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Marvel announces its updated July publishing schedule

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Next week sees Marvel Entertainment resuming its weekly comic book and trade paperback releases after halting shipping last month due to the public health crisis, and now the publisher has unveiled its updated schedule for the month of July, which includes the launch of the hotly-anticipated Avengers and Fantastic Four event Empyre; check out July’s […]

Rob Liefeld says Deadpool isn’t part of Marvel’s next five-year plan

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Although Ryan Reynolds has hinted on a number of occasions that he’s been having talks with Marvel over another Deadpool movie, the character’s comic book co-creator Rob Liefeld lashed out against the studio last week, stating that they have “goose egg, zero, zero” in store for the Merc with a Mouth following Disney’s acquisition of […]

Josh Trank says he felt “castrated” during Fantastic Four’s enforced reshoots

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Some five years on from the disastrous release of 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot, Chronicle helmer Josh Trank returns this week with his third movie, the Tom Hardy-headlined Al Capone biopic Capone.During the press tour for Capone, Trank has been chatting about a couple of his unrealised projects in his R-rated Venom pitch and […]

Neal Adams and Mark Waid join forces for Fantastic Four: Antithesis

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Two comic book powerhouses are joining forces this August as Eisner Award-winning writer Mark Waid teams up with legendary artist Neal Adams for Fantastic Four: Antithesis, a new limited series which will pit the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer and Galactus against a brand new nemesis who is “guaranteed to send shockwaves throughout all of […]

Funko celebrates 20 years of the X-Men movie franchise with new Pop! Vinyl figures

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Fox and Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie, and Funko has announced that it will mark the occasion with a new wave of X-Men Pop! vinyl figures inspired by the original X-Men trilogy and including Wolverine, Storm, Mystique, Charles Xavier, Magneto, Cyclops, Phoenix, Beast, Rogue, and Nightcrawler; check them […]

Black Widow enters Marvel Contest of Champions

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The blockbuster movie may have been pushed back until later this year due to the ongoing health crisis, but Marvel fans can now get their Black Widow fix thanks to the mobile fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions and its latest update, inspired by the upcoming Marvel Studios film. Check out Natasha’s gameplay trailer, bio, […]

Marvel’s Black Widow moved up to October in the UK

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The global health crisis may have pushed back Marvel’s entire Phase Four movie slate by some six months, but we do have some small comfort for UK fans, as Disney has decided to move up the release of the Scarlett Johansson-headlined Black Widow on this side of the Atlantic.The film – set between the events […]

The New Mutants gets August theatrical release date from Disney

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Earlier this month, the long-delayed The New Mutants popped up for pre-order on Amazon, prompting speculation that Disney had finally given up on a theatrical release for the troubled X-Men spinoff and would instead send it straight-to-streaming/digital.Well, it seems that isn’t the case after all, as Disney has now announced that the Josh Boone-directed movie […]

Disney CEO says their blockbuster movies will not skip theatrical release and head straight to Disney+

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Bob Chapek, the CEO of Disney, says that despite being flexible recently, big blockbusters will not skip their theatrical release for a premiere on Disney+.The fact that cinemas remain closed due to the global health crisis has caused some studios to release their films online instead of in theatres. Disney has done this themselves with […]