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Marvel Cancels ‘Howard The Duck’ And ‘Tigra And Dazzler’ Animated Shows At Hulu At the beginning of December last year,Marvel’s Tigra and Dazzler Showintended for Hulu had a shake-up behind the scenes that resulted in the firing of the showrunner and the entire writing staff of the animated seriesdue to creative differenceswith Marvel. Now the show has been axed completely, and theHoward the Duckanimated series that was also in the works is being thrown out the window too....

Marvel’s ‘Cloak And Dagger’ TV Series Casts Cloak And Dagger Marvel Studios is ready to introduce its latest small-screen superheroes. First announced last year, Freeform’sCloak and Daggerhas just setAubrey JosephandOlivia Holtto star as Cloak and Dagger, respectively. The YA-ish comic book series centers around two very different teenagers who strike up a romance, drawn together by their strange powers. As announced on Marvel.com, Holt will play Tandy Bowen, a.k.a. Dagger. Tandy enjoys a privileged upbringing until her family is destroyed by a disastrous storm....

NBC Continues To Smell What The Rock Is Cooking, Renews Young Rock For Season 3 All the rumors are true, “Young Rock,” a show you totally knew existed and were keeping a very close eye on, is beingrenewed for a third season! That’s right, you have more Rock origin story goodness coming your way. If you’ve been curious about how Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson became Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, then don’t fret because you’ve got at least one more season to explore the ups and downs of his young life....

Page 2: Star Wars, BTTF, Pixar, South Park, Blair Witch, Banksy, Die Hard, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Star Trek We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Page 2: Wes Anderson, Transformers, Alien, David Fincher, Breaking Bad, Willy Wonka, WarGames, Star Trek, V/H/S, Ray Bradbury, Looper, Cars Land, Trey Parker, Star Wars What is Page 2?Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included48different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Peaky Blinders Season 6 Finally Sets A UK Premiere Date No need to call a family meeting for this one. With anticipation reaching a fever pitch for any and all news regarding when the sixth season of “Peaky Blinders” will air, the BBC finally decided to show a little mercy towards the legions of fans for the hit British gangster series. Led by Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), the Shelby gang’s violent and seemingly never-ending quest for complete control over of Birmingham in the fraught period of time between the two World Wars has translated to just as much hype on this side of the pond....

Producer Gale Anne Hurd Would ‘Love’ To Make Another ‘Terminator’ The Terminatorseries is responsible for one of my best, and worst, film going memories. The good one was back in the Summer of 1991 when my parents picked me up at camp and surprised me by driving to the Chester 6 Cinemas in Chester, New York for a matinee ofTerminator 2: Judgement Day. The surprise was awesome and the movie put it over the top....

Promo Poster: The Whistleblower Another promo poster I ran across at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is a teaser one-sheet forLarysa Kondracki’sThe Whistleblower, which starsRachel Weiszas Kathryn Bolkovac, “a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.” The drama co-starsVanessa Redgrave, Monica BellucciandDavid Strathairn, and is planning for a tentative late 2010 release. Check out the full poster and info sheet, after the jump....

Rogue One Bits: The Main Inspiration For Jyn Erso, A Very Cool U-Wing Toy, And Alan Tudyk On Playing A 7-Foot Droid In this edition of Rogue One Bits: Felicity Jones is having one hell of a year. In addition to playing Jyn Erso inRogue One: A Star Wars Story, she’s also starring alongside Tom Hanks in the upcomingInfernoand plays a key role in J.A. Bayona’sA Monster Calls. And in a new interview withYahoo Movies, she revealed that one of those projects allowed her to work with the actress behind her chief inspiration for Jyn:...

Rumor: Michael B. Jordan To Play Boba Fett In Delayed Spin-Off Due the box-office fallout and reported behind-the-scenes trouble on the reboot ofFantastic Four, director Josh Trankended up being removedfrom the next installment of theStar Wars Storyspin-off series of films. The film was rumored to focus onBoba Fett, but ithas now been pushed backin favor of Phil Lord & Chris Miller’sspin-off following Han Solo instead. However, that doesn’t mean that Disney has given up the hunt for someone to step up and replace Trank in the director’s chair for the project being developed bySimon Kinberg....

Screenwriter Kurt Sutter Takes Name Off Punisher: War Zone, Cites Difference In Vision ScreenwriterKurt Sutterhas removed his screenwriting credit from Marvel and Lionsgate’s superhero reboot,Punisher: War Zone, due in September, and he’s explained his decision quite frankly on his personalblog, while alluding to dissonance with the flick’s creative direction as well. He says that he didn’t “deserve” credit for the screenplay, as little of his script remains, and he follows that by saying he doesn’t “want” credit because his vision for Frank Castle/The Punisher will not appear on screen....

Sequel Bits: ‘Hobbs And Shaw’, ‘Bill And Ted 3’, ‘Fallen Kingdom’, ‘Escape Plan 2’, ‘Doom’, ‘Halloween’ In this edition of sequel bits: Hobbs and Shaw, theFast and Furiousspin-off, is gearing up to begin filming, and some (alleged) new character descriptions have surfaced in the form of a casting call (viaTHS). If these are accurate, they provide some more info on the film. These descriptions mention both family members for Hobbs and Shaw, and also a “British villain”:...

Superhero Bits: Spider-Man Set Photos, Batman: Return To Arkham Delayed, Luke Cage At SDCC & More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Want to seeTom Holland(or his stunt double) in the Spidey suit on the set ofSpider-Man: Homecoming? Why isBatman: Return to Arkhambeing delayed? When isAgents of SHIELDreturning to ABC? Want to see some alternate designs forHawkeyeforCaptain America: Civil War? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....