Grant DeArmitt
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Amazon's Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power deal was for 5 seasons - and if they don't deliver, it'll cost them something... precious ($20 million per season, to be precise)
Amazon assembled its fellowship to create 50 episodes of The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power across 5 seasons. Now, with the show trapped in kind of streaming Mordor, we take a look at what the cost would be to give up the quest
October 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Spoilers!I watched the first ten minutes of HBO's IT: Welcome to Derry - here's what to expect
Heads up, we're going to get into some spoilers for IT: Welcome to Derry here, but as the title indicates, none that go beyond the first couple of minutes of Pennywise's latest haunting chapter
October 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch the Smallville cast reunion with Tom Welling, John Glover, Kristin Kreuk, & Erica Durance from New York Comic Con 2022
Smallville's Clark Kent (Welling), Lana Lang (Kreuk), Lionel Luthor (Glover), and Lois Lane (Durance) went to a different kind of Metropolis, and Popverse was there to film it
October 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
I began my Halloween under a Crooked Moon, courtesy of the Legends of Avantris
GM'd by Legends of Avantris's own Derek Hudson, I took the train to Druskenvald to play one of the most successful custom D&D 5E campaigns in recent TTRPG history: The Crooked Moon
October 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role cast member (and monster expert) Alex Ward can see himself playing at least one of Brennan Lee Mulligan's creature creations, but reminds us that "humans are the worst monsters of all"
Ward, who is the actor behind some of the freakiest creatures to be on screen in recent memory, is bringing is monstrous expertise to Critical Role Campaign 4 as Occtis Tachonis
September 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Robbie Daymond wanted his Campaign 4 character to be the exact opposite of Bells Hells breakout Dorian Storm
Dorian Storm, who was played in both Hells Bells and Exandria Unlimited by Daymond, is the categorical opposite of what Campaign 4's Kattigan Vale will turn out to be
September 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stephen King is an idol of horror literature, but he thinks there's one thing you shouldn't be afraid of: spoilers
The creator of Pennywise the Clown doesn't care if you know that Pennywise is defeated at the end of IT. That said, Stephen King thinks there is one horror writer whose work you should approach spoiler-free
September 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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KPop Demon Hunters band HUNTR/X is performing live for the first time (and on US television!), even though they're not real
The singing voices behind Netflix's animated megahit - that is, Ejae, Nuna and Rei Ami - are set to perform KPOp Demon Hunter songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
September 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Elle Fanning was daunted to play a Weylan-Yutani synth in Predator: Badlands, but one past Alien actor in particular inspired her performance
Fanning, who plays Weylan-Yutani synth Thia in the upcoming Predator-starring film, says David Jonsson's Andy in Alien: Romulus heavily inspired her role
September 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sorry DC fans: David Corenswet's Superman isn’t in Peacemaker Season 2 - and the season's big twist isn’t a DCU hint of things to come
Heads up, some Peacemaker season 2 spoilers are on the way - including that big reveal from episode 6. You know the one.
September 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Does Stranger Things season 5 already have missing footage? The Duffer Brothers think so
Don't worry, we're not gonna spoil anything that happens in Netflix's final chapter of Stranger Things. Especially since the footage we're talking about, according to Mat & Ross, might not actually exist?
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Image Comics announces that comic stores will get collected editions 27 days ahead of bookstores and digital outlets
Your local comic book shop is still the best place to get titles like Battle Beast, Spawn, and Transformers, as Image Comics announces incentive to shop there
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Witcher's Yennefer, Anya Chalotra, was brought to tears upon learning that Henry Cavill was leaving the Netflix show
Chalotra, who returns to The Witcher season 4 recently got candid about her feelings regarding the exit of her costar Cavill. But let's be clear from the jump - at no point does the on-screen Yennefer disparage Liam Hemsworth
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Magic: The Gathering returns to Middle Earth with new Hobbit set coming in 2026
Just a few days after Hobbit Day 2025, Magic: The Gathering's Universe is welcoming Tolkien nerds back to... well, more nerd stuff
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Star Trek fans will be able to visit the Final Frontier with a Magic the Gathering crossover in 2026
Boldly go where no... actually, we expect that when the MTG x Star Trek collab drops next year, most everybody who's a fan of either of those properties will be going
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The opening of IT: Chapter Two makes Derry itself worse than Pennywise [The Coldest Open]
Or I don't know, maybe Pennywise IS Derry. Either way, the opening moments of Andy Muschietti's IT sequel make one thing clear - both of 'em suck
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Marisha Ray offers advice on cosplaying her Campaign 4 character - "Let it all hang out"
Ray, who will play Murray Mag'Nesson in the upcoming Critical Role Campaign 4, advises those inspired by her look to "let the sun hit them in all the places"
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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What do the Critical Role Campaign 4 characters smell like? Sam Riegel knows
Rumors from an unnamed source (kidding, it was Aabria Iyengar) suggested Riegel's Wiccander Halovar might smell like Davidoff Cool Water in Critical Role Campaign 4. Popverse investigated.
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix knows you love KPop Demon Hunters - in fact, they're counting on that love to advertise new animated series Haunted Hotel
Your Idol, the popular villains song form KPop Demon Hunters, happens to be a perfect anthem for Abaddon, the demon-possessed cast member of Haunted Hotel
September 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Aabria Iyengar wants to calm your Campaign 4 fears over being overwhelmed by a "sheer tonnage of extraordinarily hot PCs"
Iyengar, who transforms into Thaisha Lloy for Critical Role's biggest campaign yet, understands that you're scared about the next adventure being simply too sexy. But being slightly scared of art, she says, is a great thing
September 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch Demon Slayer star Zach Aguilar, the voice of Tanjiro Kamada, from his New York Comic Con spotlight panel
The English voice of Tanjiro Kamado took the Main Stage at NYCC for a panel Demon Slayer fans won't want to miss - and thanks to Popverse, now you don't have to
September 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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After that Alien: Earth season 1 finale, you probably want to know about season 2 - so does lead Sydney Chandler
Beware of Alien: Earth episode 8 spoilers, xenomorph fans. Not that any are coming from showrunner Noah Hawley, as the show's own lead actor confirms
September 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role star Laura Bailey knows that her Campaign 4 character resembles Jester Lavorre... but don't let that fool you; they couldn't be more different
"They are both cute," Bailey says of both her Campaign 4 character, Thimble, and her fan-favorite Mighty Nein character, Jester Lavorre. But apart from that, don't expect much similarity
September 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Matt Mercer teases Campaign 4's new setting of Aramán - and how it differs from Exandria
Mercer, who will transition from GM to enigmatic player character Sir Julien Davinos in Critical Role's Campaign 4, says the differences between Exandria and Aramán lie in their history with the gods
September 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Critical Role cast has heard your speculation about the Campaign 4 factions... but no one's completely nailed them yet, says Marisha Ray
Ray, who plays Murray Mag'Nussen in the upcoming Critical Role campaign, urges fans not to "get too in the weeds of what someone's wardrobe looks like"
September 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role mastermind Matt Mercer has a surprise origin story - he never finished his first D&D campaign
The creator of Exandria has always had big ideas for his Dungeons & Dragons sessions. Too big, it turns out, for the first people Critical Role star Mercer ever played with
September 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Predator: Badlands is "a kind of buddy-comedy" with a Predator who's intentionally not Luke Skywalker, says director
No, Prey director Dan Trachtenberg never intended Predator: Badlands characters Dek and Thia to be kissing siblings. Unless...?
September 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Spider-Man changed the shape, format, and length of Marvel Zombies on Disney+ - here's how
In Disney+'s Marvel Zombies, hordes of the undead aren't the biggest problem facing Peter Parker - that would be shared film rights
September 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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John Boyega says if he were to produce Star Wars, it would've been different - and at Florida Supercon 2025, he told us how
It's well-known Boyega wasn't a fan of what happened with his character, Finn. But as it turns out, he wouldn't changed what happened to Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, too
September 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel Studios Nightcrawler Alan Cumming doesn't seem to know what Avengers: Secret Wars is - but he does seem to think Halle Berry will be in Doomsday?
The MCU's newest Spoiler-in-Chief is pretty sure that we'll see Halle Berry's Storm return for Avengers: Doomsday. And after that? Alan Cumming really doesn't know. Maybe because he's the MCU's Spoiler-in-Chief
September 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Star Wars sequel hero Finn DID defeat Kylo Ren in a lightsaber duel... behind the scenes during filming for The Force Awakens
John Boyega recently revealed that the epic victory of his character over Adam Driver's in Star Wars: The Force Awakens really did happen the way fans hoped... as an on-set blooper
September 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Tom Holland's Spider-Man: Brand New Day follows Henry Cavill's Highlander reboot in delay after on-set injury
Just because Connor MacLeod and Peter Parker can take a beating doesn't mean their real-life avatars don't have to deal with real-life injuries, as Tom Holland's and Henry Cavill's situation recently proved
September 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Avatar's Pandora is entirely virtual, except when it comes to making the actors uncomfortable with real flames on set
"This is Jim Cameron, you know?" says Avatar: Fire and Ash second-unit director Garrett Warren. "We’re not doing stuff for fake."
September 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Stranger Things season 5 fires the first shot as Netflix enters the popcorn bucket wars
No, the Stranger Things Demogorgon Popcorn Bucket (available at Target) is not a bear trap. We get the confusion though
September 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
What to Watch October 2025: Halloween is just around the corner, and Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Prime Video's Hazbin Hotel, and HBO's IT: Welcome to Derry are just a few ways to stream and scream
Looking for something to stream as All Hallow's Eve 2025 approaches? We've got you covered, just be warned: there's some real-life horror waiting on your favorite streaming platform this October
September 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Want to know the future of horror movies? Just check your YouTube and Twitch [Future Fest]
Horror's next monsters (and monster-makers) are likely in your pocket right now
September 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The opening of Paul Anderson's Event Horizon feels suitably alien... but could use more humanity [The Coldest Open]
Horror is predicated on you feeling the same fear that the characters on screen are feeling - but as the futuristic (and otherwise brilliant!) Event Horizon begins, I find myself struggling to connect
September 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The biggest movies of 2026 [Future Fest]
Two MCU movies, one horror flick, and the kind of film they write prophecies about - here's what we think will hit cinemas the hardest come next year
September 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The best TV series of 2025 (so far) [Future Fest]
From the crime-ridden streets of New York City in Daredevil to the unknown galaxies of Strange New Worlds, here are the places we had the most fun exploring in 2025 TV
September 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The best movies of 2025 (so far) [Future Fest]
Unicorns dying and supermen taking flight - 2025 was a big one for movies, and your Popverse pals are shouting out their favorite here
September 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Superman & Lois's Bitsie Tulloch has made a great friend over the course of many comic cons: Frank Miller
One of TV's most popular Lois Lanes gets along quite well with one of Batman's seminal writers, revealed Superman & Lois star Tulloch
September 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Popverse predicts the biggest TV shows of 2026, from Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy to Lanterns on HBO and beyond
Say goodbye to The Boys in 2026, but hello to one more Game of Thrones spinoff! Here are the most anticipated TV shows of 2026, as we see them
September 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Five Nights at Freddy's movie codename was a nod to Chica, not Freddy Fazbear
No, folks filming Blumhouse’s FNAF movie didn’t refer to the film by anything pizza-related, although there was a reference to very important food in the franchise
September 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Frankenstein is coming to Netflix, but is he coming to Critical Role Campaign 4 too? Why fans think Alex Ward is resurrecting a rare D&D subclass
Don't know anything about reanimator artificers? That's OK, they're pretty out there in terms of Dungeons & Dragons subclasses. You might want to learn though, because Critical Role cast member Ward may be stitching together a plan...
September 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Spider-Man and his extended family have a secret weapon - and her name is Gwen Stacy
Spoilers ahead, fellow wall-crawlers. We're going to dive right into specific details from The Amazing Spider-Man #12 by Joe Kelly and Marte Gracia, which continues Norman Osborn's tenure in the Spider-Suit
September 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
What happened to Critical Role's fan-favorite Cerrit Agrupnin after Exandria Unlimited: Calamity? Liam O'Brien has some ideas
Travis Willingham's character Cerrit was one of the breakout heroes from Critical Role's prequel liveplay series - now, castmate O'Brien has revealed his head canon for what happened next
September 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Last Starfighter sequel is finally coming after 41 years - and it's starting as a comic book
Alex Rogan, hero of the 1984 cult classic Last Starfighter, heads to your comic book store next year, courtesy of those intergalactic innovators at Mad Cave Studios
September 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Superman & Lois's Bitsie Tulloch is "bummed" the show missed its Brainiac storyline, would've loved to see Lois Lane with powers
Don't get us wrong, we loved our very human Lois Lane, played by Tulloch. But don't pretend you wouldn't have adored seeing her superpunch an evil computer due into outer space
September 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Superman & Lois Man of Steel Tyler Hoechlin would reprise his role for James Gunn's DCU, but is also down to "do something else"
Is TV's Clark Kent, Tyler Hoechlin, eyeing another DC Comics role for the big screen? Something the Superman & Lois star said at a recent comic con has us pondering...
September 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Superman & Lois CW star Bitsie Tulloch provides update on potential Grimm revival
"All I've heard is that it would initially be a movie," said Tulloch, who plays both Lois Lane in Superman & Lois and Grimm's Juliette, "And then if the movie works, it would it would be a series."
September 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
One Fantastic Four member is saying he won't be in Avengers: Doomsday, but it's not who you think
Apologies to everyone hoping to see a non-CGI Thing in Avengers: Doomsday. Former Fantastic Four star Michael Chiklis says it ain't gonna happen
September 15, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
After founding the Fellowship of the Ring and The Goonies, now Sean Astin is leading a very different team with his new gig
Rudy himself is officially president of SAG-AFTRA, and though you won't be surprised to learn the actors' union would trust Sean Astin in the role, you may be surprised to learn he isn't the first in his family to hold it
September 15, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix finally unveils Liam Hemsworth's Geralt in The Witcher season 4 teaser, and fans are... well, not as mad about him as you'd think
Don't get us wrong, there's still a great deal of Witcher-ites in mourning for Henry Cavill, but fans of the Netflix series aren't blaming Hemsworth for taking over the role in season 4
September 15, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Blumhouse's The Invisible Man opens with the best final girl of the 2020s [The Coldest Open]
The role of "The Invisible Man's girlfriend" was one that had been underwritten and overlooked for over a century. But in eleven minutes, Elizabeth Moss and director Leigh Whannel changed that forever.
September 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
The one Helluva Boss scene that "broke my heart" for Blitzo actor (and series co-writer) Brandon Rogers
For the many, many characters that comedian Brandon Rogers has played over the years, few if any relate to him as much as Biltzo, the titular Helluva Boss of the Immediate Murder Professionals
September 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Anime nerd John Boyega loves Naruto the most, and has some hot takes on Attack on Titan
Oh, and don't forget One Piece. John Boyega has thoughts on One Piece too, and they're probably similar to yours
September 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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David Harbour went into Avengers: Doomsday "not even convinced" about the massive Marvel event - then the Russo Brothers changed his mind
Harbour, who plays Red Guardan in the MCU, says brothers Joe and Anthony Russo have a "special sauce" when it comes to making movies like Avengers: Infinity War and the upcoming Doomsday
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Predator: Badlands director teases Dek/Thia relationship - "It's like Chewbacca and C-3PO: The Movie"
Remember when you saw the Predator: Badlands poster and thought, 'Huh, this broken droid tied to a monster looks familiar'? Dan Trachtenberg isn't running from the comparison
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller wants Zendaya to be Clarice Starling opposite Mads Mikkelsen... but wouldn't that mean getting rid of Hugh Dancy's Will Graham?
Don't get us wrong, we've been dying for Bryan Fuller to tackle The Silence of the Lambs... but what would Fannibals think about separating the Murder Husbands?
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow will team David Corenswet's hero and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor against a "much bigger threat," says DC Studios head
Well now we know what James Gunn meant went he said the next Superman movie wouldn't just be about Superman. But now we have even more questions about Man of Tomorrow
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Black Mirror USS Callister was almost a standalone Netflix series, and Charlie Brooker has leaked what we missed
USS Callister, Netflix's bleak Star Trek satire that appeared in the fourth and seventh season of Black Mirror, almost became a full spinoff. Here's what that would've looked like
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Alien icon Sigourney Weaver prefers Alien: Earth to the movies
FX's Noah Hawley-created Alien series is "more profound" than an Alien movie, says Ellen Ripley herself. We ask: More profound than that basketball scene in Resurrection?
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy warns fans not to expect too much of him in the next 28 Years Later movie
Jim, the character Murphy played in 2002's 28 Days Later, will make a small cameo in The Bone Temple. But if the actor gets his way, that won't be the last we see of him
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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HBO Max is bringing The Conjuring to the small screen, but it might lose its spooky creative center in the process
James Wan, who directed the first Conjuring and has been with every other film in some capacity, wants more of a cut from the franchise he pioneered. Otherwise, Warner Bros. might be bringing the story to TV without him
September 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Downton Abbey set is usually home to an actual desk owned by Napoleon... but not while filming
It might surprise you to learn that Highclere Castle, the real-life estate where Downton Abbey is filmed, operates business-as-usual while filming is going on. Well, almost.
September 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The late Maggie Smith is "still very much in the atmosphere" in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, says Elizabeth McGovern
Ahead of the release of the final Downton Abbey chapter (and only one without Smith's involvement), the Cora Crawley actor spoke about her costar, who passed in 2024
September 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The new Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie could become the highest grossing movie in Japan's box office history, but it's still got a Miyazaki film (and its own predecessor) to beat
As of now, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train is still the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, followed by Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. But there's a chance that might change
September 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Five Nights at Freddy's animatronic actor Kevin Foster knows who is behind the mysterious Bite of '87 (and he's written the song to prove it)
Not only has Foster put on the actual Freddy Fazbear suit for the Blumhouse film, he knows the answer to one of the FNAF franchise’s biggest mysteries
September 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Been on a Spider-Man forum lately? One of the folks you might've talked to was Tom Holland
Holland recently revealed he'd been doing some "sneaky research online" in preparation for his return as Peter Parker in the fourth MCU Spider-Man outing
September 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The 13 people who survived the Saturday Night Live summer 2025 cuts (Yes, Kenan Thompson is still there) and are coming back for season 51
Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang, Chloe Fineman and more are headed back to SNL, while a Please Don't Destroy regular joins the core cast
September 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stephen King's condition for keeping The Long Walk movie from feeling like "a superhero movie"
Francis Lawrence's brutal adaptation of King's dystopian tale earns its R-rating, the same way The Long Walk writer seems to think PG-13 Marvel movies earn theirs
September 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Conjuring: Last Rites officially surpasses IT as the biggest horror movie opening weekend ever - and underscores a thriving appetite for horror in 2025
Michael Chaves's wrap-up to the blockbuster Conjuring saga scored a wild $194M at the global box office, floating just above the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King's beloved tale of Pennywise the Dancing Clown
September 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham on which of the D&D Monsters they'd choose to live as
Bailey and Willingham have done their share of flipping through the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual in their capacity as Critical Role founders - but which of the creatures therein spoke to them the most?
September 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham would play Dimension 20's wildest campaign: Never Stop Blowing Up
D20's Never Stop Blowing Up (led by Critical Role's campaign 4 GM Brennan Lee Mulligan) is a balls-to-the-wall parody of the action genre, and Bailey and Willingham know just which action movie types they'd play
September 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham on bringing Marvel's Mary Jane Watson & DC's Superman to life
Critical Role's Bailey, who brought Mary Jane to life in Insomniac's Spider-Man games, and Willingham, who brought Superman to life in Battle of the Supersons, explain how they embodied Marvel & DC's titanic characters
September 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey reveals one of her favorite aspects of The Mighty Nein's Jester actually came from castmate Marisha Ray
As any D&D player knows, you discover core pieces of your character as the campaign goes along. And sometimes, like in the case of Critical Role pals Bailey and Ray, your fellow adventurers discover it for you
September 05, 2025
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Critical Role's Travis Willingham reveals more character-DM'd one-shots are on the way in 2026
Willingham's Grog One-Shot from 2017 is still a favorite among Critical Role fans - and if what he said at GalaxyCon San Jose is true, more of its like are on the way
September 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
James Cameron opens Aliens with the same fundamental horror that Alien: Earth is built upon: a xenomorph too close to home [The Coldest Open]
Cameron creates a shot of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley that might as well be in the marketing for Alien: Earth... if Ripley was a character in Alien: Earth
September 05, 2025
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Netflix cancels its existing Tomb Raider cartoon one day after Prime Video announces their upcoming Tomb Raider live-action show star lead & showrunner
Hayley Atwell & Sophie Turner won't be going head-to-head as Lara Croft in the near future, as Netflix's animated series is wrapping up after its second season
September 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Which Star Trek actor DMs for other Star Trek actors? Strange New Worlds' Celia Rose Gooding reveals how they prepared for Critical Role's Exandria Unlimited
Gooding, AKA Star Trek's latest Uhura, got into D&D liveplay with not just the help of the Critical Role gang (including Brennan Lee Mulligan), but also a name that Enterprise and Picard fans will know well
September 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Disney's Sword in the Stone movie is getting a sequel with Madam Mim as its big bad in comics
Return to Disney's landmark take on Arthurian Legend with The Sword in the Stone: Arthur's Magical Kingdom, written by Michael Snow and Gabriel Valentin, illustrated by Lorenzo Colangeli, and published by Papercutz and Mad Cave Studios
September 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix is already mulling a Thursday Murder Club sequel, and director Chris Columbus said they will decide this week
Columbus, who navigated stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Ben Kingsley through Netflix’s treacherous tale, says there’s one thing that will determine a Thursday Murder Club 2 - the viewership
September 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Dan Trachtenberg became a better Predator director, thanks to Prime Video's The Boys
Before Trachtenberg was kicking off a new saga of Predator vs. humans with Prey, he was the guy in the chair for The Boys’ pilot episode
September 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner returns as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider reboot (with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge writing)
Amazon MGM Studios announced Turner & Waller-Bridge's collaboration to bring the massive Tomb Raider franchise to life, along with director Jonathan Van Tulleken and co-showrunner Chad Hodge
September 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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James Gunn unveils DC Studios' Superman movie sequel title, release date, and possibly the plot - Lex Luthor's revenge
Man of Tomorrow, the newly announced entry into the Superman saga led by DCU chief James Gunn, is coming in 2027.
September 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Tom Cruise might be going to outer space (and possibly reteaming with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman to film it)
We're starting to wonder if Mission: Impossible Cruise star is addicted to doing his own stunts, and if so, if The Bourne Identity director Liman is a bit of an enabler
September 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s stunts will be courtesy of Jackie Chan
In the MCU, Peter Parker's moves come from a radioactive spider. But in real life, the flips and tricks that Spider-Man performs will be powered by one of Hollywood's greatest stunt artists, Jackie Chan
September 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
James Wan's The Conjuring jumps right to the scares, and there's nothing wrong with that [The Coldest Open]
Are the opening moments of the first film in The Conjuring universe a triumph in character development and narrative introduction? No. Do they make you go, "AGH!"? Yes.
August 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
After Critical Role's Tusk Love and Armory of Heroes, more in-universe Exandrian projects are on their way
Expect more texts published as though they were written by citizens of Exandria themselves, says Licensing Brand Associate Niki Chi
August 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
How to cosplay Exandria: Critical Role's Armory of Heroes is a tome of reference for cosplaying critters
From Vox Machina to The Mighty Nein and even into the Age of Arcanum, the Armory of Heroes has Exandrian style you wish to emulate
August 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Wednesday's creators weren't planning on bringing Gwendoline Christie's Principal Weems back for season 2
Christie, whose antagonistic Weems from season 1 has turned spirit guide for Wednesday in season 2, was not what Alfred Gough and Miles Millar had panned for the Netflix series' sophomore season
August 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role invites you back to Exandria (and back in time!) with The Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles Volume 2—Cassandra
Amazon MGM is also partnering with Critical Role and Dark Horse to publish a prequel graphic novel starring the bold but beleaguered Cassandra de Rolo, little sister of Percival and survivor of the Briarwoods massacre
August 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Oz, Manhattan, and German Expressionism: What inspired Age of Arcanum, according to Critical Role star Liam O'Brien
O'Brien recently spoke to the worldbuilding that went into the Exandria Unlimited: Calamity campaign, set centuries before Critical Role's Campaign 1
August 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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What Critical Role's Liam O'Brien imagined for the Vox Machina 'Deathwalker's Ward' armor is not what the costume ended up looking like
Vox Machina's Vax'ildan sports a gloomy, feathered, and ornate piece of leather armor in Critical Role's famous Campaign 1 and its adaptations thereafter. But that wasn't exactly what Vax's actor, O'Brien, had in mind
August 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The most hated skin of Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 won't be coming back, according to Miles Morales voice actor Nadji Jeter
At Fan Expo, one Spider-Man redditor caught up with Jeter to talk about the widely-criticized (and corporate-sponsored) 'Evolved' suit, and the Miles voice actor shares many fans' concerns
August 26, 2025
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Prime Video's definition of "purchased" has been hazy for a while... now they're getting sued over it
Can you really claim to have sold something if that thing can be stripped away from the buyer at any time? A proposed class action lawsuit against Amazon says "no"
August 26, 2025
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Jared Padalecki reveals The Boys season 5 will be split into two parts
Asked about a Supernatural reunion on Prime Video's superhero satire, Padalecki revealed when he'd be sharing screentime with both Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins. And in doing so, revealed a key facet of the final season's release
August 26, 2025
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Predator: Badlands is getting a Marvel Comics prequel... that's coming out after the movie itself
The Predator: Badlands prequel will take the form of a one-shot comic by Ethan Sacks and Elvin Chang, and will go on sale in November
August 25, 2025
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Stranger Things may be ending, but Sadie Sink admits she "didn't really feel like" she was saying goodbye to Max Mayfield
To be clear, we're not saying Stranger Things's Max is getting a spinoff. We are saying, though, that Sadie Sink would be ready for one
August 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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With IT: Chapter One's opening scene, Andy Muschietti proves you can be scared even if you know where this is going [The Coldest Open]
Director Andy Muschietti, who is returning to Pennywise's realm for IT: Welcome to Derry on HBO, knows that you know your Stephen King. And that's not gonna stop him
August 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt