Ant-Man

Jonathan Majors, seen here in 2021, was arrested in New York City Saturday. Photo: Rich Fury (Getty Images)Jonathan Majors, the actor who portrays the villainous Kang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was arrested and charged in New York City this weekend after an alleged domestic dispute. TMZ first reported the news. Police responded to a 911 call Saturday morning and found a 30-year-old woman who appeared to have been assaulted. The woman said Majors struck her “about the face with an open hand, causing substantial pain…

Image: KillcutterWhat happens when the aliens from Aliens attack a T-Rex? Or a Predator sets its eyes on some Ewoks? What if Ant-Man climbed to the top of the Empire State Building or E.T. got a lightsaber? All those scenarios and more are being brought to life by artist Chuck Eiler, aka Killcutter, who loves to take collectible action figures and photograph them in exciting ways.If that rings a bell it’s because last year, io9 featured his takes on Hasbro’s Black Series Star Wars line. And they were incredibly cool. Now…

Victoria Alonso, seen here (far right) at the premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania with stars Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, has left Marvel.Photo: Alex J. Berliner/ABPhotos/DisneyA few names have been attached to every single Marvel Studios movie since the first one, Iron Man, in 2008. Kevin Feige is the one most people know. Louis D’Esposito is another, and a third is Victoria Alonso. Together, those three producers have worked together to build Marvel Studios into a history-making juggernaut. However, in a…

Image: Marvel | Disney+A few weeks ago, Anthony Mackie got the passcode to read the upcoming script for Captain America: New World Order. During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Mackie describes procedures for reading Marvel scripts, which seem to require about the same security clearance as nuclear code access. “We literally get a passcode to a website that gives us a location,” he explained. The actors then go “to meet the person to sign, to sit with a computer, and read our script.”It seems like literally…

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania stars (L-R) Paul Rudd, Kathryn Newton, and Evangeline Lily, and opened on February 17 to mixed reviews.Image: DisneyMarvel’s latest entry to its superhero empire, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, opened last month to mixed reviews from both critics and diehard MCU fans alike. But a polarizing reception is the least of Marvel’s worries surrounding the film as the studio tries to pin down the scoundrels that leaked the movie’s script on Reddit. As detailed by TorrentFreak, Marvel is not…

Image: Well Go USAAfter a brutal home invasion in London—just after learning they’re finally expecting a much-wanted baby—a young couple sees a brighter future when they inherit a home in the Irish countryside. But not for nothing is this folk horror/psychological thriller/creature-feature blend titled Unwelcome.Directed by Jon Wright (Grabbers) and written by Mark Stay, Unwelcome stars Hannah John-Kamen (Ava Starr/Ghost in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp and the upcoming Thunderbolts) as Maya, who’s nine months pregnant…

Image: MGMMovie-wise, the month of March is pretty packed with big blockbusters, and it all starts with Creed III. The directorial debut of Michael B. Jordan that also features Jonathan Majors and Tessa Thompson has been the talk of the town ahead of release, and its opening weekend is already a knockout.Per Variety, Creed III—which is basically an anime film from top to bottom, straight from Jordan’s mouth—has hit $100.4 million at time of writing, making it the largest open of the Creed franchise since it started in…

Photo: Legendary/Jemal Countess (Getty Images)Four years after Detective Pikachu proved that a live-action spin on Pokémon was viable, news of a sequel starring Ryan Reynolds’ electric rodent has been quieter than a Tandemaus. But, at long last, there’s been a jolt of life in the project.Deadline reports that Portlandia’s Jonathan Krisel has been tapped to direct the Detective Pikachu sequel at Legendary, with original director Rob Letterman not returning. Little is known about the sequel, other than the script is being…

Image: Columbia PicturesMarvel writers Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari have been hit up by Sony to pen the screenplay for the company’s next big horror film, Gnomes.Per Deadline, the co-writers behind 2018's Ant-Man & the Wasp and 2022's No Exit will be taking a crack at expanding a Dutch short film of the same name into a full-length flick. That short was co-written by Jasper ten Hoor, Richard Raaphorst, and Ruwan Heggelman, with the latter taking over directing duties. (He’ll also direct the film version.) It…

Jonathan Majors as Kang, or should we say Kangs?Image: Marvel StudiosNo matter what you may have thought of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, you have to admit the first end-credit scene, in particular, was awesome. It beautifully put into motion not just the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but tied up a few loose ends that had been set up in the film itself. When both of those things happen, Marvel’s end credits scenes are at their very best.However, the scene certainly created some... challenges, let’s say, in…