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Superman first took flight in 1938, and from that moment, the film industry was eager to adapt his adventures, as well as those of the countless heroes he inspired. Across radio, television, animation, feature films, and video games, classic comics have crawled out of the page and become some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters of all time. 2001’s X-Men arguably started the current boom, with Spider-Man, released the following year, becoming one of the biggest pictures of all time soon afterwards....

So there’s this large bearded guy in a flashy suit who invades billions of homes to give presents to kids he’s been observing over the past year and then eat their parents’ food. Life shouldn’t get any crazier than that. Yet here we are, with a selection of comics that somehow manage to out crazy Kris Kringle and his eight magical flying reindeer. Comic books aren’t really known for being based in reality....

Fame is an extremely fickle beast, especially when it comes to actors. You can go from nobody to A-list star with just one hit movie or popular TV show. For most, that rise is much more gradual and actors have to pay their dues doing commercials and such for a few years before they get noticed. But there are a lot of actors who seemingly become household names overnight. Of course, the reverse is also true....

Within the last decade of video gaming, we’ve seen dozens of series spawn from huge publishers like Activision and EA Games. Countless sequels continue to be a trend in the AAA gaming world, equipped with huge budgets for additional DLC and multiplayer capability. Franchises like Assassin’s Creed have 10+ games in their catalog and continue to still push through with spinoffs and sequels today. But what about those video games that don’t have sequels?...

The landscape of television and film looked very different back in 2008, when Marvel took a chance on a certain Golden Avenger. Iron Man began to slowly lay the groundwork, beginning a series of intricate steps made by the fledgling Marvel Studios and launching Phase One of their brilliant plan. By the time The Avengers was released in 2012, any doubts about the MCU had been assuaged. Marvel Studios has come a long way since then....

After the filming of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tom Holland and his co-star Zendaya have become one of the most inseparable pairs in Hollywood. There are a lot of friendships that have been formed or strengthened due to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Zendaya and Tom Holland do seem to put everyone else to shame. They’re both very busy with burgeoning careers, yet, in the few moments they do have free time, the two are rarely seen without each other....

American Horror Story is an intense show, and because of this, it gets some wild reactions. Fans have come to expect the macabre and over-the-top episodes season after season. This is, after all, a show that packed more shocks and twists into its first episode than some shows manage in a whole season. Apocalypse, the most recent season, has made good on years of Easter eggs and hidden clues. Fans have long been poring over each episode for clues about the next season or call-backs that might reveal how or if everything ties together....

At the moment, Spider-Man and Iron Man are two of the most popular superheroes thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Tom Holland currently plays everyone’s favorite web-slinger and Robert Downey Jr. portrays the genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. Many actors have played Peter Parker in live action movies and TV shows before Tom Holland, but many people see him as the perfect fit, including Stan Lee himself. Iron Man, on the other hand, has only ever been played by Robert Downey Jr....

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Netflix kicked 2017 off with its adaptation of the successful YA novels A Series of Unfortunate Events. The new series proved to be hit for the streaming giant, reportedly nabbing more views than even Marvel’s Luke Cage did on its first weekend. Since then, fans have been treated to a number of discussions comparing the series to its one-and-done cinematic counterpart, and to the books by Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler....

Twilight may be an easy target to hate on with its sparkly vampires, strange logic, and occasionally poor writing, but many people love the books and movies for their complex love story and unforgettable characters. Even in the cast of Twilight, there were those who admitted that they disliked the series and those who praised it. While some have been more public about their frustration than others, some actors wish to no longer be associated with the franchise....

The second season of BBC America’s Killing Eve ended with an explosive cliffhanger, in which assassin Villanelle shot MI-6 agent Eve after the latter rejected her offer to run away together following their messy, deadly mission to Rome. (Short version: The British agency used Villanelle to murder a target and lied to Eve about its actual intentions. Oh, and Eve hacked one of Villanelle’s former handlers to death with an axe....

It may have been a clever internet ruse more than anything, but a few weeks ago, a series of Spaceballs 2 posters were photographed in New York and shared across the web. Chatter soon went wild about Mel Brooks’ possible return to his brilliant 1987 spoof Spaceballs, a film that gave rise to decades of memes, quotes and, reportedly, higher Winnebago sales. Several of the original film’s stars have said they’d be up a sequel, but just in case Mr....

Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise is one of the most successful Hollywood franchises ever, bringing in over $3.7 billion in box office receipts across just four installments, despite most of the movies being critically panned (the franchise has an average Rotten Tomatoes score of 32 percent). So it’s no wonder why Paramount Pictures plans to not only make more movies, but expand the franchise as well. Last year, the studio hired Oscar-winning writer Akiva Goldsman to spearhead a brain trust of writers, such as The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Daredevil showrunner Steve S....

The Pokémon video games are largely based around finding a variety of fantastical looking creatures, capturing them inside pocket-sized balls and then making them fight each other. As such, it’s probably fair to say that no one honestly expects the epitome of realism from the franchise. But even the most outlandish games set themselves a certain level of logic in relation to the real world that they must stick to in order to maintain the player’s suspension of disbelief and throughout the many generations of Pokémon games, there have been more than a few instances where this logic has been stretched, broken or outright ignored....

Fans have been eagerly awaiting Black Panther and the solo adventures of T’Challa ever since he committed grand larceny with Captain America: Civil War. The hype was real and inescapable, especially once headlines started rolling in about Black Panther breaking ticket sale records and becoming the highest-rated superhero movie on Rotten Tomatoes ever. Part of what makes Black Panther and his home nation of Wakanda so cool is the bleeding-edge technology that fuels the African superpower, all of it tied to the rare metal vibranium....

The Disney Channel was a television network that was created in order to provide family-friendly TV at all hours of the day, and has been going strong for a very long time. As a result, it has aired a huge amount of content over that time and helped to create an incredibly long list of stars that went on to do big things. Some of the actors they featured in prominent roles no longer take part in the business, sometimes because of trouble that they’ve gotten into....

In a modern world filled with fairy tale characters, it’s inevitable that some rules of logic aren’t going to apply. For seven seasons, Once Upon A Time left fans constantly scratching their heads and occasionally venting frustrations on social media. Whether the events in question took place in the Enchanted Forest of the series’ story book or in its cheesily named little hamlet of Storybrooke, Maine, viewers tried to put the pieces together to make sense of whatever confusing plot twist the writers threw their way....

With Marvel Studios taking a back seat at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, it was DC Entertainment’s time to shine. While the company has struggled to engineer a shared superhero universe of their own, this past weekend brought promising footage for a number of upcoming DC projects, along with an entirely new branding for the franchise as a whole. Although fans have long been referring to the series of interconnected movies as the DCEU (or DC Extended Universe), this title was never officially recognized by the company....