HOLLYWOOD (CNS) – A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will be unveiled Thursday, one day before the release of its latest film, “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
The film’s stars, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, are set to join Feige in speaking at the 11 a.m. star-studded ceremony in front of the El Capitan Theatre, where there will be a 3D screening of “Deadpool & Wolverine” at 4 p.m. and a standard screening at 10:30 p.m.
Cast members Emma Corrin and Chris Evans and director and co-writer Shawn Levy are set to attend, along with Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan and fellow actors Chris Pratt, Brie Larson, Sebastian Stan, Kathryn Hahn, Simu Liu and David Harbour.
The ceremony will be streamed on the Walk of Fame’s website, walkoffame.com.
The star is the 2,785th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.
Eastbound Hollywood Boulevard will be closed in front of the El Capitan Theatre between Highland and Orange avenues from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to accommodate the ceremony.
“I’ve been walking the Walk of Fame since I was a tourist coming in from New Jersey, seeing famous names I recognize, seeing names I didn’t recognize,” Feige told ABC7’s George Pennacchio. “It inspired me to go look up who some of these people were. And I’m very honored that I’ll be one of those names people don’t quite recognize that they have to look up.”
“Deadpool & Wolverine” is the 34th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Feige has been a producer of all of them. Each of the 33 previous films have opened No. 1 at the box office with 10 of the films grossing more than $1 billion worldwide.
“Avengers: Endgame” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” surpassed the $2 billion mark, with “Avengers: Endgame” being the fastest film in cinematic history to reach the milestone.
Feige is the highest grossing producer of all time, with his films’ combined worldwide box office gross of over $29.7 billion.
“There are few, if any, filmmakers who have had the kind of impact and track record that Kevin has had,” said Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “The many films he has worked on have become a cultural phenomenon and a major part of the cinema world’s history.”
Those films include ” Black Panther,” which in 2019 became the first film featuring a superhero to be nominated for a best picture Oscar and “Iron Man,” which was among the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2022. The films are selected based on their cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance.
Born June 2, 1973 in Boston and raised in Westfield, New Jersey, Feige graduated USC in 1995, which he chose to attend because it was the alma mater of his favorite directors — George Lucas, Ron Howard and Robert Zemeckis.
While at USC, Feige saw an intern posting for The Donners Company and went on to become assistant to Lauren Shuler Donner when she was producing “Volcano” and “You’ve Got Mail.” She made him an associate producer of the first “X-Men” film in 2000 due to his knowledge of the Marvel Universe.
Feige was hired by Marvel Studios in 2000 as a producer. He became its president of production in 2007, president in 2010 and chief creative officer for Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Marvel Television and Marvel Animation in 2019.
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