Ernie Estrella

Contributing writer

Ernie Estrella: Ernie devours media at an alarming rate and has been covering comics, film, television and fantasy sports for over 20 years. His work has appeared on SYFY Wire, USA Today, Monsters and Critics, and many other sites. He also gives expert fantasy football advice at Bruno Boys and will gladly help you win your league. When he's not chopping up a keyboard for an article, he can be found hanging out at his local comic shop, listening to a score on vinyl, or at his kids' sporting events in sunny San Diego.

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Everything we learned about Starfleet Academy at Comic-Con
At the Star Trek Panel at San Diego Comic Con, fans were shown their first look at Starfleet Academy, and met the cadet cast including Holly Hunter.
July 27, 2025
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There will be love, suffering, and love: How Starz' Outlander franchise is creating younger versions of your favorite characters with the Blood of My Blood prequel
Outlander executive producer and showrunner Matthew B. Roberts shared his approach in writing young versions of Dougal and Murtag.
July 27, 2025
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How the Aztec Batman movie founds its villain in turning the real-life villain, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, into Two-Face
Aztec Batman producer Aaron Berger and José Carlos Garcia de Letona, Head of Ánima Studios explain how they came to Two-Face and Joker to be the villains.
July 26, 2025
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How DC is reimagining Batman as an Aztec warrior for Clash of the Empires animated movie
In the latest Batman animated film, Aztec Batman: Clash of the Empires, it might be difficult to imagine the translation but it works really well.
July 25, 2025
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Twilight origin movies are something Jackson Rathbone & Ashley Greene want to do - but they need you to "blow up" Lionsgate's social media feeds
With franchises being revisited all the time to develop side and background characters and give them newfound agency, is it time to revisit the Olympic Coven of the Twilight Saga?
July 15, 2025
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How Marvel Studios' Agatha Along was "my drama school" for Joe Locke after Heartstopper - thanks alot to Kathryn Hahn
How Agatha All Along was like drama school for young actor Joe Locke, who speaks with Daredevil's Charlie Cox about being an actor.
July 11, 2025
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The "uncouth grotesqueness" that DC's Penguin actors Colin Farrell & Danny Devito found when talking to each other about the role
Danny Devito and Colin Farrell reunited on Variety's Actors on Actors, after being co-stars on Tim Burton's Big Fish and compared notes on playing different versions of The Penguin.
July 11, 2025
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"There was a lot of purring": Inside the cat classes the Twilight cast did to prepare for the first movie
The cast of Twilight reunited at GalaxyCon 2025 in Oklahoma City to answer fan Q&A and explained how director Catherine Hardwicke liked to keep it weird.
July 11, 2025
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Charlie Cox and Joe Locke on mourning not playing a character anymore
In their episode of Actors on Actors, Charlie Cox and Joe Locke think deep on what it will be like not playing Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Charlie Spring respectively.
July 11, 2025
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Inside the specific cuts Marvel Studios did to revamp and save Daredevil: Born Again thanks to the writer's strike, according to Charlie Cox
On a recent episode of Variety's Actors and Actors, Charlie Cox and Joe Locke talk about how the Hollywood strikes were a blessing for Daredevil: Born Again
July 11, 2025
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The Little Mermaid voice actor Jodi Benson has just recorded a new Disney song for a secret project that got her heart racing
When asked a fan question at GalaxyCon 2025 in Oklahoma City, Benson let it slip that she just recorded a new song under some stressful conditions.
July 11, 2025
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There’s a Crisis coming to DC animated universe, and here's how it began
Crisis on Infinite Earths is coming to DC's animated movie universe, and its been coming for awhile now
July 24, 2023
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SDCC 2023: Indian star power, pomp, and performance on display in Hall H's Kalki 2898 - AD panel
Kalki 2898 - AD is the first India-produced film ever to be presented at Comic-Con International and be given the Hall H treatment, and boy did it deliver.
July 23, 2023
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The Walking Dead TV universe is jumping ahead 7 years in Fear: There’s a new set of heartless rules to follow” says cast
Kim Dickens, Jenna Elfman, and Christine Evangelista talk about AMC's Fear the Walking Dead season 7
March 30, 2023
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The Walking Dead: Dead City's bizarre team-up of Maggie & Negan: "An exercise in intimacy, with the worst possible partner" says Lauren Cohan
A first look at The Walking Dead: Dead City was given to those of us at WonderCon
March 27, 2023
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Thai ghost stories come to haunt Sandman mythos in Dead Boy Detectives
Pornsak Pichetshote on Dead Boy Detectives, Sandman, and Thai ghost stories
November 23, 2022
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Everything we learned about Starfleet Academy at Comic-Con

There will be love, suffering, and love: How Starz' Outlander franchise is creating younger versions of your favorite characters with the Blood of My Blood prequel

How the Aztec Batman movie founds its villain in turning the real-life villain, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, into Two-Face

How DC is reimagining Batman as an Aztec warrior for Clash of the Empires animated movie

Twilight origin movies are something Jackson Rathbone & Ashley Greene want to do - but they need you to "blow up" Lionsgate's social media feeds

How Marvel Studios' Agatha Along was "my drama school" for Joe Locke after Heartstopper - thanks alot to Kathryn Hahn

The "uncouth grotesqueness" that DC's Penguin actors Colin Farrell & Danny Devito found when talking to each other about the role

"There was a lot of purring": Inside the cat classes the Twilight cast did to prepare for the first movie

Charlie Cox and Joe Locke on mourning not playing a character anymore

Inside the specific cuts Marvel Studios did to revamp and save Daredevil: Born Again thanks to the writer's strike, according to Charlie Cox

The Little Mermaid voice actor Jodi Benson has just recorded a new Disney song for a secret project that got her heart racing

There’s a Crisis coming to DC animated universe, and here's how it began

SDCC 2023: Indian star power, pomp, and performance on display in Hall H's Kalki 2898 - AD panel

The Walking Dead TV universe is jumping ahead 7 years in Fear: There’s a new set of heartless rules to follow” says cast

The Walking Dead: Dead City's bizarre team-up of Maggie & Negan: "An exercise in intimacy, with the worst possible partner" says Lauren Cohan

Thai ghost stories come to haunt Sandman mythos in Dead Boy Detectives