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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Movie News

Mortal Kombat Reboot Casts Sub-Zero With Joe Taslim

The James Wan Mortal Kombat reboot has found its Sub-Zero with none other than The Raid actor Joe Taslim. THR reports that Taslim is the first actor to have closed a deal on the new Mortal Kombat movie which will film in southern Australia later this year. Wan is producing the flick, with Simon McQuoid […]

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DCU Movie News

Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg Rise In New ‘Justice League’ Images

Following the big reveal of the grave scene, now Justice League cinematographer Fabian Wagner reveals new images featuring Batman, Wonder Woman, and Cyborg. The behind-the-scenes images show Ben Affleck as Batman with Ray Fisher in a mo-cap suit for Cyborg, a look at Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, and a shot of the action from

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DCU TV News

HBO Max Streaming Service Launching With ‘Friends’ And More

WarnerMedia finally announces the details for its big streaming service with HBO Max, which will launch with 10,000 hours of content including the popular Friends TV series which was previously found on Netflix. Details also include that HBO Max will be the streaming home of The CW DC shows, such as the new Batwoman (the

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Movie News

Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds Assemble For ‘Red Notice’

Netflix announces that Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds will star in Red Notice, a globetrotting action-thriller centered around the pursuit of the most wanted art thief in the world and is set to begin principal photography in various locations in 2020. Rawson Marshall Thurber (Skyscraper, Central Intelligence) penned the script based on his

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Marvel Movie News

Conan Reveals Comic-Con Iron Man Funko, Guests, More

Conan O’Brien once again returns to the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con for ConanCon and has revealed his latest batch of free Funko figure giveaways, which includes Iron Man, as well as the guests for his shows. In addition to the Iron Man fig, Conan O’Brien will be giving away IT: Chapter 2, Game of Thrones and

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Movie News

Disney Responds To Little Mermaid Backlash: Can Be Black

Hollywood has once again replaced a white character of red hair, as the latest sees The Little Mermaid become the victim of PC race bending with the casting of 19-year-old R&B singer Halle Bailey. Following the announcement, fans took to social media to criticize the casting with the hashtag #NotMyAriel, which has now seen Disney

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Marvel Movie News Star Wars

Disneyland Fight Under Police Investigation

More bad news for Disneyland, as following the California park being compared to a ghost town, now a fight erupts in Anaheim with police investigating. Video footage of the “violent brawl” has gone viral which shows two men and two women throwing punches near children at Mickey’s Toontown. The footage shows men slapping women and other women

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DCU Movie News

Henry Cavill Has Superman On His Mind

Henry Cavill still has Superman on his mind as the latest social media post by the British actor has him joking about superpowers while promoting Boss sunglasses. “While wearing Boss Sunglasses not only can I stare directly into the sun, I can also stare directly into the rain!! Thank you BOSS Eyewear,” Henry Cavill recently

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Movie News

Joaquin Phoenix ‘Joker’ Doesn’t Follow Comic Books

With a new image of Joaquin Phoenix putting on makeup comes the non-surprising news that the Joker flick doesn’t follow the comic books at all. Director Todd Phillips informs Empire Online: “We didn’t follow anything from the comic books, which people are gonna be mad about. We just wrote our own version of where a

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Movie News

Angelina Jolie Is The Mistress Of Evil In Maleficent 2 Trailer

Disney has released a new trailer for Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil which stars Angelina Jolie. Synopsis: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is a fantasy adventure that picks up several years after Maleficent, in which audiences learned of the events that hardened the heart of Disney’s most notorious villain and drove her to curse a baby Princess Aurora. The film

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Movie News Star Wars

Disney Star Wars Backlash Continues: Galaxy’s Edge Tanking

The backlash to Disney Star Wars looks to continue as the highly anticipated opening of the Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge land in California is getting fewer people than expected. Arizona Central, a branch of USA Today, reports that the Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge crowds are much smaller than anticipated at Disneyland. The site reports that

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Movie Trailers

Disney’s Mulan Teaser and Poster

Disney has released a teaser trailer and poster for their live-action Mulan movie, which is an adaptation of the 1998 animated film. Mulan gets released March 27, 2020. Synopsis: When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders,

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DCU Movie News

Zack Snyder Reveals ‘SnyderCut’ Cyborg Grave Scene

Zack Snyder continues to release more images from his Justice League “SnyderCut”; this time with a pic of Ray Fisher as Cyborg at his family and mother’s grave. “Vic pounds the earth at the family plot,” Zack Snyder posted on the Vero app. Update: Justice League cinematographer Fabian Wagner also posted an image (see below)

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Marvel Movie News

Spider-Man: Far from Home Box Office Swinging High

Good news for Sony and Marvel as Spider-Man: Far From Home will beat the estimates of a 6-day $125 million opening, which it already brought in its first four days of release. Update: It is reported the movie will bring in $185 million for its 6-day release. Original article continues: Sony actually dropped its initial

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DCU Movie News

Henry Cavill Superman Tops Christopher Reeve In Poll

Following our Joker survey, now the Henry Cavill Superman takes the top spot in our latest poll pitting the British Man of Steel actor against the Christopher Reeve version from the Richard Donner films. Of the 5,600 votes cast, 62% chose the Henry Cavill Superman over the 38% that Christopher Reeve received from fans on

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TV News

Stranger Things 3 Post-Credit Scene Explained

What’s that you say?! There is a Stranger Things 3 post-credit scene? Yep! I’ve been chatting about the new season of Stranger Things 3 with various friends, all of whom didn’t watch the big post-credit scene! Warning: Spoilers follow below! Stranger Things 3 post-credit scene features Russians Upon my first complete viewing of Stranger Things

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Marvel Movie News

Spider-Man: Far From Home Has Nova Easter Egg

Blink (or is that blip) and you may have missed it as Spider-Man: Far From Home features a Nova Easter Egg. Ordinarily, I don’t post spoilers, but this one really isn’t anything big (or is it), and I have been fielding questions about the Spider-Man: Far From Home Nova Easter Egg on social media; so

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DCU Movie News

‘The Batman’ Getting New Batmobile By Ash Thorp

It looks as if a new Batmobile is being designed for the Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson The Batman movie by artist Ash Thorp. Ash Thorp seemingly confirms his involvement in creating the new Batmobile for The Batman on Twitter in two tweets which saw the artist offer “perhaps” when questioned about the possibility, and

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Movie News

Joaquin Phoenix Grins As Joker On Magazine Cover

The latest issue of Empire Magazine sports Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker grinning as the Clown Prince of Crime. It’s possible with Warner Bros. skipping out on this month’s San Diego Comic-Con, that maybe they will release a new Joker trailer to go along with the release and featured article from the magazine. Update: Director

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Movie News

Disney Race Bends The Little Mermaid

Disney once again race bends and replaces a beloved character as following MJ in Spider-Man now the Little Mermaid gets replaced. Interestingly enough, both characters are white female red-heads who are replaced by African-Americans. Disney has announced that 19-year-old R&B singer Halle Bailey will play the part of Ariel in the live-action version of The

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DCU Movie News

Zack Snyder Reveals Darkseid Would Have Set Up Justice League 2

Happy 4th of July from director Zack Snyder who again reveals a new image of Darkseid from the Justice League movie with a look at Uxas. In the comics, Uxas is the name of Darkseid prior to him becoming the cosmically powered bad guy. The image apparently reveals that Zack Snyder’s original plan was to

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Marvel Movie News

Spider-Man: Far From Home Opens On Low End Of Estimates

The Spider-Man: Far From Home opening day box office is said to be at the lower end of estimates, coming in at $39.3 million. The estimates have been all over the place ranging from $38 million to $43 million, with it said possibly “seriously” higher or lower, but we see the official number from Sony

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Marvel Movie News

Russos and Avengers Assembling At Comic-Con

Anthony and Joe Russo confirm they will be attending the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, and it is said The Avengers will be in attendance. The Russos brothers posted the following pic on Instagram, which is the Comic-Con logo, confirming their involvement. Russo brothers and Avengers actors returning to San Diego Comic-Con Deadline further offers that

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Comic Book News

‘The Walking Dead’ Comic Book Ends This Week With 193

In a surprise move, the Robert Kirkman The Walking Dead comic book from Skybound and Image Comics is ending this week with issue #193. The issue gets released tomorrow, Wednesday, July 3, and follows the previous issue which featured the death of Rick Grimes. “I hate knowing what’s coming,” Kirkman explained about why he chose

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Marvel Movie News

Ryan Coogler Has Started On Black Panther 2

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige lets it be known that director Ryan Googler has started work on Black Panther 2. While promoting Spider-Man: Far From Home, Feige is asked about the rumor about Michael B. Jordan returning as Killmonger for Black Panther 2, with Feige replying it’s “pure rumor” and dropping the tidbit about Coogler.

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TV News

DC Universe Comic-Con Plans Include Harley Quinn, More

DC Universe announces its Comic-Con plans which includes footage of the new Harley Quinn animated series, exclusive giveaways and more. Find the full announcement below. Here is the NYCC teaser: All-Star DC UNIVERSE Panels to Showcase Original Series Titans, Doom Patrol, Young Justice: Outsiders, Harley Quinn and DC Daily – Promising Sneak Peeks, First Look

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Comic Book News

Batman Experience Coming To Comic-Con

While Warner Bros. is skipping out on the SDCC, DC Comics will be there in full force with the Batman Experience at Comic-Con. DC teams up with AT&T for the Batman Experience, a massive, interactive exhibition that includes the largest-ever collection of Batman-related props, costumes and vehicles, including the Michael Keaton Batsuit and Batmobile. The

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DCU Movie News

The Flash Going In New Direction; Ezra Miller Still On Board

Not a real shocker, but it’s learned that once again the directors on The Flash movie have bailed as it is learned IT director Andy Muschietti is now in talks to helm the flick featuring DC’s scarlet speedster. Fans of Ezra Miller will be happy to know he is still attached to star as Barry

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