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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DCU Marvel Movie News

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Breaks Box Office Record

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse scores a record-breaking opening for the month of December for an animated movie as it has a 3-day opening of $35.4 million. The Sony film beats out Universal and Illumination’s Sing which held the previous record for December with a $35.2 million opening. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse also has an “A+” […]

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Movie News

Russos Think Superman Is Difficult

The directors behind Infinity War and The Avengers: Endgame happen to think Superman is a difficult character. In an interview with Business Insider, the Russo brothers were asked which comic book or superhero do you think is the hardest to bring to the screen. “The more powerful a character is, the more difficult to deal with

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Movie News

Adria Arjona In Talks For Jared Leto Morbius Movie

As Sony prepares to film their next Spider-Man spinoff movie with Morbius the Living Vampire starring Jared Leto, a new casting announcement is made known with actress Adria Arjona who is known for the Emerald City TV series and the recent Pacific Rim: Uprising film. Adria Arjona is in talks to play the female lead

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Movie News

Keanu Reeves Confirms Toy Story 4

Last month saw Tim Allen drop the news on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that Keanu Reeves is a part of Toy Story 4, and now the actor known for The Matrix and John Wick confirms his involvement. “I got a call which was really cool out the blue from the lovely people at

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Marvel TV News

Incredible Hulk Star Lou Ferrigno Hospitalized After Vaccination

What can take down the Incredible Hulk? How about a shot in the arm, as Lou Ferrigno posted an image of himself on social media in the hospital. The 67-year-old actor, known for playing and voicing Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk, was admitted to St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California after receiving a vaccination for pneumonia.

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Movie News

Bumblebee Rotten Tomatoes Score Is In

Bumblebee may just be the movie to see this Holiday as early reviews are in, and its Rotten Tomatoes score is at a present 98%. Currently, 40 reviews are accounted for, with Bumblebee having 39 Fresh reviews to only 1 Rotten; 92% of the audience states they want to see it. It’s also being said

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TV News

Lou Ferrigno Jr. Cast As Hourman

The Incredible Hulk’s son has been cast as the DC Universe app’s Hourman, as Lou Ferrigno Jr. joins the Stargirl series. Lou Ferrigno Jr. is playing the Golden Age Hourman with Rex Tyler, described as a master chemist and adrenaline junkie who as Hourman is a thrill-seeking superhero with the ability to manifest super-strength… for one

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Movie News

Spider-Verse Sequel and Spider-Women Details Made Known

Prior to the release of this weekend’s animated Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse movie, Sony announced that a sequel and a “Spider-Women” animated spinoff are in development. Now details are made known about both movies. Regarding the Spider-Verse sequel, which is being directed by Joaquim Dos Santos and written by David Callaham, it will focus on

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Marvel Movie News

Marvel and Sony Battled Over Spider-Man and Avengers: Endgame

New details are learned about Marvel’s initial plans for The Avengers: Endgame as it is revealed Sony and Marvel had a bit of a battle over Spider-Man. The ending of Infinity War saw the Marvel heroes die at the hands of Thanos, but since the new Spider-Man: Far From Home movie was already announced, it

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Marvel Movie News

Sony Waiting On Sinister Six Movie With Drew Goddard

Sony is only waiting on Drew Goddard to movie forward on a Sinister Six movie. While doing press for this weekend’s release of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, it’s noted that the success of Venom and Spider-Verse may lead to producer Amy Pascal’s previously shelved plans. “I’m just waiting for Drew to be ready to direct it.

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DCU Movie News

Aquaman Passes $150 Million At Box Office

James Wan’s Aquaman movie has now passed $150 million at the box office, and it has yet to open in the U.S. Following its huge China showing, that included a record-breaking $93.6 million opening, the film has further opened in 35 markets giving it a current $152 million international haul. Aquaman will open in additional

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TV Trailers

Titans Vs Batman Trailer For DC Universe

DC Universe released the final Titans trailer revealing a look at Robin vs. Batman. Jason Todd shows up and tells Dick Grayson that Batman is in trouble where apparently the Caped Crusader has killed Joker and gone rogue! Now it’s up to Dick to stop the DC Universe’s The Dark Knight! DC Universe also announced

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Movie News

Godzilla: King of Monsters “Titan” Posters

In addition to the new trailer, Legendary Entertainment releases three new “Titan” (aka Kaiju) posters featuring King Ghidorah, Mothra and Rodan. Also check out the new Godzilla poster. Following the global success of “Godzilla” and “Kong: Skull Island” comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic MonsterVerse, an epic action adventure

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Marvel Movie News

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger Official

Back in the Summer saw images from the paparazzi surface of Katherine Schwarzenegger laying a smooch on Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Chris Pratt. Now Chris Pratt has gone public about the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger as he posted pictures on Instagram wishing the 29-year-old a Happy Birthday. “Happy Birthday Chief! Your smile lights up the room. I’ve

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TV News

Green Lantern Animated Coming To DC Universe; Titans Final Trailer

Green Lantern: The Animated Series is coming to the DC Universe streaming app with its only season, and DC Universe announces a new 50% off subscription deal as it releases the final trailer for Titans. Here is the official info, which includes Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen animated movies and more: DC

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Movie News

Spider-Man PS4 “Silver Lining” DLC Trailer

Marvel and Insomniac Games have released a new trailer for the third DLC for the Spider-Man PS4 video game, “The City That Never Sleeps,” with “Silver Lining.” Our main man at Marvel, Bill Rosemann, the Marvel Games executive creative director, has also released some cool art on Twitter. Info: Silver Sable is back in the action-packed conclusion

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Movie News

Adi Shankar Joins “Superman Vs. the Ku Klux Klan”

Adi Shankar, known for Netflix’s Castlevania, Dredd, The Grey, and that super cool Katee Sackhoff Power Rangers fan film, has joined the Superman Vs. the Ku Klux Klan movie as a producer, teaming with Marc Rosen (Sense 8, The After), to present a true story of how everyday citizens and artists struck a powerful blow against evil. Shankar says

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Movie News

Josh Brolin and Thanos Excited For Once Upon A Deadpool

The PG-13 Once Upon A Deadpool is now out in theaters for a limited time, which sees Cable-actor Josh Brolin excited for its release as he posted a “Dancing Thanos” video on Instagram. “Got the feels today,” Brolin posted including “#thatotherdeadpoolmoviecameout #50% #killingit #repost @jasonriv37.”         View this post on Instagram        

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DCU Movie News

Henry Cavill Not Done Yet As Superman Says Jason Momoa

At last night’s Aquaman world premiere, Jason Momoa let it be known that Henry Cavill is not done as Superman just yet. It’s reported by a producer for Entertainment Tonight that Jason Momoa said that Henry Cavill loves playing Superman and is “absolutely” not leaving the character anytime soon. “I just talked to Henry… He’s absolutely

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TV Trailers

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Official Trailer

CBS All Access released the Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 trailer as the show returns Thursday, January 17, 2019 on the streaming network. Check out a new poster as well.  Star Trek: Discovery follows the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to

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Movie Trailers

New Captive State Trailer; From Rupert Wyatt

Watch the new trailer above for Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt’s new science-fiction movie Captive State starring John Goodman. Described as a smart sci-fi thriller in the vein of District 9 and Arrival, Captive State is set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force. Captive State explores

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TV News

Confirmed: David Ramsey’s Diggle Is Green Lantern

After all these years, it’s confirmed that David Ramsey’s John Diggle is actually Green Lantern. However, it’s a different universe as confirmed on the Elseworlds crossover. The crossover sees the Earth-90 Barry Allen, played by John Wesley Shipp, travel to the Earth-1 universe to warn the heroes about The Monitor. “My name is Barry Allen,”

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TV News

Joel McHale Cast As Starman

Joel McHale, known for Community, joins the DC Universe Stargirl series as Sylvester Pemberton aka Starman. Fans will note the Starman for the DC Universe app series is different than the comics, as Sylvester Pemberton is known better as The Star-Spangled Kid and Skyman in DC Comics. In DC’s official announcement, they note the changes: If you’re familiar with

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Marvel TV News

Netflix January 2019: What’s Coming and Leaving

Netflix has released their list of movies and TV shows that will be coming to and leaving the streaming network for the month of January 2019. Following The Avengers: Infinity War debuting on Christmas Day this month, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp premiers in January on Netflix, which marks the last Marvel movie that will

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TV News

Sharknado’s Ian Ziering Joins Swamp Thing

Ian Ziering, known for Sharknado and Beverly Hills 90210, has joined the cast of the DC Universe Swamp Thing series in a guest star role as Hollywood has-been Daniel Cassidy, a.k.a. the Blue Devil. The official description for the character in the series offers: “Stuntman turned movie star, Daniel Cassidy became semi-famous after playing the

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Movie News

Pixar Announces “Onward” With Chrs Pratt, Tom Holland, More

Disney Pixar has announced their next movie with Onward, which is set to star Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Octavia Spence as the lead voice cast. The film has a March 6, 2020 release directed by Monster University‘s Dan Scanlon and the plot centers on two teenage elf brothers who embark on a quest to

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Comic Book News Marvel

Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History Announced

Marvel Comics announces the six-issue limited series Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History from Comedian Paul Scheer and writer Nick Giovannetti, with art by Gerardo Sandoval. The first issue kicks off Wednesday, March 6 and sees Cosmic Ghost Rider trapped where he doesn’t belong — in the past. While he’s there, he’ll take a few liberties with the origin stories

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Star Wars TV News

Star Wars The Mandalorian Cast Announced

Disney and LucasFilm officially announce the cast of the upcoming Star Wars Disney+ The Mandalorian TV series. Pedro Pascal (Narcos) has been cast in the title role as a lone Mandalorian gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy. He is joined by Gina Carano (Deadpool), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Emily Swallow (Supernatural), Carl Weathers

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Marvel TV News

Punisher Season 2 Premieres In January

Netflix announces that Marvel TV’s Punisher Season 2 will premiere in January 2019 with thirteen episodes. Jon Bernthal and Punisher are featured in a short teaser in the above video announcing what’s new coming to Netflix in January starting at the 1:57 mark. The official release date has yet to be announced. Alongside Bernthal, Marvel’s

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Movie News

Mortal Engines Rotten Tomatoes Score Is In

The Mortal Engines Rotten Tomatoes score is in, and it’s not all that good. With 42 reviews counted so far, Mortal Engines comes in at 36%, with 15 Fresh to 27 Rotten reviews; 88% of the audience wants to see the flick. The movie opens this weekend and will be going up against Sony’s animated

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