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Marvel's 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' recorded another box office win just before its home release, continuing to perform alongside 'Avengers: Endgame – Encore' in theaters. The two titles are reported to be keeping Marvel's theatrical slate strong heading into the holiday season.
Marvel Studios' rerelease of Avengers: Endgame, dubbed Encore and featuring about four minutes of new footage teasing Avengers: Doomsday, has pushed the film's worldwide total to $2.9255 billion, edging past Avatar's $2.9237 billion. The Encore opening weekend grossed $86 million globally, the second-biggest rerelease opening ever, before dropping sharply to $18.8 million in its second weekend.
A theatrical re-release of Avengers: Endgame has pushed it past Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all time, generating over $126 million worldwide in its latest run. Disney says the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 38 films have now earned more than $35 billion combined, and that Disney titles occupy seven of the top 10 highest-grossing films ever. Separately, Coyote vs. Acme topped Apple TV's rental charts in the US and Canada after its Tuesday streaming release, holding a 96% Rotten Tomatoes critics' score.
Hot Toys has released a line of collectible action figures tied to the upcoming film 'Avengers: Doomsday,' including figures depicting Doctor Doom and Steve Rogers. The figures are aimed at collectors who want merchandise extending beyond the theatrical release.
Free updates released Thursday for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei add Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), the first AI-based upscaler to run on the standard PlayStation 5. Digital Foundry testing found QSSR produces sharper images with less shimmering and ghosting than older methods like TAA or FSR 3, though it renders from a lower base resolution than the PS5 Pro's PSSR and costs roughly 9 fps versus Insomniac's own upscaler.
Marvel Studios released its last trailer for VisionQuest, a limited series concluding the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued with Agatha All Along. Paul Bettany returns as Vision, alongside James Spader as Ultron, with Vision now on the run after a bounty is placed on him, accompanied by a mysterious boy named Thomas Shepherd, played by Ruaridh Mollica.
Sony Interactive Entertainment released patches today enabling Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a new AI upscaling feature, on the standard PS5 for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei. Developed with AMD using a streamlined neural network, QSSR will be available to all PlayStation developers, expanding on the PSSR upscaling tech previously exclusive to PS5 Pro. The update coincides with a complete edition release for Ghost of Yōtei, which existing owners can upgrade to for $15.
An experimental PlayStation 5 emulator called KytyPS5 has progressed from merely booting Marvel's Wolverine to actually rendering its cinematics and gameplay, according to a social media post cited by VideoCardz. The game still runs at only single-digit frame rates, far from playable performance, and there is no official PC version of the Insomniac Games title.
Marvel's re-release of 'Avengers: Endgame,' branded as an 'Encore' edition, pulled in strong theater attendance over the weekend. The reissue included a preview tied to the upcoming 'Doomsday' project, which appears to have been a major draw alongside nostalgia for the original 2019 film.
KytyPS5, an open-source PS5 emulator for PC available on GitHub, can now run in-game content in titles such as Astro's Playroom, Crash Bandicoot 4, Hitman: World of Assassination, Uncharted 4, Miles Morales, Silent Hill f, Silent Hill 2 Remake and Tekken 8. An X user shared footage of the emulator loading Marvel's Wolverine's main menu, albeit in slow motion, while a YouTube channel showed a modified build running Demon's Souls Remake gameplay at 40-50fps.
Marvel released a promotional teaser for its upcoming series 'VisionQuest,' revealing that the character Jocasta will appear in the show. The reveal adds a new figure to Vision's story as the series builds toward its premiere.
Marvel is releasing a new comic that brings together characters from two separate animated X-Men series, X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) and X-Men: Evolution, within a shared multiverse story. The crossover pits versions of the X-Men from both cartoons against each other in a single narrative.