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Marvel’s Hawkeye viewing figures trail WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki

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Having been starved of new content throughout 2020 thanks to the COVID pandemic, Marvel fans have had a veritable feast served up this year as Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe belatedly got underway with WandaVision kicking off a packed film and television slate consisting of four movies and five TV series – the […]

Spider-Man: No Way Home fight scenes are “very violent”, says Tom Holland

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Tom Holland has teased that the fight scenes in Spider-Man: No Way Home will be more violent than previous Spider-Man instalments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.“There are some fight scenes in this movie that are very violent. And it’s a fighting style different from what we’ve seen before. But really you will get to see Spider-Man […]

Sony downplays reports of new Spider-Man trilogy

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While fans are thrilled at the possibility of more Spider-Man movies, it seems that insiders at Sony are not as cheerful, and are even looking to lower expectations for now.In a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, the trade notes that the second trilogy announced by producer Amy Pascal is not set in stone even […]

The Multiverse Era: When a Cinematic Universe Isn’t Enough

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Tom Jolliffe on the current preoccupation with the multiverse…Cinema is all about cycles. Genres flit in and out of prominence. An action landscape which was once dominated by Westerns was then temporarily displaced by gangster films, then epics, then Westerns again, then a brief parley into pessimistic cinema, before Star Wars laid a significant blueprint […]

Cobie Smulders returning as Maria Hill for Marvel’s Secret Invasion Disney+ series

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Following the announcement that the Disney+ series Marvel’s Secret Invasion has started production, Deadline is reporting that Cobie Smulders will once again be reuniting with Samuel L. Jackson as Maria Hill in a prominent role.Maria Hill was first introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2012’s The Avengers (Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom and Ireland). Smulders […]

Marvel’s Hawkeye – Episode 3 Review – ‘Echoes’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Marvel’s Hawkeye…Alaqua Cox is a name people should get comfortable with. Her introduction into the Marvel Cinematic Universe will light fires, forge in-roads and welcome a chrome domed villain back into the fray. Being both deaf, disabled and Native American, Echo turns Hawkeye on its head. ASL (American Sign Language) […]

Spider-Man: No Way Home IMAX poster swings online

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A new poster for Spider-Man: No Way Home has arrived online, inviting fans to enter the multiverse in IMAX when the Tom Holland-led Marvel sequel swings into cinemas around the world later this month; check it out below along with a couple of new promo spots…SEE ALSO: Tom Holland reacts to new Spider-Man trilogy news: […]

Marvel’s Shang-Chi deleted scene features an extended family dinner

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With Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings now available on Blu-ray, Marvel has unveiled a deleted scene from the Phase Four origin film which sees Wenwu (Tony Leung) trying to break the tension between Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) and Razor Fist (Florian Munteanu) before revealing the latter as his adopted son. Watch it here… […]

Tom Hardy gets the Hot Toys treatment with Venom: Let There Be Carnage Movie Masterpiece Series figure

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Hot Toys has unveiled its upcoming Movie Masterpiece Series Venom collectible which is based on the appearance of Tom Hardy and the unearthly symbiote in Sony’s Marvel sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $40; check out the promotional images here…Over a year after the events of Venom, […]