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Pokémon convention offers $100 upsell, with one of the perks being a better restroom
The "Premiere Access" package at Go Fest: Jersey City, the next official Pokémon convention, will also unlock in-game items and provide fans access to a special lounge
May 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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To keep The Walking Dead's infamous Negan spoiler from leaking, the show shot every character being killed with the bat
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe - it takes a lot to make a show. In the case of The Walking Dead season 6, it took filming Negan kill every character, not just the person who actually died
May 23, 2025
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Want a sequel to 2004's Dodgeball? Netflix Nonnas star Vince Vaughn teases "there's an idea that's pretty good" out there already
Vaughn said that there's "nothing for sure" about the possibility of a Dodgeball sequel, but are we gonna let a little thing like that spoil our speculation? Absolutely not
May 23, 2025
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A24 knows Elden Ring fans want intensity, so they've tapped their most intense director - Warfare's Alex Garland
Garland, who also tackled thrillers Annihilation, Ex Machina, and Civil War, is not new to gaming, having written a cancelled Halo script in 2005 and supervised the 2014 Devil May Cry reboot
May 23, 2025
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The Walking Dead musical episode came far closer than you think to actually happening
More like *Hear* the Walking Dead, am I right? Shred City? The Book of... Carols? Come on folks, it's Walking Dead musical puns
May 23, 2025
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Mephisto might not have been Agatha All Along's villain, but he did "distract" viewers from guessing the end, says Marvel showrunner
Marvel fans Marveling about a potential Mephisto appearance distracted fans from the bigger picture of Agatha All Along, and showrunner Jac Schaeffer is grateful for that.
May 22, 2025
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MCU Agatha showrunners needed a goth teen for the WandaVision spinoff, only to find Marvel had one 'All Along' (Get it?)
Just like Wanda Maximoff, the creators of Agatha All Along realized they need a Billy. Unlike Wanda Maximoff, they were able to get one
May 22, 2025
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Don't look now, but the Agatha All Along showrunner has finally confirmed a widely-held MCU fan theory
Listen up, Rio and Agatha shippers. Agatha All Along creator and showrunner Jac Schaeffer hears your prays and has decided to answer them, once and for all.
May 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Attack on Titan is the winner of Crunchyroll's first Global Impact Award, celebrating anime's impact on pop culture
After Attack on Titan receives the premiere award, Crunchyroll will continue giving it out "yearly to honor works and visionary creatives who have produced the anime series changing popular culture."
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Severance star Tramell Tillman on the Apple TV+ show's number one fan: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie
Tillman, who plays Mr. Milchick in Severance and Commanding Officer Bledsoe in the latest Mission: Impossible, was surprised when he got offered a role from McQuarrie, who he thought just wanted to talk about the show
May 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow star Louis McCartney tells us the biggest audience reactions from every Broadway performance (Heads up, it's a pretty huge spoiler)
The live theater chapter of Stranger Things (currently on Broadway) features a young Jim Hopper and Joyce Maldonado on stage, but it's neither of them that get the crowd riled up
May 21, 2025
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Critical Role series Candela Obscura and Daggerheart share a "scarring" mechanic, say the developers
Fans of the horror game/miniseries Candela Obscura know that you don't always walk away from terrors unscathed. According to Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall, that's a truth that newcomers to Daggerheart will also learn
May 21, 2025
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Fear Street and Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine wanted to write comedy for the rest of his life, then one conversation with a Scholastic editor changed everything
Like so many beginnings, you can chalk Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine's horror career to a "Blind Date"
May 20, 2025
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Critical Role star Matt Mercer's Daggerheart "never could have" been made without the game's subreddit community, say developers
To the many members of the r/Daggerheart subreddit, developers Rowan Hall and Spenser Stark would like to say "thank you"
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The HBO It: Welcome to Derry trailer is either teasing a huge piece of the Stephen King universe... or just reminding us of the 1950s
It's turtles all the way down in Stephen Kings's books, but is that the case in HBO's It prequel series?
May 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Tom Cruise's personal reckoning isn't final - the Mission: Impossible star still has more Top Gun and Days of Thunder in him
Audiences are just as eager to see Cruise stunt his way back into Top Gun 3 and Days of Thunder 2 as the soon-to-be-ex-Ethan Hunt is to create them
May 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Lore Corner: HBO's The Last of Us season 2 rewrites Pearl Jam history, but it works
The Last of Us Part II players know that Pearl Jam's Future Days plays an important role in the game, but there's something you should know about how it was worked into the show
May 19, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Hear your favorite video game music as you never have before with the Level Up! Vocal Ensemble from ECCC '25
Level Up! Vocal Ensemble: A Video Game Music Concert was filmed live at Emerald City Comic Con's Pine Stage. Put some headphones in and have a listen now
May 19, 2025
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Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later movie sequel will be teased in upcoming 28 Days Later re-release
Relive the horror of Danny Boyle's first foray into the zombie genre, 28 Days Later, as its upcoming sequel lurches toward theaters
May 16, 2025
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Wicked star Cynthia Erivo has found her next villain role: Dracula
Wicked's lead Erivo will perform Dracula as a one-woman show, meaning she'll have to rely on some tricks she pulled off in Peacock's Poker Face
May 16, 2025
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New mask, same slash: Horror icon Jason Voorhees has been revamped (by Walking Dead legend Greg Nicotero) ahead of his own cinematic universe
Sorry Met Gala, the new Jason Voorhees redesign is what the cool kids are looking at now
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Lore Corner: Who are the Seraphites? The Last of Us season 2 sets up a major big bad for season 3
Who are those cultists from The Last of Us season 2, episode 5, and what do those scars mean? Let's talk about the Seraphites
May 16, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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The Simpsons have found their next Milhouse voice actor - and she debuts this Sunday, as a grown-up Milhouse Van Houten
Blue smoke rises from the 20th Animation Studios HQ - The Simpsons has chosen a new Milhouse
May 16, 2025
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Marvel Studios' gender-swap of MCU star Taskmaster almost didn't happen; here's what changed
One of the male finalists for the MCU Taskmaster role ended up getting another role as a consolation prize.
May 16, 2025
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Bungie gets caught stealing artwork for the fourth time, this time in the upcoming game Marathon
Halo developer Bungie says it "immediately investigated a concern regarding unauthorized use of artist decals in Marathon."
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowWatch the Cosplay Central Costume Showcase from Chicago's C2E2 2025
See your favorite anime, video game, TTRPG, and even mascot characters come to life at the Cosplay Central Costume Showcase, filmed at C2E2 2025
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowNo city 'Yes, And's like Chicago, as the Second City improv troupe proved at C2E2 '25
Couldn't make the hysterical performance of Chicago's legendary improv program as they performed at McCormick Place? Don't worry, Popverse was there to catch the laughs
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowWatch as Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 stars Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan) & Rob Weithoff (John Marston) saddle up one more time for a reunion from Chicago's C2E2 2025
It was high noon in Chicago as Roger Clark and Rob Weithoff came to C2E2 for the Outlaws for Life panel. But if you weren't fast enough on the draw, you can still see the whole thing here
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch NowWatch Patton Oswalt's new Effervescent comedy special from this year's C2E2
To be fair, we couldn't catch the smell, but we did record all of Patton Oswalt's Effervescent stand-up show at Chicago's premiere pop culture event
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowRelive the C2E2 Talent Show, 2025 edition, right here!
Popverse was there for all the singers, stand-ups, and spectacles... and we're bringing the event directly to you
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Can David Leitch finally start up the Gears of War? After 18 years of development hell, the secret co-director of John Wick has been tapped to helm Netflix's big budget adaptation
Surviving Sera is nothing to getting the Gears of War movie made, but it looks like the film has finally found its Hammer of Dawn in John Wick's co-director, David Leitch
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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HBO delays Game of Thrones' Dunk & Egg prequel to 2026 release date window
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg and serving as another prequel to Game of Thrones, wrapped production in September of 2024
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Die Hard with Orcas: John Travolta trades summer lovin' for summer chompin' in Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin's 3rd killer sea creatures movie
Black Tides is the title of the Travolta-starring orca thriller, presumably because someone already has the rights to 'Pulp Fishin'
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why movie adaptations of video games work now (and why they didn't before) according to Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise's producers
Story Kitchen's Dmitri M Johnson & Mike Goldberg point to a classic example of a video game movie gone wrong to illustrate the disparity between gaming adaptations now and then
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Sydney Sweeney Split Fiction movie is just one of several Hazelight games being developed into film & TV
According to Split Fiction producers Story Kitchen, the team behind Sonic the Hedgehog, development has already begun on an It Takes Two movie, and the door is open for more adaptations
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Dead by Daylights can create their own version of the game with Choose Your Own Chapter
Announced at PAX East 2025, Dead by Daylight's Choose Your Own Chapter takes community feedback in gaming to a new level entirely
May 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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What makes Mafia: The Old Country the "best looking Mafia" game yet? The seamless transitions between cutscene and gameplay, say the devs
The Mafia: The Old Country devs want to make a game that feels like a movie, and at PAX East 2025, they told us how they were going about it
May 14, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The first Stranger Things game has been stripped from Steam, and now users are saying its basically unplayable
Has Stranger Things 3: The Game been banished to the Upside Down as part of Netflix's new gaming push?
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Experience Critical Role's Age of Umbra actual play earlier than expected with special Session Zero coming May 22
Session zero will see Critical Role's Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, and Travis Willingham create their Daggerheart characters with GM Matthew Mercer
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why HBO series The Last of Us season 2 expands on Dina's game backstory, according to Dina herself, Isabela Merced
The Last of Us, season 2, episode 5 gives us character details we didn't know about Merced's Dina. Their inclusion, says the actor, informs both her relationship to Bella Ramsey's Ellie and the show's take on trauma
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight's Five Nights at Freddy's map changes the killer queue forever
Not only will Dead by Daylight soon introduce Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap - it will also add a Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria map AND a gaming mechanic for which fans at PAX East 2025 went wild
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Wednesday season 2 might not have been the reason Jenna Ortega didn't do Scream VII, but it was the reason she didn't do You season 5
You showrunner Michael Foley recently revealed the schedule conflict between You's final season and Wednesday's sophomore appearance on Netflix
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Driving century-old cars, talking to local historians, learning Sicilian swears - How Mafia: The Old Country's devs brought the game back in time
I'm just saying, I don't know of a Mario Kart dev team that ever got behind the wheel like the Mafia: The Old Country folks did
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
HANK: Drowning on Dry Land is Batman: The Animated Series, if Batman could manipulate time and was always drunk
Playing HANK: Drowning on Dry Land at PAX East 2025 brought me back to a beloved part of my childhood, while giving me something I haven't seen in gaming before now
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Shadow Labyrinth star Swordsman No. 8 almost had a Pac-Man head, reveals Bandai Namco producer
Look, if you're formatting the gaming world's silliest character, Pac-Man, into the grimdark world of Shadow Labyrinth, some of the transition is bound to be a little funny
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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28 Years Later: That eerie poem from the trailer was used simulate stress in military training
A century after its recording, the use of this particular iteration of the poem Boots, by Rudyard Kipling, is an extra creepy way to tease 28 Years Later
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Carnies on Consoles: A shocking personal realization from PAX East 2025 concerning the connection between spectacles from ye olden days and now
Talk about "geek" culture! Get it? Because PAX East and carnivals both... nevermind
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Popverse Picks: The best Stephen King movie & TV (and more) adaptations, from one King fan to another
It's maybe the greatest horror movie of all time, but King himself doesn't like it - so let's just skip Stanley Kubrick's The Shining altogether and get into some other things based on Stephen's works, yeah?
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Here's what you need to know about Mafia: The Old Country's new feature: Knife combat
Expect Mafia: The Old Country to have a lot less shoot-outs than previous games in the franchise, but a whole bunch more backstabs. Literally and figuratively
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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There are still two iconic movie killers the Dead by Daylight director still wants to see in the game - here's who they are
Coté's choices won't exactly surprise you, but they will leave you asking why these two horror icons haven't made their way into a Dead by Daylight chapter already
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Pac-Man being rebooted into 'Dark Pac-Man' for Shadow Labyrinth was almost too dark for Bandai Namco, reveals producer
Speaking at PAX East 2025, Shadow Labyrinth producer Seigo Aizawa recalls his original pitch for the game and the opposition to it
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The future of World of Warcraft is in housing, as the game invites players to own "a little slice of Azeroth"
Of everything discussed at the Evolving Azeroth panel at PAX East 2025, housing was the most anticipated by both the crowd of World of Warcraft fans and the developers on stage
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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World of Warcraft's developers reveal the one secret that almost evaded gamers in the game's history
Speaking at PAX East 2025, World of Warcraft devs Maria Hamilton, Jesse Kurlancheek, Jeremy Feasel, and Paul Kubit addressed the secret it took 11 months for players to discover
May 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Hey, Lord of the Rings gamers - Tales of the Shire allows you to customize your own Hobbit feet
How big? How hairy? Don't google those questions out of context, but know that you can provide your own answer when Tales of the Hobbit: A Lord of the Rings (cozy!) Game comes out this year
May 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Nicolas Cage's Dead by Daylight character is the real thing, because "there's never been a Nicolas Cage soundalike," according to the Con Air, National Treasure and Face/Off star
Dead by Daylight voice actors usually let metal singers do the screaming... but not Nicolas Cage
May 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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No, Dead by Daylight's Witcher outfits won't let you access Geralt's mutant abilities... but there's a lore reason why (maybe)
Let's be honest - Dead by Daylight fans who know "the bathtub scene" understand that The White Wolf's real power is in his looks. And The Witcher outfits do give us that
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight game director praises Blumhouse's upcoming movie: "They absolutely get what we're trying to accomplish"
Game director Mathieu Côté has a message for Dead by Daylight fans - that movie you're looking forward to is in good hands with Blumhouse
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight x Five Nights at Freddy's will be the first time fans can become Springtrap
A full decade after Springtrap debuted, Five Nights at Freddy's fans will at last be able to enter the suit. Or rather, as we learned at the Dead by Daylight panel at PAX East... suits
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Matthew Lillard returns to Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap before FNAF 2 as a playable character in Dead by Daylight
Springtrap, AKA William Afton, AKA Matthew Lillard, AKA the big bad of Blumhouse's film sequel, will be playable on an all new Five Nights at Freddy's map
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight is adding Dragula hosts the Boulet Brothers as DLCs
The Boulet Brothers will be represented as wearable outfits for pre-existing Dead by Daylight killers The Huntress and The Artist
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight x The Witcher sees Doug Cockle return to the role of Geralt of Rivia
Behaviour Interactive has announced The Witcher Collection for Dead by Daylight, featuring outfits for franchise favorites such as Yennifer, Ciri, and of course, the White Wolf
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Mafia: The Old Country confirms FOUR returning characters will appear in new prequel (but they're not saying who)
Speaking at PAX East 2025, lead Mafia creatives Nick Baynes, Alex Cox, and Tomáš Hřebíček were forthcoming about who we'll see in the next installment - up to a very, very specific point
May 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Halloween villain Michael Myers was the key to licensing Dead by Daylight's many killers, says the game's director
Dead by Daylight offers legions upon legions of franchise DLCs. But according to game director Mathieu Côté, that might not've been possible without the OG slasher from John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic
May 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The Last of Us season 2 has an A-ha moment: What 'Take On Me' means to the franchise
As we should expect by now, The Last of Us, season 2, episode 4 proved that it knows exactly which emotional moments to bring over directly from the games
May 07, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
After being struck down 27 yeas ago, Star Wars' answer to Goosebumps is ready to become more powerful than we as kids could have imagined
If Lucasfilm and Disney want to tap into YA, 90s nostalgia, there may be a better option than what they went with in Skeleton Crew
May 07, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why wasn't [SPOILER] in You season 5? Netflix didn't ask her to be
If you've finished You's final season on Netflix, you might've been aware of a major character's absence. As it turns out, season 5 plans never included bringing her back
May 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Surprised by who dies in Thunderbolts*? So was the movie's writer
Just because you're Eric Pearson, who wrote the screenplay for Thunderbolts*, doesn't mean you get to know who dies in Thunderbolts*
May 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Matthew Lillard’s return to the Scream franchise almost happened 25 years ago
Lillard, who plays the infamous Stu Macher, is headed back to the Ghostface Gang in Scream VII. As it turns out, though, he was nearly the villain in the franchise's 2000 entry
May 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Squid Game season 3 trailer teases the finale of the Netflix show (though we know it's not really over): "Time to play one last time"
Not to undercut the finality of this Squid Game chapter (it may very well be the end of Seong Gi-hun) - but Netflix isn't letting a cash cow like this one go
May 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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After Avengers: Doomsday, Kevin Feige has a 10-year plan for X-Men in the MCU
The likes of Cyclops, Mystique, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Beast, Professor X and more have an MCU future that stretches well into the 2030s, as new details of Feige's plans for the X-Men emerge
May 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Righteous Gemstones: How Star Wars inspired the final season of HBO's blessedly raunchy comedy
With The Righteous Gemstones' finale now streaming, co-creator Danny McBride dishes on the influence the early Star Wars films had on his irreverent, religious comedy saga
May 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!If you haven't seen Thunderbolts* ending, too bad: Marvel Studios is now marketing with the film's tail-end twist
MCU fans: if you were hoping to find out about the asterisk in Thunderbolts* by seeing the movie, you'd better stay away from commercials and billboards until you get to the theater
May 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Last of Us season 2's Isabela Merced says filming Superman affected the Dina/Ellie relationship
Being Hawkgirl takes a lot of work, says Superman star Merced, and that meant hopping into her Last of Us season 2 role with less prep than she would've liked
May 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix hit Stranger Things originally had a different setting (and title) to honor the series creators' favorite movie: Steven Spielberg's Jaws
Who knew that Montauk, which was almost the title of Stranger Things, was the inspiration for Jaws? And not for nothing, who knew Jaws was the Duffer Bros.' favorite movie?
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!What the asterisk in Thunderbolts* means, and where the name comes from (No, it's not the Red Hulk, or any other Marvel Studios connection)
Look, we love Harrison Ford just as much as everybody else, but it turns out that the Thunderbolts' name comes from a very different place (Sorry, Captain America: Brave New World)
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!Yes, Marvel spoiled a major Thunderbolts* moment in the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement, but hoped no-one would notice
A widely-spread MCU fan-theory regarding who was (and wasn't) in the cast list of Avengers: Doomsday turned out to be 100% on the money
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!Thunderbolts* resurrects a longstanding Marvel Studios tradition (with a Sentry-inspired twist)
An MCU staple that was missing from Captain America: Brave New World returned for Thunderbolts*, but then it got weird... and dark
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Evil Dead icon Bruce Campbell is "so in" to be on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, despite not exactly knowing what Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is
Hey, you have to give the Evil Dead and Bubba Ho-Tep star points for being up for anything. Even if "anything" includes a Star Trek series that Bruce Campbell has never *technically* heard of
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto VI release date delayed a year- and goes right after Avengers: Doomsday and Star Wars' Mandalorian & Grogu
If you're the kind of Star Wars and Grand Theft Auto fan who has to experience things as soon as they're available, get ready to make a touch choice - GTA VI is out less than a week before The Mandalorian's next chapter
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Hazbin Hotel's Alex Brightman talks Broadway, Beetlejuice, and whether or not he has an extra vocal cord at Emerald City Comic Con!
Alex Brightman walks our staff writer Grant DeArmitt through his illustrious career on Broadway and in animation with shows like Hazbin Hotel
May 01, 2025
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Spoilers!Thunderbolts* ending explained: What happens, who dies, and what's next after Marvel Studios' latest film
Obviously, some MAJOR spoilers are on the horizon. Don't read this "ending explained" unless you've already seen the MCU's Thunderbolts*, or don't mind the entire thing being spoiled for you
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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With Clown in a Cornfield headed to theaters, creator Adam Cesare is already teasing the fourth book in the series
Before it was an Eli Craig film, Clown in a Cornfield was a novel series, with sequels Frendo Lives and Church of Frendo filling in its frightful ranks. Now, Adam Cesare reveals what's next for Kettle Springs
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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A Different Man's Adam Pearson will play Joseph Merrick in a new Elephant Man movie
Pearson will star as Merrick not in a remake of David Lynch's 1980 movie of the same name, but an adaptation of the 1977 stage play of the same name by Bernard Pomerance
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Guy Ritchie becomes the busiest director in streaming after joining Road House 2 at Prime Video
Ritchie takes over directing duties from Doug Liman, who helmed the 2024 remake of the 1989 action classic. Star Jake Gyllenhaal is set to return
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!The Netflix You season 5 ending was originally very different (and a lot more final for Joe), teases showrunner
The show's final season is on the streamer now, but the Netflix You season 5 ending was once very different. Read to know more, but beware of spoilers
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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You've been getting an Army of Darkness quote wrong for 33 years, says Bruce Campbell
To be 100% fair, it is technically a quote that Campbell's character *also* gets wrong in the Army of Darkness. The plot kind of hinges on it
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Chris Evans's rumored Avengers: Doomsday return to the MCU is in the news again thanks to X-Men legend Chris Claremont
Speaking at the Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo, Marvel Comics staple Claremont seemed to tell attendees not only about Evans' return, but which character he would be playing (and no, it's not Johnny Storm)
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stephen King's never-made Castle Rock season 3 would have focused on the niece of The Shining's Jack Torrance, reveals star Jane Levy
Had Hulu not canceled the series set in a Stephen King-inspired universe, Castle Rock would have had its own take on The Shining, with the star of 2013's Evil Dead remake as its star
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Actually, the new Sherlock Holmes LEGO set from Barnes & Noble DOES count as a business expense
I'm just saying, when I put the Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook down in my taxes next year, I better not hear a damn peep from the IRS
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why all Star Wars villains have a British accent, according to Andor season 2 villain Ben Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn, who returns to Andor as Rogue One's Orson Krennic, has reasoning rooted in the history of all cinematic villains, not just the ones from Lucasfilm
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Spoilers! The Last of Us Part II ending explained: What happens - and who survives - in the game that inspired HBO's post-apocalyptic hit?
If you don't want to be emotionally blindsided like you were by The Last of Us season 2, episode 2, heres one way to prepare
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Here's every Sherlock Holmes story that's been used in CBS's Watson (so far)
Speaking in doctor terms, Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian canon doesn't make up the entire body of CBS hit medical mystery series Watson, but it is the backbone
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Twilight Zone episode that inspired Ryan Coogler to make Sinners
For its humor, its superstition, and its portrayal of the American South, Coogler points to the 88th episode of Rod Serling's classic of chiller TV
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Lore Corner: Who are the Washington Liberation Front, and what do they mean for The Last of Us season 2?
The Last of Us season 2, episode 3 introduced a violent organization that played an important part in the games. Learn who the WLF are (and their connection to Abby Anderson) right here
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski is tackling a new Miami Vice, but he's making a UFO thriller first
Kosinski can take it from Vince Gilligan - sometimes you have to do X-Files before getting to Breaking Bad
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Last of Us season 2 continues the tradition of breaking our hearts in the credits
First Ashley Johnson gets fans of the game cry even harder after episode 2. Now this? Clearly The Last of Us is just a marketing psyop for Kleenex and depression meds
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sinners box office barely drops for second weekend, the second best for a horror film after 2017's It
Between its first and second weekend in theaters, Ryan Coogler's vampire hit Sinners only dropped 6% in sales - an incredible achievement for a theatrical horror run
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Don't look now, but an Alien: Earth teaser just confirmed our prediction about Weyland-Yutani
Earlier, we asked if the Weyland-Yutani corp had acquired more alien species than just the xenomorph before Prometheus. Turns out, that's a big, doubled-mouthed "yep"
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Netflix's Stranger Things influenced Star Wars: Starfighter, according to director Shawn Levy
Expect Lucasfilm to announce things the way they did Starfighter at Star Wars Celebration 2025. And if you don't like that? Well, blame those pesky Hawkins kids
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Relive the action: VIZ Media's Ninjas, Samurai & Roosters panel from ECCC '25 is available to watch now
Didn't get enough of all the excited anime teases from VIZ media at this year's Emerald City Comic Con? Missed the panel altogether? Don't worry, Popverse has your back
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt