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While the movies put out by Marvel Studios, along with the other Marvel movies put out by 20th Century FOX and Sony, are almost always entertaining, one of the greatest things about Marvel is the fanbase. Marvel fans use the source material from both the movies and the comics to create their own fan theories, fan fiction, and fan art. While some fan theories may be a bit too complex for the standard Marvel fan, the artwork created by Marvel fans is almost always intriguing....

Marvel’s X-Men possess some of the most awesome powers within the superhero world. Between their cool backstories, mutant abilities, complex personalities, and character arcs, it’s no wonder why they are among some of the most popular superheroes of our time. We’ve seen many of the X-Men either emerge from or turn to the dark side, from Rogue’s draining of the powers of Carol Danvers to the destruction wreaked by the Phoenix Force within Jean Grey....

As one of the most unconventional sitcoms of the 21st century, it’s only natural that 30 Rock has some of the more unconventional season finales in the medium. While each finale does do well to resolve story and character arcs, they often do so in bombastic ways, playing up the sitcom formula to an almost unrecognizable point. Particularly in its later years, 30 Rock placed more emphasis on being strange than being coherent....

Reality TV shows take so many different shapes that it’s not even deserving of being called wacky anymore. In the early-2000s, these kinds of shows became popular and we were treated to hundreds of variations. If you think scoffing at these reality shows is cool, you’d be right, but you also need to accept the fact that these shows can make people very popular and at times very rich. Just ask the Kardashians how starring in the headache-inducing Keeping up with the Kardashians has worked out for them; each one of them is a multi-millionaire, so you should see why reality TV is a lucrative venture for studios....

Thanks to our friends over at MacStadium, 9to5Rewards is launching one of our biggest giveaways to date. Readers and Mac users now have the chance to take home Apple’s new game changing Mac Studio. Head below for more on MacStadium’s hosted Mac services and hit the form to enter the Mac Studio giveaway: Dedicated entirely to Mac cloud services, and built on genuine Apple Mac hardware, MacStadium offers a variety of Mac private cloud options....

Horror smash A Quiet Place narrowly topped Dwayne Johnson’s Rampage at the box office this weekend. As studios prepare for the incoming juggernaut that is Avengers: Infinity War, there were no major high-profile releases debuting at the multiplex. Wide newcomers like I Feel Pretty and Super Troopers 2 opened with limited fanfare, meaning the holdovers had a golden opportunity to pad their domestic totals before getting steamrolled by Marvel. Last week, The Rock seemingly broke the video game curse when Rampage won the weekend, proving Johnson is a movie star who can sell anything he attaches his name to....

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. may be most thought of as testing the television storytelling waters by being the first ongoing series to be an extension of a (meta) feature film franchise, but the show actually has pushed the envelope in other ways over the past three years. Marvel’s first (and, so far, longest-lived) TV venture has proven to be remarkably fluid in a way that few other series have. S.H.I.E.L.D. started off with a very specific, mostly curtailed premise: Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) gets a small, five-man team to help support him on his mission to track down 0-8-4s, those unknown – and usually alien – items or individuals that seem to keep popping up all over the face of the Earth (this is the mission audiences see him engaged in in the movies and the Marvel One-Shot short films, even if they didn’t necessarily know its technical mandate at the time)....

[SPOILERS for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. up to Season 3, episode 10 ahead] - Agent. Hero. Friend. Traitor. Prisoner. Villain. Zombie. It is safe to say that Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) has gone through more than his fair share of drastic transformations on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. throughout the last two and a half seasons. Introduced as the loner super spy, it was the surprising reveal that Ward was actually an undercover HYDRA agent that helped launch the show into its creative resurgence at the end of Season 1....

What could happen in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. seasons 6 and 7? When the scripts were written for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5, the show’s fate seemed to be up in the air. As such, the season finale was carefully designed to wrap up as many plot threads as possible, so it could potentially serve as an end to the entire show. In the end, though, ABC renewed the series for an abbreviated sixth season, which will air in the summer; they then surprised everybody by announcing a seventh season as well, which is reportedly due to start filming in February....

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s season five finale has been designed to work as a satisfying conclusion to the series if it doesn’t end up getting commissioned for another run. Coulson and his agents have been as busy as ever in A.o.S.’s fifth season, finding themselves in outer space decades into the future, haunted by their past foes for an 100th episode special and having to deal with the re-emergence of HYDRA. There’s also the small matter of preventing the apocalypse for the gang to worry about....

Harry Potter was no ordinary boy - or wizard, for that matter. Throughout the course of the eight movies in the series, we see Daniel Radcliffe’s character make bold decision after bold decision. It was his willingness to take risks that ultimately helped him triumph over Lord Voldemort, saving both the wizarding and non-wizarding worlds (with more than a little help from his friends). With that in mind, we now look at the riskiest decisions the Chosen One made throughout the franchise....

Deadpool has achieved the almost unthinkable, in an era of relatively family friendly comic book adaptions, he’s been given an honest-to-goodness R-Rated movie. And in case you’ve been living under a rock this weekend, it was huge. Fox spent a very modest $58 million on the Merc with a Mouth’s first cinematic outing, and over its debut weekend, the filthy-mouthed, gratuitously violent antihero reaped an enormous $132 million at the box office....

It’s kind of ironic that comic books have more of a reputation for being serious instead of, well, comic. Many of the early comics were humorous, but the rise of superheroes brought a lot of righteous do-gooders. Of course, that doesn’t mean there aren’t superheroes and other popular comic book characters that are pretty hilarious. The fact is, there are quite a few these days, including many who have popped up in movies and TV shows as well, like the characters on this list....

A good actor is a precious commodity. The lighting crew, the directors, the sound team, and every other member of the behind the scenes roster have one distinct advantage the actors do not have. They are able to spend hours getting everything to be just as it should be. The actor, on the other hand, usually has to be able to turn in a convincing performance at a moment’s notice. The margin for error is particularly enormous for on-screen talent....

Somehow, some way, Drax the Destroyer became one of the most beloved characters in Guardians of the Galaxy. His inability to understand sarcasm and his blunt delivery made for great comedic moments, but his conviction to avenge his family showed an emotional side that fans could sympathize with. However, Drax is not without faults. More often than not, his actions and even his back story leave people trying, but failing to connect the dots....

Note: For the purposes of this article, we primarily use domestic box office numbers. All totals are as of December 30, 2015 - Another year is in the books, and Hollywood found great success at the box office in 2015. As of the time of writing, the 688 films released domestically have collectively grossed $10.9 billion, which is a slight increase from the $10.3 billion the 702 movies from 2014 brought in....

The Oscars may be the most celebrated awards during this season of praise, but with that also comes the arrival of the annual Golden Raspberry Awards, otherwise known as The Razzies. In traditional fashion, Hollywood will be making their announcement for Oscar nominees tomorrow (January 24), but today we’ve been given the complete nominations list for the upcoming Golden Raspberry Awards, which marks the worst movies of the past year....

The sequel to last year’s shark horror/thriller 47 Meters Down has been titled 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, and gets a 2019 release date as filming begins. The movie was previously titled 48 Meters Down, but that appears to have been scrapped. The sequel to 47 Meters Down was announced late last year, and director Johannes Roberts is set to return for the upcoming film. Last summer’s indie shark film 47 Meters Down was headlined by Mandy Moore (This is Us) and Claire Holt (The Vampire Diaries)....

The director of 48 Meters Down says that the shark-infested 47 Meters Down sequel will step up the terror and be an underwater version of The Descent. Johannes Roberts is fast becoming a prolific horror director, and when 47 Meters Down became a surprisingly substantial hit at theaters and home media, he decided to return to film a follow-up. But he was determined that the next story would up the ante in terms of suspense and detail, and he got inspiration for the plot while filming the original Mandy Moore thriller....

There seem to be more live action remakes of beloved cartoons these days than ever before. People debate all the time about whether or not these animated classics should be messed with. But with better technology available, they should theoretically be stronger from a visual standpoint at the very least. In some cases, that’s entirely true and the live action version is a huge step up. And in other cases, it misses the mark, ruining something we hold near and dear....