After years of staying tight-lipped on the content of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios isn’t about to let their tie-in merchandise give the whole game away mere months before release, but with fans desperate for further details, it’s only natural that a fair amount of toy-related material has been making the rounds online lately for the insight it might bring.
After years of mere hints and murmurs on the potential existence of Ghostbusters 3, the news came all at once this week, starting with the announcement that director Jason Reitman will be following in his father Ivan Reitman’s footsteps to helm a sequel that marks a return to the continuity of the first two movies.
Despite several months of social media teases, updates and set material, a release date for Rob Zombie’s Three From Hell has yet to be announced. So when the director took to Instagram a few days ago to tell us “it took a while to complete the trilogy but we did it,” many took it as a sign that the long-awaited follow-up to The Devil’s Rejects was just about ready to complete its journey to cinemas.
In this past year or so, Luke Skywalker just might have been the most frequently referenced character of the Star Wars: Episode IX rumor mill, and this almost certainly has more to do with the willingness of alleged leakers to tell fans what they want to hear than Mark Hamill’s actual length of screen time in next year’s release. That being said, J.J. Abrams will still have to find some way of granting continued relevance to the character if Lucasfilm is to follow through on their claim that this will be the final installment in the Skywalker Saga, and this latest rumor, though unverified, at least offers a suggestion of how this could be done.
Sometimes dead is better, but sometimes resurrecting an old horror property can yield surprisingly worthwhile results. And while we’re still a few months away from being able to judge for ourselves which of these two categories Pet Sematary falls into, the promotion so far suggests a remake with potential.
It’s been a little while now since Mark Ruffalo last lived up to his reputation as a human spoiler machine, but it seems that his Avengers: Endgame co-stars haven’t yet forgotten his track record of accidental intel, with Don Cheadle touching on the matter once when he guested on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
M. Night Shyamalan’s so-called “Eastrail 177 Trilogy” is hardly the most conventional of takes on the superhero genre, but Glass is technically a superhero movie nonetheless, even forming part of its own modestly sized cinematic universe. But in case you were planning on sitting through several minutes of credits just for a tease of what’s to come, then we’re here to notify you that the post-credits scene is one tradition of the genre that the film does not adhere to.
It’s been a good long while since we last heard news about the planned Gotham City Sirens movie, and as with so many previously announced DCEU projects, many of us were starting to have our doubts that the film would ever see the light of day. Nonetheless, a new report from Geeks WorldWide alleges that not only does Warner Bros. still intend to push forward with the project, but that they’re even building up to a crossover with Birds of Prey.
Though Charles Xavier and his peers still have at least one more adventure to go in the form of Dark Phoenix, a lot of fans are already looking ahead with excitement to the fresh start for the X-Men saga that the Disney/Fox merger is expected to bring. X-Force, on the other hand is a different matter, with the Deadpool series currently carrying a lot more momentum with both critics and the filmgoing public than the property it spun off from.
As divisive as Star Wars: The Last Jedi was among the fans, it’s worth remembering that the film was still hugely successful at the box office and on home release, while also earning some of the best reviews of any installment of the franchise. So as much as the internet may speculate on the possibility of Star Wars: Episode IX trying to ‘fix’ the issues of its predecessor, there’s surely a limit to how much director J.J. Abrams would be willing to bend over backwards to win back detractors to the series.
