After finishing runner up to Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the North American box office for the past three weekends, the action-adventure film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has dethroned Episode VIII at the fourth time of asking, and in doing so has also passed the half billion dollar mark worldwide. The Jake Kasdan-directed […]
Alice Braga replaces Rosario Dawson in X-Men: The New Mutants
THR is reporting that Alice Braga (Queen of the South) has signed on to the cast of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: The New Mutants, where she will portray the character of Dr. Cecilia Reyes. Braga will replace The Defenders star Rosario Dawson, who has left the project for unspecified reasons. Based on the Marvel comic book […]
Marvel’s Spider-Man to take over Disney XD in the UK this July, new animated short released
Coinciding with his big screen return in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marvel and Disney have announced that the wall-crawler will be taking over the Sky and Virgin Disney XD +1 channels this July for an entire month beginning July 3rd. The content will include the premiere of six Spider-Man Origin shorts leading into the new animated series […]
Evan Peters’ Quicksilver returning for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Lamar Johnson joins cast
It looks like we can add another returning cast member to the roster of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, with THR reporting that Evan Peters is now confirmed as reprising the role of Quicksilver from X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse. Peters will also be joined by new addition Lamar Johnson (The Next Step), although […]
Rumour: Tom Holland’s Spider-Man to appear in Sony’s Venom
Despite the fact that Marvel’s Kevin Feige has been adamant that Sony’s various Spider-Man spinoff movies – including Venom and Silver & Black – will be entirely separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s been a lot of confusion as to where the movies will sit in terms of continuity. Much of the confusion stems […]
Sony’s Spider-Man spinoffs take place “in the same reality” as Spider-Man: Homecoming
From the very first moment it was announced that Sony is moving forward with its Spider-Man spinoffs Venom and Silver & Black, there’s been an immense amount of confusion as to their status alongside Spider-Man: Homecoming and the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe. A lot of this confusion has been self-inflicted, with producer Amy Pascal suggesting […]
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation could be heading to the small screen
Deadline is reporting that Isaac Asimov’s hugely influential Foundation series could be heading to the small screen, with Skydance Television tapping David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight Trilogy) and Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds) to take a crack at adapting the books for TV. Originally launching as a series of short stories in Astounding […]
Marvel’s Kevin Feige thinks it would be “cool” to revisit Blade
Since Marvel reacquired the rights to Blade, we’ve heard several rumours that the Daywalker could be set to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut. There’s been several reports about a potential Netflix show, talk of a female Blade movie, and even Wesley Snipes has got in on the act, claiming that he’s had talks with […]
Edgar Wright hasn’t watched so much as the trailer for Ant-Man
Edgar Wright is currently out and about on the promotional tour for his new film Baby Driver [read our reviews here and here], although perhaps unsurprisingly he’s been unable to avoid fielding some questions about his experience on Marvel’s superhero origin story Ant-Man. Earlier in the week Wright discussed his split with Marvel Studios due to […]
Jon Watts will direct Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel
We’re still a week away from the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, but Marvel and Sony are already starting to think about the Phase Four-launching Spider-Man: Homecoming 2, and it seems that director Jon Watts is already locked in for the 2019 sequel. Asked by Collider whether the Cop Car helmer will be back for the […]
