Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be front of mind for most MCU fans this week, as the long-awaited fourth installment in Tom Holland’s Spider-Man movies is finally hitting theaters. However, even as that movie reaches (perhaps) the peak of its excitement, Avengers: Doomsday remains on the horizon. Arguably, it’s the latter movie that will also […]
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set to swing into theaters tomorrow, capping months of anticipation for the fourth chapter in Peter Parker’s (Tom Holland) solo run. Ahead of the wide release, early press screenings and international premieres already produced a wave of glowing reactions, with critics highlighting the film’s ambitious action sequences and calling it […]
If The Fantastic Four is Marvel’s first family, then the Summers’ are definitely X-Men’s first family. Scott and Jean are already the power couple of the Xavier’s Institute, and then you have the future soldier himself, Cable, and his daughter Hope. Apart from the core family, there’s also Cyclops’ brothers Havok and Vulcan, and Jean’s […]
Tom Holland presents a tour de force in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but the fans are naturally eager to figure out what’s next for Peter Parker. Holland seems to have a bright future, insisting he’ll play the role for as long as Marvel and Sony want him; given box office predictions for Brand New Day, […]
In 2015, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios struck an unprecedented deal that allowed Peter Parker (Tom Holland) to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe while Sony retained the film rights to build a separate slate around the wider Spider-Man mythology. That arrangement gave rise to Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, a shared continuity that launched with Venom in […]
When Marvel announced that Ryan Gosling was going to play Ghost Rider in his own solo Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, it caused a lot of excitement in the fan base. The excitement came both from the signing of Gosling in the lead role and from the fact that the MCU is finally roaring forward with […]
Comic books never stop charging forward. New comics hit store shelves every Wednesday, covering all forms of content and every genre you can imagine. Marvel Comics alone outputs around forty new comics every month, split evenly between twenty ongoings and twenty limited series. Of course, this number is constantly changing. Comic series come and go, […]
Tom Holland is currently doing the rounds celebrating Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but he has bad news for Venom fans. Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal recently talked about their hope of bringing Venom into the MCU, and many dream of this leading to the full-on “symbiote Spider-Man” plot. In the comics, the original Secret Wars […]
The plethora of comic book adaptations that have been released over the past several years are indebted to to a few landmark titles that came out in the early 2000s and proved superhero cinema could be a commercially viable enterprise. After Blade paved the way in 1998, X-Men took things a step further in 2000, […]
Since the original Iron Man premiered back in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has grown exponentially to include a wide range of characters, many of whom have headlined their own film series. One of the unlikeliest movie stars to emerge from the shared universe is Ant-Man, who has a trilogy to his name. Unfortunately, third […]