Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far from Home were the last pair of Marvel movies to premiere in China before the pandemic. However, the Asian super power placed a blanket ban on all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies released after, starting with Black Widow. Now, after over three and a half years, the country with the second-largest box office in the world has finally lifted its ban on Marvel films.
Marvel announced this exciting news via a post on its Weibo account, where it also shared the new Chinese posters for the films. In the post, Marvel announced that its recent release Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and the forthcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will premiere in the country on February 7 and February 17, respectively.
Black Panther 2 made its theatrical debut in November but couldn't quite pull in the same numbers as its predecessor because of the ban in China.
China never explained the ban, but some speculate that it was in response to the censorable offenses committed in Marvel films, others opined that it was the result of political offenses, including criticism of China by the cast and crew members of some of Marvel's films. Some other people pointed to the geopolitical tension between China and the United States as an explanation for the ban.