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Deadline Review: The bad boys and bad girls superhero movie Thunderbolts*, about the continuing adventures of Yelena Belova, Winter Soldier, Alexei Shostakov, Ghost and John Walker, is hoping to keep the box office ball in play with a $175 million global start as Marvel Studios kicks off summer Friday, a traditional feat that it wasn’t able to attempt a year ago due to the aftermath of the strikes.

From Deadlne: Florance Pugh Talks Thunderbolts, Stunts:
Ahead of its release, Thunderbolts* has been touted as a different kind of Marvel movie, by stars including Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan, as well as early critic reviews that praise the tentpole project for injecting the MCU with “new blood and direction.”

Particularly, much ado has naturally been made about Pugh’s “superb” reprisal as Yelena, the ex-Black Widow and grieving sister to Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), especially given the star’s determination to do a stunt that would make even Tom Cruise’s eyes water. During the press tour, Pugh previously discussed pestering Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige in order to be able to jump off the second-tallest building in the world, at 2,227 feet and eclipsed only by the Burj Khalifa.

From Variety: Wyatt Russell Joked ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

“Media training for ‘Doomsday’ is they just hold a knife to your neck and said, ‘You say anything, and it’s over,’” Russell told ComicBook. Ahead of the release of “Doomsday,” Marvel fans can check out Russell’s turn as John Walker in “Thunderbolts,” which releases theatrically May 2.

Deadline Thunderbolts Review:

How do you follow the Avengers? Simple, according to Marvel. Just put together a ragtag bunch of antiheroes culled from past franchise entries and turn them into a not-ready-for-primetime fighting team forced to save America and — presto! — you have the Thunderbolts — though with a, uh, asterisk in the title, which cheekily means the Avengers we know and love and miss just weren’t available for superheroics this time around.

Actually, by putting that “*” in the title, Marvel lets us instantly know they are in on the joke, but in giving these supporting players from past movies like Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania, Falcon & The Winter Soldier and most notably Black Widow, they have high hopes to develop something seen as much more than just a 99 Cents Only Store version of the crown jewel of the Marvel Universe.