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Marvel Studios Loses Major Executive Amidst Recent MCU Struggles
Marvel Studios has lost one of its major executives amidst the recent Marvel Cinematic Universe struggles with Victoria Alonso's exit. The MCU recently kicked off Phase 5 with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and it did so with much of the executive team from the Infinity Saga remaining in place. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige gets most of the attention in regards to the success and failures of the MCU, but he is supported by a collection of executives and producers that includes high-ranking members like Louis D'Esposito, Nate Moore, Trinh Tran, Stephen Broussard, Jonathan Schwartz, Brad Winderbaum, and Victoria Alonso.
According to THR, Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso has exited the company for unspecified reasons. The news comes weeks after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's poor reviews. She was the president of physical and postproduction, visual effects, and animation production for Marvel Studios. Alonso has been with Marvel Studios since 2006 where she was in charge of visual effects and post-production. She had an executive producer credit on every MCU movie and TV show from The Avengers and onward and received her most recent promotion in 2021. No replacement for Victoria Alonso has been named at this time.
Marvel Studios Executive Exit Is Latest Troubling Development For MCU
The news of Victoria Alonso's exit from the MCU is another troubling development for the franchise as Phase 5 begins. Marvel Studios has seen its movies struggle with critics and at the box office more in Phases 4 and 5 than what the Infinity Saga showed. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the latest example of this, as the box office numbers quickly declined and critic reviews were far harsher than past films. It also comes amidst plans for Marvel Studios to slow down its Disney+ show output and repeated reports of the studio's poor treatment of VFX houses.
The latter two developments for the MCU could potentially explain the Marvel Studios executive exit. Victoria Alonso has been a critical figure in Marvel Studios' VFX work, as she has overseen this side of the company's projects for years. As more reports surfaced about the unfair treatment of VFX artists, one recent report noted that Victoria Alonso had developed a bad reputation that included companies worrying about her freezing them out. That is likely not the relationship Marvel Studios wants to have with the VFX houses and artists that help make the MCU movies possible.
Furthermore, the output expectancy of Marvel Studios on Disney+ could be a guide for Alonso's tenure at Marvel Studios. She got her promotion to oversee physical and postproduction at the same time that Marvel was ramping up its slate for MCU shows. Now that reinstated Disney CEO Bob Iger has indicated a reversal of that plan is going into effect, the fewer amount of MCU shows being made could lessen Alonso's expected workload. With more reports potentially to follow and possible comments from Kevin Feige, clarity about Victoria Alonso's exit from Marvel Studios could come in the future and what it means for the MCU.
