Graeme McMillan

Graeme McMillan
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Graeme McMillan: Popverse Editor Graeme McMillan (he/him) has been writing about comics, culture, and comics culture on the internet for close to two decades at this point, which is terrifying to admit. His work has appeared in The Hollywood Reporter, Wired, Polygon, Inverse, Time Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, and he also co-hosts the Wait What podcast three times a month and writes the Comics, FYI newsletter. He completely understands if you have problems understanding his accent.
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Marvel star Lewis Pullman explains why the MCU's New Avengers are fine with the Sentry couch-surfing in Thunderbolts* post-credit scene
Lewis Pullman thinks that the former Thunderbolts are wanting to keep the all-powerful Sentry close, knowing how dangerous he is ahead of Avengers: Doomsday
June 03, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The secret to Steven Spielberg's success? Shpilkes, from Jaws to Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg knows when to listen to his nervous stomach, and it's why his movies turn out so good... or so he thinks, at least
June 03, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise and Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld almost did a project together in the 90s
The two collaborated on a potential project for years, while Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld was also working with Steven Spielberg and the team behind Independence Day
June 03, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston predicted the Doctor Who 2025 season finale twist four years before it happened
That big twist? Christopher Eccleston, who played the Doctor in 2005's Doctor Who revival, predicted it was back in 2021
June 02, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Danny DeVito remembers "lusting after" Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer on the set of Batman Returns
"I kind of feel like she liked it," Danny DeVito says about his crush on Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman as they filmed 1992's Batman Returns together
June 02, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Doctor Who spin-off The War Between The Land and The Sea gets a first trailer demonstrating how true the title is (and what UNIT is doing about it)
War, huh? What is it good for? Five episodes of a Doctor Who spin-off showcasing UNIT, apparently.
May 31, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Spoilers!The season finale of Doctor Who reveals the future of Ncuti Gatwa on the show and a cliffhanger likely to excite and enrage fans in equal measure
Were the leaks real? What does the future of Doctor Who look like? We have at least one answer to those questions after the Doctor Who finale 'The Reality War' debuts on BBC and Disney+
May 31, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Street Fighter and Mega Man comic publisher apologizes to fans and asks stores to reorder summer stock after cutting ties with struggling distributor
UDON Entertainment, which publishes Street Fighter and Mega Man comics, is asking comic stores to reorder all its material through August after cancelling its arrangement with the troubled Diamond Comic Distributors
May 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel Studios to skip its traditional Hall H panel for San Diego Comic-Con 2025
With Avengers: Doomsday in production and not ready for release until December 2026, Marvel Studios won't be holding its traditional Hall H extravaganza at SDCC 2025 according to reports
May 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC's flagship Batman series delayed a month as Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb's 'H2SH' storyline hits a snag
The next issue of the fan-favorite Batman storyline has been delayed for four weeks, DC has told retailers.
May 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps Invisible Woman Vanessa Kirby is dropping unsubtle Franklin Richard teases for the next Marvel Studios outing
If Vanessa Kirby's teases are to be trusted, we can tick off the 'Franklin's powers will be important in The Fantastic Four: First Steps' box, then
May 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Severance is set to expand on Apple TV+ with potential spin-offs being discussed, says producer Ben Stiller... including multiple shows, and perhaps even a video game
Never doubt the power of Lumon Industries, as Apple TV+ hit Severance is looking to expand with spinoffs, admits executive producer Ben Stiller
May 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Doctor Who faces an uncertain, speculation-filled future ahead of this year's season finale of the BBC/Disney+ sci-fi series
Could the long-running science-fiction series be facing cancellation (or at least a long hiatus)? That's one rumor doing the rounds ahead of the intentionally-shrouded-in-secrecy season finale of the BBC/Disney+ hit Doctor Who
May 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Indie comic company Vault bought by Aethon Books to create "one-stop shop" next-gen sci-fi super-publisher
Aethon Books has purchased a majority stake in comic publisher Vault Comics, creating an full-service independent sci-fi all-rounder that can handle prose, audiobooks, and comics
May 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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After a decade off the air, Phineas and Ferb are returning to Disney entirely unchanged (well, almost)
The hit Disney show is coming back because streaming audiences demanded it, and it's business as usual - except for one small thing (Clue: check out what Phineas looks like now)
May 29, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Wednesday Addams would hate being a pop culture icon, says Jenna Ortega - and the star of the Netflix hit kind of feels the same way as she prepares for season 2
"I’ve become a pop actor," Jenna Ortega said in a recent interview about her Netflix series Wednesday, "And that’s something I never saw for myself"
May 28, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Top Gun 3 will have to wait: The first post-Mission: Impossible on-screen gig for Tom Cruise will be watching soccer with David Beckham, somehow
Before he makes Top Gun 3 or Days of Thunder 2, Tom Cruise will be paying tribute to the Beautiful Game on Paramount+ on May 31.
May 28, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Netflix adaptation of DC classic The Sandman will focus on its main character in its final season - and skip some fan-favorite storylines altogether
Bad news for fans of 'A Game of You' - it won't be adapted for the second and final season of Netflix's The Sandman
May 28, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Over the Top all deserve the Karate Kid Legends treatment [For Your Consideration]
Why should The Karate Kid be the only '80s teen classic to get a full-scale revival? We have three other all-timers from the genre we'd like to nominate for similar treatment: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Over the Top.
May 28, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC sneaks the new Batman logo reveal into the Deadpool/Batman announcement
Hey, that Batman logo looks pretty unfamiliar, doesn't it...?
May 27, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel has deputized Deadpool as its top star (Sorry, Spider-Man!) for a rare crossover with DC Comics opposite Batman
This year will see big names from both Marvel and DC work on two Deadpool and Batman crossovers - and more
May 27, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Save the date: London's MCM Comic Con returns this October, and we have the official dates
If you're looking for something to do in late October 2025, we have a suggestion for anyone in the UK - head to MCM London Comic Con at the ExCel
May 27, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fargo showrunner's new series Alien: Earth will build out an idea from James Cameron's Aliens and show humanity at its worst
The new series based on the fan-favorite series of Alien movies will "navigate two kinds of monsters," says Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley. (Spoilers: one of them is humanity.)
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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When Tom Cruise started Mission: Impossible, he turned to Marvel Comics and Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld to get the whole thing going
Rob Liefeld provided the cover art (and some of the interior artwork) for a 1996 Marvel Mission: Impossible comic at Tom Cruise's request
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Prime Video cancels The Wheel of Time after three seasons
The fantasy series, based on the Wheel of Time novels by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, proved too expensive for Prime Video to continue with, according to reports.
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fresh from his MCU Daredevil: Born Again revival, Marvel Comics resurrects Frank Castle in comic books for adults-only series Punisher: Red Band
Two years after replacing him with a new incarnation of the anti-hero, Frank Castle is back as Marvel Comics' Punisher for a new miniseries published under the Red Band 17+ imprint
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Don't just watch Top Gun, live it - Paramount is planning a Las Vegas experience based on the high-flying Tom Cruise pilot movies
Are you Maverick enough to visit a live Top Gun experience in Las Vegas? Come 2028, you'll have the chance to find your inner Tom Cruise for yourself
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Yes, Disney has pushed out the release dates for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars - but this shows that Marvel is serious about regaining its mojo
Fans will have to wait longer for the next two Avengers movies, but it's a sign that the wait will be worth it
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning ending explained: What happens, who dies, and what's next after the latest M:I movie
Big spoilers ahead for the latest Tom Cruise actioneer. Don't read on unless you've already seen Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (or want it all spoiled for you)
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Tom Cruise slips up as Mission: Impossible gets lost in fan service with The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning plays out like a movie where filmmakers have become self conscious about the reaction to the last movie in the series and want fans' approval too much
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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It's Lilo & Stitch versus Tom Cruise versus Tom Cruise as the Disney remake takes on not just Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning but also Top Gun: Maverick this Memorial Day weekend
What if Disney's remake of Lilo & Stitch beats Tom Cruise's 2025 and 2022 movies at the box office at the same time? It looks like it's going to happen
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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How an unplanned second take and set change gave Netflix hit Adolescence its emotional climax
Show co-creator and star Stephen Graham has revealed that the Netflix phenomenon didn't originally end with Eddie crying in Jamie's room
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Even as the publishing industry comes to terms with AI fakery, Melania Trump announces "the future of publishing": her AI-narrated audiobook autobiography
The First Lady of the United States is all aboard the AI train with her new announcement, even as the NLRB reviews the use of AI voices in gaming
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Layoffs rock Transformers, GI Joe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collectibles company Super7 after its "best [six months] since the inception of the company"
"These are people who were doing the best work in the industry, none of whom deserved to be let go," the Super7 founder says of the staff members pushed out of the company as it faces an uncertain future
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Superman co-creator's estate files a second lawsuit to block international release of James Gunn's big-screen reboot of the DC hero
The estate of Joe Shuster has now asked the New York State Court to block release of DC Studios' Superman on international copyright grounds
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Squid Game season 3 will "bring out the bottom parts of human nature," promises the Netflix hit's creator
Despite new games that will play to the worst parts of the human condition, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk wants to focus on how to remain human in the face of capitalist horror
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Every Mission: Impossible movie has been its own Mission: Impossible to make, says series star Simon Pegg
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning may have been the most freeing movie to make to date for Simon Pegg, but each one has come with seemingly impossible challenges, he revealed during a recent interview
May 22, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Penguin Random House pulls distribution access to key publishers from Diamond (including Marvel, Boom! Studios, and Dark Horse Comics)
If your comic store has been relying on Diamond Comic Distributors to get your Marvel comics every week, there's a new wrinkle they'll have to deal with starting at the end of June
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel's latest Fantastic Four comic drops an unexpected reference to much-shared online speculation about The Fantastic Four: First Steps: coincidence, or a glimpse of things to come?
Whether it's by accident or something else, Marvel is tweaking a popular online theory surrounding The Fantastic Four: First Steps with this week's issue of its Fantastic Four comic.
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Transformers and Armageddon director Michael Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie, with the help of the VFX supervisor from Avatar, and I promise this is real
No, this isn't a very delayed April Fool's joke: Michael 'Bad Boys' Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie, and he's got the man behind the Avatar special effects involved as well
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Is Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning the final M:I movie? Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie have their say
"I’m pretty confident that people are going to feel that the title was appropriate," teases director McQuarrie about the next Mission: Impossible's new name
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Exorcisms, half-demons and queer Victorian romance collide in Oni Press's 2026 graphic novel The Demon of Beausoleil
The fan-favorite webcomic from Brazilian cartoonist Mariana Costa will come to print in January 2026 from Oni Press
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Minecraft's Jason Momoa and WWE champion Roman Reigns might be Legendary and Capcom's new Street Fighter stars
Jason Momoa and Roman Reigns are amongst the actors reportedly close to signing on for the upcoming cinematic reboot of fan-favorite fighting game Street Fighter
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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For Your Consideration: Before Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, we uncovered perfect spy movies in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Skyfall, and... Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?!?
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning might put Tom Cruise into spy retirement, but we have some other agents worth your attention
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Severance's Ms. Casey is signing in to work on Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender remake, and she's not alone
Dichen Lachman, Dolly de Leon, and Terry Chen are just some of the actors newly revealed to be joining the Netflix remake of the animated classic, as it moves into production on its third and final season
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Onetime comic distribution monopoly Diamond is hit by layoffs, department closures within hours of being sold
Ad Populum, which bought Diamond Comic Distributors and Diamond Book Distributors at auction, started layoffs within "minutes" of the sale being announced as final
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Godzilla writer/artist James Stokoe takes on kung-fu revenge stories with Dark Horse's Orphan and the Five Beasts: Bath of Blood this fall
The second series of Alien and Godzilla cartoonist James Stokoe's kung-fu craziness hits the stands (literally) this September
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC plays Willy Wonka with 'Krypto's Golden Biscuit' sweepstakes for Superman movie premiere tickets
Want to get the Golden Ticket (I mean, biscuit)? Head to your comic store on June 18 for the chance to fly to LA and see Superman at the world premiere
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu
The Sun-Times has just offered the best argument against using generative AI in journalism, publishing a recommended summer reading list filled with books that aren't actually real
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Thrills, chills, and a 50th anniversary shoutout to Steven Spielberg's Jaws - the new Jurassic World: Rebirth trailer has it all
It's time to go back to an island filled with dinosaurs, wonder, and the sense of joy you had when you saw Jurassic Park as a kid
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Final Destination: Bloodlines test screenings revealed that moviegoers were "bloodthirsty" and want way more gore than filmmakers expected
"Whatever’s happened in the last 14 years, people have become incredibly bloodthirsty and just wanted way, way, way, way more gore than they did before," says one of the directors of the latest Final Destination movie
May 20, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Part of the mission of the final Andor episodes was to make sure no-one could misinterpret character relationships elsewhere in Star Wars canon, says showrunner
"Before anyone else defines it, I’m going to define it," Tony Gilroy said about revelations and decisions baked into the final episodes of the acclaimed Star Wars drama Andor
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fortnite is facing potential federal censure over its new AI Darth Vader, after the Screen Actors Guild lodge an official complaint
SAG-AFTRA has filed an official unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over the conversational AI Darth Vader now appearing in Fortnite
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Don’t expect another TikTok viral dance moment from M3GAN 2.0, warns director - it's a whole new type of movie, he says
“I hate it when movies do that," says Gerard Johnstone about the prospect of M3GAN 2.0 repeating the same beats from the original
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel’s X-Men comics are broken, says Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld, but he knows who can fix them (No, it's not him)
"Whatever the check is, whatever the number is, go write it and give it to one Scott Snyder," Rob Liefeld says about the one man he believes can make Marvel's X-Men great again
May 19, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Alien and Ghostbusters star Sigourney Weaver was in line to play iconic X-Men character Emma Frost, but it never happened
When director Bryan Singer left Fox's X-Men movie franchise, he took our dreams of Sigourney Weaver's Emma Frost with him - we just didn't know it until now
May 17, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel's Infinity Stones originally came from Thanos creator Jim Starlin's religious schooling and wondering what an evil God would want
"I started questioning as to what a god who is not benevolence, but malevolence would be like," Jim Starlin told Popverse about the origin of the Infinity Stones
May 17, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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A Complete Unknown director James Mangold is drawn to Swamp Thing's "abject deformation [and] loneliness" as his next movie ... and of course that Bernie Wrightson art
James Mangold admits that he loves the "gothic Horror, kind of Frankenstein legend, whole concept of man plant" behind DC's Swamp Thing
May 17, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC have created a new Justice League spin-off team that Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman don't know about - so don't share this article with them
Who watches the watchmen? We'll leave that to Alan Moore, but there's a Justice League inside the Justice League that even the big three don't know about
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Finally, Superman's The Daily Planet is looking into the weirdness that is Gotham City (Who is that bat guy, btw?)
Jimmy Olsen is moving to Gotham City to expand the Daily Planet - which might not be the best news for Jimmy Olsen or Gotham City, considering the bat guy flying around as a result
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Benjamin Bratt loved his Star Wars: Andor role so much he tried to do more but was told it was too "expensive"
The actor had an idea how Bail Organa could have fit into earlier episodes of the show, but showrunner Tony Gilroy nixed the thought because of its price tag in a season already trying to cut costs
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Josh Holloway is a complex guy, sweetheart. He doesn't think ABC would reboot Lost but he'd return as Sawyer anytime
The man who was Sawyer says that he's "solid with loss and closure" surrounding the iconic Lost, 15 years after it ended
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Tom Cruise said he passed out multiple times during Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning stuntwork - here's what the director thought of his actor (and boss) telling him to keep going
Never doubt Tom Cruise's intense, worrying devotion to the spectacle of cinema when it comes to stunt work and Mission: Impossible
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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AfterShock Comics aims to revamp its editorial team and revive its comics line as it emerges from bankruptcy
More than two years after it declared bankruptcy, indie comics publisher AfterShock Comics is attempting to make a comeback
May 16, 2025
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The GTA 6 budget isn't as crazy as you think, as Take-Two Interactive CEO explains why it makes sense
Sure, $1 billion sounds like a lot of money to you or I, but we're not in charge of a company that stands to make all of that money back and then some within a week of GTA 6's release.
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Lost star Josh Holloway has been chasing a movie version of western author Louis L’Amour's Flint for 20 years - and finally got it
What does it take to get a dream project to come together? Patience and a billionaire willing to pay for it, according to Lost star Josh Holloway.
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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GTA games aren't released slowly - fans are showing they want more DLC content than new games quicker says Take-Two Interactive CEO
Some fans might be complaining about the wait for the next Grand Theft Auto game, but they're ignoring how much GTA content gets dropped as DLCs or GTA Online updates
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Switch 2 will be more welcoming than any Nintendo system before in terms of AAA mature games, according to Witcher & Cyberpunk creators
The makers of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher games believes that Nintendo's Switch 2 will open up more expansive gaming on the go
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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After DC Studios' Superman movie, DC Comics will remind us how "warped, suspenseful and occasionally horrific" the Man of Steel can be in Black Label book for ages 17 & up
The five-issue comic book series comes from the creative team behind the Eisner Award nominated Ice Cream Man series from Image Comics
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC's Absolute Batman to get even bigger as some surprise "fan-favorite characters" will debut soon that will "feature hugely" in series, according to Scott Snyder
June's issue will start the second big storyline of Absolute Batman, and introduce two very familiar faces (and that's not including Absolute Bane)
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC Studios' Superman is teasing their own version of Oreos (and Martian Manhunter's favorite snack)
Superman isn't just saving the world in James Gunn's new DC Studios reboot - he's saving a piece of DC comic book lore, too
May 16, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award nominees are out, and it's a good year for Fantagraphics Books, Wonder Woman writer Tom King, and (of course) comics in general
There's a wide variety of material recognized in this year's nominees for the comic book Oscars
May 15, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC president Jim Lee returns to Image Comics for a Batman/Geiger crossover... kind of
Lee co-founded Image Comics in 1992, but hasn't provided any artwork for the publisher since 2011... until this year's cover 'crossover' with Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Geiger.
May 15, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally warps back onto screens this summer as Paramount+ announces a July release date for the long-awaited third season
It's been almost two years since that season 2 Gorn cliffhanger, but this July, we'll find out how it all ends up as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is finally set to return (and to stun)
May 15, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Netflix confirms Bridgerton Season 4 for 2026 - but announces Seasons 5 and 6 for the future, too
Telling fans to be patient for their favorite show but promising even more later is certainly a good way to earn back some goodwill
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Max is renamed HBO Max again, but don't expect all the shows and movies that have disappeared from the streamer since the last rebranding to also get the comeback treatment
Everyone who kept calling Max 'HBO Max' after the 2023 rebrand, congratulations: you were right all along
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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James Gunn's DC super couple keeps no secrets - especially Clark Kent's secret identity as Superman
If the new trailer for DC Studios' Superman is to be believed, it very much looks like Lois Lane knows Clark Kent's biggest secret already.
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Superman might get beaten and bruised, but James Gunn's new DCU hero is defined by what happens afterwards
Fans complaining about how beaten up Superman gets in the new trailer are missing the point; it's about what he does next
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC Studios' new Superman trailer confirms that Rick Flag Snr. might be the most important man in the new DCU
He's the leader of the Creature Commandos, the head of ARGUS, and hunting both Superman and Peacemaker... the father of the leader of the Suicide Squad is a busy man in the new DCU
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Lois Lane gets to the heart of Superman in the new trailer for James Gunn's DC reboot - but don't worry: there's Krypto, too
"Your choices, your actions - that's what makes you who you are," says Pa Kent, and that's exactly what we want to see in James Gunn's reboot of DC's #1 hero
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Andor showrunner never planned on answering one of the Star Wars series' first questions, he reveals: "I didn’t really didn’t want to fill that in"
The Disney+ series started with Cassian Andor looking for his missing sister... and no-one ever found her
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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For Your Consideration: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and Scream perfected the horror sequel years before Final Destination: Bloodlines
Whether perfecting the formula, subverting it, or simply ignoring it, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, Scream 2, and Halloween III are some of the greatest horror sequels ever made
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Does Krysten Ritter's Daredevil: Born Again return herald a new Jessica Jones show?
When Jon Bernthal returned for Daredevil: Born Again season 1, he got a Punisher special out of the experience. With Krysten Ritter teasing "much more in store" for Jessica Jones, is she hinting at something similar?
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Exclusive!EC Comics returns to cosmic horror with anthology series Cruel Universe 2, launching this summer from Oni Press
The first issue of EC Comics' Cruel Universe 2 features work from Greg Pak (Incredible Hulk), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), Kano (Action Comics) and The Walking Dead's Charlie Adlard
May 13, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola's massive flop Megalopolis is the new Apocalypse Now... says Francis Ford Coppola himself
"Apocalypse Now was a big flop, it got terrible reviews, everyone said it was the worst movie ever made. And yet people never stopped going to see it," explains the director in a recent interview
May 12, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Wicked comes to NBC with a live musical spectacular starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande ahead of Wicked: For Good flying into theaters
Director Jon M. Chu promises appearances from the movie's cast as well as "surprise guests" in the fall live event on NBC and Peacock
May 12, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Classic Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage is coming to comics, and Popverse has an exclusive preview
Steve Cuzor is adapting the 1895 novel from Stephen Crane into a graphic novel, and we have a sneak peek before the book's May 13 release
May 12, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Catch up on all of Popverse's PAX East 2025 coverage!
We were at the four-day Boston gaming event from start to finish, and we want to tell you all about it
May 12, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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DC Studios head James Gunn is "pre-writing" his next movie now that Superman is almost finished (and almost in theaters)
Gunn also offered updates on the status of Superman, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and how ready the Superman trailer is
May 12, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fresh from The Last of Us and Star Wars, Pedro Pascal publishes poetry ahead of stepping into the MCU
Yes, that's right; Pedro Pascal is actually a poet as well as everyone's favorite fictional father figure
May 12, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fox goes all-in on animated comedies, renewing Krapopolis, Grimsburg, and Universal Basic Guys after giving four-year deals to The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, and American Dad
There is no better broadcast network for the animation industry than Fox, with multi-year deals in place for seven shows at present
May 10, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Dog Man heads up Children's Book Week 2025: "Reading is the greatest superpower of all"
Dav Pilkey and Scholastic are donating up to 50,000 books to US locations as part of the November 2025 event to promote child literacy.
May 10, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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X-Men was "the most disappointing creative experience" Jonathan Hickman has ever had, the Marvel writer reveals
"It's really, really difficult for me to talk about it or think about it in any kind of positive aspect," Jonathan Hickman says about the fact that he didn't get to finish the X-Men story he started with 2019's House of X/Powers of X dual miniseries
May 10, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Suits LA, Night Court, and more cancelled as NBC clears its schedule ahead of announcing fall 2025 plans
The much-hyped spin-off of fan-favorite show Suits didn't win over enough viewers to make it through a heavy year of cancellations for NBC
May 09, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Peacemaker season 2's teaser offers up an unexpected DCU reveal (and a 1980s DC Comics flashback)
Expect some surprise Superman guest stars in the second season of Max's Peacemaker
May 09, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Godzilla x Kong's new movie announcement is wondering why you haven't called lately, and wants to help you fix that
Have YOU seen a kaiju lately? Monarch operators are standing by, in a new promo for the next Godzilla x Kong movie
May 09, 2025
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Dead by Daylight/Witcher collaboration screenshots leak online hours before 9th Anniversary PAX East 2025 panel
Is Dead by Daylight about to bring in Geralt of The Witcher? An early leak of promotional images seems to suggest so
May 09, 2025
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Marvel Studios might have found its director for X-Men (and it's someone who's already done an acclaimed Marvel movie very, very recently)
According to a report, Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier is in talks to direct Marvel's first X-Men movie
May 08, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Lord of the Rings, the Evil Dead, and spooky romance - it's not cinema's finest crossover, but the 2026-2027 Warner Bros movie slate
Three new movies have been added to Warner Bros calendar for the next two years
May 08, 2025
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Andor showrunner teases the K-2SO "monster movie" Star Wars fans almost got to see
Disney's desire to make Andor season 2 for less money is what killed Andor's plans for a standalone horror episode starring the fan-favorite robot K-2SO
May 08, 2025
Graeme McMillan