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25 May

The Missing Thanos Connection in Marvel’s Eternals

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The first trailer for Marvel’s Eternals is here, and it’s full of quick looks at all of our…favorite characters is probably a stretch, but there sure are a bunch of Eternals in there. Ajak narrates, Ikaris and Sersi get stuff to do, we even get Kit Harrington’s Dane Whitman/Black Knight looking at the sky and knowing nothing. But there’s one thing missing that one might expect from the first introduction to an otherwise obscure set of characters. The most famous Eternal is missing.  Where’s Thanos? Yes, the very same Thanos who snapped half the universe into oblivion in Infinity Gauntlet…
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24 May

Marvel’s Eternals Trailer Breakdown: Who Are The New Characters of the MCU?

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Marvel’s Eternals trailer is here, and with an all-star cast and an Oscar-winning director (in the form of Chloe Zhao) it looks like an ambitious, surprisingly cerebral new addition to Marvel Cinematic Universe lore. It doesn’t reveal much, but what it does is more than enough to make us hopeful for all the cosmic surprises that MCU Phase 4 has in store for us. Watch the Eternals trailer here if you haven’t already…then we’ll get to talking about who all these cool new characters are! And here’s the official synopsis, courtesy of Marvel Studios: “Marvel Studios’ Eternals welcomes an exciting…
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24 May

Marvel’s Eternals Trailer Song Is Sadder Than You Think

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Marvel’s first full-length Eternals trailer doesn’t reveal much about the plot, but it sets a mood. The film is directed and co-written by Chloé Zhao, who won Best Picture and Best Director for Nomadland, a heart-wrenching journey through a desolate landscape. The song featured in the Eternals trailer has been evoking tragic isolation for years. It played on an endless loop in 1999’s Girl, Interrupted. It foretold the zombie apocalypse in the first teaser trailers for The Walking Dead. But the song has even sadder roots than that. “Throughout the years we have never interfered, until now,” we hear a…
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24 May

Marvel’s Eternals Trailer Has First Look at Kit Harington as Black Knight

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If you went into the teaser trailer for Marvel’s Eternals with relatively little foreknowledge, then you may have been surprised by the Jon Snow of it all—and, by that, I mean the fact that Kit Harington appears in this movie, alongside his Game of Thrones co-star Richard Madden (who plays Ikaris). Harrington will play the Black Knight, aka Dane Whitman. As we explained back in 2019, in the comics, Marvel’s Black Knight character is a wielder of the mystical Ebony Blade, a sword made from a meteor and blessed by Merlin that protects its user from harm (and can drive…
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21 May

Link Tank: The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Unique Problem

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Dave Bautista exiting the MCU reveals a unique flaw of the franchise: fans expecting it to be never ending. “Marvel is sending its most eccentric franchise back into intergalactic battle with the releases of next year’s Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special and 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The latter project could be the last time all the Guardians appear on-screen together, with some characters rumored not to make it out of the threequel alive. One of the film’s stars doesn’t think fans should be surprised by that.” Read more at Inverse. Batgirl now has two male directors…
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20 May

How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Chooses Its Heroes

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become one of the most valuable storytelling properties in the world and it’s done so not always by betting on the most popular characters. This was certainly the case with Iron Man, the MCU’s first proper installment, which centered what was widely considered to be second-tier Marvel character at the time. In his book The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies (via ScreenRant), film historian Ben Fritz explains that Marvel originally intended to open the MCU with Captain American, but that plans changed when focus groups of children chose Iron Man as…
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20 May

M.O.D.O.K. Might Feature The Most Marvel Easter Eggs Ever

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Jordan Blum, the creator and showrunner of Marvel’s animated series M.O.D.O.K. for Hulu, is one of the rare Marvel comic fans so dedicated that he was a little disappointed when the announced “Captain America: Serpent Society” film ended up being a joke-y cover-up title for Captain America: Civil War. “I was probably the one person who was let down,” Blum tells Den of Geek. “I love the Civil War story, but I was like ‘Yes, finally, the Serpent Society! Number one Serpent Society fan over here.’” Blum comes across his Marvel fandom honestly. The writer’s father learned English from reading…
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17 May

Link Tank: Looking Back at Marvel’s Howard the Duck Movie

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Almost 35 years on, Howard the Duck still holds the crown of Marvel’s weirdest movie to date. “Over 20 years before Iron Man kick-started what’s now the Marvel Cinematic Universe—the pop-culture juggernaut that devours so much of the box office—another Marvel hero got his chance to save the world. Big difference, though: the star of Howard the Duck didn’t exactly set the world on fire with his efforts.” Read more at Gizmodo. Few novels are as universally loved as Pride and Prejudice, but even Jane Austen’s most famous work had its contemporary critics. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that…
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17 May

Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. Review: A Classic Animated Workplace Family Supervillain Sitcom

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This Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. review contains no spoilers. Marvel has already had a big year on the small screen through their Disney+ offerings WandaVision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, but on the heels of the latter’s finale comes a strange, quirky show to Hulu. Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. takes the humor of Deadpool, the weirdness of WandaVision, and a small dash of the animation style from Wallace & Gromit to create something…even stranger than it sounds. This adult animated series comes in part from the brains behind Robot Chicken, which does a lot to explain how those three things can be…
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17 May

How Thor Changed the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Marvel’s Thor, the first theatrical live-action film to feature the comic book giant’s version of the Norse God of Thunder, opened in theaters a decade ago, on May 6, 2011. Directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring a then little-known Chris Hemsworth in the title role, Thor was the fourth film in the still-nascent Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was also — as we look back at it now — a pivotal one in the development of the MCU. “I’m very proud of my part of it,” Branagh told us a couple of years ago about his handling of Thor. “Which was…
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11 May

Venom 2 Trailer Breakdown – All the Marvel and Carnage References

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Folks, we live in interesting times. We just received a trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the sequel to the surprise 2018 hit Venom, starring Tom Hardy, Tom Hardy, and a whole lot of people who weren’t trying nearly as hard as Tom Hardy. This sequel brings in Woody Harrelson as Broadway star Carnage about 30 years after his comic book debut. Seriously, though. Carnage appeared in a Broadway musical ten years before he got to be in the movies. I’ll never get over that. If you haven’t watched the crazy trailer yet, press pause on your Green Jelly…
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04 May

Falcon and the Winter Soldier and How Marvel Keeps Its Secrets

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe and its fans may all be one big, happy, extended family — according to the exciting new sizzle reel that Marvel Studios released to the world on May 3 — but that doesn’t mean that, like every family, they don’t have their secrets as well. We’re not talking about the secrets that Marvel keeps from us, the public, and the press; we know that Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige is the master of the thrilling-yet-utterly-devoid-of-information non-answer, and holds weekly classes instructing his minions in that very same and very rare dark art (and we do truly…
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03 May

Marvel’s Eternals: Chloé Zhao’s Influence Already Evident in First Look

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Marvel Studios released a compelling hype video on Monday containing brief glimpses of their upcoming films to get consumers excited about going to the movies again. Tucked near the tail end of that clip, after Black Window and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, was the first bit of footage from one of Marvel’s biggest swings yet: Eternals. Over the span of a truly jam-packed eight seconds, the footage finally presents audiences’ first glimpses of Gemma Chan as Sersi, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Angelina Jolie as Thena, Don Lee (Ma Dong-seok) as Gilgamesh, and…
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03 May

Did Marvel Studios Just Tease Fantastic Four Movie Release Date?

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With movie theaters reopening, increasing numbers of vaccines going into people’s arms, and numbers continuing to trend in the right direction, Marvel Studios wants you to remember the cinematic experience is important to them. Not only that, they want to remind you about how good it felt to cheer along with the climactic “Avengers assemble!” moment in Avengers: Endgame, and they’re promising that there’s more good times to come. To that end, they’ve released a sizzle reel with highlights from recent years, and teases of what’s next on their theatrical agenda, from Black Widow this July to Guardians of the…
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23 Apr

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 6 Marvel, Captain America, MCU Easter Eggs

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This article contains The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 6 spoilers and potential spoilers for the wider MCU. Well, it’s finally here. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 6 was an action-packed, but rather messy season finale for the show. Hopefully it isn’t a series finale, and we’ll see it continue in season 2 as Captain America and the Winter Soldier, but that’s an argument for another time. For now, we’re here (as usual) to dig in to all the Marvel Comics and MCU references the show gave us this episode. We’ll be honest, it was relatively light…
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23 Apr

Marvel Fans React to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Finale

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This article contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier finale. We made it. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier finally finished its run on Disney+ this week, and no one must have been happier about it than the cast and crew of the ambitious Marvel series, who had to fight tooth and nail to get it wrapped up during a global pandemic. There weren’t too many surprises in the finale, but the show delivered pretty much everything it promised. Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) took up the Captain America mantle and tried to resolve the Flag-Smashers situation once and…
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21 Apr

Disney+ Completes Marvel Streaming Infinity Gauntlet With Sony Spider-Man Deal

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And just like that, Disney has finally assembled its full Avengers team on Disney+ with the addition of Spider-Man… sort of. Disney announced Wednesday that it has cut a content licensing agreement with Sony Pictures, the steward of the cinematic version of Spider-Man (Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales, and all other Spider-Men going back to Tobey Maguire), to host the “Post Pay 1 Window” of all of Sony’s theatrical releases from 2022 to 2026 on Disney streaming services (Disney+ and Hulu), and Disney linear entertainment networks like ABC, Freeform, and FX. The deal includes a special addendum…
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19 Apr

Can Shang-Chi Solve Marvel’s Fight Scene Problem?

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The first teaser for Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings features plenty of compelling moments. The two and a half minute clip has star Simu Liu getting impossibly ripped, Awkwafina driving a runaway bus Speed-style, and several big CGI action set pieces that we’ve come to expect from the MCU. The most exciting bits from this first look are a bit more elemental, however. Simply put, this teaser features plenty of human hands, balled into fists, striking objects in front of them hard. That’s right: it’s got punches galore.  The clip even opens with Shang-Chi punching a…
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16 Apr

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5: Marvel and MCU Easter Eggs

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This article contains The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 5 spoilers, and possibly more for future episodes and the wider MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 5, “Truth,” is another somewhat transitional episode for the series. Big action at the beginning, some heartbreaking reveals in the middle, and then plenty of bonding and moving pieces around for the finale for the rest of the episode. Oh yeah, and one absolutely awesome use of The Meters’ “Hey Pocky A-Way.” Anyway, let’s dig into the MCU and Marvel Comics references we’ve found so far. And remember, if you spot…
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13 Apr

Marvel’s Moon Knight: Oscar Isaac Wails on Some Dudes in Behind the Scenes Footage

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Oscar Isaac has been posting some pretty cool behind the scenes Moon Knight clips online since late March, which has been a treat for everyone following his production company, Mad Gene Media, over on Instagram. While Marvel has kept much of its prep for the forthcoming Disney+ series under wraps, Isaac hasn’t been shy about sharing his gruelling fight training for the role of The One You See Coming. Training for a very physical part that includes all the Marvel bells and whistles can be tough, but the 42-year-old Star Wars and X-Men actor makes it look like a walk…
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