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Free Comic Book Day 2024 Silver Sponsor line-up of 36 comics revealed

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After unveiling the twelve Gold Sponsor titles set to lead the 2024 FCBD offerings earlier this week, the the Free Comic Book Day Retailer Selection Committee has now revealed a further thirty-six Silver Sponsor titles which will be available completely free from participating comic book shops during next year’s event.This year’s Silver Sponsor titles include […]

Deadpool’s Tim Miller teams with Warner Bros. for Alien Legion adaptation

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We’ve learned that Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Alien Legion.The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that the studio has attached Deadpool director Tim Miller to the adaptation of the science-fiction comic series created for Marvel’s Epic Comics in 1983 by Carl Potts, Alan Zelentz, and Frank Cirocco. Don Murphy, Susan Montford, and […]

Director Destin Daniel Cretton exits Avengers: The Kang Dynasty

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Marvel has a Kang problem, but not how you think, as Deadline is reporting Avengers: The Kang Dynasty has lost its director, with Destin Daniel Cretton exiting the project.It seems like Marvel will keep the filmmaker on board with future MCU projects. Cretton is busy on Wonder Man, the Marvel Studios/Disney+ series, which is set […]

Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney star in Sony and Marvel’s Madame Web trailer

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Sony Pictures and Marvel have released the trailer for their latest comic-book collaboration in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, the Dakota Johnson-headlined adaptation of Madame Web, which stars the Fifty Shades actor as Cassandra Webb, a clairvoyant mutant connected to the multiverse. Directed by SJ Clarkson, Madame Web also stars Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim, […]

Marvel’s What If…? season 2 sets festive release with first trailer

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Just when we thought the MCU was done for the year, Marvel Studios has revealed that it has one last Christmas treat in store for fans as the second season of the multiverse-spanning animated series Marvel’s What If…? has set a December 22nd premiere date, with new episodes arriving for nine consecutive days over the […]

Taika Waititi won’t direct Thor 5, says he’s in an “open relationship” with Marvel

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It’s official: the next Thor film will not have Taika Waititi at the helm. The filmmaker confirms as much in a new interview and talks about his connection with the MCU.During a conversation with Business Insider, the Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder director was asked about the rumors that Thor 5 is in […]

Free Comic Book Day 2024 titles include Marvel, DC, Energon Universe, Hellboy, Pokemon, Stranger Things and more

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With the year end fast creeping up upon on, the Free Comic Book Day Committee has announced the selection of Gold Sponsor titles set to grace local comic book shops in May as the industry’s annual Free Comic Book Day event rolls around for 2024.From superheroes to movie an video game tie-ins, the Free Comic […]

Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again is at “day zero”, say new directors

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As Marvel Studios enters a period of uncertainty with the lacklustre opening of The Marvels among its perceived pitfalls this year but stellar season of Loki, coupled with Jonathan Majors’ looming trial and whether or not he will return as Kang The Conqueror, one project that has added to that uncertainty has been the upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: […]

The Marvels opens to an MCU record low weekend at the box office

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There has been a lot of noise surrounding the whys and wherefores of the projected opening weekend gross for Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, but now that the estimates are starting to be reported by box-office analysts, the superhero blockbuster is expected to land with a Marvel Studios low of between $47-$52 million.Be it superhero fatigue, […]