Morbius

Just when you thought Morbin’ Time couldn’t get better, Michael Keaton has put a cherry on top. At the end of Morbius, 2022's campy Spider-Man adjacent film, the iconic actor makes a brief, seemingly non-sensical cameo, reprising his role from 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming. The implication was some kind of integration between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Sony Spider-Verse, or so we believed. io9 Interview: Oscar Isaac Was 'All In' on Moon KnightSpeaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Keaton had a rather…

Image: HasbroHasbro dropped a new look at a plethora of incoming arrivals for its Marvel Legends line, and it is certainly a random plethora, covering everything from Spider-Man, the X-Men, Captain America, and more—including a sideways step into the most feral build-a-figure yet.Today’s Hasbro Pulse stream dropped a ton of new looks at figures coming across the next few months—and even though there wasn’t an MCU figure among them, there’s plenty of deep cut comics figures on the way. One acquiescence to the world beyond…

When Daniel Espinosa’s Morbius was released two years ago, the film was bashed without mercy by critics (I personally slapped it with one star in my CinemaBlend review), but during the movie’s opening weekend, audience curiosity ultimately overwhelmed the negative buzz, and it still managed to top the box office in its debut. The movie bombed in the aftermath of that first Friday-to-Sunday (plummeting 74 percent weekend to weekend), but the silver lining for the studio was that the project at least got off to a quick…

Marvel isn’t letting its fans breathe this week for all the major announcements and revelations it’s throwing our way. Want the Fantastic Four casting officially unveiled? Here you go! How about a first trailer for a highly anticipated Disney Plus series? Enjoy! As the studio seems to be in a giving mood, maybe we should request a Young Avengers movie while they’re feeling generous? Unfortunately, the Marvel fandom itself isn’t feeling quite so generous to Sony’s Madame Web… Madame Web is nobody’s Valentine as it makes…

Being a Sony Pictures Executive must be wild. Imagine, you wake up on silk sheets with a pounding hangover, blow your nose and grimace at the crimson residue on the tissue. You clear your throat and yell down to the maid, demanding a Bloody Mary to take the edge off. As you trudge down your marble staircase you check your messages and shudder, realizing that at some point during last night’s amphetamine binge you somehow greenlit yet another Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man in it. “Who the hell is Madame Web?” you…

Rejoice peons, for Madame Web is here! Yup, Sony Pictures’ latest entry in their ‘Spider-Man movies without Spider-Man’ universe is now in theaters, promising a “suspense-driven thriller” featuring a new team of spider-powered heroes so obscure even seasoned Marvel fans had to resort to fan wikis. The trailer generated.. uh.. let’s go with ‘much discussion’, and now the full product is out! So what’s the verdict? Image via Rotten Tomatoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk Oh dear. The post-mortem on Madame…

Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess. Box office tracking has somehow been even less kind to Madame Web than social media has, with estimates pointing to it having a far tougher time financially than The Marvels. All in all, it appears unavoidable that this will be the biggest Marvel bomb since, well, the last time Sony released one of these — 2022’s Morbius. Ironically, Madame Web looks to be repeating one of that movie’s most egregious mistakes; by giving away its big twist days before it enters…

It’s no secret that the superhero movie genre is not in the best shape right now. Gone are the days when any blockbuster based on a comic book was guaranteed to sell tickets, as many Marvel and DC releases of 2023 can attest to. The dubious honor of kicking off 2024’s slate of superhero flicks falls on Madame Web, the first entry in Sony’s Spider-Man universe since April 2022’s Morbius. Although the Jared Leto vehicle may have spawned a legion of memes and earned itself a place in the Halls of Movie Infamy, its…

A full month from now, Madame Web will be making its way into theaters. Like Venom and Morbius before it, the film is Sony’s bid at making a universe of interconnected Spider-Man movies that don’t feature the hero in question. And in another universe, we’d have one of those movies playing out in theaters this weekend. In mid-2022, Sony curiously announced it was working on a movie for El Muerto that was set to release on January 12, 2024. If you haven’t heard of him, don’t worry, he’s only really shown up in two issues,…

Image: Hot ToysMeet Dr. Michael Morbius, the 1/6 scale Morbius figure that captures the vampiric essence of star Jared Leto from Sony’s Marvel villain film. Look at him, he looks prime for a 30 Seconds to Mars music video for a biochemist whose rare genetic disorder leads him to heal himself using vampire bat blood! Hot Toys’ perhaps most questionable fancy toy release in a while is a rare combination of vampire meets rock star that practically has “The Kill” playing rhythmically in the background the more you look at…