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Marvel’s Luke Cage season 2 trailer puts the spotlight on the villains

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With a little over a week to go until the return of Luke Cage, Netflix has released a new trailer for the Marvel series which focuses on the villains of season two – Mariah Dillard and Bushmaster – along with a new promo for the series which sees Misty Knight discussing life after losing a […]

Reboots and Rebrands and Remakes, Oh My! What’s with the lack of originality these days?

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Sade Green on reboots, rebrands and remakes… There is a distinct lack of originality in the film industry at the moment. Perhaps that’s too harsh actually; there is a distinct lack of originality in Hollywood. The market is over run with sequels, spin-offs, reboots, rebrands, films-that-are-now-television-shows and the dreaded ‘late-sequel’. You know, that sequel that […]

Spidey battles The Sinister Six in new gameplay trailer for Insomniac’s Spider-Man

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During yesterday’s Sony presentation at E3, a new trailer and images were unveiled for Insomniac’s hotly-anticipated Spider-Man video game. The trailer reveals that the wall-crawler will be going up against a new iteration of the Sinister Six, comprised of Mister Negative, Electro, Scorpion, Rhino, Vulture and a mystery sixth member, while the likes of Norman […]

Joe Quesada variant for The Life of Captain Marvel #3 revealed

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This July, Margaret Stohl and Carlos Pacheco will come together to bring Carol Danvers a new story in The Life of Captain Marvel, and Marvel has now unveiled a special variant cover for the third issue by the publisher’s Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada. “The understanding of Carol as a hero is fundamentally tied to […]

Jeph Loeb suggests the Inhumans could feature in other Marvel TV shows

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Despite the cancellation of Inhumans (which came as little surprise, given the horrendous reception to the show), it seems we may not have seen the last of Black Bolt and company on the small screen side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During a Reddit AMA, Marvel’s Head of Television Jeph Loeb was asked about the […]

Marvels Ant-Man and the Wasp gets a giant-sized IMAX poster

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A new IMAX poster has arrived online for Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp featuring Paul Rudd’s Giant-Man and Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Scott Lang name drops the Avengers in Ant-Man and the Wasp TV spot SEE ALSO: 5 Ant-Man Oddities That Could Pop Up In Ant-Man and the Wasp […]

Kevin Feige names Black Panther as the best movie that Marvel has made

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Over its first ten years, Marvel Studios has firmly established its Marvel Cinematic Universe as the biggest movie franchise in history with a combined box office gross of almost $17 billion across 19 releases. In addition to enormous financial success, Marvel has also carved out a reputation for delivering solid, crowd (and critic) pleasing blockbusters, […]

Black Panther and Killmonger Cosbaby Bobble-Heads unveiled by Hot Toys

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Hot Toys has released a batch of promotional images for its new Cosbaby Bobble-Head set for the Marvel superhero blockbuster Black Panther which includes T’Challa/Black Panther and Erik Killmonger; check them out here… After the events of Captain America: Civil War, King T’Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to […]

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘First Light’

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Red Stewart reviews the first episode of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger… I have always been enthralled by the concept of a universal connection – this idea that all or most of humanity have invisible bonds to one another. With social proposals like the six degrees of separation to even scientific theories like quantum mechanics and […]

Noah Hawley’s Doctor Doom script is written but the Fox sale leaves the project uncertain

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During last year’s San Diego Comic-Con International it was announced that Legion creator and showrunner Noah Hawley was turning his attention to another Marvel project, developing a Doctor Doom solo film for 20th Century Fox which would put the spotlight on the iconic comic book villain. Since then, it has been revealed that Fox is […]