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Joss Whedon on the scope of Avengers: Age of Ultron and its “unhinged” climax

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As Marvel steps up the publicity for Avengers: Age of Ultron with a series of character posters [check them out here], Yahoo! Movies caught up with Joss Whedon, during which the director discussed the scope of the hotly-anticipated sequel and its “unhinged” final act as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes take on the villainous AI and his […]

Captain America screenwriters on a second season for Agent Carter and whether it could explore the Winter Soldier program

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Marvel’s eight-part series Agent Carter drew to a close on Tuesday evening with the season finale ‘Valediction’ [read our review here], and now writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (whose credits also include Captain America: The First Avenger and its sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier) have been speaking to EW about a potential second […]

New details about Daredevil’s timeline, Easter eggs and second season possibility

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We’re now only about a month and a half away from the premiere of Marvel’s Daredevil Netflix series, and still know very little about the show itself and how it ties into the rest of Marvel’s ever-expanding cinematic universe. Thanks to new interviews conducted by Empire Magazine, however, we do have some new details regarding the show’s timeline and […]

Rumour: Spider-Man could feature in Avengers: Age of Ultron

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Well, that didn’t take long. As soon as it was announced that Spider-Man had joined the ranks of the Marvel Cinematic Universe due to a cross-pollination deal between Sony and Marvel, speculation was abound that there would be rumours of an appearance of the wall crawler in Avengers: Age of Ultron. As we said, it […]

How much control do Marvel have over Spider-Man?

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When the deal was announced that Marvel and Sony had come to a terms for Spider-Man to appear in their movies and kick off another reboot to the series in 2017, it was thought that Sony would have full creative control over the character and his direction. With Amy Pascal stepping down from her seat of control, comic […]

Will Doctor Strange be American or British?

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With Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War hitting cinemas before it (not to mention X-Men: Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Gambit and Deadpool), we’re still a way off from seeing what Marvel have up their sleeves with Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange. At the Oscars over the weekend, Best Actor in a Leading Role […]

James Gunn speaks out against “anti-comic book movie” comments at Oscars and Independent Spirit Awards

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During the Oscars on Sunday night, actor and singer Jack Black made some disparaging remarks against comic book movies singing, “opening with lots of zeroes, all we get are superheroes: Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, Jedi Man, Sequel Man, Prequel Man, formulaic scripts!” The night previous, Nightcrawler writer and director Dan Gilroy also spoke out against a […]

Marvel’s new Spider-Man likely to be non-white?

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Since the announcement of Marvel and Sony coming to a deal over the rights to Spider-Man which will see the wall crawler interact within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has been discussion of whether or not we’ll see the first big screen version of Spider-Man that isn’t Peter Parker. Several casting articles (including our own) […]

Avengers: Infinity War – An accumulation, or continuation?

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Pim Razenberg on whether Avengers: Infinity War will be an accumulation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or a continuation… We’re well into 2015 and Avengers: Age of Ultron is firmly knocking on our doors. The superhero ensemble movie will pick up the threads from Marvel Studios’ previous Phase Two instalments, and, looking at the studio’s […]