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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's Legion series finale on FX. After three mind-bending and time-traveling seasons, Legion came to an end tonight by going full circle, including on the soundtrack with The Who's “Happy Jack.” A baby, a showdown with the parasitic Farouk (Navid Negahban), a new…

EXCLUSIVE: "When we start thinking about our shows, it’s how do we do better than we did the last time," declares Marvel Television's chief Jeph Loeb as the small screen arm of the comic cyclopean heads into a new hydra (no pun totally intended) of offerings. "We will never be a factory. We don't know how to be a…

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse executive producer Chris Miller can't talk yet about the upcoming suite of TV series based on the Marvel characters that Sony controls, but he's got a plan of how it is all going to work. "We are developing a handful of live-action shows using Sony's Marvel characters, of which there…

ABC is in "active talks" about bringing another Marvel female superhero to the network. The broadcaster is working with its Disney sibling on another comic book adaption. This comes as Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is set to finish after its upcoming seventh season. The hope is seemingly to ensure that there is at…

Hero Nation Index is a weekly column on genre entertainment (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and superheroes) and part of Deadline’s Hero Nation team coverage. Like jazz and baseball, the concept of the costumed superhero is considered a uniquely American creation with its origins dating back to the first appearance of…

This week, a special Comic-Con editon of the Hero Nation column… Watching the Game of Thrones contingent take their final (and somewhat complicated) bow this weekend at Comic-Con International I found myself wondering: Will we ever see the likes of the HBO hit series again? Fans will continue to debate the creative…

The film studios may be taking a back seat this year inside the San Diego Convention Center at Comic-Con, but the always vigorous battle for skyscraper space, square footage and activation attractions in San Diego is no less full throttle. In a typically crowed skyline, the clear winner this week is Fox Animation…

"It's the most purely promotional thing that exists," Deadline's Genre Editor Geoff Boucher declares bluntly of the superhero- and science fiction-fueled extravaganza that is San Diego Comic-Con. "It's as personal as an auto-show," the Hero Nation kingpin adds of the 50th annual confab that kicks off today. In that…

John Carpenter is taking his Hollywood horror sensibilities to Gotham City, with DC Comics’ recent announcement that the director of The Thing, Halloween, and The Fog is co-writing a special 40-page Joker comic book. Carpenter isn’t the only Hollywood notable dabbling in the comic book world — far from it, in fact, he…

CBS All Access has released the key art for the high-profile series Star Trek: Picard and the images hint that this new iteration of the Star Trek brand will (at least initially) present a grounded tale instead of the usual planet-hopping quest. The image (below) shows a contemplative Jean-Luc Picard, notably dressed…

Spider-Man: Far From Home (which opens Tuesday) imports a newcomer to cinema’s ever-expanding superhero sector: Jake Gyllenhaal, the 38-year-old Oscar nominee who has a wildly eclectic body of work but has somehow managed to avoid the pervasive superhero genre until now and the release of Far From Home, his 38th…

For close to a decade, it’s been an impossible task for any film trying to beat Avatar‘s mammoth all-time global box office record of $2.79 billion. In fact, it’s a box office feat filmmaker James Cameron actually had to top himself: Prior to Avatar, Cameron’s Titanic with a lifetime of $2.19B worldwide was the…