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Warner Bros. had already been developing a Doctor Sleep sequel before its disappointing box office opening

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On paper, Doctor Sleep looked like a sure fire hit for Warner Bros… a sequel to one of the most acclaimed horror movies of all time in The Shining, released during a Stephen King renaissance which had seen Warner and New Line’s two-part It adaptation grossing a combined $1.163 billion at the global box office. […]

Dark Horse announces The Incredibles 2: Slow Burn

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The Parr family are returning for more superheroic exploits this coming February thanks to Dark Horse Comics, which has announced that writer Christos Gage, artist Jean Claudio Vinci and colorist Dan Jackson are teaming for The Incredibles 2: Slow Burn, a follow-up to The Incredibles 2: Secret Identities. Dash is known for one thing: Speed. […]

Amazon renews The Lord of the Rings series for a second season

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This will come as little surprise given how much it spent simply to acquire the rights ($250 million apparently), but Amazon has announced that it has granted an early second season renewal to its upcoming TV series based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. As reported by Deadline, Amazon has reassembled the writers […]

Marvel releases Hawkeye title sequence for Disney+ series

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During Marvel’s Phase Four announcement panel at the San Diego Comic-Con this past summer, the studio unveiled animated title cards for each of its upcoming feature film and TV projects. While these subsequently leaked online in poor quality, we’ve now got an official look at the title sequence for the Jeremy Renner-headlined Hawkeye series, which […]

Marvel’s Loki series rumoured to feature a female Loki

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Over the weekend it was revealed that actress Sophia Di Martino (Yesterday, Flowers) has been cast in a mystery role alongside Tom Hiddleston in Marvel Studios’ Loki series for Disney+, and now a report is circulating which suggests that she may be playing a female version of the God of Mischief. According to Deadline, a […]

New banner for DC’s Birds of Prey movie assembles the team

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Thanks to Reddit, we’ve got a look at a new banner for the first of next year’s two DCEU movies, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), which sees Margot Robbie’s Harley joined by Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain and […]

Jeff Goldblum says Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the MCU for Marvel’s What If…?

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Despite stepping away from the MCU with this year’s Avengers: Endgame, it seems that Robert Downey Jr. may be set to reprise his role as Tony Stark once again, albeit in animated form as part of the Disney+ series What If…?. Although his name was absent from the huge voice cast that Marvel initially announced […]

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker gets a new illustrated poster

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With exactly a month to go until Disney and Lucasfilm bring the curtain down on the Skywalker Saga, a new illustrated poster for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been released online courtesy of Dolby Cinemas, and features Poe Dameron’s lone X-Wing facing off against the Sith Fleet glimpsed in the trailers for the […]

New images from Marvel’s What If…? animated series feature Super Soldier Peggy, Zombie Cap, and T’Challa as Star-Lord

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Thanks to Disney+’s documentary Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe, we’ve got a good look at three of the upcoming episodes of the Marvel animated series What If…?, which promises to take familiar characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and explore what may have happened had major moments from the MCU played out differently. The three […]