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With the third season of Doom Patrol finally premiering later this week, it seems like the right time to explore one of the new potential, exciting spin-offs that may be coming. The idea of bringing Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland, and their friend Crystal Palace into the mix with the beloved rag-tag team was first announced by DC on April 22nd, 2021.
Read MoreAudiences are loving Marvel’s newest Avenger! Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is dominating the box office all over the world and sequel ideas are already churning in everyone’s head. Sadly, any potential second installment is three to four years away at the earliest. However, I think there’s plenty of potential for the world of Shang-Chi to expand on
Read MoreWith every new rumor that pops up surrounding this movie, it’s become apparent that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is setting itself up to be one of the heavy hitters for Phase 4 of the MCU. From the appearance of variants of characters we know, to interconnected storylines and alternate timelines, it may seem like a rather complex story that
Read MoreWith most Marvel or DC projects, sometimes there are big leaks and sometimes we get crumbs and tiny puzzle pieces to clue us in on what is going on in a project. In this particular case, this is definitely just a tiny piece, but fun to speculate about, nonetheless. Specifically, a recent listing on Mandy has indicated that we will see
Read MoreWith domestic opening predictions as low as $30 million, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opened to a stellar $71.4 million Labor Day weekend at the box office, shattering expectations. The MCU’s newest origin story now owns the highest Labor Day opening of all time while also achieving the second-highest opening weekend of the pandemic. Marvel currently owns the pandemic’s two
Read MoreOn Friday, Disney staked their claim on four 2024 release dates for Marvel Studios films. While there are no real surprises here, we can finally speculate about the MCU’s 2024 movies now that we have concrete release dates! While we don’t have a confirmed release date for every announced MCU film, there are three unclaimed 2023 dates. Assuming that Captain America
Read MoreAround the time of publication of part three of my and Anthony Flagg’s ongoing series about the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse Marcoverses, our amazingly talented editor Ms. Lizzie Hill proposed an idea about an offshoot article. She threw out the idea of exploring the Monsterverse within the MCM and how that would naturally grow from projects already announced and those rumored to
Read MoreFor fans of the 1998 anime, news that Cowboy Bebop would be getting a live-action adaptation for Netflix was emotionally conflicting. I was excited to finally jump into the world of Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, and Faye Valentine through another adaptation, but the thought of someone possibly using the Cowboy Bebop name and falling face-first into failure was worrying. However, after
Read MoreSpoiler warning for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings below! As I had suspected would happen by the end of Shang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings, Shang-Chi’s sister Xialing (Meng’er Zhang) takes over the Ten Rings organization. It’s also apparent that the transition was probably made immediately, with the scene zooming out showing the stylistic graffiti we
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