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One of the biggest surprises to come out of Marvel's panel at the San Diego Comic-Con was that Natalie Portman would be returning to the MCU in Thor: Love and Thunder. Given that there has been numerous reports that Portman was unhappy with the way her character Jane Foster was treated in Thor and Thor: The Dark World, combined with the fact that she only appeared in Avengers: Endgame via unused footage, and, y'know, the small fact that she's one of the most popular actors in the world, most assumed her stint in the MCU was over. But it looks like Taika Waititi has successfully tempted her back with a script where she becomes Thor: Goddess of Thunder. And honestly, who could turn that down?
Marvel Studios has given us a hell of a lot to get excited about lately. We expected them to hype up projects like Black Widow, Eternals and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. What we didn't expect, though, was announcements like Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch teaming up in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Natalie Portman taking up the hammer in Thor: Love and Thunder and, completely out of left field, a new Blade movie. But this smorgasbord of MCU information could have been even bigger.
Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark was the core of the MCU. His performance as Tony Stark in 2008's Iron Man drew universal praise and went a long way towards making the film a hit. Since then he's developed the role across many MCU movies, a character arc that concluded with him saving the universe in an act of heroic self-sacrifice in the finale of Avengers: Endgame. After his titanic contribution to the MCU's success, the Endgame Blu-ray is set to do him justice with a look at how he got the part, in a feature titled 'Setting The Tone: Casting Robert Downey Jr.--Recounting casting RDJ for Iron Man'.
Has Netflix peaked? That's what many will suspect after they posted an unexpected announcement to shareholders that they lost 130,000 subscribers in Q2.
A plot synopsis of Birds of Prey has leaked and the events of the film sound pretty wild. Those hoping for a recreation of the comic may be disappointed.
Over the last decade, Arrow has continually defied expectations. Its first few episodes were met with a collective shrug from critics, none of whom foresaw that it was the harbinger of many more superhero shows. Since then it's built a substantial and passionate fanbase and spawned its own televised DC Universe, appropriately known as the Arrowverse. But Arrow is finally coming to end this year. Its ten-episode eighth season will bring an end to the adventures of Oliver Queen (though I wouldn't rule out the character returning for the CW's perennial crossover specials).
Ghostbusters 3 is arriving in under a year, and director Jason Reitman has now teased the project with a look at how the Ecto-1 is doing 35 years later.