Marvel reeling after exec Victoria Alonso surprisingly ditches role
nypost.comshe left the business this past Friday. While the reasons are unclear, the move has taken the industry by surprise.Alonso was influential within Marvel Studios, and was one of boss Kevin Feige’s key lieutenants.
She was most recently promoted the president of physical and post-production, visual effects and animation production in 2021.Alonso’s name will be familiar to many Marvel fans.
She was a producer and then from 2012 executive producer on the studios’ dozens of movies and TV shows, often as the second or third credited executive after Feige.And Alonso is expected to remain credited as an executive producer on a raft of upcoming Marvel projects, including “The Marvels,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3,” “Secret Invasion” and “Ironheart.”Alonso’s departure comes at a challenging time for the Disney-owned juggernaut studio, which has had a few uncharacteristic blips after more than a decade of dominating cinema culture.Like other Hollywood studios, Marvel was affected by the global closure of cinemas during the pandemic, which disrupted its meticulously planned release strategy. “Black Widow” was simultaneously released on streaming, which led Scarlett Johansson to sue Disney.
The legal action was later settled out of court.Its most recent release, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” has underwhelmed at the box office.
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