Marvel’s newest superteam is getting a new script. Variety exclusively reports that Lee Sung Jin has been brought in to rewrite the Thunderbolts screenplay. As with pretty much everyone Marvel hires for creative work, you’ve probably never heard of Lee Sung Jin; he’s written episodes of various TV shows, including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, …
The Flash better have something epic – or at least mildly entertaining – in store for its last few episodes because much of this final season has been a boring waste of time. Aside from money, I don’t understand why they came back for one more season. Nobody’s heart seems to be in it anymore, …
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The heads continue to roll at Disney, with the most recent being one nobody expected, but everybody probably should have. Ike Perlmutter, the chairman of Marvel Entertainment, has been laid off by Disney. Marvel Entertainment is a separate division from Marvel Studios and is in charge of merchandising, comics, and things like that. Perlmutter was …
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You’d think invoking a classic book and movie would motivate you to put out a special episode, but “In Cold Blood” is just kind of… fine. It isn’t exactly filler, as it ties into the main storylines, but it’s one of those puzzle pieces that only connects to one other piece and then just sort …
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The truth is still out there, and it’s going to take a modern Hollywood diversity and inclusion squad to find it. In a recent appearance on the Canadian radio program On the Coast, Chris Carter, the creator of the landmark sci-fi TV series The X-Files, said that Black Panther and Creed director Ryan Coogler is …
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Disney’s Red Wedding has officially begun. This week, the Mouse House is initiating the first of three rounds of layoffs, this one aiming to eliminate 7000 workers from the corporation. We knew this was coming, and while, on the one hand, it’s nice to see Disney reeling, it sucks that a lot of employees who …
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Marvel is pulling out all the stops to get people to start seeing its movies again. One of those stops is bringing back The Hulk’s ex-girlfriend. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Liv Tyler will return as Betty Ross in Captain America: New World Order. Betty, the love interest of Bruce Banner and daughter of …
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The Kingpin is putting fear in the hearts of Daredevil fans, but not in a good way this time. Speaking exclusively to Newsweek, Vincent D’Onofrio, who plays the Marvel villain, talked about Daredevil: Born Again, the upcoming revival/sequel/update of the Netflix series Daredevil. Most media outlets are focusing on his confirmation that there will be …
Harley Quinn is headed to court. A series of photographs making the rounds today depict Lady Gaga as the Joker’s moll in the upcoming film Joker: Folie à Deux, a sequel to Joker, the surprise smash hit from 2019. This isn’t the first image of Gaga in character – that came courtesy of director Todd …
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Jonathan Majors, the up-and-coming actor who plays Kang the Conqueror in the MCU and recently starred in Creed III, has been arrested in New York City. The charges are “strangulation, assault and harassment.” The police responded to a 911 call from an apartment in Chelsea, a neighborhood in Manhattan. The NYPD issued a statement on …