Author: Simon Andrews

Despite having accrued a box office haul of over one billion dollars, and garnering unprecedented critical acclaim, at the time of the film’s release, Todd Phillips had been adamant that Joker would remain a standalone feature and not get a sequel. Soon after, however, it became apparent that Phillips had indeed been persuaded to commit to Joker 2. With a working title of Joker: Folie à Deux, which roughly translates a a shared delusion between two people, Joker 2 is expected to land in cinemas the year after next. And this week, Todd Phillips took to social media to reveal…

Queen Elizabeth II has died at age 96. Buckingham Palace has announced that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away at the Royal Estate in Balmoral. She was the UK’s longest reigning monarch, having ruled for the past seventy years, with the majority of Britain having known no other ruler. The statement released by Buckingham Palace reads: “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.” In recent weeks, the Queen had cancelled a number of engagements due to what had been described…

As any self-respecting Marvel Fan knows, when Thanos snapped his fingers, half of all life in the cosmos vanished from existence for a period of five years. And with the ever-changing landscape of Hollywood, at times it’s felt like we’ve been waiting just as long for any new details about the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home. But finally, all that changed this week with the release of the movie’s second trailer. And it did not disappoint. Well. Maybe they disappointed a little bit – but only because there was no Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield. On on the plus side,…

According to a new report, an infamous but unidentified serial killer has been identified. For those unaware, during the closing stages of the 1960’s, a lone offender murdered five victims and seriously wounded a further two during an eleven month period. While the attacks themselves were particularly notable for the cold-hearted and unforgiving manner in which the victims were killed, it was the sinister pseudonym adopted by the killer that preserved his place in history: the Zodiac Killer. Utilizing four different cyphers, Zodiac sent multiple letters to media outlets and police investigators, taunting them and threatening further acts of violence.…

Rejoice, fellow nerds, because the SDCC circus has once again rolled into town. And yet, it arrives this week with something of an unsettling air surrounding it. Despite new material from the likes of Marvel, Paramount and Netflix, there are some uncomfortable gaps in this year’s lineup. Non-attendees include Sony, Lionsgate and Universal, however it’s the absence of DC and Warner Brothers that is being most keenly felt. But it’s not all doom and gloom, and the big reveals are already starting to come thick and fast. One of the first panels to open up today’s proceedings was for this…

There’s some pretty BIG news about the new Marvel material that Disney Plus subscribers will be able to access on there, including a new project that will see Hayley Atwell once again reprising her role as Peggy Carter. For those of you who remember the What If Marvel Comics – you’re going to love this. The show will be an animated series, based on the much-loved comic books. These stories focus on key events in the Marvel 616 universe, flipping or reversing them to produce strikingly different parallel marvel universes for readers to enjoy. The imprint has been running since…

Maintaining a level of secrecy and control that has rapidly become the trademark feature of their movie production, Marvel elected not to release any official promotional material for Avengers: Endgame until the Super-Bowl teaser dropped back in February. Since then, they’ve been gradually drip-feeding more new footage and detail into each successive trailer, setting up a reveal that may well end up emotionally breaking a huge percentage of the movie’s audience. Whilst fans have been hyped and excited before for big Marvel movie releases such as Civil War and Thor: Ragnarok, there’s never been the level of emotional investment in…

It’s fair to say that there are some storylines and events contained in the original comics that are simply never going to get written into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sometimes this is due to issues over character rights. Other times, it’s the logistics and budgetary constraints of say, blowing up the entire universe. But in some cases, it’s because the storyline was so BATSHIT crazy, nobody would ever buy into it on any tangible level. You know, like that time Carol Danvers gave birth to her own rapist? If that last line sounds like something that:  A) You’ve never even…

If you think life’s hard, then try being in charge of the DCEU. You deliberately make your movie releases darker in order to please the fans, only to get criticized by the wider audience and some of the critics. So you tone it down and make lighter-hearted films to please the wider audience, only to be criticized by the fans and some of the critics. Despite repeated efforts to get it’s house in order, the franchise just can’t seem to be able to catch a break, and it looks like a planned Superman cameo for this year’s Shazam solo movie…

In a recent article, Sebastian Stan went and dropped the bombshell that Bucky Barnes isn’t really alive and residing in the Soul Stone, but actually died when Thanos snapped his fingers at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. Which is pretty big news, particularly for the significant number of Marvel fans who believe that all the missing Avengers are kicking back in the Quantum Realm or an alternative universe somewhere, just waiting to return to the MCU during the closing scenes of Avengers: Endgame.  At the time of these comments, Stan was perceived to be either making a deliberate corporate…