Butch Gilzean makes his first appearance as Solomon Grundy in tonight’s Gotham, teased with a preview clip from the show on Twitter. We’ve known for some time that Grundy would be popping up on the show, with the season 3 finale reveal that Butch Gilzean’s (Drew Powell) real name was Cyrus Gold. Since then, the new Solomon has been hinted at in the season preview video, as well as in interviews where the Gotham spin on the villain was teased....
With his Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning fantasy-drama The Shape of Water poised to make some further noise during awards season, director Guillermo del Toro says he needs a break from the grind of Hollywood and will take a year off from directing. Del Toro had been set to begin work on an adaptation of the ’60s action-fantasy Fantastic Voyage, a project that has already seen its share of delays and problems during a long period in development hell....
Hans Zimmer may always be remembered as the man behind the music of Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight, but it turns out Zimmer’s connection to Batman goes back even farther - to Batman: The Animated Series. The diehard fans will be quick to point out that the musical score of the acclaimed cartoon was inspired and based on Danny Elfman’s score from Tim Burton’s Batman (1989). But the credit for the TV show’s outstanding orchestral music has always been rightly placed with composer Shirley Walker....
Mysterio could potentially have killed his reality’s Spider-Man before traveling to the MCU in Spider-Man: Far From Home. According to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, the next Spider-Man film serves a dual purpose. It’s intended as a sort of epilogue to Avengers: Endgame, but it also sets the scene for Phase 4. “What better person to hold your hand and lead you into the next incarnation of the MCU, in a grounded, realistic manner, than Peter Parker?...
AMC have unveiled an awesome new poster for the second half of Fear The Walking Dead’s third season ahead of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The spinoff of The Walking Dead recently aired its mid-season finale, which saw Madison and her family settle a local dispute with some Native Americans, Strand talk to an astronaut and plenty of tension build up between the various big-shots at Otto Ranch. The show may not return until September but with San Diego Comic-Con 2017 finally kicking off, a bunch of the event’s biggest series are revealing exclusive promo posters in anticipation of their presence at the most revered convention in geekdom....
Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has opened up about Carrie Fisher’s involvement while making the film, specifically when it came to General Leia Organa’s portrayal. The arrival of a new film set in the galaxy far, far away is always an emotional occurrence for fans, but Episode VIII will be even more so due to the tragic passing of Fisher. The franchise icon died late last year, and ever since then, people have been curious to see her character’s role in the highly-anticipated sequel....
Dreaming up survival plans for the zombie apocalypse has basically become a national pastime. Everyone likes to think of themselves as the next Daryl Dixon. But the residents of Lake Worth, Florida probably weren’t too excited to hear zombies were the cause of a recent power outage. Emergency alerts are meant to warn residents of imminent danger. And, yet, it seems this technology is growing increasingly sketchy and difficult to trust....
Nils Mattison is a former Apple employee that worked in the company between 2006 and 2013, then he left to found Minut, a company that “helps hosts be good neighbors.” Focused on companies like Airbnb, Minut has a device that tracks noise, occupancy, motion, and temperature, that helps remind guests that they should keep it down while making hosts, of course, better neighbors. The company just raised $14 million to expand its business....
At this point, Fortnite has rightfully taken its spot as the go-to video game around the world, and that’s not going to change with Fortnite season 7. As the key game in the Battle Royale genre, Epic Games has managed to rope in consumers from all demographics with the title. So, with Fortnite season 6 preparing to come to an end, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to hear that Fortnite season 7 is set to kick off in the very near future – and with it will be a number of brand new features....
Samsung on Monday announced its new lineup of Smart TVs as part of the CES 2022 announcements. In addition to hardware improvements, the South Korean company is bringing game streaming platforms to its TVs for the first time in a bid to make them even more appealing against other TVs and even set-top boxes like Apple TV. Among all the upgrades and features of Samsung’s new TVs, the company has introduced a new “Gaming Hub” that will let users play games directly on their TVs....
Star Wars’ merchandising event Force Friday II is right around the corner, and in preparation for this big event, an encoded video message from General Organa has been released. Back in 2015, the Force Friday event was launched as celebration of the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, unveiling various toys, action figures, novels, books, and even a makeup line, all in preparation for the release of Episode VII....
Warner Bros. Animation will adapt The Ice Dragon, a medieval fantasy from George R.R. Martin that he wrote before Game of Thrones. If there’s anything author George R.R. Martin loves, it’s a good dragon. Where would his epic series of fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire be without its trio of flying fire-breathers Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion? Even before publishing the book series that spawned HBO’s Game of Thrones, Martin had a thing for dragons....
Houston Brooks from Kong: Skull Island could be the secret character returning for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla movie rebooted the Toho franchise in Hollywood and ended up launching yet another shared universe: the MonsterVerse. Arguably one of Warner Bros.’ most successful shared universes thus far, the MonsterVerse introduced a handful of iconic monsters and kaiju through the 2014 film as well as Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island in 2017....
Gwyneth Paltrow revealed a potential Avengers 4 spoiler, via her Instagram account. Tony Stark’s long-time significant other, Pepper Potts, returned to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for this year’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, after having been absent for quite some time. Captain America: Civil War revealed that Pepper and Tony had gone through a rough patch, after the latter proved unable/unwilling to give up his superhero life. Now, however, the two appears happily engaged to be married - though with Thanos and his minions, the Black Order, looming in the shadows, it might be awhile before we see them walk down the aisle (assuming we ever see them walk down the aisle)....
Dragon Ball is a series that is full of fascinating antagonists. Strength is certainly important for a good villain, but so is their backstory and their motivations in the first place. This is what makes Dragon Ball Super’s Jiren the Gray such an anomaly. He’s absolutely an antagonist to Goku and company and he’s also by far the strongest fighter that they’ve gone up against, but they encounter Jiren in a tournament....
When it was announced that there was going to be a LEGO Movie, many felt that studios were really scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas. However, to everyone’s surprise, the film was a huge hit and critically acclaimed. In August of last year however, the original perception of studios scraping the bottom of the barrel was once again reinforced with the news that a Pez Movie was in the works....
Here’s every Cowboy Bebop Funko Pop! figure fans of the cult series can buy. Cowboy Bebop is - alongside Neon Genesis Evangelion - one of the defining anime shows of the 1990s. The story follows a crew of bounty hunters in the year 2071, including Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Jet Black, and Ed. The show could effortlessly blend action, drama, comedy, horror, and any number of genres and it also featured a fantastic soundtrack....
The Fifty Shades movie trilogy is primed to pass the $1 billion mark Friday following a big opening day for Fifty Shades Freed Thursday in theaters overseas. Based on author E.L. James’ blockbuster book trilogy about the lurid romantic relationship between a literature student (Dakota Johnson) and a tormented billionaire businessman (Jamie Dornan), the Fifty Shades phenomenon carried over to the big screen on Valentine’s Day weekend in 2015, when Fifty Shades of Grey logged a massive $85....
Perhaps one of the least likely comic book franchise’s to have survived as long as it has in the current pop-cultural climate, wherein superheroes and megalomaniacal villains appear to be all the rage, is the Archie Comics flagship brand and publishing conglomerate, which owns the collective rights to teenage do-gooders and goof-offs Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and Reggie Mantle. Despite having been around since 1942, the original cast of characters created by John L....
NOTE: This article contains potential SPOILERS for Venom - The first trailer for the Venom movie isn’t what fans expected - but it revealed more than most realize. It wouldn’t be exaggerating to say the trailer was disappointing for fans who wanted to see Venom in his own movie trailer, and few could call that hope unfounded. Still, there may be reasons why the Venom trailer didn’t show the symbiote - and anyone who thinks the trailer didn’t reveal anything at all wasn’t paying attention....
