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UPDATED Amy Berg, the documentarian behind such acclaimed films as Deliver Us From Evil, West of Memphis and Janis: Little Girl Blue, has absolutely nothing against Chris Pratt, and wants Twitter to know she is not the Amy Berg who inadvertently launched the whole Cancel/Don’t Cancel Chris twitstorm that got so out of…

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. And apparently, all ages. Case in point: Bridger Walker, a 6-year-old boy who jumped in to save his 4-year-old sister from a dog attack at the cost of his own safety. The attack left him with huge bite marks and bruises. Bridger underwent two-hours of surgery and sustained more…

Captain America has just joined Instagram and he’s already looking for a cause. Actor Chris Evans, who plays Captain America, has offered up a virtual hangout and game night with himself and five of his fellow cast members from The Avengers as a fundraiser for the All-In Challenge, a joint charitable effort to fight…

Powers Boothe, a versatile character actor who won an Emmy for portraying cult leader Jim Jones and more recently appeared on ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., has died of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 68. Beau Bridges tweeted the news Sunday, saluting him as “a dear friend, great actor, devoted father…

Joe and Anthony Russo are currently overseeing back-to-back sequels to The Avengers that will consume most of 2017, with Infinity War, bowing first on May 4th, 2018. After they finish what amounts to their fourth Marvel superhero blockbuster—counting two Captain America installments that set up the Avengers films―the…

EXCLUSIVE: As Captain America: Civil War becomes the latest in a remarkably consistent string of global juggernauts, Marvel Studios maestro Kevin Feige and the superhero mojo he has injected has positioned the company to continue a performance run that one day will be looked upon as nothing short of historic. Civil War…

What a difference a year makes. After being rather critical during last May’s press tour for Disney/Marvel’s Avengers:Age of Ultron, Joss Whedon told his Hulk star Mark Ruffalo tonight that the remarks he made against his own movie were quite harsh. The two took the stage at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan’s Chelsea…

Patrick Macnee, best known as secret agent John Steed in the 1960s TV series The Avengers, has died today of natural causes at his home in Rancho Mirage, CA. He was 93. The program, with glamorous co-stars including the leather-catsuit-wearing Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman, came to epitomize London in the Swinging…

In a release pattern similar to 2012's The Avengers, Disney/Marvel’s sequel Avengers: Age Of Ultron began its international rollout today. Stepping out into such key markets as France and Italy today followed by Brazil, Germany, the UK, Russia, Korea, Argentina and others, it will have put down about 55% of its…

Prolific screenwriter and producer Brian Clemens passed away over the weekend, his family confirmed to the BBC. He was 83. Clemens’ career spanned over five decades in television and film in both the UK and the U.S. But, he was perhaps most closely associated with the 1960s and 70s classic TV series, The Avengers and T…

Disney Interactive is shooting for another huge hit with version 2.0 of its Disney Infinity hybrid toy/game franchise, launching today with more than 20 new characters based on some of its biggest Marvel superheroes. Disney has reason for optimism: Infinity v.1.0 raked in more than $500 million (according to Disney…

As a guy who has covered features my whole career, I find it distressing that the only time feature folks do risky things seems to be when they are making TV projects. Because theaters and studios can’t figure it out, films are frozen in an arcane system where you wait six months for a DVD and those who don’t want to…