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Marvel Movies & TV: Phase 17
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I don’t know….I see a dozen Oscar nominations there!!!
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Mark Ruffalo Returning as the Hulk for ‘Spider-Man 4’ – Hollywood Reporter
But wait, that’s not all.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has found a smashing star to join Tom Holland in the Sony/Marvel movie sequel.
Mark Ruffalo is returning to reprise the role of Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk, in the feature, which comes 14 years after the actor joined the MCU in The Avengers. The move had been rumored for a while but only firmed up as the script came together and as production gears up for beginning this month in England.
At the same time, Michael Mando, known for his work on Better Call Saul, is returning to reprise the role of the Scorpion, the villain character whom he first played in Spider-Man: Homecoming, the 2017 feature that kicked off the Holland-centric Spider-Man movies.
Holland’s Spider-Man films have always paired him with a more seasoned actor, such as Robert Downey Jr. (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Samuel L. Jackson (Spider-Man: Far From Home) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Spider-Man: No Way Home), playing key characters Iron Man, Nick Fury and Doctor Strange, respectively. (The movies invoke the tone of classic Marvel comic Marvel Team-Up, a series from the 1970s and 1980s that featured Spider-Man partnering with another hero for an escapade.)
Brand New Day, however, is stacking the deck. Jon Bernthal is also on the call sheet to reprise his role of the vigilante known as the Punisher. It’s the character’s first big-screen appearance in the MCU and first movie appearance in general since 2008 action movie Punisher: War Zone, in which the late Ray Stevenson played the role.
The plot details are being kept under the vest, but you can bet that, in the mighty Marvel manner, Spider-Man, Punisher and Hulk will all fight one another before figuring out who the real bad guys are.
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Poor Spidey, always needs a babysitter.
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@travelwithlynie POV: You thought Spider-Man 4 was filming in NYC…but Hollywood said, ‘close enough’ 😂🗽🎬 #spiderman #brandnewday #tomholland #nyc #newyork #fyp
♬ Spider-Man Theme – Epic Version (from “No Way Home Trailer”) – Samuel Kim
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Thunderbolts, da new team for great natio – back in your box Alexei, is a smart film. It’s a lot better than the last Cap movie and the New Avengerz could really take off.
It’s also a good demonstration of what the MCU should be doing on TV series and films. The film gives enough info about Walker regardless of watching the Falcon and Winter Soldier series.
The addition of Bob aka Sentry aka Void, combined with the film’s focus on mental health is a good one. The fractured personalities of him also, in part, reflect the cultural messages to him. That he has to be better, faster, stronger, more violent.
One oddity is the throwaway inclusion of Taskmaster, not sure what the idea there was. Overall the concept of these broken characters finding ways to recover together is well-executed.
The epilogues are good too, with the post-credits scene setting up both the team’s wider relationships and the FF movie.
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One oddity is the throwaway inclusion of Taskmaster, not sure what the idea there was.
The writer said that in the script Taskmaster is around for the entire movie.
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Thunderbolts, da new team for great natio – back in your box Alexei, is a smart film. It’s a lot better than the last Cap movie and the New Avengerz could really take off.
It’s also a good demonstration of what the MCU should be doing on TV series and films. The film gives enough info about Walker regardless of watching the Falcon and Winter Soldier series.
The addition of Bob aka Sentry aka Void, combined with the film’s focus on mental health is a good one. The fractured personalities of him also, in part, reflect the cultural messages to him. That he has to be better, faster, stronger, more violent.
One oddity is the throwaway inclusion of Taskmaster, not sure what the idea there was. Overall the concept of these broken characters finding ways to recover together is well-executed.
The epilogues are good too, with the post-credits scene setting up both the team’s wider relationships and the FF movie.
Of CA: BNW, Thunderbolts, and FF: FS, Thunderbolts was my favorite. Was it one of the best MCU films? Probably not, but I simply had fun with it. I had a good time. Of the three, it’s the only one I would watch again.
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one of the best MCU films? Probably not,
They should never have gone with this as their tagline.
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Tom Holland has suffered a concussion after an accident on the set of the new Spidey movie.
A bit concerning. Good job it wasn’t anything worse.
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That actually looks really good.
I finished Agatha All Along at some point, by the way. The last episodes actually had some interesting twists and made more sense of some stuff that’d been happening that seemed a bit dumb. But overall, the quality of the show was all over the place, and it’s not exactly required viewing.
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Interesting they cast Menahem Golan for this
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Full trailer:
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OK, that looks like it’ll be fun
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Details on other Marvel shows: https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvel-television-animation-new-york-comic-con-2025-panel-recap
VisionQuest
Bettany treated fans to exclusive first footage from the show, revealing Henry Lewis as D.U.M.-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S., Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., Ruaridh Mollica as Thomas Shepherd, and the return of James Spader as Ultron.
“What’s different about Vision right now is that Red Vision gave Vision all of his memories, including the memories from within the Hex. But White Vision is having real difficulty connecting to them,” explained Bettany. “White Vision’s journey during the show is about his attempt to connect to those memories and who he was… but with lasers!”
Interesting that they apparently couldn’t get Kerry Condon as live-action F.R.I.D.A.Y., so just cast a different Irish woman.
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Hollywood Star, 54, Accused of Vile ‘ICE’ Threat Against Female Moviemaker, 37 – Daily Beast
Jeremy Renner’s filmmaking partner has accused the Marvel actor of threatening to “call ICE” on her after she confronted him about alleged misconduct.
Chinese filmmaker Yi Zhou, 37, who told the Daily Mail she was dating Renner, 54, last month, also accused him of sending “unsolicited pornographic images of himself” in a series of Instagram posts Monday.
Zhou, who made a documentary and an animated movie with Renner this year, claimed the “Hawkeye” actor had introduced himself over direct message and WhatsApp with the “unwanted” photos in June 2025.
She said they then began a romantic relationship, and she “invited” him to be part of her two films.
Zhou provided the Daily Mail with a screenshot of her alleged WhatsApp texts with Renner, including a short porn video clip Renner allegedly texted her in June.
The filmmaker told the Mail that Renner became so “angry” after getting drunk during a meeting about the documentary, Chronicles Of Disney, at his home in Reno, Nevada, that she feared for her life.
…More in link, w/ texts, etc…
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Jesus Christ.
Looking at her insta posts, there’s a few things about the way she tells it that are a bit weird – like how she goes on about the vileness of sending nude pics unsolicited, but this was the start of their relationship… and I don’t think she included him quite as selflessly into her film projects as she implies.
At the same time, there does seem to be a pattern of abuse in Renner’s relationships, and it seems like there’s more women about to come out of the woodwork. Not to mention, I mean, I didn’t even know about this bit here:
Renner was previously married to Sonni Pacheco, with whom he shares joint custody of their 12-year-old daughter, Ava.
In 2019, Pacheco accused the actor in court filings of substance abuse, threatening to kill her and firing a gun with their daughter present.
At the time, Renner denied Pacheco’s allegations against him, labeling them as “nonsense.”
So yeah, I think he’s done. Shame to survive such a lethal accident only to self-destruct a bit later.
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What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck is going on with Chris Evans’ face there? I can see why people thought this was AI, if it in fact isn’t.
Here’s a picture from this year.
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Oh my God, Chris Evans is coming back to Marvel! He hasn’t been in an MCU film since… last year?
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The Doomsday teasers are doing nothing for me, but I suppose they don’t need to. I’ll watch it anyway.
The new Wonder Man trailer, on the other hand, is very funny. I’m looking forward to this.
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Yeah, the Wonder Man trailers look great and the show looks like something I’d really like to watch. Which I haven’t felt about an MCU project for a while.
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It’s the best trailer so far, but feels like it might have landed better and with more novelty if they hadn’t already sucked dry the Fox X-Men movies with all the MCU stuff they’ve already been in so far.
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I think it’s kinda stupid that the X-Men don’t have their own movie in the MCU first before being put in an Avengers movie.
That’s how they did it with Spider-Man (he showed up in Captain America: Civil War a year before his solo debut in Spider-Man: Homecoming).
This isn’t going to be the X-Men who get their own movie, this is all the old folks, who we get to see die again.
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For me it underlines just how old the Fox X-Men cast are now. It’s baffling to me that Marvel got the rights back and didn’t reboot but kept bringing the old guard back. There should be a new generation of actors taking these roles forward at this point rather than the same guys who did it 27 years ago.
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Maybe a proper trailer will change my mind but I can’t get excited about these Doomsday teasers at all.
Steve coming back was inevitable but also feels a little desperate. They pretty much ruined the character of Thor imo with Love and Thunder, so it’ll be very hard to take him seriously again in a more serious movie. And this bizarre nostalgia people seem to have for the Fox X-Men movies will always feel forced to me. I’d understand if they were good movies but there’s like 3 good ones and the rest are just ok or utter dross.
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I can muster zero excitement as long as the theme for all the trailers is “look at all these characters who will be in the movie” rather than “look at the cool story we will tell you”.
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Wonder Man seems to have very positive reviews.
All 8 episodes drop on Tuesday (Jan. 27th) at 9 PM Eastern.
Yeah, definitely more interested than I was before.
A good review:
MCU superfans can skip Wonder Man. For everyone else, it’s a must-watch.
Wonder Man focuses on a particularly obscure Marvel hero living an unusually mundane life, with few ties to the MCU’s bigger events, and no clear place in the hype-strewn buildup to the studio’s next big event movie, Avengers: Doomsday. There is no villain in Wonder Man. There are no big, explosive fight scenes. Wonder Man does not save the world, join the Avengers, explore the multiverse, or head to space.
But that’s exactly what makes Wonder Man one of the most compelling, purely enjoyable shows in Marvel Studios’ roster.
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That trailer has made me excited to watch the series. That hasn’t happened with the Marvel shows in a while.
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I finished Wonder Man this evening. I was a bit concerned by them burning it off in one drop rather than weekly (which is what they did to Echo, which was also part of the vague Marvel Spotlight branding IIRC), but I loved it.
Abdul-Mateen is great and Trevor worked surprisingly well long form (though Kingsley’s bad Scouse accent got grating at times). I thought they did really well taking the essence of the character and applying it to a reinterpretation of his actor status quo from the 80s. I’m curious and excited to see what they do with him next.
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I liked it a lot too. Some stuff didn’t quite work; the bits with the director didn’t really do much for me, and I assume they mostly pushed that in the trailers due to the actor being known from Superman now.
I’m curious and excited to see what they do with him next.
Probably nothing, sadly. The show was just far enough along that they didn’t cancel it post-strike when they scaled back on their output, but I don’t think they’ll do anything like this again anytime soon.
They haven’t announced any new live-action TV shows since 2022.
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Probably nothing, sadly. The show was just far enough along that they didn’t cancel it post-strike when they scaled back on their output, but I don’t think they’ll do anything like this again anytime soon.
Yeah, it’d be crazy to do anything with the few shows they put out that were actually well-received.
Seriously though, I am sure he will pop up in one form or another sooner or later. And there’s always, you know, What If…?.
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Overall, I enjoyed it.
Abdul-Mateen and Kingsley had great chemistry. I loved that this was very low stakes. I laughed out loud a few times. The music was great, and I loved that they used Superman by The Commodores. That was a fun touch.
What didn’t grab me was the Doorman episode. Honestly, that could have been five minutes in an episode. While it was good, it really slammed the brakes on the show’s momentum. I was hoping Doorman would show up at the end to justify the episode.
The ending also didn’t connect with me. It felt almost tacked on, like they weren’t sure how to end it.
Overall, I enjoyed it and would like to see more of the characters.
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I watched Wonder Man and really enjoyed it. It’s very unusual for the MCU, downplays the superhero stuff almost entirely and focuses mainly on the friendship between the two leads, but it’s all the better for it. It’s a shame if this one goes under the radar as I think it’s the best MCU project I’ve seen in years.
I feel like Marvel are repaying the debt they’ve built up after years of using their brand power to get people to watch crap movies and TV shows, as they seem to have turned a bit of a corner quality-wise but unfortunately their brand is now synonymous with mediocrity.
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Nice to know that Wonder Man is a good show to binge watch on a slow, rainy, below 10, or snowy day. Or if the Big Game is boring this weekend. 🤣
That DD trailer… I know that church.
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I feel like Marvel are repaying the debt they’ve built up after years of using their brand power to get people to watch crap movies and TV shows, as they seem to have turned a bit of a corner quality-wise but unfortunately their brand is now synonymous with mediocrity.
That’s the issue with these huge delays though. They made this good show, but they made it in 2023 (I think the last two, more action-y, episodes were post-strike in 2024), and have said they’ve stopped doing things like this. Even if they change their mind, it would probably take until late 2028 to see results.
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Spider-Noir Confirms Sandman Actor and Narrows Release Window to Spring 2026 – IGN
Nicolas Cage says The Spider is “70 percent Humphrey Bogart, and 30 percent Bugs Bunny.”
Amazon’s Spider-Noir show has narrowed its 2026 release window, while revealing it will feature an appearance by Flint Marko, a.k.a. Sandman, alongside a few other familiar faces.
New details on the live-action Spider-Verse spinoff series come from Esquire, which spoke with showrunner Oren Uziel, producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and star Nicolas Cage to learn more about how it blends black-and-white and color to tell a new Spider-Man story. It comes with an updated schedule that will see the show premiere this spring on MGM+ and Prime Video, while unveiling more information about some of its major characters.
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Curious why this is being streamed by Amazon Prime rather than Marvel/Disney, but maybe they’re hoping to get an audience that is not interested in what Marvel/Disney has been releasing (aside from the excellent Wonder Man, that is).
Maybe because it’s a Sony production?
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Maybe because it’s a Sony production?
That’s what I assumed.
After that trailer, I have no idea whether this will be good or crap.
There’s an over-the-top B-movie quality to it, a kind of Sin City vibe, that may or may not work.
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“Spider-Man: Brand New Day Trailer Concept“
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Oh wow, The Other. Not an arc I expected them to adapt.
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Wonder Man is getting a second season! Huzzah!
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Wonder Man is getting a second season! Huzzah!
So this means it’ll drop in 2030?
😜
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Huh.
You missed a few letters from your huzzah there, Lorcan.
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Hey, don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed Wonder Man. Just… huh. Not sure where they’ll go from here.
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