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Given that Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark had an incredible exit from the MCU in Avengers: Endgame, many were puzzled when it was revealed that he'd also be appearing in Black Widow. Among those raising an eyebrow was Downey Jr himself, who recently hinted in an interview that he'd found out he was in the movie at about the same time everyone else, grumbling about the use of deepfake technology and saying:
Baby Yoda was the breakout star of The Mandalorian. He instantly became the subject of a million memes, warmed the hearts of fans around the globe and will soon adorn countless pieces of cheap plastic as Disney finally gets their merchandising juggernaut in gear. But Baby Yoda, or The Child, was no less popular in a galaxy far, far away.
WandaVision is by far the most intriguing show on the upcoming Disney Plus slate. It explores Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff's reality-warping powers, apparently showing her creating an idealized 1950s reality in which she has a family with Paul Bettany's Vision, who died in the finale of Avengers: Infinity War. Bettany has called the series "super avant-garde and weird," with Kevin Feige saying it'll see Wanda becoming the Scarlet Witch in the MCU.
Robert Englund will forever have a place in the halls of horror history. His performance as Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series is truly one for the ages, with his sadistic, cackling and monstrous supernatural villain still able to send a chill up the spine. But while the events of Elm Street are (mercifully) within the realm of fiction, his next project features stories ripped from the headlines. The Travel Channel have just announced that True Terror with Robert Englund will premiere on Wednesday 8th March at 10pm ET/PT on Travel Channel.
Eyebrows were raised when it was announced that Robert Downey Jr would appear as Tony Stark in Black Widow. The character had an incredible send-off in Avengers: Endgame, Robert Downey Jr's contract had expired and he has repeatedly and firmly claimed that he's done everything he could with the character (though he's not ruling anything out). So what gives? Well, at least Black Widow isn't resurrecting him - as a film set in the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War Stark would be alive and a prominent figure in the world.
In retrospect, it seems surprising that Robert Downey Jr.'s blackface in Tropic Thunder passed without controversy. Released in 2008, the same year that Downey Jr. made his career-defining debut as Tony Stark in Iron Man, the movie sees him playing Kirk Lazarus, who's the epitome of a method actor, donning blackface to play an African-American soldier named Lincoln Osiris.
Gwyneth Paltrow has a lot on her plate these days. She's an Oscar-winning actor, mother, businesswoman and produces a line of candles that smell like her vagina. Even so, for someone who's appeared in multiple MCU movies over the last ten years, you'd think she would remember them a bit better. Last summer she forgot she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming, she couldn't remember who Sebastian Stan was, forgot that Samuel L. Jackson was a big player in the MCU and, despite having quite a sizeable role in it, didn't see Avengers: Endgame.
Netflix's The Witcher has been steadily assembling a dedicated fanbase since its premiere in December. The series quickly became one of the most popular on the platform, a second season is already in the works and showrunner Lauren Hissrich has said that they have plans for a story that spans seven seasons. But given that many people are familiar with CD Projekt Red's incredible RPG takes on the franchise, not to mention Andrzej Sapkowski's original books, folks have been wondering why the show chose to do some things differently.