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Marvel President Kevin Feige Thinks He Knows The Key to Still Making Big Bucks with Superhero Movies · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The up and coming
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Speaker 1: Marvel team up of Deadpool and Wolverine is projected to
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Speaker 1: have the best opening weekend ever for an R rated movie.
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Speaker 1: But superhero movies aren't the guaranteed box office beast they
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Speaker 1: used to be a few years ago. While some projects
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Speaker 1: still performing credibly well, others have failed. There's many theories
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Speaker 1: as to why fan interest has wane, but Marvel president
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Speaker 1: Kevin Feige thinks he knows how to keep movie goers
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Speaker 1: engaged moving forward. One of the biggest components not approaching
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Speaker 1: all Marvel movies the same way. He tells Deadline, I've
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Speaker 1: never been a big believer in superhero movies being a
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Speaker 1: genre in and of itself. We've made different types of movies,
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Speaker 1: so it's the same key to movies in general, making engaging,
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Speaker 1: entertaining films that have to be experienced in a theater
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Speaker 1: with a crowd, destination, entertainment that you can't get anywhere else. Engage, excite,
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Speaker 1: and grab onto the imagination of the audience. That's all
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Speaker 1: we ever wanted to do. We have to keep evolving
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Speaker 1: and expanding the ways we do that. Deadpool and Wolverine
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Speaker 1: arrives next weekend. That's direct from Hollywood