Charles Pulliam-Moore
X-Men ‘97 is about to become a Cable show.
Disney Plus is well on its way to becoming a cable channel, and the final trailer for X-Men ‘97 makes it feel like the series is going to be following suit given the Cable of it all.
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Andrew Webster
To me, my Xbox.
Unfortunately this X-Men ‘97-themed Xbox is only available through a sweepstakes, which is disappointing since reading the comic book panels would be great for killing time while your controller updates.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Nilay Patel
The clock is ticking on Disney’s streaming strategy.
Today’s episode of Decoder is all about Disney, the massive activist investor revolt it just fought off, and what happens next in the world of streaming. Earlier this month, Disney survived an attempted board takeover from businessman Nelson Peltz. While investors overwhelmingly sided with Disney and CEO Bob Iger, the boardroom showdown made something very clear: Disney needs to figure out streaming and get its creative direction back on track.
To help me better understand what’s happening here, I brought on my friend Julia Alexander, who is VP of strategy at Parrot Analytics, a Puck News news contributor, and, most importantly, a former Verge reporter. She’s a leading expert on all things Disney, and I always learn something important about the state of the entertainment business when I talk to her.
Wes Davis
TikTok’s trending topics list just punished me for not watching enough X-Men ‘97.
And so I’m warning you. If you haven’t watched X-Men ‘97’s fifth episode, take extra care with TikTok’s search function, as today, one of the trending topics’ names might spoil a big development for you (as it just did me).
Instead of tapping TikTok’s search icon, I’d suggest reading Charles’ interview with the show’s sound designers.
The composers of X-Men '97 had to evolve the show’s sound to honor its roots
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Marvel Rivals’ remixed Asgard x Yggdrasill map looks perfect for tearing up.
Yggsgard, a fusion of Asgard and Yggdrasill, is just one of the destructible battlefields where Marvel Rivals’ characters will be duking it out when the game launches later this year. The map looks gorgeous in this new reveal video, but it also seems like the sort of place that’s going to be fun to blast apart.
To create the X-Men ‘97 score, Andy Grush and Taylor Stewart had to work through their nostalgia and create new sounds from the future.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Andrew Webster
In a parallel universe, this would be my game of the year.
Unfortunately it’s not real. But the fictional arcade game The Rise of Jubilee from yesterday’s episode of X-Men ‘97 hit all the right nostalgic notes. If only it wasn’t so hard to find a Motendo to play it on.
Andrew Webster
Surf’s up.
Marvel confirmed the main actors for its Fantastic Four reboot at the beginning of the year, and now Deadline is reporting that another pivotal character has been cast, with Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer. Which means we can probably expect Galactus to make an appearance as well.
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