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Batman Day: Don’t Push The Bat-Family To The Side

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Eammon Jacobs on the Bat-Family… Batman and Robin; the dynamic duo. When Dick Grayson was a created as a way of getting younger children to read Detective Comics in 1940, Batman creators Bill Finger and Bob Kane had no idea the legacy they had spawned; it was one that would rival the world’s greatest detective […]

The Batman Family enjoys a Knight Out with new Q-Master collectible diorama

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Sideshow and Quantum Mechanix Inc. have unveiled the Q-Master Batman Family Knight Out diorama which sees Batgirl, Robin, Red Robin, and Nightwing joined by Red Hood. The DC collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $200.00; check it out here… Batman’s protégés get to have amazing adventures most children can only dream of, even […]

Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn reportedly confirmed for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad

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Last month it was confirmed that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn is making the jump from the MCU to the DCEU as he “relaunches” Task Force X with The Suicide Squad – described as a “whole new take” on the team of villains and featuring “a mostly all-new cast of characters and actors.” That’s […]

Newcomer Ella Jay Basco in talks for Cassandra Cain role in DC’s Birds of Prey

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DC’s Birds of Prey has just cast a fan-favourite character to its roster. Per Variety, newcomer Ella Jay Basco has begun talks to star as Cassandra Cain in the superhero team-up film from director Cathy Yan. If talks are successful, she will join Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smolett-Bell, Rosie Perez and Ewan McGregor in the […]

Rumour: Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl won’t appear in Birds of Prey?

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Over the weekend we brought you an exclusive update on the Harley Quinn headlined Birds of Prey movie, with Margot Robbie revealing to us that the project will be R-rated, with a “much smaller budget” than your typical DC movie, and will begin filming in January 2019. When the project was first announced, it was […]

Don’t Breathe’s Jane Levy is “down” to play Batgirl

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Back in July of last year, when Joss Whedon was still attached to direct the Batgirl solo movie, a rumoured shortlist of potential candidates for the role of the DC Extended Universe’s Barbara Gordon arrived online. One of the names said to be in contention was that of Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe star Jane […]

Joss Whedon on why he left DC’s Batgirl movie

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Last March, before he was announced as taking over from Zack Snyder on Justice League, it was revealed that Joss Whedon had signed on to develop and direct a Batgirl solo movie for Warner Bros. and DC Films. However, some eleven months later Whedon announced that he was no longer attached to the project, having […]

Warner Bros. reportedly has two Birds of Prey scripts, both featuring Harley Quinn and Batgirl

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A few days ago, it was revealed that Warner Bros. has enlisted up-and-coming filmmaker Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) to direct an “untitled DC girl gang movie” based upon the comic book property Birds of Prey and featuring the return of Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. Well, thanks to Variety’s Justin Kroll, we now […]

The Week in Spandex – X-Men and Fantastic Four come home to Marvel, Avengers 4 updates, Venom details, Justice League box office, DCEU slate confirmed and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men, Fantastic Four, Deadpool 2, The New Mutants, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Gambit, The Gifted, Avengers 4, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Venom, Jessica Jones, The Punisher, Runaways, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., New Warriors, Justice League, Aquaman, Shazan, Nightwing, Flashpoint, […]