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Marvel’s Secret Invasion won’t be an all-encompassing MCU event like Avengers: Endgame

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Ever since the Skrulls made their debut in Captain Marvel, fans have been speculating if and when Marvel Comics’ Secret Invasion storyline will play out in the MCU, and we got that answer during Disney’s Investor Day last month when Kevin Feige revealed that Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury) and Ben Mendelsohn (Talos) are set […]

Harry Lennix confirms Martian Manhunter appearance in Zack Snyder’s Justice League

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Back in October 2019, when the prospect of The Snyder Cut ever seeing the light of day seemed little more than a pipe dream, director Zack Snyder revealed that he planned to have Man of Steel’s General Swanwick (Harry Lennix) revealed as a disguised J’onn J’onzz – a.k.a. Martian Manhunter – in his version of […]

Netflix casts its Matilda and Miss Trunchbull

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Having cast Captain Marvel and No Time To Die’s Lashana Lynch as Miss Honey earlier this month, Netflix has now found its Matilda and Miss Trunchbull for the upcoming feature adaptation of the musical stage version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda.Newcomer Alisha Weir is set to take on the title role as Matilda, a young girl […]

Frank Grillo confirms Crossbones return in Marvel’s What If…?

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Despite stating last summer that he feels he’s “outgrowing that whole kind-of Marvel and superhero thing”, Captain America: The Winter Soldier star Frank Grillo has confirmed to Collider that he’ll be reprising his MCU role as Brock Rumlow / Crossbones in the upcoming Disney+ animated series What If…?.Based on the comic book of the same […]

New Batwoman star Javicia Leslie on differentiating her character from Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane

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This Sunday sees the premiere of Batwoman season two on The CW, and with it comes a new character under the cape and cowl as Javicia Leslie makes her debut as Ryan Wilder, replacing Ruby Rose who exited her role as Kate Kane after a single season.Speaking to Variety about her new crime-fighting role, Leslie […]

Comic Book Preview – Future State: Nightwing #1

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DC Comics has shared a preview of Future State: Nightwing #1 ahead of its release this Tuesday; check it out here…Batman is gone! Now, Nightwing has taken on the mission of keeping the citizens of Gotham City safe from the Magistrate. But to do that, he’ll have stay one step ahead of the Magistrate! And […]

Batman is heading to the UK for Batman: The Dark Knight miniseries

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DC Comics has announced that the Caped Crusader is heading to the United Kingdom this April with Batman: The Dark Knight, a new six-issue miniseries from creators Tom Taylor (DCeased) and Andy Kubert (Batman: The Dark Knight – The Master Race).“I will leap at any chance to tell a Batman story at any time, but teaming up with […]

Jeremy Davies to star in Scott Derrickson’s Joe Hill adaptation The Black Phone

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Back in October of last year it was announced that Sinister and Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson is set to make his return to the horror genre with an adaptation of Joe Hill’s The Black Phone, and now comes word that Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan, Lost) has signed on to star.The Black Phone was […]

British military action thriller 400 Bullets gets a trailer and poster

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Shout! Studios has released a trailer and poster for 400 Bullets, the new British military action thriller starring Jean-Paul Ly (I Am Vengeance), Andrew Lee Potts (The Crown), James Warren (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), Adele Oni (The Witcher), Steve Blades (All the Devil’s Men), and Wayne Gordon (Into the Badlands).One cold winter night […]