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How an unplanned second take and set change gave Netflix hit Adolescence its emotional climax
Show co-creator and star Stephen Graham has revealed that the Netflix phenomenon didn't originally end with Eddie crying in Jamie's room
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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MCU Agatha showrunners needed a goth teen for the WandaVision spinoff, only to find Marvel had one 'All Along' (Get it?)
Just like Wanda Maximoff, the creators of Agatha All Along realized they need a Billy. Unlike Wanda Maximoff, they were able to get one
May 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Even as the publishing industry comes to terms with AI fakery, Melania Trump announces "the future of publishing": her AI-narrated audiobook autobiography
The First Lady of the United States is all aboard the AI train with her new announcement, even as the NLRB reviews the use of AI voices in gaming
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Layoffs rock Transformers, GI Joe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collectibles company Super7 after its "best [six months] since the inception of the company"
"These are people who were doing the best work in the industry, none of whom deserved to be let go," the Super7 founder says of the staff members pushed out of the company as it faces an uncertain future
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Don't look now, but the Agatha All Along showrunner has finally confirmed a widely-held MCU fan theory
Listen up, Rio and Agatha shippers. Agatha All Along creator and showrunner Jac Schaeffer hears your prays and has decided to answer them, once and for all.
May 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Superman co-creator's estate files a second lawsuit to block international release of James Gunn's big-screen reboot of the DC hero
The estate of Joe Shuster has now asked the New York State Court to block release of DC Studios' Superman on international copyright grounds
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Squid Game season 3 will "bring out the bottom parts of human nature," promises the Netflix hit's creator
Despite new games that will play to the worst parts of the human condition, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk wants to focus on how to remain human in the face of capitalist horror
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Warner Bros. misses the days when we bought DVDs and Blu-Rays, and says streaming is just not the same
The slow extinction of DVDs has removed one of the financial safety nets that studios use to rely on
May 22, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Every Mission: Impossible movie has been its own Mission: Impossible to make, says series star Simon Pegg
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning may have been the most freeing movie to make to date for Simon Pegg, but each one has come with seemingly impossible challenges, he revealed during a recent interview
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Penguin Random House pulls distribution access to key publishers from Diamond (including Marvel, Boom! Studios, and Dark Horse Comics)
If your comic store has been relying on Diamond Comic Distributors to get your Marvel comics every week, there's a new wrinkle they'll have to deal with starting at the end of June
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Attack on Titan is the winner of Crunchyroll's first Global Impact Award, celebrating anime's impact on pop culture
After Attack on Titan receives the premiere award, Crunchyroll will continue giving it out "yearly to honor works and visionary creatives who have produced the anime series changing popular culture."
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Severance star Tramell Tillman on the Apple TV+ show's number one fan: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie
Tillman, who plays Mr. Milchick in Severance and Commanding Officer Bledsoe in the latest Mission: Impossible, was surprised when he got offered a role from McQuarrie, who he thought just wanted to talk about the show
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow star Louis McCartney tells us the biggest audience reactions from every Broadway performance (Heads up, it's a pretty huge spoiler)
The live theater chapter of Stranger Things (currently on Broadway) features a young Jim Hopper and Joyce Maldonado on stage, but it's neither of them that get the crowd riled up
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel's latest Fantastic Four comic drops an unexpected reference to much-shared online speculation about The Fantastic Four: First Steps: coincidence, or a glimpse of things to come?
Whether it's by accident or something else, Marvel is tweaking a popular online theory surrounding The Fantastic Four: First Steps with this week's issue of its Fantastic Four comic.
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The secret to his James Gunn's success, from Guardians of the Galaxy to DC Studios' co-head and the Superman movie, according to his brother Sean Gunn
Sean Gunn describes what it was like watching his brother James Gunn direct Superman
May 21, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Critical Role series Candela Obscura and Daggerheart share a "scarring" mechanic, say the developers
Fans of the horror game/miniseries Candela Obscura know that you don't always walk away from terrors unscathed. According to Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall, that's a truth that newcomers to Daggerheart will also learn
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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NYCC 2025 is growing to 5 days - with a special Wednesday just for professionals again
A full day of pro-only panels, signings, giveaways, and more at New York Comic Con 2025.
May 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Transformers and Armageddon director Michael Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie, with the help of the VFX supervisor from Avatar, and I promise this is real
No, this isn't a very delayed April Fool's joke: Michael 'Bad Boys' Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie, and he's got the man behind the Avatar special effects involved as well
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Is Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning the final M:I movie? Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie have their say
"I’m pretty confident that people are going to feel that the title was appropriate," teases director McQuarrie about the next Mission: Impossible's new name
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Do animated TV shows record characters’ lines or animate first? Kari Wahlgren gives us the answer
Which comes first: the audio or the visual of animation? According to voice actor Kari Wahlgren, it depends on the project -- and where the show is coming from.
May 21, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Monopoly is making a kid-friendly version (with no cash, no counting, and based on an app, because why not?)
By removing all the math and counting aspects of the game, we're left with the true heart of any Monopoly game - mindless spending.
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Exorcisms, half-demons and queer Victorian romance collide in Oni Press's 2026 graphic novel The Demon of Beausoleil
The fan-favorite webcomic from Brazilian cartoonist Mariana Costa will come to print in January 2026 from Oni Press
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Minecraft's Jason Momoa and WWE champion Roman Reigns might be Legendary and Capcom's new Street Fighter stars
Jason Momoa and Roman Reigns are amongst the actors reportedly close to signing on for the upcoming cinematic reboot of fan-favorite fighting game Street Fighter
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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After 35 years, Spike Lee says that his fifth movie with Denzel Washington could be the pair's final collaboration
The pair have worked on five movies together, with Malcolm X being our personal favorite, but that time may have passed due to the passage of time
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Fortnite is back on the US Apple App Store after nearly 5 years, following a court ruling in favor of publisher Epic Games
Apple and Epic Games have been locked in an antitrust battle stemming from Apple's high fees for in-app purchases and restrictions on third-party apps in Fortnite.
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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DC Studios boss James Gunn told Jai Courtney not to rule out a return as Captain Boomerang after his death in The Suicide Squad: "You know these rules don’t really apply"
Death in comics doesn't mean much, so we could see Courtney back in the DCU eventually - provided James Gunn hasn't changed his mind.
May 21, 2025
Trent Cannon
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"A Kevin Feige type": What David Zaslav was looking for to be DC Studios' boss, and the advice Warner Bros. Pictures gave him that led to James Gunn & Peter Safran
Warner Bros. co-chairs Michael De Luca and Pam Adby believe that James Gunn “really understood the assignment” when it came to DC Studios
May 21, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Severance's Ms. Casey is signing in to work on Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender remake, and she's not alone
Dichen Lachman, Dolly de Leon, and Terry Chen are just some of the actors newly revealed to be joining the Netflix remake of the animated classic, as it moves into production on its third and final season
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Netflix learns about cooperation via a new Sesame Street sharing deal with PBS
Netflix saves Sesame Street, opens the door to Black Mirror, Squid Game crossovers while surprisingly sharing the iconic children's show with PBS. (One of these things is not like the other, because it's a joke.)
May 20, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Fear Street and Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine wanted to write comedy for the rest of his life, then one conversation with a Scholastic editor changed everything
Like so many beginnings, you can chalk Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine's horror career to a "Blind Date"
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Onetime comic distribution monopoly Diamond is hit by layoffs, department closures within hours of being sold
Ad Populum, which bought Diamond Comic Distributors and Diamond Book Distributors at auction, started layoffs within "minutes" of the sale being announced as final
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Critical Role's Daggerheart "never could have" been made without the game's subreddit community, say developers
To the many members of the r/Daggerheart subreddit, developers Rowan Hall and Spenser Stark would like to say "thank you"
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sarah Michelle Gellar reveals that the Hulu Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival might be a generational story as children of the original cast auditioned for new parts
OG Willow Alyson Hannigan hoped it wasn't one of her kids that auditioned for the Buffy reboot, but no more casting announcements have been made.
May 20, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Godzilla writer/artist James Stokoe takes on kung-fu revenge stories with Dark Horse's Orphan and the Five Beasts: Bath of Blood this fall
The second series of Alien and Godzilla cartoonist James Stokoe's kung-fu craziness hits the stands (literally) this September
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC plays Willy Wonka with 'Krypto's Golden Biscuit' sweepstakes for Superman movie premiere tickets
Want to get the Golden Ticket (I mean, biscuit)? Head to your comic store on June 18 for the chance to fly to LA and see Superman at the world premiere
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Conan O'Brien joins the Toy Story 5 cast, and now we get to be disappointed by two old favorites at once
Conan O'Brien is playing Smarty Pants in Toy Story 5, in a bit of casting news that feels almost too on the nose
May 20, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu
The Sun-Times has just offered the best argument against using generative AI in journalism, publishing a recommended summer reading list filled with books that aren't actually real
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Thrills, chills, and a 50th anniversary shoutout to Steven Spielberg's Jaws - the new Jurassic World: Rebirth trailer has it all
It's time to go back to an island filled with dinosaurs, wonder, and the sense of joy you had when you saw Jurassic Park as a kid
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The HBO It: Welcome to Derry trailer is either teasing a huge piece of the Stephen King universe... or just reminding us of the 1950s
It's turtles all the way down in Stephen Kings's books, but is that the case in HBO's It prequel series?
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea author TJ Klune "lowkey wants magic to be real" - until he can make it happen, he writes magical realism
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Klune explained why writing magical realism has been an important exercise for him since he was young
May 20, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Marvel Rivals announces new skins for Scarlet Witch and Adam Warlock will be available later this week
We know when the Immortal Sovereign Scarlet Witch and Immortal Avatar Adam Warlock Skins are coming to Marvel Rivals, though we don't know how much they will cost.
May 20, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Final Destination: Bloodlines test screenings revealed that moviegoers were "bloodthirsty" and want way more gore than filmmakers expected
"Whatever’s happened in the last 14 years, people have become incredibly bloodthirsty and just wanted way, way, way, way more gore than they did before," says one of the directors of the latest Final Destination movie
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping checkouts on library app Libby are up 515%, and it's boosting checkouts for other Hunger Games books too
Hunger Games fans are coming out in full force (and then some!) for Suzanne Collins's new prequel book, Sunrise on the Reaping
May 19, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Andor season 2 connected the show to Star Wars: The High Republic in an understated (but meaningful) way
My fellow Star Wars High Republic fans, rise up! There's a Lina Soh reference in Andor season 2!
May 19, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Part of the mission of the final Andor episodes was to make sure no-one could misinterpret character relationships elsewhere in Star Wars canon, says showrunner
"Before anyone else defines it, I’m going to define it," Tony Gilroy said about revelations and decisions baked into the final episodes of the acclaimed Star Wars drama Andor
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Ahead of the Final Fantasy crossover, WoTC staff spent time “hanging out” with Square Enix staff playing Magic: The Gathering
The folks from Wizards of the Coast and Square Enix genuinely have a mutual appreciation for Magic: The Gathering
May 19, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Tom Cruise's personal reckoning isn't final - the Mission: Impossible star still has more Top Gun and Days of Thunder in him
Audiences are just as eager to see Cruise stunt his way back into Top Gun 3 and Days of Thunder 2 as the soon-to-be-ex-Ethan Hunt is to create them
May 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sorry, MCU fans: Scarlett Johansson is saying for sure she will not return as Black Widow for Avengers: Doomsday
Plenty of former Marvel stars are returning for Avengers: Doomsday, but don't expect to see Scarlett Johansson among them (unless this is one hell of a negotiating tactic)
May 19, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Netflix enlists a Bridgerton star to show off the first big set piece of One Piece season 2, with a Loguetown that is full of easter eggs from the manga
Charithra Chandran is playing Miss Wednesday in One Piece season 2 and showed off the massive Loguetown set that featured plenty of nods to the manga.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Fortnite is facing potential federal censure over its new AI Darth Vader, after the Screen Actors Guild lodge an official complaint
SAG-AFTRA has filed an official unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over the conversational AI Darth Vader now appearing in Fortnite
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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An unused gun hidden in Doom: The Dark Ages code seems to give some hints about what the first batch of DLC will be
Fans of Doom: The Dark Ages may be headed to the Cosmic Realm in some upcoming DLC, according to a mostly finished gun in the game's code
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Don’t expect another TikTok viral dance moment from M3GAN 2.0, warns director - it's a whole new type of movie, he says
“I hate it when movies do that," says Gerard Johnstone about the prospect of M3GAN 2.0 repeating the same beats from the original
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel’s X-Men comics are broken, says Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld, but he knows who can fix them (No, it's not him)
"Whatever the check is, whatever the number is, go write it and give it to one Scott Snyder," Rob Liefeld says about the one man he believes can make Marvel's X-Men great again
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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One Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning star (surprisingly, not Tom Cruise) nearly lost their nose to frostbite while filming in the Arctic
According to Simon Pegg, the crew included a team specifically watching for signs of frostbite and standing by ready to run on and warm the cast when the Mission Impossible sequel filmed in the Arctic.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Alien and Ghostbusters star Sigourney Weaver was in line to play iconic X-Men character Emma Frost, but it never happened
When director Bryan Singer left Fox's X-Men movie franchise, he took our dreams of Sigourney Weaver's Emma Frost with him - we just didn't know it until now
May 17, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel's Infinity Stones originally came from Thanos creator Jim Starlin's religious schooling and wondering what an evil God would want
"I started questioning as to what a god who is not benevolence, but malevolence would be like," Jim Starlin told Popverse about the origin of the Infinity Stones
May 17, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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A Complete Unknown director James Mangold is drawn to Swamp Thing's "abject deformation [and] loneliness" as his next movie ... and of course that Bernie Wrightson art
James Mangold admits that he loves the "gothic Horror, kind of Frankenstein legend, whole concept of man plant" behind DC's Swamp Thing
May 17, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later movie sequel will be teased in upcoming 28 Days Later re-release
Relive the horror of Danny Boyle's first foray into the zombie genre, 28 Days Later, as its upcoming sequel lurches toward theaters
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Wicked star Cynthia Erivo has found her next villain role: Dracula
Wicked's lead Erivo will perform Dracula as a one-woman show, meaning she'll have to rely on some tricks she pulled off in Peacock's Poker Face
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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New mask, same slash: Horror icon Jason Voorhees has been revamped (by Walking Dead legend Greg Nicotero) ahead of his own cinematic universe
Sorry Met Gala, the new Jason Voorhees redesign is what the cool kids are looking at now
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Simpsons have found their next Milhouse voice actor - and she debuts this Sunday, as a grown-up Milhouse Van Houten
Blue smoke rises from the 20th Animation Studios HQ - The Simpsons has chosen a new Milhouse
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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DC have created a new Justice League spin-off team that Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman don't know about - so don't share this article with them
Who watches the watchmen? We'll leave that to Alan Moore, but there's a Justice League inside the Justice League that even the big three don't know about
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel Studios' gender-swap of MCU star Taskmaster almost didn't happen; here's what changed
One of the male finalists for the MCU Taskmaster role ended up getting another role as a consolation prize.
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Finally, Superman's The Daily Planet is looking into the weirdness that is Gotham City (Who is that bat guy, btw?)
Jimmy Olsen is moving to Gotham City to expand the Daily Planet - which might not be the best news for Jimmy Olsen or Gotham City, considering the bat guy flying around as a result
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Benjamin Bratt loved his Star Wars: Andor role so much he tried to do more but was told it was too "expensive"
The actor had an idea how Bail Organa could have fit into earlier episodes of the show, but showrunner Tony Gilroy nixed the thought because of its price tag in a season already trying to cut costs
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Josh Holloway is a complex guy, sweetheart. He doesn't think ABC would reboot Lost but he'd return as Sawyer anytime
The man who was Sawyer says that he's "solid with loss and closure" surrounding the iconic Lost, 15 years after it ended
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Tom Cruise said he passed out multiple times during Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning stuntwork - here's what the director thought of his actor (and boss) telling him to keep going
Never doubt Tom Cruise's intense, worrying devotion to the spectacle of cinema when it comes to stunt work and Mission: Impossible
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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AfterShock Comics aims to revamp its editorial team and revive its comics line as it emerges from bankruptcy
More than two years after it declared bankruptcy, indie comics publisher AfterShock Comics is attempting to make a comeback
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Bungie gets caught stealing artwork for the fourth time, this time in the upcoming game Marathon
Halo developer Bungie says it "immediately investigated a concern regarding unauthorized use of artist decals in Marathon."
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The GTA 6 budget isn't as crazy as you think, as Take-Two Interactive CEO explains why it makes sense
Sure, $1 billion sounds like a lot of money to you or I, but we're not in charge of a company that stands to make all of that money back and then some within a week of GTA 6's release.
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Lost star Josh Holloway has been chasing a movie version of western author Louis L’Amour's Flint for 20 years - and finally got it
What does it take to get a dream project to come together? Patience and a billionaire willing to pay for it, according to Lost star Josh Holloway.
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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GTA games aren't released slowly - fans are showing they want more DLC content than new games quicker says Take-Two Interactive CEO
Some fans might be complaining about the wait for the next Grand Theft Auto game, but they're ignoring how much GTA content gets dropped as DLCs or GTA Online updates
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Can David Leitch finally start up the Gears of War? After 18 years of development hell, the secret co-director of John Wick has been tapped to helm Netflix's big budget adaptation
Surviving Sera is nothing to getting the Gears of War movie made, but it looks like the film has finally found its Hammer of Dawn in John Wick's co-director, David Leitch
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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HBO delays Game of Thrones' Dunk & Egg prequel to 2026 release date window
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg and serving as another prequel to Game of Thrones, wrapped production in September of 2024
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Die Hard with Orcas: John Travolta trades summer lovin' for summer chompin' in Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin's 3rd killer sea creatures movie
Black Tides is the title of the Travolta-starring orca thriller, presumably because someone already has the rights to 'Pulp Fishin'
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why movie adaptations of video games work now (and why they didn't before) according to Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise's producers
Story Kitchen's Dmitri M Johnson & Mike Goldberg point to a classic example of a video game movie gone wrong to illustrate the disparity between gaming adaptations now and then
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Switch 2 will be more welcoming than any Nintendo system before in terms of AAA mature games, according to Witcher & Cyberpunk creators
The makers of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher games believes that Nintendo's Switch 2 will open up more expansive gaming on the go
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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After DC Studios' Superman movie, DC Comics will remind us how "warped, suspenseful and occasionally horrific" the Man of Steel can be in Black Label book for ages 17 & up
The five-issue comic book series comes from the creative team behind the Eisner Award nominated Ice Cream Man series from Image Comics
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Sydney Sweeney Split Fiction movie is just one of several Hazelight games being developed into film & TV
According to Split Fiction producers Story Kitchen, the team behind Sonic the Hedgehog, development has already begun on an It Takes Two movie, and the door is open for more adaptations
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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DC's Absolute Batman to get even bigger as some surprise "fan-favorite characters" will debut soon that will "feature hugely" in series, according to Scott Snyder
June's issue will start the second big storyline of Absolute Batman, and introduce two very familiar faces (and that's not including Absolute Bane)
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Get the NYCC 2025 VIP ticket you deserve with a Popverse Superfan membership
Get more out of NYCC with less hassle with the Popverse Superfan + VIP Ticket experience.
May 16, 2025
Chris Arrant
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DC Studios' Superman is teasing their own version of Oreos (and Martian Manhunter's favorite snack)
Superman isn't just saving the world in James Gunn's new DC Studios reboot - he's saving a piece of DC comic book lore, too
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Nintendo slaps an unofficial Super Smash Bros. dating app with a cease-and-desist before its launch
A Super Smash Bros.-oriented dating app called Smash Together didn't even make it to launch day before Nintendo struck it down
May 16, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Constantine actor Matt Ryan says reading horror comics in preparation of playing John Constantine put him off of scary movies
Matt Ryan went deep in his research for the NBC Constantine show, so much so that he can't watch horror movies like The Conjuring alone anymore
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Andor star Denise Gough on the fate of her Star Wars character: "The moral of the story is, don't get a boyfriend."
Andor's Denise Gough, who played Imperial officer Dedra Meero on the show, shed light on how the culture of the Empire led to her character's downfall
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The Pokémon Fossil Museum is traveling outside Japan for the first time as it comes to Chicago in May 2026
See fossils from the fictional Pokémon world next to the iconic Sue the T-Rex in one of the most unique museum displays on the planet.
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Did Jennifer Love Hewitt hallucinate the internet's favorite fact about I Know What You Did Last Summer? It kind of seems like she did
So, a kid didn't actually direct THAT famous scene from I Know What You Did Last Summer
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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1980s icon Sean Penn calls Tom Cruise "the best stuntman in the movie world" in what is either a show of respect or the most hyperbolic marketing for Mission Impossible ever
We know Tom Cruise will not be happy until he has laughed in the face of death in every Mission Impossible movie, but calling him the best stuntperson in Hollywood feels a bit over the top, even for Sean Penn.
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Warner Bros Discovery CEO names DC's four most important characters as he sees them, and one might come as a surprise
For Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav, the DC Universe is anchored by the Trinity and Supergirl, not the Green Lantern Corps
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The West Wing's Martin Sheen defends civil servants and the Department of Education from President Trump and Elon Musk: "They are the ones on the front lines"
The West Wing and Apocalypse Now star didn't mince words about his feelings towards the new Trump administration.
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Meet Buffy's new protégé, as Hulu's Vampire Slayer reboot names a Star Wars vet as its Chosen One
Star Wars Skeleton Crew's Ryan Kiera Armstrong has been cast as the lead in Hulu's upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The return of a Rogue One character in Andor created real problems for the Star Wars story, says showrunner
Andor season 2 needed to feed into Rogue One, so Tony Gilroy's show had to introduce K-2SO eventually... even if he wasn't sure how that was going to work practically
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Bandai have announced the first tournament event for their Gundam trading card game will take place at Gen Con 2025
Just one week after the official launch of the Gundam TCG, the First Combat series of tournament events will take place.
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
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To Blink or not to Blink? James Gunn appears to edit out the moment DC's Man of Steel flinches in the newest Superman trailer
There are arguments to be made for either version of the shot being "the best" though we're a fan of the more human version of Superman.
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Daredevil: Born Again season has signed up another opponent to Marvel's Kingpin: Lili Taylor
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 continues to bring in top tier talent, this time with Lili Taylor from Outer Range and The Conjuring
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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And the winners in the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are...
It was a good night for DC Comics, as well as creator Gene Luen Yang
May 15, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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I'm not proud, but I couldn't stay awake during PAX East 2025's World of Warcraft panel - and I wasn't alone
Staying awake at the World of Warcraft panel at PAX East was an uphill battle
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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How did DC bring Wonder Woman writer Greg Rucka back into the fold? By giving him an idea he didn't think could work
Comic book writer Greg Rucka has shared how DC Comics got him to find a solution for why two villains like Cheetah and Cheshire would work together without betraying each other
May 15, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Lucasfilm have released a 2 minute film created by AI that depicts the Star Wars universe in the most boring way possible
The one thing that Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic have proven with this short Star Wars film is that any AI created art will be unbearably boring, so... thanks?
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Invincible creator Robert Kirkman would love to do a Rex Splode special, except it would delay the next season of the Prime Video series even more
After a notoriously long wait between seasons one and two, the Invincible production team are worried about doing anything that might slow down future seasons of the hit show.
May 15, 2025
Trent Cannon