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Milly Alcock Addresses Supergirl’s Queer-Icon Status
Milly Alcock addressed Supergirl’s long-running status as a queer icon during the film’s promotional stop in Brazil, telling an interviewer she’s “honored” that fans connect with Kara Zor-El that way. Speaking at the Rio de Janeiro press event for the DC Studios movie, Alcock was asked what it is about Kara that has inspired so…
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RDJ Says Avengers: Doomsday Can Fix Marvel — Which Is the Real Admission
Robert Downey Jr. is back on the Avengers: Doomsday press trail, and he’s making Marvel’s biggest promise yet: this is the movie that fixes the MCU. In a new interview looking back at Avengers: Infinity War, Downey sells Doomsday as nothing less than the cure for everything that’s gone sideways since Endgame. Take him at…
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X-Men Reboot Casting Rumors Are Out Of Control
The X-Men reboot casting rumors are out of control. Marvel Studios has not announced a single actor for its mutant reboot, but the names keep piling up anyway, and every new scooper post gets treated like a casting breakdown. That is where the mess starts. This is the pre-announcement churn, where one post becomes a…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Trailer Confirms Hulk And A Villain “No One Can Even See”
The new Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer is here, and it arrives in the middle of the film’s biggest week yet — alongside ticket on-sales and Sony’s Global Fan Event. And it confirms the movie’s central mystery while dropping a major Hulk reveal. You can watch the new footage below. Watch The Spider-Man: Brand New…
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Why Spider-Man: Brand New Day Won’t Play In IMAX
UPDATE: The new trailer has now dropped, confirming Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk and the villain “no one can even see” — the kind of spectacle that makes the movie’s IMAX shutout sting a little more for fans. Commercially, though, it isn’t hurting: Deadline reports Brand New Day has posted its best first-day presales in five years…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Tickets On Sale Now, Including A July 29 Early Screening
UPDATE: The demand is now official — Deadline reports Brand New Day has posted the best first-day presales of any film in five years, the best of 2026 so far. That tracks with early reports of the July 29 Amazon Prime Early Access screenings filling up fast, some listed as half full or sold out…
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Star Wars Has Lost 85% Of Its Audience, And Lucasfilm’s Fix Sounds Worse
Editor’s note: The following is editorial analysis. Lucasfilm reportedly has a new fix for Star Wars, and somehow it sounds like more of the same problem. Chase younger viewers. Aim for PG-13. Build everything inside a top-down creative framework. Use AI to help generate environments and visual effects. Make Star Wars feel “special” again. But…
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League Now Dominates Netflix
The timing couldn’t be better for the case Snyder fans have been making all week. Just days after Zack Snyder marked Man of Steel‘s anniversary by courting his international fanbase, Zack Snyder’s Justice League has landed on Netflix overseas and immediately exploded, trending in the Top 10 across 21 countries. Snyder shared the news himself,…
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#SaveStargate Banner Plane Flies Over Amazon MGM Studios
The Save Stargate campaign just put a plane in the sky over Amazon. On Tuesday, June 16, the fan-funded #SaveStargate banner plane took to the air over Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City, California, fulfilling a grassroots protest, and fans on the ground captured the moment as the banner passed over the iconic Culver Studios…
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Tom Holland Names His Pick To Be The Next Spider-Man
Tom Holland is thinking about life after Spider-Man, and he already has a name in mind. In a new Esquire UK cover interview, Holland was asked who he’d like to see take over the role whenever his run as Peter Parker ends, and he didn’t hesitate: Owen Cooper. “Owen Cooper would be awesome,” Holland said…
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Robert Patrick, Stargate Cast Unite For #SaveStargate Across All 3 Shows
UPDATE: The flyover went ahead — the #SaveStargate banner plane flew over Amazon MGM Studios on June 16 — and the cast roster has kept growing, with SG-1 star Christopher Judge now adding his voice alongside the actors below. The Save Stargate campaign started with fans. Then a producer joined. Now the cast is mobilizing,…
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Tom Holland Says Spider-Man: Brand New Day Is A ‘Detective Movie’ With A Hidden Villain
UPDATE: The new trailer confirms exactly what Holland described — a character played by Tramell Tillman warns of “a threat we can’t control, one we can’t even see,” with Spider-Man told he’s “the only one who can sense it.” The detective-movie mystery is now canon. Tom Holland has given the clearest sense yet of what…
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Shang-Chi 2 Update Sounds Like Good News — Until You Look At Marvel’s Slate
Shang-Chi 2 is still “alive,” even though it’s been five years since the first one. Director Destin Daniel Cretton confirmed the sequel remains in development during an appearance on Deadline’s Crew Call podcast, telling host Anthony D’Alessandro the project is still moving and that he wants to “honor” the reception of the first film. Pressed…
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Supergirl May Not Even Win Its Opening Weekend As Box Office Estimates Drop
UPDATE — June 26: Confirmed. Supergirl opened at the low end, around $40M, and lost its weekend to Toy Story 5. The call we made weeks ago is now the result. Full breakdown. The Supergirl box office projections just hit another new low, and the bigger problem is the movie may not even open at…
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Booster Gold Pilot Is In — Is Kumail Nanjiani Still The Lock To Star?
David Jenkins just confirmed the Booster Gold pilot script is finished and handed in to DC Studios, and that one piece of good news quietly drags the franchise’s longest-running casting rumor back into the conversation. The Our Flag Means Death creator, attached to write the pilot and show-run if the series moves forward, shared the…
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The Batman: Part II Tease Has Fans Chasing A Detective Comics Clue
The Batman: Part II is officially rolling, and the first wave of teases is already here: a new official logo, a first look at Jim Gordon, and a Matt Reeves set photo that has fans convinced he’s hidden a comic-book clue in plain sight. The Official Logo Is Here The film’s social accounts have unveiled…
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Stargate Fans Plan #SaveStargate Banner Flyover Over Amazon HQ
UPDATE: It happened — the #SaveStargate banner plane flew over Amazon MGM Studios on June 16, with fans capturing the plane over the Culver Studios arch. The flight came as the cast mobilized behind the campaign — Robert Patrick, Rachel Luttrell, Christopher Judge, and actors from all three live-action Stargate series joining the fans’ coordinated…
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Chris Evans Sparks Secret Wars Speculation With New Avengers Tease
A Chris Evans video message to a fan is making the rounds again this weekend, recirculated for the actor’s birthday, and it’s being passed around as confirmation that Steve Rogers is suiting up for Avengers: Secret Wars. He says “the next one.” The fans filled in the rest. What Evans Says In the clip, Evans…
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Supergirl Opens in Days — and Even Fans Say They Can’t Find the Marketing
Update: Days before release, the Awareness tracking spiked, signaling the marketing has worked. Editor’s note: The following is editorial analysis and opinion. Supergirl lands in theaters June 26. That’s less than two weeks away, and if you spend any time where DC fans actually talk, the most common reaction right now isn’t praise, and it…
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Curry Barker Says Gen Z Is ‘Tired of Slop’ — 2026’s Box Office Agrees
The most-wanted young director in Hollywood just diagnosed the industry’s 2026 problem in three words, and he didn’t need a single box office chart to do it. Curry Barker, the 26-year-old behind Obsession, told The Hollywood Reporter this week that Gen Z audiences are “tired of slop” and want good, original movies again, stories that…