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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Red Alerts & Cherry Blossom Brawls With “Captain America: Brave New World” Production Designer Ramsey Avery
When Steve Rodgers (Chris Evans) passed the Captain America shield to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), the former Falcon sidekick had big boots to fill. The same could be said for production designer Ramsey Avery in developing director Julius Onah’s Captain America: Brave New World, which has earned over $200 million worldwide at the time of ...
The Bad Guys Assemble in Meaty “Thunderbolts” Super Bowl Trailer
Marvel’s antiheroes unleashed a new trailer during Sunday night’s Super Bowl (in which the Philadelphia Eagles decimated the Kansas City Chiefs). The Super Bowl trailer for Marvel’s Thunderbolts is set to Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” with Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova/Black Widow feeling a lot less confident then we’ve seen her in the past. In ...
Retro Easter Egg Hunt: “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” Trailer Breakdown
By now, you’ve seen the trailer for director Matt Shakman’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, probably the most eagerly-anticipated MCU film of the year, given how long the Core Four have been gone. The Fantastic Four are, in fact, making their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut since that now ancient acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney way back in ...
First Images From “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” Arrive Alongside Teaser
The first teaser for The Fantastic Four: First Steps was launched onto the internet this morning, and the official countdown even occurred, with the central cast, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. There, stars Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Ben Grimm/The Thing), and Joseph Quinn ...
First “The Fantastic Four: New Steps” Trailer Reintroduces Marvel’s First Family to MCU
The first trailer for Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps has taken off, broadcast live from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where the cast was on hand to celebrate the launch of the long-awaited reboot of Marvel’s first family. First Steps will kickstart Marvel’s Phase Six, and we’ve now got our first ...
First “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” Footage Revealed Ahead of Trailer Drop
We open with giggling children in mid-20th-century America, racing through the city streets to arrive at a storefront window where, behind the glass, are a series of rabbit-eared television sets. On all the TVs, we see footage of the United States space program, including a “Prepare 4 Launch” alert on the central TV. Marvel Studios ...
Anthony Mackie & Harrison Ford Take us Behind the Scenes of “Captain America: Brave New World”
“I come to set every day with a smile on my face because we’re making Captain America,” Anthony Mackie says at the top of this brand-new glimpse behind the scenes of Captain America: Brave New World. Mackie goes on to say how much it meant to him to be handed the shield, which previously (not that ...
“Daredevil: Born Again” Trailer Brings Charlie Cox Back to a Chaotic Hell’s Kitchen
The official trailer for Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again has dropped, reinstating Charlie Cox’s sight-impaired superhero, Matt Murdock, into his own series after a few tantalizing cameos in other Marvel films and series. Daredevil: Born Again reunites Cox’s superhero and Vincent D’Onofrio’s brutal criminal super-boss Kingpin for the first time since they clashed back when Daredevil was a Netflix ...
First Trailer for “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” Slings Spidey Into Marvel’s New Animated Series
Disney+ unveiled its first animated Spider-Man series over the holidays with this glimpse at Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. The trailer opens on the iconic theme song—you know the one—where “Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can” and was written by Bob Harris and Paul Francis Webster for the classic 1967 cartoon series. Peter Parker ...
The Red Hulk Arrives in New “Captain America: Brave New World” Teaser Trailer
A new teaser trailer for director Julius Onah’s Captain America: Brave New World arrived on New Year’s Day, giving us our first glimpse of Harrison Ford’s President Thaddeus Ross’s alter ego, the mean red machine known as the Red Hulk. A new synopsis reveals that the plot hinges around Sam Wilson/Captain America (Anthony Mackie) meeting the newly ...
Best of 2024: “Agatha All Along” Creator Jac Schaeffer on Setting off Marvel’s Witching Hour
Agatha All Along creator Jac Schaeffer explores the witchy side of the Marvel Universe just in time for Halloween. The timing of the show’s release is a happy accident for Schaeffer, who also directed the first two episodes. In bringing the titular witch, Agatha (Kathryn Hahn), back from WandaVision, Schaeffer and her team have made a series ...
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Sound Designers on Turning Frozen Tea Towels Into Broken Bones
Three months after debuting in theaters this summer, Deadpool & Wolverine’s winning streak still wasn’t over. It eventually surpassed Barbie’s domestic gross in its 13th weekend, with director Shawn Levy’s R-rated box office juggernaut ranking as the 12th highest-grossing movie of all time, with a domestic haul of over $636M. It has been a hectic ...
“Spider-Man 4” in Full Swing: Tom Holland Returns as Peter Parker With Official July 24, 2026 Release Date
It was only a few days ago that Tom Holland appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and revealed that Spider-Man 4 was officially happening and would begin shooting next summer. Now, it’s been revealed that Spider-Man 4 has an official release date. Holland will swing back into action as Peter Parker on July 24, ...
“Agatha All Along” Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez on Agatha Finding Her Voice
Agatha All Along wisely brings songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is only fitting, considering the two helped musically introduce Agatha to great acclaim in WandaVision. With the latest Disney+ series from creator Jac Schaeffer, the acclaimed music duo explores music history as they deliver time-spanning variations of ...
