Longtime “Spider-Man” series producer Amy Pascal and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige have an offbeat filmmaking partnership, as they demonstrated in a new interview.In a conversation with the New York Times’ Brooks Barnes about “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and the future of the franchise, the pair addressed Pascal’s previous comments that Tom Holland would star in another “Spider-Man” trilogy. (She also addressed the comments when speaking to Variety’s Marc Malkin on the red carpet on Monday.)“We’re producers, so we always...
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Feige
Chief Creative Officer / President, Marvel Studios
The pandemic forced Feige to push back Marvel’s feature release slate, but he still managed to satiate content-hungry fans during lockdown with innovative Disney+ series including “WandaVision” and “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” which use its comic-book characters as vehicles to explore challenging issues such as mental illness and America’s troubling history of racism. As head of the Disney-owned studio and producer of its films, Feige has shown a remarkable ability to keep viewers coming back for more, racking up grosses of more than $22.6 billion with its first 23 films. That figure will be substantially higher once the box office totals are tallied for its four 2021 releases: “Black Widow,” “Shang-Chi,” “Eternals,” and Sony’s earth-shattering “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which Feige and Marvel produced to the tune of a $260 million domestic debut and $587 million globally upon its December release.