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Did Disney accidentally confirm a Doctor Strange movie will happen?

By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com We’ve been waiting for a while now for Marvel to announce that a Doctor Strange movie will really happen, but it remains one of those films planted firmly in the “developing” category. Though the film’s future is still uncertain, Marvel owner Disney may have just

Marvel Announces “Fantastic Four” #600

By CBR News Team, source: CBR.com Throughout the week, Marvel Comics has been releasing Fantastic Four-themed teaser images, thought actual details were being kept vague, at best. Today, with (appropriately enough) the release of a fourth teaser image, Marvel formally announces the return of “Fantastic Four” in November with #600,

Identity of the New ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN Revealed [SPOILERS]

By Albert Ching, Source Newsarama ***Spoiler warning! Last chance to head out before the major Ultimate Fallout #4 reveal of the new Ultimate Spider-Man’s identity!*** The Ultimate Universe has a new Spider-Man, and it’s a character that readers have never seen before: Miles Morales, a half-black, half-Hispanic teen. The news

Jack Kirby Estate Vows to Appeal Loss in Marvel Copyright Lawsuit

by Matthew Belloni, Source The Hollywood Reporter Marc Toberoff, the lawyer suing Marvel on behalf of the estate of comic book legend Jack Kirby, is vowing to appeal a U.S. District Court ruling Wenesday tossing major copyright claims against the studio. “We respectfully disagree with the court’s ruling and intend

Marvel’s offering retailers free comics … to not sell DC’s comics!

By Dan Roth, Blastr.com Not satisfied with absolutely killing DC at the box office this summer, Marvel has decided to strike at the DCU where it really hurts—the local comic book shop. Both Marvel and DC are midway through their summer event series. For the uninitiated, both major comic book

(Spoilers!) Whedon, not Branagh, directed Thor’s easter egg

If you’ve seen Thor, you’ll know that, as with Iron Man and Iron Man 2, there’s an easter egg after the credits, a bonus scene that leads into the upcoming movie The Avengers. It turns out that Thor’s director Ken Branagh didn’t have a hand in it—the director of The

The secret history of why Stan Lee REALLY created The Avengers

We’re all desperately waiting to see the Marvel Universe come together on screen in The Avengers on May 4, 2012 (assuming the date doesn’t shift, that is). But it turns out the creation of that supergroup was an accident, brought about by an impending deadline and an artist with a

Darren Aronofsky QUITS Wolverine

Fans’ hopes for a stand-alone Logan flick that would erase the bad taste X-Men Origins: Wolverine left in our mouths have been dealt a swift blow: The Oscar-nominated director who wanted to take Hugh Jackman to Japan has left the project. Citing an unwillingness to be abroad and away from

A new Daredevil movie will go to Frank Miller for inspiration

Perhaps hoping that our collective pop-cultural memory has forgotten 2003’s Daredevil—which squeezed Ben Affleck into Matt Murdock’s red-leather evening wear—Fox and Marvel are taking another run at adapting the Man Without Fear. To be fair, the Affleck flick isn’t quite as bad as we remember it to be, taken on

X-Men First Class Trailer Now Online

We assume 20th Century Fox didn’t debut the trailer for the upcoming X-Men: First Class during the Super Bowl because it didn’t want the thing to get lost among all those superheroes like Captain America and Thor. But based on what we’ve just seen, it had nothing to worry about—because

Spider-Man Joins the FF

The mystery of which member of the Fantastic Four was going bite the big one was spoiled by the mainstream media a few days prior to the actual issue arriving in stores. The mystery of who will replace him is being spoiled nearly a month prior to the release of

After half century, it’s 1 Fantastic’s farewell

It’s a Fantastic Four farewell with the revelation Tuesday of who among them has been selected to be written out of the super hero team. While Marvel Entertainment has made no secret that a member of the quartet, which was introduced in August 1961, would die, exactly who among the

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