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James Cameron is hoping for Avengers fatigue

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With Avengers: Infinity War just a few days out from release, filmmaker James Cameron has taken a moment out of production on his four Avatar sequels to share a few words on superhero movies and their dominance of the multiplexes. “I’m hoping we’ll start getting Avenger fatigue here pretty soon,” said Cameron in an interview with […]

Marvel celebrates 10 years of the MCU with retrospective video

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In celebration of the first ten years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios has released a new retrospective video which looks at the legacy of the MCU as we head into this month’s hugely anticipated superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War. Check it out here… SEE ALSO: Avengers: Infinity War directors considered not having any post […]

Black Panther overtakes The Avengers to become highest-grossing superhero movie of all time in the U.S.

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It may lose top spot at the North American box office this weekend to Pacific Rim Uprising, but it’s celebration time for Disney and Marvel Studios as Black Panther has officially overtaken 2012’s The Avengers to become the highest-grossing superhero movie of all time in the United States. By close of play on Saturday, the […]

Avengers: Infinity War and the Marvel Marketing Machine

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Pim Razenberg on Marvel’s well-oiled marketing machine, which hooked us all to the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Black Panther passed the $1 billion mark at the box office, Avengers: Infinity War is expected to have a $215 million opening debut in North America and Kevin Feige is starting to tease audiences around the world with what […]

Marvel launches comiXology Original series Avengers: Back to Basics

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Marvel Entertainment and comiXology have announced that the comiXology Original digital series Avengers: Back to Basics has launched today, with the first issue of the six-issue miniseries available today. Avengers: Back to Basics features a terrifying tale of Ragnarok as told by legendary writer Peter David. A solar eclipse is about to hit North America – […]

Shane Black is working on The Avengers TV reboot

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He’s currently deep in the jungle on post-production with The Predator, so Shane Black has left his long-time collaborator, Fred Dekker, to do the talking about their plans for a reboot of British 1960’s spy series, The Avengers. Dekker, who directed 1987’s The Monster Squad (co-written by Black), was giving a career retrospective to The Dark […]

‘No Surrender’ begins in preview of Avengers #675

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The ‘No Surrender’ event gets underway this coming Wednesday in Avengers #675, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… AVENGERS goes WEEKLY for the stunning sixteen-part saga that will write the end of an era! The Earth has been STOLEN! The sky burns while mysterious cosmic objects crash down […]

Ranking The Marvel Cinematic Universe (2017 Edition)

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The Flickering Myth writing staff rank the Marvel Cinematic Universe for 2017… 2017 saw three new releases in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok – as well as our first looks at next year’s Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War. As is tradition, we here […]

Clark Gregg can’t see Agent Coulson reuniting with The Avengers any time soon

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While there was a lot of speculation that Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War would see the big screen cast of the MCU joined by their television counterparts, we now know that the small screen stars will be absent when Earth’s Mightiest Heroes do battle with Thanos next year. One actor who has traversed both sides is […]