After the fifth season's zeroth episode closed out The CW's insanely ambitious five-part "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover epic, Legends of Tomorrow returned this week with its official season premiere. The outing follows the crew of the Waverider in the aftermath of their very public adventure in Heyworld at the conclusion of season 4, with filmmaker Kevin Harris producing a documentary about them titled "Meet the Legends."
Last year's Joker became the most profitable comic book movie ever made, and the first R-rated film to gross a billion dollars, against a budget of just under $63 million. The unsettling character study has also been nominated for more Academy Awards than any comic book movie ever, all of which is cause for celebration for former Marvel Comics creator and Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane.
Sony's forthcoming vampire antihero film Morbius, the second entry in its expanding Universe of Marvel Characters, is still a little more than five months from premiering, but some of the details of the post-credit scenes have already slipped out. These may wind up getting changed somewhere down the line, but what we're hearing supports information we already have, and provides a tantalizing glimpse into some of Sony's possible future plans.
While Marvel Studios' retrospective superspy thriller Black Widow is still several months from release, early reactions are already surfacing across the Internet regarding the contents and surprises of the forthcoming film. And though some fans may have entertained concerns that Natasha Romanoff's posthumous big-screen return might feature the kind of feminism that earned Captain Marvel a Rotten Tomatoes review-bombing, a leak that comes to us by way of 4Chan suggest that won't be the case.
According to a January 16th tweet by paparazzo AtlantaFilming, a familiar face has been seen on the set of The Falcon And The Winter Soldier and it's one that most fans won't be expecting. It seems that Ant-Man and the Wasp actress Hannah John-Kamen, who last appeared in the MCU in 2018 as the antagonistic Ava Starr, AKA Ghost, was spotted filming material for the forthcoming streaming series.
At 26th Screen Actor's Guild Awards, Joaquin Phoenix took home the statuette for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Arthur Fleck, but it was his acceptance speech that has the industry and the internet buzzing. After receiving his award, the actor acknowledged a previous performer who so famously and fearlessly portrayed another award-winning version of the Joker. "I'm standing here," Phoenix told the audience at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, "on the shoulders of my favorite actor, Heath Ledger."
In a pair of trailers released in the last five weeks or so, fans have gotten a tantalizing look at the Taskmaster's big screen debut in Natasha Romanoff's forthcoming posthumous adventure, Black Widow. The first preview that debuted in early December of 2019 featured a brief clip of the antagonist rising from the roof hatch of an urban assault vehicle while drawing an arrow in a bow, and the second trailer that premiered earlier this week included footage of the Taskmaster hurling a round shield at an adversary as well as flipping himself off his back into a one-kneed crouch, identically mirroring his opponent.
