Disney CEO Confirms Reduced Marvel Studios Output & Project Cutbacks

Whether you like Marvel Studios' recent films or not, the MCU franchise is no longer unstoppable.

With Eternals, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and The Marvels underperforming and receiving mixed/negative reviews, Disney recently adopted a "quality over quantity" approach, and CEO Bob Iger has announced plans to reduce the MCU slate's annual big and small screen output.

Only 2-3 movies and 2 TV series each year will be shown.

“I’ve been working hard with the studio to reduce output and focus more on quality, that’s particularly true with Marvel,” Iger said during Disney’s fiscal Q2 earnings call. "We’re slowly going to decrease volume and go to probably about two TV series a year instead of what had become four, and reduce our film output from maybe four a year to two or at the maximum three. And we’re working hard on what that path is, we’ve got a couple of good films in ’25 and then we’re heading to more Avengers, which we’re extremely excited about.”

“Overall I feel great about the slate," Iger added. "It’s something that I’ve committed to spending more and more time on, the team is one that I have tremendous confidence in and the IP that we’re mining, including all the sequels that we’re doing is second to none."