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Superhero Bits: Black Panther Set Photos, The LEGO Batman Movie Clip, Doctor Strange Deleted Scene & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 9, 2017 5:00 pm EST Will there be scenes set on Earth in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? Which comic book movies got nominated for Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards? Who are Kevin Sorbo and Teri Hatcher likely playing in this season of Supergirl? Will Kingpin show up on the first season of The Punisher?...

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits after the jump. Superhero Bits: Justice League Vs Suicide Squad, Margot Kidder Doesn’t Like New Lois Lane & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2016 5:00 pm EST If you love the adorable side of the Marvel universe, there’s a Tsum Tsum mobile game now available. This video explores 24 ways that all of the Batman movies we’ve seen over the years are the same....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Miley Cyrus Doesn’t Like The Title Supergirl, A Justice League Cameo & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2016 5:00 pm EST The Iron Fist series on Netflix won’t follow the comic book mythology of the character very closely. Here’s a clip from the forthcoming Marvel animated movie Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell, featuring Doctor Strange. The second season premiere of Supergirl last night brought some pretty great ratings over to The CW....

Todd McFarlane To Direct New ‘Spawn’ Movie For Blumhouse [Comic-Con 2017] By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2017 3:30 pm EST 20 years after the first live-action Spawn movie hit theaters, a new one is officially in the works from Todd McFarlane. The famed comic book artist and creator took to Facebook to announce that he has teamed up with Get Out producer Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions to make a new, R-rated Spawn movie....

UPDATED: ‘Back To The Future’ Fan Celebration Is Coming The Real Twin Pines Mall In 2017 By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 18, 2016 8:45 am EST UPDATE: The creators of this event have reached out to let us know that this event has been postponed until 2017. The even’ts spokesperson said: “We want to make this event the best it can be in order to not taint the BTTF brand at all, and things were not coming together to make that possible, so we made the tough, but necessary, decision to postpone the event....

X-Men Comics Writer Blames Movie Rights Deals For The Downfall Of X-Men Comics By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 7, 2016 4:00 pm EST Find out how X-Men movie rights ownership has hurt the comic books after the jump. In an interview with Bleeding Cool (via Collider) about the state of X-Men comics, specifically their low sales, Chris Claremont offered up this bitter take on the topic: That has nothing to do with comic sales, that has everything to do with the fact that the film rights are controlled by a rival corporation....

‘Arrival’ VFX Breakdown: See The Alien Landing Sites Before And After Seamless Visual Effects By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2017 6:00 am EST Sometimes when it comes to visual effects, less is more. In the case of the acclaimed sci-fi hit Arrival, there’s not a mess of blockbuster spectacle that needed to be done in order to bring the arrival of these unique aliens to life. While there are aliens created with visual effects, there aren’t any cities that need to be intricately blown up in post-production or anything like that....

‘Captain Marvel’ Done Filming, ‘Birds Of Prey’ Could Shoot In January By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2018 9:30 am EST As Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel filming wraps up, Warner Bros.’s next female-led project prepares to take flight as Margot Robbie’s Birds of Prey eyes a production start date. Captain Marvel Filming Ends Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel has landed back on Earth. Marvel Studios’ highly anticipated solo female superhero movie wrapped principal photography on July 6, the same day that Ant-Man and the Wasp hit theaters....

‘Dunkirk’ Easter Egg: Where To Find Michael Caine In Christopher Nolan’s War Film By Ben Pearson/July 25, 2017 2:30 pm EST Ever since he played Bruce Wayne’s wry butler Alfred Pennyworth in 2005’s Batman Begins, Michael Caine has been a good luck charm for director Christopher Nolan. The Oscar-winning actor has appeared in every feature Nolan has directed in the past decade, including Dunkirk, the filmmaker’s World War II film that’s currently in theaters....

‘Fonzo’ Photos: See Tom Hardy As Al Capone In Josh Trank’s Gangster Movie By Ben Pearson/April 13, 2018 2:30 pm EST Tom Hardy is about to disappear into his next role. Filming is currently underway on Josh Trank’s new movie Fonzo, in which Hardy plays the notorious gangster Al Capone, and Hardy has taken to Instagram to share a few photos of himself in character. Fonzo Photos Audrey and Jay Make up legends ?...

‘Godzilla 2’ Starts Filming, Cast And Plot Confirmed, Is Apparently Untitled Again By Ben Pearson/June 19, 2017 1:00 pm EST Back in December, Legendary Pictures put out a press release declaring that the title of Godzilla 2 was Godzilla: King of the Monsters. That appears to have changed, because today Legendary and Warner Bros. jointly released a statement announcing that Godzilla 2 has begun filming, but there’s no official title to be found....

‘Luke Cage’ Featurette Digs Into The Show’s Hip-Hop Influences, With Help From Method Man And A$AP Ferg By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2016 1:00 pm EST Much has been made of Luke Cage’s hip-hop influences. Showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker has talked up the “musicality” of the series, comparing the 13 episodes of season one to tracks on an album and promising big-name guest stars from Faith Evans to Charles Bradley. So ahead of the series’ fall debut, Netflix has released a Luke Cage featurette that digs into this particularly unusual element of their next Marvel show....

‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ Trailer: The Past Comes Back To Haunt Ethan Hunt By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 4, 2018 4:22 pm EST The Impossible Mission Force is back for another round of action, but this time they have to deal with the consequences of a mission gone wrong in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, and his team has come along with him. Rebecca Ferguson returns after being introduced in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and the reliable Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg are back too....

‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ TV Series In The Works With Kumail Nanjiani As Star And Co-Writer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 11, 2018 2:00 pm EST Lots of eyes are on Kumail Nanjiani now after the success of his autobiographical comedy, The Big Sick. While the comedian is still plugging away on the HBO comedy that provided his breakout role, Silicon Valley, Nanjiani is starting to flex his acting and writing chops outside of his comfort zone....

‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ Teaser: John Boyega Recruits New Jaeger Pilots By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2017 2:00 pm EST Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 kaiju vs. robots movie Pacific Rim had a reported $190 million budget, but only earned $101 million at the domestic box office. Thankfully for fans of the film, it ended up making $411 million worldwide because international audiences ate it up, and after some intense number-crunching by the studio, a sequel was eventually given the green light....

‘Sesame Street’s ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Parody Is Scarily Accurate By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 7, 2017 11:30 am EST I know what I go to Sesame Street for: spot-on parodies of popular adult-oriented shows that are indictments of the criminal justice system. If that’s not what you watch Sesame Street for, well, you’re missing out. The educational children’s show released a parody of Orange Is the New Black titled “Orange Is the New Snack,” turning Netflix’s dark comedy about inmates at an all-female institution into a PSA about healthy eating....

‘Suicide Squad 2’ Screenwriter Doesn’t Give Us Any More Confidence In This DC Sequel By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2017 1:00 pm EST We still don’t know if Mel Gibson will be directing the Suicide Squad sequel or not, but Warner Bros has hired a screenwriter to begin on the DC comics follow-up. The Suicide Squad 2 screenwriter has been revealed as Adam Cozad. Learn more, after the jump. THR has learned that Adam Cozad is in negotiations to write Suicide Squad 2, which is “a priority for the studio....

‘The Predator’ TV Spot Asks You To Breathe Deep By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2018 7:30 am EST Take a breath and prepare yourself for The Predator to hit theaters very soon. The newest TV spot bombards us with bloody action and terror as the titular alien wreaks havoc upon the human scientists and soldiers trying to contain it. The Predator TV Spot We finally got a peek at that old Shane Black dry humor in the most recent The Predator trailer, but the newest TV spot brings us back to the moody violence that we saw in previous trailers....

‘The Room’ Will Finally Receive A Wide Release Next Month By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 19, 2017 2:00 pm EST It took 14-and-a-half years, but Tommy Wiseau’s deliriously bad cult classic The Room will finally be blessed with a wide release. Interest in Wiseau’s trashterpiece has reached a fever-pitch following the buzz around The Disaster Artist, a comedic biopic that examines the making of one of the worst films of all time. More details about The Room wide release are below....

‘Venom’ Might Add Woody Harrelson To Its Already Impressive Cast By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 12, 2017 3:31 pm EST That Venom movie that we’re still having a hard time accepting as real has already racked up a really impressive cast. And now it’s close to adding another high profile name: Woody Harrelson is in talks to co-star. Rumor has it Harrelson will play some sort of henchman in the sort-of Spider-Man spin-off....