilogy remain constants at retail.
Dergarabedian speculates that even in spite of myriad profit-sharing agreements that exist between the studio’s theatrical and home-video divisions, Mutants could surpass unspectacular early returns and defy financial expectations. “Strangely enough, it could wind up that this movie mutates into a hit at the end of the day,” he adds. “We have to adjust our expectations. It’s not just one thing. There are so many layers to this in terms of both financials and consumer behaviors.”

 

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The New Mutants Heads to Home Video, Deleted Scenes and All
By Chris Lee@__ChrisLee

In the midst of a pandemic, the X-Men spinoff is unlikely to break even at the box office, so it’s turning to collectible DVD sales instead. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Despite the film’s much-remarked-upon shortcomings, you’ve got to give the critically lambasted New Mutants credit for a kind of startling consistency — confounding expectations about how and when the average person is actually able to see the PG-13 superhero movie. The horror-slanting X-Men spinoff saw its theatrical release agonizingly delayed four times over the last three years only to finally hit screens at a time when more than a third of movie theaters were still closed owing to coronavirus lockdown measures. Since August 28, The Breakfast Club meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest comic-book caper has remained one of the few new titles at the multiplex in the latter half of 2020, standing firm while audiences display an alarming reluctance to return to the public-viewing forum and event films such as No Time to Die and Dune pull up stakes and flee into release corridors next year.
And now, on the heels of Mutants’ $42 million worldwide theatrical run — ranking it next to Howard the Duck as one of the lowest-grossing Marvel-associated movies to date — Disney has announced the asylum thriller will arrive on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD DVD, and Digital HD formats on November 17. Befitting a troubled production that underwent numerous roundelays of rewriting and spent years in development hell, the “Ultimate Collectors Edition” will feature seven deleted scenes in a naked bid to appeal to X-Men completists. Which all points toward The New Mutants bucking another film trend of the COVID-19 era by side-stepping streaming and going straight to home video.

Since the first quarter of the year, Disney — which folded the Fox-produced title into its existing slate of films as part of last year’s $71.3 billion megamerger — has pressed reset on its traditional distribution methods. The studio famously forwent a theatrical release of Mulan to offer rental of the $200 million China-set period thriller on its streaming platform Disney+ for $29.99. Likewise, the House of Mouse’s filmic version of the smash Broadway musical Hamilton skipped multiplexes to become available on the platform in July.
The choice to follow up Mutants’ theatrical bow with a DVD rollout just over three months later can be understood as standard operating procedure; many titles wind up on home video after a 70- to 90-day “window” from their box-office arrival has closed. But amid 2020’s pandemic-panicked movie marketplace, the move to Blu-Ray is more unusual. In March, Universal made three of its films, The Invisible Man, Emma. and The Hunt, concurrently available for both streaming rental and in theaters in what was considered an industry first. Since then, the migration of theatrical movies to streaming or PVOD has eclipsed any conversation surrounding DVD sales.
However, according to recent reports, studio attempts to recoup expenditures on their higher-profile features via paid streaming releases are facing the rise of a somewhat expected consequence: piracy. The website TorrentFreak (which tracks pirating activity on public servers) noted that unlicensed downloads of Mulan have outpaced those of all other movies since its September 4 debut, remaining at the top of its list of “most torrented” movies. (While video-disc piracy remains an ever-present concern, recent raids in nearly two dozen countries around the world have plunged the DVD-piracy diaspora into chaos.)
To hear it from Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian, The New Mutants is unlikely to hit financial break even at the box office before arriving on DVD (the film’s production budget is reported to be between $60 million and $80 million, and movie theaters generally take about half the box-office gross). But the film may ultimately be able to parlay its notoriety as one of the scant few major releases to see the inside of theaters this year into a DVD selling point — bonus materials and all — that could push it toward profitability.
“Even though [New Mutants] only came out and did $7 million over its opening weekend, by keeping it in theaters this long, Disney makes it more coveted when it hits home video — especially in these strange times,” Dergarabedian says. “Any of these movies like Unhinged, Tenet, New Mutants, they have a very good shot at doing well on home video … There’s the curiosity factor. The buy in is much lower.”
Although Disney has not publicly stated its rationale for releasing the movie as physical (as opposed to exclusively virtual) product, X-Men-branded video discs remain top sellers and the studio has an illustrious history of using its movie IP as revenue drivers for a dazzling array of consumer products such as toys, clothing, and theme-park rides. Despite craptacular reviews and catastrophic box office, last year’s franchise low point X-Men: Dark Phoenix debuted at No. 1 on the NPD VideoScan First Alert chart. And boxed sets such as X-Men: The Cerebro Collection 3D, X-Men and the Wolverine Adamantium Collection, and X-Men Trilogy remain constants at retail.
Dergarabedian speculates that even in spite of myriad profit-sharing agreements that exist between the studio’s theatrical and home-video divisions, Mutants could surpass unspectacular early returns and defy financial expectations. “Strangely enough, it could wind up that this movie mutates into a hit at the end of the day,” he adds. “We have to adjust our expectations. It’s not just one thing. There are so many layers to this in terms of both financials and consumer behaviors.”

 

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