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SPOILER WARNING: This week’s Hero Nation column reveals key plot details from Spider-Man Far Home.  The obvious legacy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first decade is one of massive popularity and record-breaking box office success. (Sony’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, for example, just extended the cinematic brand’s…

Ahoy Comics will step in to publish Second Coming, the satirical series that depicts Jesus Christ returning in modern times as a superhero-in-training. The spoof series from writer Mark Russell and artist Richard Pace was dropped from the March release schedule of Warner-owned DC Comics after its announced premise…

Austin Stowell (Whiplash) has been cast as the central character in Controversy, Fox’s investigative thriller drama pilot written by Up in the Air co-writer Sheldon Turner, directed by This Is Us' John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and executive produced by Scandal co-executive producer Judy Smith. The project hails from 20th…

Fox has picked up two more drama pilots, Controversy, an investigative thriller written by Up in the Air co-writer Sheldon Turner, directed  by This Is Us’ John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and executive produced by Scandal co-executive producer Judy Smith; and The Resident, a dark medical drama written by Amy Holden Jones (M…

Fox, whose upcoming drama Shots Fired deals with police shootings, is taking on another hot-button and timely topic: college rape. The network has given a put pilot commitment to Controversy, an investigative thriller drama from Up in the Air and X-Men: First Class co-writer Sheldon Turner, Scandal co-executive…

UPDATE, 4:07 PM: Several readers commented that a similar thing happened toward the end of Thursday night’s X Factor, when the Stereo Hogzz quintet appeared to be singing five-part harmony at one point without having microphones near their lips. And this was during an elimination, or survival, song performance. An X F…

Today, the Academy giveth and taketh away. The new Academy Award campaign regulations announced earlier are clearly a mixed bag, significantly relaxing some long-standing rules and creating a good deal of freedom pre-nominations while really tightening and restricting activities by nominees and studios post-noms…