Two years after Marvel Television shuttered its lineup of shows on Netflix — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders and The Punisher — the company is rumored to be bringing back some of those characters to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). A post on That Hastag Show speculated that actors Jon Bernthal, Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio and Krysten Ritter would
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Diversity in a movie’s cast brings better results at the box office, according to a UCLA study that found that the worst-performing films of 2020 also had the lowest percentage of minority actors. In the report titled Hollywood Diversity Report: Pandemic in Progress, movies that had a cast made up of less than 11 percent of minority actors were found
Star Wars has long been known for great villains–Darth Vader is one of the most popular characters in the entire Saga, and Emperor Palpatine is so iconic that they couldn’t help but bring him back in the Sequel Trilogy. Lucasfilm positioned Kylo Ren to be a similar sort of villain, and while he has a
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for NBC’s Good Girls Season 4, Episode 6, “Grandma Loves Grisham.” In NBC’s Good Girls, Beth continues to play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Rio as she tries to send him to prison for forcing her into his cartel. She’s now snitching for the FBI, but it’s gotten complicated as
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Mars Red Episode 3 ” His Dream,” now streaming on Funimation. Mars Red is set in 1923 Japan, at the tail end of the Taisho era. The army has set up Code Zero, a special and secret vampire task force meant for intelligence missions, but whose special abilities might be
Waterbending techniques in Avatar: The Last Airbender were some of the coolest techniques displayed in the show. The sub-styles of bending that branched off waterbending were, in particular, very interesting to explore, especially bloodbending, where a waterbender could bend the blood flowing inside any living being and control their movements. RELATED: Avatar: 10 Strongest Waterbenders
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Mighty Morphin #6 by Ryan Parrott, Marco Renna, Walter Baiamonte, Katia Ranalli, Sara Antonellini and Ed Dukeshire, on sale now. The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers are in the midst of the worst crisis their hometown of Angel Grove has ever seen. The city has been captured by Lord
Various LGBT+ superheroes from the pages of Marvel Comics take center stage in Olivier Coipel’s variant cover for Marvel’s Voices: Pride #1, which is set to hit comic shops in June to celebrate Pride Month. The House of Ideas describes Marvel’s Voices: Pride #1 as its “first-ever queer-centered special,” with Coipel’s variant depicting “Marvel’s growing
The essence of Tony Stark is his Iron Man armor. It’s flashy, it’s powerful, and it’s helped establish him as one of the premier characters in the Marvel Universe. Without his armor, however, how well would he actually be able to hold off against the various villains in the Marvel universe? RELATED: Iron Man: 10 Most Powerful
There’s something truly exciting about anime series that make it feel like their stories can literally do anything. Anime isn’t afraid to tackle any topic or genre and it’s resulted in an extremely wide variety of anime content that’s available. Anime can accentuate immense physical strength or deadly monsters, but there are also lots of
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for X-Force #19 by Benjamin Percy, Garry Brown, Guru-eFX, & VC’s Joe Caramagna, on sale now Jean Grey has been in a well-deserved position of prominence in Krakoa, briefly serving as a co-head of X-Force before the actions of her compatriot Beast pushed her away. She was also briefly a member
The planned Lord of the Rings MMORPG from Amazon Games has been canceled following a dispute with Tencent. However, given Amazon’s questionable history with game production, this is probably for the best. The company has yet to produce a major, praiseworthy title, and the losses are beginning to stack up. Amazon Games was originally co-developing the unnamed Lord
Hulu’s upcoming Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. has received a new version of the official trailer, this time with more blood and open limb dismemberment. M.O.D.O.K. co-creator Jordan Blum posted the video to his Twitter page, writing “Hey [Marvel], your M.O.D.O.K. trailer is pretty cool but here’s an uncensored one. No one tells M.O.D.O.K. what he can and cannot say!” This updated version mostly adheres
Mortal Kombat will explore one of the video game franchises’ most dynamic relationships, according to Mechad Brooks. During an interview with EW, Brooks talked about how the film would touch upon the partnership between Jessica McNamee’s Sonya Blade and his Jax Briggs. “You’ll see the love and respect that Jax and Sonya have for each other in [Mortal
Neil Burger’s 2021 film Voyagers is basically a remaking of Lord of the Flies that uses a space setting instead. The year is 2063, and Earth is only getting hotter. Drought and famine are the normal state of the world, so when a possibly hospitable planet is found, scientist jump at the possibility of colonization. Preserving
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for My Hero Academia Season 5, Episode 4, “Make It Happen, Shinso!” now streaming on Crunchyroll, Funimation and Hulu. The latest episode of My Hero Academia dives deep into the fierce rivalry between classes 1-A and 1-B, proving how savage U.A. can be at times. It’s a 5-vs-4 match, with Hitoshi Shinso showing off
Being a newcomer to an RPG can sometimes be overwhelming. There’s stats, spells, armor, and there’s an entire world being built in a campaign that requires a character. Building a character can take time and energy that some players who are just starting out may feel lost on. RELATED: Dungeons & Dragons: The Best Pre-Made
DC has announced the final four story pitches for their Round Robin competition, as well as the details for when fans can vote on their favorites. The Round Robin tournament process allows fans to vote for their favorite potential story idea to determine which will be published as a six-issue miniseries in 2021. After two rounds
Marvel Comics has provided CBR with covers and solicit information for product shipping July 2021. Discuss these solicitations here on CBR’s Marvel Comics forum, Spider-Man forum, Star Wars forum, or X-Books forum and share with fellow fans what titles spark your interest. Marvel Solicitations – Last Six Months AMAZING FANTASY #1 (OF 5) KAARE ANDREWS
With just over 130 full-length episodes across seven seasons, the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an indispensable piece of the official Star Wars canon, the ramifications of which are still being felt. In contrast, its non-canon predecessor — Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars: Clone Wars — is much smaller in scale, running just
When it comes to Dragon Ball, power scaling is a bit of a tricky thing to figure out, and Dragon Ball Super makes things even more hectic. With new forms being created left and right, and new adversaries on the horizon constantly to challenge the power of said new forms, it seems like the only
Fans eager to pick up the many variant covers available for Shadowman #1 by writer Cullen Bunn and artist Jon Davis-Hunt now have a handy graphic to help, courtesy of Valiant Entertainment. CBR can reveal the Shadowman #1 exclusive variants graphic, which lists the different online stores and retailers for each specific cover. In total there
Epic Games has dropped a trailer for its comic book crossover event with DC, Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point. The trailer lays out the main story as well as showing off Batman’s new in-game armor. The Caped Crusader is being called to the world of Fortnite to fight in endless battles, only without any memories of who he is,
HBO and HBO Max are closing in on 45 million subscribers, buoyed by the recent success of the tentpole movie Godzilla vs. Kong. WarnerMedia revealed the latest figures for HBO and HBO Max during its first-quarter earnings report, as covered by The Hollywood Reporter. HBO and HBO Max currently have a combined 44.2 million subscribers, which
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have released the first trailer for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. The trailer begins with a police officer encountering a horrified-looking young man covered in blood. This sets the stage for Ed and Lorraine Warren’s latest case, which involves a murder that took place in broad daylight
Warning: The following contains major spoilers for “Carnage Shark,” part of Carnage: Black, White & Blood #2, by Donny Cates, Kyle Hotz, Rachelle Rosenberg and VC’s Joe Sabino, and for King in Black #5, by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin and VC’s Clayton Cowles, on sale now. Over the past few decades, Carnage
Actor Jeremy Renner, who has starred in numerous Marvel Cinematic Films as the archer Clint Barton, has finished filming for his reprisal of the role on the upcoming Hawkeye series…but he won’t say goodbye just yet. Renner posted a selfie in a story on his Instagram, with a caption that reads, “Last day, for Now… This is
It isn’t hard to play six degrees of separation between Judgement, Yakuza and Shenmue. Given the links and inspirations carried between Sega‘s action-adventures, Judgement feels like an antiquity in certain respects. It sits on the intersection of retro and modern design, wrestling with both throughout the adventure. Now, the tension between these ideas is even
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5, “Truth,” now streaming on Disney+. It’s safe to say Avengers: Endgame had the most emotional finale in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far, wrapping up many threads and passing the baton to a new generation of heroes. Tony Stark’s death may have been
As a genre, shonen has a wide variety of tropes that it rarely strays away from. One of those is the existence of rival protagonists who often find themselves butting heads with one another. Almost every popular shonen has an example of this, be it Sasuke and Naruto or Vegeta against Goku. RELATED: Riposte: 15 Best