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A vintage sepia-toned still life of a movie reel, projector, popcorn, and a poster under a spotlight on a desk.

A vintage sepia-toned still life of a movie reel, projector, popcorn, and a poster under a spotlight on a desk.

The New Mutants (2020) — Budget: $67–80 million. Box office: $23,852,659 (domestic), $49,169,594 (worldwide). This horror-centric spin-off was meant to be released before Dark Phoenix but got delayed for over two years, mainly due to planned reshoots that ultimately never happened, since the stars were too busy to shoot them, and the general chaos of the Disney-Fox merger. After one more delay due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, it was finally dumped in theaters in August 2020, well over a year after Dark Phoenix had sold itself as the Grand Finale of the series; while The New Mutants reviewed somewhat better, its returns made it not only the new lowest-grossing film in the franchise but also the fourth-lowest grossing of all Marvel films, only grossing higher than Man-Thing (which wasn’t released theatrically in the United States), Punisher: War Zone, and Howard the Duck (1986). Mehr sehen