Actor Chris Potter, who voiced Gambit in X-Men: The Animated Series and Cable in X-Men ’97, recently shared that he auditioned for the 2000 live-action X-Men movie. According to Agents of Fandom, Potter revealed at the 2024 Calgary Expo panel, Going Back to X-Men ’97!, on April 25 that he auditioned for the role of Scott Summers/Cyclops in X-Men, which ultimately went to James Marsden. “I auditioned for Cyclops for the Bryan Singer’s X-Men movie in the 2000s and the whole time I was thinking ‘I don’t want to do this, I want to be Gambit! Why isn’t he in the movie?’,” Potter recalled to those ..read more

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’s Kerry Condon has provided an update about the forthcoming Disney+ series. Speaking with Variety, Condon provided an update about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, a new Disney+ series that is expected to be released in late 2024. “It’s so great,” Condon said. “I don’t even have kids, but I’d pay to see this. I loved it. I loved being on it. There was something about it that was so innocent and playful and lovely. People say don’t work with kids or animals, but I don’t know about that. And also when children are good actors, they’re kind of out-of-this-world good. So watchin ..read more

Henry Cavill as Geralt in The Witcher Netflix is ready to get out of The Witcher business. According to Redanian Intelligence (via What’s on Netflix), the streamer has opted not to move forward with two Witcher spin-offs — The Rats and an untitled kid’s series — with the animated movie, The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, starring Doug Cockle as Geralt, now set to be the final spin-off for the fantasy franchise. Who are the Rats? While not much was revealed about the untitled kid’s series before its cancellation, The Rats would have been a prequel series about its eponymous characters, who were i ..read more

Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo respond to Robert Downey, Jr.’s recent comments about reprising Iron Man in the MCU. “I don’t know how they would do it. I don’t know what the road to that would be [laughs],” Anthony Russo said to Total Film during the Sands International Film Festival in response to Downey Jr.’s willingness to play Tony Stark again. His brother Joe added, “I mean, we closed that book, so it would be up to them to figure out how to reopen it.” The Russo Brothers see Downey Jr.’s recent Oscar win for Oppen ..read more

As she prepares to make her return as Rey Skywalker in Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy‘s untitled Star Wars project, Daisy Ridley details the challenge of reprising her star-making role as an experienced Jedi Master. In an interview with Empire, Ridley recalled the moment when Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy called her about returning to the Star Wars franchise. “It wasn’t a difficult decision,” Ridley said. “I didn’t say yes right away, Kathy [Kennedy, Lucasfilm president] was like, ‘Take as long as you need.’ It was actually really funny, on the way there [to meet Kennedy], I was on th ..read more

It’s easier to explain, by all the evidence, why I should love Boy Kills World, than it is to understand why I don’t. There’s plenty here to like when it comes to individual moments, especially if absurdly bloody, video game-styled fights are things you tend to enjoy. Yet something about the way they’re all strung together doesn’t quite work — the world-building is too slapdash to make much sense, but the tone never gets as campy as the over-the-top gore (and Sam Raimi‘s producing credit) might suggest. Splintering The old joke about the underlying plot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — a mar ..read more

The original Masters of the Universe toy line was based on fantasy archetypes, but as it progressed, each figure tended to come with an action feature, above and beyond the spring-loaded waist. New figures would either do something completely different, or be the reverse-image version of a pre-existing counterpart on the opposing force. If a good guy has a swinging metal fist, a bad guy has a swinging metal karate chop hand, and so forth. Let’s Gush Water squirting entered the line first with Kobra Khan, a human-spitting cobra hyrid, and then with Dragon Blaster Skeletor. The good guys now ne ..read more

Remember when Robosen put out the auto-transforming Optimus Prime, and we collectively thought it maybe cost a bit more than we’d like, but heck, for one robot that awesome, maybe we could save up? And then they put out an auto-transforming Grimlock, that walked in both robot and dinosaur mode, and it cost even more, and we thought, damn, that’s even cooler…can the budget stretch for just one more? Well, enough of you clearly did buy both of those — we can all agree to collectively forget the non-transforming Bumblebee and movie Optimus — that Robosen is making more Transformers. Inevitably ..read more

(Photo Credit: Marvel TV) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Ming-Na Wen says Disney and Marvel Studios have yet to ask her to reprise Agent Melinda May in Marvel Cinematic Universe. “No, they have not . . . it’s weird, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sort of became a separate entity for whatever reason because it was on the network as opposed to streaming,” Wen said to Katee Sackhoff on The Sackhoff Show. “I think there’s some — and this is where my obliviousness also helps because I don’t understand it, so you’re asking the wrong person, I just know that there’s some sort of division ..read more

Ahead of its debut on Paramount+ this summer, a new teaser trailer for Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been released. Shared on Twitter by IGN, the trailer begins by reminding viewers that Paramount+ is the home of “all things Turtles,” showing clips from the previous TMNT cartoons. The video then features a montage of scenes from the upcoming Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which will be set between the events of the 2023 movie Mutant Mayhem and the untitled 2026 sequel. Check out the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles teaser trailer below: Watch the exclusi ..read more