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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,…

Pom Klementieff discusses her villainous new Mission: Impossible character. The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin has a small part to play in Dune 2. Plus, what’s to come on the series finale of Gotham Knights. Spoilers now!Spoilers of the Week: July 1stEl MuertoAccording to Variety, Sony has removed El Muerto—the Spider-Man-adjacent film about a Mexican wrestler who gains superpowers—from its release schedule entirely, presumably due to the impact of the ongoing WGA strike.TrapDeadline described M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap…

Sony’s slate of Spider-Man villain spin-offs is looking a little emptier as the planned El Muerto solo film featuring Puerto Rican rapper, Bad Bunny, has disappeared from the company’s upcoming releases calendar. The infamous luchador’s own movie was scheduled to release on January 12th next year, however, according to Sony, the release date is now to be determined. But what exactly does this mean for the film? Some have speculated that it may have been canceled, which wouldn’t be a surprise considering how much…

Image via Sony Pictures Animation Fans are always saying that Sony needs to sprinkle some of its Spider-Verse magic on its live-action Marvel movies, and it looks like the studio was trying to do exactly that on the next one to go before cameras. Unfortunately, the film in question has been pulled from the schedules thanks to long delays combining with the writers’ strike, but there’s still a chance it could go ahead and pull off this intriguing crossover. Sony has officially removed El Muerto from its January…

via Marvel Comics The doomsayers have been out in force proclaiming the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is nigh, but with Sony now having officially pulled Bad Bunny’s El Muerto from the release calendar, we can safely say that every franchise based on the comic book company’s back catalogue is well and truly doomed. To be fair, this both is and isn’t a shock at the same time, which sums up Sony’s Spider-Man Universe in microcosm. El Muerto was penciled in to hit theaters on January 12 of next year, a date…

Image via Marvel Comics Tombstone, a fan-favorite Spider-Man villain, has been reappropriated for El Muerto, a spin-off film that nobody asked for, and people are understandably a little upset with the studio’s decision. Spider-Man fans are pretty easy to please, all they want is some news on Spider-Man 4, nothing else, just Spider-Man, please. Of course, Sony is trying to set up a franchise here, so it’s chosen to focus on spin-offs. Alongside the upcoming Kraven the Hunter and Madame Web movies we also have El…

Image via Marvel Studios Knives have been getting gradually sharper ever since The Marvels was first announced, which was to be expected when Captain Marvel proved to be the single most polarizing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s 31 feature-length installments to date. It’s time to buckle up for a wild ride if the trailer rumors prove to be true, even if the superhero genre as a whole is staring death in the face after the one blockbuster guaranteed to revive and resuscitate the flagging artform suffered a…

via Sony/Marvel Comics A collective shiver has run down the spine of the entire superhero fandom after word began filtering round the internet that the single most hotly-anticipated comic book adaptation since Avengers: Endgame could be in trouble. Despite its potential to dislodge Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of all-time and win countless Academy Awards, El Muerto is in danger of sinking. To be honest, it’s not completely out of the blue when Sony has yet to shift the Spider-Man spin-off’s release…

via Sony/Marvel Comics The Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s Multiverse Saga has seen the franchise come in for criticism the likes of which has never been experienced before, opening the door ever so slightly for Sony’s Spider-Man Universe to swoop in and steal some of the good buzz for a change. It was telling that the merest hint of Tom Hardy’s Venom 3 generated a great deal more excitement than anything relating to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, but the outpouring of negativity and backlash being pointed in…

Mexican filmmaker Jonás Cuarón has signed on as director for the Marvel/Sony Pictures offering El Muerto, which will star Bad Bunny in the lead role.Per the Hollywood Reporter, Cuarón will be working with a script by Blue Beetle writer Gareth Dunnet Alcocer. The story will follow a wrestler with superpowers passed down to him from previous generations of his family. The project is in the early development stages, and will be the first live-action Marvel movie headed by a Latino character.Originally a character from the …