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Superman has always had a strong pop culture presence, but in the last decade and change, Warner Bros. has put a greater focus on the character’s live-action prospects (for both film and TV). The character’s appeared in several animated movies over the years, but it’s been a long time since he had an animated TV show where he was the headliner. The last show to properly do so was (arguably) Legion of Super-Heroes, and the series that have followed—such as Young Justice and Justice League Action, to name a few—have had him…

Image: Green Portal Productions/Adult SwimAdult Swim has confirmed that Rick & Morty will be returning for its seventh season later this year, and co-creator Justin Roiland won’t be a part of it.How Has Ortegas Changed and Grown Coming into Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 | io9 InterviewDuring France’s Annecy International Festival, Cartoon Network president Michael Ouweleen and executive producer Steve Levy briefly touched on the upcoming season. This’ll be the first season to air following Roiland’s firing in…

Image: Cartoon Network StudiosFor decades, Genndy Tartakovsky has been one of Cartoon Network’s definitive voices thanks to the likes of shows like Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack. When he returned to give Jack a proper ending, the show jumped ship to the network’s late night block Adult Swim, and he continued that relationship with his prehistoric series Primal. Previously, Tartakovsky talked about possibly returning to that show beyond its initial two-season run, and now we’ve got our official confirmation:…

Sony’s most bizarre Spider-Man spinoff is set to start filming soon. Barbie gets its rating. Harrison Ford and the Dial of Destiny cast and crew reflect on Indiana Jones’ legacy. Plus, Clark Kent gets all magical girl in My Adventures With Superman’s opening titles. Spoilers, now!How The Last Airbender Inspired Lisette OliveraJames Bond 26According to a new report from the Derry Journal, of all places, Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer “has emerged as a contender to play Britain’s top spy, James Bond” following her Tony…

Ian McGinty, a comic book writer and artist, died earlier on Thursday, June 8.“We lost our son, brother, and best friend,” wrote his mother (in a post shared by a family friend). At time of writing, his mother did not disclose an official cause of his passingg, instead using her words to eulogize her son. “Ian was the kindest person to walk this earth,” she continued, “an extraordinary artist, and lover of animals. We will always love you, Ian. May your gentle heart carry on in the lives of so many you have touched along…

Not long after we learned Adult Swim’s intriguing title for its much-anticipated Venture Bros. movie—The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart—and glimpsed its first trailer, we now have a brand-new peek and a release date. It’s a good day to be a fan of subversive superheroes!Balancing Fan Expectations in The MandalorianThe release dates: digitally on July 21, Blu-ray on July 25. And here’s the excellently fun trailer.The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart | Official Trailer |…

There was a time when you could hop onto Netflix and feel like you had pretty much any movie or show at your fingertips. Those years are long gone. Now consumers have a growing number of streaming providers all clamoring for attention, splitting up the media catalog against dozens of services and making finding the best one a surprisingly difficult task.Reuniting With Tyra BanksIn the past year, numerous streaming services have raised prices on subscription tiers. There’s been rounds of layoffs at HBO, Netflix and more.…

The CW is a network that’s often taken some strange swings, and whose shows like Riverdale or The Winchesters cause no small amount of confusion when they first get announced. When it was revealed in 2020 that the network was aiming towards a live-action reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, one of Cartoon Network’s most popular animated series back in the day, the reaction was more...erm, mixed than usual. Reboots themselves are always crapshoots, and it didn’t help that we already had a Powerpuff Girls reboot that didn’t go…

Since his 1996 series Dexter’s Laboratory premiered on Cartoon Network, Genndy Tartakovsky has become a household name in animation. His new show, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, feels like a natural extension and endpoint of his previous work up to now.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesBecause of the success of the Hotel Transylvania movies and TV works like the 2D version of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Tartakovsky has built up enough goodwill to do whatever he pleases in the…

Can you make a meme into a movie? More to the point, would you watch a half-hour mockumentary about a 2015 Facebook meme?Ernie Hudson | First FandomsThat’s the idea behind Sir Isengord’s Theory of the Magnificent Spinning Quasi Table, a new film from director Dyland Mars Greenberg. Sir Isengord tells the story—in a roundabout, nearly nonsensical way—of a professor who traps his consciousness in a little black box after his death in the 1800s. Sir Isengord and the Theory of the Magnificent Spinning Quanto Quasi Table -…