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Sony’s Spider-Man Spin-Offs May Feature Tom Holland Despite No Connection To MCU Following the unprecedented collaboration between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios to shareSpider-Man, allowing the webslinger to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe with The Avengers, fans were surprised that there were spin-offs being developed featuringancillary characters likeVenomand ateam-up movie featuringSilver SableandBlack Cat, especially whenKevin Feigeconfirmed they wouldn’t be tied to the MCU. The development of these Spider-Man spin-offs seem counter-intuitive considering how successfulSpider-Man: Homecominglooks to be this summer, currently trackingbetween $90 million and $108 millionfor an opening weekend....

Superhero Bits: Batman Vs. Superman, Guardians Of The Galaxy, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Man Of Steel, Age Of Ultron After a few days away, Superhero Bits is back. And it’s big. What are the latest casting rumors forBatman vs. Superman? Which colors will the Batsuit be? Want to see a few new images fromX-Men: Days of Future Past? How doesKevin Feigedescribe Quicksilver and Ultron inAvengers: Age of Ultron? Is there aMan of Steelvideo about the Metropolis destruction?...

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises Spoilers, Man Of Steel, Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, Justice League Doom Do you want to read bits related toMan of Steel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Justice League DoomandIron Man 2? Of course you do. Those are all on the first page but, after that, Monday’s Superhero Bits delves deep into spoiler territory from the set ofThe Dark Knight Rises. Who is fighting who?...

The CW Casts Ruby Rose As The Arrowverse’s Batwoman Ruby Rosewill be The CW’sBatwoman. In a piece of pitch-perfect casting, the gender-fluid and openly gay actress will be playing the lesbian caped crusader in The CW’s ever-expanding Arrowverse. Rose is set to first don Kate Kane’s mask and fiery red wig in this fall’s Arrowverse crossover event before headlining her own solo series currently in development at the network. The CW announced Ruby Rose’s casting as Batwoman at the TCAs late Monday night, according toUSA Today....

The Major Attack On Titan Cameo Only Hardcore Manga Fans Noticed “Attack on Titan” is not the first show that comes to mind when you think of Easter egg hunting or cameo catching. This is mostly due to the fact that the show is set in an alternate fantasy world, one that happens to feature giant, man-eating monsters. Sure, there are cities and technology that resemble our own, but the show is far enough removed from clear-cut parallels to avoid having to add historical figures or obvious connections to our reality....

Trailer Round-Up: ‘Clapboard Jungle’, ‘Breaking News In Yuba County’, ‘The Sinners’, ‘Adverse’ & More Even without a bunch of movies coming to theaters, there are still many trailers to sort through. That’s why every now and then we put a trailer round-up together to call attention to some of the lesser known movies that might be worth seeking out. This time we’ve got a documentary about how difficult it is to get movies made, a dark comedy about a missing husband, another spin on the time loop formula, a prank gone horribly wrong, and more....

Two More Popular Marvel Characters Have Cameos In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Avengers: Age of Ultronis going to be big. Very big. Even the first teaser trailer hints at things we weren’t quite sure we’d see in a Marvel movie. Captain America’s shield broken, Steve Rogers somehow in the past, Iron Man fighting The Hulk, Black Panther references, etc. And, of course, some of that stuff can be explained when you look at the Phase 3 plans....

UFC Fighter Rampage Jackson Is The A-Team’s New B.A. Baracus More MMA fighters are invading your action movies. We just had the report that female fighterGina Caranowould be starring in Steven Soderbergh’s next film. Now there is a credible report that former UFC champRampage Jackson, tagged for the role over a year ago, has arrived in Vancouver, where he’ll spend the next six weeks sporting a mohawk and gold chains asThe A-Team’s resident malcontent mechanic B....

Universal Monster Classics Finally Getting 4K Release Later This Year It was only a matter of time, but it looks like some of your favorite black and white creature features are headed to 4K UHD physical disks in the near future. The DigitalBitshad a scoop about some of the Universal Monsters getting the physical 4k Ultra HD treatment in the very near future. Their intel suggests a more thorough release coming as soon as September or October that would include at least four titles....

Watch ‘Jakku: First Wave’, A ‘Star Wars’ Short Film That Makes You Feel Bad For Stormtroopers Throughout the originalStar Warstrilogy, Stormtroopers were considered nothing but faceless henchman with poor aim who could be dispatched with quickly without a second thought. However,Star Wars: The Force Awakenschanged our thinking a bit by making one of our new heroes a defected Stormtrooper who just couldn’t bring himself to kill in the name of the First Order....

We Saw 35 Minutes Of ‘Dune’ Goodness In IMAX And It Looks Incredible DirectorDenis Villeneuve’sDuneis set to come out this October. That’s still a bit away, but Warner Bros. and IMAX gave me and few lucky others a sneak peek of the new science fiction epic based on Frank Herbert’s famed novel. That peek included the first 10 minutes of the film, one other scene that involved sandworms and spice (is it reallyDunewithout those?...

Willow First Look: The Legend Continues In A New Disney+ Series ’80s kids will either be delighted or disturbed that Disney+ has made asequel television seriesto the 1988 adventure fantasy film “Willow.” Directed by Ron Howard and based on a story by George Lucas, the original film follows a humble farmer named Willow Ufgood (played by Warwick Davis) who discovers an abandoned baby that is prophesied to destroy evil Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) and halt her plans to take over the world....

‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: A Predictable But Strong Father-Son Story [TIFF 2020] Outside of overpriced carriage rides through historic areas, you might not expect to see horses galloping through the streets of Philadelphia. But there’s a century-long tradition of Black horsemanship in the City of Brotherly Love, primarily in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood located east of Fairmount Park in North Philadelphia that persists to this day. This relatively unknown, but very real scenario is the backdrop forConcrete Cowboy,Ricky Staub’s somewhat by-the-numbers, but still sharp drama about an estranged father and son bonding over one summer in the city....