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Fox cancels Marvel’s The Gifted after two seasons

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Since Thanos snapped his fingers last year, we’ve seen a number of Marvel Television projects turning to dust (see Netflix’s various Defenders shows), and now we can add the X-Men series The Gifted to the list of victims. As reported over at Deadline, Fox has cancelled the mutant drama series, opting against a season three […]

Marvel announces Savage Sword of Conan: The Cult of Koga Thun Black and White Edition

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Marvel has announced that it is collecting the opening arc of Gerry Duggan’s Savage Sword of Conan series, ‘The Cult of Koga Thun’ in a stunning black and white edition spotlighting Ron Garney’s epic inked pages; check out a preview of the trade paperback here… “When Ron and I first discussed him illustrating this story, […]

Marvel to pit heroes against villains in Acts of Evil

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Marvel has announced that its most iconic heroes are set to meet their match against some of the publisher’s most vicious villains in the upcoming Acts of Evil event, which promises some epic encounters including Punisher vs. Brood Queen, Venom vs. Lady Hellbender, and Ms. Marvel vs. Super Skrull. “You know what everyone says is […]

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is releasing in July

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Nintendo Switch exclusive Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order has just received an official release date of 19th July 2019. Initially announced at The Game Awards, the Team Ninja developed title will have players assemble and play as an array of Marvel characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, Deadpool, and Wolverine – each with […]

Exclusive Interview – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse directors Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman on Oscars, sequels and Tom Holland

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Tom Beasley chats to two of the directors of everyone’s new favourite superhero movie – last year’s Oscar-winning animation Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse… Nobody was expecting Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse to be their favourite superhero movie of 2018. In a year that gave the world everything from Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther through to […]

Avengers: Endgame cast discuss the Marvel blockbuster in video interviews

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As the Avengers: Endgame promotional tour rolls on ahead of the film’s arrival later this month, we’ve got a selection of video interviews for the Marvel blockbuster featuring directors Anthony and Joe Russo along with cast members Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Chris Evans (Captain America), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Brie Larson (Captain […]

Marvel announces History of the Marvel Universe limited series

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Marvel has announced that writer Mark Waid (Avengers: No Road Home) and artists Javier Rodriguez and Alvaro Lopez are teaming up for the six-part limited series History of the Marvel Universe limited series, which will explore the sprawling, interconnected web of rich history, dating back to its very beginnings in a huge new story. “We’ve […]

The History of the Multi-Part Film, Part I of I

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Pim Razenberg on Multi-Part Film franchising… In the 2015 article The Future of Franchising: The Shared Universe, I discussed the development of franchising strategies within Hollywood. In the 2010s, these strategies cumulated in the dawn of interconnected franchising through “cinematic universes”, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe. Today, as we […]

Star Wars Celebration: Marvel announces new writer/artist team for Star Wars and Age of Resistance series

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This weekend has seen a lot of news coming out of Star Wars Celebration, first with the reveal for The Rise of Skywalker and the trailer for Star Wars: Jedi – Fall Order, but now we have a ton of new info on the comics side of the franchise. Marvel held a panel yesterday where they announced comic […]