Production on the first-ever live-action Star Wars is now underway. In a late evening post, Lucasfilm announced the start of production on Star Wars: The Mandalorian, the live-action series that hails from Iron Man director Jon Favreau. As Favreau previously revealed, the series takes place after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence
Batman actor Ben Affleck announced on his Instagram page Thursday that he has completed treatment for alcohol addiction. “This week I completed a forty day stay at a treatment center for alcohol addiction and remain in outpatient care,” reads Affleck’s statement. “The support I have received from my family, colleagues and fans means more to
DC Comics has revealed the line-up of upcoming titles and creative teams for the first wave of Wonder Comics, the new teen-focused, in-continuity imprint curated by Action Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis. According to the official press release from DC, Bendis revealed the information at New York Comic Con as a tease for his spotlight panel on Saturday night.
It seems like it wasn’t too long ago that Marvel officially announced that Chris Evans would be playing the movie studio’s star-spangled superhero, Captain America. Throughout the years, fans grew to love the character as he took on more a leadership role through The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Age of Ultron and Civil War.
Mondo officially announced the release of their brand-new line of figures based on Masters of the Universe. And the first of the detailed ⅙-in-scale collectibles is, of course, He-Man. He-Man features over 30 points of articulation, fabric costume elements, and a whole host of accessories. Soon to follow are new figures for of Skeletor, Beast
Weekly Shounen Jump has revealed its latest 50th anniversary celebratory project: a special edition magazine dedicated to Yu Yu Hakusho! A supernatural comedy series written by Togashi Yoshihiro, Yu Yu Hakusho was serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump from Dec. 1990, and completed its run in Jul. 1994. Popular around the globe even today, the series
The final trailer for the upcoming Robin Hood reboot starring Taron Egerton as the titular archer has arrived showing the outlaw as an inspirational figure. Suffering under the tyrannical rule of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Ben Mendelsohn), Robin teams up with Jamie Foxx’s Little John to target the Sheriff’s treasury and inspire the people to
UPDATE 10/03/18: Additional quotes from Titans Executive Producer Geoff Johns added. Despite its first season not having aired on the DC Universe streaming service just yet, a second season of the live-action superhero ensemble drama Titans was confirmed today at New York Comic Con. RELATED: New Titans Trailer Teases Robin’s History with Some ‘Old Friends’
The upcoming live-action Star Wars series is confirmed to involve the Mandalorians. Jon Favreau, the series’ executive producer, posted an Instagram photo revealing the title of the show, The Mandalorian, along with plot details. The social media post confirms the series will be set in between Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, focusing on a
The upcoming Birds of Prey movie has found its Renee Montoya. Academy Award-winning actor Rosie Perez of Do the Right Thing is playing the detective in Cathy Yan’s women-centered DC movie. Montoya is a detective working in the Gotham City Police Department who later takes on the superhero moniker The Question. Perez’s casting follows last week’s announcement that
Through such titles as Afterlife with Archie, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Jughead: The Hunger and Vampironica, Archie Comics’ horror series have received a good amount of attention over the last few years. The trend will continue in 2019 with the release of two more horror-based titles: Blossoms: 666 and Jughead: The Hunger Vs. Vampironica. Blossoms:
While the film doesn’t begin its rollout in theaters until Thursday night, most reviews from advance screenings haven’t been too kind to Sony’s Venom. Those negative sentiments have added up, resulting in director Ruben Fleischer’s film arriving with a “Rotten” rating. Based on a number of 49 reviews, only 16 of which are “Fresh,” Venom
Though DC’s new Freedom Fighters comic will take place in the current day rather than the past, its central villain is someone ripped straight out of the history book: Adolf Hitler. Or, rather, Hitler’s son and grandson. Robert Venditti and Eddy Barrows’ new 12-issue series takes place in a dimension where World War II went
Following Tuesday’s teaser, Netflix has released a new full-length trailer for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Starring Kiernan Shipka, the upcoming drama puts a horror twist on the beloved Archie Comics character. This trailer doubles down on the dark themes and imagery seen in previous promos, and elaborates on the central premise, with Sabrina Spellman forced
Additional cast members have been revealed for upcoming fantasy anime A Certain Magical Index III! Nine new cast members have been confirmed for Season 3: Matsukazu Masaya as Kakine Teitoku, Hino Mari as Riméa, Shindou Kei as Carissa, Harada Sayaka as Villian, Koyasu Takehito as Knight Leader, Morikawa Toshiyuki as Fiamma of the Right, Soumi
The upcoming live-action Star Wars series from Iron Man director Jon Favreau may have a man from Westeros in its cast. According to MakingStarWars, Game of Thrones star Pedro Pascal is being eyed for the central lead in the upcoming sci-fi series, which is expected to take place between the events of The Force Awakens and 1983’s Return of the Jedi.
In the past, Mission: Impossible – Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie hinted that he wouldn’t turn down directing a DC movie such as Man of Steel 2 or Green Lantern Corps. Both of those opportunities seemed to have passed, though, as McQuarrie recently broke down why he turned down the latter. “I had a conversation with the previous regime
Chuck Palahniuk, author of the 1996 novel Fight Club and its 2015 comic book meta-sequel Fight Club 2: The Tranquility Gambit, is teaming up with Dark Horse Comics once again to continue Tyler Durden’s story with Fight Club 3. Joining Palahniuk in this new installment will be Eisner Award-winning artist Cameron Stewart (Fight Club 2,
Picking up from the cliffhanger ending of last year’s John Wick: Chapter 2, next May’s John Wick: Parabellum will see the titular hitman use whatever means necessary to escape from New York City in one piece. Director Chad Stahelski has released an official photo from the upcoming sequel showing Keanu Reeves’ character riding on horseback
A new teaser for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina dropped on the Netflix series’ official Twitter page. In addition to doubling down on the imagery and themes present in previous promotional material, this new teaser also promises that the trailer will be released tomorrow. More than likely, this will be the series’ very first full-length
Former Avengers artist David Finch returns to Marvel Comics, providing a variant cover for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’ 700th issue. In 2003, Finch began his Marvel career, illustrating Ultimate X-Men, written by Brian Michale Bendis. He and Bendis re-rteamed in 2004 on The Avengers, followed by a run on New Avengers in 2005. In 2010, Finch
A mere day after the long-awaited debut of the first trailer for Dark Phoenix, Fox delayed the release of the X-Men sequel, again, this time from Feb. 14, 2019, to June 7, 2019. That, of course, triggered another round of hand-wringing, but director Simon Kinberg assures there’s a perfectly good reason behind the decision. RELATED:
Marvel continues to roll out variant covers by the industries biggest artists for its imminent Uncanny X-Men relaunch. Now, Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada, aided by colorist Richard Isanove, adds his name to the ever-growing roster of A-listers celebrating the return of Marvel Comics’ flagship mutant tile. The cover was originally released as a
Amazon Studios has ordered The Wheel of Time, a live-action series based on Robert Jordan’s bestselling fantasy novels. Partnering with Sony Pictures Television, Amazon will produce The Wheel of Time, with Rafe Judkins serving as showrunner. Debuting in 1990, The Wheel of Time consists of 14 novels, the final three of which were co-written by
Few films in recent memory have aroused the same kind of curiosity as Ruben Fleischer’s Venom. The very premise of the film is audacious — a Spider-Man villain acting as lethal protector, all while his signature nemesis is nowhere to be found. The supervillain-led film is the first of its kind in the modern age
Hibike! Euphonium is officially heading back to the big screen on Apr. 19, 2019! A teaser video has been released for the new movie, Hibike! Euphonium: Chikai no Finale. It will follow Omae Kumiko as a second year student when she and Kabe Tomoe find themselves looking after the band’s new members: Hisaishi Kanade, who
When Star Wars: The Last Jedi was first released this past December, audience reaction over Episode VIII was divided, especially with online criticism running rampant and driving several cast members off of various social media accounts in the face of constant harassment. A new academic study this may have been part of a coordinated effort
Folks who enjoyed Ant-Man and the Wasp’s Quantum Realm may have found shots of the place flying by way too fast, but ahead of the movie’s home release, one eagle-eyed fan spotted what seems to be a city in the microverse. Uploaded to Reddit, the screenshot, at around 1 hr 38 mins, shows what seems to
Before Jason Momoa’s King of Atlantis surfs into theaters this December, he’ll be making a splash on Aquaman–themed variant covers to the upcoming Justice League/Aquaman crossover “Drowned Earth.” RELATED: New Aquaman Scene Descriptions and Plot Details Emerge Artist Francis Manapul will provide the Aquaman movie variant for Justice League/Aquaman: Drowned Earth #1, which features Momoa’s Aquaman
Critically acclaimed Image Comics’ horror series Ice Cream Man by writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist Martin Morazzo has been optioned for television by Universal Cable Productions. Fresh off the success of adapting Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s Happy! for Syfy, the television studio is developing an adaptation of the anthology horror comic book. Max