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Songbirds and Snakes takes box office top spot as The Marvels suffers huge drop

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It was a tale of tired IP at the box-office this weekend, with the odds favouring The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which opened at the lower end of expectations with $44 million, while the already catastrophic performance of The Marvels took another headline making hit with a huge second-weekend drop of […]

Comic Book Preview – Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #40

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Marvel Comics releases Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #40 on Wednesday, and we have the official preview of the issue for you below… THE SHOCKING BETRAYAL! – A DARK DROIDS TIE-IN! The Galaxy’s deadliest BOUNTY HUNTERS must stop a corrupted VALANCE! Even if it means his death!!! ENEMIES become desperate ALLIES! And who is the wolf […]

Dakota Johnson introduces her Marvel superhero in Madame Web featurette

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Following yesterday’s first trailer, Sony Pictures has released a featurette for its Marvel movie Madame Web, which sees stars Dakota Johnson and director S.J. Clarkson discussing Johnson’s character Cassandra Webb and what we can expect from the Spider-Man spinoff; watch it below… “Meanwhile, in another universe…” In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web […]

Comic Book Preview – Star Wars: Dark Droids – D-Squad #3

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Marvel Comics releases Star Wars: Dark Droids – D-Squad #3 next week, and you can check out the official preview below… TWO HEROES OF THE CLONE WARS REUNITE! – A DARK DROIDS TIE-IN! R2-D2 continues to assemble his new D-SQUAD to fight the deadly DROID SCOURGE! Now R2-D2 is looking for a way to help […]

Comic Book Preview – Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1

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Marvel marks the upcoming 40th anniversary of Secret Wars next week with the launch of a brand new miniseries set during the iconic 1984 event, and we have the official preview of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 for you below; check it out… AFTER NEARLY FORTY YEARS, THE MYSTERIES OF THE SECRET WARS […]

Free Comic Book Day 2024 Silver Sponsor line-up of 36 comics revealed

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After unveiling the twelve Gold Sponsor titles set to lead the 2024 FCBD offerings earlier this week, the the Free Comic Book Day Retailer Selection Committee has now revealed a further thirty-six Silver Sponsor titles which will be available completely free from participating comic book shops during next year’s event. This year’s Silver Sponsor titles […]

Deadpool’s Tim Miller teams with Warner Bros. for Alien Legion adaptation

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We’ve learned that Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Alien Legion. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that the studio has attached Deadpool director Tim Miller to the adaptation of the science-fiction comic series created for Marvel’s Epic Comics in 1983 by Carl Potts, Alan Zelentz, and Frank Cirocco. Don Murphy, Susan Montford, […]

Director Destin Daniel Cretton exits Avengers: The Kang Dynasty

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Marvel has a Kang problem, but not how you think, as Deadline is reporting Avengers: The Kang Dynasty has lost its director, with Destin Daniel Cretton exiting the project. It seems like Marvel will keep the filmmaker on board with future MCU projects. Cretton is busy on Wonder Man, the Marvel Studios/Disney+ series, which is […]

Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney star in Sony and Marvel’s Madame Web trailer

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Sony Pictures and Marvel have released the trailer for their latest comic-book collaboration in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, the Dakota Johnson-headlined adaptation of Madame Web, which stars the Fifty Shades actor as Cassandra Webb, a clairvoyant mutant connected to the multiverse.  Directed by SJ Clarkson, Madame Web also stars Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar […]