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Before Bane, the head of Warner Bros. wanted the third Christopher Nolan Batman movie to star Leonardo DiCaprio as the Riddler
Instead of DiCaprio as The Riddler, we got Tom Hardy's take on Bane, which doesn't feel like a bad trade, in hindsight
May 29, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Drake & Josh had another Crazy Steve before Jerry Trainor, but he was fired for not being crazy enough
Jerry Trainor got his role as Crazy Steve on Drake & Josh because the original actor wasn’t crazy enough
May 29, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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After a decade off the air, Phineas and Ferb are returning to Disney entirely unchanged (well, almost)
The hit Disney show is coming back because streaming audiences demanded it, and it's business as usual - except for one small thing (Clue: check out what Phineas looks like now)
May 29, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Black Phone author Joe Hill is "sprinting madly for my life" with a new goal: to write a novel a year. To do it, he's having to say 'no' to himself
A certain famous author writes a new novel every four to five years - but he has a plan to write a book a year. Sounds ominous? This is the work life of Joe Hill.
May 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Red Dead Redemption’s Roger Clark stole the boots he wore to play Arthur Morgan in the second installment of the series
When asked at C2E2 2025 if he had taken anything from the set of Red Dead Redemption 2, Roger Clark said he couldn't part with Arthur Morgan's boots
May 29, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Wednesday Addams would hate being a pop culture icon, says Jenna Ortega - and the star of the Netflix hit kind of feels the same way as she prepares for season 2
"I’ve become a pop actor," Jenna Ortega said in a recent interview about her Netflix series Wednesday, "And that’s something I never saw for myself"
May 28, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The boss of the company behind Assassin's Creed wants the game industry to stop taking layoffs personally: "There’s a maturity that we need to find within our workforce"
For context, this comes from the same director that oversaw the closure of one UK studio for Ubisoft and layoffs at another just this year alone
May 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Red Dead Redemption 2 has a secret reference to a classic Western movie
Roger Clark, who played Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, revealed at C2E2 that a Shane reference was snuck into the game
May 28, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The continued popularity of NBC's Hannibal 10 years later is "heartwarming" for Mads Mikkelsen
At Emerald City Comic Con 2025, Mads Mikkelsen spoke fondly of how Hannibal continues to live on in the hearts of Fannibals
May 28, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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"That's such a Lex move": Nicholas Hoult describes his cunning plan to steal the role of Superman in James Gunn's DC Studios reboot from David Corenswet
Hoult nearly got the part of Superman in the movie and seems to be at least a little sore about it now.
May 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Jim Parsons secretly checked his fantasy football scores while filming The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons reveals what he was really looking at during Sheldon’s computer scenes
May 28, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Final Destination Bloodlines directors will never attempt a boating disaster, because nobody beats James Cameron's Titanic
Our hearts may go on, but boating disasters in cinema have reached their peak. At least, according to Final Destination Bloodlines' Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
May 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Top Gun 3 will have to wait: The first post-Mission: Impossible on-screen gig for Tom Cruise will be watching soccer with David Beckham, somehow
Before he makes Top Gun 3 or Days of Thunder 2, Tom Cruise will be paying tribute to the Beautiful Game on Paramount+ on May 31.
May 28, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Elisabeth Moss teases that she'll reprise her Handmaid's Tale character in Hulu's upcoming sequel The Testaments
June Orborne's story is over (for now) after the recent Handmaid's Tale season 6 finale, but the actor who plays her isn't done just yet
May 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Want more of Sinners? The DVD will have an exclusive 30-minute behind the scenes documentary about the horror movie from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler
You can invite Ryan Coogler's phenomenon into your home starting early June; fingers crossed we'll get more, even longer, vampire jigs
May 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sorry, Stranger Things: Adolescence is about to become the second biggest English language series in Netflix history
So Adolescence fell off of Netflix's Top 10 for a few weeks, who cares? It's the overall total viewership after 91 days that counts anyway
May 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Never ask Doctor Who star David Tennant who his favorite Doctor or Companion is - if he answered, he would get "in trouble"
"Not a chance," David Tennant told fans at his panel at MCM Comic Con 2025, showing that he needs to be diplomatic about playing favorites with his co-stars.
May 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The Netflix adaptation of DC classic The Sandman will focus on its main character in its final season - and skip some fan-favorite storylines altogether
Bad news for fans of 'A Game of You' - it won't be adapted for the second and final season of Netflix's The Sandman
May 28, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey has directed the most bizarre sounding sci-fi comeback film starring Rocky, Fast & Furious, and Deadpool actors
The movie, titled Holiguards, is currently in post-production and marks Kevin Spacey's "triumphant" return to Hollywood following a string of sexual misconduct allegations against him.
May 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Epic Marvel & DC cover artist Artgerm says he will "will die on the hill of human art," as AI 'artists' steal his work as a popular AI prompt
The man who has produced some of the most popular DC and Marvel comics variant covers is less worried about AI art than you might think.
May 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Don't expect a Superman movie panel at San Diego Comic-Con; DC Studios co-head James Gunn says it's all Peacemaker and John Cena this year
With Superman hitting the box office earlier that month, the stage will be clear to focus on Peacemaker season two for DC at San Diego Comic-Con.
May 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Who do you think of when you see Batman? For City of Madness writer/artist Christian Ward, it's Kevin Conroy - for his kindness
The writer of Batman: City of Madness and Two-Face had the same formative experience with Kevin Conroy's voice that we all did.
May 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn launches new imprint to uplift “unique voices” and publish books you can't help but tell your friends about
Gillian Flynn Books will carry on the legacy of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects to publish thrillers that get audiences thinking about real-world topics
May 27, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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DC sneaks the new Batman logo reveal into the Deadpool/Batman announcement
Hey, that Batman logo looks pretty unfamiliar, doesn't it...?
May 27, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel’s WandaVision spinoff adds T'Nia Miller as Jocasta - but will she share a backstory with fellow android Vision?
The Vision show is making the world of androids in the MCU a lot bigger with T'Nia Miller as Jocasta
May 27, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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In writing novels, Jessica Jones' Krysten Ritter gets to explore the psychology of the "unlikable characters" she's famous for onscreen
Krysten Ritter has played complicated women like Jessica Jones onscreen, but it's in her novels that the actress gets the chance to "dive" even further
May 27, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Is Superman coming to Peacemaker? James Gunn teases a "really, really, really big cameo" for season 2 of the HBO Max DC drama
Gunn also confirms that Peacemaker's second season on HBO Max will revolve around a piece of technology that will feature in the 2025 Superman movie
May 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel has deputized Deadpool as its top star (Sorry, Spider-Man!) for a rare crossover with DC Comics opposite Batman
This year will see big names from both Marvel and DC work on two Deadpool and Batman crossovers - and more
May 27, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Walking Dead producer Scott M. Gimple can imagine more spinoffs for the AMC zombie franchise into 2040 and beyond
Gimple, who has been with The Walking Dead since 2011, sees the AMC franchise as some sort of... undying thing? Entity that won't stop? Argh, I can't think of a good metaphor
May 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie had Top Gun 3 figured out after "one conversation," says the Tom Cruise blockbusters are not "hard to crack"
While promoting Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, director Christopher McQuarrie described the (very brief) ideation process of Top Gun 3, which he spent with co-writer Ehren Kruger
May 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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One Piece Day 2025 dates confirmed for August as we wait for the influx of news for the anime and manga
Any time we get to celebrate the glory that is One Piece is a good day in our books.
May 27, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Blizzard has lots of plans for World of Warcraft's Housing, but it's more than just their version of Animal Crossing?
World of Warcraft's Housing gives players an unprecedented creative outlet within the game - not unlike Animal Crossing
May 27, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Cover artist Artgerm's favorite DC character is Supergirl - but only because of the CW show and Melissa Benoist
The cover artist turned his love for Supergirl into a six-issue variant cover run for DC all because he loved the CW show so much.
May 27, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Save the date: London's MCM Comic Con returns this October, and we have the official dates
If you're looking for something to do in late October 2025, we have a suggestion for anyone in the UK - head to MCM London Comic Con at the ExCel
May 27, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel Rivals developer sends a host of heroes into the Dream Dimension with a June 2025 release date for new game Marvel Mystic Mayhem
You can pre-register now for Marvel Mystic Mayhem so you can get started building your team of heroes as soon as the game is released.
May 27, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The Hazbin Hotel cast describes their fans in the most concise - and accurate - way
Angel Dust's actor explains that Hazbin Hotel mirrors their fans in the best possible way.
May 27, 2025
Trent Cannon
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CBS's The Big Bang Theory was originally much more "risqué", raunchy and sexually charged like its sister show Two & A Half Men; here's how the audience told co-creator Chuck Lorre to change it
Early episodes of The Big Bang Theory were crasser and had less heart, but the audience set the showrunners straight
May 27, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Marvel Studios learned not all of the MCU needs to be okay for children with Netflix's Daredevil, according to Charlie Cox
Charlie Cox praises Marvel Studios for letting Daredevil keep its adult tone, saying that the character exists better in a mature space
May 27, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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There's a murderous fan canon to how Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh and iCarly are connected, and Crazy Steve actor Jerry Trainor believes it 100%
Jerry Trainor discusses the crazy (and twisted) fan theory that ties Drake & Josh to iCarly (and involves his character committing homicide)
May 27, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau's Marvel Snap variants are some of the most popular in the hit game - and he hopes to someday get paid for the game using it
The cover artist isn't sore about his art being included in Marvel Snap, though he'd like to get a cut from the sales.
May 25, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Marvel Studios' Jessica Jones costume designer bought every nice purple suit in Manhattan for David Tennant's Mr. Purple... but sadly, he didn't get to keep them all
The MCU's take on the Jessica Jones villain meant that David Tennant got to wear a whole line-up of suits - but he didn't get to keep any.
May 25, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Despite what Michael Sheen has said, David Tennant denies making him the bad cop on the set of Good Omens
The pair make a "good team" according to David Tennant, though he disagrees with how Michael Sheen portrays their relationship.
May 24, 2025
Trent Cannon
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David Tennant "would have quite liked" to be Marvel Studios' Reed Richards in the Fantastic Four: First Steps, but is happy for Pedro Pascal and "very pleased he exists"
We all love Pedro Pascal and are happy he exists. That includes Doctor Who icon David Tennant.
May 24, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Fargo showrunner's new series Alien: Earth will build out an idea from James Cameron's Aliens and show humanity at its worst
The new series based on the fan-favorite series of Alien movies will "navigate two kinds of monsters," says Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley. (Spoilers: one of them is humanity.)
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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When Tom Cruise started Mission: Impossible, he turned to Marvel Comics and Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld to get the whole thing going
Rob Liefeld provided the cover art (and some of the interior artwork) for a 1996 Marvel Mission: Impossible comic at Tom Cruise's request
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Pokémon convention offers $100 upsell, with one of the perks being a better restroom
The "Premiere Access" package at Go Fest: Jersey City, the next official Pokémon convention, will also unlock in-game items and provide fans access to a special lounge
May 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Hazbin Hotel creator Vivienne Medrano has a strict 'no reading fan fiction' rule for the series writers, according to Angel Dust actor Blake Roman
No, the writers of Hazbin Hotel writers probably haven't seen your extensive fan-theory about the show and the cast thinks that has made the show better
May 23, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Hazbin Hotel actor Blake Roman reveals the most unhinged thing a fan has asked him to do and it is pretty intense
We know Hazbin Hotel is a pretty sexual show but keep yourself calm, folks.
May 23, 2025
Trent Cannon
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To keep The Walking Dead's infamous Negan spoiler from leaking, the show shot every character being killed with the bat
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe - it takes a lot to make a show. In the case of The Walking Dead season 6, it took filming Negan kill every character, not just the person who actually died
May 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Want a sequel to 2004's Dodgeball? Netflix Nonnas star Vince Vaughn teases "there's an idea that's pretty good" out there already
Vaughn said that there's "nothing for sure" about the possibility of a Dodgeball sequel, but are we gonna let a little thing like that spoil our speculation? Absolutely not
May 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Prime Video cancels The Wheel of Time after three seasons
The fantasy series, based on the Wheel of Time novels by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, proved too expensive for Prime Video to continue with, according to reports.
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fresh from his MCU Daredevil: Born Again revival, Marvel Comics resurrects Frank Castle in comic books for adults-only series Punisher: Red Band
Two years after replacing him with a new incarnation of the anti-hero, Frank Castle is back as Marvel Comics' Punisher for a new miniseries published under the Red Band 17+ imprint
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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A24 knows Elden Ring fans want intensity, so they've tapped their most intense director - Warfare's Alex Garland
Garland, who also tackled thrillers Annihilation, Ex Machina, and Civil War, is not new to gaming, having written a cancelled Halo script in 2005 and supervised the 2014 Devil May Cry reboot
May 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Don't just watch Top Gun, live it - Paramount is planning a Las Vegas experience based on the high-flying Tom Cruise pilot movies
Are you Maverick enough to visit a live Top Gun experience in Las Vegas? Come 2028, you'll have the chance to find your inner Tom Cruise for yourself
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Hazbin Hotel star Blake Roman didn't know what shipping was before joining the cast - but the fandom has been sure to give him an education
Shipping, OCs, and fanfiction weren't something Blake Roman knew about before, but Hazbin Hotel fans were sure to help fill in those blanks for him.
May 23, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Yes, Disney has pushed out the release dates for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars - but this shows that Marvel is serious about regaining its mojo
Fans will have to wait longer for the next two Avengers movies, but it's a sign that the wait will be worth it
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Don't expect to see these Hazbin Hotel cast members on Critical Role anytime soon - the improvisation would feel too much like work to them
We all love Critical Role, but don't expect to see these Hazbin Hotel stars in Exandria anytime soon.
May 23, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Vaggie loves "not dying", but her Hazbin Hotel voice actor Stephanie Beatriz hints someone will in season 2 on Amazon Prime Video
Stephanie Beatriz said she couldn't say who wouldn't die in Hazbin Hotel season 2 but certainly implied that not everyone would make it to the end.
May 23, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The Walking Dead musical episode came far closer than you think to actually happening
More like *Hear* the Walking Dead, am I right? Shred City? The Book of... Carols? Come on folks, it's Walking Dead musical puns
May 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Mephisto might not have been Agatha All Along's villain, but he did "distract" viewers from guessing the end, says Marvel showrunner
Marvel fans Marveling about a potential Mephisto appearance distracted fans from the bigger picture of Agatha All Along, and showrunner Jac Schaeffer is grateful for that.
May 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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It's Lilo & Stitch versus Tom Cruise versus Tom Cruise as the Disney remake takes on not just Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning but also Top Gun: Maverick this Memorial Day weekend
What if Disney's remake of Lilo & Stitch beats Tom Cruise's 2025 and 2022 movies at the box office at the same time? It looks like it's going to happen
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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How an unplanned second take and set change gave Netflix hit Adolescence its emotional climax
Show co-creator and star Stephen Graham has revealed that the Netflix phenomenon didn't originally end with Eddie crying in Jamie's room
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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MCU Agatha showrunners needed a goth teen for the WandaVision spinoff, only to find Marvel had one 'All Along' (Get it?)
Just like Wanda Maximoff, the creators of Agatha All Along realized they need a Billy. Unlike Wanda Maximoff, they were able to get one
May 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Even as the publishing industry comes to terms with AI fakery, Melania Trump announces "the future of publishing": her AI-narrated audiobook autobiography
The First Lady of the United States is all aboard the AI train with her new announcement, even as the NLRB reviews the use of AI voices in gaming
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Layoffs rock Transformers, GI Joe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collectibles company Super7 after its "best [six months] since the inception of the company"
"These are people who were doing the best work in the industry, none of whom deserved to be let go," the Super7 founder says of the staff members pushed out of the company as it faces an uncertain future
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Don't look now, but the Agatha All Along showrunner has finally confirmed a widely-held MCU fan theory
Listen up, Rio and Agatha shippers. Agatha All Along creator and showrunner Jac Schaeffer hears your prays and has decided to answer them, once and for all.
May 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Superman co-creator's estate files a second lawsuit to block international release of James Gunn's big-screen reboot of the DC hero
The estate of Joe Shuster has now asked the New York State Court to block release of DC Studios' Superman on international copyright grounds
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Squid Game season 3 will "bring out the bottom parts of human nature," promises the Netflix hit's creator
Despite new games that will play to the worst parts of the human condition, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk wants to focus on how to remain human in the face of capitalist horror
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Warner Bros. misses the days when we bought DVDs and Blu-Rays, and says streaming is just not the same
The slow extinction of DVDs has removed one of the financial safety nets that studios use to rely on
May 22, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Every Mission: Impossible movie has been its own Mission: Impossible to make, says series star Simon Pegg
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning may have been the most freeing movie to make to date for Simon Pegg, but each one has come with seemingly impossible challenges, he revealed during a recent interview
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Penguin Random House pulls distribution access to key publishers from Diamond (including Marvel, Boom! Studios, and Dark Horse Comics)
If your comic store has been relying on Diamond Comic Distributors to get your Marvel comics every week, there's a new wrinkle they'll have to deal with starting at the end of June
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Attack on Titan is the winner of Crunchyroll's first Global Impact Award, celebrating anime's impact on pop culture
After Attack on Titan receives the premiere award, Crunchyroll will continue giving it out "yearly to honor works and visionary creatives who have produced the anime series changing popular culture."
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Severance star Tramell Tillman on the Apple TV+ show's number one fan: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie
Tillman, who plays Mr. Milchick in Severance and Commanding Officer Bledsoe in the latest Mission: Impossible, was surprised when he got offered a role from McQuarrie, who he thought just wanted to talk about the show
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow star Louis McCartney tells us the biggest audience reactions from every Broadway performance (Heads up, it's a pretty huge spoiler)
The live theater chapter of Stranger Things (currently on Broadway) features a young Jim Hopper and Joyce Maldonado on stage, but it's neither of them that get the crowd riled up
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel's latest Fantastic Four comic drops an unexpected reference to much-shared online speculation about The Fantastic Four: First Steps: coincidence, or a glimpse of things to come?
Whether it's by accident or something else, Marvel is tweaking a popular online theory surrounding The Fantastic Four: First Steps with this week's issue of its Fantastic Four comic.
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The secret to his James Gunn's success, from Guardians of the Galaxy to DC Studios' co-head and the Superman movie, according to his brother Sean Gunn
Sean Gunn describes what it was like watching his brother James Gunn direct Superman
May 21, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Critical Role series Candela Obscura and Daggerheart share a "scarring" mechanic, say the developers
Fans of the horror game/miniseries Candela Obscura know that you don't always walk away from terrors unscathed. According to Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall, that's a truth that newcomers to Daggerheart will also learn
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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NYCC 2025 is growing to 5 days - with a special Wednesday just for professionals again
A full day of pro-only panels, signings, giveaways, and more at New York Comic Con 2025.
May 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Transformers and Armageddon director Michael Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie, with the help of the VFX supervisor from Avatar, and I promise this is real
No, this isn't a very delayed April Fool's joke: Michael 'Bad Boys' Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie, and he's got the man behind the Avatar special effects involved as well
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Is Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning the final M:I movie? Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie have their say
"I’m pretty confident that people are going to feel that the title was appropriate," teases director McQuarrie about the next Mission: Impossible's new name
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Do animated TV shows record characters’ lines or animate first? Kari Wahlgren gives us the answer
Which comes first: the audio or the visual of animation? According to voice actor Kari Wahlgren, it depends on the project -- and where the show is coming from.
May 21, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Monopoly is making a kid-friendly version (with no cash, no counting, and based on an app, because why not?)
By removing all the math and counting aspects of the game, we're left with the true heart of any Monopoly game - mindless spending.
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Exorcisms, half-demons and queer Victorian romance collide in Oni Press's 2026 graphic novel The Demon of Beausoleil
The fan-favorite webcomic from Brazilian cartoonist Mariana Costa will come to print in January 2026 from Oni Press
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Minecraft's Jason Momoa and WWE champion Roman Reigns might be Legendary and Capcom's new Street Fighter stars
Jason Momoa and Roman Reigns are amongst the actors reportedly close to signing on for the upcoming cinematic reboot of fan-favorite fighting game Street Fighter
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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After 35 years, Spike Lee says that his fifth movie with Denzel Washington could be the pair's final collaboration
The pair have worked on five movies together, with Malcolm X being our personal favorite, but that time may have passed due to the passage of time
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Fortnite is back on the US Apple App Store after nearly 5 years, following a court ruling in favor of publisher Epic Games
Apple and Epic Games have been locked in an antitrust battle stemming from Apple's high fees for in-app purchases and restrictions on third-party apps in Fortnite.
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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DC Studios boss James Gunn told Jai Courtney not to rule out a return as Captain Boomerang after his death in The Suicide Squad: "You know these rules don’t really apply"
Death in comics doesn't mean much, so we could see Courtney back in the DCU eventually - provided James Gunn hasn't changed his mind.
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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"A Kevin Feige type": What David Zaslav was looking for to be DC Studios' boss, and the advice Warner Bros. Pictures gave him that led to James Gunn & Peter Safran
Warner Bros. co-chairs Michael De Luca and Pam Adby believe that James Gunn “really understood the assignment” when it came to DC Studios
May 21, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Severance's Ms. Casey is signing in to work on Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender remake, and she's not alone
Dichen Lachman, Dolly de Leon, and Terry Chen are just some of the actors newly revealed to be joining the Netflix remake of the animated classic, as it moves into production on its third and final season
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Netflix learns about cooperation via a new Sesame Street sharing deal with PBS
Netflix saves Sesame Street, opens the door to Black Mirror, Squid Game crossovers while surprisingly sharing the iconic children's show with PBS. (One of these things is not like the other, because it's a joke.)
May 20, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Fear Street and Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine wanted to write comedy for the rest of his life, then one conversation with a Scholastic editor changed everything
Like so many beginnings, you can chalk Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine's horror career to a "Blind Date"
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Onetime comic distribution monopoly Diamond is hit by layoffs, department closures within hours of being sold
Ad Populum, which bought Diamond Comic Distributors and Diamond Book Distributors at auction, started layoffs within "minutes" of the sale being announced as final
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Critical Role's Daggerheart "never could have" been made without the game's subreddit community, say developers
To the many members of the r/Daggerheart subreddit, developers Rowan Hall and Spenser Stark would like to say "thank you"
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sarah Michelle Gellar reveals that the Hulu Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival might be a generational story as children of the original cast auditioned for new parts
OG Willow Alyson Hannigan hoped it wasn't one of her kids that auditioned for the Buffy reboot, but no more casting announcements have been made.
May 20, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Godzilla writer/artist James Stokoe takes on kung-fu revenge stories with Dark Horse's Orphan and the Five Beasts: Bath of Blood this fall
The second series of Alien and Godzilla cartoonist James Stokoe's kung-fu craziness hits the stands (literally) this September
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC plays Willy Wonka with 'Krypto's Golden Biscuit' sweepstakes for Superman movie premiere tickets
Want to get the Golden Ticket (I mean, biscuit)? Head to your comic store on June 18 for the chance to fly to LA and see Superman at the world premiere
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Conan O'Brien joins the Toy Story 5 cast, and now we get to be disappointed by two old favorites at once
Conan O'Brien is playing Smarty Pants in Toy Story 5, in a bit of casting news that feels almost too on the nose
May 20, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu
The Sun-Times has just offered the best argument against using generative AI in journalism, publishing a recommended summer reading list filled with books that aren't actually real
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Thrills, chills, and a 50th anniversary shoutout to Steven Spielberg's Jaws - the new Jurassic World: Rebirth trailer has it all
It's time to go back to an island filled with dinosaurs, wonder, and the sense of joy you had when you saw Jurassic Park as a kid
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The HBO It: Welcome to Derry trailer is either teasing a huge piece of the Stephen King universe... or just reminding us of the 1950s
It's turtles all the way down in Stephen Kings's books, but is that the case in HBO's It prequel series?
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt