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Jessica Henwick on turning down Marvel’s Shang-Chi and a potential Colleen Wing MCU return

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Warning. Minor Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye spoilers follow… With Marvel’s Netflix stars now starting to make their return in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Fist actress Jessica Henwick revealed recently that she’d been offered the opportunity to dive back into the MCU – albeit not as Colleen Wing, but rather Shang-Chi’s sister Xialing […]

Marvel’s Hawkeye – Episode 6 Review – ‘So This Is Christmas?’

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Martin Carr reviews the season finale of Marvel’s Hawkeye… With only six episodes to make an impression Hawkeye was up against it from the outset. Audiences were cautious, viewing figures were poor and people seemed oddly indifferent. It featured a second tier Avenger, another arrow totting teenage and promised nothing new on paper. The reality is that […]

Comic Book Preview – Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #17

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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #17 hits comic book shops this coming Wednesday, and we’ve got the official preview of the issue for you here courtesy of Marvel Comics; check it out… EVOCATIONS! DOCTOR APHRA and SANA STARROS stumble upon a STRANGE RITUAL…And STRANGER ENEMY! Will they fall victim to a practitioner of an ANCIENT CULT? […]

Spider-Man: No Way Home swinging close to pandemic record with second-best five-day gross of all time

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Records are falling faster than MJ from unsteady scaffolding when it comes to Spider-Man: No Way Home, so following on from its second best domestic opening of all time, comes the news that its $31.4M Tuesday total now means that it has achieved the second-best five-day gross of all time, behind only Avengers: Endgame. Per […]

Comic Book Preview – Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #19

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Next week sees the release of Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #19 from Marvel Comics, and you can check out the official preview here… CHAOS SPREADS THROUGH THE UNDERWORLD! As Crimson Reign has ignited the underworld in all-out war, T’ONGA’s team of bounty hunters – including BOSSK, ZUCKUSS and TASU LEECH – are running out of […]

Marvel to pit the Eternals against the Avengers in March

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Marvel has announced that writer Kieron Gillen and artist Esad Ribić is set to pit the Eternals against Earth’s Mightiest Heroes beginning in Eternals #10 this coming March. Over the last year, writer Kieron Gillen and artist Esad Ribić have revolutionized the Eternals mythology in their acclaimed run on ETERNALS. Long-hidden truths about the nature […]

Marvel’s Wastelanders: Black Widow starring Susan Sarandon announced by Marvel and SiriusXM

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Marvel and SiriusXM have announced that the next chapter in the Marvel’s Wastelanders audio drama epic is set to arrive on Monday, January 10th with the premiere of Marvel’s Wastelanders: Black Widow. The third instalment in the post-apocalyptic audio series after Marvel’s Wastelanders: Star-Lord and Marvel’s Wastelanders: Hawkeye, the new series features Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon […]

Enter the Multiverse of Madness with trailer for Marvel’s Doctor Strange sequel

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If you’re yet to catch Spider-Man: No Way Home, or you’re one of the handful of people who shuffled out of the cinema before the end credits stopped rolling, then you’ll be glad to know that Marvel Studios has now officially released trailer for the Sam Raimi-directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which […]

Marvel’s Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton would love to get Jackie Chan for sequel

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Earlier this month, it was announced that Shang Chi 2 is currently in development at Disney and Marvel Studios, and now director Destin Daniel Cretton has announced his dream casting for the upcoming sequel. In an interview with CinemaBlend, Cretton said that he would love to try and bring action movie legend Jackie Chan into […]