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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…

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…

Gemma Chan is in talks to join the cast of The Eternals, the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film being directed by Chloé Zhao. Deadline has confirmed the sides are working on a deal, which if it makes would see Chan rejoining Team Marvel after playing Minn-Erva opposite Brie Larson in Captain Marvel. It’s unclear…

After Avengers: Endgame toppled Avatar to become the highest-grossing film worldwide on Comic-Con Saturday with $2.79 billion, FandangoNOW, Fandango's video on-demand service, is reporting that the sequel directed by Anthony and Joe Russo is the most pre-ordered title in the company’s history. It’s now one of several…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: Far From Home will swing past the $1B mark at the global box office today. The Jon Watts-directed sequel is now the only Spider-Man movie to hit the coveted milestone. As we reported Sunday, it had already become the biggest of the franchise worldwide. The estimated cume through…

Monday Midday Update: Final domestic opening weekend for The Lion King per Disney is $191.77M, which is very close to where the industry was seeing it yesterday morning and well above the $185M that the studio reported. This is after a Sunday that was $52.8M, -13%. Lion King‘s opening completely stopped Beauty and the…

WRITETHRU after 5:27PM post: If you’re a major motion picture studio that skipped Comic-Con this year, that might have been a good idea. After skipping San Diego Comic-Con last year, and in the wake of wrapping up what is billed as “The Infinity Saga” across 23 movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe returned in raging…

The cherry on top of the Marvel Comic-Con session Saturday was news that two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is set to play Blade in a reboot from Kevin Feige’s MCU. No other details were revealed. The original from New Line Cinema starred Wesley Snipes. It was an R-rated film, so it will be interesting to see if…

Jeffery Wright has been cast as The Watcher, the narrator of What If…?, Marvel’s upcoming animated series for the Disney+ streaming service. The news was revealed Saturday during Marvel’s jam-packed Hall H presentation at Comic-Con. Wright fittingly was in San Diego already, participating earlier today in HBO’s panel…

Natalie Portman is set to portray the female Thor, Thor 4 director Taika Waititi announced today. The film will open in fall 2021. Portman played Jane Foster in the first two Thor movies. No surprise here at Marvel’s Comic-Con panel, but Taika Waititi was on hand to talk about Thor 4 along with Tessa Thompson who…

Marvel Studios announced today Simu Liu (Kim’s Convenience) will be taking over the titular role in the forthcoming Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Dave Callaham. The news was unveiled during Comic-Con in front of a packed Hall H. Tony Leung is set to play…