Flickering Myth

Geek Culture | Movies, TV, Comic Books & Video Games

Avengers: Endgame’s climactic battle gets a VFX breakdown from Weta Digital

by

Weta Digital has released a VFX breakdown video for the Marvel blockbuster sequel Avengers: Endgame which showcases the effects studio’s work on the epic third-act battle between Earths Mightiest Heroes and Thanos and his forces; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Avengers: Endgame co-director thinks Robert Downey Jr. deserves the Best Actor Oscar Avengers: Endgame stars Robert […]

Hailee Steinfeld offered Kate Bishop role in Marvel’s Hawkeye

by

Having secured a showrunner last week in Mad Men writer and story editor Jonathan Igla, it seems that Marvel Studios may now have identified its Kate Bishop for the Disney+ series Hawkeye. According to Variety, The Edge of Seventeen and Bumblebee star Hailee Steinfeld has been offered the role of Clint Barton’s (Jeremy Renner) protege, […]

Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen say WandaVision starts as a sitcom and “snowballs into an Epic Marvel movie”

by

Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen have further teased what to expect from the upcoming Marvel TV show, WandaVision, and offers some clarity on the sitcom/marvel epic approach. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bettany and Olsen discussed the transition between the sitcom and regular MCU epic movie we have come to expect from Marvel […]

Marvel’s Phase Four announcement title videos leak online

by

Back in July during the San Diego Comic-Con International, Marvel Studios announced its Phase Four plans, featuring a combination of movies –  Black Widow, Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder – and Marvel Studios-produced Disney+ shows in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, Loki, What If…? and Hawkeye. While video […]

Avengers: Endgame co-director thinks Robert Downey Jr. deserves the Best Actor Oscar

by

Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a handful of superhero movies getting some recognition from Oscar voters outside of the usual technical categories (see the likes of Logan and Black Panther), and given its success at Venice, it seems that DC Films’ Joker could find itself right in the mix come awards season. Marvel’s […]

Marvel’s Hawkeye enlists Mad Men writer as showrunner

by

Having officially announced the series at the San Diego Comic-Con back in July, Marvel Studios has enlisted Jonathan Igla to write and executive produce the Jeremy Renner-healdined Hawkeye series for Disney+. Igla was a writer and executive story editor on AMC’s Mad Men, while his other credits include Masters of Sex, Pitch, Shut Eye and […]

Hasbro releases Avengers: Endgame Power Gauntlet and new Marvel Legends figures

by

Coinciding with the film’s arrival on home entertainment platforms, Hasbro has released a rather splendid Legends Series Power Gauntlet from the hugely successful superhero blockbuster Avengers: Endgame, allowing fans to wield the power of the six Infinity Stones! check out the promotional images here… In addition to the Power Gauntlet, a new wave of Marvel Legends […]

Hot Toys’ Spider-Man: Far From Home Mysterio collectible figure revealed

by

Hot Toys has unveiled its 1:6 scale Mysterio collectible figure which is based on the appearance of Jake Gyllenhaal’s villain in the superhero sequel Spider-Man: Far From Home; check out the promotional images here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Sideshow Collectibles Hot Toys is pleased to officially introduce the highly-anticipated 1/6th scale Mysterio collectible figure from […]

Scarlett Johansson says Black Widow deserves to be Marvel’s big Summer 2020 movie

by

Scarlett Johansson, the star of Black Widow, says the movie deserves to be Marvel’s big summer 2020 movie. While there won’t be an Avengers movie coming our way for a while – which feels odd after Infinity War and Endgame hit us in back to back years – the Marvel train keeps on rolling nonetheless. […]

UPDATE: Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier promo artwork revealed

by

Now updated with a higher quality image of the poster… The first poster for the Disney+ Marvel team-up series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was on display at the D23 Expo this past weekend and sees Anthony Mackie sporting a new costume which appears to take some inspiration from the Captain America: Sam Wilson […]