20th Century Fox has expanded its deal with IMAX to show more upcoming blockbusters in this format. It was announced today (via Deadline) that the deal has been extended through 2019. The IMAX lineup includes three of the studio’s upcoming Marvel-based titles: New Mutants, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and Gambit. (No word on whether Deadpool 2 will be included.) IMAX Entertainment CEO Greg Foster had this to say about the renewed deal. “Building on the success of standout films from Avatar, which remains the highest-grossing Imax release ever, to more recently Deadpool, Logan and War of the Planet of the Apes, we’re delighted to extend our partnership with our friends at…

Following Arthur Curry’s introduction in Justice League, the character will get a full origin story in next year’s Aquaman. Today, Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the upcoming DC film. EW’s feature includes the first official still from the movie, featuring an extra-jacked and extra-shirtless Curry. Director James Wan explains that Aquaman will be very different from Justice League, in more ways than one. “It’s going to look very different, it will feel very different – aesthetically, tonally, story-wise – it’s my own take. It’s a much more a traditional action-adventure quest movie.” He also reaffirms an old story where Warner Bros. pitched him the opportunity to direct either this…

This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly is taking a look at many of next year’s blockbusters, and the cover story is X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The magazine offers plenty of new details on the upcoming sequel, which is another partial adaptation of the iconic “Dark Phoenix” storyline from the comics. Here, we have info on the time setting, tone, Jessica Chastain’s villain, and more. Dark Phoenix skips forward another decade, this time taking place in 1992. Now, the X-Men are national heroes, which leads to Charles Xavier’s ego growing and more extreme missions. One of those missions takes place in outer space, finally taking the X-Men franchise beyond Earth. During the…

New Line’s Shazam is officially the next DC film to shoot, and the movie is now deep into the casting process. Zachary Levi stars as the titular hero, whose alter ego, Billy Batson, is played by Asher Angel. Additionally, Mark Strong is playing the villainous Dr. Sivana, while Grace Fulton will play a friend of Billy’s. Now, we have more casting news. Now, we have more casting news. According to Deadline, IT actor Jack Dylan Grazer has joined the cast of Shazam. He will play Freddy Freeman, Billy’s best friend and the only person who knows that he’s Shazam. In the comics, Freddy becomes a superhero himself – Captain Marvel…

Before Justice League was released, Warner Bros. kept Superman’s role shrouded in secrecy, leading to much fan speculation. One of the most popular theories was that Superman would be wearing a black suit when he was resurrected, just like in the comics. Of course, the movie came and went, with no black suit in sight. But that wasn’t always the plan. Justice League cinematographer Fabian Wagner confirms to Inverse that they did shoot some scenes with Superman’s black suit, but they were cut. “There were [scenes shot]. It’s a cool looking costume. Sadly we didn’t see that either in the final cut.” The exact context of the black suit in the…

We’ve talked before about how underwhelming Justice League‘s box office has been. This week, however, the DC film finally passed a couple key box office milestones. On Tuesday, Justice League finally hit $200 million in North America. That’s still well below every other DCEU movie, as well as the other comic book movies from this year. It is the 10th movie of the year to hit this mark domestically. Overseas, things are looking a bit brighter. The film crossed $100 million in China this week, making it the highest grossing DC movie in that country. Its worldwide total is currently at $574 million; only another $130 million or so until…

[Warning: The Following Contains SPOILERS From This Week’s Legends of Tomorrow, as Well as the “Crisis on Earth-X” Crossover.] During last week’s “Crisis on Earth-X” crossover, original Legends of Tomorrow member Martin Stein was killed off. His death particularly affected Jax, the other half of Firestorm. This led Jax to ponder what his role on the Waverider crew should now be. Well, the midseason finale aired last night, and we already have an answer. In the episode, Jax decided to leave the team. He meets a time-displaced young Stein, who advises him to live his life to the fullest. Thus, Jax left the Waverider to do just that. In addition to…

After Avengers 4, fans should expect to see a very different Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not much is known about the next 20 films Marvel Studios has planned, but one thing we know is that there’ll be a big focus on the cosmic side of the universe. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will set up at least some of these stories, which may include a Power Pack movie. What next? The cosmic side of the Marvel Universe is vast and full of dozens of characters ripe for franchise potential. We figured we’d list the five movies that we most want to see from this corner of the MCU… Nova The intergalactic…

Despite being the most poorly received Marvel Netflix series to date, Iron Fist is returning for a second season. The series has a new showrunner this time around, with production expected to begin soon. Now, we have the first casting news from this season. Marvel has announced that actress Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness) has joined the cast of Iron Fist for season two. Her character is currently unknown. This marks Eve’s first comic book role (not counting Men in Black 3). Marvel TV’s Jeph Loeb had this to say about the casting. “We are very excited to have an actress of Alice’s stature join the cast of Marvel’s…

The Flash (4×08) – “Crisis on Earth X” Written by:         Todd Helbing Story by:              Andrew Kreisberg & Marc Guggenheim Directed by:       Dermott Downs Please note: I am not review the crossover as whole, this is a review of the Flash episode. As usual when the crossover comes around I find myself in an intellectual quandary and as a result I’ve put off this week’s review until now but it’s time to just rip off the band-aid. I am going to keep this short this week.  I think we’ve had this discussion every season since Flash vs Arrow.  I am not a big fan of the crossovers and as…