"Ant-Man and the Wasp" Peek and Digestif?
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 1:30PM
NATHANIEL R in Ant-Man, Black Panther, Evangeline Lily, Michael Peña, Michelle Pfeiffer, box office, superheroes

by Nathaniel R

Yes yes we already talked about Michelle Pfeiffer once today but where is the perfect goddess in the first, thankfully non-plot driven, teaser for Ant-Man and the Wasp? The trailer only really focuses on the second titular character, and will surely be just one of many trailers if recent history is indication with would be blockbusters. 

The trailer and a few Marvel-centric notes after the jump...

So basically that's a "previously on..." teaser to remind you of what went down with Ant-Man himself during Captain America: Civil War. After the "previously on" we get a few cool visual effects shots of the shrinking and growing action and one blade run (not to be confused with blade running) by the Wasp herself. But there's no shot of Michelle Pfeiffer. *sniffle*

If you aren't going to go with Pfeiffer and if you're all about the rehash THIS would have been a brilliant way to go...

 

An Ant-Man and the Wasp teaser that's just Michael Peña telling us what he heard the movie was about.

— Will Goss (@williambgoss) January 30, 2018

 

The film is due five months from now (July 6th). We figure it's planned as a kind of a digestif after the massive hugely populated feasts of Black Panther (February 16th) and Avengers: Infinity War (May 4th).

Black Panther , which just enjoyed a gloriously colorful world premiere and the usual normal social media "greatest movie ever" response -- but more on that later as I'm due to seen the film next week -- is expected to be huge. Advance ticketing is in a frenzy at the moment but how huge? Marvel's biggest global successes to date are the team-up films. The first three Avengers films made 1.5 (2012), 1.4 (2015) and 1.1 billion (2016 Captain America Civil War... which was an Avengers film in all but name) respectively. The only solo hero Marvel film to have crossed the billion dollar mark is Iron Man 3 (2013). Can Black Panther exceed the normal solo range of success? Marvel's solo efforts generally fall somewhere between the 500-700 million range globally though that number has been creeping up over the years with Spider-Man Homecoming the biggest to date (outside of Iron Man 3) with an $880 million global gross. 

And how big (no pun intended) can Ant-Man grow? Surely not as big. The original was on the low end of Marvel successes grossing $519 globally in 2015. 

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