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Marvel casts The Pride in Runaways TV series

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Having announced its young leads for the TV series Runaways last week, the official Marvel site has now revealed the cast who’ll be portraying their parents, a.k.a. the supervillain cabal known as The Pride. Via the official site: Ryan Sands (Hat Hair, The Wire) as Geoffrey Wilder – is a man defined by the grueling […]

New Avengers: Endgame deleted scenes debut on Disney+

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In a departure from typical streaming services, The Walt Disney Company’s new Disney+ platform not only offers subscribers access to its library of film and TV shows, but also a host of “extras” such as trailers, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more. And, as subscribers have found out this week, said extras for Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame also […]

Stranger Things star Shannon Purser would like to play Squirrel Girl for Marvel

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Back at the start of July, Anna Kendrick expressed her interest in portraying The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it seems she’s not the only one lobbying for the role. A few weeks ago Stranger Things star Shannon Purser tweeted “So who do I talk to about being Squirrel Girl?”, and now […]

Sameer Ali Khan reportedly joins Marvel’s Iron Fist

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It looks like Marvel’s Iron Fist may have a new addition to its cast, with Bollywood actor and stuntman Sameer Ali Khan (Rock the Kasbah) seemingly revealing on Instagram that he’s joined the currently-in-production Netflix series. The Afghan actor, who has a martial arts background, joked that he will miss his beard as he has […]

Will Doctor Strange be American or British?

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With Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War hitting cinemas before it (not to mention X-Men: Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Gambit and Deadpool), we’re still a way off from seeing what Marvel have up their sleeves with Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange. At the Oscars over the weekend, Best Actor in a Leading Role […]

James Gunn speaks out against “anti-comic book movie” comments at Oscars and Independent Spirit Awards

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During the Oscars on Sunday night, actor and singer Jack Black made some disparaging remarks against comic book movies singing, “opening with lots of zeroes, all we get are superheroes: Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, Jedi Man, Sequel Man, Prequel Man, formulaic scripts!” The night previous, Nightcrawler writer and director Dan Gilroy also spoke out against a […]

Marvel’s new Spider-Man likely to be non-white?

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Since the announcement of Marvel and Sony coming to a deal over the rights to Spider-Man which will see the wall crawler interact within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has been discussion of whether or not we’ll see the first big screen version of Spider-Man that isn’t Peter Parker. Several casting articles (including our own) […]

The MCU Spider-Man films will not be coming to Disney+

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Ricky Strauss, the head of content for Disney+, has confirmed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man films will not be coming to the service. Millions of people are currently enjoying the recently launched Disney+, many of whom are Marvel fans, looking to binge some of their favourite MCU titles. However, they won’t be able to […]

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier concept art showcases new costumes, first look at U.S. Agent

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Yesterday we brought you some concept art from Marvel Studios’ Hawkeye TV series featuring Clint Barton and Kate Bishop [check it out here], and now we have more – this time for Marvel’s first foray into the realm of Disney+, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The concept art, which debuted on the Disney+ special […]