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The Most Evil Classic Cartoon Villains Of All Time!

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Marvelous Videos on the most dastardly classic cartoon villains… Protagonists live and breathe by the obstacles they face – if you don’t have a tough antagonist, your hero’s adventure is boring, plain and simple. And considering how expensive animation can get, you can bet a lot of storytellers have worked to ensure their villains were […]

How Superman IV: The Quest For Peace Killed the Superman Franchise and Helped Close a Studio

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Back in 1983, the Superman franchise was in full swing, despite the tense and fractured on-set fights and fallouts which saw original director Richard Donner leave after Superman: The Movie before he was able to finish Superman II, released almost three years later under the new direction of Richard Lester. Both films were huge financial successes […]

She-Ra villain Hordak joins Tweeterhead’s Masters of the Universe collection

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Tweeterhead has revealed the newest addition to its Masters of the Universe collection, featuring the tyrannical Hordak from She-Ra: Princess of Power. The maquette is available to pre-order now, priced at $475; take a look at the official promotional images here… SEE ALSO: Sideshow’s Asajj Ventress Star Wars Mythos Statue available for pre-order now Sideshow and Tweeterhead […]

Kevin Smith gives update on Masters of the Universe and Twilight of the Mallrats

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With the world currently locked down due to the global health crisis, filmmaker Kevin Smith has taken the opportunity to update fans on the status of two of his upcoming projects in the Netflix animated series Masters of the Universe: Revelation and his View Askniverse sequel Twilight of the Mallrats. “I have been working on […]

Masters of the Universe with critic Scott J. Davis | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #74

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On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic and interviewer Scott J. Davis discusses the high camp and nostalgia of the 1980s cult fantasy Masters of the Universe… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, […]

Masters of the Universe reboot will apparently shoot this summer

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Given that it’s been in development for more than a decade now under a host of different writers and directors, it came as little surprise last month when it was announced that Sony had pulled Masters of the Universe from release schedule once again – the latest delay in a seemingly never-ending list of delays […]

Comic Book Preview – He-Man & the Masters of the Multiverse #4

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DC Comics releases He-Man & the Masters of the Multiverse #4 this Wednesday; check out a preview of the issue here… Keldor travels to the Eternia of the 1980s Filmation cartoon series! Still reeling from a tragic loss last issue, Keldor and He-Man must find the legendary Star Seed-the last power in the universe able […]

Kevin Smith’s Masters of the Universe series casts Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Sarah Michelle Gellar and more

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Back in August, Kevin Smith announced that he’s teaming with Netflix to produce Masters of the Universe: Revelation, an anime series serving as a sequel to the original Masters of the Universe Saturday morning cartoon from the 1980s, and now we’ve got word of the star-studded voice cast for the new show. The Vampire Diaries […]

The Moments Which Made You Love Cinema

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Tom Jolliffe on those moments which made you love cinema… It’s different for everyone and maybe for some it never happens. Not everyone (shock horror!) is into film. For those film buffs, nerds, geeks, or even merely casual enjoyers of cinematic delights, there are always defining moments. Maybe it’s a moment within a film. Maybe […]

Sony pulls Masters of the Universe from release schedule, delays Uncharted again

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Sony Pictures has just announced a shake-up to its upcoming release schedule, which includes changes to two projects that have spent much of the past decade in development hell. Firstly, the long-gestating Masters of the Universe reboot has been pulled from Sony’s release schedule completely, while its March 5th 2021 date will now be filled […]