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Star Wars reportedly sitting out Comic-Con in favour of D23

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If you’re attending the San Diego Comic-Con later this month and have been looking forward to getting a glimpse of the upcoming Star Wars movies, you may be disappointed to hear that Disney and Lucasfilm are reportedly sitting out of SDCC and focusing their promotional efforts on the D23 Expo. According to SDCC Unofficial Blog, a Lucasfilm […]

Robert Downey Jr. wants to quit Iron Man role “before it’s embarrassing”

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This week sees Robert Downey Jr. making his eight appearance as Tony Stark (if you include his cameo in The Incredible Hulk) as the star dons the Iron Man armor once again for Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. We know we’ll be getting at least two more outings from Tony Stark in Avengers: Infinity War […]

Stephen Amell wants a more comic book accurate Arrow in season 6

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With Arrow set to return this fall for its sixth season, Stephen Amell has been chatting to CinemaBlend about how he’d like to see his character handled moving forward, with the star revealing that he’s hoping tosee a shift towards a more comic book accurate take on Oliver Queen. “I’ve said that it’s very, very […]

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 […]

SDCC: Channing Tatum confirms he’s still attached to Gambit, but rethinking the approach after Deadpool and Logan

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Following yesterday’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, Channing Tatum spoke to Comic Book and confirmed that – unlike directors Rupert Wyatt and Doug Liman – he’s yet to abandon 20th Century Fox’s planned X-Men spinoff Gambit. “Yeah, of course,” replied Tatum when asked if the Gambit movie is still moving ahead. […]

Christopher McQuarrie teases major Mission: Impossible 6 stunt sequence

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The Mission: Impossible series has become well known for its jaw-dropping stunt set pieces, and with the currently-in-production sixth instalment, director Christopher McQuarrie has promised something that will top the insanity of the Burj Khalifa and plane sequences in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. What this sequence we don’t […]

Horror Channel FrightFest 2017 reveals its full line-up

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Horror Channel FrightFest has today announced the full line-up for the 18th year of the world-renowned horror and fantasy film festival, which will run between August 24th and August 28th at Cineworld Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema, and features 64 films including 20 World, 22 European and 18 UK Premieres. The festivities will […]

Adam Wingard on adapting Death Note for U.S. audiences

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Unlike this year’s Ghost in the Shell – which retained the Japanese setting of its source material, leading to whitewashing criticisms – director Adam Wingard’s has relocated the action of his upcoming manga adaptation Death Note to the United States, and speaking to IGN, the filmmaker has discussed how that forced him to make adjustments to the […]

There are no X-Men in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite as fans “maybe don’t even remember” them

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If you were wondering why there are no X-Men characters in the upcoming fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, the game’s producer Michael Evans has the answer for you, revealing to Gamespot that they didn’t want to include characters who may not be familiar to the modern Marvel fan. “We talked with Marvel very closely about […]