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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tomorrow's Patrick Melrose finale on Showtime and the ending of Avengers: Infinity War. "This is a window into English society and a particular story and a very cherished character that is very unusual, I think, in dramatic terms," Benedict Cumberbatch says of Patrick Melro…

Jimmy Kimmel hired Doctor Strange (aka Benedict Cumberbatch), The Mightiest Magician in the Cosmos, to vanquish a birthday party’s worth of demons. Directed by Scott Derrickson, Doctor Strange stars Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon-turned-sorcerer of several dimensions. Cumberbatch first visited Jimmy Kim…

I’m told by Marvel moles there is really nothing to this rumor about Johnny Depp playing Steven Strange in Dr. Strange for Marvel Studios. The story’s being bannered by Variety online, but don’t dress for it. I’m told that Depp was approached eons ago, and it never went anywhere. Related: <a title="Disney Delays…

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios is moving forward on a live action feature version of Iron Fist, hiring screenwriter Rich Wilkes to draft a movie based on a martial arts expert whose battle with a dragon–ended when he plunged his hands through the beast’s molten heart–turned his fists into indestructible weapons. Iron Fist…

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios has hired Conan scribes Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer to write Dr. Strange, marking forward progress on a long-gestating superhero property which will likely be among the first Marvel films generated under the Disney banner.  Aside from Conan–the Marcus Nispel-directed Lionsgate film…