The Silver Surfer Crashes Dinner in Final “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” Trailer

The final trailer for director Matt Shakman’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps has arrived, and in it, the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) arrives just before the Four are about to sit down for dinner and proves she’s one of Marvel’s mightiest buzzkills.

“I herald his beginning,” the Silver Surfer says, floating on her cosmic board, looking quite regal, albeit made of a galactic glaze. “I herald your end.” The beginning she’s heralding is that of Galactus (Ralph Ineson),

By The Credits  |  June 25, 2025
From Wakanda to Chicago: Riri Williams Returns Home as Marvel’s “Ironheart” Arrives on Disney+

When we first met Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) on screen in Ryan Coogler‘s Black Panther: Wakanda Forevershe was a genius student inventor who had skills not seen since Tony Stark was in the game. Riri ended up becoming a massive ringer for Team Wakanda after they tapped Riri and her Tony Stark-level tech to help them in a moment of extreme danger—they’d just lost their Black Panther (the late,

By The Credits  |  June 25, 2025
Marvel’s First Family Finally Arrives: New “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” Teaser Showcases Stunning Retro-Future World

A new teaser for director Matt Shakman’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps has arrived, and along with new footage comes the news that tickets are now on sale. The new look situates the importance of family for Marvel’s upcoming reboot, which is fitting considering the Fantastic Four are Marvel’s First Family (they were created by Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby on August 8, 1961, ushering in a new level of realism to the comics medium.) We see glimpses of the Silver Sufer (Julia Garner) arriving in New York as the herald to a coming catastrophe that is the world-eating Marvel supervillain Galactus (Ralph Ineson),

By The Credits  |  June 4, 2025
From Wakanda to Chicago: “Ironheart” Trailer Unveils Riri Williams’ High-Stakes Journey in Marvel’s Latest

We first met Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) on screen in Ryan Coogler‘s Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverRiri is a genius student inventor who the Wakandans tapped in a significant time of need—they’d just lost their Black Panther (the late, great Chadwick Boseman) and were facing a seriously uncertain future thanks to threats from Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and his vast army of ocean-dwelling Atlanteans. Thanks in part to Riri’s Tony Stark-level technical prowess,

By The Credits  |  May 14, 2025
Marvel’s Next Move: “Thunderbolts*” Director Jake Schreier Eyed for “X-Men” Reboot

Thunderboltsdirector Jake Schreier is coming off one of the most successful premieres for a Marvel movie in quite a while. His antihero team-up epic, led by Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova (Pugh is starting to feel like the new face of the MCU going forward), has been a critical and commercial hit for the studio. Now, Schreier is in talks to helm Marvel’s X-Men reboot, returning these beloved mutants to the fold after years in the superhero wilderness. 

By The Credits  |  May 9, 2025
From “Thunderbolts*” to “The New Avengers”: Inside the Sudden Superhero Title Swap

Thunderbolts* SPOILERS AHEAD

Who knew an asterisk packed such a punch? Thunderbolts* rolled into theaters this weekend and just as quickly rolled out a new movie title. The mysterious asterisk that hung on the end of the film’s title left some fans perplexed—that was, until the last ten minutes of the film.

Today, Marvel branding and marketing from billboards to posters to online ticket services have all changed the Thunderbolts* title to the newly revealed real title for the movie: The New Avengers.

By The Credits  |  May 5, 2025
Marvel’s Misfits Have Mainstream Appeal: “Thunderbolts*” Strikes Box Office Gold

Thunderbolts*, the Florence Pugh-led Marvel Misfit epic, struck box office gold in its opening weekend.

By The Credits  |  May 5, 2025
“Thunderbolts*” Director Jake Schreier: From “Beef’s” Parking Lot Rage to Superhero Trauma

With critics praising Thunderbolts* ahead of its May 2 release as something decidedly new (and according to its Rotten Tomatoes score, decidedly fresh) in the MCU, director Jake Schreier has opened up the aperture on how he approached his Marvel debut. Schreier is a seasoned, respected indie helmer with a string of critically acclaimed titles to his name. After launching his career with the Sundance hit Robot &

By The Credits  |  May 2, 2025
Marvel’s Misfits Hit Big: Florence Pugh-Led “Thunderbolts*” Strikes a Chord With Critics

The reviews for Thunderbolts* are hitting the internet like so many lightning strikes, and Marvel Studios is very much liking the weather report. Director Jake Schreier’s film about this assemblage of Marvel misfits—Rolling Stone‘s David Fear calls them the “off-brand Avengers“—who were all scooped from previous MCU outings and thrown together like possibly toxic leftover ingredients, has resulted in something satisfying. Thunderbolts* is being hailed as a surprisingly soulful,

By The Credits  |  April 30, 2025
No Heroes Available: “Thunderbolts*” Clip Showcases Marvel’s First Villain-Centered Film

The vibe of director Jake Schreier’s Thunderbolts* (more on that asterisk in a second) is very much evident in this brief but potent minute-long clip just released by Marvel Studios. In the clip, we find Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Valentina Allegra de Fontaine being encircled and seemingly entrapped by the misfit antiheroes, the Thunderbolts, she assembled for a mission. The formidable triple agent spy, who has practiced the dark arts of her work in Black Widow,

By The Credits  |  April 24, 2025

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“Daredevil: Born Again” DPs Hillary Fyfe Spera & Pedro Gómez Millán on Lensing NYC’s Mean Streets

Daredevil built a fierce fandom when the show first appeared in 2015, introducing Charlie Cox as visually impaired lawyer Matt Murdock, whose alter ego roamed the streets of New York at night as Daredevil, a superhero with heightened senses and lethally honed fighting skills. After nearly a decade, Cox reprises his role in Daredevil: Born Again, and in the first of two already planned seasons, doesn’t disappoint. 

With the tagline,

By Leslie Combemale  |  April 16, 2025

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“Daredevil: Born Again’s” Stunt Coordinator & Second Unit Director Philip Silvera on Big City Brawling

At the beginning of Season 1 of the Disney+ revival of the Daredevil storyline, Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel vigilante Matt Murdock/Daredevil is operating more or less as a yuppie. Matt has hung up his superhero suit to keep his heroics to the courthouse, working as a defense attorney and taking on clients pro bono when he believes in their innocence, but they can’t afford him. But with the murder of his friend and colleague,

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  April 15, 2025
“Avengers: Doomsday” Five-Hour Plus Cast Reveal Unleashes Retro X-Men, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts & Memes

While there have been countless stories on how audiences are suffering from a moderate to severe case of superhero fatigue, on Wednesday, March 26th, 2025, many, many, many people kept a tab open on their screens for five and a half hours to watch a live stream of chairs. This was how Marvel rolled out (eeked out, really) the cast reveal for the Russo Brothers’ upcoming Avengers: Doomsday,

By The Credits  |  March 27, 2025
Marvel Announces Massive “Avengers: Doomsday” Cast to Tangle With Robert Downey Jr.’s Dr. Doom

Who’s going to battle Robert Downey Jr.’s Dr. Doom in Avengers: DoomsdayWe now have the names of the heroes, antiheroes, and, well, Bob, who will be taking on the iconic villain.

Marvel has announced that returning Avengers include Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Anthony Mackie’s Captain America, Letitia Wright’s Black Panther, Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man, and Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier. The Russo Brothers are returning to the Marvel fold to helm both Doomsday and the follow-up, 

By The Credits  |  March 26, 2025
From the Upside Down to the MCU: “Stranger Things” Star Sadie Sink Joining Tom Holland in “Spider-Man 4”

It’s official—Spider-Man 4 is in full swing.

In a big bit of casting news, Stranger Things star Sadie Sink is joining Tom Holland in the fourth installment of Holland’s run as Peter Parker. Deadline reports that while Sink’s role is not yet known to the public, they’ve gone ahead and posited an intriguing possibility—that she will play legendary X-Men mutant Jean Grey.

By The Credits  |  March 12, 2025
“Thunderbolts”: Marvel’s Wild Card Mixes Antiheroes and Indie Talent From A24 & More

Recently, Florence Pugh, one of the stars of Marvel’s upcoming antihero epic Thunderbolts, said the Marvel Cinematic Universe installment was very unlike your average MCU addition. In fact, Pugh told Empire that Thunderbolts feels much more like an indie film.

“It ended up becoming this quite badass indie, A24-feeling assassin movie with Marvel superheroes,” Pugh told Empire. 

This isn’t just one of the film’s marquee names trying to give her movie an edge at the box office.

By The Credits  |  March 11, 2025

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From Wings to Stars: Costume Designer Gersha Phillips on Redesigning Captain America

Gersha Phillips is no stranger to the kind of immediately recognizable costumes that tell a viewer immediately what world she’s in, like the intergalactic looks and Starfleet designs she crafted for the recent Star Trek feature Section 31 and the Star Trek series Discovery and Strange New Worlds. Skewing to the realism side of the closet, Phillips has designed the duds for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historical epic The Woman King.

By Jack Giroux  |  March 6, 2025

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“Captain America: Brave New World” Composer Laura Karpman Crews a New Beat for a New Cap

The Academy Award-nominated composer Laura Karpman is now a consistent voice in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She scored Ms. Marvel, The Marvels, and What If? Now she adds Captain America: Brave New World to her impressive resume, which also includes American Fiction and Lovecraft Country.

In the tradition of Captain America movies, a conspiracy is afoot.

By Jack Giroux  |  March 3, 2025

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From “Day of the Jackal” to “Captain America: Brave New World”: DP Kramer Morgenthau Breaks Down 70s Thriller Inspiration

Sam Wilson returns in director Julius Onah’s Captain America: Brave New World, here to take on twin domestic threats. Sam (Anthony Mackie) and his sidekick (and replacement as the Falcon) Joaquin (Danny Ramirez) have been sent to Mexico to stop Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito) from making an illegal sale. Sam and Joaquin recover the items but lose Sidewinder. The pair then head home to train with Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly), a former super soldier introduced in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  February 27, 2025
The Heart of Hell’s Kitchen: New “Daredevil: Born Again” Video Celebrates NYC Setting

“Daredevil is a New York superhero” are the first words we hear at the top of a new look at Daredevil: Born Again, which proudly (as any good New Yorker would) boasts about its Big Apple bonafides.

“You have this picaturesque view of the city; the backgrounds are the backgrounds…there are no green screens,” says executive producer Sana Amanat. “We made New York City a character.”

Another key collaborator in agreement that filming in New York City pays off in ways big and small is Matt Murdock himself,

By The Credits  |  February 24, 2025