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The hits keep coming in Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s first trailer

2026-03-18T09:41:37-04:00

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is finally here, and it looks like Marvel and Sony are about to put Peter Parker through a different kind of existential crisis.

Though nobody in Brand New Day's trailer knows who Peter (Tom Holland) is or that he's the one saving people as Spider-Man, he still has vivid memories from the past when he was still close with MJ Watson (Zendaya) and Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon). Peter seems to have made peace with his "new" life as a secret crimefighter butting heads with villains and other New York vigilante fixtures like the Punisher (Jon Bernthal). But with all memory of him erased, life is lonely …

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Spider-Noir looks like a hard-boiled thriller in first trailer

2026-02-12T11:08:49-05:00

Though it's going to be a while before we see more of Sony's animated Spider-Verse or Marvel's live-action take on Peter Parker, Amazon's Spider-Noir series is right around the corner.

Today, Amazon dropped a new trailer for its upcoming Spider-Noir starring Nicolas Cage as a brooding Spider-Man variant. Set in an alternate reality where it's still the 1930s, Spider-Noir follows private investigator Ben Reilly (Cage) as he gets back into the crimefighting game as the hero known as "The Spider." As his city's only superhero, Reilly knows that he's the only person with the necessary skills to deal with threats like mob boss Silvermane (Brenda …

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As Marvel pivots back to the Avengers, Wonder Man goes its own way

2026-01-29T12:06:06-05:00

When Marvel first announced that Avengers: Doomsday would be directed by the Russo Brothers and star Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, it seemed like the studio might be using the feature as a massive nostalgia play. Though the film will feature a number of characters from more recent projects like Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the studio made a big deal out of revealing that Chris Evans will reprise his role as Steve Rogers. It's not clear whether Doomsday will bring back even more actors from the original Avengers whose characters either died or aged out of the team. But the project feels primed to work as a kind of re …

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Marvel won’t let you forget Avengers: Doomsday is coming

2026-01-14T07:16:36-05:00

A little over a year ago, Marvel spent the better part of an entire day slowly revealing the massive cast for Avengers: Doomsday. More recently, the studio started dropping teaser trailers featuring some of the movie's more notable superhero team-ups and returning characters. There was already plenty of hype around the project, which seems poised to rework a significant chunk of the MCU. But the House of Mouse wants to get fans foaming at the mouth for the Avengers' biggest outing yet, so now there's a clock counting down to the next time we'll see them on the big screen - which is almost a year away.

Along with yet another teaser, this one …

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OpenAI’s billion-dollar Disney deal puts Mickey Mouse and Marvel in Sora

2025-12-11T10:54:37-05:00

A new three-year licensing agreement announced between Disney and ChatGPT operator OpenAI will allow the Sora video generator to create "user-prompted social videos" that feature more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars. "The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence marks an important moment for our industry, and through this collaboration with OpenAI we will thoughtfully and responsibly extend the reach of our storytelling through generative AI, while respecting and protecting creators and their works," said Disney CEO Bob Iger.

According to OpenAI's blog post announcing the deal:

Sora will be able to genera …

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Marvel details upcoming slate of shows at New York Comic Con

2025-10-12T16:51:10-04:00

We got our first proper look at the upcoming Wonder Man series, but Marvel has a whole slate of shows in the works. Other than Wonder Man, though, the company didn't roll into New York Comic Con with a firm release date for anything. The best we got were some broad release windows and few tantalizing details for what's in store.

Season two of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is set for release in fall of 2026. A lot of details are still unknown, but head of Marvel Television and Marvel Animation Brad Winderbaum did say the story would feature a "black, oozy substance." Let's just hope the show handles that particular story arc a little …

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Eyes of Wakanda feels like fanfiction turned into Marvel history

2025-08-01T10:09:09-04:00

Ryan Coogler's first Black Panther feature set itself apart by pushing audiences to think about how comic book heroes and villains would fit into a world shaped by horrors like the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Black Panther and its 2022 sequel, Wakanda Forever, used their characters to comment on our reality's complicated and oftentimes ugly history as it relates to race and geopolitical conquest. And the films were so successful at the box office that Marvel made a point of locking in Coogler's Proximity Media production outfit for a multiyear deal to develop new projects for Disney Plus.

It was from that deal that Marvel's Ironheart series …

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Fantastic Four: First Steps’ greatest superpower is its gorgeous visuals

2025-07-22T14:16:12-04:00

When Disney acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, you could see flashes of the studio's plan to further expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After years of Marvel Studios building up the Avengers, the Fox deal put the company in a position to start telling stories about the characters who ushered in the modern superhero movie frenzy, like Blade and the X-Men. But it was a little odd to hear that Marvel also planned to make the Fantastic Four a major part of the MCU's future.

Even though the Fantastic Four have always been prominent in Marvel's comics, the characters - created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee - had never translated well to the big s …

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To make Ironheart feel tactile, the show’s creative team had to get on the same page

2025-07-15T17:13:47-04:00

In Disney Plus' Ironheart series, a young genius with an uncanny knack for building armored suits finds herself plunged into a shady, criminal underworld that gives her a chance to really show off her talents. Riri Williams is not Tony Stark, and while the Iron Man films clearly informed many of Ironheart's fantastical visuals, there's a grounded quality to the series' high-octane action that makes it feel unique within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

After years of seeing Iron Man and Marvel's other high-tech superheroes running around in nanotech suits that look a bit too CGI-y for their own good, the way that Ironheart goes out of its way …

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Ironheart believes the children are the future

2025-06-24T16:24:55-04:00

Before the multiverse, magic, or any of Marvel's streaming series were important parts of the studio's cinematic universe, there was Iron Man. After years of so-so movies, Iron Man reminded everyone that Marvel's big-screen adaptations could be amazing with the right creative teams and stars attached. Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark was the MCU's centerpiece and a prime example of how the House of Ideas could make box office record-breaking icons out of its lower-profile characters. A couple of the Iron Man films were terrible, sure, but they each played a role in shaping the larger story. And by spending so much time building up Iron Man's p …

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