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Avengers: Endgame is returning to theaters with a new post-credits scene

2019-06-19T13:58:20-04:00

Avengers: Endgame is finally getting an official post-credits scene, with a limited-time rerelease in theaters this weekend.

Marvel Studios co-president Kevin Feige told Screen Rant that a new version of Endgame will appear in theaters that has a couple of additional scenes not in the original. Feige said if people "stay and watch the movie, after the credits, there'll be a deleted scene, a little tribute, and a few surprises."

The description suggests that Endgame's additional materials won't be akin to the quick post-credit scenes Marvel fans are accustomed to. Feige didn't provide any additional details, but told Screen Rant the rerelea …

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All the biggest questions from Avengers: Endgame, answered

2019-05-09T10:00:00-04:00

Warning: major spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame.

Avengers: Endgame is a big movie, and it does an admirable job of wrapping up more than a decade's worth of story threads for the long-running film franchise. But even though the film mostly closes out the Infinity Saga, even though it skips the usual post-credits tease for the next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie in order to feel more like a complete story, it still leaves open questions. Some are about the franchise's future, and some are about how the film actually hangs together. So we've put together a guide to the biggest questions that Endgame leaves behind.

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Avengers: Endgame will stream exclusively on Disney+ on December 11th

2019-05-08T16:44:11-04:00

Avengers: Endgame will stream exclusively on Disney+, the company's upcoming streaming service, beginning on December 11th, roughly one month after the service's launch. Disney CEO Bob Iger made the announcement as part of the company's quarterly earnings report this afternoon.

Iger also noted that the company is "very pleased with our Q2 results and thrilled with the record-breaking success of Endgame," adding that it is currently the second-highest grossing film of all time, following James Cameron's Avatar. Endgame broke records with its release, pulling in more than $1.2 billion during its opening weekend, which topped Star Wars: The Fo …

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Look at this limited-edition Avengers: Endgame Oppo F11 Pro

2019-05-08T05:00:00-04:00

As the world continues to be consumed by Avengers: Endgame hype, Oppo has put out a special edition phone that ties into Marvel's cinematic behemoth. Here's our first look at the Oppo F11 Pro Marvel's Avengers Limited Edition, to give it its full name.

The F11 Pro is a mid-range phone that Oppo first released in India a couple of months ago. Based on the historical relationship between Oppo's F-series and sister company OnePlus' flagship phones, as well as some extensive leaks, the OnePlus 7 is likely to look pretty similar to this device. OnePlus actually put out its own Avengers-themed phone last year around the release of Infinity War; n …

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The universe-shattering implications of Fortnite in Avengers: Endgame

2019-05-07T12:16:40-04:00

The oddest cameo in Avengers: Endgame isn't from Stan Lee or co-director Joe Russo. The cameo by Fortnite, the popular online battle royale game, is the one with the biggest ramifications for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And that's because it raises an awkward question: does Fortnite's Thanos mode also exist in the Avengers universe? And if so, what does that mode look like in a post-Snap world?

Fortnite in Avengers opens up a huge can of worms

The limited-time Thanos game mode shook up the traditional Fortnite formula, forcing players to team up to fight against the super-powered, Infinity Gauntlet-wielding Mad Titan. Yes, Fortnite's Than …

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Avengers: Endgame has earned more than $2 billion worldwide

2019-05-05T11:33:48-04:00

Avengers: Endgame has crossed another huge box office milestone: it's become the fastest film ever to earn more than $2 billion at the worldwide box office, and has become the second-biggest film release ever, according to Deadline.

The film earned a jaw-dropping $1.2 billion on its opening weekend across the world, and has broken a ton of records since its release: it became the highest-grossing Thursday release ever, the biggest opening weekend ever (in the US and globally), biggest opening in China and India, the largest second weekend box office ever, the fastest to earn more than $1 billion, now the fastest to earn $2 billion, and it's …

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Thanos and the Night King were fighting the exact same battle

2019-05-03T16:21:01-04:00

Warning: spoilers ahead for season 8 of Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame.

The morning of Game of Thrones' long-awaited Battle of Winterfell episode, "The Long Night," Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo tweeted a fan-made picture of the Night King and Thanos face-to-face, with the hashtag #WeWannaSeeThisFight. But the truth about the villains - two of the most significant in popular culture this decade and both coming to their biggest, death-filled clashes in one weekend - is that they have no reason to fight each other. Based on what we know about their goals, their fight is essentially the same.

For many seasons of Gam …

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What’s behind all the weird online thirst for the Night King?

2019-05-03T13:48:02-04:00

Tasha: So let's be frank about this: we started having a version of this conversation a week ago when Julia said she was super into the Night King on Game of Thrones. We talked about her writing a piece about villain-lust, coming in part out of a Tumblr and pop culture outlet trend toward drooling over characters like Venom and thirsting after thicc daddy Thanos. And then this Mashable piece about the Night King hit, full of references to Night Bae and "Ice me, Night Daddy" and "temperature play."

Can we finally admit the Night King from 'Game of Thrones' is super hot?https://t.co/era0A4SDqI
- Mashable (@mashable) May 2, 2019

So, okay. I ge …

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Spider-Man: Far From Home’s new trailer may include an Avengers: Endgame spoiler warning

2019-05-03T13:22:53-04:00

A spoiler warning for Avengers: Endgame, the newest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will run alongside the new Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer.

It's rumored that the new trailer will be released on May 6th, and it will feature "a special message from Tom Holland, warning viewers that the trailer will contain spoilers for Avengers: Endgame," according to Trailer Track's report. The site is reporting that a clip from the Far From Home trailer "was sent out, alongside the new trailer, to German cinemas today."

Far From Home is the first post-Endgame MCU movie, but it's coming so quickly after Endgame that apparently the filmmakers ar …

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Game of Thrones could have taken a page from how Avengers: Endgame handles death

2019-05-02T14:23:01-04:00

Significant spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones, season 8, episode 3, "The Long Night," and for Avengers: Endgame.

Heading into last weekend, we were expecting a lot of big, meaningful pop-culture deaths. Avengers: Endgame threatened to kill off some major Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, as the franchise opened up to new sequels and spinoffs. A lot of Game of Thrones characters we've seen grow up over eight years were also on the line, as they faced a seemingly endless army of the undead, with the battlefield clearing for one final ruler of Westeros. Only one of these stories actually delivered on those expectations, though, while the …

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