Tag: Marvel Cinematic Universe – Phase 3

Sequel officially titled ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

If you’ve tried to swing a cat on the Interwebs today, chances are that you’ve not managed to do so without hitting the news that writer/director James Gunn’s sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy will be officially titled GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: VOL. 2. The title was announced when Marvel producer Kevin Feige jumped the …

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Behind The Panels Issue 139 – Avengers: Age of Ultron

Behind The Panels Issue 139 – Avengers: Age of Ultron

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 139, the comic book show tried to assemble, but couldn’t find the Allen key. In this issue, Frank Miller returns to the Dark Knight series. The only question is which Frank Miller is returning? ALSO everything is awesome as Phil Lord and Chris Miller are announced to direct a brand-new animated …

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Film Review: Avengers – Age of Ultron

Avengers: Age of Ultron

The sequel to be most successful comic book film ever takes everything up several notches, and can barely keep it all inside. The coming together of geek god king Joss Whedon and the world of cinematic comic bookery was enough to make even the most cynical fan reach for his or her swooning couch, and the box …

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Marvel confirms Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve as ‘Captain Marvel’ writers

Captain Marvel writers - Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve

Marvel has now officially confirmed that writers Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve will pen CAPTAIN MARVEL, the 20th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It will mark the first time that an all-female writing team has been behind one of Marvel’s flagship films. Perlman will be familiar to Marvel fans as the co-writer of last year’s …

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Marvel moves four films to new dates following Sony Spider-Man deal

Marvel Cinematic Universe - Phase 3

Following the phenomenal announcement that Sony and Marvel have reached an agreement to share the character of Spider-Man, Marvel Studios has changed the dates of some of the previously announced movies. With a new Marvel/Sony SPIDER-MAN solo film announced for 28 July 2017, THOR: RAGNAROK moves out of the way to give the new Kevin Feige/Amy Pascal produced …

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Marvel unveils ‘Ant-Man’ teaser trailer and poster

Ant-Man teaser trailer costume

After teasing an ant sized preview, followed by the human sized equivalent, Marvel has now unveiled its first full teaser trailer for ANT-MAN, the second Marvel film to be released in 2015. In addition to this, Marvel has also released a teaser poster, which EW has graciously magnified for us. Armed with the astonishing ability to …

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First ‘Ant-Man’ preview is now human sized

Ant-Man teaser preview

Following yesterday’s ant sized preview for Marvel’s upcoming Ant-Man film, effectively a tiny teaser for the teaser of a teaser, the studio has released a “human sized” version that doesn’t require squinting or the need to be shrunk down to the size of a tiny arthropod. While this is still just 18 seconds of footage from …

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Comic book movies in 2015

Comic book films of 2015

Last year was a big year at the cinema for all of us here in geekdom, with no less than nine theatrical releases of comic book adaptations at the cinema. While 2015 doesn’t have quite the same number of releases on the schedule, it has some incredibly big hitters, not least of which is Avengers: …

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First ‘Ant-Man’ teaser is actually ant sized

Ant-Man and Yellowjacket concept art

Those folks at Marvel are marketing wizards. Teasing the first trailer for the upcoming Ant-Man, they’ve released a version online that can only be viewed by ants. The full “human sized” teaser trailer will be screened during Agent Carter, when it debuts on 6 January 2015 in the US. For now, eagle-eyed viewers can spot …

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Official: Benedict Cumberbatch is Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’

Benedict Cumberbatch - Doctor Strange

It’s been rumoured for a while now, but Marvel has now officially confirmed that the swoon-worthy Benedict Cumberbatch will be adding to his geek cred by adding Doctor Stephen Strange to his repertoire, better known as the master of the mystic arts Doctor Strange. “Stephen Strange’s story requires an actor capable of great depth and sincerity,” …

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Behind The Panels Issue 115 – Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell

Behind The Panels Issue 115 - Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell

Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 115, the comic book show that wears its underpants on the inside. In this issue, 9 films are announced for Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’d tell you about them if we could stop squeeing for 5 minutes. ALSO Ri¢hie Ri¢h is coming to television. In this version he …

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