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The Cinematic Universe Is Officially Over
The MCU is contracting. The DCU is in perpetual reboot. The Wizarding World is dead. The Dark Universe never started. A post-mortem for a decade's dominant cinematic format.
Marcus Vell·7 Mar·6 min
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The MCU is contracting. The DCU is in perpetual reboot. The Wizarding World is dead. The Dark Universe never started. A post-mortem for a decade's dominant cinematic format.

A year after Deadpool & Wolverine made $1.3 billion and saved a bad year for the MCU, the film looks less like a triumph and more like the last thing Marvel is going to get away with.
Marvel Studios has quietly restructured its multi-year slate for the third time in two years. The rate of revision itself is the story.