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Mark Ruffalo Shuts Down UK Prime Minister for Using the Hulk to Champion Brexit
Mark Ruffalo targeted UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on social media after the political leader used The Incredible Hulk to champion Brexit. Johnson told a UK tabloid over the weekend (via Deadline), “The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets…Hulk always escaped, no matter how tightly bound in he seemed to be — and that […]
Continue reading‘The Simpsons’ Poke Fun at Disney’s Latest Back-Patting ‘Corporate Twitter Stunt’
As if we needed one more reminder that Disney now owns nearly all of the entertainment industry, the company flexed on Twitter in a massive crossover thread that rubbed some the wrong way — including, jokingly at least, one of its own new properties. Celebrating Monday’s announcement about the international rollout plans for Disney+, the […]
Continue readingJeremy Renner Turned Down a Role in Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Hellboy’
Before he was the one “useless” superhero in Marvel’s The Avengers, Jeremy Renner could have played another belittled character in another superhero movie. The Avengers: Endgame actor revealed that he had turned down a major role in Guillermo del Toro‘s first Hellboy movie, and that he has “zero regrets” over it. But no, it wasn’t […]
Continue reading‘Spider-Man’ Director Explains Those Post-Credits Scenes and What They Mean for the McU
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Continue readingSuperhero Bits: New Harley Quinn Origin Story, ‘Deadpool 2’ Spoils ‘Dark Phoenix’ Deaths & More
What are the weird leaked documents Marvel posted on their website all about? Who is giving Harley Quinn a new origin story? Why doesn’t The Avengers video game use McU character likenesses? Would you believe the Lobo movie is still in development? Did you notice that Deadpool 2 spoiled two Dark Phoenix deaths? Did you […]
Continue readingThanos Has Too Strong of a Rectum for Ant-Man to Grow Inside and Kill Him, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Co-Writer Confirms
In the months leading up to the release of Avengers: Endgame, there was a lot of chatter about a certain method by which The Avengers could have defeated Thanos (Josh Brolin). Some of the more creative (or disturbing) Marvel Cinematic Universe fans out there thought that if Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) could shrink down to a […]
Continue readingHow the McU Was Made: ‘Marvel’s The Avengers’ and How That Thanos Scene Happened
First, there was an idea. While press surrounding 2008’s Iron Man brought up the notion of an Avengers movie as a possibility, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige downplayed it a bit, noting that these first few movies had to work in order to get to The Avengers. Well, they worked. And they worked considerably well. […]
Continue readingHow the McU Was Made: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ & Why Chris Evans Turned It Down
While Marvel Studios clearly had ideas about heading towards The Avengers when they set about making their own films starting with Iron Man, it wasn’t until their fifth film—Captain America: The First Avenger—that they were making a movie while The Avengers was rocking and rolling and getting geared up to start production. Not only that, […]
Continue reading‘Avengers: Endgame’ Readies for Second Weekend Dominance
Records continue to fall as Disney’s
Continue reading‘Avengers: Endgame’ Decimates Record Books with $1.2 Billion Global Debut
Heading into the weekend it was a foregone conclusion that Avengers: Endgame would deliver the largest opening weekend of all-time, both domestically and globally, but to deliver a three-day domestic gross totaling an estimated $350 million and a global weekend over $1 billion was almost inconceivable.Today that figure has become a reality as Endgame not […]
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