Marvel Studios has halted announcements for its upcoming lineup of MCU movies and Disney+ shows in recent months, but the decision reflects a deliberate strategy change. But first, it's important to clarify what the studio is being open about. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is next up for the theatrical MCU on July 31, with Avengers: Doomsday slated for December 18, and Avengers: Secret Wars confirmed to follow one year later on December 17, 2027.
2026 also has plenty of Marvel TV still on the way, with Wonder Man already streaming on Disney+, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is well underway, and The Punisher: One Last Kill special slated for May 12. Later this year, Marvel will wrap up the trilogy that began with WandaVision when VisionQuest premieres. Even outside the main canon, the animated side remains busy, with new seasons of X‑Men '97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider‑Man coming in 2026.
Even with all of those projects on the horizon, it's been a while since Marvel Studios and its fearless leader, Kevin Feige, made a splash at a convention with one of its infamous slate reveals. The MCU passed on hosting a Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, which Entertainment Weekly stated was in the hopes of "[drumming] up excitement" for Doomsday by keeping it out of the public eye.
Fortunately, now that Avengers 5 has wrapped filming, released several teasers, and is just eight months away from portaling into theaters, Marvel Studios is expected to return to SDCC for Hall H this year. Furthermore, Disney's bi-annual D23 Expo is back on this August in Anaheim, and the MCU is bound to have a major presence at the event, by which time Doomsday will be just months away.
What MCU Announcements Are Coming This Year (SDCC & D23 Predictions)
Looking ahead, fans can probably expect Marvel Studios to reload its movie and TV slate (for 2027 and beyond) at San Diego Comic-Con this July and Disney's D23 Expo in August. There's no doubt that the promotional focus will be on the rest of Phase 6, but it would be surprising if there wasn't some news on Phase 7.
While Marvel Studios has been focused on concluding the Multiverse Saga, it has had an eye on several high-priority projects that will launch Phase 7. Those reportedly include Jake Schreier's X-Men, Ryan Coogler's Black Panther 3, and Matt Shakman's The Fantastic Four 2.
It's easy to imagine any of the three getting a grand reveal at either of 2026's big events, confirming their places in Phase 7's official release date calendar. After all, if Marvel Studios hopes to have new movies ready for their May, July, and December 2028 release dates for untitled projects, production on at least one or two will need to be underway by the first half of 2027.
The next wave of the MCU's Disney+ shows will likely follow a different model than the early days, as Marvel leans more into traditional multi-season television rather than the one-off limited series approach it experimented with earlier in the decade.
Currently, Marvel Television has enough ongoing shows, with Daredevil: Born Again and Wonder Man both renewed for another season, and no end in sight for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, X-Men '97, or Marvel Zombies.
It's tough to see much need to announce any new shows for the time being until some of its multi-season projects reach a natural end. Marvel Television is reportedly saving its Young Avengers-esque series until after Secret Wars, by which time it could replace another show that has already run its course.
Beyond that, the MCU's post-Secret Wars era is expected to pivot toward the arrival of the new X-Men, with a film already targeting 2028, and it would not be surprising if several Disney+ projects tied to those characters help shape the future of Marvel TV in the years that follow.
How Marvel Television's Strategy Is Evolving for Phase 6 & Beyond
After years of expanding aggressively across theaters and streaming, the Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige, has scaled back their TV output. This comes after Marvel Studios dramatically expanded onto Disney+ in 2021 with a wave of series designed to play a key role in the ongoing Multiverse Saga, a plan that, five years later, the studio is now reversing.
Despite having a relatively full 2026 slate, the long-term future of Marvel TV suddenly looks bare, with several shows expected to continue for more seasons, but nothing new on the horizon in the rest of Phase 6. Kevin Feige is reversing the strategy that originally fueled the studio's massive streaming expansion.
The early plan involved a rotating lineup of mostly one-season spinoff shows releasing each year, expanding the universe with new characters and storylines. Even Tom Rothman, the CEO of Sony Pictures, acknowledged that Feige appears to be recalibrating after several years of aggressive output.
That shift is already visible in Marvel's schedule. As of now, no brand new Disney+ series have been officially announced for 2027. However, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, X-Men '97, and Daredevil: Born Again are expected to deliver their third seasons next year, and Wonder Man and Marvel Zombies have both been renewed for Season 2, making them contenders for a 2027 return.
Beyond that, the pipeline looks unusually quiet compared to the studio's nonstop slate between 2021 and 2025.
At New York Comic Con in 2025, Marvel TV largely focused on discussing projects already known rather than teasing anything new. In previous years, the studio used conventions like this to announce multiple shows at once, trying to build hype for the future, even if they didn't have much to show.
The studio may be eager to prove its commitment to its existing series and new multi-season strategy by staying quiet on everything else in the pipeline.
Marvel Studios Has Been Slowing Down on Movies Too
The change in TV strategy also aligns with broader shifts across the MCU. Films like Ant‑Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels made it clear that Marvel Studios needed to refocus on delivering stronger theatrical hits rather than flooding the market with content.
The approach that worked throughout the 2010s, when nearly every MCU release felt like a guaranteed success, has been much harder to maintain in recent years. Even the 2025 theatrical slate didn't meet expectations. During the peak of the Infinity Saga era, falling short at the box office was unheard of for Marvel.
Because of that, much of Feige's attention in 2026 is focused squarely on the next major crossover event, as the next Avengers blockbusters must succeed if Marvel Studios is to sell fans on what comes beyond them. Avengers: Doomsday opens December 18, with Secret Wars scheduled to begin filming later this year.
To aid in Feige's enhanced blockbuster focus, Marvel Television head Brad Winderbaum has taken on more day-to-day responsibility for the Disney+ side, which, admittedly, is trying much less hard to connect to the greater MCU story than it was from 2021-2025.
For Marvel Studios, the most important thing right now is making sure the next two Avengers films land. The studio obviously needs them to succeed financially, but just as importantly, they need to restore some goodwill among fans who felt burned out by the MCU's rapid expansion following the Infinity Saga.
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