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Head into the Battlerealm with Marvel’s Contest of Champions

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Inspired by Marvel’s wildly popular mobile fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions, the new ongoing series Contest of Champions is set to launch this fall from the creative team of Al Ewing and Paco Medina. SEE ALSO: All of Marvel’s ‘All New, All Different’ titles and covers revealed “We’re doing something unique and exciting here […]

Kevin Feige on Black Panther’s role in Captain America: Civil War

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There’s certainly a lot of excitement about next year’s Phase Three-launching Captain Amercia: Civil War. Not only is it adapting one of Marvel’s most acclaimed story arcs, but it’s also bringing together pretty much every character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as introducing Spider-Man! However, the wall-crawler won’t be the only new addition […]

Evangeline Lilly wants to see Hope Van Dyne joining The Avengers

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With Marvel’s Ant-Man now just over a couple of weeks away from release, the cast and crew of the superhero adventure are out doing the publicity rounds for the film, and SFX Magazine caught up with Evangeline Lilly to discuss her role as Hope Van Dyne, the daughter of Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, […]

TNT’s Teen Titans pilot now titled Blackbirds, will shoot in October

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Unless you’ve a particular affinity for Constantine, it’s certainly a good time to be a DC fan on the television front. In addition to the returning Arrow, The Flash and Gotham, this upcoming season will see Supergirl and Lucifer entering the fray, while The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is also on the horizon. On […]

Marvel’s Kevin Feige says the Spider-Man reboot will have a “John Hughes vibe”

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Marvel chief Kevin Feige is currently out on the press tour for Ant-Man, but it seems – unsurprisingly – that many of the questions the producer is fielding relates to the upcoming introduction of Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’ve already brought you some comments from Feige about working with Sony on the reboot […]

Jessica Lucas cast as Tigress in Gotham season 2

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Yesterday it was announced that James Frain (True Blood, Orphan Black) has signed on to appear in the second season of Gotham as Theo Galavan, the brother of the DC villain Tabitha Galavan, a.k.a. Tigress, and now TV Line is reporting that Jessica Lucas (Evil Dead, Gracepoint) has nabbed the role of Tabitha. According to […]

David Mazouz talks Gotham season 2, says Bruce Wayne “is going to start his dual personality into becoming Batman”

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Last week we got a synopsis which suggests that we’ll start to explore the origins of the iconic Batman villains The Joker and Mr. Freeze in the upcoming second season of Gotham, and now actor David Mazouz has revealed that we’ll also see the young Bruce Wayne start to develop his dual identity which will […]

The Week in Spandex – Spider-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., X-Men, Batman, Green Lantern, Gotham, Hellboy 3, Heroes Reborn and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Spider-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Ultron Revolution, Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister 6, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Days […]

Marvel launching new Captain Marvel comic book series from Agent Carter showrunners

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Following on from news about the relaunched Spider-Man and Doctor Strange titles, Marvel has now announced via Comic Book Resources that Agent Carter showrunners Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas are set to take over from Kelly Sue DeConnick as writers of Captain Marvel for a relaunched ongoing series post-Secret Wars. “Carol is really meant to […]