The Fantastic Four: First Steps is making big strides at the box office as the latest MCU entry on the 2025 movie schedule (the last one for the year), and while I wouldn’t call it my favorite, it does get closer to something I’ve been clamoring for: smaller stories.

As promised last year by Disney CEO Bob Iger, Marvel Studios has scaled back to only 2-3 feature film releases each year, and with "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" in theaters, that's it for the 2025 lineup.

Having been consistently building for the last 17 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline is quite complicated... and the arrival of The Fantastic Four: First Steps doesn't exactly make things much clearer.

Following the recent release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set to be the next movie in the MCU. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the film will once again see Tom Holland reprise his role as Peter Parker/ Spider-Man, while Jon Bernthal will appear as The Punisher/Frank Castle.

Check out the images posted on Update MCU’s official Instagram account! The pics show some set signage for a building in New York that's under construction and should be finished by December 2027. The story of Captain America: Brave New World takes place in 2026 and 2027, followed by the Thunderbolts in 2027.

Yesterday (July 28), the account Spider-Man News took to X (Twitter) to share photos from the set of the next "Spider-Man" film. These photos don't share much at first glance, but there's a key detail hiding in them that potentially reveals when this movie is set in the MCU.