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Spider-Man Actor Campaigns for Disney+ Damage Control Spin-off (Exclusive)

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Spider-Man: Homecoming  remains one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most pivotal installments, and its value only increases retrospectively. From the Tony Stark and Peter Parker bond being the catalyst for  Avengers: Endgame 's time heist to the Pepper Potts proposal laying the groundwork for where the Starks are emotionally come  Avengers: Infinity War , Spider-Man's first Marvel Studios outing is filled with crucial seeds that blossomed big shortly after. While the aforementioned moments have seen resolution,  Homecoming  still has a couple that have yet to sprout. The biggest of those is the Department of Damage Control (DODC), a federal division tasked with housekeeping. Its chores list is not exactly dishwashing and laundry, though. ADVERTISEMENT As seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming 's opening scene, the DODC first shows up following the Battle of New York from 2012's  The Avengers . The department shuts down Adrian Toomes's ...

Sydney Sweeney's Spider-Man Spin-off Movie Receives New Release Date

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It was already bad when critics could only see  Morbius  the day before its release. So it was no surprise when it was panned critically while also earning itself a rare C+ from CinemaScore, which resulted in its plummet at the box office. Now, it may be a negative sign for Sony's  Madame Web too. At this point, Sony will be lucky to break even on the Jared Leto-led production, but it certainly puts any sequels to this pseudo-vampire movie in jeopardy. Not to mention the rest of Sony's possible plans, if its baffling post-credit scenes are to be believed. ADVERTISEMENT It makes the news of Sony shifting its film slate incredibly suspicious as if it's in reaction to the poor reception of Morbius . However, this change in Sony's slate finally revealed the release date of Sony’s  Madame Web . Madame Web Spinning Her Release Date Marvel According to Sony (via The Ankler's  Jeff Sneider ), S.J. Clarkson's  Madame Web, starring  Dako...

Marvel's Karen Gillan Open to Nebula Disney+ Spin-off

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The MCU's Guardians of the Galaxy franchise is filled with many interesting characters, incuding Karen Gillan's Nebula. She was initially introduced as a ruthless assassin since thanks to her upbringing under Thanos alongside Gamora. Since then, Nebula has slowly turned over a new leaf as she becomes an ally to the Guardians during Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame .  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3  will showcase Nebula as a full-time member of the team, thus presenting more opportunities to explore the character's dynamic with Peter Quill and the rest of the Guardians. Seth Green, who portrays the MCU's Howard the Duck, previously shared that the upcoming threequel's story is centered around Gamora and Nebula, meaning that both sisters' emotional backstories will move to the forefront.  ADVERTISEMENT Given that Vol. 3 director James Gunn confirmed that the film will be the final adventure of this iteration of Guardia...

Disney+ Iron Man Spinoff, Ironheart, Casts Harper Anthony

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Marvel Studios has been introducing a lot of new characters to the audiences over the last year. This includes the likes of Monica Rambeau to Kate Bishop and now Moon Knight's many personalities. The trend is set to keep going with another big character set to make their grand entrance later this year in  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever : Riri Williams. The character is played by Dominique Thorne and will show up on the movie side of the MCU before debuting in her own Disney+ series. Riri first showed up in the comics back in 2016, where her genius level of intelligence led to her building her own Iron Man armor in the wake of Tony Stark going into a coma. So, naturally, she starts fighting crime in his stead—Riri even gets a Stark-based AI system in her suit. ADVERTISEMENT Details on her first appearance in the  Black Panther  sequel are sparse. At the least, it has been rumored that she will be suiting up at some point in the film. One would have to...

Marvel Casts Lyric Ross In Iron Man Disney+ Spin-off, Ironheart

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Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man continues to have a legacy in the MCU more than two years after his on-screen death, which is largely coming to life on Disney+. Two unique shows, Armor Wars and Ironheart , will play the biggest roles in paying tribute to Downey's time as the OG MCU hero. Ironheart will be an exciting one in particular, with Riri Williams becoming the MCU's next young hero to play a key role in the narrative. Reportedly starting filming this April, Thorne's solo series is already rumored to tie back to the past 14 years of MCU history while also setting her own Riri Williams up for a solo run on-screen. From potentially fighting descendants of Tony Stark's original villain to following up on Riri's introduction in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever , fans are in for a unique trip through MCU lore. ADVERTISEMENT Thorne recently gained a co-star in Anthony Ramos, who's said to be a major part of the MCU's future e...

WandaVision Star Shares Brief Exciting Update on Agatha Harkness Spin-off

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It's been more than a year since WandaVision debuted on Disney+, but the streaming series' impact on pop culture is still being felt. Much of the credit for  WandaVision 's success must be credited to Elizabeth Olsen and her top-tier performance as the Scarlet Witch, but she wasn't the only sorceress to steal the show. Kathryn Hahn's Agatha Harkness quickly became a fan-favorite MCU character during her Marvel debut on Disney+, and she'll be getting her own spin-off series to celebrate her success titled Agatha: House of Harkness .  The  WandaVision  spin-off series is still in the early stages of development and shouldn't begin filming until October 2022, so there isn't much information available regarding the show's plot or the characters that fans can expect to appear. However, a recent trailer for the upcoming  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness  seems to tease that Wanda Maximoff will revisit the town of West...

Morbius Star Teases Michael Keaton's Surprising Role In Spider-Man Spin-off

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It’s sometimes easy to forget how there are Marvel films outside the MCU banner. One of them, led entirely by Sony Pictures, was even tied directly to the biggest film of last year, Spider-Man: No Way Home . Of course, that’s none other than Tom Hardy’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage . While the second symbiote adventure didn’t reach Spidey's levels of success, it still made an impact. The next Sony-led Spider-Man villain film will be Morbius , which is set to release in just under two months. The film follows Jared Leto’s titular character, who, after trying to cure his sickness, ends up turning into a vampire. ADVERTISEMENT If the trailers are anything to go by, fans should expect at least a decent adventure; though that Spider-Man-sized hole in the plot will be hard to forget. The most confusing part of the film is trying to figure out just what universe the project takes place in. The latest trailer contained a reference to four different realities...

Marvel Studios' Next Spider-Man Spin-off Might've Been Accidentally Revealed

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In 2018, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse not only broke the mold in terms of animation and comic book films but also in terms of the Multiverse. Fast-forward to 2021, Sony and Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: No Way Home united cinema's three live-action Spideys in a single film, shattering box office records and leading to fan demand for the continuation of both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's sagas.  With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Part 1 coming to theaters later this year, coupled with the acclaim for all three Spider-Men in No Way Home , the answer to how Sony can connect their multiple web-slinging projects appears to be Madame Web. ADVERTISEMENT With S.J. Clarkson set to direct, and Dakota Johnson recently confirmed as the film's leading choice, it would seem that the Multiversal, telepathic comic book character's Web of Life and Destiny may be the canon explanation for all of cinema's Spideys and their potent...

Spider-Man's Madame Web Spin-Off Movie Gets Promising Update

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Sony Pictures is in the midst of a theatrical Spider mania across the globe. Not only is  Spider-Man: No Way Home  breaking records worldwide, but the studio also has plans to re-release last year's  Venom: Let There Be Carnage  to further satiate Spidey fans. And that isn't all. Sony has made it well-known that it plans to continue its efforts to expand its theatrical wall-crawling horizons by exploring characters elsewhere in the Spider-Verse, like Kraven the Hunter, Morbius, and Madame Web.  This mindset of keeping Peter Parker proper in the MCU while exploring solo movies centered on characters of the wider Spidey canon has proven fruitful for Sony Pictures thus far, with the  Venom  franchise being a resounding success.  ADVERTISEMENT Of these spin spinoffs, one of the most mysterious has been the  Madame Web  movie by filmmaker S.J. Clarkson. The project still has not made any casting announcement public, but names like Charlize Theron and ...

Spider-Man's Kraven Spin-Off Movie Receives Encouraging Updates

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After the staggering commercial successes of  Venom: Let There Be Carnage  and  Spider-Man: No Way Home  in addition to the upcoming release of Morbius , Sony Pictures is riding a superhero high. Luckily for the studio, it has several projects in development for the Sony Spider-Man Universe, including the Olivia Wilde-directed  Spider-Woman  movie and Aaron Taylor-Johnson's  Kraven the Hunter  film. The move to pursue the classic Spider-Man villain in his own solo flick surprised many, especially when word spread by Tom Holland that Kraven was intended to feature in  No Way Home  if the Multiversal plans fell through. Even more surprising was the casting of the lead star himself, with Taylor-Johnson making the hop from his superheroic role of Quicksilver to another. ADVERTISEMENT Little is known about the film's narrative, but rumblings indicate that comic book characters Chameleon and Calypso will be included in the feature. Now, more rumors pr...

MCU Rumor Reveals Villains of Iron Man Disney+ Spin-off

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Although Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man met his end in 2019's Avengers: Endgame , the legacy of Tony Stark will continue in a big way through multiple Phase 4 projects. Among those include Don Cheadle's  Armor Wars , which will explore what happens when Stark tech ends up in the wrong hands, as well as  Ironheart , which will follow Dominique Thorne as the girl-genius Riri Williams after she debuts in November's  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever . While production updates on the latter have been scarce,  Ironheart  recently received a new logo during this past fall's Disney+ Day. No updates have surfaced regarding a release window, but fans have already gotten their first glimpse at Thorne's character thanks to set photos from  Black Panther 2 's summer shoot in Boston, MA. ADVERTISEMENT Recent rumors have pointed to Ironheart's villains also having ties back to the Iron Man saga, with one report hinting that Obadiah Stane...

WandaVision's Agatha Spin-off Receives Filming Update

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Marvel Studios struck gold with its first Disney+ series in 2021 as  WandaVision  and its unique superhero-sitcom blend proved to be an instant hit among viewers. Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch has quickly become one of the MCU's most popular heroes in advance of her appearance in  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Wanda wasn't the only fan-favorite to come out of the reality-bending sitcom as Kathryn Hahn's Agatha Harkness was instantly beloved by fans, critics, and, apparently, the studio, as she is set to lead her own Disney+ spin-off,  Agatha: House of Harkness .  ADVERTISEMENT With the  WandaVision  spin-off having only recently been announced, news on the project remains scarce, but a new report offered an update on when production will begin When Does Agatha: House of Harkness Start Filming? Marvel According to a recent report from The Cosmic Circus' Lizzie Hill,  Agatha: House of Harkness is planning to begin fi...

Marvel Brings Back Daredevil & Punisher Talent for Disney+ Spin-off

After her introduction in 2021's  Hawkeye , Echo is now set to have her story even more fleshed out in a Disney+ series of her own. Alaqua Cox's deaf hero was last seen in the final moments of  Hawkeye  holding a gun to her uncle Kingpin (played by Vincent D'Onofrio). After she pulled the trigger off-camera, audiences were left wondering if the  Daredevil  villain made it out of the conflict alive.  Well, no one is 100% sure if D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk made it out of the Jeremey Renner-staring series, many would agree it would not make sense to have introduced the character in the CMU only to kill him off after one episode.  ADVERTISEMENT With  Echo  on the horizon, and a couple of Marvel Netflix characters getting a second chance in the universe, it only seems fitting that some of the names behind-the-scenes get to jump back in as well.  Marvel Netflix Writers Brought onto Echo As reported by The Illuminerdi, Marvel Studios is bring...

Sony Delays Next Spider-Man Spin-off Movie, Morbius

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While fans are still reeling from the events of  Spider-Man: No Way Home , Sony Pictures is already prepping the next addition to their wall-crawling portfolio.  Morbius  is set add to the studio's ventures into solo films based upon Peter Parker's rogues' gallery. The movie stars Jared Leto as Michael Morbius, a biochemist who tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease while simultaneously infecting himself with a form of vampirism.  The blood-sucking blockbuster has been in a state of flux for the better part of two years as Sony has shuffled its release date with the ebbs and flows of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.  Morbius  has not been the only film to have been hit hard by the events of the last few years, but it might be the one that has had to move its date (at least publicly) the most often. ADVERTISEMENT Sony Pictures has found success in spite of the pandemic in projects such as  Spider-Man: No Way Home  and Venom: Let There B...

Sony's Next Spider-Man Spin-off, Morbius, Receives Official Runtime

Sony's Next Spider-Man Spin-off, Morbius, Receives Official Runtime