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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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’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 […]

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 […]

Scott Lang name drops the Avengers in Ant-Man and the Wasp TV spot

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Marvel Studios has continued its promotional push for Ant-Man and the Wasp with the release of a new TV spot for the superhero sequel which sees Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang reminding Hope (Evangeline Lilly) and Hank (Michael Douglas) of his Avengers credentials; check it out here… SEE ALSO: 5 Ant-Man Oddities That Could Pop Up In […]

Marvel’s Jeff Loeb confirms Iron Fist season 2 for later this year, but there are no plans for more Defenders

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With Jessica Jones season two arriving earlier this year, Luke Cage season two set to land later this month, and Daredevil season three expected later in the year, it had been expected that we’d have to wait until 2019 to see Finn Jones’ Danny Rand back for the second season of Iron Fist. Well, it […]

5 Ant-Man Oddities That Could Pop Up In Ant-Man and the Wasp

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George Chrysostomou with five Ant-Man oddities that could pop up in Ant-Man and the Wasp… The Marvel Cinematic Universe is expanding at asurprising pace and 2018 is no different for the comics juggernaut. Whilst TV has already brought us a cast of characters such as the Runaways and Cloak and Dagger, the movie side of […]