ArchiveMay 23, 2025Want a sequel to 2004's Dodgeball? Netflix Nonnas star Vince Vaughn teases "there's an idea that's pretty good" out there alreadyPrime Video cancels The Wheel of Time after three seasonsFresh from his MCU Daredevil: Born Again revival, Marvel Comics resurrects Frank Castle in comic books for adults-only series Punisher: Red BandA24 knows Elden Ring fans want intensity, so they've tapped their most intense director - Warfare's Alex GarlandDon't just watch Top Gun, live it - Paramount is planning a Las Vegas experience based on the high-flying Tom Cruise pilot moviesHazbin Hotel star Blake Roman didn't know what shipping was before joining the cast - but the fandom has been sure to give him an educationYes, Disney has pushed out the release dates for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars - but this shows that Marvel is serious about regaining its mojoDon't expect to see these Hazbin Hotel cast members on Critical Role anytime soon - the improvisation would feel too much like work to themMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning ending explained: What happens, who dies, and what's next after the latest M:I movieTom Cruise slips up as Mission: Impossible gets lost in fan service with The Final ReckoningDeadpool and My Hero Academia's All Might punching Thanos is still the best crossover team-up in Marvel history [Popverse Jump]Vaggie loves "not dying", but her Hazbin Hotel voice actor Stephanie Beatriz hints someone will in season 2 on Amazon Prime VideoThe Sentry in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* is Spider-Man for depressed people like meThe Walking Dead musical episode came far closer than you think to actually happeningMay 22, 2025Mephisto might not have been Agatha All Along's villain, but he did "distract" viewers from guessing the end, says Marvel showrunnerIt's Lilo & Stitch versus Tom Cruise versus Tom Cruise as the Disney remake takes on not just Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning but also Top Gun: Maverick this Memorial Day weekendHow an unplanned second take and set change gave Netflix hit Adolescence its emotional climaxHow Giant-Size X-Men #1 rescued a franchise and changed the shape of Marvel’s publishing empire foreverMCU Agatha showrunners needed a goth teen for the WandaVision spinoff, only to find Marvel had one 'All Along' (Get it?)Even as the publishing industry comes to terms with AI fakery, Melania Trump announces "the future of publishing": her AI-narrated audiobook autobiographyLayoffs rock Transformers, GI Joe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collectibles company Super7 after its "best [six months] since the inception of the company"Don't look now, but the Agatha All Along showrunner has finally confirmed a widely-held MCU fan theorySuperman co-creator's estate files a second lawsuit to block international release of James Gunn's big-screen reboot of the DC heroIf It Bleeds, We Read: How the Hunger Games' Sunrise on the Reaping makes revolutionary ideas legible for YA readersSquid Game season 3 will "bring out the bottom parts of human nature," promises the Netflix hit's creatorWarner Bros. misses the days when we bought DVDs and Blu-Rays, and says streaming is just not the sameEvery Mission: Impossible movie has been its own Mission: Impossible to make, says series star Simon PeggMay 21, 2025Penguin Random House pulls distribution access to key publishers from Diamond (including Marvel, Boom! Studios, and Dark Horse Comics) Attack on Titan is the winner of Crunchyroll's first Global Impact Award, celebrating anime's impact on pop cultureSeverance star Tramell Tillman on the Apple TV+ show's number one fan: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrieStranger 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)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?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 GunnCritical Role series Candela Obscura and Daggerheart share a "scarring" mechanic, say the developersNYCC 2025 is growing to 5 days - with a special Wednesday just for professionals againTransformers 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 realIs Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning the final M:I movie? Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie have their sayDo animated TV shows record characters’ lines or animate first? Kari Wahlgren gives us the answerMonopoly is making a kid-friendly version (with no cash, no counting, and based on an app, because why not?)Exorcisms, half-demons and queer Victorian romance collide in Oni Press's 2026 graphic novel The Demon of BeausoleilMinecraft's Jason Momoa and WWE champion Roman Reigns might be Legendary and Capcom's new Street Fighter starsAfter 35 years, Spike Lee says that his fifth movie with Denzel Washington could be the pair's final collaborationFor Your Consideration: Before Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, we uncovered perfect spy movies in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Skyfall, and... Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?!?Fortnite is back on the US Apple App Store after nearly 5 years, following a court ruling in favor of publisher Epic Games Remember the fantastical & the failures of SEGA's DreamcastDC 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""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 SafranThe blue collar Dark Knight of Absolute Batman is the Batman I need right nowMay 20, 2025Watch the Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon reunion from London's MCM x EGXInside the mind & stories of Stephen King's detective for our time, Holly Gibney, ahead of his new novel Never FlinchSeverance's Ms. Casey is signing in to work on Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender remake, and she's not aloneNetflix learns about cooperation via a new Sesame Street sharing deal with PBSFear 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 everythingOnetime comic distribution monopoly Diamond is hit by layoffs, department closures within hours of being soldCritical Role star Matt Mercer's Daggerheart "never could have" been made without the game's subreddit community, say developersSarah 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 partsGodzilla writer/artist James Stokoe takes on kung-fu revenge stories with Dark Horse's Orphan and the Five Beasts: Bath of Blood this fallDC plays Willy Wonka with 'Krypto's Golden Biscuit' sweepstakes for Superman movie premiere ticketsMarvel Matters: The MCU has grown from movies to TV series & cartoons - but MCU comics? It's tougher than you think Conan O'Brien joins the Toy Story 5 cast, and now we get to be disappointed by two old favorites at onceSadly, 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 snafuThrills, chills, and a 50th anniversary shoutout to Steven Spielberg's Jaws - the new Jurassic World: Rebirth trailer has it allThe HBO It: Welcome to Derry trailer is either teasing a huge piece of the Stephen King universe... or just reminding us of the 1950sSomewhere Beyond the Sea author TJ Klune "lowkey wants magic to be real" - until he can make it happen, he writes magical realismMarvel Rivals announces new skins for Scarlet Witch and Adam Warlock will be available later this weekElden Ring Nightreign fixes my biggest problem with the original and all the Soulsborne games - my overthinking and analysis paralysisFinal Destination: Bloodlines test screenings revealed that moviegoers were "bloodthirsty" and want way more gore than filmmakers expectedMay 19, 2025Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping checkouts on library app Libby are up 515%, and it's boosting checkouts for other Hunger Games books tooAndor season 2 connected the show to Star Wars: The High Republic in an understated (but meaningful) wayPart of the mission of the final Andor episodes was to make sure no-one could misinterpret character relationships elsewhere in Star Wars canon, says showrunnerAhead of the Final Fantasy crossover, WoTC staff spent time “hanging out” with Square Enix staff playing Magic: The Gathering Tom Cruise's personal reckoning isn't final - the Mission: Impossible star still has more Top Gun and Days of Thunder in himPopverse Free Preview Week: Celebrate our 3rd anniversary by seeing all the articles, columns, and panel videos you're missing!Lore Corner: HBO's The Last of Us season 2 rewrites Pearl Jam history, but it worksSorry, MCU fans: Scarlett Johansson is saying for sure she will not return as Black Widow for Avengers: DoomsdayHear your favorite video game music as you never have before with the Level Up! Vocal Ensemble from ECCC '25Netflix 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 mangaPopversations: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man's Kari Wahlgren walks us through voice acting career and her action figure collection Fortnite is facing potential federal censure over its new AI Darth Vader, after the Screen Actors Guild lodge an official complaintAn unused gun hidden in Doom: The Dark Ages code seems to give some hints about what the first batch of DLC will beWatch the Blue Lock anime reunion with the voice actors behind Yoichi, Rin, and Megura from MCM x EGXDon’t expect another TikTok viral dance moment from M3GAN 2.0, warns director - it's a whole new type of movie, he saysGamify My Life: The most important part of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was always the bugs and I'm glad the Remaster kept them inMarvel’s X-Men comics are broken, says Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld, but he knows who can fix them (No, it's not him)One Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning star (surprisingly, not Tom Cruise) nearly lost their nose to frostbite while filming in the Arctic Shadow Labyrinth release date: The dark and gritty reboot of Pac-Man we all were fascinated by in Prime Video's Secret Level is coming this summerDeath Stranding 2: On the Beach release date: Hideo Kojima and Norman Reedus are back in the post-apocalyptic sequel we've all be waiting forPopverse Picks: Asian Pacific American comics and books that break the moldFive Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic release date: Travel back to where it all began with the FNAF prequelDune: Awakening release date: Head to an alternate Dune timeline and try to survive on the harsh world of Arakis in this survival MMOF1 25 release date: The latest entry in EA's high speed racing franchise is about to pass you at a high speedJames Tynion IV & Michael Walsh's Exquisite Corpses is gamifying a battle royale murder party - and it makes me want to play the game (if they make one!)May 17, 2025Alien and Ghostbusters star Sigourney Weaver was in line to play iconic X-Men character Emma Frost, but it never happenedMarvel's Infinity Stones originally came from Thanos creator Jim Starlin's religious schooling and wondering what an evil God would wantA 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 artMay 16, 2025Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later movie sequel will be teased in upcoming 28 Days Later re-releaseWicked star Cynthia Erivo has found her next villain role: DraculaNew mask, same slash: Horror icon Jason Voorhees has been revamped (by Walking Dead legend Greg Nicotero) ahead of his own cinematic universeLore Corner: Who are the Seraphites? The Last of Us season 2 sets up a major big bad for season 3The Simpsons have found their next Milhouse voice actor - and she debuts this Sunday, as a grown-up Milhouse Van Houten