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Banned game Carmageddon is on the streets again with Rogue Shift, coming in 2026
Hyper-violent vehicular combat franchise Carmageddon, the first edition of which was banned in Brazil and censored in the UK, is launching a new entry with less-human, more zombie adversaries
December 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch The Lost Boys musical panel featuring Patrick Wilson, Zachary Quinto, and Michael Arden from NYCC 2025
Before The Lost Boys sunk their teeth into Broadway, producer Patrick Wilson and director Michael Arden joined Zachary Quinto at New York Comic Con 2025 to talk about adapting the cult horror film
December 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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WATCH: From Hocus Pocus to Shape of Water, monster maker Doug Jones shared creature career secrets at Emerald City Comic Con 2022
He's been in What We Do in the Shadows, Star Trek: Discovery, and was freaking ABE SAPIEN in the Hellboy movies. But at ECCC '22, Doug Jones needed no SFX to make a sensation
December 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!What kind of wine does Stranger Things' Karen Wheeler drink? Actress Cara Buono knows
Anyone who's already watched Stranger Things season 5, chapter 1, knows that Karen Wheeler needed a whole lot of courage. Her actor Cara Buono knows how much of that courage is liquid
December 04, 2025
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Stranger Things season 5 features a look inspired by Josh Brolin in The Goonies
And here you thought that Vecna would be pulling the most from Thanos for Stranger Things' final season
December 04, 2025
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After handing the baton to Destin Daniel Cretton for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, director Jon Watts is open to returning to the MCU. He just won't say for which superhero
Having directed the first three MCU Spider-Man movies, we understand how Watts could feel slightly unsettled watching Brand New day as "a fan on the sidelines" - but don't think that means he's out of the MCU for good
December 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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You're not imagining it - Critical Role's Mighty Nein characters have more realistic proportions than The Legend of Vox Machina's
Original Critical Roler Sam Riegel says that the (slight) difference between Legend of Vox Machina's and Mighty Nein's visuals stems out of the tone of the show
December 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch Behind the Codec: The Voice Cast of Metal Gear Solid with David Hayter, Jennifer Hale, Christopher Randolph, Cam Clarke, and Tasia Valenza from NYCC 2025
Hear Solid Snake (Hayter), Naomi Hunter (Hale), Otacon (Randolph), Liquid Snake (Clarke), and Sniper Wolf (Valenza) like you never have before, from New York Comic Con 2025
December 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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WATCH: The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. reunited as Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen and Chloe Bennet came together for NYCC 2025
Gregg (Phil Coulson), Wen (Melinda May), and Bennet (Quake) were at New York Comic Con 2025 to chat about MCU's first TV series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Popverse was there to listen in
December 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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From The Walking Dead to Guts & Glory: Greg Nicotero breaks down his live-shot, no-second-take horror series for Shudder
Walking Dead director Greg Nicotero wants to capture authentic reactions when he scares his Guts & Glory contestants
December 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Norman Reedus reveals how he wants The Walking Dead to end — and his idea is absolutely brutal
Norman Reedus wants the Walking Dead franchise to end with Daryl and Carol as the last survivors of the walker outbreak
December 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch Alien stars Sigourney Weaver and Veronica Cartwright reunite at NYCC 2025
Four decades after their landmark film changed horror forever, Alien stars Weaver (Ellen Ripley) and Cartwright (Joan Lambert) crashed New York Comic Con 2025 for an unmissable panel... that Popverse just happened to film
December 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why was Jean Claude Van Damme really fired as the Predator? No one quite remembers
Was it that Bloodsport star Van Damme broke a Predator head prototype? Or was it that he passed out too much?
November 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch Apple TV+ sneak the cast of Slow Horses - Saul Metzstein, Ruth Bradley, Nick Mohammed, James Callis, Christopher Chung - to NYCC 2025
The actors behind Emma Flyte (Bradley), Zafar Jaffrey (Mohammed), Claude Whelan (Callis), and Roddy Ho (Chung) joined director Saul Metzstein to chat about Apple TV+'s hit spy thriller at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there to film it
November 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role just broke the rules of villain design in Daggerheart — now the whole table builds the dragon queen
Forlorn, the central antagonist of upcoming Daggerheart campaign Reign of the Weredragon, is a creation not just of the GM, but of the whole table. We asked Elise Rezendes, Rowan Hall, and Spenser Starke t explain more
November 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The Twenty-Sided Tavern proves live D&D is unbeatable — especially in an age when we’re not sure who’s human online
Why The Twenty-Sided Tavern is selling out: D&D, theater magic, and the power of real human connection.
November 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Hoist the colors high and watch the Our Flag Means Death panel, featuring Con O'Neill, Nathan Foad, and Kristian Nairn from ECCC '22!
Izzy Hands (O'Neill), Lucius Spriggs (Foad), and Wee John Feeney (Nairn) were on-deck at Emerald City Comic Con 2022, and Popverse is offering you a looking glass back in time
November 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Daggerheart romantasy campaign With Love and Magic is coming “fast” as Critical Role tests a digital-first release strategy
After Critical Role's Matt Mercer announced it earlier this year, we've been waiting on details regarding Daggerheart's With Love and Magic campaign. And at PAX unplugged 2025, we got to ask for details from the developers
November 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
To me, my X-Men cast! Watch as Professor X star James McAvoy and Kitty Pryde Eliot Page reunite at NYCC 2025
Kitty Pryde (Page) and Charles Xavier (McAvoy) made New York Comic Con 2025 their own X-Mansion, and Popverse was there to record it
November 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The future of live play isn’t “another Critical Role” or Dimension 20 says Anjali Bhimani— it’s whatever wild new thing creators dare to try
Why the next era of TTRPG live play will reward the weird, the risky, and the unapologetically original.
November 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Predator was defined by the man behind the effects of Aliens, Terminator and Jurassic Park
The only monster ugly enough to make a xenomorph look cuddly could've have had an entirely different (and probably worse) design. Thankfully, the man who designed the Terminator, Stan Winston, had other plans
November 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Is Predator a horror franchise? The original filmmakers had to keep it from slipping into a different genre
Predator producers did not want audiences thinking they were watching a war movie despite hiring actual soldiers, the A-Team stunt guy, and the folks that did Commando
November 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
WATCH: Tubi presents Breaking Bear, starring Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Annie Murphy, and Elizabeth Hurley, at NYCC 2025
Before they star in Tubi's newest animated adult comedy, Breaking Bear, Fraser, Gellar, Murphy, and Hurley were at New York Comic Con 2025 to tell fans all about it. Popverse was there too, and we were filming
November 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Inside Date Everything: Ms. Marvel co-star Anjali Bhimani on voicing a bathtub woman in the year’s weirdest romance game
Bhimani, who plays Bathsheba in the game where you get to... well, Date Everything, figures she probably got a similar call to all of the other Critical Role and Dimension 20 stars that are in the dating sim
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
How MCU and Overwatch star Anjali Bhimani avoids revealing spoilers — even for her own characters
Miss Marvel star Anjali Bhimani isn't worried about getting in trouble for spoiling her many, many voice acting projects. I guess that's a benefit of being able to "Men in Black" yourself
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role's Darrington Press turns limitation into invitation with new TTRPG - "If it doesn't fit on a card, it's not Daggerheart"
I'm quoting producer Elise Rezendes and lead codesigner Rowan Hall here - both of whom explained Daggerheart's less is more philosophy at PAX Unplugged this year
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role’s Daggerheart team explains what makes a great TTRPG adversary in new monster pack reveal
Specifically, we asked designers Rowan Hall and Spenser Starke, plus producer Elise Rezendes, what makes for the best beast. And it isn't the "tiny numbers" on their stats page
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role's Daggerheart is perfect for horror, say the Dungeon Dudes (which is why they're moving Dungeons of Drakkenheim over to it)
Dungeons of Drakkenheim, the longrunning 5e campaign that's been core to the Dungeon Dudes' YouTube channel, is officially coming to Critical Role's D&D rival. And apparently, it's got a lot to do with the fear factor
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The Dungeon Dudes' Kelly McLaughlin has already run a cozy TTRPG campaign in D&D's Forgotten Realms - you'll just never see it
The Dungeon Dudes' next campaign, Seasons of Silence, will start their characters in a cozy, Shire-like setting. And for McLaughlin, that won't be an unfamiliar place at all
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Tales from Woodcreek creators want a bigger, bolder season 2... if the show can secure a budget for it
Dungeon Dudes Kelly McLaughlin and Monty Martin would love to team up with Deborah Ann Woll for another adventure in Woodcreek, but even a high Charisma modifier won't change real-world production expenses
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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D&D icons are rebooting Acquisitions Incorporated with a fresh Daggerheart-powered adventure
Dungeons & Dragons titan Jeremy Crawford announced at PAX Unplugged '25 that the first real actual play show (arguably) is switching TTRPG systems to Critical Role's own Daggerheart
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Inside the chaotic rise and fall of The Lost Boys TV series that never made it to air
From the creator of Veronica Mars and the director of the first Twilight film - The CW almost reimagined cult hit The Lost Boys for the small screen. Here's what went wrong
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch Marvel's Fantastic Four movie reunion with Ioan Gruffudd & Michael Chiklis from NYCC 2025
New York Comic Con 2025 obviously took place in the hometown of the Fantastic Four, and while Gruffudd and Chiklis were there to reminisce about their time in the blue suits, Popverse was there to capture the conversation
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Predator producers killed Shane Black’s character because he was too busy acting beside Arnold Schwarzenegger to rewrite the screenplay
That is, they killed Rick Hawkins, Shane Black's role in the OG Predator movie, who wasn't so much a victim of Yautja bloodthirstiness as he was studio necessity
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The surprising low-tech genius behind the original Predator movie's shimmering camouflage reveal
The Predator filmmakers wanted to give their titular monster an 'almost invisible' power, leaving the audience just a bit more cued in that Arnold Schwarzenegger and the gang. Hynek explains how they pulled it off
November 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch the Bob's Burgers team - H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Dan Mintz, Larry Murphy and creator Loren Bouchard - grill up memories at NYCC 2025
The Belchers - that is Bob (Benjamin), Linda (Roberts), Louise (Schaal), Gene (Mirman), Tina (Mintz), and pal Teddy (Murphy) - joined creator Loren Bouchard at New York Comic Con 2025 to talk about what's coming to Bob's Burgers, and Popverse was there too, hungry for more
November 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role is giving us all a free RPG in 2026, as Darrington Press' Dying Spire comes to Free RPG Day next year
The Critical Role team is bringing more Daggerheart to Free RPG Day in 2026, continuing the story that began with Marisha Ray & Grant Howitt's one-page adventure, A Familiar Problem
November 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role is taking their love of John Constantine, Castlevania and more gothic horror into new Daggerheart campaign
An addition to Daggerheart's first expansion book, Hope & Fear, Dark Heart of Andaluria will tie together some of your favorite monster tropes into a hauntingly beautiful world, says co-designer Rowan Hall
November 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role has listened to your request, Daggerheart players: A GM fear tracker is coming in 2026
Keeping track of your players' Fear is going to get a lot easier if you're a Daggerheart GM, and it's all thanks to the fans who have been bugging Critical Role's Darrington Press about a special GM screen
November 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role is bringing its Delicious in Dungeon-style Daggerheart campaign to life in liveplay with Viva la Dirt League
Beast Feast, which Critical Role's Daggheart has described as a campaign similar to fantasy anime Delicious in Dungeon, is coming to Viva la Dirt League.
November 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
GET OVER HERE and watch the Mortal Kombat II panel from NYCC 2025, featuring Adeline Rudolph, Ed Boon, Jeremy Slater, Karl Urban, Martyn Ford, Simon McQuoid, and Tati Gabrielle!
Kitana (Rudolph), Johnny Cage (Urban), Shao Kahn (Ford), and Jade (Gabrielle) joined writers Boon and Slater and director McQuoid at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there to film the action
November 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Cross-eyed: Watch Prime Video's hit detective series investigate NYCC 2025
As the team is hard at work on Cross season 2, the creatives behind the series were at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there with a camera
November 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Heal your inner child by watching longtime Blue's Clues host Steve Burns at Emerald City Comic Con 2022
Laughter, memories, and more than a few tears were all there for Steve Burns legendary ECCC '22 spotlight panel. And now, you can relive the heartwarming moments for yourself
November 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch the Star Trek Universe panel celebrate Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy at NYCC 2025!
Space may be the final frontier, but Popverse knows you ain't done exploring. Watch our footage of the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con 2025 right here
November 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch The official Vampire Lestat, Talamasca & Anne Rice Immortal Universe panel from NYCC 2025
Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches are making their return to AMC quite soon, along with the debut of Talamasca: The Secret Order. Popverse was at New York Comic Con 2025's Anne Rice panel to snatch up all the secrets the creatives were there to tease
November 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss could be eyeing an Earth-based spinoff — here’s what Brandon Rogers thinks it could be about
Vivienne Medrano has gone on record hinting at WHERE third Hellaverse series could be set. And now Brandon Rogers, star and cowriter of Helluva Boss, is talking about WHO he could see it being about
November 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The new Buffy the Vampire Slayer "is not a reboot, it's a sequel" says executive producer (and Hamnet director) Chloe Zhao
Eternals director Zhao says a new show "can never replace" the characters Buffy fans fell in love with, and that the new Hulu series "bridges two generations"
November 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Wicked: For Good tie-in margaritas have people feeling Wonderful and Defying Gravity... but the hangovers are Something Bad
What is This Feeling? Too many Wicked puns in an article about Chili's? I guess No Good Deed goes unpunished, or maybe it's just that I'm Not That Girl. Shiz.
November 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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If Critical Role's Legend of Vox Machina is The Hobbit, says Marisha Ray, then Mighty Nein is Lord of the Rings
Prime Video's second Critical Role adaptation will be "a little bit darker" in tone, says Ray, who provides the voice for kickass monk Beauregard Lionett
November 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stranger Things creators got a wild gift from ‘Running Up That Hill’ songstress Kate Bush
Also, we're getting more of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things season 5, says series co-creator Ross Duffer
November 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch Prime Video's official Invincible panel from NYCC 2025, with Steven Yeun, Gillian Jacobs, Robert Kirkman, and Lee Pace
Yeun (Mark Grayson), Jacobs (Sam Wilkins), and co-creator, co-showrunner, executive producer Kirkman turned up the violence at New York Comic Con 2025 (well, in an animated sense), with an unmissable Invincible showcase
November 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
From Bryce Tankthrust to Blitzo: Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel star Brandon Rogers breaks down his leap from live YouTube comedy to animation
"You're not selling it with your body or your gestures or your costumes or your hair," says Rogers, who's on Helluva's sister show Hazbin Hotel as Katie Killjoy
November 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Fazbear Pizza who? Five Nights at Freddy's is swapping cheese for chicken with a Popeyes collab ahead of the Blumhouse sequel
Well, not entirely, I suppose. The frightful delights of Five Nights at Freddy's titular Pizzeria are present in Popeyes' new Freddy Fazbear Crunch Menu, just in a different form. You know, like ghost kids in an animatronic jam band
November 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
What to Watch December 2025: Stranger Things, Fallout, and Percy Jackson are decking the halls this streaming season
Take a peak underneath the tree to see what's coming to Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+ and more as 2025 finally winds down
November 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon stars and producers - Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Scott M. Gimple, David Zabel, and Greg Nicotero - infect the Big Apple at NYCC 2025
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon continues to slice through hordes of the undead on AMC, but at New York Comic Con 2025, Reedus (Daryl), Melissa McBride (Carol), and producers Scott M. Gimple, David Zabel, and Greg Nicotero took a minute to sit down and chat
November 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Helluva Boss finds new life on Amazon Prime — and Brandon Rogers says it’s restored his faith in mainstream media
Rogers, who both plays titular Helluva Boss Blitzo and cowrites the series, said the move reminded him "good art can still go big." Not to mention, the actor feels his family can now enjoy his work "on a more frequent level"
November 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler is just like you - that is, desperate for Patrick Rothfuss to finish The Doors of Stone
The Doors of Stone would be Rothfuss's third book in the Kingkiller Chronicle, and if anyone can get him to finish it, we're hoping its Leslie Knope herself, Amy Poehler
November 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Elder Scrolls 6 could be a shadow-drop like Oblivion: Remastered, says Bethesda boss - but it's "still a long way off"
If Bethesda president Howard isn't pulling our leg (he shouldn't be, because of the arrow wound), we might not know Skyrim sequel Elder Scrolls VI's release date until we reach it
November 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Magic: The Gathering has plans as far out as 2034, and is beginning by reducing the number of new sets per year
Posting to Tumblr, MTG's head designer Mark Rosewater revealed a "less is more" strategy when it comes to the future of the world's most popular deck-building game
November 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Here's what the Black Phone 3 movie plot should be, according to creator Joe Hill
Black Phone creator Joe Hill on where the Blumhouse film franchise should go for its third movie
November 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Helluva Boss is getting to be its most honest, craziest, goriest, and horny self with Prime Video
Helluva Boss's Brandon Rogers says new streamer Prime Video is totally "mitts off" when it comes to creative control
November 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Even Netflix thought Stranger Things' creators did Barb dirty... and nine years later, the Duffer brothers regret it
Even before Stranger Things season 1 aired, there was a #JusticeForBarb movement going on in the writers room, as the Duffers report that Netflix would "harass" them to give more thought to poor Barbara Holland
November 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
WATCH: Out of The Adventure Zone and into Emerald City Comic Con: The McElroys on nerding out, audible art, and of course, family
Clint, Justin, Travis, Teresa, Griffin, and Rachel McElroy were all at ECCC '21 for a special event called The First Family of Podcasting. And thanks to Popverse, you can watch it here now
November 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch Toei Animation present the cast and creatives of One Piece - series director Wataru Matsumi, producer Ryuta Koike, and English voice actors Ian Sinclair and Madeleine Morris - at NYCC 2025
Matsumi, Koike, and Sinclair and Morris (who play Brook and Lilith, respectively) took time out of their busy pirating schedule to be at New York comic Con 2025. And obviously, we weren't gonna miss it
November 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Don't expect another Midsommar from Thunderbolts* star Florence Pugh - "I probably shouldn’t do that again"
Marvel fans might be able to expect Pugh to return as Yelena Belova in a few projects to come. But A24 horror fans might not want to get their hopes up
November 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Toy Story 5's teaser wants to know why Kids These Days won't get off their tablets
Pixar has revealed the teaser trailer for the fifth(!) installment of its most iconic franchise, Toy Story. But we have to ask - just which age group is it for?
November 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix is keeping the end of Stranger Things season 5 a secret from everyone - even the cast
Will Byers himself, AKA Noah Schnapp, says Netflix means business when it comes to not spoiling the Stranger Things series finale. In fact, he hasn't even seen it himself
November 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!Critical Role creators were asked to pull back on the phallic imagery for the Mighty Nein Prime Video show
We get it - Prime Video has to go through the MPAA to produce Critical Role's Campaign 2 adaptation, The Mighty Nein. But if you think you're gonna stop Critters from being horny, I have news (and many, many subreddits) for you
November 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Why Helluva Boss re-wrote its own origin story for its Prime Video debut, according to co-writer/star Brandon Rogers (AKA Blitzo)
When Helluva Boss came to Prime Video, it brought along a new prequel episode called Mission Zero. Now, the show's lead and cowriter, comedian Brandon Rogers, is explaining why
November 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch Game of Thrones' George R.R. Martin spotlight panel from NYCC 2025
Ahead of even more Game of Thrones coming to HBO, Westeros mastermind George R.R. Martin was at New York Comic Con 2025 for an unmissable panel for all fantasy readers
November 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Heartbroken? Let Marvel's Shang-Chi, Simu Liu, give you breakup advice
"Feeling heartbreak is just as human as feeling the peak of success," says Shang-Chi and Avengers: Doomsday star Liu. And no, that's you crying, not me
November 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Amadeus Cho in the MCU? Shang-Chi's Simu Liu will co-sign that petition with you right now
And before you start yelling, yes, we know that Amadeus Cho technically appears in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
November 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel's Meng'er Zhang reveals the acting advice Sir Ben Kingsley shared on the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings set
Kingsley, who starred as returning MCU buffoon Trevor Slattery in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, gave advice to the film's Xu Xialing, AKA Zhang. And now, she's sharing it with all of us
November 11, 2025
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Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield was "disappointed" he couldn't be in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, but was "very, very glad" Jacob Elordi got the gig
Garfield was once poised to star opposite Oscar Isaac as the Creature in del Toro's adaptation, and now, the ex-Spider-Man is speaking out about the role
November 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Hazbin Hotel & Helluva Boss's Brandon Rogers talks Katie Killjoy, Mission Zero, and the switch to Prime Video
We got to chat with YouTube icon Brandon Rogers about Helluva Boss’s Prime Video glow-up, Hazbin Hotel’s big moment, and finding family in the Hellaverse.
November 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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"It's about goddamned time:" MCU star Simu Liu reacts to being brought back for Avengers: Doomsday after 5-year gap
"Let the record show," said the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star to a room full of New York Comic Con attendees, "That I was just kidding." But were you, beloved actor Simu Liu? Were you??
November 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch Shang-Chi's Simu Liu and Meng'er Zhang basically prove they're siblings in real life at NYCC 2025
Shang-Chi (Liu) and Xu Xialing (Zhang) came to New York Comic Con 2025 to give behind-the-scenes-secrets, tease future projects like Avengers: Doomsday, and - most importantly - mercilessly tease each other
November 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!Netflix kicks off Stranger Things season 5 early, posting the first five minutes of the final season on YouTube
"At long last, we can begin." It's about time, Stranger Things season 5
November 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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What time do new Stranger Things episodes come out? Here's the Season 5 schedule
Ahead of the fifth and final chapter of Netflix's Stranger Things, Popverse is getting into the nitty-gritty of the season 5 episodes, from their release times to their order to their (still incomplete!) titles
November 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Gilmore Girls heartthrob Jared Padalecki reveals he's Team Jess 25 years later, but Matt Czuchry thinks there's still a case to be made for Team Logan
"They all had their issues," said Gilmore and Supernatural star Padalecki, "but today I'm team Jess." Czuchry clings to Logan's chances, "if he changes his life."
November 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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What movies like The Terminator and Netflix's A House of Dynamite get wrong about nuclear war and AI, according to the experts
Netflix's Katheryn Bigelow thriller, A House of Dynamite, joins The Terminator and WarGames in pitting human against machine in a nuclear conflict. But there's something all these films are missing
November 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Predator: Badlands' box office numbers prove the franchise just needed a buddy comedy all along
Director Dan Trachtenberg's reign over Predator is here to stay, as latest role-swapping entry Badlands rakes in the franchise's biggest opening weekend yet
November 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch Paramount Present NCIS: Tony & Ziva at NYCC 2025!
Paramount's latest NCIS spinoff was keeping the fanbase, the romance, and all the innocent civilians alive at New York Comic Con 2025, and we were there to film it
November 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings deleted scene that was Simu Liu and Meng'er Zhang's favorite to film
Yes, Simu Liu and Meng'er Zhang's favorite Shang-Chi scene, which went down in Ta Lo, was cut from the final film. But at New York comic Con 2025, the onscreen siblings wee willing to explain it to fans
November 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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SpoilersHBO's IT: Welcome to Derry exhumes the creepy criminal case of the Bradley Gang - and we're here to explain it [Lore Corner]
Stephen King's own Capone wannabes play a big role in this week's episode of IT: Welcome to Derry - here's who the Bradley Gang are, and why they matter
November 10, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Watch the sneak peek at Chris Pratt's new movie Mercy with Pratt, director Timur Bekmambetov, and more from NYCC 2025
Ahead of its debut in theaters, Mercy came to New York Comic Con 2025, and stars Pratt and Reis joined director Bekmambetov to open the case on this upcoming police thriller
November 07, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Director Jordan Peele's Nope follow-up is less than a month away - but it's not what you think
To be fair, the Get Out director's upcoming documentary High Horse: The Black Cowboy is at least partially inspired by Nope. It's just not about aliens
November 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role fans, remember - Matt Mercer's homebrew warrior class (now available in Daggerheart) was created specifically for Vin Diesel
Daggerheart players can now unleash the power of the Blood Hunter - so long as they also remember that Matt Mercer created it for a Critical Role special starring Vin Diesel
November 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Netflix's Stranger Things: Tales from '85 announcement sure seems to be teasing the return of a dead (?) season 2 character
The tagline of the newly released Stranger Things animated spinoff trailer reads: "Something survived in '85." And we're pretty darn certain we know who it is...
November 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch the My Hero Academia panel from ECCC '21, featuring Justin Briner, Lucy Christian, Clifford Chapin, David Matranga, and Monica Rial
The voices of Izuku Midorya (Briner), Ochako Uraraka (Christian), Katsuki Bakugo (Chapin), Shoto Todoroki (Matranga) and Tsuyu Asui (Rial) took the stage to discuss one of anime's most popular offerings just as the series was ramping up
November 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch Capcom tell NYCC 2025 how they've kept up the fight for over 45 years
With four decades plus of experience publishing the most-talked about games, Capcom had a lot to tell New York Comic Con 2025. And Popverse was there to listen
November 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Does Critical Role's Mighty Nein title sequence music sound familiar? It should - it's Welcome to Wildemount, released in 2022
Prime Video is using the most appropriate music they can to intro new Critical Role series The Mighty Nein, working a song written for Campaign 2 directly into the opening credits
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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As Guillermo del Toro's Netflix adaptation comes to life, should we say 'Frankenstein' or 'Frankenstein's monster?' Jacob Elordi says "it's irrelevant"
Elordi, who plays Victor Frankenstein's creation in del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's godfather of all horror, implies there's far more to his character than what we call him
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Reese Witherspoon recounts Lorne Michaels begging her to host post-9/11 SNL episode; gives the experience "zero stars"
Witherspoon, who was just coming off the previous summer's release of Legally Blonde, said her SNL hosting gig was "just too much responsibility for a 24-year-old girl"
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg reveals the movie got the James Cameron seal of approval (eventually)
Prey and Predator: Badlands director Trachtenberg met Cameron while they were both in New Zealand, where the latter was working on the next Avatar film.
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Who would Glen Powell play in the MCU or DCU? No one, says The Running Man star
Don't get us wrong - Glen Powell has nothing against Marvel or DC's cinematic universes. It's just that the Chad Powers prefers chads without, well, powers
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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IT: Welcome to Derry creep Pennywise sleeps for 27 years with ease, but a real world eight-month break almost killed the HBO prequel
2023's WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes presented some serious challenges for the IT: Welcome to Derry cast and crew, says producer Barbara Muschietti. Especially since a healthy chunk of the Stephen King prequel had already been filmed
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski doesn't think much of the Netflix series - but then again, he doesn't think much of the games, either
During a Reddit AMA, Witcher creator Sapkowski explained why novels will always tower over the TV shows and gaems that come out of them. But to be clear - he doesn't think it's just in the case of Netflix or CD Projekt Red's adaptations
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Step aside, Doctor Doom - 2027 belongs to the OG supervillain, as French bad guy Fantômas plots a comeback
Introduced in 1911, French master criminal Fantômas has five decades of evil scheming on Robert Downey Jr.'s big bad, who will enter the MCU in Avengers: Doomsday
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Ariana Grande to miss world premiere of Wicked: For Good due to flight issues. Apparently, no bubbles were available
Gravity is apparently sick of being defied, as Glinda actor Ariana Grande posts heartbroken message about missing the Wicked: For Good premiere in Brazil due to a safety issue on her plane
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt