In a drastic move, Fox has changed release dates for three of their upcoming X-Men films. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Deadpool 2,New Mutants and Gambit have all been moved from their respective release dates.
The most significant change is that of Josh Boone’s New Mutants which moves from April 13th of this year all the way to February 22nd of 2019. The trailer for the horror based X-Men project debuted last year to much fan praise, leaving many confused about why the project was pushed back.
The Channing Tatum led Gambit film lost its director earlier today as Gore Verbinski exited the project, and you know the saying when it rains it pours. The project, which was set to release Valentines Day 2019 has been moved back to June 7th, placing it in summer blockbuster territory.
The most positive news to come from this is that Deadpool 2 will be releasing two weeks earlier, moving from June 1st to May 18th of this year. Meaning the film will be coming out on the heels of the Marvel mega-movie Avengers: Infinity War and if there’s anyone who can take on the Avengers it’S Wade Wilson.
What are your thoughts on the crazy changes to Fox’s release slate? Let us know in the comments below!
If you just can’t get enough of Rick and Morty and desire to flood your home or office with Funko figures, you’re in luck, because the company has more items, including that of the plush variety, on the way!
Ever since Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland brought us this genius show on [adult swim], fans have been clamoring for not only more episodes, which we might be waiting for a while. There are conflicting reports that a new season may not come till 2019 (story), but also that no one is currently working on any new episodes (story). Either way you look at it, it’s pretty depressing. The hunger is insatiable. Though, there are definitely new things coming in the form of Funko!
The plush offerings are going to be some of the biggest that the company has ever produced for purchase. This collection will include a 12-inch ‘Funko Galactic Plushie XL’ of Snowball and four FYE 16-inch exclusives of Rick, Morty, Mr. Poopy Butthole and Mr. Meeseeks. Toys R Us will also have 16-inch exclusives, though only of both Rick and Morty.
You can also look forward to some excellent new POP! vinyls coming, including two ‘POP! Rides’ figures of Rick. You can scoop him up in a ‘Mad Max Rick’ car or in a what we are more accustomed to seeing him in, ‘‘Rick’s Ship’, a Hot Topic exclusive.
Finally, there are a few individual POP!s on the way, including ‘Prison Break Rick’, ‘Warrior Summer’, the leader of the Death-Stalkers, ‘Hemorrhage’, and ‘Sentient Arm Morty’, which has a 1-in-6 exclusive with a bloody hand. You can also get the ‘Pickle Rick’ figures, of which there are two, including a ‘Pickle Rick (with laser)’ exclusive.
Channing Tatum doesn’t to appear to have the same luck as his title character, Gambit the X-Men film by Fox is looking for a new director as Gore Verbinski has left the project two months before filming was supposed to begin in New Orleans, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter.
Gore Verbinski who directed The Lone Ranger joins Rupert Wyatt and Doug Liman as former directors of the film. Fox has yet to make an announcement on the future of Gambit.
Josh Zetumer wrote the script a long time ago. As far as casting the last update was Lea Seydoux had landed the role of Belladonna Boudreaux back in 2015.
Verbinski’s departure is a breaking news story, check back for more details on the status of Gambit.
UPDATE: Gambit has been moved from its February 14, 2019 release date to June 7, 2019.
Do you think the Gambit film will ever see the big screen? Comment below.
“At some point in their lives, all young people believe their parents are evil … but what if they really are?” That’s the big idea behind Marvel’s comic book series Runaways. The comic book series, created by Brian K Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, is fantastic. Runaways follows the journey of six kids who flee from their super villain parents. Unfortunately, that aspect seems to have vanished from Hulu’s television adaptation. The parents, also known as The Pride, are far from villainous. In fact, this iteration of The Pride isn’t all that scary.
The parents are overly sympathetic in the Hulu series. The group have been almost entirely de-clawed. The comic version of The Pride was organization of shadowy criminals, almost like The Illuminati. The TV show Pride, however, is a group of somewhat antagonistic geniuses. They aren’t nearly as frightening or nasty as their comic counterparts. The idea behind Runaways is that the kids need to escape their evil parents. But aside from two murders, which the parents don’t even want to commit, the parents aren’t very sinister.
Copyright Patrick Wymore / Hulu
Even the abusive Victor Stein gets a sympathetic cancer arc. In the comics, Victor was a complete jerk. While all the parents in the comics were evil, Victor was likely the worst. However, in the TV show, Victor’s evil for maybe two episodes total. The other parents talk about how he’s an abusive jerk, but we see very little of that. Instead, we see a man who tries to win his son back with building robot gloves. The super jerk the show talks about is barely present. The Victor Stein we see in Marvel’sRunaways is a borderline tragic figure.
The parents are very fleshed-out characters in the series, which is nice. There are some interesting developments, such as the various infidelities between the couples of The Pride. That said, adding dimension to the parents shouldn’t take away their villainous side. There’s a way to make deep characters without sacrificing edge. While the parents are interesting in Marvel’s Runaways, there’s a disappointing absence of the group’s fear factor.
The defining difference between the comics and series is motivation. The Pride of the comics were more than willing to sacrifice others for immortality. While they were trying to do right by their children, they had no problem committing murder. The Pride in the comics is similar to Walter White in Breaking Bad. However, the TV show Pride doesn’t have this dark, intriguing motivation. Mostly, they seem to be acting in fear of Jonah, their benefactor. The Pride is supposed to be the motivation for why the Runaways run away. But in the television show, there isn’t satisfying motivation for either party’s actions.
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Instead, all the villainy is placed upon the shoulders of one man. Jonah, the “mastermind” behind The Pride, is the only character who mirrors The Pride of the comics. He somewhat resembles The Gibborim, the gods in the comics (which has become the name of Jonah’s cult/church). However, the difference between Jonah and the Gibborim gods is how much agency The Pride has beyond them. Jonah is the only reason the dark deeds pushing Runaways forward happens. Jonah makes The Pride non-important. All The Pride does in the show is give birth to theRunawaysin the literal sense.
It’s possible these issues are a result of the show’s slow pace. Marvel’s Runaways takes a while to build the rift between the kids and their parents. The show is going to get a second season, so maybe the parents will become true villains. However, the first season felt weak because of how toothless The Pride was. For the show to have high stakes, The Pride needs to be darker and scarier. The audience needs to see the parents are as evil as the young people fear they are.
The director of Columbia Pictures’ Venom Ruben Fleischer and the star of the film, Tom Hardy spoke at a panel at the Brazil Comic Con via satellite.
Check out the footage below.
We are #VENOM
The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer from a script by Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, and stars, Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Woody Harrelson, and Riz Ahmed.
According to the director, the plot of the film will involve storylines from Venom: Lethal Protector written by David Michelinie and drawn by Mark Bagley, and the Planet of the Symbiotes written by Michelinie as well. Venom is shooting in San Francisco which was the setting for Lethal Protector.
Venom hits theaters on October 5, 2018.
The artist team for Planet of the Symbiotes:
Penciller
Ralph Cabrera (#1)
Joe St. Pierre (#2)
Kyle Hotz(#3)
Darick Robertson (#4)
Steve Lightle (#5)
Inker
Dave Hoover (#1)
Greg Adams (#2)
Armando Gil (#3)
Arne Starr (#4)
Steve Lightle (#5)
In 2011, the acting/directing/writing trio of Charlize Theron, Jason Reitman, and Diablo Cody teamed up for Young Adult, an overlooked but quite ingenious slice-of-life story about a petty woman who wants to break up the marriage of her high school sweetheart. Tully, the team’s new film, looks to be something of a quasi-sequel/spiritual sequel to that movie.
Theron is back, this time as Marlo not Mavis, and while she might be saddled with a stable of kids this time it seems she isn’t handling it all that well either. Then, help arrives in the form of the movie’s title character. Check it out:
TULLY tells the story of Marlo (Theron), a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Duplass). Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully (Davis).
Young Adult flew too far under the radar to get the sort of recognition it deserves. And, while Theron has continued to flourish and evolve as an actress, Jason Reitman is looking to return to form after the one-two whiffs of Labor Day (remember that weird ass movie?) and Men, Women & Children. This definitely has the look of a film that could snap Reitman’s brief losing streak.
The initiative involves a science contest to have your project sent out to the International Space Station (ISS) to be conducted, which is divided into two separate research opportunities, Team Rocket and Team Groot. Students are encouraged to develop proposals in flight, using ‘STEM’ methods, based on attributes of the two superheroes. Flight concepts in both innovation and engineering are to be submitted for Rocket, while Groot requires that for biological and regenerative science concepts.
Team Groot
Powers: He has the power of regeneration, allowing him to regrow limbs, even his entire form.
Method: Now is your opportunity to take the physical principles of Groot and turn them into your very own ISS research experiment! Groot is the embodiment of plant biology research, a common area of research on the space station. Below are some examples of how researchers have used the microgravity environment onboard the ISS for plant biology experiments.
Team Rocket
Powers: He is an accomplished starship pilot, military tactician and technological genius.
Method: Now is your opportunity to take the physical principles of Rocket and turn them into your very own ISS research experiment! Rocket brings great value to spaceflight with his ability to improvise and think creatively to enhance technologies, fix gadgets, and put his partners in the best position to save the galaxy. Leverage Rocket’s keen characteristics and develop your own spaceflight experiment focused on technology development or materials innovation. Below are some examples of how researchers are using the space station for technology development and material science experiments.
After the conclusion of the contest, two student(s)-submitted flight concepts will see their vision turned into reality and become an official ISS National Lab investigation.
The student(s) who submit flight concepts through the challenge will be required to explain their flight experiment proposals, including – ultimately – how microgravity has the potential to enhance findings that otherwise can be explored on Earth-based laboratory settings. Additionally, students will be asked to consider the size of their proposal experiments, because winning concepts will be housed in already-compliant containers actively being shipped to the ISS.
“[This] is a great way to bridge the comic book community with the space community to advance science, technology, engineering and math education,” Kenneth Shields, CASIS Director of Operations and Educational Opportunities said. “Rocket and Groot have characteristics that are researched onboard the ISS daily, and to allow students to propose experiments based on their favorite superheroes will be an exciting way to engage our nation’s youth about ‘STEM’ principles and the space station.”
Marvel and CASIS first teamed up in 2016 when the official Rocket and Groot mission patch was developed, which was drawn by artist Juan Doe. The logo represented all of the science payloads launching to the U.S. National Laboratory on board the orbiting outpost that year.
Are you, or do you know someone that might be, interested in developing a science project to send to the ISS? Submissions are due by January 31, 2018. More information HERE.
Click HERE for the official CASIS/Marvel partnership press release and read more about the initiatives in bridging comics and science via Collect Space.
Sony’s Spider-Man Universe spinoff Venom released the first official look of Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock Thursday morning.
Check out the image below via Columbia Pictures. Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) in Columbia Pictures’ VEMON.
The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer from a script by Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, and stars, Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Woody Harrelson, and Riz Ahmed.
According to the director, the plot of the film will involve storylines from Venom: Lethal Protector written by David Michelinie and drawn by Mark Bagley, and the Planet of the Symbiotes written by Michelinie as well. Venom is shooting in San Francisco which was the setting for Lethal Protector.
Venom hits theaters on October 5, 2018.
There isn’t much to go on, but what do you think of Hardy’s look? Comment below.
The artist team for Planet of the Symbiotes:
Penciller
Ralph Cabrera (#1)
Joe St. Pierre (#2)
Kyle Hotz(#3)
Darick Robertson (#4)
Steve Lightle (#5)
Inker
Dave Hoover (#1)
Greg Adams (#2)
Armando Gil (#3)
Arne Starr (#4)
Steve Lightle (#5)
The Miami Jewish Film Festival is set to unleash a torrent of movies over the next few weeks and Shelter is one that might keep audiences on the edge of their seat. The Israeli spy thriller is one of 62 films showing over the next few weeks. Opening with a Khalil Gibran quote (from Mirrors of the Soul), the film sets its mood quickly. The tension is expected for a film in this genre, but does it hold on as it needs to for 90 minutes?
Shelter revolves around Naomi (Neta Riskin from Norman), a Mossad (think Israeli CIA) agent is sent on a mission to protect an informer. The informer is Mona, played by Golshifteh Farahani (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) who is recovering from plastic surgery that is meant to permanently protect her identity. The assignment is an easy one, meant to be a way for Riskin to return to duty after time off to recover from a tragedy.
Much of Shelter takes place in a safe room with Naomi and Mona. But a labyrinth of intrigue unfolds before them. Writer and director Eran Riklis lays out the path of Shelter calmly, cooly, letting the intrigue build as we learn a little bit more about everyone. For instance, Naomi briefly left Mossad after the death of her husband. An agent too, Naomi’s hubby took a bullet for her and left the woman a heaping bag of guilt. Naomi, as played by Riskin, is a highlight of the film, an intriguing and layered character.
Shelter is competent, cohesive, and capable.
As a director, Riklis’ earlier work is clear indication that he’s clever and has a wonderful sense for filmmaking. Shelter is more evidence of that. It is shot beautifully, from wide vistas to close-ups; lingering quiet to let moments become internal struggles. However, here Riklis seems to be torn between which movie to make. Do you go with crawling-with-tension spy thriller or character study supported by the two female leads? Either choice, if focused on, would be a good one. And those two things, expertly put together would make for a formidable film. But Shelter doesn’t focus either way enough.
There’s a great, paranoid sequence one minute, then a quiet, tender moment the next. There’s a borderline seductive romance, but only for a little while. The transitions are not jarring, but the shift is unreliable and often overrides what came before it. Just moments after paranoia, Mona is drawing me in with a story about her past. Separately, both sequences are great. Together, they have little effect on the other.
Shelter is competent, cohesive, and capable. At just over 90 minutes, the movie doesn’t pad itself with unnecessary scenes and moves along at a swift pace without feeling rushed. Shelter’s major problem is that it neither goes too far or tries to push the envelope farther. It’s mostly safe and by the numbers, which, on one hand, makes it an entertaining watch. On the other hand, Shelter doesn’t linger long after the credits in the mind. Like the characters in the story, the film is trapped by choices that have both helped and hurt. But the choices have left them riding along in the middle, a grey area, and Shelter lingers too long in that space too.
After years of pleading and rumors, fans finally have some hope. A “Black Widow” solo film is in the works, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Screenwriter Jac Schaeffer has been tapped to write the script. There are few details beyond this on the project, though Scarlett Johansson is assumed to return.
Schaeffer is relative unknown to the industry, though she has two projects, Nasty Women and The Shower, both starring Anne Hathaway, on the horizon. Most recently she wrote the screenplay for Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, the Disney short that preceded Coco.
