'Apes' Together: Wrong?, 'Fall Guy's Ironic Box Office Miss, Disney's Marvel's Con

Plus 'Twisters' lead Glen Powell may be striking while Hollywood *thinks* he's a movie star, and the latest 'Despicable Me 4' trailer emphasizes the Minions over Gru

Sorry for putting a review into a paywalled post, but you get three essays plus two mini-essays for the price of one, so humor me this time.

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes makes a key franchise-building mistake, even if its cinematic splendor made me reconsider the “movies look bad now” discourse.

• Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s The Fall Guy was perhaps never going to be a hit because its existence was predicated on films like that struggling at the box office.

• Bob Iger tried to sell making two to three Marvel films a year as a quality > quantity realignment. That’s not quite true, but audiences may feel otherwise.

• Universal’s Despicable Me 4 trailer emphasizes the Minions over Gru.

• Universal drops a Glen Powell-centric Twisters as the alleged “next big thing” should chase those big bucks before we see how Twisters and Hit Man perform.