The 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse shouldn’t exist. It goes against everything we expect from superhero movies and the big studio system behind them. It’s animated when the rest are live-action. It’s about Miles Morales, instead of Peter Parker. It also has not one Spider-Man, but seven of them …
Read More »Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Is Most-Watched Film Premiere On Disney+
Black Panther quickly became one of Marvel Studios’ crown jewels when it hit theaters in 2018, becoming one of the most profitable movies for the studio. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continues the trend, with the movie’s Disney+ premiere becoming the streaming service’s most-watched Marvel movie yet, according to Disney. Black …
Read More »The Last Of Us Episode 4 Was The Series' Most Watched Yet
Despite some hefty Sunday-night competition, The Last of Us continues to climb to new heights in viewership with each passing week. 7.5 million viewers tuned in to the series this weekend across HBO and HBO Max, HBO announced in a press release. The Last of Us Episode 4 has Joel …
Read More »Marvel Movies Are Geared Toward Kids, Seth Rogen Says
While Seth Rogen is primarily known for being a stoner with a memorable laugh in Judd Apatow movies, these days he’s doing at least as much producing as he is acting, with five of his current and upcoming production projects being rooted in comic book origins. And so Rogen has …
Read More »Harrison Ford Proves That He's The Ideal Marvel Actor In New Interview
Marvel Studios, like SHIELD in Marvel fiction, is a secretive organization that oversees an initiative to introduce the Avengers and other heroes to the world. They don’t like spoilers slipping out ahead of time–a stray spoiler could have a domino effect of revealing information about one movie, which implies information …
Read More »Dungeons & Dragons Backtracks On OGL Deauthorization, Adds Creative Commons License
For a while there, it looked like Hasbro and its Wizards of the Coast label were about to destroy more than two decades of goodwill from fans, but the company is making some significant moves to reverse course, it announced today (via Gizmodo). Dungeons & Dragons executive producer announced that …
Read More »Cowboy Bebop Anime Director Stopped Watching Netflix Adaptation After One Scene
Adapting any story from one medium to another is always going to be fraught–there will always be changes to make the story work in another medium. But while some adaptations work, others don’t, and Cowboy Bebop director Shinichioro Watanabe said that Netflix’s adaptation of his legendary anime just doesn’t work …
Read More »Adult Swim Revives Aqua Teen Hunger Force For Season 12
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, also known as Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 and Aqua Something You Know Whatever, aired on Adult Swim from the very beginning of the TV block’s inception in 2001, and dropped the last of its 138 episodes in 2015. Now, 8 years later, the anthropomorphic food …
Read More »Disney+ Series Ms. Marvel Gets VFX Tweak To Reflect Spider-Man: No Way Home
When we imagine what Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige’s workday is like, we picture dozens of spinning plates about to crash to the ground yet somehow keep spinning into infinity. Occasionally, though, one of those needs some help to keep going–such is the case with a recently-fixed continuity error found …
Read More »Adult Swim Cuts Ties With Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty Will Continue
The Adult Swim television network has announced that it has cut ties with Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland. Allegations of domestic violence against Roiland surfaced earlier this month. Despite Roiland’s departure, Rick and Morty will continue, Adult Swim says. “Adult Swim has ended its association with Justin Roiland,” the …
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