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Superhero Bits: ‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Release Window, “Agatha All Along” Almost Had A Different Title & More Want to take a look back at the history ofDeadpoolandCablein Marvel Comics? Will moreX-Mencharacters come toMODOKif a second season is ordered? What month willMarvel’s What If…?arrive on Disney+? What was the alternate title forAgatha’s song inWandaVision? When willJames Gunn’s newPeacemakerseries arrive on HBO Max? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Marvel’s Fresh Start, First Look At Brainiac On ‘Krypton’, ‘Infinity War’ Music Video & More What was the alternate ending forBlack Panther? What is this “Fresh Start” thatMarvel Comicsis kicking off this year? Why didn’tRuth Wilsontake aMarvel Cinematic Universerole that she was being considered for? What villains doesJon Bernthalwant to show up inThe Punisher’s new season? When can we expect the first look atShazam? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Injustice, Preacher, The Boys, The Avengers Want to see images ofThe Dark Knight RisesBlu-ray and box set? What’s the latest on adaptations ofThe BoysandPreacher? What Eighties comedy influencedThe Avengers? How shouldThe Amazing Spider-Manhave ended? Who would win in an epic throwdown betweenWolverineandBatman? IsPatrick Stewartstill teasing a return toX-Men? Does theInjustice: Gods Among UsCollector’s Edition have some cool extra? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Ted Danson Knows Everybody’s Name In Upcoming Virtual ‘Cheers,’ ‘The Good Place,’ And ‘Three Men And A Baby’ Reunion Special Ted Dansonknows better than anyone that making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got — especially in the year 2020. So the star of beloved sitcoms likeCheers,The Good Place, and comedy classicThree Men and a Babyis creating a space where he knows everybody’s name, in a virtual reunion for all three titles....

The Best Cinematic Needledrops And Song Choices Of 2019 Since the dawn of film, music has always been an essential component. A director’s use of a particular song can become synonymous with a scene and bring an added layer of emotion. The use of music in 2019 was no exception and it was hard narrowing this list down to just ten. The movies here used music, either as needle drops or performed, to give audiences insight into the narrative or their character....

The Morning Watch: ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’ VFX, Looking Back At ‘Freakazoid’ & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, check out a breakdown of some of the visual effects created for the blockbuster monster movieGodzilla: King of the Monsters....

The Morning Watch: Reviewing More Movie Explosions, The Manic Pixie Dream Girl & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, an explosives engineer and special effects supervisor fact-check movie explosions fromMission: Impossible, The Hurt Locker, and more....

The Only Thing More Brutal Than Last Night’s ‘Game Of Thrones’ Was The Final Episode Of ‘Veep’ On HBO last night, viewers watched in horror as a power-mad woman sold her soul and devastated a land she claimed to love to achieve maximum power at the expense of countless innocents. And there was also an episode ofGame of Throneswhere Daenerys Targaryen killed a bunch of people. What? Did you think I was talking about Westeros?...

The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter Details, Concept Art, Videos Revealed Universal Studios has finally unveiled specific plans forthe Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a new section of Universal Studios' Orlando Islands of Adventure theme park, which is set to open in Spring 2010 (no specific date yet revealed). After the jump, you’ll find full details, some videos including a virtual fly-through, and some high resolution artwork. The Harry Potter section will feature three main park rides, the names of which were officially announced today:...

This Week In Trailers: Under The Tree, Pin Cushion, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film, Shoplifters, Lemonade Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we get old school, see the crazies who post on Nextdoor come to life, get a five finger discount on some empathy, get an outsider’s perspective on the American dream, and deal with a different kind of mother/daughter relationship....

Title And Details Revealed For Coen Brothers' ’60s Folk Film Like so many film geeks, I’m an ardent admirer of theCoen Brothers(obviously), so I’m thrilled to reveal that a couple of interesting new tidbits have dropped about their next feature. Earlier this summer, the Coens revealed that their next movie would be based on the ’60s folk scene in New York’s Greenwich Village, and apparently that project is starting to come together....

Universal’s VelociCoaster Ride Features The Return Of Your Favorite ‘Jurassic Park’ Character: Mr. DNA TheJurassic World VelociCoasteris coming toIslands of Adventureat theUniversal Orlando Resortthis summer to unleash the full ferocity of the velociraptors and…Mr. DNA? The host of the upcoming roller coaster is none other than the animated DNA strand who popped up in 1993’sJurassic Parkto explain how dinosaurs were cloned. And now he’s appearing in the queue for the VelociCoaster ride to explain how you’re all going to be ripped apart into shreds by deadly velociraptors....

UPDATE: The Han Solo Spin-Off Adds Paul Bettany To Replace Michael K. Williams A few weeks ago, we learned that the character played by actorMichael K. Williamsin the upcomingHan Solospin-offhad been cut from the film amidst reshoots. Now, we’ve learned that this is only partially true. While Williams will no longer be in the film, his character has been recast, not cut. Paul Bettany, who has worked for director Ron Howard twice before, is heading to a galaxy far, far away…...