New Teasers! Avengers: Doomsday & Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
🎥 Wakanda collides with the Fantastic Four as Marvel’s multiverse explodes, while horror filmmaker Lee Cronin resurrects The Mummy with a savage new horror edge!
🎥 “Avengers: Doomsday” New Teaser: Wakanda Meets the Fantastic Four as Marvel’s Biggest Multiverse Collision Takes Shape — In Theaters December 18th
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is gearing up for something big this year, perhaps the biggest team-up it’s ever attempted. It’s going to be a momentous convergence designed to pull together fractured timelines, clashing heroes, teams from other multiverses, and a decade-plus of narrative baggage into one high-stakes collision.
But will some characters gel with others? Because assembling a massive roster is one thing… making those larger-than-life personalities actually click on screen is another. At this scale, chemistry isn’t just a bonus; it’s the whole game.
Well, we’re getting a little taste of at least two MCU coalitions that will be joining forces in the much-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday, with yet another newly released teaser—the fourth sneak peek to drop in just the last couple of weeks. And if this early glimpse is any indication, getting to know someone on a first-name basis might be the key to becoming great teammates.
It’s the meeting between the Wakandans and the Fantastic Four. It’s a small peek, but a telling one, as we only see Winston Duke’s M’Baku sharing a brief exchange with Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. M’Baku proudly introduces himself as the King of Wakanda, while Ben—slightly awkward—counters by identifying himself as “from Yancy Street,” specifically between Broome and Grand.
The teaser also features Letitia Wright back as Shuri, now fully carrying the Black Panther mantle in the wake of her brother’s death. Meanwhile, Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) and Namora (Mabel Cadena) also appear, signaling that Wakanda’s alliance with the Talokan kingdom is very much part of the equation this time around.
“I’ve lost everyone that matters to me. The king has his duties to prepare our people for the afterlife... I have mine.”
Shuri is heard stating this throughout the new teaser, seemingly indicating that she’s come into her own sense of responsibility—one driven less by grief and more by purpose, carving out her own path forward.
Avengers: Doomsday marks the fifth installment in the Avengers saga and the 39th film in the MCU, pulling together just about every corner of Marvel’s ever-expanding multiverse. The Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, New Avengers, and yes, the X-Men all converge to face a villain who doesn’t just want to rule the world—he wants to reshape it. Enter Doctor Doom.
Originally conceived as Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the project underwent a major creative overhaul following the departure of director Destin Daniel Cretton and the exit of scandal-riddled actor Jonathan Majors. The pivot brought the Russo Brothers back into the fold, reuniting Marvel with the duo behind Infinity War and Endgame, and shifting the spotlight to Doom—played by Robert Downey Jr. in a bold, headline-grabbing return to the MCU.
The cast reads like a Marvel Hall of Fame ballot. Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Anthony Mackie’s Captain America, Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man, Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, and Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier are joined by Marvel’s First Family—Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards and Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm. Add Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, and Alan Cumming reprising their iconic X-Men roles, plus Chris Evans back as Steve Rogers, and you’ve got a crossover that genuinely feels historic.
Production is currently underway, with Marvel penciling the film’s release for the end of the year, now set for December 18th. Marvel is clearly hoping it will be the movie event of the year—and possibly the very thing that course-corrects the franchise after some recent stumbles.
Watch the previously released Avengers: Doomsday teasers, below.
🎥 Lee Cronin’s “The Mummy” Teaser: ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Director Reimagines the Classic Universal Monster for Blumhouse & James Wan’s Atomic Monster — In Theaters April 17th
The scary thing about mummies is not necessarily that they come back from the dead, wrapped in bandages and lumbering toward you, albeit that classic mummy image has scared moviegoers for decades. It’s that they’re reminders of how obsessed humans have always been with death. No matter the culture or era, we’ve treated death as something to ritualize, fear, honor, and ultimately try to control. The thing is, death doesn’t care about any of that. It doesn’t negotiate, and it doesn’t grant exceptions. The mummy, at its core, isn’t just a monster returning for revenge; it’s a symbol of humanity’s inability to truly face the inevitable.
Following recent horror hits like Wolf Man and The Invisible Man, Irish horror filmmaker Lee Cronin is offering his own take on the classic monster movie with this year’s The Mummy, Blumhouse’s latest modern reimagining of the celebrated Universal monster horror. Not to be confused with the recently announced revival sequel to the Brendan Fraser–led Mummy franchise, this version gets to the heart of the myth and leaves any swashbuckling thrills firmly behind.
Fresh off 2023’s Sam Raimi–produced horror smash Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin writes and directs this new horror thriller, working not only under the Blumhouse banner but also alongside horror maestro James Wan’s Atomic Monster. Cronin even gets his name in the title, a clear signal that this is very much his own spin on the classic material.
Boasting a strong ensemble led by Jack Reynor (Midsommar) and Laia Costa (Victoria), alongside May Calamawy (Moon Knight), Natalie Grace (1923), and Verónica Falcón (Ozark), the film centers on a journalist (Reynor) and his shattered family after their young daughter (Grace) vanishes without a trace in the desert. Eight years later, she inexplicably returns. Alive. Unchanged. And very wrong. What should be a miraculous reunion quickly spirals into a waking nightmare, as buried secrets and ancient forces claw their way back into the light.
Official plot details are still being kept under wraps, but Cronin has promised something unlike any Mummy movie we’ve seen before. A bold statement, indeed.
Think of the previous Mummy films as thrilling roller coasters. Cronin’s version, by contrast, appears to be a slow, suffocating descent into humanity’s darkest anxieties — a place where death isn’t an ending, but a door that should never be opened.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is slated to open in theaters and IMAX on April 17th. Come for the curse. Stay for the dread!
