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Jack Dunn Although Joe and Anthony Russo are responsible for some of Marvel‘s biggest hits, they initially turned down the offer to reunite with the studio to direct Robert Downey Jr. in “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Secret Wars.” While speaking to Omelete, Joe Russo said it was originally Marvel CEO Kevin Feige’s idea to reinsert Downey into the MCU as Doctor Doom after the Oscar winner was the franchise’s defacto frontman playing Tony Stark/Iron Man for over a decade. “That was Kevin [Feige],” Joe Russo said.

Harry Styles is a musical superstar, but he’s also a very talented actor!

SZA has big movie aspirations!

J. Kim Murphy Disney‘s “Snow White” is fairest of them all on box office charts. The musical earned $16 million across Friday and preview screenings from 4,200 venues.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Amanda Seyfried was the latest guest on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast and said that she actually had the offer from James Gunn and Marvel Studios to play Gamora in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise. The Oscar nominee “mulled over” the offer for a few days before coming to the realization that “Guardians” just wasn’t for her. “I was really scared of the idea of being stuck and painted a different color because of the amount of time [it takes],” Seyfried said.

Joshua Jackson is opening up about working with Angela Bassett!

Angelique Jackson The last time Jonathan Majors sat down for rounds of interviews at a press junket, it was late February 2023. He was the fastest-rising star in Hollywood, with his big-screen Marvel debut as Kang the Conqueror in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” released just ahead of Michael B. Jordan’s boxing blockbuster “Creed III.” But a month after reaching that pinnacle, Majors was arrested following a fight with his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Samuel L. Jackson marked the 70th birthday of his “Die Hard With a Vengeance” co-star Bruce Willis by sharing to Vanity Fair the piece of career advice that Willis gave him, which ended up proving beyond fruitful. The two actors first starred together in the third “Die Hard” movie, which was released in 1995 and grossed $366 million worldwide to become the top grosser of the year and the franchise’s biggest hit at the time.

Gwyneth Paltrow is explaining how she famously “forgot” she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Gwyneth has been a part of the MCU for decades, portraying Pepper Potts in the Iron Man and Avengers films.

Marvel‘s critical darling “Daredevil: Born Again” not only brings back Charlie Cox‘s Matt Murdock and Vincent D’Onofrio‘s Wilson Fisk, but the new revival series from Marvel Television also has the grand return of Jon Bernthal (“The Accountant 2”) as The Punisher, however, as the actor tells it that nearly didn’t happen for creative reasons. In a new chat with Entertainment Weekly, the actor revealed he nearly wasn’t a part of the show due to the creative choices being made in the previous incarnation and it wasn’t until Marvel Television decided to retool things that he decided to come back to “Daredevil: Born Again.” READ MORE: Jon Bernthal Promises “Dark” Tone For Gestating ‘Punisher Special Presentation’: “It Will Not Be Punisher-Lite” “Ultimately, I didn’t see it.

Naman Ramachandran India-based Toonz Media Group and Japan’s 1st Place have revealed a strategic partnership aimed at meeting the surging global demand for high-quality anime content, on the sidelines of Hong Kong FilMart. The alliance comes at a critical time for the anime industry, which faces unprecedented demand across streaming platforms, gaming, and entertainment sectors while simultaneously battling a talent shortage in Japan.

Jonathan Majors is open to returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after playing Kang the Conqueror in 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Gwyneth Paltrow spoke to Vanity Fair as part of a new cover story and pulled back the curtain a bit on her big return to acting later this year in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme.” The A24 film stars Timothée Chalamet as a ping pong protégé competing overseas. Paltrow revealed for the first time she is starring as the wife of a rival professional who falls into bed with Chalamet’s star.

It was announced last year that Robert Downey, Jr. would be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (aka the MCU) in a brand new role, Doctor Doom.

Joe Russo, one-half of the sibling powerhouse producing/directing team known as the Russo Brothers, posited that today’s blockbuster versus indie discourse is in large part to Harvey Weinstein‘s Oscars campaign playbook.

Paul Rudd is playing coy to his future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the Russo Brothers begin filming Avengers: Doomsday.

Jack Dunn “Avengers: Endgame” director Joe Russo blames Harvey Weinstein for keeping blockbusters out of awards season. During a sit down with The Sunday Times, Russo said that the reason big budget, high grossing films are largely barred from major awards contention is because of a trend “started by Harvey Weinstein.” “He vilified mainstream movies to champion the art films he pushed for Oscar campaigns,” Russo said.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Jack Quaid’s action-comedy “Novocaine” topped a painfully slow weekend at the box office with $8.7 million. For theater owners, however, there’s not too much to celebrate: It’s one of the worst debuts to still capture the No. 1 spot (at least since the pandemic ground moviegoing to a halt).

Jenna Ortega is addressing the possibility of her being in another Marvel film.

Jack Dunn If you blinked, you may have missed Jenna Ortega‘s MCU debut in 2013’s “Iron Man 3.” In a sit down with Entertainment Tonight, Ortega briefly discussed her small role in the film after the interviewer told her, “I’m hoping that we can get Jenna Ortega into the Marvel Universe.” “I did it once,” Ortega replied. “It was one of the first jobs I ever did.

J. Kim Murphy Movie theaters haven’t exactly been bustling since the start of 2025 and the calendar year is about to turn in one of its most meagre frames yet. Even with two new wide releases — Paramount’s slapstick beat-em-up “Novocaine” and Focus Features’ spy film “Black Bag” — exhibitors are in danger of a particularly beleaguered weekend, one that will likely see no feature at all grossing in the eight digits.