{"id":184530,"date":"2014-10-27T04:13:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T04:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/27\/dcwomenkickingass-the-moment-from-the-age-of\/"},"modified":"2018-09-14T05:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T05:37:40","slug":"dcwomenkickingass-the-moment-from-the-age-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/27\/dcwomenkickingass-the-moment-from-the-age-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-184530 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/27\/dcwomenkickingass-the-moment-from-the-age-of\/attachment\/184531\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_ndw5980Qto1qbgsmko1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_ndw5980Qto1qbgsmko1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_ndw5980Qto1qbgsmko1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com\/post\/100746986491\/the-moment-from-the-age-of-ultron-trailer-that\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">dcwomenkickingass<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Moment from The Age of Ultron Trailer that Crystallizes Why Marvel Studios Has A Woman Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following its leak online yesterday, Marvel Studios officially released its trailer for the Avenger\u2019s sequel, \u201cAge of Ultron\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tmeOjFno6Do\" target=\"_blank\">You can watch the entire trailer here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in that trailer there is this moment above which is without question one of the best action moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow dropping out of a plane while riding a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone argue this is not awesome?<\/p>\n<p>Every male lead character save Hawkeye and Nick Fury has had a standalone movie. Ironman, Thor, Cap and the Hulk. Antman will soon have his own film. There is also rumors swirling about a Dr. Strange movie.<\/p>\n<p>But Black Widow, the character that is about to appear in her fourth Marvel movie, does not have a film announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Lucy<\/em> this past year, Johansson showed she can take mediocre material and turn it into a worldwide hit grossing over $415M globally. That\u2019s for an unlicensed character in a film with bad to middling reviews. By comparison the first Captain American film with Chris Evans had a worldwidel box office of $370M globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked why there is no Black Widow film, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has that he \u201chopes\u201d to have a movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=54522\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;sooner than later&rdquo;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s also said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/07\/23\/female-thor-black-captain-america-marvel-movies_n_5607588.html\" target=\"_blank\">it won\u2019t happen anytime soon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marvel Studios Executive Vice President Vicki Alonson was recently asked about the lack of female led films by Marvel she said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/film\/news\/marvels-alonso-calls-for-more-women-in-vfx-and-female-superhero-pic-1201333443\/\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;if it were up to me, it would be today&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/warner-bros-announces-10-dc-741008\" target=\"_blank\">DC Comics announced that they would make a Wonder Woman film in 2017 with Gal Gadot.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Marvel Studios? No female led films.<\/p>\n<p>Why with the success of <em>Lucy<\/em>, Black Widow given plenty of life out of the four other films she\u2019s appeared in would Marvel Studios not greenlight this film?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure I entirely can put the blame on Feige. He ultimately answers to <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/aug\/16\/entertainment\/la-et-ct-ike-perlmutter-marvel-disney-20120817\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Ike Perlmutter<\/a>\u00a0but you have to wonder too why he is choosing to leave the potential gross of a Black Widow movie on the table.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the visibility of the character.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like they don\u2019t have an actor proven at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like there aren\u2019t any good stories to tell.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one major difference between Black Widow and the other characters Marvel Studios is giving their own movies to &#8211; she\u2019s a woman.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dcwomenkickingass: The Moment from The Age of Ultron Trailer that Crystallizes Why Marvel Studios Has A Woman Problem Following its leak online yesterday, Marvel Studios officially released its trailer for the Avenger\u2019s sequel, \u201cAge of Ultron\u201d. You can watch the entire trailer here. And in that trailer there is this moment above which is without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/27\/dcwomenkickingass-the-moment-from-the-age-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4193,810,309,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184532,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184530\/revisions\/184532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}