Category: Marvel

DARTH VADER creative team takes over in STAR WARS #38

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Media Release — Fans were blown away by their work in DARTH VADER, and we fell in love with a rogue archaeologist in DOCTOR APHRA. Today, Marvel is proud to announce that writer Kieron Gillen will continue to bring his exciting storytelling to a galaxy far, far away along with artist Salvador Larocca, when Gillen takes over as the writer for Marvel’s ongoing STAR WARS title this fall. “My aim’s simple – to do what Salva and I did with Darth Vader, but for Leia, Luke and Han. As in,…

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CAPTAIN MARVEL To Be Filmed In CALIFORNIA (Tax Break)

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Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel is one of eight films which has been awarded incentive tax credits from the California state government to film in the state. As first reported by Deadline, the 2019 movie will receive $20,756,000 in tax credits and be the first Marvel Studios project to film primary in California since 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. “Our headquarters and post-production facilities are in California, so it’s very exciting to be able to film Captain Marvel here in our home state thanks to this California tax credit,” said…

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Stan Lee Introduces The Defenders

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Trailer from Film Select shows some new looks of the Defenders including The Punisher. Stan Lee recites an introduction of the Greatest Stories Ever Told about heroes of New York called the Defenders. Coming this August 18th on Netflix. No there not the Avengers and there focus is in New York but they are effective and learning to trust each other to become the Defenders and defend the helpless from the powerful and bad guys. Watch this unorthodox group of heroes shake things up in the city fighting crime and…

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #789 Brings PETER PARKER Back to the DAILY BUGLE Dan Slott

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Amazing Spider-Man #789 will bring Peter Parker into “Marvel Legacy” by sending him back to his roots at The Daily Bugle – but it looks like he may have to lose everything to get there. Amazing Spider-Man’s “Marvel Legacy” arc – ominously titled “The Fall of Parker” – will find Peter returning to the newspaper in an unknown capacity after the collapse of Parker Industries. “This is a Peter Parker who’s had it all, lost it all, and now has to find his place in the world again,” writer Dan…

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New Spider-Man Animated Series Release Date and New Trailer

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There’s a brand-new Spider-Man animated series on the way this summer! Back at New York Comic Con in October, Marvel revealed that a brand new Spider-Man animated series is on the way for 2017. Marvel Animation’s Cort Lane (Senior Vice President Animation and Family Entertainment) announced that next year “a brand new Spider-Man series, one we’ve been working on for a few years now will make its debut.” The new series, titled simply Spider-Man, “will follow the adventures of Peter Parker from the very beginning. It’s filled with humor and…

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First Look at the Wasp in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’

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If you stuck around during the credits of Ant-Man (and of course you did), you were treated to (spoiler alert) an additional scene where Michael Douglas‘ Hank Pym gifts his daughter, Evangeline Lilly‘s Hope van Dyne, with her own superhero suit. The suggestion was that she would suit up alongside Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang in the sequel, a suggestion that was confirmed when Ant-Man and the Wasp was scheduled for a July 6, 2018 release date. And now, thanks to a banner from the upcoming D23 Expo, it looks like…

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Spider-Man: Homecoming: Who Is The Shocker?

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Spider-Man’s D-List villain has his own spot in the movie. Where did this character come from? Spider-Man is facing more than just the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is now in theaters. The web-slinger will also face a D-list villain from yesteryear, the Shocker. Many fans may not be too familiar with this character, since he doesn’t often appear in the comics. So who is the Shocker and where does he come from? This will be the first appearance of Shocker on the big screen. Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo, Total Recall)…

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Marvel’s New Warriors TV Series Announces Cast

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Actress/comedian Milana Vayntrub (This Is Us) has landed the starring role of Squirrel Girl in Marvel’s New Warriors, the upcoming live-action comedy produced for Freeform. She’ll be joined in the series by Derek Theler (Baby Daddy) as Mister Immortal, Jeremy Tardy (Dear White People) as Night Thrasher, Calum Worthy (Austin & Ally) as Speedball, Matthew Moy (2 Broke Girls) as Microbe and Kate Comer (The Comeback) as Debrii. Marvel’s first foray into live-action comedy, the 10-episode series centers on six young heroes :learning to cope with their abilities in a…

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STAN LEE’S WIFE, JOAN LEE, DIES AT 93

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Joan Lee, the wife of legendary comic book creator Stan Lee, died quietly today in Los Angeles at the age of 93 surrounded by family. Marvel confirmed the news in a statement: “We are so saddened to hear about the loss of Joan Lee. We lost a member of the Marvel family today and our thoughts and prayers go out to Stan and his daughter Joan in this difficult time.” A spokesperson for Stan Lee and his daughter, Joan Celia Lee, released the following statement: “The family ask that you…

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TONY STARK’s Return Begins In INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #593

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Brian Michael Bendis and Stefano Caselli are continuing with Invincible Iron Man into “Marvel Legacy,” renumbered to #593 and beginning with the disappearance (and eventual return to the armor) of Tony Stark, according to IGN. “Well, the theme of ‘Legacy’ was already very strongly in the forefront story of the Iron Man series. Not only has Tony’s mantle been passed on as he lays in a coma, but it’s been picked up by Riri Williams, a newcomer and relative stranger, and Victor Von Doom… who is one of the great…

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‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Review

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That Peter Parker, he sure does like being Spider-Man. Check that. He loves being Spider-Man. Loves, loves, loves it. And from the evidence of “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” Tom Holland loves, loves, loves playing the web slinger. Movie Review ★★★½   ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming,’ with Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei, Michael Keaton. Directed by Jon Watts, from a screenplay by Watts, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Chris McKenna, Christopher Ford and Erik Sommers. 133 minutes. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some language and brief suggestive comments. Opens July 7…

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Spider-man Homecoming: First 4 Minute Movie Clip

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Spider-man Homecoming: First 4 Minute Movie Clip (2017) Tom Holland Superhero Movie HD The most anticipated movie of 2017 and possibly the decade has to be Spider-Man Homecoming. Spider-Man the iconic character is back with Marvel the company that gave birth to the hero in the sixties and has framed a movie for the next century and beyond. Being bitten by a radioactive spider has complicated Peter Parker’s life and introduced a high school student and nerd to the super hero world and the nasty people called villains. Tony Stark…

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Kevin Feige Explains Amy Pascal’s Words About Spider-Man

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In an earlier video shared on Comics Talk Sony Pictures’ Amy Pascal made some statements in an interview with Variety which lead fans to believe Tom Hardy’s Venom would exist in the same universe as Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and the Avengers, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige had a look of surprise on his face. The internet was on fire with the pictures of Feige’s facial expressions of astonishment as Pascal was speaking. Fan accounts from Twitter and other venues joked about the Justice League joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe…

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Marvel’s Inhumans – Official Trailer 1

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ABC has released the first official trailer for Inhumans, its latest Marvel series. In the trailer, Maximus expels the royal family to Earth from Attilan, forcing Black Bolt and his family to go on the run. This official trailer replaces the one by Scott. B earlier in June and gives a lot more detail and a great clip with Lockjaw, one of my favorite Inhumans who has the ability to transport people and himself to any conceived location. Inhumans premieres its first two episodes in IMAX on September 1, before…

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