Marvel Studios VFX head Victoria Alonso is out

Per The Hollywood Reporter, after 17 years of working at Marvel Studios — initially as govt vice chairman of visible results and post-production earlier than happening to grow to be president within the division — Alonso left the corporate final Friday for causes that aren’t completely clear. As a co-producer on numerous Marvel’s earliest movies like the primary Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, Alonso performed a key position in shaping the MCU in its infancy, and 2012’s Avengers marked the start of her working as an govt producer on all the studio’s options and sequence.

While neither Marvel nor Alonso has introduced a motive for her exit, as THR notes, it comes at a time when Marvel’s movies like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and sequence like She-Hulk: Attorney at Law have been criticized for his or her less-than-stellar purposes of VFX. Alonso’s exit additionally comes simply months after returning CEO Bob Iger made clear that his plan for Disney’s long-term success entails reigning in content material spend and that Marvel won’t be within the enterprise of placing out third or fourth franchise installments for very for much longer.