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Avengers: Endgame is now just $7 million short of Avatar’s record box office

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While it may have seemed like a foregone conclusion when the film smashed all records with unprecedented $1.2 billion global opening weekend, Avengers: Endgame hasn’t quite managed to topple James Cameron’s Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of all time – although it now finds itself in touching distance of the 2009 blockbuster.By close of play […]

The Representation of the Five Stages of Grief in Avengers: Endgame

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Pim Razenberg on the role of the five stages of grief in Avengers: Endgame, following the tragic events of Avengers: Infinity War…Warning: If you have not seen Avengers: Endgame and want to avoid spoilers, do not read the following article.One of the fantastic ways in which Avengers: Endgame deals with the fallout of Avengers: Infinity […]

Marvel’s Kevin Feige on the importance of solo movies to the MCU

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Kevin Feige has commented on the importance of solo movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.After such a mammoth event as Avengers: Endgame, which took place on the biggest possible scale with every conceivable hero involved, it has certainly been a stark change of pace now that Spider-Man: Far From Home is in cinemas.Kevin Feige, however, […]

Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner reflect on their characters’ MCU journeys

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Robert Downy Jr. and Jeremy Renner have reflected on Iron Man and Hawkeye’s respective character journeys in the MCU.Avengers: Endgame really does feel like the end of an era, especially because of certain characters leaving the scene for good like Iron Man and Black Widow. The MCU will not be the same again and this […]

Spider-Man: Far From Home’s Flash Thompson knew Endgame secrets before some of the Avengers

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Tony Revolori, who plays Flash Thompson in Spider-Man: Far Frome Home, claims that shooting the movie made him aware of Avengers: Endgame secrets before the Avengers themselves.Spider-Man: Far From Home is closely connected with Endgame and the way filming the movies lined up, some of the cast of the former were privy to certain details […]

Exclusive Interview – Stuber star Dave Bautista on finding his funny bone, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and the Fast & Furious franchise

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Tom Beasley chats to WWE star turned Hollywood leading man Dave Bautista about his role as a near-blind cop who teams up with a kind-hearted Uber driver in action-comedy Stuber…Sometimes, comedy premises are so absurd that there’s no way they can completely fail. Stuber, from Goon director Michael Dowse, is one of those movies. It […]

Exclusive: Dave Bautista didn’t know Drax’s fate in Avengers: Infinity War and thought he’d be cut from Endgame

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Dave Bautista has described working on the last two Avengers movies as “the oddest way I’ve done a film” and said he didn’t even know Drax would be turned to dust at the end of Infinity War.In an interview with Flickering Myth to promote his new action-comedy Stuber, Bautista discussed his time on the Avengers […]

Favourites movies of 2019 so far with film critic Amon Warmann – The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #42

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On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Amon Warmann pops by to discuss some of his favourite films from the first half of 2019…On the latest episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Amon Warmann […]

Avengers: Endgame actors share their thoughts on the film being an end of era for the MCU

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Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Evans get emotional about what Avengers: Endgame means for the MCU in a new behind-the-scenes video.Avengers: Endgame is truly an end of an era for the MCU, with multiple characters bowing out of the franchise. In a new behind-the-scenes video, some of the film’s stars have shared their thoughts […]

After the Endgame: Can Marvel Studios Do It Again?

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the MCU’s success to this point, and wonders whether they can repeat the formula again…So the dust has settled. A whole slow building 11 year phase of Marvel films (it’s had splits in among those, but everything stems all the way back to Tony Stark’s first outing). Attempting to fathom […]