Marvel Entertainment pored over the bills from Marvel Studios’ office spaces, from the kite factory to the Beverly Hills Mercedes-Benz lot to Manhattan Beach, leading to cost-saving measures that left the working environment, as one Marvel screenwriter called it, “shithole-adjacent.” When distributor Chris Fenton visited the office, he described it, more tactfully, as “unassuming and a bit disheveled.” The reception area had no seats, so Fenton was told to wait in a conference room furnished with a large table and a dozen chairs. “None of them matched,” he observed. Fenton sat down in one
...more
