Diamond Comic Distributors has releasing their annual end-of-year sales rankings for the comic book industry, which continued its upward trend in 2014 as sales increased 4.39% over the previous twelve months. The year was dominated by Marvel, who led the charts in terms of both dollar and unit market share (34.38% and 36.78% respectively), as […]
Marvel announces the Death of Deadpool
It looks like Deadpool is going to be following in the footsteps of Wolverine and meeting his maker, with Marvel announcing that it’s killing off the Merc with the Mouth in the upcoming Deadpool #45, which marks the 250th issue of Deadpool across all his volumes, and also the last of the current series. “This […]
New rumoured shortlist for Cyclops, Jean and Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse
Back in November a list of potential candidates for the roles of the younger Cyclops and Jean Grey in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse arrived online, which included the likes of Ben Hardy (EastEnders), Charlie Rowe (Neverland), Timothee Chalamet (Interstellar), Chloe Moretz (The Equalizer), Elle Fanning (Maleficent) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit). Since then, we haven’t heard […]
Kevin Feige comments on Ant-Man “disagreements” with Edgar Wright
With the accompanying press release for the first Ant-Man trailer came the news that original director Edgar Wright and his writing partner Joe Cornish will not receive a screenwriting credit on the twelfth instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite spending the best part of a decade working on the script. Instead, the duo will […]
Why the Ant-Man trailer is so serious
Anthony Stokes on why the Ant-Man trailer is so serious… The Ant-Man teaser has dropped and the reactions are quite predictable. Generally most people are pretty happy with it. There was some mention of Marvel basically doing the same thing over again, which has seemed to work pretty well for the studio so far, and […]
Edward James Olmos joins Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Blade Runner and Battlestar Galactica star Edward James Olmos has signed on for a recurring guest role in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with the official Marvel site revealing that he’s set to play Robert Gonzales, a character who “will have massive repercussions for Director Coulson and his team.” “Edward James Olmos brings an amazing gravitas to […]
Hulkbuster dominates the Avengers: Age of Ultron size comparison chart
Back in October a size comparison chart for Avengers: Age of Ultron arrived online, although it blanked out the characters of Vision and Ultron, as well as Iron Man’s Hulkbuster armor. Well, the full, uncensored image has now surfaced online, and you can check it out here… Marvel Studios presents “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the […]
Black Bolt to lead new Uncanny Inhumans series from Death of Wolverine creative team
Marvel Comics has announced that the Death of Wolverine creative team Charles Soule and Steve McNiven are to launch a new ongoing series this April in Uncanny Inhumans, which is described as “a great starting point to the Inhumans” ahead of their introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2018… “[Uncanny Inhumans] starts in one […]
Thoughts on the Ant-Man Trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction
The Flickering Myth team react… As with every new trailer for a superhero movie, there are those who like it, and those who don’t. In the case of Ant-Man, the feeling across the Internet has been more or less the same: it’s okay. SEE ALSO – Watch the first trailer for Marvel’s Ant-Man But what […]
Composers revealed for Ant-Man and The Fantastic Four
Film Music Reporter has dropped some news concerning two of this year’s Marvel releases, revealing which composers will provide the score for Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man 20th Century Fox’s The Fantastic Four, and both have extensive comic book movie experience. The site reports that Christophe Beck (Elektra, RED, R.I.P.D.) will be composing the music for Ant-Man, […]
