Grant DeArmitt

Grant DeArmitt
Staff Writer
Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. As Popverse's Staff Writer, he criss-crosses the pop culture landscape bringing you the news and opinions about the big things (and the next big things). In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.
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The Chosen season 5 release date: Prime Video welcomes The Last Supper
The tale of Jesus of Nazareth continues with The Chosen, now on a new streaming platform
June 13, 2025
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Multiple M3GANs are at Universal Orlando to promote M3GAN 2.0, but don't you dare try to join them
Roving bands of M3GANs are out at Universal Orlando, recreating her famous dance to promote the upcoming sequel film. Also in attendance? Park security.
June 13, 2025
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'Superstitious' Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen carries a good luck acorn, because "it makes me feel calm"
Look, when you've seen how handy an Ent can be in battle, who can blame you for carrying a baby tree around in your pocket?
June 13, 2025
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Robert Eggers is doing A Christmas Carol and David Harbour is back for Violent Night 2 - Christmas 2026 is gonna be WILD
A Christmas Carol from the Nosferatu guy, plus Harbour returning as a different kind of Red Guardian? Ain't nobody gonna be sleeping in heavenly peace, is all we're saying
June 13, 2025
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The Coldest Open: Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th is un-campy camp horror with a killer score
In the first edition of The Coldest Open, where we judge the most infamous opening scenes of horror history, we're tackling the movie that introduces us to the Voorhees family
June 13, 2025
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Viggo Mortensen had only read The Hobbit before being cast in The Lord of the Rings, wasn't sure about playing "guy who lived in the woods"
Thank goodness that Mortensen, who we all now know as Aragorn, son of Arathorn, had a Tolkien fan in his life to sway him toward taking the part
June 13, 2025
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Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends season 4 release date: Disney Jr's preschool-targeted Spider-Man adventures are swinging back
Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends season 4 will see Peter, Miles, and Gwen take to the high seas in the Water Webs adventure
June 12, 2025
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Why does Viggo Mortensen work with David Cronenberg so often? For one thing, he reminds him of his mom
It may be the first time body horror maven Cronenberg has been compared to anyone's mother, but hey - whatever works to get Viggo Mortensen into your movies
June 12, 2025
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Right before he filmed Helm's Deep, The Lord of the Rings production team swapped out the horse Viggo Mortensen had been training with
Even the Free Peoples of Middle-Earth have to deal with production changes. And in Viggo Mortensen's case, that meant starting from square one with a new horse, Uraeus, who would go on to play Aragorn's horse Brego
June 12, 2025
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Lore Corner: How to Train Your Dragon character guide - The dragons (and riders) you need to know ahead of Universal's live action reboot
Sure you've heard *How* to Train Your Dragon, but do you know *Who* to Train Your Dragon? We'll let you know ahead of the DreamWorks live-action remake
June 12, 2025
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Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says COVID "saved" the critically acclaimed Star Wars series
Gilroy recently recounted how, because of the challenges brought on by COVID-19, Andor's pre-2020 plans changed dramatically, and for the better
June 11, 2025
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Stoker Face? With a new Buffy on the way, it's worth remembering that Poker Face star Natasha Lyonne once turned down the titular vampire slayer role
Poker Face and Russian Doll's Lyonne almost had 'Slayer' to add to her resume, but at the time THe WB offered her the role, she only wanted to do comedy
June 11, 2025
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Does Stranger Things' David Harbour feel "relief" now that season 5 is ending? The answer is complicated
Speaking to fellow Marvel-ite Scarlett Johansson, Thunderbolts* and Stranger Things star Harbour says that he both adores his castmates and is very excited to control his own facial hair
June 11, 2025
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Is 20th Century Studios building a new cinematic universe with Alien, Predator, and... more? Here's what the bones say
Heads up, there are some minor spoilers ahead for 20th Century Studios' Predator: Killer of Killers
June 10, 2025
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Now we know what James Cameron will do after Avatar: A fantasy Suicide Squad
Once he's done with Avatar: Fire and Ash, Cameron plans on adapting The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
June 10, 2025
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Could Zack Cregger's upcoming horror movie Weapons share a universe with his 2022 hit Barbarian?
Viral marketing for upcoming horror movie Weapons seems to hint at a shared universe with the same director's 2022 hit Barbarian
June 10, 2025
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Mike Flanagan on the DCU's Clayface: "It's not my movie"
The Life of Chuck and Haunting of Hill House director recently touched on the upcoming DCU monster movie, which reports say no longer follows the script he wrote
June 07, 2025
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How Batman: Year One artist David Mazzucchelli helped inspire Nicolas Cage's acclaimed drama Pig
Pig director Michael Sarnoski explains that a lesser-known work by legendary Batman/Daredevil artist and Frank Miller collaborator Mazzucchelli inspired the 2021 gastrodrama
June 06, 2025
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How did Andor avoid the pitfalls of Star Wars prequels? "We all know we're going to die," deadpanned showrunner Tony Gilroy
Yes, we all know that Cassian Andor is gonna kick the bucket. But as showrunner Gilroy points out, so are all of you (Spoilers, I guess?)
June 06, 2025
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More people tuned into the Stranger Things season 5 release date announcement than the Stranger Things season 4 debut on Netflix
If a quarter of a billion people tuned in for Netflix's Stranger Things release date reveal, just imagine what's going to happen when season 5 actually drops this Thanksgiving
June 06, 2025
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I have a hunch why Mike Flanagan worked so much Back to the Future into The Life of Chuck
With the caveat that I do not fully comprehend the brilliance of The Life of Chuck's director Flanagan, or its author, Stephen King, I at least have a theory as to why one scene felt straight out of Hill Valley High
June 06, 2025
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Andor's Adria Arjona doesn't agree with fans that Bix Caleen is a victim in the acclaimed Star Wars series
Speaking at The Paley Center for Media in LA, Arjona got into her character's arc in Andor season 2, and why she'd like to change some perceptions regarding it
June 06, 2025
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Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy wants Disney to release the Star Wars Mon Mothma music just as badly as you do
Gilroy, the showrunner of Andor and co-writer of Rogue One, thinks that the world deserves the "rave-like" song Niamos on their Spotify
June 05, 2025
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Kurt Fuller was shocked to learn he was playing one of Supernatural's villains, after having already started filming thinking he was a good guy
If you won't let Supernatural and Evil star Kurt Fuller be at good guy, then he'll at least be funny, dammit
June 03, 2025
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Supernatural star Kurt Fuller on his own experience with the unexplainable
Speaking with Popverse, the actor that played Supernatural's villainous angel Zachariah desecribed his encounter with a possible out-of-body experience
June 03, 2025
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Netflix is doing its own 'Ghosts' with animated comedy Haunted Hotel, courtesy of Rick and Morty writer
The Matt Roller-created show Haunted Hotel was just announced by Netflix, with an impressive cast featuring Will Forte, Skyler Gisondo, and Jimmi Simpson
June 03, 2025
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You were right: Minecraft the Game changed because of the reaction to Minecraft the Movie
Word is still out on if Jack Black's song for Steve's Lava Chicken will ever be part of a future update to Minecraft, but it wouldn't surprise us
June 03, 2025
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Expect more 'Chicken Jockey' moments in movies. At least, if traditional brands start taking advice from Minecraft
Did you come out of A Minecraft Movie feeling a little unprepared for the references? Better get used to that feeling, oh casual gamer
June 03, 2025
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The Walking Dead reunion of Carol & Daryl was even more emotional for Norman Reedus & Melissa McBride than you think
We're fine that there's so much blood flowing in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. But tears too? That's just a step too far. Looking at you, Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride
June 03, 2025
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The Daryl & Carol reunion was a long time coming, according to The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon creators
"Is it a little manipulative of us?" asks The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon executive producer Greg Nicotero of the choice to keep the best pals apart for so long, "Yeah"
June 03, 2025
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Inside the epic The Walking Dead prank war between Norman Reedus and Andrew Lincoln
Reedus once tried to have a fake Walking Dead script in which Rick Grimes dies sent to Andrew Lincoln. Would you believe me that that was one of the tamer pranks?
June 03, 2025
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Queen's Gambit creator mixes Scandi Noir with UK crime shows like Prime Suspect for Netflix's Dept. Q (with a side of Matthew Goode)
Logan writer and Godless creator Scott Frank is teaming up with Netflix again for an adaptation of a popular Danish crime series, and we recently learned why
June 03, 2025
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There's a secret 25-page guide to the Upside Down that the Stranger Things creators wrote for Netflix in 2015 - and I want to read it
What's going on in the Upside Down? Netflix top brass has known since before season 1 even aired, thanks to a top secret document, MKUltra-style, that the Duffer Brothers wrote a decade ago
June 03, 2025
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Horror movies are a way to "smuggle subversive stories into the mainstream," according to Blumhouse founder Jason Blum
They're also a great place to smuggle your own candy into movie theaters, but we'll take Blumhouse founder Jason Blum's more meditative opinion on the subject as well
June 03, 2025
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Play a game that's about selling people games with Knight Fever Games' Tabletop Game Shop Sim
Yes, you can manage your own wargaming minis store with the Tabletop Game Shop Sim, which even allows you to host a game night within your virtual store
June 03, 2025
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Kaulitz & Kaulitz season 2 release date: Netflix's offbeat reality series returns
German pop sensations (and twins) Bill & Tom Kaulitz are back on Netflix for "season 1 on ecstasy." We kinda think that's literal
June 03, 2025
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South Park season 27 release date: Comedy Central's titan of raunch animation returns to take on Diddy, airline safety, and more
Remember when "Blame Canada" used to just be a fun movie reference, and not the everyday rambles of a n all-powerful madman? IF not, South Park season 27 is here to remind you
June 03, 2025
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The Bear season 4 release date: FX & Hulu's most stressed-out restaurant team deals with negative reviews
Carmy, Sydney, Richie, and the rest of the gang take us back to the best restaurant in Chicago... if they can keep it open
June 03, 2025
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Resident Alien season 4 release date: Alan Tudyk must escape the Moon in the latest chapter of SyFy's invasion comedy
A jailbreak, an alien offspring, and some anti shapeshifting technology are all on the list of Harry's problems as Resident Alien returns to SyFy for season 4
June 03, 2025
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BMF season 4 release date: Return to the 80s with Starz's historical crime drama this summer
The blood-and-bullets saga of brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory is headed back to TV, and we'll tell you when to expect BMF season 4 right here
June 03, 2025
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Want to know why the Five Nights at Freddy's movie worked so well? The "fanatically passionate" Scott Cawthorn, according to Blumhouse
Jason Blum knows that a successful horror movie is all about collaboration, and that without the collaboration of Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon, the Blumhouse adaptation wouldn't have been the same
June 03, 2025
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Interview with the Vampire icon Lestat isn't getting his own TV spinoff anytime soon, but expect more shows from Anne Rice's Immortal Universe
Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches EP Mark Johnson tells fans what they should (and shouldn't!) expect from the future of the Anne Rice Immortal Universe on AMC
June 02, 2025
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The next Dimension 20 season could look a lot like Twilight (with a side of Paul Bunyan) as Dropout's Brennan Lee Mulligan explains his adventure wishlist
Ahead of the debut of Dimension 20 season 26, Cloudward, Ho, Brennan casts his DM eye to the future of where the Dropout actual play series could go next
June 02, 2025
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Grand Theft del Toro: In order to complete Cronos, Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro once had to escape the cops
During the making of his 1992 vampire film Cronos, del Toro had a run in with a different kind of terror - the possibility of legal repercussions for a traffic incident
May 30, 2025
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Guillermo del Toro's first movies were "bloody," "sadistic" reels of Planet of the Apes action figures
"At the age of eight," says Pan's Labyrinth and Crimson Peak director del Toro, "I was already twisted beyond salvation."
May 30, 2025
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Guillermo del Toro said yes to directing Blade 2 because the Marvel vampire hero played by Wesley Snipes was "a freak"
You'll never catch Shape of Water-maker del Toro on a Superman movie, is what he's saying
May 30, 2025
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Fox asked Guillermo del Toro to make The Exorcist 4 - but without any exorcisms
Too bad Oscar-winner del Toro had no idea there would eventually be a blockbuster Spider-Man franchise without Spider-Man
May 30, 2025
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A Fantasy High lead will die in Dimension 20's Hollywood Bowl show, says DM Brennan Lee Mulligan
It's the Battle at the Bowl, the Rumble in the Chungle, and by the end of the live show, one of the Fantasy High characters that Dimension 20 fans have fallen in love with will no longer be with us
May 30, 2025
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Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon knew that fans needed to hear the right music in the movie to know they were being heard - and the Living Tombstone are grateful he did
The Living Tombstone's Sam Haft and Yoav Landau say their music made it into the Five Nights at Freddy's film due to Cawthon's loyalty, even when the film adaptation was switching studios
May 29, 2025
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Sliding into your DMs: Dimension 20 creator Brennan Lee Mulligan gets chatty ahead of Fantasy High and its Hollywood Bowl debut
Ahead of D20's Battle at the Bowl and Cloudward, Ho premiere, Dropout star and Worlds Beyond Number host Brennan Lee Mulligan sat down with us to discuss, among other things, a chicken fillet with googly eyes
May 29, 2025
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The Penguin showrunner says "we’re in early stages" of another The Batman spinoff, and still "exploring" a Penguin season 2 as HBO seems to be expanding its DC footprint
According to Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin season 2 depends on "whether there’s a story that we can make richer than what we’ve already done"
May 29, 2025
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Want to have Stranger Things season 5's ending explained to you? Ask Louis McCartney, star of Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway
No, the star of Broadway's Stranger Things chapter didn't tell anybody what he knows. More like Henry CRUEL, amiright??
May 29, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Watch the Dan Fogler Live Q&A from London's MCM 2025!
Known for his roles in The Walking Dead and the Fantastic Beasts films, Dan Fogler took the MCM Main Stage to chat about his roles in some of the biggest fanbases on the planet
May 28, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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SpoilersThe Last of Us season 2 ending explained, what will happen in season 3, and why we think there's a season 4 ahead [Lore Corner]
What happened to Ellie, Dina, Abby & the rest in The Last of Us season 2 finale? We're going to tell you everything, so don't proceed unless you're ok with spoilers
May 26, 2025
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Watch In Conversation with David Tennant from London's MCM 2025!
The Doctor (or Demon, your call) was in as David Tennant takes the Main Stage for London's MCM Comic Con 2025
May 24, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Critical Role star Matt Mercer'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
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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
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Tom Cruise's personal reckoning isn't final - the Mission: Impossible star still has more Top Gun and Days of Thunder in him
Audiences are just as eager to see Cruise stunt his way back into Top Gun 3 and Days of Thunder 2 as the soon-to-be-ex-Ethan Hunt is to create them
May 19, 2025
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Lore Corner: HBO's The Last of Us season 2 rewrites Pearl Jam history, but it works
The Last of Us Part II players know that Pearl Jam's Future Days plays an important role in the game, but there's something you should know about how it was worked into the show
May 19, 2025
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Hear your favorite video game music as you never have before with the Level Up! Vocal Ensemble from ECCC '25
Level Up! Vocal Ensemble: A Video Game Music Concert was filmed live at Emerald City Comic Con's Pine Stage. Put some headphones in and have a listen now
May 19, 2025
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Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later movie sequel will be teased in upcoming 28 Days Later re-release
Relive the horror of Danny Boyle's first foray into the zombie genre, 28 Days Later, as its upcoming sequel lurches toward theaters
May 16, 2025
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Wicked star Cynthia Erivo has found her next villain role: Dracula
Wicked's lead Erivo will perform Dracula as a one-woman show, meaning she'll have to rely on some tricks she pulled off in Peacock's Poker Face
May 16, 2025
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New mask, same slash: Horror icon Jason Voorhees has been revamped (by Walking Dead legend Greg Nicotero) ahead of his own cinematic universe
Sorry Met Gala, the new Jason Voorhees redesign is what the cool kids are looking at now
May 16, 2025
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Lore Corner: Who are the Seraphites? The Last of Us season 2 sets up a major big bad for season 3
Who are those cultists from The Last of Us season 2, episode 5, and what do those scars mean? Let's talk about the Seraphites
May 16, 2025
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The Simpsons have found their next Milhouse voice actor - and she debuts this Sunday, as a grown-up Milhouse Van Houten
Blue smoke rises from the 20th Animation Studios HQ - The Simpsons has chosen a new Milhouse
May 16, 2025
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Marvel Studios' gender-swap of MCU star Taskmaster almost didn't happen; here's what changed
One of the male finalists for the MCU Taskmaster role ended up getting another role as a consolation prize.
May 16, 2025
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Bungie gets caught stealing artwork for the fourth time, this time in the upcoming game Marathon
Halo developer Bungie says it "immediately investigated a concern regarding unauthorized use of artist decals in Marathon."
May 16, 2025
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Watch NowWatch the Cosplay Central Costume Showcase from Chicago's C2E2 2025
See your favorite anime, video game, TTRPG, and even mascot characters come to life at the Cosplay Central Costume Showcase, filmed at C2E2 2025
May 16, 2025
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Watch NowNo city 'Yes, And's like Chicago, as the Second City improv troupe proved at C2E2 '25
Couldn't make the hysterical performance of Chicago's legendary improv program as they performed at McCormick Place? Don't worry, Popverse was there to catch the laughs
May 16, 2025
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Watch NowWatch as Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 stars Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan) & Rob Weithoff (John Marston) saddle up one more time for a reunion from Chicago's C2E2 2025
It was high noon in Chicago as Roger Clark and Rob Weithoff came to C2E2 for the Outlaws for Life panel. But if you weren't fast enough on the draw, you can still see the whole thing here
May 16, 2025
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Watch NowWatch Patton Oswalt's new Effervescent comedy special from this year's C2E2
To be fair, we couldn't catch the smell, but we did record all of Patton Oswalt's Effervescent stand-up show at Chicago's premiere pop culture event
May 16, 2025
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Watch NowRelive the C2E2 Talent Show, 2025 edition, right here!
Popverse was there for all the singers, stand-ups, and spectacles... and we're bringing the event directly to you
May 16, 2025
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Can David Leitch finally start up the Gears of War? After 18 years of development hell, the secret co-director of John Wick has been tapped to helm Netflix's big budget adaptation
Surviving Sera is nothing to getting the Gears of War movie made, but it looks like the film has finally found its Hammer of Dawn in John Wick's co-director, David Leitch
May 16, 2025
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HBO delays Game of Thrones' Dunk & Egg prequel to 2026 release date window
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg and serving as another prequel to Game of Thrones, wrapped production in September of 2024
May 16, 2025
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Die Hard with Orcas: John Travolta trades summer lovin' for summer chompin' in Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin's 3rd killer sea creatures movie
Black Tides is the title of the Travolta-starring orca thriller, presumably because someone already has the rights to 'Pulp Fishin'
May 16, 2025
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Why movie adaptations of video games work now (and why they didn't before) according to Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise's producers
Story Kitchen's Dmitri M Johnson & Mike Goldberg point to a classic example of a video game movie gone wrong to illustrate the disparity between gaming adaptations now and then
May 16, 2025
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The Sydney Sweeney Split Fiction movie is just one of several Hazelight games being developed into film & TV
According to Split Fiction producers Story Kitchen, the team behind Sonic the Hedgehog, development has already begun on an It Takes Two movie, and the door is open for more adaptations
May 16, 2025
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How Dead by Daylights can create their own version of the game with Choose Your Own Chapter
Announced at PAX East 2025, Dead by Daylight's Choose Your Own Chapter takes community feedback in gaming to a new level entirely
May 14, 2025
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What makes Mafia: The Old Country the "best looking Mafia" game yet? The seamless transitions between cutscene and gameplay, say the devs
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The first Stranger Things game has been stripped from Steam, and now users are saying its basically unplayable
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