Marvel’s Eternals: Richard Madden Will Reportedly Play Ikaris
Richard Madden, known for his role as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones, is reportedly in talks to play Ikaris in Marvel’s The Eternals.
Reported by Variety, Madden will join Angelina Jolie and Kumail Nanjiani on the project. Besides his potential role, no other details surrounding the talks have been revealed.
Richard Madden as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones.
What’s the New Face of the MCU After Endgame?
Warning: Full spoilers for Avengers: Endgame follow.
The Russo Brothers' Avengers: Endgame is the 22nd film in the blockbuster MCU franchise, a sprawling epic which delivered the massive spectacle that fans have come to expect from the series. But Endgame also presented viewers with concrete conclusions for three of the Avengers' original heroes: Tony Stark, Captain America, and Black Widow. And after the huge battle, moving funeral, and death of Thanos, many fans are wondering one thing... what's next?
The New Avengers
For the last few years, it's looked like Kevin Feige and the creative minds at Marvel Studios were assembling a new era of Avengers to inevitably replace the old. Since the 2014 release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the MCU has been seeding a secondary group of heroes, beginning with Sam Wilson, a.k.a. Falcon, and later adding members Scarlet Witch, Vision, Peter Parker, and Scott Lang. With the addition of T'Challa to the MCU, it looked like a new Avengers team would soon become a reality. And when Kevin Feige started saying that Carol Danvers' Captain Marvel was about to take the lead and be at the forefront of the MCU, it looked like the new iteration of the Avengers had found its leader too.
Google Announces New Pixel 3a Phones, Available Today
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Google has announced the Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL smartphones.
During the Google I/O event and livestream, Google revealed the new Pixel 3a and 3a XL models will start at $400 and come in three colors; Just Black, Clearly White, and Purple-ish, and will be available for all U.S. carriers starting today.
For more on the Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL, be sure to check out the images below.
The Pixel 3a and 3a XL include an OLED display and support Bluetooth 5.0 and USB-C digital audio. It features a 12.2 megapixel, double pixel rear camera, and an 8-megapixel front camera, and both versions also include a 3.5 mm audio jack
Disney Postpones Release of X-Men Spin-Off New Mutants
The theatrical release of the X-Men spin-off The New Mutants has been postponed yet again.
Disney, the new owner of X-Men studio 20th Century Fox, announced their release slate through 2027 on Tuesday, which saw several Fox movies release dates changed, including James Cameron's Avatar sequels and a new Star Wars trilogy.
You Could Have a Region of Your Brain Dedicated to Recognizing Pokemon
Researchers at Stanford University have discovered that people who played Pokemon as children in the 90s might share a small region of their brain where all of that information is held, according to a new study.
As reported by Ars Technica, a recent paper published in the scientific journal Nature (and an accompanying YouTube video if you prefer that to reading a whole academic essay) breaks down the results of an experiment that compared the brains of people who played “a lot of Pokemon in their childhood” around 1995 to 1998 with people who don’t know Pokemon at all.
GoT: Here’s Why Jaime Made That Questionable Choice
This interview contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8, episode 4, "The Last of the Starks."
Jaime Lannister's slow-burn relationship with Brienne of Tarth has been one of the most satisfying storylines in Game of Thrones throughout the show's run, but in episode 4 of Season 8, just when it seems like the disgraced Kingslayer might finally be ready to embrace the possibility of a happy ending, he ends up sneaking out in the middle of the night to return to King's Landing and his "hateful" sister, Cersei.
Luckily, Brienne wakes up and catches him before he leaves, allowing them a revealing (and potentially final) moment together. In the gut-wrenching scene, Brienne insists, "You're not like your sister - you’re better than her. You’re a good man, you don’t need to die with her."
Captain America Could Always Lift Mjolnir According to the Russos
Spoiler Warning: the following article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame.
According to Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of Avengers: Endgame, Captain America was able to wield Mjolnir long before the most recent entry in the MCU.
In an interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Russo Brothers were asked why Captain America was able to lift Thor’s hammer Mjolnir in Endgame when he seemingly couldn’t in Age of Ultron. The duo replied “In our heads, he was
able to wield it.”
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Avatar Sequels Release Dates Pushed Back Years
Disney has pushed back the release dates of James Cameron's Avatar sequels, the studio announced Tuesday.
Avatar 2 had been slated to open Dec. 18, 2020 but will now open Dec. 17, 2021 instead.
Avatar 3 was originally scheduled to hit theaters on Dec. 17, 2021 but has now been shifted to Dec. 22, 2023.
Likewise, Avatar 4 will open Dec. 19, 2025 instead of Dec. 20, 2024 as was originally planned.
Finally, Avatar 5 opens Dec. 17, 2027.
Disney's release date shuffle also now sees three new Star Wars movies opening in 2022, 2024 and 2026.
Falcon Actor on That Avengers: Endgame Ending
Warning: Spoilers follow for Avengers: Endgame. Continue on at your own risk.
Anthony Mackie, who plays Falcon in the MCU, told IMDb in a recent interview that he didn't find out he was going to be passed the shield at the end of Avengers: Endgame until Chris Evans told him while at his house one day, as reported by THR.
"We were at his house and he goes, 'You excited?' And I go, 'What are you talking about?' and he goes, 'You don't know?' He jumps up, runs out of the room and comes back in with the script," Mackie said, who was blown away after reading the ending of the script.
3 Star Wars Movies Being Released Starting in 2022
Following the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga, Disney will release three new Star Wars movies starting in 2022.
Announced by Disney, each new film will be released on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year beginning 2022, meaning a new Star Wars film will come out in 2022, 2024 and 2026. These films have not yet been titled, but will most definitely exist outside of the nine numbered Skywalker Saga films.
The only upcoming Star Wars film we know for certain will be released is The Rise of Skywalker, which is coming to US theaters on December 20, 2019 and the UK on December 19. It’s possible all three of these films are part of The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson’s planned trilogy of Star Wars movies, which Johnson confirmed he was still working on as recently as February 2019.