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Post by politicidal on Mar 21, 2023 1:02:02 GMT
Time to reboot!
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She joined Marvel Studios in 2006 as executive vice president of visual effects and post-production, serving as co-producer on early Marvel Cinematic Universe films like “Iron Man,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor” and “Captain America: The First Avenger.” Since then, Alonso has worked as an executive producer on every Marvel Studios film and TV show since 2012’s “The Avengers.”
In 2015, Alonso was promoted to executive VP of production, and in 2021 she was upped to president of physical, post production, VFX and animation at Marvel Studios. In her role, she oversaw all of Marvel’s post-production, including its visual effects work, which has come under repeated and vociferous criticism by visual effects professionals.
Most recently, the special effects in last month’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” came under fire, and reviews for the film were notably more negative than previous Marvel movies. The third installment of the “Ant-Man” franchise had its largest opening weekend ever ($105 million), but fell below 2015’s “Ant-Man” and 2018’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp” at the worldwide box office. Last year’s TV series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” also received some backlash for the look of the titular green hero among the devoted MCU fans.
Despite her sudden exit on Friday, Alonso is credited as a producer on the upcoming Marvel films “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” and “The Marvels,” plus the Disney+ shows “Secret Invasion,” “Ironheart,” “Echo” and “Agatha: Coven of Chaos.”
In addition to her work with Marvel, she was also a producer on “Argentina, 1985,” which won the Golden Globe for best foreign language film and received an Oscar nomination.
Alonso has been named multiple times to Variety‘s Power of Women L.A. Impact Report and, last June, Variety exclusively announced that she had written a memoir, titled “Possibility Is Your Superpower,” about her Hollywood career after growing up in La Plata, Argentina.
“You don’t need a cape, you don’t need a hammer, you don’t need a shield. Your superpower is your voice, and your voice will create change for yourself, for society and for those who you love,” Alonso said. “If you use your voice, you will create the kind of energy that will bring change to us. To not use your voice is silence, and silence is poison.”
The book, which was acquired by Disney’s Hyperion Avenue imprint, was set to be published on May 2 and made available in English and Spanish. Proceeds will benefit St. Jude.
THR was first to report the news of the shakeup.
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Post by Power Ranger on Mar 21, 2023 1:44:21 GMT
She’s the one who said that the name ‘X-Men’ was outdated. Go woke, go broke.
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Post by formersamhmd on Mar 21, 2023 1:59:38 GMT
She’s the one who said that the name ‘X-Men’ was outdated. Go woke, go broke. It's "Stay Asleep, Stay a Sheep".
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Post by politicidal on Mar 21, 2023 4:41:33 GMT
Seems to be controversy about her conduct. Either things were her fault:
Or not.
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Post by darkpast on Mar 21, 2023 4:50:40 GMT
wow Disney is sexist , how dare they fire a woman
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 21, 2023 11:56:15 GMT
Seems to be controversy about her conduct. Either things were her fault:
Or not.
I believe the former. The woman doing spin in defense even admits the guy is usually spot on in his reporting.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 21, 2023 16:10:08 GMT
wow Disney is sexist , how dare they fire a woman Shocker! Queer Woman of Color Victoria Alonso Exits Marvel Studios
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Post by Power Ranger on Mar 21, 2023 17:26:38 GMT
She’s the one who said that the name ‘X-Men’ was outdated. Go woke, go broke. It's "Stay Asleep, Stay a Sheep". So you endorse changing the name ‘X-Men’ due to it being a sexist name?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 21, 2023 19:16:49 GMT
It's "Stay Asleep, Stay a Sheep". So you endorse changing the name ‘X-Men’ due to it being a sexist name? The characters should all be transitioning to female, the name would still apply and be totally appropriate.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Mar 21, 2023 20:11:52 GMT
There's a conspiracy theory that she may have been the source behind the reddit leaks.
Someone call Alex Jones!
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Post by politicidal on Mar 21, 2023 22:10:47 GMT
There's a conspiracy theory that she may have been the source behind the reddit leaks. Someone call Alex Jones! The plot thickens.
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Post by formersamhmd on Mar 22, 2023 17:11:29 GMT
It's "Stay Asleep, Stay a Sheep". So you endorse changing the name ‘X-Men’ due to it being a sexist name? Beh, I do think it's a boring name these days. "X-Factor" or "Unity Squad" or whatever else I wouldn't mind being adopted.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Mar 22, 2023 19:17:40 GMT
She’s the one who said that the name ‘X-Men’ was outdated. Go woke, go broke. It's "Stay Asleep, Stay a Sheep". She's gone now, so that name is more likely to remain. As for Power Ranger's "Go Woke, go broke" and your counterargument "Stay Asleep, Stay a Sheep", profit says it all at the end of the day, really. If a woke product fails, then it didn't do something right, if it succeeds then it did something right, and audiences reacted to it well.
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Post by Power Ranger on Mar 22, 2023 19:39:07 GMT
wow Disney is sexist , how dare they fire a woman Shocker! Queer Woman of Color Victoria Alonso Exits Marvel Studios
Yeah, after 17 years where she got promoted to second in command of a billion dollar company. The stock price has halved in two years, their films are starting to lose money and old episodes of the The Simpsons gets more downloads than any Marvel show. That’s when heads roll in big companies.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 23, 2023 14:43:06 GMT
More details. TEXT: At this year’s Academy Awards, Victoria Alonso was overwhelmed. The veteran Marvel Studios executive and producer of the nominated film “Argentina, 1985” was stopped on the red carpet, posing for photographers assigned to capture top executives on Hollywood’s big night. But something shocked her. “Look at this! Two women!” Alonso said of the female photographers hired for the gig (as in most corners of Hollywood, women are outnumbered by men on the photo line). Emotional, Alonso insisted the pair put down their cameras and pose for a photo with her in front of a giant Oscar statuette. As they all smiled, she told them, “We’ve worked so hard to get here and we’re not going anywhere.” Eight days later, she was fired as Marvel’s president of physical production, post-production, VFX and animation, three individuals familiar with the matter told Variety. The shakeup came as a surprise to many in show business and within the vast Marvel comic book fandom (a community with a prominent online presence and an in-person significance, at the many multiplexes where the studio releases its films). Alonso’s dismissal has raised numerous questions about behind-the-scenes workings at the prized content engine, and with them, another unfavorable news cycle as Disney CEO Bob Iger attempts to stabilize its parent company amid economic unrest. While the cause of Alonso’s termination is unclear, the sources said, the decision was made by a consortium including human resources, Disney’s legal department and multiple executives including Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman (to whom all of Marvel Studios reports). Alonso’s longtime boss and Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige felt mired in an impossible situation and, ultimately, did not intervene, one source added. Alonso was blindsided, another insider added. A representative for Alonso declined to provide comment for this story. Marvel Studios had no comment. Alonso joined Marvel Studios in 2006, three years before Disney acquired the label for $4 billion. Over 17 years, she has been a fixture under chief creative officer Kevin Feige, standing beside Feige’s right hand and co-president Louis D’Esposito. Simultaneously, she worked to become a brand on her own – a rare openly LGBTQ person and woman of color in a visible leadership role, known for her fiery passion and outspokenness over diversity and inclusion in Marvel’s storytelling. She has been honored by media watchdogs and visual effects communities alike and is about to publish a memoir about her corporate ascent, the aptly titled “Possibility Is Your Superpower” (which is still set for release at the Disney book label Hyperion Avenue). Where, then, in all of the multiverse did this dramatic fracture occur? Numerous sources familiar with Marvel pointed to the tremendous pressure that the unit has been under over the past few years to deliver compelling content, not just to theaters, but also in the form of new streaming shows intended to bolster Disney+. In 2021 and 2022, Marvel unloaded an unprecedented torrent of comic book adventures, releasing 17 titles — seven movies, eight streaming series and two TV specials — over 23 months. That breakneck distribution schedule, a product of the pandemic and the need to constantly feed Disney+, was not of Alonso’s making. Marvel was far from the only studio tasked with delivering feature-level content for a newly launched streaming service. But it was Alonso’s job to get each of those titles through Marvel’s gargantuan post-production process. By the summer of 2022, cracks began to show in the company’s seemingly impervious armor. Starting on Reddit, followed by a series of stories published across the internet, visual effects artists began to loudly complain about Marvel’s demanding post-production schedules. Complaints ranged from unrelenting overtime to chronic understaffing to the inability to avoid delivering substandard work due to constantly changing deadlines. Some singled out Alonso as a “kingmaker” who would blacklist artists who have “pissed her off in any way.” One visual effects artist recently told Variety that the biggest issue for them was Marvel’s inability to provide clear guidelines. “The show I was on really struggled because it was an established character whose powers they were reconceiving for the MCU,” the artist said on the condition of anonymity. Most complaints, they said, came down to one refrain: “Marvel doesn’t figure shit out beforehand.” A different senior VFX artist threw cold water on the idea that Alonso would single out individual artists: “The idea of a very senior exec terrifying rank and file artists, per some reports, feels a bit off,” they told Variety. Above the line, three different up-and-coming Marvel actors agreed that Alonso was only a supportive force on set. “She was the epitome of professional and knows her stuff,” said one former Disney film executive. Still, the drumbeat that Something Is Rotten in the State of Marvel Studios only grew louder with the release of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” a film that finished shooting over a year before it was due in theaters and still weathered repeated criticism for “generic” visual effects that looked like “CGI glop” and were “very flat and cruddy-looking.” Even more critical: The movie has grossed $463 million globally to date, the worst performance of the “Ant-Man” franchise and a figure that means that it will struggle to break even in its theatrical window. That’s the wrong trajectory for a studio that Disney has come to rely upon as an unshakable box office cash machine, one whose films have grossed over $28 billion at the global box office, especially as Iger makes plain that he’s cutting costs across the company. Insiders say the five Disney+ series from Marvel Studios that had been scheduled to debut in 2023 have been narrowed to three or four, with the others moving into 2024 and possibly beyond. That will take some of the immediate pressure off of Marvel’s post-production pipeline. Alonso’s absence is not expected to affect the next Marvel title, May’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which has nearly locked picture. Alonso’s replacement was not immediately announced by Disney. Given her expansive portfolio of duties, it may take more than one person to fill her shoes. Executives assemble. variety.com/2023/film/news/victoria-alonso-marvel-exit-kevin-feige-1235561995/
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Post by politicidal on Mar 24, 2023 0:41:36 GMT
John Campea had a theory on his show that there might possibly had been an incident of some kind which led to her departure. I guess we'll learn more eventually.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 24, 2023 22:20:29 GMT
The Oscar-nominated film Argentina, 1985 was at the center of last week’s sudden firing of longtime Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Alonso was one of eight producers on the Argentine historical drama, which was distributed by Amazon and competed for the best international feature Oscar. However, by assuming that role, she breached her contract — several times — according to sources. After repeated warnings, the situation came to a head the week after the Academy Awards and ultimately led to her termination. It was a seismic shake-up at Marvel, where for years Alonso was part of the holy trinity — along with Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige and co-president Louis D’Esposito — who led the Marvel Cinematic Universe to ever-greater heights.
According to insiders, Alonso breached a 2018 agreement that included the company’s standards of business conduct, which states that employees cannot work for competing studios.
Sources say that Alonso did not ask permission to work on Argentina, 1985, nor did she give notice. (However, an IndieWire piece published last month on the film stated that she did have permission.) When Disney found out about the project and the violation, her longtime service and veteran status led the company to give her a dispensation on the condition that she not work on the movie further. She was also not to promote it or publicize it in any way. The situation of a top executive working on a movie outside company confines was deemed serious enough to involve the management audit team and a new memo was signed, according to an insider.
A rep for Alonso declined to comment. A rep for Disney also declined to comment.
Boring!
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Post by formersamhmd on Mar 24, 2023 23:41:25 GMT
So it turned out she legit just broke Industry Rules, it wasn't a "Woke" thing.
Not that the Grifters will care...
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Post by politicidal on Mar 25, 2023 0:55:03 GMT
Attorney Patty Glaser, who is representing Alonso, calls those reports "absolutely ridiculous" and hints that Alonso had the blessing of Disney to work on Argentina, 1985, even though it was being made by another studio. "The idea that Victoria was fired over a handful of press interviews relating to a personal passion project about human rights and democracy that was nominated for an Oscar and which she got Disney's blessing to work on is absolutely ridiculous," Glaser's statement reads. "Victoria, a gay Latina who had the courage to criticize Disney, was silenced. Then she was terminated when she refused to do something she believed was reprehensible. Disney and Marvel made a really poor decision that will have serious consequences. There is a lot more to this story and Victoria will be telling it shortly—in one forum or another."
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Post by darkpast on Mar 25, 2023 6:28:26 GMT
it looks like Disney pretending to be gay friendly are not when it hurts then financially , that is disgusting
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