Award-winning Marvel Studios EVP Victoria Alonso, government producer on many excessive profile MCU tasks starting with Iron Man, has shocked the trade along with her exit final Friday from the corporate. The explanations for her departure are at present unknown, although there may be hypothesis that current Disney cutbacks in Marvel Studios’ content material manufacturing plans for Disney+, in addition to the less-than-stellar theatrical run for present MCU outing Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, could have performed a task in Alonso’s choice to maneuver on.
Alonso’s practically two-decade tenure with Marvel after which Disney (after its 2009 Marvel Studios buy) noticed the MCU turn out to be the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. She first joined Marvel in 2006 as chief of visible results and post-production, and was promoted to government producer for The Avengers in 2012. Then, in 2021, she reached new heights as president, bodily and post-production, visible results and animation manufacturing.
Stepping away from superhero content material, Alonso additionally produced the Oscar-nominated worldwide characteristic Argentina, 1985 in 2022, and served as a Marvel Studios ambassador for illustration efforts in direction of ladies and the LGBTQIA+ communities. Including to her achievements, Alonso was named one in all Folks en Español journal’s Most Influential Hispanic Girls in each 2019 and 2020 , and has earned her place on THR’s Girls in Leisure Energy 100 checklist on a number of events.
We will’t wait to see what she does subsequent. And the way does this bode for Marvel Studios’ president Kevin Feige? Don’t neglect earlier this month it was reported his Star Wars universe characteristic movie mission was axed by Disney.
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