ArchiveFeb 27, 2025ECCC '25 Recap: Greetings from Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con... Sincerely, PopverseKaty O'Brian is the guest for a live Popverse Popversations taping at Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2025Gene Hackman, star of The Conversation, Superman: The Movie, and The Royal Tenenbaums, dies aged 95Catch up with Matt Murdock's adventures on Netflix and beyond: here is what to watch before the MCU's Daredevil: Born Again comes to Disney+Star Wars' Billy Dee Williams says Lando blowing up the Death Star in Return of the Jedi was heroic redemption for his betrayal In The Empire Strikes Back Pokémon Legends: Z-A revamps the franchise's battling style, focusing on timing and positioning like never beforeGet inside the making of the new live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie with a new behind-the-scenes (and beautiful) book from DreamWorks Animation & Insight EditionsChanning Tatum's unmade Marvel Gambit movie would have different from every other X-Men movie in an entirely unexpected wayAmazon boss on what it's going to do with James Bond: "We don't have a plan yet"Feb 26, 2025Hasbro synergy runs wild in brand new Mr. Potato Head/Dungeons & Dragons crossover toy (and we want one)Warner Bros Games closes three studios and cancels their upcoming Wonder Woman game in another brutal round of layoffs in the gaming industryDoctor Who returns this April with a new companion, a mystery threat, and The Traitors' Alan Cumming as a killer cartoonMichelle Trachtenberg, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl, dead at 39For Your Consideration: Legal dramas to keep you in the courtroom between episodes of Suits LA, including LA Law, Boston Legal and The Good WifeA week after we all binged the Shrek franchise, Netflix sees a surge in the Despicable Me and Minions series hit the chartsMarvel Snap's next season will be What If...? themed starting in April 2025 - if dataminers are to be believedThe Uchiha clan takes over the WonderCon 2025 Funko booth with two exclusive Pop! figures on offer - including an adorable Sasuke with cat ears onThe best scenes in Captain America: Brave New World are all focused on Carl Lumbly's stellar performance as Isaiah BradleyFeb 25, 2025How Vico Ortiz found themself with the help of Star WarsMarvel's Eternals director and Interior Chinatown writer are teaming with Amazon to bring sci-fi classic Consider Phlebas to the screenHelen Mirren and Harrison Ford rarely had advance notice of their lines while filming Yellowstone prequel 1923The Bear's Ayo Edebiri is partnering with Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya to make... an adult-oriented Barney & Friends movie?!?Meet Popverse's new staff writer, Jules Chin GreeneMonster Hunter Wilds does away with one of the series' most unique features - the Monster Hunter Language - but for a very good reasonMarvel Matters: As both an icon of despair and an image of hope, Marvel's Daredevil shows how faith fits in a normal Catholic's lifeJames Gunn confirms that the Clayface movie will be a body horror film for people who aren't necessarily DC fansEven before Daredevil: Born Again debuts, Marvel Studios begins work on a Punisher spin-offFormer Boba Fett child actor Daniel Logan would challenge fans who based the Star Wars prequel trilogy to fights in parking lots, the actor admitsCapcom's Monster Hunter Wilds has a radical view on environmentalism and humanity, at least for us AmericansFeb 24, 2025Netflix still hasn't confirmed that One Piece season 3 is happening, but Zoro's actor seems to have let slip that it is - and it is filming this yearKid Justice League, new Green Lantern, and a Teen Titans spinoff: DC Studios has three all-new kids cartoons in the worksVico Ortiz talks their fencing career and their sword skills on Our Flag Means Death and beyondAfter a solid opening weekend, Captain America: Brave New World has one of the worst second-week box office drops in MCU historyAndor's first season 2 trailer teases Rogue One connections, Death Star constructions, explosions and... dancing? In a Star Wars?Join Captain Kirk, Major Kira, and the crew of the USS Discovery on 2026's Star Trek 60th anniversary cruiseEnter the DC Universe with Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow writer Tom King in PopversationsMonster Hunter: How to play Capcom’s hunting RPG in release orderOne of the big differences between Netflix's One Piece season 1 and 2 is going to be how "badass" Zoro gets to be, according to MackenyuDoom: The Dark Ages release date: The return of Doomguy is here as the series goes medieval on some demons Days Gone Remastered release date: Set back off into a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest once again this AprilMagic the Gathering is making an Avatar: The Last Airbender set, and we already want an army of flying bisonFatal Fury: City of the Wolves release date: Return to the classic SNK fighting game series this SpringSouth of Midnight release date: A new game from We Happy Few creators is out this April for PC and XboxHow Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly inspired the script for High School Musical 2Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World stellar fight scenes carry a bitter truth about us and Sam Wilson (and how he's a better fighter than Steve Rogers)Feb 21, 2025DC and Marvel announce new comic book crossovers for 2025Emerald City Comic Con has adopted a grunge vibe for 2025, but it's always been a grunge show at heartDC's Clayface movie (written by Mike Flanagan!) has a director: the man behind 2024's James McAvoy horror Speak No EvilCaptain America: Brave New World is a good movie - but Marvel Studios spoiled it by putting the Red Hulk reveal in the marketingWatch the Crunchyroll Industry Panel from NYCC 2024!Captain America: Brave New World almost had "heightened," comic-accurate versions of the Serpent Society, teases directorHeartbreaking! The My Dress-Up Darling manga is ending, with its final chapter coming in March 2025Popverse Jump: Spy x Family isn't about spies or assassins - it is really about work-life balanceJust as Marvel Studios introduces the Silver Surfer in the Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel Comics is killing the character offWhat to do at MagicCon Chicago 2025: From the Pro Tour to D&D to celebrity Meet & GreetsWatch the Trans/Non-Binary Entertainment panel with Peppermit, Mirray Hill, Dominique Jackson, Yuhua Hamasaki & Amy Schneider from NYCC 2024!The dynamics of the Our Flag Means Death cast at conventions (including who is the mommy and who is the daddy), according to Vico OrtizBatman gets a new Batmobile, a new (blue) costume, and more in DC's Fall 2025 relaunchAfter his starring role in the Superman movie trailer, DC gives Krypto his first canonical solo comic in 70 yearsFeb 20, 2025After Severance, Apple TV+ doubles down on existential work comedy angst with killer robot show MurderbotFormer Star Wars child actor Daniel Logan shares what he and young Anakin Jake Lloyd went through with fans, and how Lloyd is doing now decades laterMarvel 'declassifies' past missions of Steve Rogers for new Captain America comic book series from Batman writer Chip Zdarsky and Avengers artist Valerio Schiti this JulyAfter 60+ years, the James Bond movie franchise has a new boss as Amazon now controls cinema's ultimate secret agent spyOur Flag Means Death’s Vico Ortiz shares their favorite comfort songs - and its Broadway musicals and a surprising Marvel songAvatar: The Last Airbender to return to Nickelodeon in new animated sequel, Seven Havens - about an Avatar who might destroy humanityDominic Monaghan & Billy Boyd to join Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis & John Rhys-Davies for Lord of the Rings reunion at Chicago's C2E2 2025Salma Hayek had a hilarious (and honest) reaction when she saw Danny Trejo's tattoo of her for the first timeHow did Tom Welling successfully avoid the Superman suit for all of Smallville? He had it written into his contract - and here's whyFeb 19, 2025The Disney Channel started a media training school for their actors after being blindsided by the success of High School MusicalNBC's The Office has an amazing lost episode about pets, and Rainn Wilson kept the script for itDaredevil: Born Again showrunner explains what was wrong with the version of the show Marvel killedFor Your Consideration: Emilia Pérez is a controversial awards frontrunner, but its musical heart has proven herself for decades and shown up in Pixar movies, Mariah Carey diss tracks, and moving balladsAs we wait for Shrek 5's 2026 release, Netflix steps in to satisfy our nostalgiaLore Corner: Marvel's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season finale introduced Peter Parker's [SPOILER] and now we can't wait to see season 2Please do not eat the Batmans: Funko, Kinder, & DC are hiding toys and trading cards in your favorite snackMarvel rewrites X-Men history as the comic celebrates the 50th anniversary of the relaunch that made it a hitCharacter Mastery in Marvel Snap: Everything you need to know to unlock new cosmetics and earn Mastery XPVico Ortiz shares story of the crystal they kept in their pocket while shooting Our Flag Means Death and everything else you've ever seen them inNo, Marvel Rivals isn't trolling dataminers by adding fake characters to the game's code, but that doesn't mean Professor X or Colossus is coming to the game eitherStar Wars creator George Lucas originally planned for Boba Fett to kill Mace Windu (and here's how & why Samuel L Jackson fought it)James Gunn picked one movie to show DC Studios' Superman cast before they began filming to inspire them, and it wasn't a Superman movie: it was the Christopher Reeve documentaryFeb 18, 2025Meet one of the pop culture business' hottest free agents: Rachel Romero, who just left Critical Role after helping build that empireTyler Hoechlin's Superman was originally going to be killed - then CW greenlight the Superman & Lois show, according to the starOur Flag Means Death’s Vico Ortiz talks new podcast Today in GayOh my Glob: Mondo has a great Adventure Time Squad set coming, with Finn and Jake (and BMO, and more!)Flash fact: John Wesley Shipp didn't know he was playing Jay Garrick until the last minute, thanks to WB and the CWStranger Things' big villain Jamie Campbell Bower wanted to take a break from playing villains after VecnaMarvel Matters: It's great Marvel Studios brought back Karen & Page & Foggy Nelson for Daredevil: Born Again... until I realized they did it to kill them offThe 10 best Saturday Night Live sketchesWho won Popverse Predicts Marvel Animation's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man finale?Thanks to hits like One Piece and Dan Da Dan, in 2024 manga began catching up to TV and film as the most pirated media in the worldLuffy says "Thank you, Netflix!" as One Piece manga enjoys sales boost following the live-action adaptationNimona creator ND Stevenson revives his teenage pirate fantasy in his first prose novel, Scarlet MorningThe first image of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey shows Matt Damon (and his new beard) as OdysseusUmbrella Academy is being revived after Netflix finale as a comic (again), with new series bringing back the Sparrows from season 3The Sims sees its biggest competition in years as inZOI's release date for Early Access comes in just a few weeksThe First Berserker: Khazan release date: Dive back into the world of Dungeon Fighter Online with this upcoming prequel action-RPGKilling Floor 3 release date: Mow down waves of Zeds as the latest entry in the Killing Floor series arrives in 2025Return to the Lord of the Rings' most comfy area as Tales of the Shire's release date approachesLost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 release date: When the conclusion to the Life is Strange developer's latest game will launch