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“Marvel’s Runaways” is Coming to Television

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After years and years of development, abandoned film scripts and more than a few canceled ongoing comic series, the long-awaited moment has arrived: “Runaways” is making a major comeback in the form of a television series. A live-action adaptation of the fan-favorite/bordering-on-iconic Marvel comic just got ordered to series by Hulu, where it will become the latest in a long line of streaming Marvel Television series. Of course “Runaways” marks a change in how Marvel Television has previously operated; instead of arriving on Netflix like “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones” and “Luke…

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Dick Van Dyke Is Part Of Mary Poppins Sequel

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Within The Hollywood Reporter’s “Creative Until You Die” story — which focuses on famous nonagenarians in the entertainment-industry that have no interest in retiring — Dick Van Dyke confirmed that he will appear in Mary Poppins Returns, Walt Disney Pictures’ upcoming sequel to the 1964 classic starring Julie Andrews (in the title role) and Van Dyke (as Bert, a cockney jack-of-all-trades). “This one supposedly takes place 20 years later and the kids are all grown up,” the 91-year-old actor said. “It’s a great cast — Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury and…

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New Mutants Movie Release Date Set

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Writer/director Josh Boone is working hard on the long-talked-about New Mutants film, and in an interview with Creative Screenwriting the filmmaker revealed that its intended to be not just one film – but three. “After I made The Fault in Our Stars, we made Fox a comic book,” Boone said, referring to him and co-writer Knate Gwaltney. “It walked them through a trilogy of New Mutant [sic] films that would build on each other. We used this program called Comic Life, and took all the images we had loved from…

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All-Female DC Villains Movie ‘Gotham City Sirens’

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Robbie will reprise her role as DC villainess Harley Quinn. David Ayer is back in the business of DC comic villains. The filmmaker, who directed Warner Bros.’ all-bad guy comic book movie Suicide Squad, is reuniting with that film’s star, Margot Robbie, for Gotham City Sirens, a feature project that will showcase the top female villains from the DC stable, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Ayer will direct and produce the project with Robbie reprising her role as Harley Quinn, the part-time girlfriend of the Joker who is currently DC’s…

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Powerless Premiere Date Set

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Powerless premiere date set for February by NBC Today, NBC has announced their lineup for the midseason and with it comes the Powerless premiere date. The ensemble comedy, set in the world of the DC Universe, will premiere Thursday, February 2 at 8:30 p.m. In the first comedy series set in the universe of DC Comics, Vanessa Hudgens (Grease Live, High School Musical) plays Emily, a spunky young insurance adjuster specializing in regular-people coverage against damage caused by the crime-fighting superheroes. It’s when she stands up to one of these…

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CAPTAIN ATOM Creators Get To the Core of The Character

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As “Rebirth” scales back some of the elements from the New 52 — getting characters back to their “core,” as the publisher describes it — a new DC miniseries is taking that transition to a new level. Not only will The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom see the rebirth of the character, but the two writers who were originally responsible for his modern “core” will be the ones doing it. Cary Bates and Greg Weisman, the two writers responsible for the 1980’s revamp of the Charlton Comics hero, will…

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‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Gives Spidey’s Suit An Upgrade

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This past weekend brought Comic-Con Experience 2016 to Brazil, and with it came the debut of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer (which arrived online shortly thereafter for our viewing pleasure). But another Marvel Studios trailer was shown that we haven’t seen yet, and likely won’t see until next week when it debuts with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. by Ethan Anderton Spider-Man: Homecoming had the first trailer debut at CCXP 2016, and some details have been hitting the web since then. We don’t want to spoil…

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Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer Released

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Optimus Prime finding his home planet, Cybertron, now a dead planet, which he comes to find he was responsible for killing. He finds a way to bring the planet back to life, but in order to do so he needs to find an artifact, and that artifact is on Earth. Whether you want it or not, the next Transformers movie, Transformers: The Last Knight, is well on its way, and we just got our first trailer. Here, Sir Anthony Hopkins, now free from his duties on Westworld, introduces us to…

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The Mummy Awakens With Trailer Tease

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Universal Pictures has unwrapped a first official look at its reboot of “The Mummy” with the unveiling of a trailer tease and poster. The full trailer will premiere Sunday. Tom Cruise stars in the action-adventure horror film about an ancient queen (Sofia Boutella of “Kingsman: The Secret Service”) whose destiny was unjustly taken away from her. Safely entombed in a crypt beneath the desert sands for centuries, she is awakened in the present day, bringing with her malevolence that grown over millennia. “I saw her,” Cruise’s character says breathlessly. “She…

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JEAN GREY’s First-Ever Ongoing Comic Is Coming

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Founding X-Man Jean Grey is getting her own ongoing series as part of 2017’s “ResurrXion” line, and according to series writer Dennis Hopeless “this has been a long time coming.” Hopeless and artist Victor Ibanez are setting the time-displaced young telepath on path to understand her connection to the Phoenix Force to fight the future that’s prescribed for her before it returns. “It’s a sort of trials of Hercules story. Jean gets a premonition of sorts. She’s told the Phoenix is back in play and that the Earth is doomed…

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The Great Wall 9-Minute Trailer

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Watch a new 9-minute trailer for The Great Wall which stars Matt Damon. The Great Wall has a February 17, 2017 release directed by Yimou Zhang also starring Willem Dafoe, Pedro Pascal, Jing Tian, Hanyu Zhang, Eddie Peng, Lu Han, Kenny Lin, Junkai Wang, Zheng Kai, Cheney Chen, Xuan Huang, and Andy Lau. Synopsis: Starring global superstar Matt Damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), Legendary’s The Great Wall tells the story of an elite force…

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Rebirth, Watchmen Mysteries Explored In Early 2017 Says Dan DiDio

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One of the biggest mysteries spinning out of “DC Universe: Rebirth” #1 is how have the characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen” series manipulated DC Comics continuity. In the latest issue of DC’s “Direct Currents” magazine, co-publisher Dan DiDio gives information on when fans can expect to find the answer to that question. “Everyone at DC knows how interested readers are in the seeds planted in DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH #1,” DiDio says. “Your patience will be rewarded in 2017.” “You’ll start to see some of the great mysteries…

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Marvel’s Kevin Feige on ‘Spider-Man’s’ Future

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Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is on one heck of a run. Each of the company’s 14 films over the past eight years has opened in first place at the domestic box office, and they’ve brought in more than $10 billion globally. That success is a boon for Disney CEO Bob Iger, who led the $4 billion acquisition of the comic-book empire Marvel Entertainment in 2009. But it’s Feige who is credited with Marvel’s signature style — a blend of humor, optimism, and spectacle that has attracted legions of fans…

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Wonder Woman: Danny Huston Revealed as Ares?

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The new Wonder Woman trailer is out and DC Comics fans are combing over the new footage to see what they can learn about this next chapter in the DCEU saga. The new trailer reveals plenty about the visual composition of director Patty Jenkins (Monster), and definitely more of the impressive fight choreography and super hero feats. However, there is a big question still hanging over the film: who are the villains that Wonder Woman battles? After some careful viewing, we may have an answer to at least one of…

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The Walking Dead: Season 7 Ratings Down

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By Alex Osborn The viewership for Season 7 of AMC’s post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead is considerably lower than it has been in recent seasons. As of this week’s episode, The Walking Dead’s ratings have dropped from 17 million at the Season 7 premiere down to 11 million for Episode 5, making for a 35 percent decline. Check out the graph from Wikipedia below (via EW) for an overview of how the show has performed over the years. While Season 7’s current viewership numbers are still higher than the vast…

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