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The 10 Best TV Shows of 2017

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Samuel Brace with his ten best TV shows of 2017…Wow. What a year it’s been.2017 has been a true standout for high quality television; featuring never better returning favourites, premium series finales, and new shows announcing their arrival onto the stage. There’s been a bit of everything in 2017 but just which of its myriad […]

Ranking 2017’s Superhero Movies From Worst to Best

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Liam Hoofe ranks this year’s superhero movies from worst to best…To describe a year as being ‘a marquee year’ for superhero movies feels redundant by this point. Every year fans are treated to at least five superhero movies and 2017 was no different. With DC, rather haphazardly, having entered the game in 2016, all eyes […]

The Week in Spandex – X-Men and Fantastic Four come home to Marvel, Avengers 4 updates, Venom details, Justice League box office, DCEU slate confirmed and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men, Fantastic Four, Deadpool 2, The New Mutants, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Gambit, The Gifted, Avengers 4, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Venom, Jessica Jones, The Punisher, Runaways, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., New Warriors, Justice League, Aquaman, Shazan, Nightwing, Flashpoint, […]

Stan Lee and Rob Liefeld comment on Disney’s acquisition of X-Men and Fantastic Four

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Earlier this week it was announced that Disney has finalised a deal to purchase the movie and television assets of 20th Century Fox, which means that both X-Men and Fantastic Four are now at the disposal of Marvel Studios and its Cinematic Universe.This is of course great news for Marvel fans who have been longing […]

Justice League surpasses Logan at the worldwide box office

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Justice League may have underwhelmed at the box office, but we do have one bit of good news for Warner Bros., as the DC team-up is not going to finish the year as the lowest-grossing live-action superhero movie.Going into this weekend, Justice League has pushed its worldwide haul to $625 million, surpassing 20th Century Fox’s […]

X-Men: Dark Phoenix to focus on its female characters

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Last week we got our first look at X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the next – and possibly final, following Disney’s takeover of Fox – instalment of the X-Men franchise, and now we have some further details on the film thanks to writer-director Simon Kinberg, who has revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the movie will see a […]

Charlie Heaton’s Cannonball featured in latest The New Mutants teaser

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Following a teaser for The New Mutants featuring Maisie Williams’ Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane [watch it here], another brief promo has now arrived online Josh Boone’s upcoming horror-themed X-Men spinoff focusing on Charlie Heaton’s Sam Guthrie/Cannonball; take a look below…SEE ALSO: Description of The New Mutants footage shown at Brazil’s Comic-Con Experiencehttps://twitter.com/NewMutantsFilm/status/941368004931215362SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for New Mutants hereThe young mutants find a hidden […]

Disney’s Bob Iger says Marvel could make R-rated Deadpool movies

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It was officially announced earlier today that The Walt Disney Company has reached a deal with 21st Century Fox to acquire its movie and TV properties, which – as the official press release stated – “provides Disney with the opportunity to reunite the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool with the Marvel family under one roof […]

Disney’s acquisition of Fox is good for the MCU, but bad for the movie industry

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Tom Beasley looks at the positives and negatives of Disney buying up the assets of 20th Century Fox, and what that means for cinema…After weeks of speculation, it has finally happened. Disney has acquired Fox’s entertainment assets, including its film and television studios. The massive deal, which is certainly one of the biggest in the […]