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Avatar: The Last Airbender star Dante Basco Keeps actor Mako Iwamatsu's Legacy Alive
While celebrating Avatar: The Last Airbender's 20th Anniversary, Dante Basco always remembers the late Mako Iwamatsu who played Uncle Iroh
September 22, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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The Last Airbender stars (and friends) Zach Tyler Eisen and Dante Basco reminisce about Avatar turning 20 this year
Popverse had an exclusive interview with Avatar: The Last Airbender's Zach Tyler Eisen (voice of Aang) and Dante Basco (voice of Zuko) as they reflect on the series turning 20 years old.
September 11, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Inside the tech innovations made for the new Demon Slayer movie to make that Infinity Castle more infinity
Popverse interviewed Demon Slayer director of photography Yūichi Terao who explained how technology has allowed the Ufotable team to visualize story’s craziest setting.
September 11, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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"Infinity Castle is a culmination of everything we've learned" for Demon Slayer director Haruo Sotozaki
Popverse interviewed Demon Slayer director Haruo Sotozaki who understands the expectations are high but is confident that people are going to going to ace the final with the Infinity Castle trilogy.
September 08, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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CBS' Ghosts cast has ideas for what could come in upcoming seasons - and pitched showrunner Joe Wiseman live during a panel
Whenever there's a showrunner, cast members, and fans in one room, the pitches for future story ideas run amok. Some of these could be hints, while others are wish fulfillment. Either way, with another season being planned for 2027, now is the time to get those ideas public.
September 05, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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How the water breathing sequence in the Demon Slayer anime challenged its creators
Popverse interviewed Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Film: Infinity Castle director Haruo Sotozaki and director of photography Yūichi Terao about the challenges in establishing the visual look of the series.
September 05, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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CBS' Ghosts showrunner teases "big ideas" for this fall's season 5 - even bigger now that season 6 is already guaranteed
Ghosts showrunner Joe Wiseman and five cast members reveal lots of juicy details about Season 5.
September 03, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Demon Slayer's Japanese lead voice actor Natsuki Hanae illuminates us the complete Tanjiro experience
Popverse spoke with the Japanese voice of Tanjiro Kamado, Natsuki Hanae at San Diego Comic-Con 2025. He broke down what the complete Tanjiro experience is like and tried to find a scene that encapsulates that.
September 03, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Batman's origin retold against the massacre of the Aztec Empire by the Spanish in Clash of the Empires
Members of the Aztec Batman crew including director Juan Meza-Leon, director Jose Carlos Garcia de Letona, screenwriter Ernie Altbacker, and producer Aaron Berger spoke how they crafted an Elseworlds Batman story by starting with historically accurate facts first.
September 03, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Jason Schwartzman is a bold choice for a vampire in Talamasca: The Secret Order
Indie film darling Jason Schwartzman is joining the cast of Talamasca: The Secret Order and plays a peculiar creature of the night. See the story behind his casting.
September 03, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Why the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds murder mystery episode will go down as a cast favorite
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast members explained why they had so much fun shooting, "A Space Adventure Hour," also known as the murder mystery episode.
September 03, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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How Demon Slayer's Tanjiro continues to surprise Natsuki Hanae after playing him for six years
Natsuki Hanae feels voicing the main Demon Slayer role is continually surprising, even after six years.
August 21, 2025
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The new Star Trek spinoff Starfleet Academy isn't just a school show - it's about rebuilding the Federation after a galaxy-wide calamity
Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti drew big crowds at SDCC 2025 during the annual Star Trek panel, as they explained how Star Trek: Starfleet Academy ties into the wider Trek universe.
August 18, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Zenitsu is the most realistic depiction of a person in the Demon Slayer anime, at least according to Zenitsu voice actor Aleks Le
Aleks Le plays the character of Zenitsu in Demon Slayer and knows that his character is a polarizing figure in the series but he believes he is just misunderstood.
August 14, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Why Demon Slayer cosplay is a blast, according to voice actors Abby Trott (Nezuko) and Aleks Le (Zenitsu)
Popverse interviewed Abby Trott and Aleks Le and asked them why they think their characters are so popular amongst cosplayers.
August 12, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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What its like being your window into Paramount+'s upcoming Star Trek series Starfleet Academy, according to Caleb Mir actor Sandro Rosta
Sandro Rosta appeared on stage in the annual Star Trek panel at San Diego Comic-Con's famed Hall H and introduced who his character is and explained what his character's mindset in entering the school.
August 12, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Demon Slayer voice actors Abby Trott and Aleks Le gush over their favorite scene together (so far)
Popverse interviewed Abby Trott and Aleks Le, who voice Nezuko and Zenitsu of the Demon Slayer Corps. They recount the scene that was their favorite to film together and share what they believe has led to Demon Slayer's popularity boom.
August 12, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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What Avatar: The Last Airbender stars Zach Tyler Eisen and Dante Basco learned from playing Aang and Zuko
Avatar: The Last Airbender's Zach Tyler Eisen and Dante Basco helped celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the series by reflecting on what life enriching lessons they gained from playing Aang and Zuko.
August 12, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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The secret origin of Starz' Outlander prequel Blood of My Blood, and the one piece of canon it had to question to make happen
Outlander: Blood of My Blood executive producer and showrunner Matthew B. Roberts explains how he came up with the idea of the series.
August 11, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Outlander: Blood of my Blood is finding it harder and harder to shoot in Scotland due to the tourism Outlander has brought in
Outlander showrunner and executive producer Matthew B. Roberts explains why Scottish tourism is making it difficult to shoot the spinoff series, a problem they created.
August 08, 2025
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Kerrice Brooks’ S.A.M. promises to be the most fascinating character in Starfleet Academy
After seeing the first trailer for Starfleet Academy for the first time, Kerrice Brooks fought back tears while explaining how unique her character is in the Star Trek lore.
August 08, 2025
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Demon Slayer's Nezuko voice actor Abby Trott has her own headcanon for what she says if she could speak
Popverse interviewed Abby Trott who voices Nezuko in the English dub of Demon Slayer. She shared with us what it's like to voice all of Nezuko's grunts and snarls and what scene was her favorite to record.
August 08, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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Starz' Outlander series finale (and the entire season 8) is "very charged" says Sam Heughan
At San Diego Comic-Con 2025, without giving spoilers, the cast and crew of Outlander explain how the final season outperforms the previous seven seasons.
August 07, 2025
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The Talamasca: Explaining the secretive order and how it fits in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe
The executive producers and showrunners of Talamasca: The Secret Order explain what the series is and how it fits within the Ann Rice Immortal Universe.
August 06, 2025
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Voicing Zenitsu in Demon Slayer is a lot like voicing two different characters, according to actor Aleks Le
Awake Zenitsu is loud and cowardly. Sleeping Zenitsu is actually useful.
July 30, 2025
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Everything we learned about Starfleet Academy at Comic-Con
At the Star Trek Panel at San Diego Comic Con, fans were shown their first look at Starfleet Academy, and met the cadet cast including Holly Hunter.
July 27, 2025
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There will be love, suffering, and love: How Starz' Outlander franchise is creating younger versions of your favorite characters with the Blood of My Blood prequel
Outlander executive producer and showrunner Matthew B. Roberts shared his approach in writing young versions of Dougal and Murtag.
July 27, 2025
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How the Aztec Batman movie founds its villain in turning the real-life villain, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, into Two-Face
Aztec Batman producer Aaron Berger and José Carlos Garcia de Letona, Head of Ánima Studios explain how they came to Two-Face and Joker to be the villains.
July 26, 2025
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How DC is reimagining Batman as an Aztec warrior for Clash of the Empires animated movie
In the latest Batman animated film, Aztec Batman: Clash of the Empires, it might be difficult to imagine the translation but it works really well.
July 25, 2025
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Twilight origin movies are something Jackson Rathbone & Ashley Greene want to do - but they need you to "blow up" Lionsgate's social media feeds
With franchises being revisited all the time to develop side and background characters and give them newfound agency, is it time to revisit the Olympic Coven of the Twilight Saga?
July 15, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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How Marvel Studios' Agatha Along was "my drama school" for Joe Locke after Heartstopper - thanks alot to Kathryn Hahn
How Agatha All Along was like drama school for young actor Joe Locke, who speaks with Daredevil's Charlie Cox about being an actor.
July 11, 2025
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The "uncouth grotesqueness" that DC's Penguin actors Colin Farrell & Danny Devito found when talking to each other about the role
Danny Devito and Colin Farrell reunited on Variety's Actors on Actors, after being co-stars on Tim Burton's Big Fish and compared notes on playing different versions of The Penguin.
July 11, 2025
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"There was a lot of purring": Inside the cat classes the Twilight cast did to prepare for the first movie
The cast of Twilight reunited at GalaxyCon 2025 in Oklahoma City to answer fan Q&A and explained how director Catherine Hardwicke liked to keep it weird.
July 11, 2025
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Charlie Cox and Joe Locke on mourning not playing a character anymore
In their episode of Actors on Actors, Charlie Cox and Joe Locke think deep on what it will be like not playing Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Charlie Spring respectively.
July 11, 2025
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Inside the specific cuts Marvel Studios did to revamp and save Daredevil: Born Again thanks to the writer's strike, according to Charlie Cox
On a recent episode of Variety's Actors and Actors, Charlie Cox and Joe Locke talk about how the Hollywood strikes were a blessing for Daredevil: Born Again
July 11, 2025
Ernie Estrella
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The Little Mermaid voice actor Jodi Benson has just recorded a new Disney song for a secret project that got her heart racing
When asked a fan question at GalaxyCon 2025 in Oklahoma City, Benson let it slip that she just recorded a new song under some stressful conditions.
July 11, 2025
Ernie Estrella
Features
There’s a Crisis coming to DC animated universe, and here's how it began
Crisis on Infinite Earths is coming to DC's animated movie universe, and its been coming for awhile now
July 24, 2023
Ernie Estrella
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SDCC 2023: Indian star power, pomp, and performance on display in Hall H's Kalki 2898 - AD panel
Kalki 2898 - AD is the first India-produced film ever to be presented at Comic-Con International and be given the Hall H treatment, and boy did it deliver.
July 23, 2023
Ernie Estrella
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The Walking Dead TV universe is jumping ahead 7 years in Fear: There’s a new set of heartless rules to follow” says cast
Kim Dickens, Jenna Elfman, and Christine Evangelista talk about AMC's Fear the Walking Dead season 7
March 30, 2023
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The Walking Dead: Dead City's bizarre team-up of Maggie & Negan: "An exercise in intimacy, with the worst possible partner" says Lauren Cohan
A first look at The Walking Dead: Dead City was given to those of us at WonderCon
March 27, 2023
Ernie Estrella
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Thai ghost stories come to haunt Sandman mythos in Dead Boy Detectives
Pornsak Pichetshote on Dead Boy Detectives, Sandman, and Thai ghost stories
November 23, 2022
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