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Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen say WandaVision starts as a sitcom and “snowballs into an Epic Marvel movie”

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Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen have further teased what to expect from the upcoming Marvel TV show, WandaVision, and offers some clarity on the sitcom/marvel epic approach. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bettany and Olsen discussed the transition between the sitcom and regular MCU epic movie we have come to expect from Marvel […]

Funko’s NYCC exclusive Marvel and DC Pop! Vinyls revealed

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Funko has revealed its New York Comic-Con 2019 exclusive DC and Marvel Pop! vinyl figures which includes Iron Man from Avengers: Endgame, Stan Lee from Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, and Mar-Vell, Nick Fury and Ms. Marvel, while the DC offerings include Huntress and a pink chrome Batman; check them out here… New York […]

Avengers: Endgame co-director thinks Robert Downey Jr. deserves the Best Actor Oscar

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Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a handful of superhero movies getting some recognition from Oscar voters outside of the usual technical categories (see the likes of Logan and Black Panther), and given its success at Venice, it seems that DC Films’ Joker could find itself right in the mix come awards season. Marvel’s […]

Marvel’s Hawkeye enlists Mad Men writer as showrunner

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Having officially announced the series at the San Diego Comic-Con back in July, Marvel Studios has enlisted Jonathan Igla to write and executive produce the Jeremy Renner-healdined Hawkeye series for Disney+. Igla was a writer and executive story editor on AMC’s Mad Men, while his other credits include Masters of Sex, Pitch, Shut Eye and […]

Comic Book Preview – Absolute Carnage: Symbiote of Vengeance #1

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Marvel Comics releases Absolute Carnage: Symbiote of Vengeance #1 this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… Carnage is hunting down previous symbiote hosts for codices that will unlock a direct link to the symbiote god Knull! And he’s not asking nicely…he’s taking them by force! Which […]

Marvel’s new Ghost Rider series gets a trailer

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With the devil’s bounty hunter returning this October, Marvel has released a trailer for the new ongoing Ghost Rider series featuring comments from Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski, Assistant Editor Chris Robinson and Writer Ed Brisson. “One thing we’re really diving into is what this really means to [the Ghost Riders’] lives,” says Brisson, with Cebulski […]

Black Widow (Claire Voyant) brings a killer touch to Marvel Contest of Champions

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Kabam has released the latest update for Marvel Contest of Champions, which introduces the deadly Claire Voyant, a.k.a. Black Widow; check out her gameplay trailer, bio, and stats and abilities here… Claire Voyant was a spirit medium who communicated with the dead through supernatural means. Killed by a client in a job gone wrong, Voyant […]

Comic Book Preview – Moon Knight Annual #1

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Moon Knight Annual #1 hits comic book stores this coming Wednesday, pitting its titular hero against the time-travelling supervillain Kang the Conqueror in this latest Acts of Evil story. Check out a preview here… MOON KNIGHT BATTLES KANG THE CONQUEROR! KANG THE CONQUEROR has found a way to rewrite history in his own image! But […]

Scarlett Johansson says Black Widow deserves to be Marvel’s big Summer 2020 movie

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Scarlett Johansson, the star of Black Widow, says the movie deserves to be Marvel’s big summer 2020 movie. While there won’t be an Avengers movie coming our way for a while – which feels odd after Infinity War and Endgame hit us in back to back years – the Marvel train keeps on rolling nonetheless. […]