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

Elseworlds Finale Announces Spoilers

Tonight saw part 3 of the Elseworlds crossover air on The CW with the Supergirl episode. A couple of things are worth talking about; so SPOILER warning. The first is that apparently Tyler Hoechlin may be done as Superman on The CW for the time being. He tells Supergirl he is hanging up the cape for […]

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Movie News

Sonic The Hedgehog Motion Poster Released

The first poster for the live-action Sonic The Hedgehog has been released. The motion-poster features a tease of Sonic running and acquiring coins with the familiar jingle, with the poster also teasing “a whole new speed of hero” as well as the release date. Sonic The Hedgehog, from the producers of Fast and Furious, has

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Marvel Movie News

New Brie Larson Captain Marvel Image

Disney and Marvel Studios have released a new official image of Brie Larson as Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel wearing the green suit. Click for high-res: Captain Marvel has a March 8, 2019 release directed by the writing/directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck and stars Academy Award winner Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben

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DCU Movie News

Aquaman Rotten Tomatoes Score Is In

(Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with the most recent RT numbers) The reviews for James Wan’s Aquaman movie is in giving the flick a current Rotten Tomatoes score of 63%. Presently, 246 reviews are accounted for, with 156 Fresh to 90 Rotten; 86% of the audience says the liked it. As we get closer

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Marvel Movie News

Scott Derrickson Back For Doctor Strange 2

Following the trailers for Captain Marvel and The Avengers: Endgame, it’s revealed that Doctor Strange 2 is a go with Scott Derrickson returning as director. THR offers a search for a writer is currently underway, and that Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong and Rachel McAdams will be back for the sequel. Derrickson did write the first

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TV News

Netflix Reveals Most Binged & Re-Watched Shows and Movies

While Netflix doesn’t release specific numbers, they have released info for their most binged and re-watched original TV shows and movies as well as those actors that got the most bump of followers on Instagram. Check out the info: 2018 on Netflix: To All The Shows and Movies We’ve Loved Before The year is almost

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Movie News

Spider-Verse Eyeing $30M-$35M Opening

This weekend sees the release of Sony’s highly anticipated animated Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse movie, which is eyeing a $30-35 million opening weekend for the U.S. It’s possible the number could be on the low side because there is huge buzz surrounding the movie, and in addition, reviews are overwhelmingly positive as Spider-Man: Into The

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DCU Movie News

Birds of Prey Casts Victor Zsasz

Another Gotham City villain joins the Birds of Prey movie with Victor Zsasz, played by Chris Messina. Described as a sadistic serial killer who carves a tally mark onto himself for each of his victims, Victor Zsasz joins Ewan McGregor’s lead villain, Black Mask. In the comics, Victor Zsasz first appeared in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 back in

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TV News

Netflix Announces Aggretsuko: We Wish You A Metal Christmas Anime

Right in time for the holidays, Netflix announces the original anime, Aggretsuko: We Wish You A Metal Christmas. Aggretsuko has become a global hit since its Season 1 launch on Netflix on April 20th, 2018. Based on a Sanrio character, Retsuko is a 25-year-old red panda who copes with her thankless office job and daily

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Movie News Star Wars

Disney Forgets To Submit Han Solo For Oscars

Han Solo, the worst performing of all the Star Wars movies, won’t be eligible for the Oscars. Originally the Han Solo score was going to be a contender for an Oscar nomination, but someone at Disney forgot to submit it to the Academy by the Nov. 15 deadline. Han Solo has music composed by John

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TV News

Tyler Hoechlin Superman TV Series Could Happen

Spinning out of Supergirl, a new Superman TV series is possible starring Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent and The CW’s Man of Steel. Elizabeth Tulloch made her grand debut on Sunday during the Elseworlds episode of The Flash as Lois Lane, and now she lets it be known a Superman TV series has been talked

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Movie News

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Rotten Tomatoes Is In!

Reviews are in for Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as its Rotten Tomatoes score comes in at a present 99%! Sony’s new animated Spidey film currently has 104 Fresh reviews to one 1 Rotten review; the audience score isn’t available yet, but 93% of the people want to see it. It seems Sony was right in announcing the

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Marvel Movie News

Now Captain Marvel Can Lift Thor’s Hammer

I don’t think we even need to watch The Avengers: Endgame because Captain Marvel is going to fly in and save the day. That’s it, guys, movie is over (lol). Both Kevin Feige and Brie Larson have stated numerous times that Captain Marvel is the MCU’s strongest superhero, and now Larson is asked if Carol Danvers can lift

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TV News

Is Tyler Hoechlin The Smallville Superman?

Last night saw the first part of The CW’s Arrowverse Elseworlds crossover air that happened to feature the Smallville theme song, “Save Me,” by Remy Zero. When I first heard the music I thought we were getting a surprise appearance by Tom Welling, but instead, we got the Tyler Hoechlin Clark Kent along with Elizabeth Tulloch

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Movie Trailers

Once Upon A Deadpool Trailer – Defends Nickelback

Fox Studios released a new trailer for the upcoming PG-13 Once Upon A Deadpool movie featuring the Merc With A Mouth defending the band Nickelback when Fred Savage makes fun of them. However, as it is the spirit of Christmas, things work out between the two of them. Once Upon A Deadpool runs for twelve days,

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Movie News

Spider-Man: Far From Home Team-Up With With Mysterio

Sony and Marvel Studios have released footage from the Brazil Comic-Con of the Spider-Man: Far From Home panel featuring Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal where it becomes known Spidey teams with Mysterio. “In my opinion, this movie is way better than the first one. It’s going to be so crazy,” Tom Holland said. “I think you

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Marvel Movie Trailers

Avengers: Endgame is “Final Phase” In French / Canadian

Disney and Marvel Studios have released the French / Canadian version of The Avengers: Endgame trailer which has a different title with “Phase Finale.” Translated from French into English, “Phase Finale” means “Final Phase.” In French, “Endgame” translate into “fin du jeu,” according to Google. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has offered Marvel’s Phase 4 will

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Movie News

Silver Surfer Trailer For Marvel Contest of Champions

Witness the arrival of the Sentinel of the Spaceways as the Silver Surfer joins the Marvel Contest of Champions video game. Marvel fans will get their first look at the Sentinel of the Spaceways – the Silver Surfer – as he traverses The Battlerealm undetected, witnessing all that has occurred in The Contest of Champions. He rides off

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Movie Trailers

Godzilla: King of the Monsters Trailer #2

Warner Bros. and Legendary released the second trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. 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 that pits Godzilla against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history. The

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Movie News

Godzilla: King of Monsters Poster Ahead Of Trailer

Legendary Entertainment confirms a new Godzilla: King of Monsters trailer is coming later as they released the following poster showing off the giant kaiju with Millie Bobby Brown’s character, Madison Russell, standing in awe. “Long live the king,” the poster states.  The Godzilla Twitter account has also been teasing Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah.  MONARCH SPECIMEN: Queen of the

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TV Trailers

Stranger Things 3 Title Teaser

Netflix released a new teaser for Stranger Things 3 featuring a title tease. “In the summer of 1985, the adventure continues,” the video description offers, with the video confirming the series returns in 2019. The video seen above offers the names of each episode for the new season. While no exact premiere date has been announced, a

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DCU Movie News

Aquaman Box Office Breaks Records In China

Following its huge opening day in China, now the weekend estimates are out giving Warner Bros. a record-breaking box office for Aquaman. Numbers for China include that Aquaman grossed $93.6 million, which is not only the best ever showing for a DC comic book movie, but the best ever for any WB film. Aquaman has

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DCU Movie News

James Wan Doesn’t Want To Direct Batman

In a recent interview, Aquaman and The Conjuring director James Wan made it known that he thought the idea of doing a horror version of Batman would be pretty cool, but he never said he wanted to direct the Dark Knight. Some of the clickbait sites ran with it, and there is now even a

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DCU Movie News

Superman Mentioned In Shazam! Brazil Comic-Con Trailer

Warner Bros. showed off new footage from the Shazam! movie at the Brazil Comic-Con which happened to mention Superman. The footage looks to be CCXP exclusive and not available online, but a description is available. Director David F. Sandberg and Zachary Levi also let it be known the next Shazam! trailer will drop shortly after

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Comic Book News Marvel

Marvel Comics Sales Jump With X-Men In November

With Marvel Comics bringing back the X-Men in November as well as going back to their fan-friendly approach under new EIC C.B. Cebulski, Marvel now dominates the comic book sales market. For a while, Marvel and DC Comics were pretty much neck and neck, due to Marvel’s liberal and anti-fan friendly approach to comics, which

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DCU Movie News

Amy Adams Done; DCEU Getting A Reboot

Seemingly confirming the rumors, Amy Adams says she not only thinks she is done with the DC Universe, but that it is getting a reboot. Speaking with Aquaman‘s Nicole Kidman as part of Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” interview series, Adams tells Kidman, “Welcome to the DC Universe.” Amy Adams then says, “I think I’m out

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Marvel Movie News

Avengers: Endgame Trademarks Go Live

Prior to the reveal of The Avengers: Endgame as the official title, in one of my live chats, I said to look at the United States Patent and Trademark Office website as a potential leak. Marvel would need to register the “Avengers: Endgame” trademark officially, which actually did happen on Tuesday, December 4, three days before the

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Marvel Movie News

Avengers: Endgame Gets New Logo

A new logo debuts for The Avengers: Endgame that will be used on various merchandise. The logo features the purple hue from the new trailer along with hints of gold, which was a part of the Infinity War logo. The updated logo first appeared on Amazon as it is featured on Marvel official merchandise.  The Avengers:

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Uncategorized

Netflix The Umbrella Academy Trailer

Netflix released the trailer for their The Umbrella Academy live-action series that adapts the Dark Horse Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá comic book. The show is about a dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father’s death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.  “When it rains, it pours. Here’s

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TV News

Ghost In The Shell Netflix Anime Announced

Netflix Japan announces a new Ghost In The Shell anime is in the works for a 2020 release.  Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Shinji Araki (Appleseed) are behind the project along with SOLA DIGITAL ARTS. The following art has also be released on Twitter. Ghost In The Shell is the

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