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Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi says roughly 80% of the film is improvised

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As yesterday’s official San Diego Comic-Con trailer proved, Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) is looking to bring the God of Thunder on a stranger, lighter and more colorful adventure than his previous two outings. In general, Waititi’s approach to directing Ragnarok looks to be more unconventional than […]

Doctor Who Christmas Special titled Twice Upon a Time, Bill Potts and The Captain returning

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There is still twenty-two weeks left to Christmas yet the fever surrounding 2017’s Doctor Who Christmas Special is already running at high, with it being Peter Capaldi’s final episode, David Bradley taking the reigns of the First Doctor, Jodie Whittaker taking the key to the TARDIS (as the first female Doctor) and now just revealed […]

SpongeBob goes stop motion in sneak peek from SpongeBob: Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom

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A sneak peek preview of Nickelodeon’s upcoming stop-motion Halloween special SpongeBob: Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom showcased this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con and you can check it out here… As per THR: “The special finds Bikini Bottom decked out for Halloween: Sandy’s treedome is a mad scientist’s lab, with a giant remotely operated Acorn Monster; […]

James Remar and Damon Gupton join Black Lightning

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The CW showcased its DC superhero slate at the San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, offering up the first trailers for the new seasons of Supergirl, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Arrow. While the network didn’t have any footage from its newest DC show Black Lightning, we did however get word on two new series […]

Description of the Black Panther footage shown at Comic-Con

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Having dropped details on Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel, as well as a new trailer and footage for Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel put the focus on next year’s Black Panther as it continued its panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, screening some footage from the Ryan Coogler-directed solo movie. Apparently, it won’t be making […]

Captain Marvel set in the 90s and features The Skrulls, concept art released

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The Skrulls are coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Revealed today during the Marvel Studios panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the shapeshifting aliens have been announced as the villains in 2019’s Captain Marvel movie. In addition to that big announcement, it was also revealed that the film will take place in the 1990s, and will […]

Michelle Pfeiffer and Laurence Fishburne join Ant-Man and the Wasp as Janet Van Dyne and Goliath

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Marvel has kicked off its panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International this evening with Ant-Man and the Wasp, beginning with some casting news on the sequel. Michelle Pfeiffer and Laurence Fishburne are swapping the DC universe for the MCU, with Pfeiffer set to play Janet Van Dyne and Fishburne as Dr. Bill Foster, a.k.a. […]

Sega and IDW partner up for Sonic the Hedgehog comics

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Having ended their long-running partnership with Archie Comics, Sega has announced that it is teaming up with IDW Publishing to launch a brand new line of Sonic the Hedgehog comic books to launch in 2018. “We’ve been speaking with beloved Sonic fan-favorite creators and new creators alike, and are excited to be able to spread […]

IDW announces new Jem and the Holograms anthology series Dimensions

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IDW publishing has announced the upcoming launch of Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions, a new another series set in the world of the Hasbro band, which will bring in a rotating roster of talent into the mix, as well as some Jem mainstays, to tell new adventures, with two self-contained stories per issue. The debut […]