Marvel Studios has won their first Oscars for Black Panther’s costume and production design. The studio’s first movie to be led by a person of color has truly been a game changer. The film received rave critical reviews and propelled it to become a billion dollar earner at the box office. While the success is unquestioned, Black Panther remained in the conversation thanks to being positioned as an awards contender....
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has introduced fans to the grand scale of Marvel’s multiverse and, in doing so, has introduced many powerful characters, such as America Chavez and Black Bolt, to the MCU. Along with the many other movies and shows in Phase 4, such as Eternals or What If…?, this phase has also shown to have some of the strongest characters seen in the MCU too....
Martin Scorsese has suggested that Joker should be considered cinema after all. The Oscar-winning director has almost been in the spotlight as much as Todd Phillips’ wildly successful Joker has been of late, but for entirely different reasons. For those who missed out on everything that’s been going on with Scorsese over the past month, a lot has happened. Things really kicked off when the acclaimed Taxi Driver and Goodfellas director stated that he didn’t believe that MCU movies and comic book movies in general qualified as cinema....
A storyline from Netflix’s Jessica Jones means that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s U.S. Agent - one of Marvel’s new characters for the MCU’s Phase 4 - might need a slightly different origin story. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier airs in late 2020 and it’ll feature John Walker aka U.S. Agent, who will be played by Wyatt Russell. The Marvel hero was a temporary replacement for Steve Rogers as Captain America, with whom he shares a rocky history....
This article contains spoilers for Excalibur #5. One of the most powerful mutants has just been killed… by a member of the X-Men. Tini Howard’s Excalibur is proving to be one of the most interesting X-Men comics in the current wave. Howard has transformed Apocalypse into the first priest of Krakoa, and the supposed “first mutant” has been working to fulfill a mysterious agenda all his own. This involved tricking Rogue into exposing herself to a mystical energy invading Krakoa, one that originated from the magical dimension called Otherworld....
The heroes of Avengers: Endgame may be getting all the headlines, but once fans get a look at the new team of superheroes united in the Marvel Comics universe, they’re going to realize that the most entertaining, fan-favorite squad is still to come. It’s time to meet… The War Avengers. The comics have proven that half the universe being snapped out of existence may be bad, but at least it’s clean–a whole lot cleaner than a full scale invasion of Earth like the one currently raging in Marvel’s War of The Realms....
Nothing builds suspense like a good murder mystery, and that is exactly what Marvel Comics is using to end their calendar year on a high note. According to the latest Incoming! teaser dropped by the comics publisher, an unidentified body covered by a white sheet will be hiding a major component of the universe’s next big events. Surrounded by distraught heroes–including every single member of the Fantastic Four–the caption inviting viewers to “solve the puzzle before the heroes of the Marvel Universe” seems to confirm this corpse is just another piece of a much larger, even more mysterious riddle…...
The Infinity Saga, the first installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, comprised of 23 movies across 11 years and three “Phases,” before it finally came to an end this summer. It was an ambitious crossover franchise, the likes of which had never been attempted in Hollywood before. The Infinity Saga began in 2008 with Iron Man, and culminated in Avengers: Endgame, with Spider-Man: Far From Home acting as a kind of epilogue to the Infinity Saga and teaser for Phase 4 onwards....
Marvel Studio’s Hawkeye Official Trailer The trailer features a whimsical look at the Christmastime adventures of Clint Barton played by Jeremy Renner. And he’s also getting a new sidekick Kate Bishop played by Hailee Steinfeld. The show takes place following the events of Avengers: Endgame which saw him turn into a chaotic vigilante named Ronin after his family was dusted out of existence due to Thanos’ snap. Clint is seemly just wanting to enjoy his family again during the Christmas season, but a vigilante looking a lot like Barton’s Ronin suit starts showing up in NYC....
2017 is not only set to be a big year at the box office for Marvel, but for their TV arm as well. Inhumans will be joining Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and ABC, and recently cast Game of Thrones alum Iwan Rheon as Maximus the Mad. Meanwhile, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher will all be joining the Netflix corner of the MCU, with the former debuting in under a month....
Nothing can stop Juggernaut, except maybe a Krakoa gate. The on-again, off-again X-Men frenemy isn’t welcome in the mutant paradise, even when plenty of the X-Men’s enemies, such as Pyro, Mystique and Magneto, now stand shoulder to shoulder with their former foes on the island paradise. Since Juggernaut isn’t technically a mutant, he’s not welcome on Krakoa. If that’s the case, just where does he belong in the world? Juggernaut first appeared in The X-Men #12 way back in 1965....
Mutants of the Marvel Universe now have their own paradise, thanks to establishing a home on Krakoa. Every mutant is welcome. There’s groundbreaking medicine, and some of the most addictive coffee on Earth. So, why would anyone ever leave? That question is going to be asked a lot more often, now that The New Mutants have learned that leaving comes with all new dangers. In New Mutants #3, a different group of Mutants is featured, thanks to the previous stars getting themselves incarcerated in a Shi’ar prison....
Ben Grimm, the ever-lovin’ blue-eyed Thing, investigates a baffling case of missing persons on New York City’s Yancy Street, while a specter from the nightmare realms beyond haunts his tormented dreams, in Fantastic Four: Grimm Noir. When a gifted singer disappears across the alley under mysterious circumstances, Ben Grimm dons a fedora and trenchcoat and scours the city streets, in a pulp-fiction one-shot from Marvel Comics and storytellers Ron Garney and Gerry Duggan....
Disney+’s Super Bowl ad gave viewers a first look at the platform’s upcoming Marvel TV shows, but it also revealed a new look for Marvel Studios’ logo. As it does every year, the Super Bowl was packed with commercials and trailers of some of the biggest brands, including (obviously) Disney and Marvel. And with Disney+ still growing strong, the Mouse House took this opportunity to reveal some footage from the platform’s highly anticipated Marvel shows coming in the near future: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, and Loki....
Chipmaker Marvell announced today that it has become “the industry’s first silicon vendor to develop a fully supported SDK” for Apple’s new HomeKit home automation platform, supplying a full hardware and software platform to accessory manufacturers. As part of the support, Marvell has an SDK for HomeKit that includes a “88MC200 microcontroller, advanced Avastar 88W8801 Wi-Fi SoC and EZ-Connect software.” We previously reported that chipmakers had started providing small quantities of wireless chips to some companies for HomeKit products, but this is the first time a silicon vendor has announced a complete HomeKit software and hardware solution for developers:...
Subverse, a porn game being developed by FOW Interactive, managed to make gaming history by becoming one of the most successful video game Kickstarters ever. The game, which is a heavily Mass Effect-inspired porn title that will combine light tactical RPG/SHMUP gameplay with a way bigger focus on engaging in various sexual escapades with the game’s wide array of characters. The developer has made it very clear in the Kickstarter campaign that Subverse will be about hardcore sex scenes first, with the various other sci-fi trappings like character dialogue and tactical decision-making serving mostly to set up those scenes and create investment in what’s occurring in them....
The post-credits scene has become a staple of the industry, even showing up in IP like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. And although it isn’t a novel concept, post-credits entertainment was certainly popularized by the MCU’s enormous, continued success since 2008. It invites the audience to actually appreciate the many people who contributed to the film while awarding their diligent patience. That this surplus alternates between great humor and crucial plotting is devious, yet fun nonetheless....
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is easily the most popular movie franchise at the multiplex right now, with all of its 23 movies making a huge splash at the box office, but the Avengers movies are the glue holding it all together. There are a number of factors that have contributed to these movies clicking with such a wide audience – they’re escapist cinema, they’re pure spectacle, they’re full of payoffs – but arguably the biggest reason for their success is the complex relationships developed between the characters over time....
There is no doubt that pop culture loves cute infantile things on-screen. You know what makes it better? If that cute thing had a parental figure, essentially making them a fantasy parent-baby power couple. That works every time. That right there is the winning formula and surprisingly, not many movies and TV shows have utilized that; we’re currently stuck with whatever Disney gave us: Rocket and Baby Groot or the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda....
It’s high time Marvel’s Hercules joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and though he’s a fan-favorite choice for Thor: Love and Thunder, an even better option is the upcoming TV series, Loki. Hercules is a characters that fans have wanted to see in the MCU for years, and as Marvel adapts hero after hero to the big and small screen, the expectation is that Hercules’ time will come sooner or later. Phase 4 may be when it finally happens....
