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via Marvel Studios Gamora’s back, Drax is the chopping block favorite, and Star-Lord is spearheading the group once again in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. However, if mastermind James Gunn has made one thing clear, it’s that all eyes are going to be on Rocket Raccoon, the secret protagonist of the franchise-within-a-franchise and the linchpin of the team’s imminent clash with the High Evolutionary. Indeed, the trigger-happy mammal hasn’t exactly had the best hand dealt to him, as we’ll discover during the…

The Kratos combat motion capture (mocap) actor for the new series of God Of War games has shared his over-the-top audition tape for the 2018 game. Stuntman and martial artist Eric Jacobus was one of the Greek god’s mocap actors (alongside the late Shad Gaspard and Kratos performer Christopher Judge), with his new video from July 27 saying Sony Santa Monica brought him in to audition after seeing his “Tekken IRL” series. As part of his audition tape, Jacobus came up with a number of moves for Kratos in advance, which he…

Hideaki Anno seems to just be doing whatever the hell he wants after he finally wrapped up Neon Genesis Evangelion (for now, at least). He got to make an Ultraman movie and he’s now directing a Kamen Rider one, letting him live out creating a new chapter for two of his lifelong superhero obsessions. And it turns out for at least one of those, he rather literally helped bring them to life.Now that Shin Ultraman has been out a while in Japan, new behind-the-scenes footage of the movie’s VFX work has been released—revealing…