Author name: Matt McGloin

Matt McGloin created, designed and launched Cosmic Book News in 2008, an independent website that covers entertainment news including movies, comics, tv, video games and more. Matt helped Marvel Comics promote 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and 'Nova' and has expanded into movies, TV and more.

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TV News

The Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman Filming Halted

Filming on The CW DC shows, The Flash, Supergirl and Batwoman, has been halted due to fears surrounding the coronavirus. Filming on The Flash has been suspended as of Friday as unit manager Brent Crowell announced the shutdown “until further notice” in a note to the cast and crew, with everyone advised not to report to work. […]

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Marvel Movie News

Shang-Chi Filming Paused As Disney Shuts Down Production On Movies

Filming on Marvel’s Shang-Chi in Australia has been paused in addition to production on most of Disney’s live-action movies. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has been filming since February in Australia, but following director Destin Daniel Cretton self-isolating himself after the advice of a doctor, filming has been halted, but it is

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Sports TV News

Coronavirus: WWE, Wrestlemania Still On; XFL Canceled

As of now, Vince McMahon and the WWE don’t plan to get pinned by the coronavirus as Smackdown, Raw and Wrestlemania are still slated to take place, albeit with changes, but the remaining season of the XFL has been canceled. While the company hasn’t made an announcement about RAW or Wrestlemania, so we assume they

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Movie News

Coronavirus: Universal Studios Closes

Following Disneyland closing, Universal Studios Hollywood in California follows suit and will be down for at least two weeks. The theme parks in Orlando and Singapore are still open, with their park in Japan temporarily closed. The company made the official announcement on Thursday about California: Message from Universal Studios Hollywood: The health and safety of our team

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Marvel Movie News

Coronavirus: Disney Delays New Mutants, Mulan, Antlers

As a result of the coronavirus, Disney has removed New Mutants, Mulan, and Antlers from its release schedule and is currently looking for new dates. Mulan was originally slated for a March 27 release; New Mutants for April 3 and Antlers on April 17. As of now, Marvel’s Black Widow that gets released May 1

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TV News

Coronavirus: NHL Pauses Season

Following the NBA, MLB and NCAA, the NHL has now paused the rest of its season in the wake of the coronavirus scare. The NHL released the following announcement: NHL statement on coronavirus League pauses season, hopes to ‘resume play as soon as it is appropriate’ National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday released

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TV News

Coronavirus: March Madness Canceled With NCAA Sports Championships

The NCAA has announced that its remaining collegiate winter and spring championships in all sports have been canceled, which includes the upcoming March Madness basketball tournament. Initially, the NCAA announced that a limited number of fans, such as family, would be able to attend the March Madness tournament, but today saw the NCAA announce the

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Movie News

Coronavirus: Disney Closes Parks

As a result of the coronavirus and California banning events with larger than 250 people, Disney has announced its theme parks in California are closing from March 14 to the end of the month. Update #2: Disney announces Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort will be closed until further notice. Update: Disney has also announced it

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Comic Book News

Coronavirus: WonderCon Postponed; Comic-Con Safe For Now

As a result of the coronavirus and California banning all events with more than 250 people, the organizers behind WonderCon have announced the convention will be postponed to a later date. Comic-Con, the organizers behind WonderCon, took to Twitter to announce the news and said, at least for now, that July’s San Diego Comic-Con convention

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TV News

Coronavirus: Major League Baseball Delayed

Major League Baseball announces the delay of its opening day by at least two weeks and has canceled spring training games, the league announced Thursday. The NBA has also postponed its current season as well and the NCAA announced it has canceled its upcoming March Madness basketball tournament. MLB made the official announcement on its website:

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Movie News

Coronavirus: Fast and Furious 9 Release Date Delayed A Year

As a result of the fear surrounding the coronavirus, Universal Pictures has decided to postpone the release of Fast & Furious 9 by a year. Originally slated to be released on May 22, 2020, the film will now be released on April 2, 2021. The official Fast and Furious Facebook page announced the release date

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Movie News

A Quiet Place 2 Delayed Because Of Coronavirus

Amid all the fear surrounding the coronavirus, actor and director John Krasinski announced on Thursday A Quiet Place 2 sees its release date delayed. One of the things I’m most proud of is that people have said our movie is one you have to see all together. Well due to the ever-changing circumstances of what’s

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Coronavirus: NBA Suspends Season; Tom Hanks Tests Positive

The coronavirus strikes again as the NBA has suspended the current season, and it is also learned actor Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the virus, in addition to the NCAA not allowing fans to attend the March Madness games. Update: Major League Baseball has also delayed the start of its

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Movie News

The Batman: Batmobile Concept Artist Confirms Design

The Batman Batmobile concept artist, Ash Thorp, confirms working on the design for the movie. Back in July saw Thorp seemingly tease being involved with the flick where I put it forth his design for the new Batmobile might be a sports car. It turns out I wasn’t too far off as Ash Thorp created

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DCU Movie News

The Flash: Female Mirror Master Rumored

The Flash movie is again rumored to be gender-swapping a villain as this time it’s rumored a female Mirror Master will be used in the film. The rumor comes from scooper DanielRPK with no further info known. A female Mirror Master wouldn’t be unheard of as The Flash CW series featured the character Eva McCulloch

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Movie News

Space Jam 2 Footage Leaks: Harry Potter, Wicked Witch, Joker, Mask

Following Tuesday’s leak, now Space Jam 2 footage leaks online offering a look at various characters in the movie and confirms that the flick will feature properties from the “WBVerse.” Update: LeBron James reveals the official title and logo. Original article continues: The previous leak offered a look at Joker (possibly the fill-in actor for

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Movie News

The Batman: Elliot Warren Joins Cast Possibly As Firefly

Director Matt Reeves has cast Elliot Warren in The Batman with fans thinking the actor may be playing the villain Firefly. Warren confirmed the news on social media where he interestingly enough includes a fire emoji. “So excited to announce I’ve joined the cast for Matt Reeves The Batman. It has been an incredible experience

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Movie News

Vin Diesel’s ‘Bloodshot’ Rotten Tomatoes Score Is in

Early reviews are in for Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot movie as the Rotten Tomatoes score is now available and pretty much as expected, it’s not all that good. Update: 97 reviews are now in with the Bloodshot Rotten Tomatoes score at 32%; the Audience score is at 79%. Of course, bear in mind as the movie gets

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Marvel Movie News

Spider-Man Spin-Off Gets Roberto Orci As Writer

It’s reported that Roberto Orci is writing a new untitled Spider-Man spinoff movie for Sony Pictures. No specific details are known, but the movie will be a part of the Sony universe that includes Venom and Morbius and not the MCU. Potential flicks Roberto Orci could be writing could include any of the following that

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Marvel TV News

Marvel Taps ‘Squeeze’ Animation Studio For ‘What If?’

Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige have tapped Squeeze animation studio out of Quebec, Canada to tackle the upcoming What If? animated series for Disney Plus. Squeeze will create five of the ten episodes for the first season of What If? that offers an alternate take on the MCU films. “Marvel was looking for a world-class

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TV News

American Horror Story Cast and Poster Teases Season 10

Creator Ryan Murphy teases American Horror Story Season 10 with a new poster and has revealed the cast. The poster, similar to the recent cast announcement, teases what appears to be some sort of ocean element and/or island connection for American Horror Story Season 10. “Things are beginning to wash up on shore…” teases Ryan

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Marvel TV News

Falcon, Loki, WandaVision Filming Delayed

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier once again sees filming delayed, this time due to the fears surrounding the coronavirus. Update: Disney has also suspended production on Loki and WandaVision. Original article continues: Filming on the series recently saw a delay due to the recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico, and now the show sees a

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Marvel Movie News

Thor: Love and Thunder Featuring Dio’s ‘Rainbow In The Dark’

Following having used the song while revealing the official title at last summer’s Comic-Con, now it is confirmed Thor: Love and Thunder will feature Dio’s popular rock song, “Rainbow in the Dark.” Ronnie James Dio’s manager recently filled in Australia’s Subculture Media that: “The movie Thor 4, they’re using ‘Rainbow in the Dark’ in that

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Marvel Movie News

New Mutants Confirms Gay Teenage Love Story

Following rumors and speculation, it is confirmed that the upcoming Disney Marvel X-Men New Mutants movie will feature a gay love story between teenagers. EW.com reports on director Josh Boone informing them that in this X-Men spin-off, there’s also “a beautiful love story” at the heart of it. “Which I know is a weird thing

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DCU Movie News

Space Jam 2 Leaks Include Joker, Mask, Pennywise

Space Jam 2 leaks have hit the net offering the film will include Joker, The Mask, Pennywise and potentially more properties from the Warner Bros. vast universe of films. An Instagram page has posted a pair of images, said to be from LeBron James’ Space Jam 2, that include what may be the Jared Leto

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Movie News

The Batman: Jeffrey Wright Spotted With Gordon Mustache

While not an official look, we get our first peek at what Jeffrey Wright will look like as GCPD’s James Gordon in The Batman. Wright, who is presently in London as filming takes place for The Batman in the UK, was spotted Saturday by a fan sporting the James Gordon mustache. The fan posted pics

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