And so, finally, swinging his way into cinemas once again is your favourite neighbourhood you know what. Fresh from his brief but memorable cameo in last summer’s Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, and his blue-and-red spandex-ed alter-ego have their own solo adventure as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But with two iterations of the character already brought to the big screen in the last fifteen years, is Spider-Man truly ready for his Homecoming?

The first and perhaps…
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Remember back in 2008 when Marvel was just starting out and their expanded cinematic universe was just a glint in producer Kevin Feige’s eye? That year, the first Iron Man film was released and while it was considered a bit of a risk at the time (not just the film but the casting of post-controversy Robert Downey Jnr) but they needn’t have worried: the film was a smash, grossing over $585million worldwide.

One of the trump cards Marvel had up its sleeve was the casting of Jeff Bridges as…
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D23 has been in supreme overdrive over the weekend with news coming out from every corner of Disney’s enormous upcoming slate, but perhaps the most talked about was Marvel showing the crowd the first teaser for Avengers: Infinity War, which sent social media into meltdown for those who did (and didn’t) see it.

Almost all of the cast from the film, led by the film’s big bad Josh Brolin (Thanos) and Marvel head Kevin Feige. were present for the event and during some press interviews, the…
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The annual list of the “highest-grossing” actors of the year has been released by Forbes and Scarlett Johansson is 2016’s No.1 ahead of her Captain America: Civil War co-stars Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jnr. The list, published this week, showcases the year’s top-grossers in the acting stakes and with comic-book and superhero movies again pulling in big business, the majority of the top ten is unsurprising.

The site calculates this list by adding up “the 2016 global ticket sales of the…
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Sony has announced that a sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming is already in the works with a release date set as anticipation grows after last week’s global debut of the first two trailers from the upcoming reboot. Marvel have made the film with Sony as part of the deal that saw the web-slinger appear in this summer’s Captain America: Civil War.

Deadline is reporting that efforts are already underway to bring a sequel to the screen much quicker than anticipated and will now hit cinemas on…
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Remember back in 2008 when Marvel was just starting out and their expanded cinematic universe was just a glint in producer Kevin Feige’s eye? That year, the first Iron Man film was released and while it was considered a bit of a risk at the time (not just the film but the casting of post-controversy Robert Downey Jnr) but they needn’t have worried: the film was a smash, grossing over $585million worldwide.

One of the trump cards Marvel had up its sleeve was the casting of Jeff Bridges as…
Read More »

And so, finally, swinging his way into cinemas once again is your favourite neighbourhood you know what. Fresh from his brief but memorable cameo in last summer’s Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, and his blue-and-red spandex-ed alter-ego have their own solo adventure as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But with two iterations of the character already brought to the big screen in the last fifteen years, is Spider-Man truly ready for his Homecoming?

The first and perhaps…
Read More »