Thunderbolts*
Before Thunderbolts* reached theaters in 2025, its title carried a small asterisk that Marvel Studios refused to explain. Studio president Kevin Feige confirmed in April 2024 that the mark was official. He promised the meaning would be clear only after audiences had seen the film.
Directed by Jake Schreier, the picture is the 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It follows a group of antiheroes who are lured into a trap and forced to cooperate. The mission drags each of their traumatic pasts into the open.
Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus make up the central ensemble. How did a franchise built on towering icons end up making a film about people who barely qualify as heroes? What was the asterisk hiding? And how did audiences respond once the secret was out?
During production of Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014, director James Gunn voiced interest in a film about the Thunderbolts, a Marvel Comics team of "anti-heroes and super-criminals". Feige said such a film was possible, given how well that picture had done. By May 2021, Gunn had lost interest. He had just directed The Suicide Squad for DC, and that team rests on a similar concept.
In June 2018, Hannah John-Kamen said she would gladly return as Ava Starr, known as Ghost, in a Thunderbolts film. The comics version of Ghost belongs to the team.
Speculation hardened in mid-2019, when Daniel Brühl was announced to return as Helmut Zemo in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. That series introduced Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who is shown recruiting Wyatt Russell's John Walker, the U.S. Agent. A post-credits scene in Black Widow (2021) then showed de Fontaine working with Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova. Commentators guessed she was assembling a team of villains or antiheroes.
The people making the series pushed back. Executive producer Nate Moore said the Thunderbolts were never considered for it, because they would "cloud the story". Head writer Malcolm Spellman admitted there was "a lot of chatter" and added, "I don't know if fans are crazy or not".
The idea that finally moved forward came from a writer who had just finished work on Black Widow.
Eric Pearson, the writer of Black Widow, brought the Thunderbolts idea to Marvel Studios after finishing that film. He saw that Pugh could headline a movie, because Yelena struck him as "a natural leader". The story that excited him had her leading a team against de Fontaine.
Because the story centered on Yelena, Pearson put her father figure Alexei Shostakov, the Red Guardian, on the team. He added Ghost because he had long wanted to write her. Bucky Barnes joined after a few drafts. John Walker and Taskmaster rounded out the roster, and Bob Reynolds, the Sentry, arrived soon after.
The filmmakers combed the MCU for people on what they called a "morally grey plane", figures "potentially destined for something else but then something went awry". Pearson compared Yelena to Michael Corleone and Barnes to Tom Hagen, characters from Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather.
Some candidates did not survive the drafts. Bill Foster, also called Goliath, appeared early on to continue his bond with Ghost. He was cut partly because he lacked the background trauma that unified the others. Schreier had floated Man-Thing during his pitch. Pearson called that character "an unpredictable creature" and said it kept pulling attention away from Bob.
By June 2022, Schreier was attached to direct, after a presentation that "blew away" Marvel Studios executives. One idea survived from the earliest drafts: the members are sent to kill each other. Schreier saw it as a "neat twist" for audiences expecting Marvel's answer to the Suicide Squad. Pearson wanted to avoid repeating a story in which an authority figure forces criminals to cooperate. So Zemo and Thaddeus Ross, the leaders who formed the team in the comics, stayed out. Schreier had wanted to find room for Zemo. An early post-credits idea showed him pulling strings from prison, like Keyser Söze in The Usual Suspects. The filmmakers quickly dropped it.
At the D23 Expo in September 2022, Pugh, Russell, John-Kamen and Louis-Dreyfus were confirmed to star. Stan, Harbour and Kurylenko would reprise earlier roles alongside them. Schreier cited Reservoir Dogs (1992), Ronin (1998) and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) as models for a mismatched team forced to work together. His less likely touchstone was Toy Story 3 (2010), because the Thunderbolts, like those toys, face obsolescence. Harbour called the cast "a bunch of misfits and outcasts and losers and people who don't really live up to the super in superhero". Pugh relished that they "don't play well together".
Before Sentry arrived, though, the film's intended main antagonist was a member of the team itself.
The film opens in Kuala Lumpur, where Yelena Belova destroys a laboratory for CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. De Fontaine is erasing evidence of her ties to the O.X.E. Group's "Project Sentry". Facing impeachment, she sends Yelena, John Walker, Ava Starr and Antonia Dreykov to a covert O.X.E. facility. Each has worked for her. Their orders are to kill one another.
Ava kills Antonia in the fight. Then an amnesiac man named Bob is released from a suspended animation pod. The survivors realize de Fontaine meant for them to be incinerated along with the evidence, and they escape together. When Yelena and Walker touch Bob, each briefly sees visions of their worst memories.
Bob, it turns out, was a presumed-dead volunteer in the Sentry trials. When enemy fire hits him, he takes no injury, rises uncontrollably into the air and crash-lands at the compound. De Fontaine has him taken to the former Avengers Tower in Manhattan, now renamed the "Watchtower". She plans to present him to the press as a superpowered protector in the mold of the Avengers, hoping to save herself from impeachment.
Alexei Shostakov had overheard details of the scheme while working as a freelance chauffeur. He rescues Yelena, Walker and Ava. Walker then names the group the "Thunderbolts", inspired by Yelena's childhood soccer team.
Congressman Bucky Barnes learns of the plot from de Fontaine's assistant, Mel. He captures the Thunderbolts, intending to have them testify at the impeachment proceedings. When Mel voices concern about Bob, Barnes takes the group to New York City to infiltrate the Watchtower. There, de Fontaine has persuaded Bob to become the superhero Sentry. He overpowers the team with ease but ignores her order to kill them, because he believes they are no threat. A delusion of godlike superiority then leads him to turn on de Fontaine. Mel stops him with a failsafe kill switch, and that triggers the Void, a destructive alter ego. Darkness begins swallowing New York, and its citizens find themselves trapped in visions of their own traumatic memories.
Yelena, the story decides, will have to walk into that darkness herself.
Before Sentry joined the film, John Walker was meant to be its main antagonist. In that version, de Fontaine tricked him into believing his super soldier serum was fading and fed him pills. The pills turned him into a "time bomb" and "the monster". Pearson said this draft "didn't ever totally work". It also resembled Thaddeus Ross becoming the Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World (2025). Pearson had considered Red Hulk as the villain early on, but Marvel Studios declined because of its own plans for that film.
Pearson needed an antagonist who could not easily be beaten in a fight. He remembered the Sentry miniseries he had read years earlier. Sentry and his alter ego, the Void, offered "heroic ambition and self-esteem versus depression and self-loathing and loneliness and isolation". Pearson called Sentry "the entire journey for our heroes rolled into one entity".
Paul Jenkins, co-creator of Sentry, discussed the character with the filmmakers. Schreier called Sentry and Jenkins's work "a parable for mental health". The comics ending, in which Sentry erases himself from the world's memory to stop the Void, was avoided because it echoed Spider-Man: No Way Home. Bob's arc drew on the experiences of a friend of Schreier. The Void's powers were inspired by images of the shadows left after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Lee Sung Jin felt mental health was "not niche anymore".
Lewis Pullman had recently played Lt. Robert "Bob" Floyd in Top Gun: Maverick (2022). He asked whether this Bob could be called Robert instead. Schreier explained why the name mattered in the source material, and Pullman grew to like it.
Executive producer Brian Chapek came up with the idea that the team must enter the Void, which conjures memories of each person's greatest shame. The filmmakers called them shame rooms. Lee worked out early specifics with production designer Grace Yun, who held the same job on Beef. Pearson had pictured the rooms as ethereal and dreamy. Making them mazes, like those in Being John Malkovich (1999), felt more unsettling.
Joanna Calo suggested that when Yelena enters the Void to help Bob, she returns to the first room seen earlier in the film. Schreier saw this as a callback to the idea that the greatest shame was thinking you could be something bigger than yourself. Louis-Dreyfus called exploring de Fontaine's backstory a "very happy surprise". During her encounter with the Void, de Fontaine relives witnessing her father's death.
In the finished film, Yelena finds Bob hiding in a re-creation of the childhood bedroom where he sheltered from his abusive father. The other Thunderbolts join them, and together they confront his traumas and drug addiction. Bob's attempts to fight back threaten to consume him. Then the team hugs him and affirms its belief in him, and he regains control. Light returns to the city. Pearson had always imagined ending the film on a hug rather than a fight.
The rooms conceived for the others included Shostakov being thrown into the gulag and Ghost growing up in an orphanage where no one wanted to be near her. Bucky's included a shameful moment in the Boy Scouts.
In early May 2023, the Writers Guild of America strike put the film on hold. Cameras had been due to roll in mid-June for a six-month shoot. The release date, originally the 26th of July 2024, slid to the 20th of December 2024. After the SAG-AFTRA strike ended in November 2023, it moved again, to the 25th of July 2025. In February 2024 it jumped forward to the 2nd of May 2025, swapping places with The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
The delays scrambled actors' calendars. Sebastian Stan had already begun the physical transformation for Barnes when work stopped. He then gained weight to play Donald Trump in The Apprentice (2024) and had to reverse course. David Harbour had planned to shoot alongside his scenes as Jim Hopper in the fifth season of Stranger Things, which the strikes also delayed. Ayo Edebiri, cast as Mel in January 2023, exited because of the delays, and Geraldine Viswanathan replaced her. Steven Yeun, cast as Sentry in February 2023, left in January 2024 over a scheduling conflict. Lewis Pullman soon took the role.
After the strikes, Schreier and his collaborators reread the script and found no tension or unpredictability. The film felt "bloodless", in a story where nobody should feel safe. Their fix was to kill Taskmaster "early and dry", so her death would shape the fates of everyone else. Schreier said a later death would leave its sadness hanging over the film and distract from the bond between Yelena and Bob.
Pearson's original draft kept Taskmaster alive to the end. She bonded with Ghost, and a running gag had her forgetting her new friendships and still trying to assassinate Walker. Pearson accepted the change, partly because that gag drifted too close to Bob's own memory loss. His planned post-credits scene featuring Kang the Conqueror was also abandoned, since Marvel Studios had decided to move away from that storyline. Lee Sung Jin had rewritten the script from March 2023, and Calo joined by the end of February 2024 to write during production. Pearson received story credit and a screenplay credit alongside Calo, while Lee was credited for additional literary material.
Principal photography began by the 26th of February 2024 at Trilith Studios and Atlanta Metro Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. The working title was Oops All Berries, a nod to a Cap'n Crunch variation that contains only berry-flavored pieces. Andrew Droz Palermo, who had shot Moon Knight, replaced Steve Yedlin as cinematographer, and the film was shot for IMAX. The Utah Film Commission announced that the production would spend over $4.5 million across Emery County and Grand County. Chapek said those locations felt "untouched by the larger world", and the crew filmed there from the 29th of May to the 12th of June 2024.
In Kuala Lumpur, the crew filmed at the Medan Pasar square and the Merdeka 118 skyscraper. Pugh insisted on performing Yelena's jump from the top of Merdeka 118 without stunt doubles. Marvel Studios was reluctant for insurance reasons, but she kept pressing, including with Feige, until she was allowed. For the shame rooms, Palermo chose a handheld, hand-made look, citing Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and A24 films such as Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). Feige championed practical effects wherever possible. Louis-Dreyfus said the studio was trying to "go back to their roots", with practical stunts and a focus on the characters' humanity. Filming concluded the week of the 19th of June 2024.
In early December 2024, additional photography in Atlanta captured the "Meth Chicken" shame room sequence from Bob's memories.
In his pitch meeting, Jake Schreier suggested that a poster or trailer might put an asterisk in the title, implying the team needed to "come up with something better". Feige, Marvel Studios co-president Louis D'Esposito and the marketing team loved the idea and embraced it. By March 2024 the film had been formally retitled Thunderbolts*. The creatives realized the asterisk could lead to a new title revealed after release.
Schreier said the ending was always going to reveal the team as the New Avengers, and the rest of the film became about "building the right story that lived up to that". Pearson said Feige suggested that de Fontaine should introduce the team to the public as the Avengers. The filmmakers then debated whether the "n" in "new" should be upper or lowercase. They also seeded hints, such as the Battle of New York gala, the renaming of Avengers Tower as the Watchtower, and Mel explaining that she was in high school when the Avengers first formed.
Public marketing began in March 2024, when Pugh released a set video showing her new Black Widow costume and the updated logo. Collider's Chris McPherson called the costume "very military and quite tactical" and noted her teal eyeliner. Several commentators questioned the asterisk. One theory said the team would not be called the Thunderbolts but a variation of the Avengers, such as the Dark Avengers or the New Avengers. Another suggested a second Thunderbolts team existed in the MCU, with a roster closer to the comics. An international poster added a footnote for the asterisk reading "The Avengers Are Not Available". Gizmodo's James Whitbrook and IGN's Scott Collura saw this as part of a ragtag, humorous campaign rather than a serious mystery.
First footage appeared at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2024, where Harbour dressed as Red Guardian for the panel. Online leaks followed, and Marvel released an official look in August. A teaser trailer in September featured the Pixies song "Where Is My Mind?". That teaser credited Scarlett Johansson as an executive producer, but she asked for the credit to be removed because she had no involvement. A second trailer aired during Super Bowl LIX in February 2025. In it, Red Guardian hopes the team's achievements will put them on a Wheaties box. A poster mimicking a Wheaties box followed, captioned "The Breakfast of Champions Thunderbolts*", and a limited edition cereal box arrived at the end of April.
In March 2025, Letterboxd debuted a trailer edited in the style of A24 independent films, complete with techno music and an "A24-esque makeover" for the Marvel Studios logo. Pugh described the film as an "indie, A24-feeling assassin movie with Marvel superheroes". A24 had not known about the trailer and answered with a meme from its series Euphoria. The campaign was valued between $75-100 million, with partners including Harley-Davidson, Tide and Wheaties.
The answer to the asterisk arrives at the end of the film. De Fontaine stages a press conference, introduces the team as the New Avengers and takes credit for their actions. The group goes along with it. Yelena quietly tells her, "We own you now."
After opening weekend, Marvel Studios rebranded the film as The New Avengers. A video showed the cast tearing the Thunderbolts logo from a poster to reveal the new name. Billboards and theater marquees were updated. Disney clarified that the film was not formally retitled; the asterisk had simply been spelled out, and ticketing services still listed Thunderbolts. Sydney Bucksbaum of Entertainment Weekly felt it was the first film planned from the start to change its title days after release for narrative purposes.
Pugh said she was shocked by the reveal. She believed belonging to that team was "probably keeping her alive", giving Yelena a family unit that "allowed her to feel loved again".
Thunderbolts* premiered on the 22nd of April 2025 at the Cineworld Leicester Square in London, and its Los Angeles premiere followed on the 28th of April. Fan screenings ran in 10 major American cities the same day as the London premiere. The film reached American theaters on the 2nd of May in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, ScreenX and 4DX. It closed Phase Five of the MCU.
Forecasts in mid-April 2025 pointed to a United States opening weekend of $63-77 million, with $70 million as the target. The film earned $31.5 million on its first day, including $11.5 million from Thursday night previews. Its domestic opening weekend reached $74.3 million. Another $86.1 million came from abroad, for $160.1 million worldwide, including $20 million from IMAX screens. The second weekend brought $33.1 million, a 55% drop. That was considered good for an MCU film, since Brave New World had fallen 68% earlier that year. A third weekend of $17 million, down 52%, left it second behind Final Destination Bloodlines.
The final worldwide total was $382.4 million, with $190.3 million from the United States and Canada and $192.2 million from other territories. That makes it one of the lowest grossing MCU films. Variety's Rebecca Rubin reported that it needed an "unachievable" $425 million to break even, against a $180 million production budget and a $100 million marketing budget. She and Brent Lang grouped it with Brave New World and The Fantastic Four: First Steps as "commercial duds". Feige blamed audiences' belief that they had to watch the MCU's Disney+ series first. He said the studio should have made clear that was unnecessary.
On Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 382 critics gave the film a positive review. Metacritic assigned a score of 68 out of 100 from 53 critics. Critics called it a return to form for the MCU and singled out its handling of mental health and the performances of Pugh and Pullman. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an A-minus. PostTrak surveys averaged 4.5 out of 5 stars, and 74% said they would definitely recommend it.
Individual verdicts varied. NPR's Bob Mondello called it "a decently effective blend of misfit mercenaries and pop psychology". Jake Coyle of the Associated Press gave it three stars out of four and wrote, "Most of all, Pugh commands every bit of the movie." Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph gave two stars out of five and objected to "dollop upon dollop of dourness".
The film arrived for digital download on the 1st of July 2025, on disc on the 29th of July, and on Disney+ on the 27th of August. The home releases carry the title Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers). It reached No. 1 on the Official Film Chart in the United Kingdom for the week ending the 13th of August. In the United States, it debuted at No. 1 on the Circana VideoScan disc sales chart for the week ended the 2nd of August.
The post-credits scene is set 14 months after the film's events. The New Avengers and Bob discuss a feud with Sam Wilson, who leads his own Avengers team and is suing them for trademark infringement. Then the Watchtower detects an extradimensional spacecraft with a large "4" on its side, which belongs to the Fantastic Four. Schreier said the scene was shot about a month before release, on the set of Avengers: Doomsday, by that film's directors, the Russo brothers. A cut version had Barnes and Walker trading a "Who's on First?"-style exchange about the number four. Stan called the bit "genius", and Russell said it became "a Leslie Nielsen sketch".
In March 2025, Marvel announced that Stan, Russell, Pugh, Pullman, Harbour and John-Kamen would return for Doomsday. Nerdist's Michael Walsh argued this spoiled who survives, comparing it to revealing the survivors of The Dirty Dozen. IGN's Amelia Emberwing disagreed, noting that the returning actors could be playing versions of their characters from other universes.
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Who directed Thunderbolts*?
Jake Schreier directed Thunderbolts*, from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo. Pearson received story credit, and Lee Sung Jin was credited for additional literary material.
What does the asterisk in the Thunderbolts* title mean?
The asterisk is explained by the film's ending, in which the Thunderbolts are introduced to the public as the New Avengers. After opening weekend, Marvel Studios rebranded the film as The New Avengers, though Disney said it was not formally retitled.
When was Thunderbolts* released?
Thunderbolts* premiered on the 22nd of April 2025 at the Cineworld Leicester Square in London and opened in the United States on the 2nd of May 2025. It is the final film of Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
How much money did Thunderbolts* make at the box office?
Thunderbolts* grossed $382.4 million worldwide, including $190.3 million in the United States and Canada. Variety reported that it needed $425 million to break even, against a $180 million production budget and a $100 million marketing budget.
Who is the villain in Thunderbolts*?
The villain is the Void, the destructive alter ego of Bob Reynolds, also known as Sentry, played by Lewis Pullman. Bob is the only test subject to survive the O.X.E. Group's Project Sentry.
Why was Thunderbolts* delayed before filming?
The 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and the SAG-AFTRA strike delayed Thunderbolts*. The release date moved from the 26th of July 2024 to the 20th of December 2024, then to the 25th of July 2025, before landing on the 2nd of May 2025.
Who stars in Thunderbolts*?
Florence Pugh stars as Yelena Belova alongside Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer and Wendell Pierce also appear.
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- 78David Harbour Teases The Complexities Of Yelena Belova & Red Guardian In Marvel's ThunderboltsCaitlin Tyrrell — November 27, 2023
- 79Wyatt Russell Teases 'Thunderbolts': "It's Not a Straightforward Marvel Movie as You've Seen in the Past"Kirsten Chuba — November 29, 2023
- 80Steven Yeun Will Not Star in Marvel's 'Thunderbolts'Aaron Couch — January 2, 2024
- 81MagazineSteven Yeun No Longer Involved in Marvel's 'Thunderbolts'Michaela Zee — January 2, 2024
- 82MagazineSteven Yeun Is 'Sorry' He Dropped Out of Marvel's 'Thunderbolts,' Cites Strike and Scheduling Issues: 'I Wanna Do a Marvel Movie'Michaela Zee et al. — January 3, 2024
- 84MagazineMarvel's 'Thunderbolts': Lewis Pullman Top Choice to Replace Steven YeunAaron Couch — January 25, 2024
- 85Marvel Studios' "Thunderbolts" Eyeing "Top Gun: Maverick" Star Lewis Pullman for Big RoleMotion Picture Association — January 26, 2024
- 86'Thunderbolts': Geraldine Viswanathan Joins Marvel Studios Pic Stepping In For Ayo Edebiri Who Departs Project Due To SchedulingJustin Kroll — January 29, 2024
- 87How Marvel Is Quietly Retooling Amid Superhero FatigueBorys Kit et al. — February 21, 2024
- 88David Harbour Is The Only To Dress Up At 'Thunderbolts*' Comic-Con Session, First Trailer UnveiledMatt Grobar et al. — July 27, 2024
- 89Thunderbolts Trailer Revealed at Comic Con: "There Are Bad Guys and There Are Worse Guys."Dais Johnston — July 27, 2024
- 90Thunderbolts* Will Be The MCU's Toy Story 3: 'Can They Get Out Of The Trash Can Together?'Ben Travis — March 6, 2025
- 91Thunderbolts director reveals he 'really wanted' Man-Thing on the team, but another Marvel project got there first: "It all worked out for the best"Bradley Russell — GamesRadar+ — April 21, 2025
- 92Thunderbolts isn't a Black Widow sequel, but it's a part of the story: "It's important to everyone to preserve that legacy of something that emotionally meant so much to people"Nick Setchfield et al. — GamesRadar+ — April 22, 2025
- 93VideoThunderbolts* Explained: Credits Scene & Shocking Moments Director Jake Schreier InterviewBrandon Davis — May 1, 2025
- 94How 'Thunderbolts*' Director Jake Schreier Infused a Bit of 'Beef' Into the MCUBrian Davids — May 1, 2025
- 96MagazineThunderbolts* asterisk explained: Here's what it means for the MCU's futureSydney Bucksbaum — May 2, 2025
- 98Thunderbolts*' writer didn't know Marvel cut his Taskmaster arc until he saw the movieTasha Robinson — May 5, 2025
- 99Thunderbolts* Writer Reveals John Walker Was Originally The Main Villain And Why It Became Sentry/The Void InsteadNicolas Ayala — May 5, 2025
- 100MagazineThunderbolts* director explains that 'cold-blooded' death — and why it was added later onSydney Bucksbaum — May 2, 2025
- 101'Thunderbolts*' Star Lewis Pullman Breaks His Silence on Playing SentryDevan Coggan — May 6, 2025
- 102Julia Louis-Dreyfus Will Shoot Marvel's 'Thunderbolts' in June and Demands to Kick Ass: 'I Really Want to Fight'Matt Donnelly — January 17, 2023
- 103Steve Yedlin, ASCInnovative Artists
- 104Marvel Hits Pause on 'Blade' Due to Writers Strike (Exclusive)Borys Kit et al. — May 5, 2023
- 105'Stranger Things' Final Season Production Delayed by Labor UnrestLesley Goldberg — May 6, 2023
- 107Marvel Pushes Pause On 'Thunderbolts' Production Due To Writers StrikeJustin Kroll — May 25, 2023
- 108NewsA Marvel movie appears set to shoot in Utah, under a secret nameSean P. Means — June 8, 2023
- 109Florence Pugh Sounds As Bummed As I Am That Marvel's Upcoming Thunderbolts Movie Couldn't Film In Atlanta This SummerAdreon Patterson — September 12, 2023
- 110'Monarch: Legacy of Monsters' Star Wyatt Russell on Why He Waited to Work With Kurt Russell and 'Thunderbolts' AnticipationBrian Davids — December 19, 2023
- 111NewsWhat's filming in Georgia in February 2024?Rodney Ho — February 7, 2024
- 112Thunderbolts Star Florence Pugh Confirms Marvel Movie Is Now FilmingCharlie Ridgley — February 26, 2024
- 113NewsThis Walkable Georgia Town Uses Geothermal Energy to Power Its HomesAnna Staropoli — November 1, 2023
- 114Kevin Feige Confirms The Fantastic Four Starts Filming SoonNicolas Ayala — April 11, 2024
- 115Film Job OpportunitiesUtah Film Commission
- 117The Interview: The Darker Side of Julia Louis-DreyfusGarcia-Navarro — June 8, 2024
- 118How Cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo Went From 'The Green Knight' to Marvel's 'Moon Knight'Adam Chitwood — April 24, 2022
- 119Julia Louis-Dreyfus Offers an Exciting 'Thunderbolts*' UpdateAdam Blevins — June 19, 2024
- 123How 'Thunderbolts*' Assembled That Epic Sentry Fight SceneDevan Coggan — May 9, 2025
- 124Marvel's Thunderbolts Reveals First Look at Superman Star's New CharacterMarco Vito Oddo — February 10, 2025
- 125Thunderbolts*Vincent Frei — February 10, 2025
- 126Marvel's 'Thunderbolts*' Heads Back to Atlanta For Reshoots...AgainChris McPherson — December 5, 2024
- 127Thunderbolts – WGA DirectoryWriters Guild of America West — March 31, 2025
- 128Thunderbolts ending explained: Who dies? What the asterisk means? How does it set up Avengers: Doomsday?Amy West — GamesRadar+ — May 1, 2025
- 129Thunderbolts* Post-Credits Scene Was An Incredibly Last-Minute Addition (& Here's How Late)Chris Agar — May 1, 2025
- 130MagazineThunderbolts* director says post-credits scene was shot for Avengers: DoomsdaySydney Bucksbaum — May 2, 2025
- 131Thunderbolts* / New Avengers: Alternate Fantastic Four Post-Credits Scene RevealedCameron Bonomolo — May 6, 2025
- 133Son Lux Scoring Marvel Studios' 'Thunderbolts*'February 9, 2025
- 134'Thunderbolts*' Soundtrack Album DetailsApril 29, 2025
- 135Florence Pugh Shares First Look at Marvel's 'Thunderbolts' With On-Set VideoKristen Lopez — March 27, 2024
- 136Florence Pugh Takes Us on a Tour of the Thunderbolts SetSabina Graves — March 27, 2024
- 137Florence Pugh Is Breaking the Rules With New 'Thunderbolts' Set VideoChris McPherson — March 27, 2024
- 138MagazineFlorence Pugh Shares Tour of 'Thunderbolts' Set and Previews Yelena's Combat SuitZoe G. Phillips — March 27, 2024
- 139Kevin Feige Comments On Marvel Adding An Asterisk To The Thunderbolts* Movie TitleOllie Bradley — April 11, 2024
- 140Marvel Fans Are Trying to Figure Out Why Thunderbolts Has an Asterisk in the TitleAdele Ankers-Range — April 12, 2024
- 141Marvel's Thunderbolts Got A Slight Title Change, And Now I'm Really ConfusedSarah El-Mahmoud — April 11, 2024
- 142Disney Fêtes 'Inside Out 2', Slays With 'Deadpool' and 'Alien: Romulus' Footage, Shows Off New Look At 'Moana 2' – CineEuropeNancy Tartaglione — June 19, 2024
- 143SDCC 2024: Marvel Studios' 'Thunderbolts*' Cast Teases the Film in Hall HDevan Coogan — July 27, 2024
- 144MagazineMarvel marks 85 years with Thunderbolts, Daredevil, Red Hulk first looks (exclusive)Nick Romano — August 29, 2024
- 145'Thunderbolts*' Trailer: Marvel Recruits Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan and David Harbour for a Twisted Team-UpEthan Shanfeld — September 23, 2024
- 146What Song Is In Marvel's Thunderbolts* Trailer?Kai Young — September 23, 2024
- 147'Thunderbolts*' Trailer Debuts During Big GameFebruary 9, 2025
- 149Marvel's Thunderbolts* teaser valiantly refuses to give away the plotMary Kate Carr — September 23, 2024
- 150Thunderbolts* Super Bowl Trailer Sees MCU Anti-Heroes Prepare To Face Mystery New VillainJordan King — February 10, 2025
- 151Marvel's Thunderbolts* shows off a spooky new villainSusana Polo — February 10, 2025
- 152Thunderbolts* Super Bowl Trailer Previews the Team's Melodramatic and Comedic StrugglesBen Wasserman — February 9, 2025
- 153The New Thunderbolts Poster Is Perfect (And a First for Marvel)Tim Adams — February 10, 2025
- 154Marvel May Have Revealed Why The Thunderbolts* Title Has An AsteriskKieran Fisher — February 10, 2025
- 155An International Poster Might Have Just Explained Thunderbolts' Whole Asterisk DealJames Whitbrook — February 11, 2025
- 156Why Are the Thunderbolts* Called That, and Did Marvel Just Explain the Asterisk in the Title?Scott Collura — February 11, 2025
- 157Marvel's New 'Thunderbolts' Teaser Touts Connections to A24's 'Hereditary,' 'Beef' and 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'Jazz Tangcay et al. — March 7, 2025
- 158Marvel wants that 'A24-feeling' — but it'll take more than A24 talentZosha Millman — March 7, 2025
- 159Marvel Unveils 'Avengers: Doomsday' Cast with MCU Mainstays and 'X-Men', 'Fantastic Four' StarsAaron Couch et al. — March 26, 2025
- 160Did Marvel Studios Just Spoil Thunderbolts in a Big Way?Michael Hein — March 26, 2025
- 161'Thunderbolts' May Secretly Be The Most Important New MCU MovieDais Johnston — March 26, 2025
- 162Did Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday Cast Announcement Really Have to Spoil Thunderbolts*?Michael Walsh — March 27, 2025
- 163No, the Avengers: Doomsday Cast Announcements Didn't Spoil Thunderbolts (Probably)Amelia Emberwing — March 27, 2025
- 164Thunderbolts*: Final Trailer, New Poster, Tickets For Fan ScreeningsKailtlyn Booth — April 16, 2025
- 165Marvel's Thunderbolts* Grace The Box Of WheatiesGavin Sheehan — April 28, 2025
- 166'Thunderbolts*' Unveils Title Asterisk In Post-Opening Marketing Stunt; U.S. Box Office Debut At $74MAnthony D'Alessandro — May 5, 2025
- 168MagazineThunderbolts* stars help rebrand movie as *The New Avengers, but what are we really calling it now?Sydney Bucksbaum — May 5, 2025
- 169'Avatar 3' Pushed a Year to 2025, Two 'Star Wars' Movies Head for 2026 and 'Avengers' Films DelayedPamela McClintock et al. — June 13, 2023
- 170Marvel's 'Deadpool 3' Moves To July 2024 & 'Captain America: Brave New World' To 2025 As Disney Shakes Up Schedule Due To Actors StrikeAnthony D'Alessandro — November 9, 2023
- 171Marvel Moves On The Theatrical Sked: 'Thunderbolts' Shifts Up; 'The Fantastic Four' Moves Back In 2025Anthony D'Alessandro — February 14, 2024
- 172Imax Unveils 2025 Film Slate, Including 'Superman: Legacy' and 'The Fantastic Four'Scott Roxborough — May 16, 2024
- 173Marvel Removes 2026 Title, Searchlight's 'A Real Pain' Moves to November in Major Disney Release Date UpdateAdam B. Vary — August 2, 2024
- 174AMC Entertainment To Bring ScreenX, 4DX Premium Formats To U.S. Theaters For First TimeJill Goldsmith — March 26, 2025
- 175Marvel's Thunderbolts* Assemble in New Posters, Tickets Now on SaleBrandon Schreur — April 7, 2025
- 177Florence Pugh Electrifies the Thunderbolts* L.A. Premiere in Timeless Pastel GownIngrid Vasquez — April 29, 2025
- 178Magazine'Thunderbolts*' Gets Digital and Blu-ray Release DatesJonathan Zavaleta — June 18, 2025
- 179Thunderbolts* Disney+ Streaming Release Date RevealedLee Freitag — August 8, 2025
- 180Marvel's 'Thunderbolts*' Tracking for Fair $70M U.S. OpeningPamela McClintock — April 10, 2025
- 181Box Office: 'Thunderbolts' Targets $75 Million Opening WeekendRebecca Rubin — April 30, 2025
- 183'Thunderbolts*' Settles At $76M Opening, 'Sinners' Full Of Grace With $33M, 'Rust' Not Good – Sunday AM Box Office UpdateAnthony D'Alessandro — May 4, 2025
- 185Box Office: 'Thunderbolts*' Flies to Solid $76M Opening, Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' FlailsPamela McClintock — May 4, 2025
- 187'Final Destination Bloodlines' Coursing To Franchise-Best $51M Bow; Nobody Is Rushing To 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' – Sunday AM Box Office UpdateAnthony D'Alessandro — May 18, 2025
- 188'Thunderbolts*' Lost Millions of Dollars Despite Great Reviews. Where Does Marvel Go Next?Rebecca Rubin — June 12, 2025
- 189Marvel's Kevin Feige Talks Scaling Back, Losing Kang and His Texts to James Gunn After 'Superman'Borys Kit et al. — July 20, 2025
- 190Box Office Studio Report Card: Warners' Bets Pay Off, Disney Scores but Marvel Struggles, Tom Cruise Can't Save ParamountRebecca Rubin et al. — December 26, 2025
- 191News'Thunderbolts*' is a refreshing misfit hit after many Marvel misfiresBob Mondello — NPR — May 1, 2025
- 192NewsMovie Review: 'Thunderbolts' is Marvel, and Florence Pugh, in high gearJake Coyle — Associated Press — May 2, 2025
- 193NewsThunderbolts*, review: Not even Florence Pugh can save this morose Marvel yawn-festRobbie Collin — May 1, 2025
- 194Thunderbolts* review: 'The greatest Marvel offering in years'Nicholas Barber — BBC Culture — April 29, 2025
- 195Thunderbolts* First Reviews: A Breath of Fresh Air for the MCUChristopher Campbell — April 29, 2025
- 196Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar & Selena Gomez Lead 2025 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Nominees; Tyla To HostDenise Petski — May 15, 2025
- 198The 2025 Hollywood Creative Alliance (HCA) Midseason Astra Award NominationsMatt Neglia — June 30, 2025
- 199'Sinners' Sweeps the 2025 Midseason Movie Astra AwardsDon Shanahan — July 3, 2025
- 200'Deadpool & Wolverine', 'Thunderbolts*', 'The Last Of Us' Lead Nominees For Critics Choice Super AwardsPatrick Hipes — June 11, 2025
- 201'Wicked: For Good', 'Sinners' & 'F1' Lead Hollywood Music In Media Awards NominationsErik Pedersen — November 5, 2025
- 202'Sinners', 'Avatar: Fire And Ash', 'Fantastic Four' And 'Dexter: Resurrection' Lead Saturn Awards NominationsPatrick Hipes — January 27, 2026
- 203Costume Designers Guild Awards Nominations: 'Wicked: For Good', 'Sinners', 'Avatar: Fire & Ash' In Film HuntErik Pedersen — December 12, 2025
- 204Golden Trailer Awards Nominations: 'Wicked,' 'Deadpool & Wolverine' & Disney Lead FieldErik Pedersen — May 8, 2025
- 205AwardsWatch - Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Nominations: 'One Battle After Another,' 'Sinners' Score 13 EachErik Anderson — December 6, 2025
- 206AwardsWatch - Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) Nominations: 'One Battle After Another' Leads with 12Erik Anderson — December 19, 2025
- 207'Wicked,' 'A Complete Unknown' Among 2025 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards WinnersNicole Fell — February 24, 2025