Superhero team-ups don’t get any bigger than this. Well, unless you have whisky dick of the claws, which is quite common in Wolverines over 40, according to Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds). That’s right, Marvel has released the newest trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine, and judging by the look of it, the highly anticipated sequel will make us all smile.
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Cinemacon has been going full steam ahead this week! And Marvel Studios’ presentation today touched on several projects. One of which was the first look at Captain America: Brave New World. And while the footage shown was exclusive to the presentation, Entertainment Weekly and Marvel Studios have officially dropped the first few images from the highly anticipated release.
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We are over a year away from the release of Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four. But in spite of that, the marketing campaign is just starting to… heat up!
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Breaking news, everyone! The MCU’s first Silver Surfer has been found for July 2025’s The Fantastic Four!
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There’s not much more I can say about how incredible the first three episodes of X-Men ’97 are that hasn’t already been said about the series from its current 100% Rotten Tomatoes score — my interview with Jake Castorena, as well as Twitter reviews from Laura and me.
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On a new episode of Hard NOC Life, Keith has to process his feelings about Justin Fields being traded to Pittsburgh before he and Dominic discuss the re-release of each Spider-Man film and what’s next for DC Studios. Then, Keith explains how Atarashii Gakko got him excited for a new Ghostbusters movie, and Dom gives a 12 Valentines update on a Suicide Squad song.
October 31, 1992. It’s not a hyperbole to say that was the day my life changed. X-Men: The Animated Series debuted on Fox Kids, and the minute I tuned in, it began a lifetime of obsession and passion with the Marvel Universe and comic book superheroes that has persisted into my adult years.
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Keith and Dominic are back and so are some of your favorite childhood Marvel Memories! For the Boomers, Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four announcement was dripping with ’60s sentimentality. Meanwhile, Millennials were mesmerized by the X-Men ’97 teaser. Naturally, it’ll require a couple of Gen X-ers to break down what it all means!
First off, let me say I don’t know if this leaked news about Silk is true. It seems true-ish but also is perhaps tailored to cause a certain kind of uproar, at the expense of Asian Americans, particularly Asian American women. Supposedly, the Amazon series focused on Silk (the Asian American Spider-Man-Type-Person-Hero), led by showrunner Angela Kang, is being retooled, as per an article from The Ankler which reports that a “source close to the series claims that Silk was being refocused with a more male-skewing audience in mind.”
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Hey bub — it’s been a long time coming! It’s been 27 years since Marvel’s merry mutants said goodbye to Professor X. And in that instance we said goodbye to them as X-Men: The Animated Series concluded its incredible five-season run. Now, in 2024, the story continues in X-Men ‘97!
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Madame Web serves as Cassandra “Cassie” Webb’s origin story as well as her entry onto the big screen. In the comics, Madame Web is a blind elderly woman who possesses the power of telepathy and clairvoyance – but, in the SJ Clarkson-directed film, Cassie (Dakota Johnson) is a young paramedic working the tough streets of New York in 2003.
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We got to sit down with the cast of Sony’s latest Spider-Verse adjacent film, Madame Web to talk about how they found common ground and confidence on set and avoiding superhero tropes in an all-women led superhero film.
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Happy Valentines Day folks! After so many years of promising, Marvel Studios is ready to commit! And as a special surprise, the cast for The Fantastic Four has been officially announced!
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Keith helps Dominic process his feelings about the 49ers losing Super Bowl LVIII to the Kansas City Chiefs. Then they process their feelings about the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer, as well as some other ads from the big game, before Dom debuts a snippet from his next musical project.
Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) has never played by the rules. He constantly subverts the superhero expectations with his self-depricating humor, bad attitude, and breaking the fourth wall. After two films and a studio acquisition, The Merc with the Mouth is finally ready to go to a place where no Marvel superhero owned by a rival studio has gone before while also making a long-dynamic happen. And the Deadpool and Wolverine trailer teases where everyone’s favorite hero is at in his life and how Marvel Studios finds a loophole to bring him into the MCU.
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Five-time Emmy-winning series Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is back and has a NEW challenger… and his name is Brian Glory!
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With the release date of Madame Web quickly approaching on February 14, now seems like the perfect time to share the latest character posters! Based on the Marvel comics, the new superhero film will star Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, and Adam Scott.
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Wrapping up our coverage of Marvel Studios’ newest series Echo, here’s three interviews I conducted with cast members Devery Jacobs (Bonnie) and Chaske Spencer (Henry), director Sydney Freeland, and executive producer Richie Palmer.
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Marvel Studios has heard the complaints from everyone post-Endgame, and has decided to create a dedicated banner specifically for one-off character stories: Marvel Spotlight. Like the comics that inspired the moniker, these shows will focus on telling stories about single characters that can be easily decoupled from the grander arcs of narrative building within the MCU. And the first series to be released under the Marvel Spotlight banner is Echo.
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The question looms over every Marvel Studios release these days: “Is it a game-changer?” Does this latest show/movie/sequel change the formula, or rekindle the magic or… accomplish anything? Marvel’s new series Echo certainly serves as a frame-changer, centering a Native American character who also happens to be deaf and an amputee.
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It was a pleasure to talk with Alaqua Cox about Marvel’s Echo, premiering January 9 on Disney+ and Hulu, with assistance by an ASL interpreter. We’ll be sharing more from the Echo press event over the coming week.
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New episodes of Marvel’s What If…? are just around the corner. Season 2 of the animated series premieres December 22 on Disney+, throwing viewers back into the multiverse at the hands of The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright). As part of Phase Five, the series “questions, revisits, and twists” classic Marvel Cinematic Universe moments.
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Crafting any studio blockbuster is a challenging endeavor. Worlds and galaxies begin with the ideas of a gifted writer or director (or both in the case of James Gunn), but have to become reality. And that’s really where so much time, energy, and effort from hard working individuals, such as the VFX team from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 come into the picture.
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