After an Avengers: Endgame premiere screening that packs as much intricate storytelling and surprises as any Hollywood blockbuster you’ve ever seen, there was another surprise right after at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Every current Marvel Comic Universe star was onstage, making speeches and taking bows. The…

“You trust me?” Iron Man asks Captain America. After a couple of tense beats, he replies, “I do.” Close-up of firm handshake. Crowd goes wild. OK, there’s no audience reaction in the latest teaser for Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, but the new “special look” is loaded with key lines — to wit: “It’s not about how…

Emmy-winning former The Americans star Matthew Rhys has been tapped for the lead in Perry Mason, HBO’s limited series from Team Downey. Rhys will play the classic character in the reboot, which tracks the unorthodox investigator/defense attorney’s origin story. Perry Mason is in the process of hiring a director, and…

There has been a new development on HBO and Team Downey's TV series in the works that reimagines Perry Mason. The project, a take on Erle Stanley Gardner's classic character, was originally set up at HBO two years ago with Robert Downey Jr. attached to play the title character. I hear it became clear about six months…

TNT has ordered its first 2018 drama pilots, Constance, starring Elisabeth Shue, and Beast Mode (working title). KC Perry (The Originals) wrote Constance, with Emmy nominee Jesse Peretz (Glow, Girls) attached to direct. Constance is produced by Team Downey, in association with Sonar Entertainment and Studio T…

Geoff Boucher, who earned the admiration of the geek set with the Hero Complex column he launched several years ago in the Los Angeles Times, kicks off Deadline’s San Diego Comic-Con with a look back at Iron Man, the film that distilled a superhero formula that would launch Marvel Studios to a $4.2 billion Disney deal…

With the Fourth of July in full swing across the U.S., Hollywood and more have taken to Twitter to celebrate Independence Day and America. Some have the immigration situation top of mind, including Mark Hamill and Ellen DeGeneres, while Ron Howard encouraged folks to register to vote. Baby Driver helmer — and Brit…

YouTube will explore the world of artificial intelligence in a new docuseries, from Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, Network Entertainment and Sonar Entertainment. The eight-episode hourlong series will premiere exclusively on YouTube Red in 2019. Downey Jr. will host and narrate the Untitled A.I…

Warner Bros. has just made it official that they’re releasing Sherlock Holmes 3 on Dec. 25, 2020. Robert Downey Jr. has been talking about a threequel in the press and the project is bound to happen with Jude Law also returning. No word yet on whether Guy Ritchie is set to return as director. Narcos co-creator Chris…

Nothing any critic can say will deter you from seeing Avengers: Infinity War if you are the least bit inclined in the first place. The good news, as I say in my video review above, is that this 2 1/2-hour all-star affair is actually worth your time — despite being a Whitman’s Sampler Box of the Marvel Universe that…

Ten years after Iron Man launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Infinity War begins its international rollout Wednesday in such major markets as Korea, France and Australia. That’s ahead of domestic previews which begin Thursday evening for the Disney/Marvel title. The MCU has now grossed more than $14.8…

On social today, Robert Downey Jr. announced the entire cast for Universal’s live action-animated hybrid The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle which is due out on April 12, 2019. Pic is currently shooting in London. New to the cast are: Oscar winners Marion Cotillard and Octavia Spencer, Oscar nominee Kumail Nanjiani, Emmy…