The escalating pandemic of COVID-19 just breached the defenses of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Disney and Marvel's streaming-bound series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was forced to halt production this week over growing concerns about coronavirus exposure in the Czech Republic.
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Fast and Furious 9 is no longer fast approaching theaters, and there's a chance fans will be furious about it. As confirmed by Variety, Universal Pictures has delayed the ninth Fast and Furious film nearly a full year amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.
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One of Hollywood's dystopian dramas has been affected by a real-life pandemic. A Quiet Place Part II, the long-awaited sequel to director John Krasinski's hugely successful horror debut, has been delayed due to growing concerns over the COVID-19 outbreak sweeping the globe.
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Add the global spread of the coronavirus to the growing list of reasons to stay away from the darkly weird town of Riverdale. The CW series has shut down production after Warner Bros. Television confirmed a member of the show's team had come in contact with someone testing positive for COVID-19.
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Here's something new to sink your teeth into. As covered by The Hollywood Reporter, a reboot of the famous monster movie Dracula is in the works, with Jennifer's Body filmmaker Karyn Kusama set to take the reins as director.
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Get ready for more globe-trotting, treasure hunting adventure... maybe. We Got This Covered is citing its wily anonymous sources in reporting that Disney wants Nicolas Cage, star of the National Treasure series and about a billion other movies, to return to star in a fourth installment of the saga.
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Mark Ruffalo's Hulk will smash again in the MCU. At least that's the word coming from the folks at The Illuminderdi, as the site is claiming "sources" close to the She-Hulk series have provided proof that Ruffalo is officially on board to reprise his role as Bruce Banner on the small screen.
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Since MGM announced that No Time to Die had been delayed to November due to concerns vis-à-vis the coronavirus outbreak, film exhibitors have grown nervous about when and where the other shoe will drop. The current conversation regarding potential release date delays concerns Black Widow.
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Jay and Silent Bob are coming back to spoof comic book movies, Hollywood, and more once again in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. But what if Jason Mewes' and Kevin Smith's iconic stoner duo did more than just smoke herb and spoof superheroes? What if they went out and joined the superheroes' world?
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Best known as Jay of Jay and Silent Bob fame, Jason Mewes recently sat down with us while promoting his new movie, Madness in the Method. During our chat, we asked the lifelong comic book fan would do if he had the opportunity to recruit his own team of Avengers.
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When it comes to DC Comics characters, everyone has their favorites, their worsts and firsts — but what about lifelong comics fan (and comic actor) Jason Mewes? We had the chance to ask Mewes about his favorite and least favorite DC characters while he was promoting his film Madness in the Method.
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With the release of this fall's Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix, we'll see the debut of the latest theatrical take on one of the most iconic comic book supervillains ever created. But Phoenix could've been cast in the role of a completely different legendary bad guy for Marvel, not DC.
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Plans were underway behind the scenes to give Thor and Loki yet another, different sibling — a brother who might be more familiar to comic book readers and lovers of Norse mythology. That's right, Balder the Brave was almost introduced to the MCU to further complicate Thor's family tree.
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Charlie Wen, the man in charge of just about all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's designs over the past decade, sat for an exclusive interview with Looper to talk about how and why Iron Man was actually the perfect superhero to kickstart the MCU as we know it.
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It looks like the magic of Pixar's fantasy adventure Onward failed to conjure up a major box office debut. Its $40 million domestic debut fell $5 million short of its pre-release tracking, and $10 million shy of its higher-end $50 million estimations, which could add up to a loss for Pixar.
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Recently, rumors have swirled that Johnny Depp could finally be playing the Joker — in director Matt Reeves' The Batman. One fan has decided he's not content to wait for Warner Bros. and Depp to get their acts together and actually sign on the dotted line to make that happen.
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Coyote Peterson, founder of the Brave Wilderness YouTube channel and host of the new Animal Planet series Brave the Wild, has a mission: getting up close and personal with the most dangerous and misunderstood critters. Looper talked to him about how he got started.
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Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, episode one of Star Wars couldn't hold a young star's attention. In an interview with TotalFilm magazine (as reported by its sister site GamesRadar), Keira Knightley admitted that she fell asleep on the set of The Phantom Menace.
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Ever since the ending of Avengers: Endgame, fans have been wondering what's going to happen between Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Well, wonder no more, folks. Guardians actor Vin Diesel has just dropped some major news about the fourth Thor film, Thor: Love and Thunder.
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Vin Diesel wants Fast and Furious fans to know that the next chapter of Universal's record-setting racing franchise still plans to cross the box office finish line in May. In a recent interview, the actor told fans to pump the brakes over worries that F9's May 22 release date will be pushed back.
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That ever-churning rumor mill has cranked out a little nugget that may not make sense at first blush: that rubber-faced maniac Jim Carrey will return to one of his most beloved roles for the upcoming Space Jam 2. We speak of none other than Stanley Ipkiss, AKA The Mask.
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You may be aware of one consistent part of Penn and Teller's schtick: one of them never shuts up, and the other never speaks. Teller has long served as the silent straight man to Penn Jillette, and in a recent interview, Jillette — speaking for Teller, as per usual — explained why this is.
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Move over Tom Holland — the rumor mill is already casting your forebear, Andrew Garfield, in the spidery role you thought you had locked down. According to reporting from gossip site We Got This Covered, Sony may be interested in bringing Garfield back for a potential live-action Spider-Verse movie.
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Another mystery of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been solved. Near the film's end, right after the triumph of Rey over Emperor Palpatine, she and Kylo Ren appeared to exchange words before the latter vanished into the Force, although no dialogue was audible. Indeed, as it turns out, they did
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There are some actors who, no matter how many roles they take on, will always be remembered for one character they played, and Daniel Radcliffe will always be Harry Potter. But is he planning a comeback as the Boy Who Lived in any of the upcoming projects from the extended Harry Potter Universe?
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Class is officially cancelled at Brakebills Academy. Syfy is ready to pull the plug on its fantasy thriller The Magicians after 5 seasons of magical hijinks. The announcement means that the season currently airing on the genre cabler will be the series' last — but why the sudden cancellation?
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Blumhouse has tapped a Paranormal Activity veteran to pull fans out of the ghost dimension for another round of shaky-camera scares. Producer Jason Blum has revealed one of the creatives slated to craft the latest tale of demonic haunting and possession.
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