Marvel Hits ‘Avengers’ Motion pictures With Huge Delay

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‘Avengers’ stays one of the in style franchises in movie historical past, having grossed over $7.7 billion throughout 4 films, together with the 2 highest-grossing superhero movies of all-time.

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Evidently, followers are ecstatic for the discharge of the subsequent two movies within the franchise: ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars.’

Sadly, it appears like they will have to attend a bit longer for the films.

In response to a report from J. Kim Murphy of Variety, each films have been delayed seven months from their unique launch dates.

Because of this ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ will launch on Dec. 18, 2026, as an alternative of Could 1, 2026, and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ will launch on Dec. 17, 2027, as an alternative of Could 17, 2027.

This alteration additionally noticed Marvel Studios shift quite a lot of different unannounced Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies off of its calendar, which means 2026 will solely have ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Spider-Man: Model New Day’ on it schedule, which is ready to launch on July 31, 2026.

Moreover, because of this after ‘The Unbelievable 4: First Steps’ releases on July 25, 2025, there will not be one other MCU movie in theaters till Spider-Man: Model New Day’ subsequent 12 months.

This would be the longest delay between MCU films for the reason that COVID period when there wasn’t a movie launched between ‘Spider-Man: Far From Dwelling’ in 2019 and ‘Black Widow’ in 2021.

‘Avengers: Doomsday’ is ready to be a type of reset for the MCU, with a number of in style heroes returning.

Probably the most stunning casting alternative is Robert Downey Jr., who won’t be reprising his iconic function as Tony Stark/Iron Man. As an alternative, he shall be taking part in the villainous Victor Von Doom, extra well-known as Physician Doom.

Moreover, an abundance of mutants shall be becoming a member of from the unique X-Males movies by Fox. This consists of Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, and even Channing Tatum as Gambit.

Different returning heroes embrace Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, and Tom Hiddleston as Loki.

Additionally included would be the full hero casts of ‘Thunderbolts*’ and ‘The Unbelievable 4: First Steps.’

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Correction 5/23/25, 7:19 a.m. ET: This text was modified to replicate X-Males films have been made by Fox, not by Sony.