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Jolie in 'Eternals', Ali as 'Blade' highlight Marvel's new slate

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Lisa Richwine, Reuters

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/reuters/07/21/jolie.jpg"/><figcaption>Brian Tyree Henry, Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, Taika Waititi, Angelina Jolie, Lia McHugh and Natalie Portman speak at the Marvel Studios Panel during 2019 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Kevin Winter, Getty Images/AFP</figcaption></figure></div>SAN DIEGO -- (UPDATE) Walt Disney Co.&#x27;s Marvel Studios on Saturday unveiled a star-packed slate of superhero films for the next two years that includes Angelina Jolie in &quot;The Eternals,&quot; Mahershala Ali in a remake of &quot;Blade&quot; and Natalie Portman as a female &quot;Thor.&quot;The announcements at San Diego Comic-Con charts Marvel&#x27;s course following mega-blockbuster &quot;Avengers: Endgame,&quot; which Disney said was set to top 2009 film &quot;Avatar&quot; by Sunday as the highest-grossing movie of all time.Jolie appeared on stage in front of 6,500 cheering fans, along with other &quot;Eternals&quot; cast members including Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani and Salma Hayek. The story about a group of immortal aliens will debut in November 2020.&quot;I’m going to work 10 times harder,&quot; Jolie said when asked how she would approach her role of Thena. &quot;We all know what the task is ahead, and we know what you deserve, and so we are all going to be working very hard.&quot;&quot;So I am in training and thrilled,&quot; she added.Disney also revealed it will release &quot;Thor: Love and Thunder,&quot; the fourth &quot;Thor&quot; movie, in November 2021. Portman, who starred in earlier films as the girlfriend to Chris Hemsworth&#x27;s Thor, will take up the superhero&#x27;s hammer as a female goddess of thunder.&quot;It feels pretty good,&quot; Portman said on stage. &quot;I’ve always had a little hammer envy.&quot;Ali, who recently won Oscars for &quot;Moonlight&quot; and &quot;Green Book,&quot; surprised the audience by walking on stage and putting on a baseball hat with the logo for &quot;Blade,&quot; a character played on film in 1998 by Wesley Snipes. No details were given but the crowed erupted in applause.The films will be part of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) that started with 2008&#x27;s &quot;Iron Man&quot; and has generated more than $22 billion at box offices worldwide.Other coming movies include &quot;Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,&quot; which director Scott Derrickson described as &quot;the first scary MCU movie,&quot; and &quot;Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings&quot; starring Chinese actor Tony Leung, Awkwafina and newcomer Simu Liu, who said he was just cast in the lead role on Tuesday.Scarlett Johansson introduced an action-heavy trailer for &quot;Black Widow.&quot; In an interview, the actress said having a stand-alone film for the &quot;Avengers&quot; character was &quot;mind-blowing.&quot;&quot;I hope it adds a gritty kind of groundedness, that&#x27;s like a good punch in the gut, and a literal punch in the gut too,&quot; she said. &quot;We all get the crap beaten out of us!&quot;Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed a forthcoming &quot;Fantastic Four&quot; film and sequels to &quot;Black Panther&quot; and &quot;Captain America.&quot;Feige also previewed Marvel series being made for the Disney+ streaming TV service that will debut in November. They include &quot;Loki,&quot; &quot;Hawkeye&quot; and animated &quot;What If.&quot;The stories told on Disney+ will weave into Marvel&#x27;s movie, Feige said. For example, Elizabeth Olsen&#x27;s Wanda will star in the &quot;WandaVision&quot; series and in the new &quot;Doctor Strange&quot; film.&quot;The same teams that work on the movies are going to be working on these mega-event limited series,&quot; Feige said in an interview. &quot;They are completely intertwined.&quot;&#x27;Avengers: Endgame&#x27; to set all-time box office recordMarvel Studios superhero movie &quot;Avengers: Endgame&quot; will claim the top of the global box office charts by Sunday, distributor Walt Disney Co. said.&quot;Endgame&quot; ticket sales will overtake the $2.789 billion collected worldwide by James Cameron&#x27;s 2009 science-fiction epic &quot;Avatar,&quot; Disney said in a statement released on Saturday as it presented a new slate of films to fans at San Diego Comic-Con.&quot;Endgame,&quot; released in theaters in April, is the culmination of a story told in 22 Marvel films that have drawn crowds to cinemas for a decade.The movie stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and others as a group of superheroes battling the villain Thanos, played by Josh Brolin.Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told fans at Comic-Con that &quot;Endgame&quot; was poised to reach the box office milestone. He also said &quot;Endgame&quot; probably would eventually lose the title to Cameron&#x27;s next film.Cameron is scheduled to release four &quot;Avatar&quot; sequels starting in December 2021. Disney this year acquired the &quot;Avatar&quot; franchise with its purchase of film and TV assets from Rupert Murdoch&#x27;s 21st Century Fox.

Walt Disney Co.'s Marvel Studios on Saturday unveiled a slate of upcoming superhero films that includes "The Eternals" starring Angelina Jolie, "Blade" featuring Mahershala Ali, and a "Thor" sequel with Natalie Portman as a female Thor.

Walt Disney Co.'s Marvel Studios on Saturday unveiled a slate of upcoming superhero films that includes "The Eternals" starring Angelina Jolie, "Blade" featuring Mahershala Ali, and a "Thor" sequel with Natalie Portman as a female Thor.

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Jolie in 'Eternals', Ali as 'Blade' highlight Marvel's new slate

Lisa Richwine,

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Published Jul 21, 2019 11:21 AM PHT

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Updated Jul 21, 2019 04:21 PM PHT

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