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Chris Evans's rumored Avengers: Doomsday return to the MCU is in the news again thanks to X-Men legend Chris Claremont
Speaking at the Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo, Marvel Comics staple Claremont seemed to tell attendees not only about Evans' return, but which character he would be playing (and no, it's not Johnny Storm)
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stephen King's never-made Castle Rock season 3 would have focused on the niece of The Shining's Jack Torrance, reveals star Jane Levy
Had Hulu not canceled the series set in a Stephen King-inspired universe, Castle Rock would have had its own take on The Shining, with the star of 2013's Evil Dead remake as its star
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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DC Studios benches Sgt. Rock as the Colin Farrell war movie from Challengers director is pulled from the production schedule
Luca Guadagnino was hoping to shoot a movie based on the classic DC war hero this summer, but it's not going to happen until 2026 at the earliest
April 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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There's a very straightforward reason why that Star Wars character has been recast for Andor season 2, says showrunner
Jimmy Smits wasn't available to return as Senator Bail Organa, says Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy, but the character is too important to the show to leave out
April 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's actor had to "freestyle" his way through the role to manage the weight of expectations he felt
When you're in a Superman movie, it helps to have nerves of steel. Or at least be able to fake them.
April 30, 2025
Trent Cannon
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FYC: Before Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*, here are some great stories of bad guys turned good
Everyone loves it when a bad guy does the right thing, and we're here to enjoy Clint Eastwood, Kurt Russell, and an entire Suicide Squad doing that very thing in honor of Marvel's Thunderbolts*
April 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Who created Marvel's Sentry? The simmering Marvel Comics (and Marvel Studios) drama deepens as Paul Jenkins weighs in amid Thunderbolts* theatrical debut
In 2000, Marvel announced that Stan Lee and Artie Rosen created the Sentry. In the 25 years since, it's gotten more and more complicated
April 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
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"Horrible": Star Wars' Acolyte villain Manny Jacinto said that Stranger mask didn't let him see or breathe
How he was able to be so intimidating while stumbling around during the fight scenes of Star Wars: The Acolyte is honestly incredible.
April 30, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Why all Star Wars villains have a British accent, according to Andor season 2 villain Ben Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn, who returns to Andor as Rogue One's Orson Krennic, has reasoning rooted in the history of all cinematic villains, not just the ones from Lucasfilm
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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ABC's The Bachelor can't be saved from its "archaic form" unless it adapts to audience tastes, says former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Rachel Lindsay from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette pointed out the elements that make ABC's dating show, well, dated
April 30, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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You've been wondering why the MCU Bucky Barnes is a Congressman, and Sebastian Stan has an explanation (thankfully)
Bucky Barnes has been an assassin and an Avenger in the MCU, and now Thunderbolts* will show his new life as a member of Congress
April 29, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Monkey Man creator Dev Patel is still on revenge mode, but his follow-up movie is a period piece
Dev Patel continues to chart out his path as an actor-director-writer with The Peasant
April 29, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Spoilers! The Last of Us Part II ending explained: What happens - and who survives - in the game that inspired HBO's post-apocalyptic hit?
If you don't want to be emotionally blindsided like you were by The Last of Us season 2, episode 2, heres one way to prepare
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Michael J. Fox recalls filming Back to the Future’s iconic Johnny B. Goode scene
“I busted my ass to get that song right”: Michael J. Fox remembers rocking out during Back to the Future’s Johnny B. Goode scene
April 29, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Here's every Sherlock Holmes story that's been used in CBS's Watson (so far)
Speaking in doctor terms, Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian canon doesn't make up the entire body of CBS hit medical mystery series Watson, but it is the backbone
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Star Wars and Luke Skywalker helped me learn to live with my mother's addiction and her death
Watching the original Star Wars trilogy after my mother died allowed me to process my own feelings of abandonment and hurt in a way that nothing else had.
April 29, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The Twilight Zone episode that inspired Ryan Coogler to make Sinners
For its humor, its superstition, and its portrayal of the American South, Coogler points to the 88th episode of Rod Serling's classic of chiller TV
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Lore Corner: Who are the Washington Liberation Front, and what do they mean for The Last of Us season 2?
The Last of Us season 2, episode 3 introduced a violent organization that played an important part in the games. Learn who the WLF are (and their connection to Abby Anderson) right here
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Disney and Fortnite make my dream of fighting someone while watching Star Wars a reality
Disney will stream the first two episodes of Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld early on Fortnite
April 29, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch calls Marvel "the House of Stolen Ideas" after his stake in the character overlooked for past 25 years - including in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie
"Cut out" and "thrown under the bus": Marvel Comics' Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch opens up about his omission for the past 25 years and in the Thunderbolts* movie.
April 29, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski is tackling a new Miami Vice, but he's making a UFO thriller first
Kosinski can take it from Vince Gilligan - sometimes you have to do X-Files before getting to Breaking Bad
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Despite what the finale of Cobra Kai suggested, there isn't going to be a Back to the Future prequel, sequel, or spin-off - and you have Steven Spielberg to thank for that
Netflix might have jokingly suggested that they would be making a Back to the Future tv show, but Steven Spielberg won't let that happen.
April 29, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Sony pushes anime movie Scarlet into the award season spotlight by giving Mamoru Hosoda's highly anticipated follow up to Belle a December release date
After Mirai was nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2019, Sony is hoping Hosoda can do one better with Scarlet.
April 29, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Marvel Matters: After Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*, I see Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom assembling his own team with the Cabal
MCU fans have spent all this time speculating on the next Avengers, but we need to think about the villains creating their own Avengers.
April 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
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The Princess Bride musical adaptation is apparently still going ahead after being in development for an inconceivably long time
The Princess Bride musical has been in some stage of development for almost a decade, so we can wait a little while longer.
April 29, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Star Trek villain Khan help inspire the portrayal of Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, according to the actor who played him
If you're going to use a Star Trek villain to influence your performance, it is best to use the best one there is.
April 29, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Matthew McConaughey & Christian Bale made a ferocious dragon movie 2 decades ago - and it's time you saw it
Years before we knew who he really was, Matthew McConaughey played the most American of Americans, complete with a shaved head, tribal tattoos, and his own personal tank, in Reign of Fire.
April 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
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The Last of Us season 2 continues the tradition of breaking our hearts in the credits
First Ashley Johnson gets fans of the game cry even harder after episode 2. Now this? Clearly The Last of Us is just a marketing psyop for Kleenex and depression meds
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sinners box office barely drops for second weekend, the second best for a horror film after 2017's It
Between its first and second weekend in theaters, Ryan Coogler's vampire hit Sinners only dropped 6% in sales - an incredible achievement for a theatrical horror run
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Don't look now, but an Alien: Earth teaser just confirmed our prediction about Weyland-Yutani
Earlier, we asked if the Weyland-Yutani corp had acquired more alien species than just the xenomorph before Prometheus. Turns out, that's a big, doubled-mouthed "yep"
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Netflix's Stranger Things influenced Star Wars: Starfighter, according to director Shawn Levy
Expect Lucasfilm to announce things the way they did Starfighter at Star Wars Celebration 2025. And if you don't like that? Well, blame those pesky Hawkins kids
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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John Lithgow isn't put off from playing Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter series due to J.K. Rowling's anti-rhetoric, despite a "very good friend" and mother of a trans child asking him to walk away
Lithgow says that the role is a good "winding-down" role for him at the end of his career and that he was caught off-guard by the controversy around Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling
April 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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From Golden Boy to Stuntman actor & 'Serious' actor: The three eras of Tom Cruise movies across his career
The three faces of Tom Cruise, from Risky Business to Mission: Impossible and into his more serious movies like Born on the Fourth of July.
April 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Nico Robin from the Netflix series explains perfectly why we're so excited for One Piece season 2
One Piece has always been a silly show filled with beautifully emotional moments and it sounds like the cast of season two really gets that.
April 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Sorry, Charli XCX: It'll be Barbie's Emma Mackey trying to kill Aslan in Greta Gerwig's Netflix Narnia movie
The Barbie and Sex Education star will play Jadis, the White Witch, in the upcoming adaptation of C.S. Lewis's Narnia stories
April 28, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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As Avengers: Doomsday starts filming, Marvel boss Kevin Feige reveals what he loves most about Avengers movies (hint: it isn't the box office draw)
With filming set to begin on Avengers: Doomsday, the massive cast of the MCU team-up film gives the studio a chance to have their actors interact in new and surprising ways.
April 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Samuel L. Jackson tells a theater full of Star Wars fans "Mace lives!" before a 20th Anniversary screening of Revenge of the Sith
Even though Mace Windu seemed to die at the end of Star Wars: Episode 3, Jackson is adamant that the Jedi Master could return in the future.
April 28, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Popverse Picks: My favorite horror movie franchises (besides Scream)
Of course my favorite horror franchise is Scream - everyone's favorite horror franchise is Scream. What we're going for here is my favorite you *don't* already know
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Lore Corner: The Last of Us season 2 episode 3 changes the "bigot sandwich" moment from the game
In a minor but interesting departure from The Last of Us Part II game, HBO's The Last of Us series gave Seth, Jackson's resident homophobe, a chance to be a better man
April 28, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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How to watch 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, and 28 Years Later in order (and where the comics fit in)
How to watch the 28 Days Later franchise in release and chronological order
April 28, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Ms. Marvel & Overwatch 2's Anjali Bhimani discusses staying hungry as an artist, what it's like working on Critical Role, and the best X-Men to play in a video game
If you're a gamer, you've heard Anjali Bhimani's work, especially as Symmetra in Overwatch 2. But Bhimani's career stretches far beyond the recording booth, and Popverse got an exclusive window into the many mediums it covers
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Pedro Pascal knew about THAT The Last of Us season 2 scene before he was cast, says showrunner Craig Mazin
I mean, so did the millions of us that played the game. That said, Mazin says there's still a place for [SPOILER] in the future of the show
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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DC's 2011 Green Lantern movie might have flopped, but it taught Ryan Reynolds what he needed to know to make Deadpool
Ryan Reynolds says that the Green Lantern movie taught him "all the most amazing lessons in the creative space," mostly by showing what not to do
April 25, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal says what we're all thinking as he tells Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling and her transphobe movement where to stick it
Pedro Pascal proves he's already superhero material by defending the trans community from a woman with too much money and not enough morals
April 25, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Sinners costumer tells all about why Ryan Coogler's vampire flick is "more than just a horror film"
"I had to remind myself, 'Oh, they're gonna bloody this one up!'" says Ruth E. Carter, who brought the style to Ryan Coogler's acclaimed Sinners
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps gets a tie-in comic that revives an idea as old as Marvel's First Family itself
Want to read the comics that characters inside the MCU read? The Fantastic Four will let you take those First Steps into the unreal this July.
April 25, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Murderbot is "more relatable than most characters I’ve ever played," says the star of Apple TV+'s upcoming adaptation, Alexander Skarsgård
Between a Viking Hamlet, a southern vampire, and a robot who basically just wants to watch TV all day, Murderbot's Alexander Skarsgård knows who he'd most want to get a beer with
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Flying Lotus was supposed to score Marvel's Blade: "We are so far from it even being a possibility now"
The status of Marvel's Blade is still pretty nebulous, but the way Flying Lotus talks about it, it looks like this vampire isn't rising anytime soon
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Superman is free to fly into international theaters as federal judge denies efforts by Superman co-creator estate to challenge release of the movie
Superman might be the strongest being in the universe, but even he has to carefully navigate international copyright law.
April 25, 2025
Trent Cannon
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One Piece season 2 cast member has confirmed that Netflix is going to make us all ugly cry at the end of the upcoming season
Dr. Hiriluk's dream becomes the first truly great moment in Oda's iconic manga and we can't wait to see it come to life in live action
April 25, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Star Wars star John Boyega thinks Rey and Kylo Ren's romance was toxic, and reveals the advice Finn would give to Daisy Ripley's Rey
John Boyega isn’t a fan of the Rey/Kylo Ren relationship in Star Wars
April 25, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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From Starship Troopers to Batgirl & SAW, Dina Meyer dishes on her favorite roles - and her favorite song to dance to
Popverse's Ashley V. Robinson talks with Dina Meyer about it all.
April 24, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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The Breakfast Club doesn't have the kind of high concept that would be greenlit today, says star Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez says Hollywood doesn’t make character driven movies like The Breakfast Club anymore
April 24, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps Silver Surfer follows the example of 1999 comic book series Earth X in giving new life to a longstanding Marvel character
No, the new MCU Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps isn't a man - but it is a character with a long Marvel comic history
April 24, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Skateboards, manure, and heart: The Back to the Future cast on why their movie stands the test of time
Biff Tannen actor Tom Wilson says the secret to Back to the Future’s success is its “unbelievably great heart”
April 24, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Ryan Reynolds thinks that Deadpool being part of Marvel's Avengers or X-Men would be "the end" of the character
Deadpool is at his best when everything is taken away from him, says Ryan Reynolds about the Marvel antihero.
April 24, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Star Trek vs. Star Wars as creators from both sides face-off in Popversus: The pop culture fight club
We boldly went to a galaxy far far away and goaded two Star Wars and Star Trek creators to fight it out.
April 24, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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When Harry met John: Star Wars' John Boyega describes the surprise first meeting he had with co-star Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford had a classic response when he first met John Boyega and Daisy Ridley on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
April 24, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Girls creator Lena Dunham and pop icon Carly Rae Jepsen are turning 1999 romcom 10 Things I Hate About You into a Broadway musical
10 Things I Hate About You? More like 10 Things I Really, Really, Really Like [About] You, according to Carly Rae Jepsen
April 24, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The Fantastic Four's Yancy Street in the MCU confirmed with "kosher groceries and a synagogue" in First Steps
Yancy Street, where Ben Grimm's The Thing grew up, is staying true to the Jewish roots of New York's Lower East Side in The Fantastic Four: First Steps
April 24, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Phineas and Ferb season 5 release date: Disney's daring duo returns to save Danville from the likes of Dr. Doofenshmirtz, this summer
Join Disney+ this June as Phineas & Ferb continues proving the rule that nothing is funnier than a platypus pulling a Clark Kent
April 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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And Just Like That... season 3 release date: Carrie Bradshaw & co. continue making New York sexier and citier on Max
20 years after the events of Sex and the City, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte still have lives that deserves to be written about. And narrated!
April 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Haunting of Hill House star Kate Siegel aims to "nuture kindness" and fan the flames of excitement as she does more directing
Writer/director Mike Flanagan is "a lighthouse" for the kind of director Kate Siegel wants to be.
April 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Hey, fans of The Studio, a prestige drama about the Jonestown massacre actually *is* coming to your screens... but from SNL and Barry star Bill Hader, not Martin Scorsese
What can we say? Seth Rogen's a prophet. But the "makes a joke so good it tells the future," kind, not the "drink this Kool-Aid" kind, as Bill Hader will probably agree very soon
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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10% Criminal, 90% Minds: Matthew Gray Gubler will play Albert Einstein's fictional descendent in new CBS procedural
Based on a German police procedural of the same name, Gubler will star as Lewis Einstein, Albert's great-grandson who helps a detective (Rosa Salazar) solve mysteries
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Paramount+ said no to a full-length Star Trek: Discovery finale, says series star
The streaming service turned down requests for the finale movie, as well as an extra episode to close out Star Trek: Discovery after its cancellation, said Sonequa Martin-Green.
April 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Spoilers!The Last of Us's Bella Ramsey struggles to cry on camera - here's what they did for THAT season 2 scene
In case you haven't already seen it/had it spoiled for you, we are getting into some major spoilers for The Last of Us, season 2, episode 2. You've been warned
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Predator: Badlands: While Killer of Killers goes into Earth's history with the Predator, the trailer for the franchise's other 2025 release presents an alien future
Dan Trachtenberg's Amber Midthunder-starring Prey brought us back in time for a Predator of years gone by. With Badlands, he appears to be pointing the time machine forward
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Yes, Gremlins is a Christmas movie - and its star Zach Galligan explains why (and how Die Hard helped)
How Bruce Willis helped Zach Galligan realize that Gremlins is a Christmas movie
April 23, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Stranger Things: Tales from '85: Netflix's animated adventures from Hawkins, IN gets a title
The Duffer Brothers and Netflix have conquered your screens and stages, announced their plans for your gaming console, and now, are coming for your Saturday Mornings
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Ben Affleck's biggest regret about his Batman was that what he and Zack Snyder planned was so dark even his son tuned out
The tone of Ben Affleck's appearances in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, and The Flash alienated a core part of superhero audiences, he feels
April 23, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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After Pope Francis's passing, people really want to know what happens next - which has led to a 283% bump in streaming viewership for 2024's new pope drama Conclave
Conclave, the 2025 Oscar Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, is seeing a rise in popularity along with Netflix's The Two Popes, in watch Jonathan Pryce portrays the late Holy Father
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Andor showrunner and star talk about the shocking moment in S2 E3: "I felt so much power in that"
"We’ve heard that story many times," Adria Arjona says of Bix's experience in the episode 'Harvest'
April 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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For Molly Ringwald, re-watching The Breakfast Club with her children changed the way she treats parenting
Molly Ringwald shares the experiences she had rewatching The Breakfast Club with her kids
April 23, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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After You season 5, Netflix star Penn Badgley wants to work with Jordan Peele and/or be on Severance
After You's final season airs on Netflix, Badgley doesn't want to play another dark, messed-up character. But he's not shying away from folks who tell dark, messed-up stories
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Star Wars' John Boyega has a great theory of how Samuel L. Jackson's Mace Windu survived - and he's already told the actor's wife
John Boyega thinks Mace Windu survived his duel with Darth Sidious and is running around with a droid arm
April 23, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Ransom Canyon's Garrett Wareing sure does talk like season 2 is happening
Wareing, who plays Lucas Russell on Netflix's western romance, talks about a Ransom Canyon season 2 like it's confirmed. Which we should remind you - it is not (yet)
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Thunderbolts* almost featured Man-Thing in its main cast, but Marvel Studios had other ideas
As fans of Marvel's swampy Man-Thing, we're just honored that Jake Schreier even wanted him to be a part of Thunderbolts*
April 23, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Black Mirror star Cristin Milioti "intentionally stayed away" from Star Trek before filming USS Callister
"I watched about two minutes of one episode and was like, 'I don’t want to watch any more of this,'" actor Cristin Milioti says about the source material behind Black Mirror's USS Callister
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
FYC: Andor got you in a rebellious mood? 3 Star Wars stories to keep that going
Even before Andor, from the Prequels to The Last Jedi, Star Wars has always been a political story... some times more than others. We're here to celebrate the 'more' of it all
April 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Our Flag Means Death star Taika Waititi is too busy to work on his Star Wars movie according to Lucasfilm boss, but she hopes "they get there" eventually
Speaking at Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan, Kathleen Kennedy says that Waititi will get to his Star Wars film when he's ready, and holds out hope it'll happen
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Wednesday's season 2 trailer reveals two-part release dates... and introduces a secret Addams Family member?
Just whose grave are we looking at in the Wednesday season 2 teaser trailer, and what does it mean for our macabre heroine?
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The real story behind Starship Troopers director Paul Verhoeven removing his own pants when filming the memorable shower scene
How Dina Meyer goaded Starship Troopers director Paul Verhoeven and cinematographer Jost Vacano into dropping their pants during filming
April 23, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Ryan Coogler's unique deal with Warner Bros. for Sinners opens door to talk about creator-owned movies in Hollywood more (especially given the movie's theme of Black ownership)
Warner Bros. struck a landmark deal with Ryan Coogler where the copyright for his vampire flick, Sinners, will revert back to him in 25 years
April 22, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Rick and Morty season 8 release date: The Smith/Sanchez family returns to Adult Swim for more existential scifi comedy
Space Christians aren't the weirdest thing that reality-hopping Rick and his (maybe replaceable) grandson will see in Rick and Morty season 8, but not for lack of trying
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Poker Face season 2 release date: Rian Johnson & Natasha Lyonne return to Peacock for even less lies, but even more murder
Natasha Lyonne's Charlie can smell bullshit a mile away, and unfortunately for her, more Poker Face means more reasons to hold her nose
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Walking Dead: Dead City, season 2 release date: Negan & Maggie are back in the Big, Rotting Apple on AMC+
It is far, far easier to wipe the walker horde off of planet earth than kill The Walking Dead franchise, as Dead City season 2 stands to prove
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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A Universal Studios Epic Universe theme park easter egg put Back to the Future whiz Doc Brown as the secret creator of it all
Did Universal Studios secretly build a Back to the Future land?
April 22, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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New Alien: Earth teaser could hint at FX's biggest canon change yet: Is Weyland-Yutani studying other aliens besides the xenomorph?
A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in FX's latest teaser for this summer's Alien: Earth hints that the xenomorph is only one of the creatures the infamous Weyland-Yutani is studying
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix's Stranger Things season 5 series finale was almost spoiled by The First Shadow, until the writers changed the script midway through rehearsals
In the Netflix documentary Behind the Curtain, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Broadway's Stranger Things chapter, we see (censored) footage of a reveal that the high-ups decided needed to wait for the series
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Marvel Matters: The cursed chalice of Marvel Studios' success, and the broken cinematic universe dreams it gave Hollywood
The Icarus effect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how cost Warner Bros., Sony, Universal Pictures and more billions of dollars.
April 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
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John Boyega expected The Star Wars sequel trilogy to have a big plan "like Kevin Feige... at Marvel" (and was surprised when it didn't)
“That was whack”: John Boyega feels Star Wars: The Last Jedi should have had a more consistent plan
April 22, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Ahead of Netflix reboot, here's how the historical fiction anime Rose of Versailles helped me revisit my own history as a 'tomboy' and my "gender troubles"
How the Rose of Versailles anime helped me overcome being typecast as a teenage tomboy and encouraged me to question my gender identity.
April 22, 2025
Caroline Cao
Features
Ortegas or Melissa: We play Who Is More Likely To? with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Melissa Navia
Beam aboard with Popverse video producer Ashley V. Robinson for a conversation on the difference between actor Melissa Navia and her Starfleet character, helmsman Erica Ortegas
April 21, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
The Donald Trump tariffs could scare off Halloween (and the costume industry) as we know it, with your favorite Halloween costumes set to double in price
Pixar's Inside Out characters were a big hit for Halloween 2024, and now in 2025 we may need to DIY it with these tariffs come October 31, 2025.
April 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Easter is for Sinners: Ryan Coogler's vampire flick dethrones Minecraft, gets a record CinemaScore, and outperforms a Jordan Peele opening at the box office
Nosferat-who? The Black Panther director's first completely original film has accomplished at least one thing a horror movie never has
April 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Andor star on why Cassian makes the ultimate sacrifice in Rogue One: “There’s something romantic behind every revolution”
At Star Wars Celebration 2025, Andor's Diego Luna shed some light on how the television show helped him understand his character's sacrifice
April 21, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Sorry X-Files fans, but I think Ryan Coogler's Gillian Anderson comments are being blown out of proportion
The way the internet is talking about it, you'd think that Dana Scully is in talks to return for the Sinners director's next project. But let's add some context to what Coogler recently said about the project
April 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The six Star Wars movies Lucasfilm says is still in development, and the six they avoided talking about at Star Wars Celebration 2025
These's aren't the Star Wars movies you're looking for - or are they?
April 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
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John Boyega reveals a Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker alternate scene exists where he reveals he's a force-user and Jedi
John Boyega confessed that he was a Jedi in an unused take from Rise of Skywalker’s quicksand scene
April 21, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone