While we’re still about a year out from the next Avengers instalment, Marvel has a couple of big summer releases this year, beginning with the comedy-infused Thunderbolts. Best thought of as Marvel’s answer to DC’s Suicide Squad, here we see a gang of unlikely antiheroes rounded up to face a new threat in the absences of the Avengers (hence the asterisk in the title—“the Avengers are not available”).

Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon film franchise is about to join the recent trend of live action / computer graphic remakes of hit animated films (i.e. Snow White). Its official trailer, released in February, uses nearly every sound we’d expect from the trailer music repertoire, including massive drum accents, industrial droning synths, pulsing orchestral strings, sombre high register piano, and wordless choir - it’s all here (as well as the full plotline).

On March 26th, Marvel put out an unusual “Now In Production” video for an upcoming 2026 film in their Avengers franchise. In the expanding multiverse of Marvel films and television series, Avengers: Doomsday is a massive ensemble cast affair. The Avengers series of films began in 2012 with half a dozen heroes. Today, 35 MCU films and nearly as many Marvel tv series later, it becomes a major endeavour to put together an ensemble cast film representing those brand offshoots.