The Marvels & is the MCU in trouble?

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The Marvels & is the MCU in trouble?

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Nov 16, 2023

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With THE MARVELS grossing the lowest in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's history of opening weekends, what should we think? Should we be worried about future MCU movies? Was this movie an outlier? Let's discuss!

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Nov 16, 2023

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