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Eat, play, live in 2025: Quality, not quantity, rules the superhero game
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Sam Wilson, the new Captain America played by Anthony Mackie, represents a break with the former Steve Rogers/Captain America, with Wilson having a different set of powers and moral code.
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SINGAPORE – In 2025, the big studios are rolling up their sleeves to tackle a disease plaguing the box office – superhero fatigue.
Following the underwhelming reception of 2024 movies like Kraven The Hunter, Joker: Folie A Deux and Madam Web, as well as 2023’s The Marvels, studios hope to arrest the slide by diversifying storytelling styles, favouring quality over quantity and digging deeper into characters’ psyches.
