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Avengers: Infinity War hits $2 billion at the global box office

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After smashing the record for the biggest opening weekend of all time, as well as becoming the fastest movie to reach $1 billion, Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War is celebrating another box office success today as the movie becomes only the fourth film in history to reach $2 billion worldwide. Domestically, Infinity War has pulled in […]

Marvel’s Luke Cage season 2 trailer puts the spotlight on the villains

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With a little over a week to go until the return of Luke Cage, Netflix has released a new trailer for the Marvel series which focuses on the villains of season two – Mariah Dillard and Bushmaster – along with a new promo for the series which sees Misty Knight discussing life after losing a […]

Reboots and Rebrands and Remakes, Oh My! What’s with the lack of originality these days?

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Sade Green on reboots, rebrands and remakes… There is a distinct lack of originality in the film industry at the moment. Perhaps that’s too harsh actually; there is a distinct lack of originality in Hollywood. The market is over run with sequels, spin-offs, reboots, rebrands, films-that-are-now-television-shows and the dreaded ‘late-sequel’. You know, that sequel that […]

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Suicide Sprints’

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Red Stewart reviews the second episode of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger… Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger was interesting in that its debut was marked by two episodes. While it’d be easy to surmise that this was done to give the pilot room to breath, I’m under the impression that it was actually purely a business reason: […]

Kevin Feige names Black Panther as the best movie that Marvel has made

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Over its first ten years, Marvel Studios has firmly established its Marvel Cinematic Universe as the biggest movie franchise in history with a combined box office gross of almost $17 billion across 19 releases. In addition to enormous financial success, Marvel has also carved out a reputation for delivering solid, crowd (and critic) pleasing blockbusters, […]

Marvels Ant-Man and the Wasp gets a giant-sized IMAX poster

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A new IMAX poster has arrived online for Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp featuring Paul Rudd’s Giant-Man and Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Scott Lang name drops the Avengers in Ant-Man and the Wasp TV spot SEE ALSO: 5 Ant-Man Oddities That Could Pop Up In Ant-Man and the Wasp […]

Jeph Loeb suggests the Inhumans could feature in other Marvel TV shows

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Despite the cancellation of Inhumans (which came as little surprise, given the horrendous reception to the show), it seems we may not have seen the last of Black Bolt and company on the small screen side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During a Reddit AMA, Marvel’s Head of Television Jeph Loeb was asked about the […]

Black Panther and Killmonger Cosbaby Bobble-Heads unveiled by Hot Toys

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Hot Toys has released a batch of promotional images for its new Cosbaby Bobble-Head set for the Marvel superhero blockbuster Black Panther which includes T’Challa/Black Panther and Erik Killmonger; check them out here… After the events of Captain America: Civil War, King T’Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to […]

Marvel unveils 24 new 10th Anniversary character posters

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Marvel Studios has released another batch of character posters in celebration of the first ten years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this time featuring Bucky, War Machine, Falcon, Nebula, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Loki, Heimdall, Nakia, Shuri, Okoye, Nick Fury, Doctor Strange, Wong, Spider-Man, Hawkeye, Mantis, Valkyrie, Korg, Ant-Man, Star-Lord, Wasp, Rocket, and Drax; check them […]

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘First Light’

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Red Stewart reviews the first episode of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger… I have always been enthralled by the concept of a universal connection – this idea that all or most of humanity have invisible bonds to one another. With social proposals like the six degrees of separation to even scientific theories like quantum mechanics and […]