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How far away is Avengers: Endgame from being at the top of the global box office? When did Stan Lee first say “‘Nuff said” in the comics? What is Captain Marvel doing on Vormir in Avengers: Endgame set photos? What did Matthew Vaughn have planned for his X-Men: First Class trilogy and unmade Superman trilogy pitch? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits . Funko released one of their adorable toy trailers with POP versions of Spider-Man: Far From Home characters Anthony Michael Hall will play Mr. Kitson , “the fiendish ruler of an alien gaming empire” in Agents of SHIELD . Spider-Man is reading the latest issue of Total Film with himself on the cover , and it’ll give you a little nosebleed. Avengers: Endgame is less than $100 million away from passing Avatar on the all-time global box office chart. Here’s a sneak peek at the upcoming finale for Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout animated series. Comic Book Resources dives into when Stan Lee ...

After Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park hit theaters in 1993, the dinosaur craze began. Hollywood responded with the likes of Prehysteria, Super Mario Bros., We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story , and Theodore Rex . But one dinosaur movie tops them all. Tammy and the T-Rex is a cult classic released in 1994 about a high school girl named Tammy and her boyfriend Michael. Thanks to a mad scientist, Michael has his brain transplanted into the body of a life-size, robotic tyrannosaurus rex. After escaping the scientist’s lab, Michael heads off to bring dinosaur pain to those who bully him in school and reunite with his girlfriend. Yes, this is a real movie, and there’s also an R-rated, gore-filled cut of the movie that will have its world premiere at the Cinepocalypse film festival very soon. You can watch the Tammy and the T-Rex uncut trailer below to see some of the insanity. Tammy and the T-Rex Uncut Trailer Yes, that’s a young Denise Richards as Tammy, a few years before she would ac...

Plenty of Stephen King fans are still waiting to see an epic big screen adaptation of the book series The Dark Tower . That’s because the meager attempt to bring the books to life back in 2017 was a total disaster. Clocking in at only 95 minutes, the adaptation didn’t deliver the kind of epic fantasy they’d been hoping to see, and the movie was totally forgettable. If you’re one of the many disappointed fans out there who wished The Dark Tower turned out to be even better, you’re not alone. Producer Ron Howard also ended up being unhappy with the final product. Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Collider ) while making the publicity rounds for the new documentary Pavarotti , filmmaker Ron Howard admitted that there were several shortcomings when it came to the final cut of The Dark Tower . Howard said: “I think it should’ve been horror. I think that it landed in a place—both in our minds and the studio’s—that it could be PG-13 and sort of a boy’s adventure… I rea...

Rocketman is no run-of-the-mill rocker biopic. While many movies about innovative and ambitious artists play things off-puttingly safe, that’s not the case with  Dexter Fletcher ‘s Elton John film. Rocketman  is not afraid to be bold like its artists, and just like their music, the final result bursts with creativity and life. The scope of the musical numbers, and how succinctly yet naturally Elton John’s story is told, it’s quite a feat for Flecther as a filmmaker. He’s made a piece of grand spectacle that feels so intimate and personal, which again, is spot-on for capturing the soul of Elton John’s music. If Fletcher’s talent behind-the-camera got overlooked in some corners with  Eddie the Eagle , it won’t be in  Rocketman . Recently, we had a short conversation with Fletcher about Taron Egerton’s performance, depicting the Troubadour performance, and his conversations with Elton John. The scope of this movie is gigantic. With a canvas and timeline ...

Silicon Valley   will soon be closing its doors as co-showrunner and executive producers  Alec Berg and  Mike Judge move on to greener pastures. The critically acclaimed HBO comedy series will end with its sixth and final season, which is slated to debut later this year. The  Silicon Valley ending will play out in an abbreviated seven episode run, making it the shortest season of the show. Variety broke the news that the upcoming sixth season of  Silicon Valley will be its last. The final season is currently in pre-production and will bring the Emmy-nominated HBO comedy series to an end later this year. Production on the sixth season had already been delayed due to Berg’s commitments to fellow HBO comedy  Barry , which it seems he will be able to devote more time to as  Silicon Valley comes to an end. “ Silicon Valley  has been a career and life highlight for us,” said Berg and fellow co-showrunner/executive producer Mike Judge...

Have you always wondered why Harry Potter and his friends balked at reading the lengthy tome  A History of Magic when it sounds like the coolest textbook ever? Well, you can soon dive into a real history of magic with four new  Harry Potter eBooks arriving very soon from Pottermore Publishing. Titled  Harry Potter: A Journey Through… , the nonfiction series will give readers a lesson on each of the different magical subjects taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry through an exploration of the “traditional folklore and magic at the heart of the Harry Potter stories.” Pottermore announced the upcoming release of four new  Harry Potter books —  Harry Potter nonfiction eBooks, that is. Inspired by the British Library exhibition and the companion book based on the in-world textbook,  Harry Potter: A History of Magic , the  Harry Potter: A Journey Through… series “will take you back in time once again to learn about the ...

Reviving old popular culture used to be rare, or at least not terribly common. These days, reviving TV shows and movies for one reason or another is as common as new series themselves. As we all await the return of HBO’s Deadwood with the excellent Deadwood: The Movie (airing this Friday, May 31), it’s time to rank the 15 best revivals of recent TV shows and movies. (You’ll note some exclusions here — the CW/UPN drama Veronica Mars isn’t here. Yes, there was a crowdfunded movie, but with the TV-styled revival on Hulu coming this summer, it’s best to leave it off for now to see how the new show shakes out. But the movie was fine!) 15. Roseanne At least among the sitcom revivals of the 2010s, there’s been a fairly common thread in which each show directly confronts the sociopolitical problems of the present day. That, at least, is what was supposed to be the case with the revival of Roseanne that began airing on ABC just 14 months ago. Undoing the baffling ninth season, t...