China ends de facto ban on Marvel films after more than three years
by Sian Cain and Helen Davidson in Taipei from World news | The Guardian on (#67Y2D)
Latest Black Panther and Ant-Man superhero flicks get February release in country famously controlling over Hollywood movies
China has ended its de facto ban on Marvel films, with superhero flicks Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania both locking in surprise release dates, after a three-and-a-half-year gap that has cost Disney hundreds of millions in ticket sales.
The films will be released in February, after the lunar new year, marking the first Marvel releases in the world's second-largest theatrical market since Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
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