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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s legal battle has lasted for years, and it's showing no signs of slowing down, despite the verdict of their defamation trial coming in months ago. Aside from the various appeals currently in process, there’s a ton of conversations about how each actor’s career will be affected by the controversy. Depp might not have any major movie franchises right now, but he just landed another seven-figure deal.While Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s legal teams are still going full tilt, the Edward…

Image via Marvel Studios As much as the action and spectacle might be the big hook to go see the studio’s movies, the MCU has arguably become as popular as it has because Marvel knows that the trick lies in making the audience fall in love with their heroes, so often the scenes the fans rave about the most are the smaller-scale moments that focus on character interaction over anything else. Case in point, Marvel lovers are shining a light on a hugely unsung moment from Avengers: Endgame. Hidden among everything…

via Marvel Studios While the problem is nowhere near as bad as it used to be, when so many of the franchise’s principal antagonists were one-note bad guys or evil mirror versions of the hero, the Marvel Cinematic Universe still hasn’t been knocking its villains out of the park on a regular basis. Of course, with such a huge volume of feature films and Disney Plus shows coming down the pipeline, the ratio is bound to improve in the future, but that hasn’t prevented fans from sifting through the rubble of the…

Until Deadpool 3 comes along, the Marvel Cinematic Universe will remain an exclusively PG-13 enterprise, even if the floodgates have been opened somewhat by the entirety of Netflix’s Defenders Saga, Ryan Reynolds’ first two outings as the Merc with a Mouth, and Logan being added to Disney Plus behind parental controls. However, given the heightened reality the movies and TV shows take place in, not to mention the fantastical nature of the superhero business as a whole, Kevin Feige has given his filmmakers…

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — LIV Golf is just three tournaments in, but the Saudi-backed upstart league is already thinking big about its future.In an interview with CNBC, LIV Golf Investments President and COO Atul Khosla said the future of LIV Golf is teams and creating franchises that can one day be sold. The organization is holding an event this weekend, starting Friday, at former President Donald Trump's namesake golf club here."We're building 12 teams with franchise values, just like any other sport that we fully expect down…

The movie’s second weekend wasn’t as impressive. Box-office receipts fell 68% to $46.6 million, tying with last year’s “Black Widow” for the steepest second-weekend drop for a Marvel Studios superhero movie, according to film-industry analyst Comscore. The uneven performance by “Thor” points to a bigger issue for Disney: Marvel Studios, its most profitable film studio, is in a bit of a slump. Since Disney acquired Marvel in 2009, the studio has produced 25 superhero films that…

via Marvel Studios We’ve come to expect certain things from the Marvel Cinematic Universe over the last 14 years, and one of the most notable is the franchise’s unabashed love for a quip or one-liner. Thor: Love and Thunder really hammered it home, and while Taika Waititi’s irreverent romp was always designed to be comedic, plenty of the jokes failed to land with viewers. There’s no reason why the MCU can’t play things with a completely straight face every now and again, especially when it drastically undercuts…

Disney / Lucasfilm The galaxy features such a wide array of characters, planets, ideologies, factions, and races, but there’s one thing that’s more universal in Star Wars: the misconceptions. It makes sense that in a franchise as big as Star Wars, with as much media available to fans as there currently is, that there would be big lapses in understanding central tenets and themes. Art is beautiful that way; everyone can have their own interpretation. But sometimes they’re just dead wrong. Fans have rallied over…

Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Jameela Jamil belongs to three of the most esteemed and popular franchises in the history of motion pictures, and she feels like her “teenage brain is f*cking exploding.” That’s how the 36-year-old actor put it in response to Dwayne Johnson posting her Wonder Woman promo poster from the upcoming film DC League of Super-Pets. 3 things. I'm playing WONDER WOMAN in the new Super Pets film. The Rock now knows who I am and tweeted this. I am in DC and MCU and…

After Chris Hemsworth, another of Hollywood’s Chrises has spoken about how their tenure at the Marvel Cinematic Universe may soon end. Chris Pratt has played Peter Quill aka Star Lord in the MCU, having appeared in the two Guardians of the Galaxy films apart from two Avengers titles. However, in a recent interview, Chris said that even though he may not want it, his role may be coming to an end soon. Also read: Chris Hemsworth hints he may be done as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic UniverseChris will appear as Star Lord in…