April 2025 ArchiveApr 23, 2025Hey, fans of The Studio, a prestige drama about the Jonestown massacre actually *is* coming to your screens... but from SNL and Barry star Bill Hader, not Martin Scorsese10% Criminal, 90% Minds: Matthew Gray Gubler will play Albert Einstein's fictional descendent in new CBS proceduralParamount+ said no to a full-length Star Trek: Discovery finale, says series starThe Last of Us's Bella Ramsey struggles to cry on camera - here's what they did for THAT season 2 sceneHow tabletop RPG games help players discover their gender identity, as told by the Critical Role castBlack hair textures & styles in video games are "limited, inaccurate... and often highly stereotypical," and the Dove personal care brand is aiming to change itPredator: Badlands: While Killer of Killers goes into Earth's history with the Predator, the trailer for the franchise's other 2025 release presents an alien futureYes, Gremlins is a Christmas movie - and its star Zach Galligan explains why (and how Die Hard helped)Stranger Things: Tales from '85: Netflix's animated adventures from Hawkins, IN gets a titleBen Affleck's biggest regret about his Batman was that what he and Zack Snyder planned was so dark even his son tuned outWatch Divergent author Veronica Roth's spotlight panel from MCM x EGX 2024 in LondonAfter Pope Francis's passing, people really want to know what happens next - which has led to a 283% bump in streaming viewership for 2024's new pope drama ConclaveAndor showrunner and star talk about the shocking moment in S2 E3: "I felt so much power in that"For Molly Ringwald, re-watching The Breakfast Club with her children changed the way she treats parentingMagic: The Gathering's Spider-Man set (and all other Marvel cards) won't be available digitally, announce Wizards of the CoastAfter You season 5, Netflix star Penn Badgley wants to work with Jordan Peele and/or be on SeveranceStar Wars' John Boyega has a great theory of how Samuel L. Jackson's Mace Windu survived - and he's already told the actor's wifeWizards of the Coast has 3 rules for unbanning Magic: The Gathering cards like Dockside Extortionist, Jeweled Lotus, and Mana CryptRansom Canyon's Garrett Wareing sure does talk like season 2 is happeningThunderbolts* almost featured Man-Thing in its main cast, but Marvel Studios had other ideasBlack Mirror star Cristin Milioti "intentionally stayed away" from Star Trek before filming USS CallisterFYC: Andor got you in a rebellious mood? 3 Star Wars stories to keep that goingNintendo Switch 2 consoles will be hit by Trump's tariffs, but physical Switch games themselves get an exemptionOur Flag Means Death star Taika Waititi is too busy to work on his Star Wars movie according to Lucasfilm boss, but she hopes "they get there" eventuallyDisney commissioned a historian to do an in-continuity history book on the rise of Star Wars' Empire, and he admits it feels pretty realistic right nowWednesday's season 2 trailer reveals two-part release dates... and introduces a secret Addams Family member?The real story behind Starship Troopers director Paul Verhoeven removing his own pants when filming the memorable shower sceneThe favorite Five Nights at Freddy’s fan theories from its voice actors Kellen Goff and Marta SvetekForget a blaster, the people skills of Cassian Andor are his greatest weapon as seen in Star Wars: Andor season 2 premiereApr 22, 2025Ryan Coogler's unique deal with Warner Bros. for Sinners opens door to talk about creator-owned movies in Hollywood more (especially given the movie's theme of Black ownership)Rick and Morty season 8 release date: The Smith/Sanchez family returns to Adult Swim for more existential scifi comedyPoker Face season 2 release date: Rian Johnson & Natasha Lyonne return to Peacock for even less lies, but even more murderThe Walking Dead: Dead City, season 2 release date: Negan & Maggie are back in the Big, Rotting Apple on AMC+A literary Streisand effect: Bans on books like Gender Queer lead to increased readership, according to a new studyA Universal Studios Epic Universe theme park easter egg put Back to the Future whiz Doc Brown as the secret creator of it allJ.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis? Shades of Magic author V.E. Schwab reveals the two kinds of fantasy fiction, and which she writesNew Alien: Earth teaser could hint at FX's biggest canon change yet: Is Weyland-Yutani studying other aliens besides the xenomorph?Netflix's Stranger Things season 5 series finale was almost spoiled by The First Shadow, until the writers changed the script midway through rehearsalsMarvel Matters: The cursed chalice of Marvel Studios' success, and the broken cinematic universe dreams it gave HollywoodBethesda reveals Oblivion remaster available now; but still no word on Elder Scrolls VIThe Boys' Garth Ennis imagines a nuclear war future in New York City with Becky Cloonan called The WarJohn Boyega expected The Star Wars sequel trilogy to have a big plan "like Kevin Feige... at Marvel" (and was surprised when it didn't)Ahead of Netflix reboot, here's how the historical fiction anime Rose of Versailles helped me revisit my own history as a 'tomboy' and my "gender troubles"Apr 21, 2025Amid tariffs hitting the gaming industry, Steve Jackson Games CEO Meredith Placko resignsMichigan town assembles 300 person human chain to help local bookstore move 9,100 booksOrtegas or Melissa: We play Who Is More Likely To? with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Melissa NaviaThe Donald Trump tariffs could scare off Halloween (and the costume industry) as we know it, with your favorite Halloween costumes set to double in priceEaster is for Sinners: Ryan Coogler's vampire flick dethrones Minecraft, gets a record CinemaScore, and outperforms a Jordan Peele opening at the box officeAndor star on why Cassian makes the ultimate sacrifice in Rogue One: “There’s something romantic behind every revolution”Sorry X-Files fans, but I think Ryan Coogler's Gillian Anderson comments are being blown out of proportionThe six Star Wars movies Lucasfilm says is still in development, and the six they avoided talking about at Star Wars Celebration 2025Red Dead Redemption 2 was made using real horses, but the actors reveal they didn’t get to ride themYou heard right, Critical Role fans, that was Ashley Johnson in the most recent episode of The Last of Us season 2Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon has asked the voice actors to stop participating in fan projects including even voice actor memesJohn Boyega reveals a Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker alternate scene exists where he reveals he's a force-user and JediPopverse Picks: From Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man to Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel, our favorite all-time MCU castingsJust like the best parts of Star Wars, Andor season 2 episode 1 shows how easy it is to give in to fascismApr 20, 2025Yoda says the future is always in motion, but we know the next Star Wars Celebration dates are (and where it'll be)Finally, fans get a chance to join the Clone Wars for themselves (with special secret missions) in upcoming Star Wars Zero Company video gameStar Wars' Andor series was a joke on the set of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story according to Diego Luna, then years later it became real"It really works!" Star Wars' Rosario Dawson has a new favorite cosplay mashing up her Ahsoka and DC Wonder Woman rolesReturn to Mos Eisley in a Star Wars meets Studio Ghibli anime coming as part of Visions Volume 3I just saw the coolest lightsaber design ever at Star Wars Celebration, and we'll all get to see it in The Duel sequel coming in Star Wars Visions Volume 3Fortnite's next Star Wars event Galactic Battle will include Darth Jar Jar, as well as the Mandalorian, Luke Skywalker and... a Death Star?Studio Ghibli's Shinya Ohira is doing a Star Wars anime this year, and from what we've seen it changes the way we look at StormtroopersStar Wars: The Ninth Jedi is getting spun off into its own standalone special with Production IG after Visions' successStar Wars Visions Volume 3 release date: Sequels to fan-favorite episodes, brand new stories, moreApr 19, 2025How Darth Jar Jar and LEGO Star Wars helped Ahmed Best fulfill a Star Wars ambition of 20 yearsStar Wars veteran Ahmed Best on getting offered "the coolest five minutes in Mandalorian history": "It's about time""The dinner party from hell": Star Wars Andor dark power couple Kyle Soller & Denise Gough dish on one of their top 3 favorite scenes from the showAhsoka season 2 teases a massive Star Wars military battle, as Thrawn goes head to head with Admiral AckbarHayden Christensen is returning to Star Wars for Ahsoka season 2 - but is it as Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker?Ahsoka's Dave Filoni and The Mandalorian's Jon Favreau are in a custody battle over the Star Wars "toys" in their various Lucasfilm projectsRyan Gosling's Starfighter just overtook Daisy Ridley's New Jedi Order project to map the Star Wars future post-Rise of SkywalkerI saw episode 1 of Andor season 2 at Star Wars Celebration Japan, and it's everything you want it to beAndor season 2 premiere throws out unexpected references to classic Star Wars ship design and The Force AwakensStar Wars' Mon Mothma actor Geneveive O'Reilly has waited 20 years to stand up to the Empire, and with Andor season 2 she feels she finally has "this moment"Andor and Hit Man star Adria Arjona teases a "really beautiful" relationship in season 2 of the critically acclaimed Star Wars seriesThe breakout character from Star Wars: Andor season 1 is going to disappoint fans by being her true, evil self in the show's final outingCassian Andor & K-2S0's first meeting (and the droid's birth) gives Diego Luna & Alan Tudyk the giggles ahead of Star Wars' Andor season 2 revealWhat to Watch May 2025: Netflix, Max, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu & more take you to the ATM (Animation, Travel, & Murder)Amazon is fully in the Henry Cavill business now after buying the movie rights to Highlander Fantasy great Terry Pratchett is coming to comics as an extensive graphic novel program adapting his novels is announced - and his daughter is working on one of the booksApr 18, 2025Star Wars: Rebels benefited from a surprising amount of "latitude" from Disney shortly after their purchase of LucasfilmDC's James Gunn, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and more of the cast talk making Superman into a big screen hero again: "The Fantastic Four: First Steps' retro New York City is a wonder to my eyes as a New YorkerNetflix doesn't seem too worried about Trump's tariffs... and according to their Q1 numbers, they might not have to beMargot Kidder, cinema's finest Lois Lane, explains how to make the character work on the big screen (Hint: she's not only Superman's girlfriend)Our charming prince Hugh Dancy dishes on Hannibal, Ella Enchanted, Downton Abbey, and moreChristopher Reeve almost had one final Superman movie, and it would have given closure to Clark/Lois romanticsThe way Star Wars portrays clones and stormtroopers shows a more subtle bit of storytelling than we ever gave George Lucas credit forLook for the Get Out of Niamos card as Star Wars and Monopoly Go cross over this summerExpect "Easter Eggs" about DC Comics' future and a realignment of DC's past in New History of the DCU, according to Mark WaidSuperman Unlimited's Kryptonite revival reverses a 54-year trend on DC's deadly green alien elementStranger Things: The First Shadow is built on the Vecna backstory that didn't make it into season 4Amongst Superman's many accomplishments: creating the comic book miniseriesIs Lex Luthor Donald Trump? Only partly, says the comic book creator who gave Luthor a businessman makeover in the 1980sDC has dropped a big tease about how it’s going to bring the Legion of Super-Heroes back (and it doesn’t include Darkseid)Popverse Jump: Star Wars: Visions has convinced me that we don't need a new trilogy - we just need to let the galaxy be weirdStar Wars’ John Boyega reveals his own con fandom: Pokémon conventionsCowboy legend James Brolin kept his Ransom Canyon co-stars on their toes, says Jack Schumacher Andor before Andor: How George Lucas' unrealized Star Wars TV series would've been "Deadwood in space"Star Wars: The Phantom Menace's villain returns yet again in Maul: Shadow Lord animated seriesThe Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu movie is the Disney+ show with the time taken to get it perfect, teases creator Jon FavreauStar Wars' mysterious Knights of Ren have a new female leader. Meet Tava RenStar Wars brings its real-life Galaxy's Edge theme park droids into fiction with The Mandalorian & GroguFrom Alien to X-Wing: Sigourney Weaver will be an X-Wing pilot and Rebel leader in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, teases Dave FiloniDisney & Lucasfilm are quietly planning a 50th anniversary Star Wars movie that's focused on all-new charactersLongtime Star Wars fan Ryan Gosling sees 2027 Starfighter movie as a chance to "shine a light" into a part of the Star Wars Universe we haven't seen beforeI never realized how much I wanted to see Star Wars' Thrawn in a shoujo-style manga until nowCal Kestis is back as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting its own comicLucasfilm launches its first-ever Kickstarter to revive Star Wars: The MangaThe Star Wars: Starfighter movie will be the first Star Wars movie since 1977 that's not a sequel, a prequel to anything before - and Shawn Levy & Ryan Gosling are keying into thatHow do you write a show like Star Wars' The Mandalorian? First, you need a lot of action figures says Jon Favreau & Dave FiloniStar Wars' Pedro Pascal knew that audiences would love The Mandalorian even before shooting started - here's whyScrew CGI! Lucasfilm has built a life-size Walker for Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu so it looks cooler in IMAXRyan Gosling to reveal the future of Star Wars past Episode 9 with Starfighter (and we have a release date!)Apr 17, 2025Marvel's commitment to a retro Fantastic Four movie goes further than fans can seeStephen King's The Life of Chuck movie adaptation is one of the first "uncynical" projects writer/director Mike Flanagan has ever doneDune: Awakening is a What If story that acts a love letter to every previous incarnation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classicHow to write DC superheroes like Superman, The Flash, and more, according to Mark WaidFinal Fantasy XVI's adorable dog Torgal gets his own Magic: The Gathering card at MagicCon 2025John Cusack & Joan Cusack were in the original Breakfast Club cast - and Molly Ringwald explains why John Hughes changed it all upMarvel's The Thing has teeth in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and I have a lot of feelings about itThe MCU resurrects Marvel Comics' original name & company in The Fantastic Four: First Steps Easter EggThe Critical Role cast tease body piercing, edging, and more for their darkest campaign yet: Age of UmbraWe finally meet MCU's Silver Surfer, and she brings a new attitude with latest The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailerThe Lord of the Rings cast reveal a marathon 3-day crying scene cursed with costume errors & accidental film destruction (and Sean Astin accepts PART of the blame)The best movie and TV Westerns, according to Ransom Canyon's Jack Schumacher Apr 16, 2025After Captain America 4, Anthony Mackie promises Avengers: Doomsday will "give the audience that old Marvel feeling"Lore Corner: The Daredevil: Born Again season 1 finale sets up John Bernthal's Punisher for a special that's straight out of Marvel ComicsThe hottest trading cards in Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture are of real-life old menThe creepiest SFX from Ryan Coogler's Sinners blinded the vampire actors (temporarily)The original Starship Troopers movie cast are worried Neill Blomkamp's upcoming reboot will cut the satire that made it great, with Michael Ironside expecting it to be "very right-wing"DC Comics loses its long-time publicity manager Michael ShellingFor Your Consideration: Sherlock & Daughter isn’t enough Holmes for us, so here are three more TV twists on Sherlock loreThe gentleman villain Mads Mikkelsen tells us how he balances being charming and despicable in our favorite movies & TV seriesOnce Upon a Time's Lana Parilla and Rebecca Mader want to do a villains-only spinoff series, and have a few ideas of who would join themJohn Hughes made a four-hour raw cut of The Breakfast Club, and the cast have seen it (but Emilio Estevez calls it “unreleaseable”)Apr 15, 2025Critical Role's Ashley Johnson enjoyed making a fake porno for the show, but that doesn't mean it was a successJavier Rodriguez's art style for DC's Absolute Martian Manhunter is as alien as its lead. And that's a great thing to beholdPopverse Picks: Best underdog characters like Cassian Andor in Star WarsMarvel Matters: What to read ahead of (and after) Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*Broadway's new Betty Boop musical homages the color & the chaos of New York Comic Con in the Javits CenterHow to watch Bakugan, Baku Tech, and Battle Planet in release and chronological orderC2E2 is the cure for the common comic con pains of diminishing comics presence, with the largest Artist Alley in North America and the charm of Midwest comics fansFinally, Gollum vs Samwise Gamgee go head-to-head: watch Andy Serkis body slam Sean Astin to the stage at C2E2Apr 14, 2025Marvel's Kevin Feige talked to John Boyega about who he'd play in the MCU, but "there ain't no room for me," says the Star Wars starOnce Upon A Time's cast want to change the past and reverse death itself - but to be fair, someone askedHarry Potter's TV cast starts to take shape, as HBO names names and weighs potential Percy Jackson-level success against JK Rowling's bigotryHow The Breakfast Club gave Bart Simpson one of his iconic catchphrases, years before he even existedStarship Troopers' anti-war satire was missed by American audiences upon release... and some of the cast during filming, tooTJ Klune shares the most influential queer literature in his life (and one surprising non-queer influence)The Lord of The Rings trilogy drove Sean Astin to a panic attack: "my thought was, what if I can’t do this?"Sorry, webheads: Tom Hardy says we weren't as close to that Spidey/Venom movie as was reportedCritical Role’s Marisha Ray thinks the show should do a Spider-Verse style crossover with Fantasy High and other adventuring partiesA Minecraft Movie is so successful, its second weekend in theaters outperformed almost every other 2025 movie's openingChildren of Blood and Bone's movie adaptation is so intense, author Tomi Adeyemi almost Hulked Out during filmingFans are buying more comics as sales jump 20% year-on-year for the second year in a rowApr 13, 2025Star Wars star John Boyega wants to star in HBO’s The Last of Us – but only if he can play Pedro Pascal’s role (temporarily)Superman's dog will break your heart in the upcoming Krypto comic book series, but don't look for continuity clues, says editorThe Breakfast Club cast pay tribute to John Hughes: "I didn’t know how rare it was going to be for a director to like actors"Game of Thrones could never match ABC's fairytale soap Once Upon a Time in one key area, says the show's Evil QueenCould Lord of the Rings’s Merry and Pippin survive on the island from Lost? Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd have some thoughtsRoboCop's Peter Weller sums up the classic sci-fi crime movie's resonance in just one wordBaldur's Gate 3 cast didn't realize how big the game really was until fans let them know at conventions, says Neil NewbonRockstar Games should make a Mario Kart style game for Red Dead Redemption, says RDR voice actor Superman's true Dragon Ball Z counterpart isn't Goku, says DC artist Dan Mora - it's GohanWhy Emilio Estevez held off on doing any Breakfast Club reunions – until nowLord of the Rings left its cast scarred, disfigured, and near freezing: "I thought there would be compensation!"And the winners of the 2025 Cosplay Central Crown Championships Regionals, Nationals, and Global Finals at C2E2 2025 are...Robocop actor Peter Weller shares emotional reaction to rewatching the movie, decades laterBreakfast Club's Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson talk 1980s movie poster shots we didn't see - including ones featuring writer/director John HughesApr 12, 2025What makes an X-Man break bad? The need to keep characters fresh, argues the creator behind Marvel's recent Mystique seriesLord of the Rings star Elijah Wood finally changes his stance on wigs after 20 years (IYKYK)Children of Blood and Bone author Tomi Adeyemi wrote 300 pages of Naruto fanfiction as a child - including a romance with SasukeBatman, Robin and Nightwing go full tokusatsu in DC's new Power Rangers-inspired miniseries Immortal Legend Batman, from Radiant Black creatorsThe difference between regular Superman and Absolute Superman? Absolute anger, says writer Jason AaronHaving killed Marvel's Spider-Man, writer Dan Slott is making Earth deadly for Superman as Kryptonite becomes a "natural resource" in DC's new Superman Unlimited seriesStar Wars and Attack the Block star John Boyega was at C2E2 2025 for The Force of Talent Spotlight panel, and you can watch the whole thing right nowTJ Klune's next book is his "most painful," the author teases (or should that be warns?)There's a new owner for what was once comics' monolithic distribution giant as Maryland court approves Diamond sale to Alliance EntertainmentLord of the Rings director Peter Jackson laughed the first time I played Gollum on set, says Andy SerkisDC's Lanterns is buddy space cops and aliens, as seen by the Coen Brothers, apparentlyApr 11, 2025TJ Klune's House in the Cerulean Sea may continue… as graphic novelsHunt for Gollum star Andy Serkis gets quizzed on the new movie by his Lord of the Rings costarsTrue crime podcasts turn deadly in Ignition Press's first comic book series, Murder PodcastFantastic Four: First Steps' Galactus isn't a CGI cloud - he's a man in a costumeX-Men legend Chris Claremont's Marvel Rivals idea pits Doctor Doom vs. a classic mutant nemesisWonder Woman or Shade the Changing Man? Creating the New History of the DC Universe is "a constant juggling act" as well as "a blast," says writer Mark WaidMax's The Pitt season 2 will take place during the Fourth of July weekend (even though its release date is January 2026)Stephen King's Carrie will become an eight episode miniseries from Mike Flanagan and Prime VideoPopverse Jump: Buggy the Clown represents the best part of One Piece - no one's story is ever as simple as it seemsMinecraft changed my life, and it helped me change the lives of the kids I care for (even after they grow up)Shannara author Terry Brooks on how publishing has changed in the past 50 years: "It's the story of America"Apr 10, 2025Imagine Pikachu as the leader of a Pokémon uprising against humanity - one of the show's lead writers did, but it never happenedChina limits US movie imports in the latest tariff war move (maybe including Marvel's Thunderbolts*)C2E2 2025 Artist Alley tables to look forMagic: The Gathering's Secret Lair has a new boss in town - and he's someone ultra familiar with Marvel & comicsMarvel's Invisible Woman is "building an idealistic society" in Fantastic Four: First Steps, says directorDC's greatest villains aren't winning, so Gorilla Grodd is recruiting the classic Legion of Doom to beat the Justice League once and for allBlack Mirror crosses over from fantasy to reality with seventh season episode 'Plaything' and its real life video game spinoffC2E2 2025 Main Stage livestreams & VODs are now guaranteed by CGC x JSA - our official Authentication and Grading PartnerChicago's C2E2 2026 dates are here and its parallel with LA's WonderCon & Kansas City's Planet ComiconUhura or Celia: We play Who Is More Likely To? with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Celia Rose GoodingAndor season 2 will change the way you see Rogue One: A Star Wars story, promise series creatorsIf Warner Bros. & movie theaters don't do special A Minecraft Movie audience participation screenings, they're missing outYA readers need to be respected for having difficult, complicated lives, says Sweetest Darkness author Leslie LutzApr 09, 2025Minecraft's director loves the viral reactions to the movie, but authorities across the world feel differentlyAvatar creator James Cameron is cautiously pro-generative AI, except on his own moviesMike Flanagan & Prime Video may have found their Carrie in former Chucky star Summer H. HowellThe White Lotus is so big that Woody Harrelson had to issue a statement about why he wasn't in itBlack Mirror's new season has more emotion, but is still catastrophizing about the futureWhy did Ryan Coogler make Sinners before Black Panther 3? To make sure audiences "really know me"The Last of Us's second season is so good, HBO has renewed the show even before anyone else has seen itFor Your Consideration: If the Handmaid’s Tale isn’t bad enough, here are 3 more dystopian TV shows to worry we're slipping towardsMarvel's new Thunderbolts* trailers confirm speculation, spoil big twists, and remind us of 2016's Suicide Squad a bit too muchLove Adolescence's one-take episode format? Thank Hollywood A-lister Brad PittThe DC Comics timeline is "breaking", with fallout coming across DC Comics line says architect Mark WaidImage Comics and Tiny Onion's Exquisite Corpses is built with the future (and the past) in mind, teases co-creator James Tynion IVApr 08, 2025Apple TV+'s Murderbot is the most relatable character on TV this year according to star Alexander SkarsgårdAlan Cumming's Nightcrawler makeup for Avengers: Doomsday takes 1/3 of the time it did for X2: X-Men UnitedCollect $200, because Netflix has landed a Monopoly reality competition showThe US comic book industry won't be significantly impacted by Trump's tariff war (yet)TJ Klune's good ideas don't just belong to him - sometimes they belong to Stranger Things and The Good Place, tooDisney's Tron: Ares will see Jared Leto plays Evil Digital Pinocchio, teases directorDisney's Predator franchise goes to feudal Japan, World War II, & the Viking era in new movie Killer of KillersSticker shock from the Nintendo Switch 2 price? We think we've figured out whyMaia Kobabe's Gender Queer graphic novel among most challenged books, according to American Library Association report Netflix's Black Mirror really isn't the show audiences think it is, says creator Charlie BrookerDC Comics' Justice League Unlimited series to become "truly unlimited" this summer just like the JLU animated series, says writerMarvel Matters: The MCU's Loki series is a meta take on all of Marvel Studios' troubles over the past 10 years, with Kevin Feige at the center of it (and its hopeful success)Inside the ongoing dispute between two Ohio anime conventions - Ohayocon and Sekaicon - that includes trade secrets and logo controversySomewhere out there is an R-Rated version of A Minecraft Movie, thanks to Jennifer Coolidge's raunchy date with a villagerWatch ABC's Once Upon A Time reunion panel with Lana Parrilla, Sean Maguire, & Rebecca Mader from MCM x EGX 2024Pokémon's Pikachu helped Kim-Joy be the very best when auditioning for The Great British Bake-OffApr 07, 2025British comic creator R.E. Burke details experience of being detained by ICE for more than 2 weeksThis is where you'll find all the best of Chicago's C2E2 2025 cosplay photosCome meet Popverse at Chicago's C2E2 2025 in one of nine panelsA Minecraft sequel? Director Jared Hess already has thoughts after the film outperforms box office expectationsDC Comics architect Mark Waid opens the door to the first All In crossover event 'We Are Yesterday' with Justice League UnlimitedFollow along live to Outlander star Sam Heughan's panel at Chicago's C2E2 2025!A24's Death Stranding movie adaptation has found its director with A Quiet Place: Day One's Michael SarnoskiDaredevil: Born Again's Wilson Fisk will never appear in an MCU film, says Kingpin actor Vincent D'OnofrioFollow along live to the official Marvel Matters panel with Declan Shalvey, Chris Condon, Mark Morales, and Jeffrey Brown from Chicago's C2E2 2025The big Marvel panel at Chicago's C2E2 2025 is Popverse's Marvel Matters with Declan Shalvey, Chris Condon, Mark Morales, and Jeffrey BrownFollow along live to the official DC: Celebrate Superman panel from Chicago's C2E2 2025Explaining the chicken jockey meme spiraling out of A Minecraft MovieDoctor Who's new season will regenerate former companion Ruby into a story about PTSD, says showrunnerThe White Lotus's finale was "a classic theme of Greek tragedy," says showrunnerFollow along live to the official Critical Role panel with Matt Mercer & friends from Chicago's C2E2 2025Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four are beloved because they're astronauts, not superheroes, says First Steps directorThe Last of Us season 2 is bringing new, smarter Infected from the games to scare the pants off of usThe comic writers vs. artist debate gets settled once & for all as Mitch Gerads & Tom King face off in Popversus at C2E2 2025Dragon Ball Z's Christopher Sabat never heard the Japanese dub of Piccolo before he recorded his lines - but he did hear the Latin America dub of the animeFrom Breakfast Club to Home Alone: How to watch John Hughes’ iconic movies in orderSkibidi Toilet reflects the state of warfare in the 21st century, if you're willing to lookJohn Wick's animated prequel is just the start - the franchise's core director wishes he could make anime fulltimeThank goodness Netflix's One Piece season 2 is still using practical effects and sets to bring the Straw Hats and the Grand Line's weirdness to lifeStar Wars: Andor's second season asks how regular people survived the Empire's fascist reignPopverse Picks: The best Invincible characters (according to me!)Minecraft puts Marvel on notice with the biggest opening weekend of the year, looking set to make more in 1 week than Captain America 4 did in 2 monthsComics' one-time biggest distributor is now at the center of new lawsuit over bankruptcy & a $85m auction, as comic publishers & others worry they won't be paidFollow along live to the official Ahsoka panel from Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025!Follow along live to the official Andor season 2 panel from Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan!Follow along live to the Mandalorian & Grogu movie panel from Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025!Super Star Wars for the SNES is the most ambitious Star Wars game ever and I'm not jokingApr 05, 2025Follow along live to the Lord of the Rings reunion panel with Elijah wood, Andy Serkis, and more from Chicago's C2E2 2025Apr 04, 2025America's biggest publishers are so worried about libraries, they're asking Congress to step in to save themJames Bond's new producers remain on mission, and out of contact, as Amazon dodges 007 questions at CinemaConBatman and Supergirl writer Tom King's Image Comics series Love Everlasting is headed to the big screen, courtesy of the director behind Normal PeopleSteven Soderbergh has ideas for a Contagion sequel, but it'll likely not be coming to theatersWhat Tom Cruise taught Glen Powell about running in movies - for The Running Man remake, obviouslyKaty O'Brian wants to be Jigglypuff on Pokémon - because its "just drunk karaoke"A Working Man director David Ayer still wishes audiences could see his "gothic, lyrical" Suicide Squad cutThe Marvels' director on working with Marvel Studios: "The way they make those films is very different to the way, ideally, I would make a film"Post-Stranger Things, Finn Wolfhard is looking for roles not inspired by 80s horror... except for the movie he just madeDan Da Dan returns to theaters this summer to kick off the Evil Eye arc ahead of Season 2 of the animeThe tabletop gaming industry is bracing itself for the disastrous impact of the Trump tariffs on China - and, yes, prices are going to go upMarvel Rivals season 2 introduces Emma Frost and Ultron to the Hellfire GalaLaurence Fishburne offered to return as Morpheus in The Matrix: Resurrections but the producers weren't up for itPopverse Jump: I've been slowly working my way through the Berserk manga for more than five years and I refuse to go any fasterUPDATED: Image Comics raises prices 33% on flagship Spawn titles, but hopes to avoid increasing comic costs for Trump tariffsAI "artists" are posting fake cease and desist letters from Studio Ghibli because they are so desperate to be taken seriouslyNintendo Switch 2 pre-orders already halted due to Trump TariffsJared Leto invades the real world as a rogue AI in Tron: Ares, complete with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack to back him upDwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has written a true crime book... and Martin Scorsese is already prepping a movie adaptationApr 03, 2025Predator: Badlands' team-up with Elle Fanning and a Yautja retreads Alien vs. Predator's endingDon't expect to see Halle Berry to join the X-Men as Storm in Avengers: Doomsday Superman's Fortress of Solitude shines bright in new footage from James Gunn's movieMarvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps teases The Invisible Woman's pregnancy in new footageNintendo Switch 2 costs may be going up thanks to Trump's tariffs - 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