It turns out that Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani bumped into Tom Holland while they were both filming… and it could have gone better.

During an interview with Elite Daily, the 19-year-old Ms. Marvel channeled her inner nerd as she recounted exactly what happened when she met Spider-Man star, Tom Holland. She described him being "so nice," and also recounted her embarrassment at the sudden visit while she was in hair and makeup.

“He was like, ‘What’s your show even about?’” she revealed. “I was like, ‘What's Spider-Man about?’ He fully shows me a photo of him with Tobey Maguire!”

At the time, Vellani was filming Ms. Marvel in an Atlanta studio next to where Holland was filming Spider-Man: No Way Home… and nobody knew about the Spider-Men team-up.

“I get we’re both in Marvel,” she said. “But I didn’t need to know that before it happened.”

As a huge Marvel fan, having Spider-Man's big twist spoiled by Holland himself was no doubt rough for Vellani. She has even gone so far as to argue with Kevin Feige over which universe the MCU really is.

“Every time I talk to Kevin, we have this argument where I say, ‘The MCU is not 616,’” she said. “He’s like, ‘It is because I said so.’ I’m like, ‘No, it’s 199999’. He hates it. So, we keep having this argument, and then they put 616 in the movie. I’m like, ‘Kevin, you know it’s not 616.’ He just sends me a sad face. I was like, ‘Great.’”

Although Ms. Marvel has appeared in the comic books, her powers are a lot different in the MCU. But that doesn’t stop her from connecting with her other Marvel heroes.

“Obviously, Tony Stark, a middle-aged white dude, and me, a 16-year-old brown kid — they’re not the same thing,” she says. “But I related to a lot of his inner conflict of what does it mean to do the right thing and be a good person? And how can you be a good person when you’ve done so much wrong, and how do you eradicate those errors?”

Read more about Ms. Marvel with IGN’s review, as well as our look at the entire cast of the new Disney+ show, and how it fits into Marvel’s Phase 4.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

It's a pretty big mental stretch to imagine the good-hearted, iconic hero Captain America as a total psychopath, but The Russo Brothers and actor Chris Evans are taking a crack at the notion in their upcoming film, The Gray Man.

In a panel at Netflix Geeked Week, co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo talked about their long-running collaboration with Chris Evans in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which spanned Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. Captain America, they say, was at the start and end of that story, and it allowed them not just to work with Evans in the role, but to talk to him at length about what other kinds of roles might be interesting to him.

It turns out, after playing the wholesome Captain America for so long, Evans was up for something riskier. And that's exactly what he's getting into with The Gray Man. As Anthony Russo puts it, "It's so far away from what he did as Captain America."

The Gray Man is a spy thriller based on the book series by Mark Greaney of the same name, and co-star Evans as a psychopathic ex-black ops mercenary trying to capture his former coworker who's still in the spy business, played by Ryan Gosling. The Russos explain that The Gray Man is very much a face-off between Evans and Gosling, with Evans in the obvious villain role, showing off his range and ability to play different styles and tones beyond just good-guy-hero.

"It reminds us of [Henry] Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West, where he took this all-American reputation and put it at risk by playing, basically, a child-killer," said Joe Russo on the panel. "Evans is doing the same thing here: He’s playing a ferocious psychopath. Highly entertaining, very sarcastic, but does a lot of terrible things in the movie. That’s risky."

Geeked Week also gave us a brand new clip from The Gray Man showing off a head-to-head between Gosling and Evans. For the full rundown of everything to expect at Geeked Week, we've got a schedule covering it all, as well as our roundup of everything announced so far.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Top Gun: Maverick is back in the danger zone due to a potential copyright breach.

The recently released Top Gun sequel may have become Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing blockbuster ever, but it looks as though Paramount may not be celebrating just yet, as a new lawsuit takes the wind from their jets.

The new lawsuit comes from the estate of Ehud Yonay – author of a 1983 magazine article titled “Top Guns” which inspired the original ‘80s classic.

The lawsuit, which was filed on Monday at the Los Angeles federal court by Yonay’s wife and son, Shosh and Yuval, alleges that Paramount failed to reacquire the rights to Ehud’s magazine article after the rights were terminated under the US Copyright Act.

The family has petitioned for the distribution of Top Gun: Maverick to be ceased immediately and is seeking unspecified damages, which include profits from the hit movie.

According to the lawsuit, the generation-spanning franchise would not have existed had it not been for Yonay’s “literary efforts and evocative prose and narrative”. The lawsuit reveals the circumstances of Top Gun’s rights termination after the family notified Paramount in 2018 that the rights to Yonay’s article would be terminated two years later.

The studio lost the copyright in January 2020 and the suit alleges that Top Gun: Maverick was completed in May 2021. They argue that Paramount would need to license the article again in order to make anything derivative of it.

However, it’s not quite that simple.

“The article is not the screenplay, and Paramount can argue that the article was basically just a story idea and nothing more,” entertainment attorney Mark Litwak told IndieWire. “Ideas are not copyrightable. It’s not always clear when an idea is embellished enough, when it becomes more than an idea, it becomes a work of authorship. It’s not a clear line.”

“It may be difficult to say this new sequel move has nothing to do with the original article,” he continued. “That may be a hard sell.” Particularly difficult since Paramount did originally license the article for the 1986 movie.

The article itself was written in an age before GoPro cameras, taking readers into the cockpits of the Navy Fighter Weapons School in San Diego (aka Top Gun) using extensively detailed descriptions and a narrative approach that captured the thrills and rivalry of the school.

A Paramount representative stated: “These claims are without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously.”

Whether or not the case will go to court remains to be seen – the case will likely settle long before that. But after making a sequel without licensing the original work, Paramount may want to scramble its jets.

Read more about Top Gun: Maverick with our explainer of Top Gun: Maverick's ending, a US Navy fighter pilot reacting to Top Gun, and the top 10 aerial dogfights of all time.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Deadpool 3 writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have assured fans that the Merc with a Mouth's MCU debut will not be "Disney-fied" as they're proceeding with an R-rated script.

Speaking to Playlist about the upcoming threequel, Reese and Wernick, who have writing credits on the first two movies and are working on Deadpool 3, insisted that Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox hadn't had an impact on the tone of the third film. They also said Marvel had been "incredibly supportive" of the next installment in the R-rated franchise.

"We were used to doing things our way, so there are differences, but I think the great part is that Marvel's been incredibly supportive," the writers explained. "They are gonna let Deadpool be Deadpool, you know? It's not like any particular joke may be the one that they say, 'you know, that's too far,' that could happen, but to this point, it's been nothing but support.

"It's been nothing but, 'how can we help you?' 'What from our universe would you like to use? How, how can we make your life easy?' And we’re gonna let Deadpool be Deadpool," they added, touching on the creative process. "This is not going to be the Disney-fied 'Deadpool.' So they're awesome, and now it's up to us to come through and justify that faith."

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige previously confirmed that Deadpool 3 would become part of the MCU and that the movie would be R-rated. "They're not gonna mess with the tone," Reese and Wernick asserted again. "We've always been told it can be R-[rated], and we're proceeding as if it's R. We would like it to be R, we always have, so I don't think that'll change."

Deadpool 3 will bring back Ryan Reynold's antihero mercenary for another bloody adventure, though this time the movie will be directed by Shawn Levy, who previously collaborated with Reynolds on Free Guy and The Adam Project. He is the third director of the franchise after Tim Miller and David Leitch led the first two films released in 2016 and 2018, respectively.

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Capcom has confirmed its Capcom Showcase will take place on Monday, June 13 and that it will feature updates and new details on previously announced games.

Capcom shared the news in a blog, announcing that this upcoming stream will last for roughly 35 minutes and that it will take place on June 13 at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm BST. If you are in Australia, that translates to 8am AEST.

While no games were specifically mentioned, we very well may learn more about Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Resident Evil Village VR or DLC, Resident Evil Re:Verse, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, and more.

For comparison, Capcom held a showcase at E3 2021 and the show confirmed Resident Evil Village DLC was in development, that Resident Evil Re:Verse would launch in July 2021 (it was delayed), post-launch content for Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter Stories 2, and more.

The Capcom Showcase will be part of IGN's Summer of Gaming and will join a stacked June that will also see Netflix Geeked Week, Sonic Central, Black Voices in Gaming, IGN Expo, the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase, and the PC Gaming Show.

PlayStation's latest State of Play was a big show for Capcom games as it featured Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil 4 Remake, and Resident Evil Village VR, and it may have very much set the stage for what we will see at the Capcom Showcase.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Disney dropped the trailer for its upcoming film Strange World today, and it’s shaping up to be an interesting animated revival of the old-school sci-fi genre.

In the teaser trailer, the newly introduced Clade family of explorers traverses a vibrant world filled with mysterious creatures. The trailer's modern animation is peppered with old-timey narration and graphics, giving way to a unique combination of visual styles.

According to the film’s official summary, Strange World is an action-adventure movie that follows the Clades, “whose differences threaten to topple their latest—and by far— most crucial mission.” The movie's official poster can be seen below:

While little is known about the movie’s cast, Disney announced that Jake Gyllenhaal of Spider-Man fame will take on the role of Searcher Clade, a reluctant farmer and the son of an ambitious explorer who wishes to avoid following his father’s risky footsteps. Gyllenhaal will also be joined by Alan Tudyk, who has become a staple of Disney’s animated films since his appearance in Wreck-It Ralph.

Strange World is led by Big Hero 6 director Don Hall and Raya and the Last Dragon writer Qui Nguyen. Roy Conli, who also worked on Big Hero 6, is on board as a producer.

Strange World will premiere in theaters on November 23.

Amelia Zollner is a freelance writer at IGN. Find them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.

At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced updates to Continuity which will allow Mac owners to use their iPhone as a high quality webcam.

This new feature, dubbed Continuity Camera, activates automatically when the iPhone is nearby. The iPhone doesn't even have to be awake and connects to the Mac wirelessly. Because of Apple's existing ecosystem, the connected iPhone has access to features that are found on its other products.

For example, you'll be able to use Center Stage, the feature that keeps the user centered in the frame even while they move around. You can also use the Portrait mode feature to create a fake bokeh, or shallow depth of field, around you so that the background is blurred. There's also a Studio Light feature that illuminates a person's face and dims the background, useful for poor lighting conditions.

One interesting new feature is called Desk View. This uses the iPhone's ultrawide camera to simultaneously show the user's face and an overhead shot of their desk. Apple says this is perfect for creating DIY videos or showing off sketches. This would also be great for unboxing videos where you want to show an overhead shot, but lack a separate camera mounted above you.

Obviously, the concept of using your smartphone as a webcam is nothing new. Popular apps like DroidCam, Reincubate Camo, and EpocCam are already available. However, Apple's implementation leverages their software and hardware control and provides a built-in solution for those already in Apple's ecosystem.

Continuity Camera is part of the new features for newest iteration of Apple's desktop operating system, macOS Ventura. Apple announced a plethora of updates for each of its major operating systems along side a new MacBook Air with the M2 chip. There was also a surprising focus on gaming with Apple touting its Metal 3 API that has upscaling tech similar to Nvidia's DLSS and AMD's FidelityFX Supersampling (FSR).

David Matthews is a freelance writer specializing in consumer tech and gaming. He also strongly believes that sugar does not go in grits. Follow him on Twitter @packetstealer.

Today, in an essay penned for The Guardian, Martin Scorsese wrote a touching tribute to Ray Liotta. In it, he opened up about his regret at not being able to collaborate with him again following their work together in Goodfellas.

Liotta, also known for his role as GTA Vice City’s Tommy Vercetti, died May 26 of this year. In his essay, Scorsese wrote that the two had “many plans to work together again but the timing was always off, or the project wasn’t quite right. I regret that now.”

In his musings, Scorsese described Liotta as “fearless” and praised his ability to be a part of the team. He said, “On Goodfellas, we were working improvisationally in most scenes, and many members of the team had known each other and worked together for years, including my mother and my father. Into that walked the new guy, Ray Liotta, and he never missed a beat. It felt like we’d worked together for years.”

Scorsese also praised Liotta’s performance as the divorce lawyer in Marriage Story and said “he’s genuinely scary in the role, which is precisely why he’s so funny – I remember feeling that I wanted to work with him again at this point in his life, to explore the gravity in his presence, so different from the young, sprightly actor he was when I met him.”

Liotta’s passing has been mourned by much of the entertainment industry. Scorsese ends his piece by saying, “I wish I’d had the chance to see him just once more, too – to tell him just how much the work we did together meant to me. But maybe he knew that. I hope so.”

Liotta got his big break playing ex-convict Ray Sinclair in Something Wild. He’d recently seen his career get revitalized with his role in The Sopranos spin-off film The Many Saints of Newark. In the film, he played two very different twin brothers - “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti and Salvatore “Sally” Moltisanti.

Casey is a freelance writer for IGN. You can usually find him talking about JRPGs on Twitter at @caseydavidmt.

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Elon Musk is threatening to walk away from his blockbuster deal from Twitter, claiming that the social media giant is in "material breach" of the merger agreement as the two continue to wrangle over how many spam bots and fake accounts are on the platform.

Musk's ongoing complaints were revealed in a letter to Twitter dated June 6 that was disclosed in a filing with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]. In the letter, Musk's lawyers claim that Twitter hasn't done enough to reveal the true number of spam bots and fake accounts on the platform, which the company claims hovers around 5 percent of total users.

"Based on Twitter’s behavior to date, and the company's latest correspondence in particular, Mr. Musk believes the company is actively resisting and thwarting his information rights (and the company’s corresponding obligations) under the merger agreement," Musk's lawyers wrote.

"This is a clear material breach of Twitter's obligations under the merger agreement and Mr. Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom, including his right not to consummate the transaction and his right to terminate the merger agreement."

Musks has previously said that that his buyout deal with Twitter "cannot move forward" until he is satisfied with its data on fake accounts, which he claims is around 20 percent. When Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal weighed in on the subject, Musk responded with the classic poo emoji.

Twitter responded to Musk's latest broadside by essentially holding the billionaire's feet to the fire, reportedly saying it "intends to close the transaction with Elon Musk and enforce the merger agreement at the agreed price and terms."

TWITTER SAYS CO HAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO COOPERATIVELY SHARE INFORMATION WITH ELON MUSK TO CONSUMMATE DEAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH TERMS OF MERGER AGREEMENT$TWTR

— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) June 6, 2022

Musk's move to buy Twitter has been brewing for months now, with the billionaire's offer being accepted on April 25 for $44 billion. He's since been vocal about the changes he would make on the platform, which include unbanning former president Donald Trump and taking the company private.

"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy," Musk said in a statement communicating his intentions for the platform, "and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated."

For now, though, what would be a landmark deal is far from certain.

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Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power hasn’t even premiered yet, but that won’t stop the showrunners from crafting an impressively detailed roadmap, which even includes the final shot of the multiple season-long show.

According to a report by Empire, the upcoming Prime Video show is roughly 50 hours long and covers a massive scope. Impressively, the show’s plot lines and cinematography have already been planned multiple seasons in advance.

“There are things in the first season that don’t pay off until Season 5,” co-showrunner JD Payne told Empire. “We even know what our final shot of the last episode is going to be.”

Payne also made it clear that the production team wishes to preserve the integrity of author J.R.R. Tolkien’s original novels and is adapting ideas from appendices and footnotes to form the show’s lore.

“We’re doing what Tolkien wanted,” Payne noted. “As long as we felt like every invention of ours was true to his essence, we knew we were on the right track.”

Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power is slated to premiere on September 2. The show acts as a prequel for the beloved series, telling the origin stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age, the Dark Lord Sauron, and, of course, the iconic rings.

Amelia Zollner is a freelance writer at IGN. Find them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.