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via New Line Cinema Thanks almost entirely to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, audiences for any major blockbuster franchise have been conditioned to sit through the credits in the hope there’s a hidden treat saved from the end, but things could have gone differently for the superhero saga had Nick Fury literally said anything else when he made his surprise debut in Iron Man. It’s become the stuff of legend that Samuel L. Jackson was drafted in at short notice to shoot a quick cameo that was kept completely under…

Artist’s impression of the superflare observed on one of the stars in the V1355 Orionis binary star system. The binary companion star is visible in the background on the right. Credit: NAOJResearchers from Kyoto University used both terrestrial and satellite observations to capture a superflare on the binary star system V1355 Orionis. The superflare began with a massive prominence eruption, potentially leading to Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). The study, published in The <span class="glossaryLink"…

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Image via Warner Bros. It seems like a lot of the Shazam! Fury of the Gods cast will need to start looking for new work after the sequel flopped big time; although Jack Dylan Grazer, who plays Freddy Freeman, may have already found his next gig in the form of a classic DreamWorks remake. Allegedly, the actor is in talks to play the lead role in the live action adaptation of DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon. We can sort of see it; if you squint, you can imagine him as Hiccup.  However, fans of the animated…

Image via Warner Bros. The fate of Shazam!: Fury of the Gods was always in jeopardy. Following James Gunn’s announcement of DC Universe’s new slate of films, which didn’t mention Shazam, director David F. Sandberg and actor Zachary Levi were convinced that their work may not come to fruition with the reset of the franchise. Hence, they kept personally promoting the film, urging fans to give Fury of the Gods a shot at the theaters. That idea didn’t go well either, as Shazam!: Fury of the Gods opened to low…

Photo by Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/WireImage Warning: This article contains spoilers for Shazam: Fury of the Gods. In our world of endless comic book franchises, post-credit scenes have taken on something of an oversized role in their importance to the fandom. Previously, there have been plenty of great ones too, being both a fun way to end films while also revealing lots of important information for fans patient enough to wait right up until the theater lights come on. Now, there are many fans who are taking…

Barack Obama’s 2008 election victory gave a jubilant opening to Diana Evans’s third novel, Ordinary People; the horrific Grenfell tragedy begins the sequel-of-sorts, A House for Alice. The blaze is described as “a massacre by negligence, a criminal activity, a corporate atrocity, an obliteration of families”. Evans imagines the fire with a righteous rage rarely seen in British contemporary fiction. The narration is nobly elegiac, too, envisioning in the flames “families rich in entireties of love wars remembered and seas…

For the second time in less than a week, the Indian Ocean region has become a target for solar disturbances. On April 6, a solar flare eruption disrupted GPS service and low-frequency radio waves resulting in a short-wave radio blackout in the region. And now, in the late hours of April 10, another eruption, this time an M2-class flare, occurred which resulted in blackouts over the Indian Ocean region and Australia. Notably, the geoeffective area for this blackout included India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other…

Robert Downey Jr’s Replacement As ‘Iron Man’ Was Possible, Samuel L Jackson Once Believed ( Photo Credit – Movie Still ; Wikimedia ) Samuel L Jackson and Robert Downey Jr are two of the actors who kickstarted the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 2008’s Iron Man movie. As the characters’ journey evolved through the phases of the MCU, their characters became the favourite characters worldwide. While Samuel’s Nick Fury worked as a mentor for the Avengers, RDJ’s Iron Man became one of the most money-making characters for…

Photo via Warner Bros. Well, that was fast. Indeed, thanks to diminishing interest in the DC Extended Universe in the wake of James Gunn’s reboot, as well as the more tragic element of simply not being that great of a movie, Shazam! Fury of the Gods put up a rather fruitless fight at the box office, and as such looks to be triggering its home media campaign today — a full 10 days before its originally planned April 17 release date. Nevertheless, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and whatever specific,…