Get a maiden to the shrine. Strike down all of the demons standing in her way. Purge defilement from a mountain and restore the land to its natural harmony and splendor. That’s Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess in a nutshell, and one of my favorite things about it is how little it strays from that humble,…
Get a maiden to the shrine. Strike down all of the demons standing in her way. Purge defilement from a mountain and restore the land to its natural harmony and splendor. That’s Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess in a nutshell, and one of my favorite things about it is how little it strays from that humble,…
Marvel Studios‘ Deadpool & Wolverine promises more cameos than you can shake a chimichanga at, but one character is sending the internet into a frenzy. The final Deadpool & Wolverine trailer features two highly anticipated appearances from niche Marvel characters, including a killer moment featuring Lady Deadpool slow-walking her way through a dust cloud. With hips better than Shakira’s and a long platinum blonde ponytail draped over her shoulder, Lady Deadpool looks drop-dead gorgeous and lethal. While Shawn Levy’s depiction of Lady Deadpool is enough to make pants fit tighter than usual, everyone wants to know who’s beneath the mask.
If you click around the internet, you’ll find fans speculating about who’s playing Lady Deadpool in Deadpool & Wolverine. While many thought Taylor Swift could be the blonde in the red pajamas, most think it’s Gossip Girl and The Shallows star Blake Lively. It makes sense that it would be Lively playing Lady Deadpool, as she would assuredly be Ryan Reynolds’ first pick for the part. Additionally, she’d kill it as Wanda Wilson, a character Marvel needs to feature in more comics. C’mon, Marvel! Let’s do a 5-issue mini-series featuring Wanda Wilson. I bet it would sell like hotcakes, especially after Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters.
Someone other than Lively may play Lady Deadpool in the upcoming film, but good luck convincing the internet it’s someone other than Reynolds’ partner in crime and parenthood.
Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine is rated R for strong bloody violence, injury detail, sex references, and very strong language. This is relatively new territory for Marvel Studios, which has kept things PG-13 for its latest era of theatrical tentpole output. Before Marvel announced Deadpool & Wolverine’s ratings, fans let the studio know that anything less than a hard R would result in protest. Thankfully, Marvel heard the message clearly, giving Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman permission to cuss themselves blue in the face for their big-screen bromance.
Deadpool & Wolverine stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as Wade Wilson and James Howlett, respectively. In addition to featuring the superhero team-up of the century, the threequel finds Wade and Logan sticking their dirty fingers into the Marvel Cinematic timeline, creating chaos while foiling a nefarious plot devised by Charles Xavier’s sister, Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin). The MCU desperately needs a shake-up, and it sounds like Cassandra Nova and multiversal shenanigans could usher significant changes into the interconnected universe.
Deadpool & Wolverine also stars Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Karan Soni as Dopinder, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Shioli Kutsuna as Yukio, Stefan Kapičić as the voice of Colossus, and Rob Delaney as Peter. Deadpool & Wolverine will also star Emma Corrin as the villain and Matthew Macfadyen as a TVA agent. The film is also expected to feature cameos from characters throughout the history of 20th Century Fox’s Marvel movies, with a few already being revealed in the trailer, including Aaron Stanford as Pyro.
Do you think it’s Blake Lively playing Lady Deadpool in Deadpool & Wolverine? Do the hips give her away? If it’s not Blake Lively, who could it be? Feel free to tell us what you think in the comments section below.
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Today, Twitch unbanned Donald Trump’s official channel. The Amazon-owned video game streaming site reversed the ban due to Trump’s status as the official Republican nominee in 2024’s presidential election, following the party’s convention earlier this week.
Today, Twitch unbanned Donald Trump’s official channel. The Amazon-owned video game streaming site reversed the ban due to Trump’s status as the official Republican nominee in 2024’s presidential election, following the party’s convention earlier this week.
Getting the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the point where it is today was like skating uphill. Sure, pretty much every one of them is going to put butts in movie theater seats – and many will even show up in costume or their favorite faux-vintage tee – but it wasn’t always a guarantee. Iron Man was a monumental risk in practically every front that, thankfully for the studio, paid off in dividends. But current Marvel head Kevin Feige doesn’t just look to Iron Man as the launching point but rather some perhaps unexpected choices.
Speaking with Deadline, Kevin Feige gave credit to a pair of Marvel movies that came before he stepped into his role in 2007, the year before Iron Man hit theaters. “I said for a long time that the one-two punch for Marvel, pre-dating me, was Blade and then X-Men. Blade was a character that nobody knew from the comics, or very few people knew. It wasn’t advertised as being from Marvel Comics. X-Men was the No. 1 bestselling comic for the 15 years before the movie came out.”
Feige added that Marvel properties like Blade ($131 million worldwide) and X-Men (just under $300 million worldwide and one of the highest-grossing of 2000) gave both himself and the studio confidence that there was so much more to what could work on the big screen than he imagined. “Both of them did extremely well, and that instilled in us the notion that it is less about how many issues did you sell or how famous was the animated show or the live-action series in the ’70s, but how engaging can you make the character, and how much of a new experience of a world can you bring to cinemas with that character.”
Of course, the studio has a lot on their docket right now, but Feige and company are still all-on on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Phase Six – which officially launches with this month’s Deadpool & Wolverine – will even feature a revisition of the Blade character, while the X-Men will make their return with writer Michael Lesslie tapped to pen the screenplay. Hopefully we get some updates – however minor – on both at this year’s SDCC, where Marvel will be taking over Hall H.
Do you think Blade and X-Men deserve more credit for the comic book movie boom? If not, does it belong to Iron Man or another flick?
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The Star Wars fandom is a fraught, fervent place. In the modern age, online communities rallying around franchises are often composed of numerous splinter groups, and Star Wars is no exception—it’s got far-right reactionaries, original trilogy boomers, millennial prequel loyalists, Gen Z animated series lovers, and,…
The Star Wars fandom is a fraught, fervent place. In the modern age, online communities rallying around franchises are often composed of numerous splinter groups, and Star Wars is no exception—it’s got far-right reactionaries, original trilogy boomers, millennial prequel loyalists, Gen Z animated series lovers, and,…
The Conjuring film franchise is set to come to an end with the fourth installment, The Conjuring: Last Rites, which Warner Bros. set to give the film a theatrical release on September 5, 2025 release. We had previously heard that this movie would be filming in the Atlanta, Georgia area, but apparently they’ll be doing some work across the pond as well, with filming scheduled to take place in London, England from September 10th through October 10th this year. Industry scooper Daniel Richtman has gotten his hands on a casting call that reveals some details on a few supporting characters that will be required on the set in London.
We don’t have any plot info on The Conjuring: Last Rites at this time, all we know that the story takes place in the United States in the 1980s, but thanks to Richtman and the casting call we know about these characters:
[ CARLY ]
7 to 9 years old, White girl. This character identifies as she/her. She is strong and spirited, youngest sibling, a twin. US accent. We are looking for a child with a deep emotional intelligence and the ability to convey strong emotions. Role for minor: requires no mature content. SIGNIFICANT SUPPORTING ROLE.
[ JASON ]
Man / 24-29 /White / Description: A young man experiencing the birth of his child…SUPPORTING
[ HILARY ]
Female / 24-29 /White. A young woman giving birth…SUPPORTING
The lead roles go to returning franchise stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, coming back to play paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren again. Michael Chaves, who previously directed The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Nun II, and the Conjuring Universe-adjacent The Curse of La Llorona, is at the helm of The Conjuring: Last Rites, working from a screenplay written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, who also wrote The Conjuring 2 and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
Franchise producers James Wan and Peter Safran are producing the film, with Michael Clear and Judson Scott serving as executive producers alongside Hans Ritter.
Are you looking forward to The Conjuring: Last Rites? What do you think of the character descriptions on the casting call? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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With great power comes some pretty great looking action figures. The first-ever collaboration between McFarlane Toys and Marvel is now up for pre-order ahead of their September 24th mass release. Even more special, some of the designs are based on artwork by Todd McFarlane himself.
The Marvel properties that are slinging to the web this fall via McFarlane Toys are 1:10th scale figures of Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, and Deadpool, while Captain America gets the 1:6th scale treatment. Both Spidey and Captain America come from McFarlane’s own Spider-Man #6 and The Amazing Spider-Man #323, respectively, while he has gone back to the archives for Jim Lee’s Wolverine (X-Men #1), John Romita Jr.’s Iron Man (The Invincible Iron Man #126) and Rob Liefeld’s Deadpool (The New Mutants #8). You can check out detailed images and specs of each on the McFarlane Toys website.
When this Marvel lineup was announced in May, Todd McFarlane had the following to say: “For literally decades, thousands of Marvel fans and fans of my McFarlane Toys have deluged me with requests of wanting to see a Marvel and McFarlane Toys collaboration. Thanks to the invaluable support and collaboration from Marvel in making these new products a reality, I will now get this wonderful opportunity to not only be able to produce statue-like figures based upon my own artwork (who wouldn’t jump at the chance to turn their own 2-D drawings into 3-D reality?), but I will also have the great pleasure of being able to create products based upon some of the amazingly talented peers in our wonderful comic book industry. As fun as it will be to play with some of my own artwork, I am really looking forward to developing figures based upon the finest creators in comics. Get ready, everyone!”
Each of the Marvel figures in this initial lineup of McFarlane Toys comes with an environmental base and diorama backdrop, adding more dimension to the characters for your display case.
McFarlane has definitely assembled a strong lineup of Marvel characters here, with each serving as a tribute not only to the superhero but also the men who have spent years with them. Earlier this year, Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld announced that he would be stepping away from the Merc with a Mouth after more than 30 years. Romita Jr., of course, is the son of the legendary Marvel artist John Romita Sr., who passed away last year.
Will you be pre-ordering any of these McFarlane Toys Marvel figures? Which renditions do you want added to a future wave?
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