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With less than a month to go before the show premieres on HBO Max, Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon hosted a preview screening of its pilot episode for members of the media and the initial reviews are looking great. Many of the original show’s fans have their doubts about the new prequel following the anti-climatic ending to Game of Thrones, but it now seems like HBO and George R. R. Martin have managed to move past that hiccup and create a series that’s even better than its predecessor. Collider‘s editor-in-chief Steven Weintraub said “I did not like the last season of Game of Thrones. At all. But I’ll admit the series premiere of House of the Dragon is really well done and I’ll continue watching,” while Indiewire called it “better than GoT &&n...

The reunion of three generations of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home shook the Marvel fan world at the time of release and still remains one of the most talked about moments in the MCU. When fans saw Tom Holland share the screen with his web-slinging predecessors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, it brought back infinite memories and ignited rumors regarding future reunions in the MCU. Additional rumors regarding another return of Maguire and Garfield have been sparked after the studio’s recent announcement of the fifth and sixth Avengers movies. The news of the reunion comes from well-known Marvel insider Daniel RPK who predicts that fans will be able to see Maguire and Garfield return to the MCU big screens for Avengers: Secret Wars. In a tweet, he mentions that the sixth installme...

Tony Stark’s death in Avengers: Endgame was arguably the biggest moment for the Infinity Saga, but it now turns out that the director of the original Iron Man from 2008 — Jon Favreau — tried to save Robert Downey Jr.‘s character from his final fate in the epic ensemble blockbuster. Promoting their latest Netflix movie The Gray Man, Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo recently appeared on Vanity Fair‘s YouTube series to break down some of the most iconic scenes from their previous projects. Turning to Endgame, the brothers revealed that Jon Favreau had tried to stop them from killing off Iron Man at the end of the film. “Part of the pressure came from Jon Favreau, who called us up after he read the script and said to us, ‘Are you guys really going to k...

Christian Bale‘s addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe has long been requested by fans and his debut as Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder definitely didn’t disappoint. Thanks to the movie’s makeup effects team, you’ll now also get to see how his unique look came to be. Taking to Instagram, Odd Studio shared a series of images of Bale as Gorr when the team did their makeup test for the character, showcasing all the terrifying details on Thor’s main enemy for the film including his haunting eyes, decaying teeth and the creepy veins and scars on his body. According to the post, the FX team also worked with Allied FX to help develop what they now call Gorr Greige Super Ink for Bale’s skin tone and Mouth FX to achieve the dark bile that spills out of the villain’s mouth wh...

The bronze statues of Breaking Bad‘s Walter White and Jesse Pinkman were unveiled in Albuquerque on Friday, with actors Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul present at the event. The 500-pound statues were created by sculptor Trevor Grove and can be found at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Walt and Jesse are standing next to each other with scowls on their faces, with Walt holding on to his Heisenberg hat. “I’ve missed you all so much,” Paul said during the unveiling. “I auditioned for Breaking Bad, and it completely changed my life. So thank you so much, thank you to Albuquerque — my God, we were here for seven years on and off. It was such a huge part of my life; it still is.” “We’re humbled by this,” Cranston added. “We’re delighted, slightly embarrassed to have statues of you. And when the...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are reuniting for their seventh film together — an adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder. According to reports, Apple Original Films won the rights to the book and will have Scorsese as director and DiCaprio as the lead. Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas of Imperative Entertainment, Scorsese for Sikelia Productions and DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson for their Appian Way Productions will produce, while Richard Plepler of Eden Productions will executive produce. The Wager is set in the 1740s and follows the story of 30 men, who are the surviving crew of a British ship, as they land on the coast of Brazil after their ship crashes. Another ship lands on the coast of Chile six months later, and the sai...

Despite expressing multiple times that he’d be retiring his role from the DCEU, Ben Affleck has now been confirmed to return as Batman once again in the upcoming Aquaman sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. While Warner Bros. and DC Comics have kept Affleck’s appearance in the film tightly under wraps up till now, the news was actually broken by Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa, who took to Instagram to post a selfie of him and Affleck together at the Warner Bros. studio lot. “REUNITED bruce and arthur. love u and miss u Ben,” the actor captioned. “WB studio tours just explored the backlot alright busted on set all great things coming AQUAMAN 2 all my aloha J.” Momoa explained that fans had already caught a glimpse of Affleck’s Batman during a studio tour, so it wasn’t a secret anymore that h...

Kevin Feige has just confirmed some details surrounding the upcoming Fantastic Four film. As part of Phase 6, Fantastic Four is slated for November 8, 2024 — the last forecasted Marvel Multiverse Saga films for 2024. Speaking at the San Diego Comic-Con, Feige gave fans a few clues as to where Fantastic Four film is headed: “A lot of people know this origin story. A lot of people know the basics. How do we take that and bring something that they’ve never seen before?” Followed by “We’ve set a very high bar for ourselves with bringing that to the screen.” Feige also hinted that the franchise has origins that point back as early as 1961 and that the team is putting a lot of effort into making this reboot a success given the low ratings from the 2015 release. In other entertainment news, Ben A...

Following the massive success of Creed, which itself was a spin-off from Sylvester Stallone‘s Rocky franchise, the project is now getting its own spin-off as well named “Drago.” As its name suggests, the new franchise will center around Florian Munteanu’s Viktor Drago, the son of Rocky’s nemesis Ivan Drago. The character first made his debut in Creed II as the main opponent against Michael B. Jordan‘s Adonis Creed, with Rocky veteran Dolph Lundgren reprising his role as the Soviet captain who trains his son Viktor. The story leads on from Ivan Drago’s rivalry with Balboa after he killed Adonis’ father Apollo Creed during a boxing match. Munteanu will obviously return for Drago as well as Creed III, but there’s no news yet on either Lundgren or Stallone’s invol...

Extending its ongoing efforts to create more diversity and representation among its characters, Marvel has now introduced a new group of superheroes consisting entirely of South Koreans. Named “Tiger Division,” the new team of heroes was first introduced by Jed MacKay last year in Taskmaster and Black Cat Annual, but will now be getting their own, five-issue standalone comic series helmed by Emily Kim, who previously wrote Silk. The squad will be led by White Fox and Luna Snow and feature Captain America-like patriot Taegukgi, a card-wielding sorceress named Lady Bright, a street-brawling demigod called Mr. Enigma, living totem The General, and the android Gun-R II. “I’m so excited to be launching Tiger Division‘s first limited series,” Kim said. “As a lifelong fan of c...

Post Malone is taking fans behind the scenes in an all-new tour documentary titled Runaway later this summer. The film is slated to premiere on Amazon‘s Freevee streaming platform in August. The documentary follows Posty on his 2019 North American tour and features exclusive backstage footage, live performances as well as interviews with the rapper and those closest to him. The trailer pinpoints Post Malone’s trajectory and how he has navigated his way through fame and became a legend in his own right. In the trailer, Post Malone can be heard saying, “Sometimes I feel like I’m not a real person. I’m a goofy kid, I like to have fun, but it’s awesome that people still want to hear what’s next, the evolution. I make this music for everybody else, but everybody gives the same feeling back.” Th...

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