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Fantastic Beasts 2 plot details revealed, Star Wars at SDCC, Edgar Wright in the DCEU and more – Daily News Roundup

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FANTASTIC BEASTS ARE BACK Production has begun on the as-yet-to-be-titled sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and some plot details were revealed yesterday. “J.K. Rowling wrote the screenplay for the film, which opens in 1927, a few months after Newt helped to unveil and capture the infamous Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald,” the […]

The 4 Spider-Man Storylines We Need In the MCU

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Ben Robins on the 4 Spider-Man storylines we need in the MCU… With this month’s Spider-Man: Homecoming marking the third big screen incarnation of the famous wall-crawler in the 21st century alone, you’d think we’d be hard-pressed by this stage to find storylines that hadn’t already been adapted at least somewhere down the line. We’ve […]

The Week in Spandex – Spider-Man: Homecoming and the Spider-Verse, Infinity War and Deadpool 2 set photos, Wonder Woman breaks records, Batgirl casting rumours

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Spider-Man: Homecoming, Venom, Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man, Captain Britain, Blade, Inhumans, The Defenders, Deadpool 2, X-Men: The New Mutants, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman 2, Justice League, The Batman, Superman: Red Son, Batgirl, Gotham City Sirens, Arrow, Hellboy: Rise of […]

The Flickering Myth Reaction to the first Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle trailer

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The Flickering Myth team react… SEE ALSO: Read the Flickering Myth Reactions to Black Panther, The Dark Tower, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Thor: Ragnarok, Justice League, Inhumans, and more The first trailer for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle landed online yesterday [watch it here], but what did our writers think of it? Shaun Munro: It doesn’t […]

The Flickering Myth Reaction to the first trailer for Marvel’s Inhumans

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The Flickering Myth team react to the first trailer for Marvel’s Inhumans… Marvel’s Inhumans series dropped its first trailer yesterday [watch it here] and the online reaction has been overwhelmingly negative.  What did the Flickering Myth staff think of this first look?  Read on to see how much our writers matched up with public opinion… Shaun […]

Top 10 Films of 2017 (So Far)

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The Flickering Myth team vote… July marks the second half of 2017, can you believe it’s been half a year already? We’ve seen so much already! Audiences have been wowed by the movies approved by the Academy, Beauty and the Beast earned $1 billion, we’ve seen Fate of the Furious push the franchise to whole […]

Jumanji trailer, Death Note trailer, Curse of Chucky trailer and stuff that isn’t trailers – Daily News Roundup

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WE’VE GOT FUN AND GAMES It was a big day for trailers yesterday, and it kicked off with our first look at the upcoming reboot/sequel to the 1995 adventure movie, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. The film stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan as video game avatars for a […]

Are we suffering from Dwayne Johnson franchise fatigue?

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Anghus Houvouras is suffering from Dwayne Johnson franchise fatigue… We spend so much time analyzing franchises. That’s mainly because they make up such a high percentage of blockbuster cinema. If you look at the top 10 films of 2017 globally, only two films don’t fall under the franchise tag: The Boss Baby, an animated family film […]

Blade in the MCU, Fast & Furious star quitting franchise, Deadpool 2 casting and more – Daily News Roundup

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IT WOULD BE COOL Ever since Marvel Studios reaquired the rights to Blade, there has been a lot of chatter about the Day Walker entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe in some capacity, with rumours of a Netflix series and even a female-led version. Original Blade actor Wesley Snipes even hinted at a return. In a […]