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The MCU has a stacked year ahead of it as Phase 4 continues to chug along, with shows like Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel filling out Disney+’s catalog and blockbuster flicks getting audiences back into theaters. Before Black Panther’s sequel releases toward the end of 2022, Marvel Studios is starting its cinematic run with the mind-bending Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness before catching up with Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman in Thor: Love and Thunder....

Gray foxes seem in many ways like the unsung bridge between the cat and dog world. They’re a canid species, related to foxes, coyotes and wolves. But they have some unusually cat-like features that help them get by in a tough, wild world. They climb trees. They’re the only canid species that can do so. They actually have semi-retractible curved claws and flexible wrists (which have actually been compared to arboreal primate wrists) to help them accomplish this feat....

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described a weed as, “a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” Might we not consider garbage in the same way? One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, after all. To the non-recycler, an empty bottle is garbage. To the reuse enthusiast, that empty bottle could be a chandelier, a vase, a drinking glass, a candelabra … you get the picture. In a world being consumed by waste, it’s time to think of our trash in a different light (and save some money while we’re at it)....

Marvel Studios recently introduced another new Young Avengers character in Xochitl Gomez’s America Chavez, who made her long-awaited debut in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. America interacted with Earth-616’s sorcerers for the first time in this sequel, setting the stage for her to be an important new player in the Avengers line-up moving forward. Doctor Strange 2 mostly put her alongside Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange as they traveled the Multiverse looking for a way to stop Wanda’s reign of terror in his own universe....

According to a new report, Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has become one of the most expensive DC Comics films to date.The superhero genre is full of extremely expensive outings, especially considering the effects, cast, and scale of movies in the current era. For example, Avengers: Endgame cost roughly $356 million to make—and that’s almost certainly not the whole picture due to other indirect costs not being taken into account....

Black Adam’s production costs grew a whopping $70 million due to extensive re-shoots following poor test screenings.Earlier in December 2022, as Black Adam’s box office run approached its end, it was reported by Variety that the film may lose the studio anywhere from $50 million to $100 million. Soon after, Deadline published a completely contradictory article on the film’s profitability, stating that it could make the studio $52 million to $72 million....

Marvel Studios has introduced plenty of new heroes and villains in Phase 4, and the final entry of the chapter will round it out with one more: Tenoch Huerta’s Namor the Sub-Mariner. The underwater ruler will be the main villain of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as his kingdom of Talocan wages war on Wakanda.Throughout his Marvel Comics history, having debuted in its first-ever issue, Namor has been a hero, villain, and anti-hero as he rules over Atlantis - renamed Talocan for Wakanda Forever to avoid confusion with Aquaman....

The post-credits scene has long been among the most famous characteristics of every new Marvel Studios outing - except for 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. This trend has carried forward from the theatrical blockbusters onto Disney+ with these special stingers featuring in all nine streaming series to date.While there may not have been one every week, all nine finales so far have come accompanied with something to round out the season. Among these scenes, there has been a varied mix of hilarious comedy, dramatic reveals, game-changing twists, and a surprise second-season confirmation for Loki....

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is once again all the rage thanks to the project having hit Disney+. Now fans can revisit the adventure whenever they want to. It’s hard to blame anyone for jumping back in - after all, who can’t get enough of John Krasinski as Reed Richards? Or Elizabeth Olsen simply shredding through reality itself? All this attention has brought new observations to the surface since its arrival on Disney+....

Marvel fans have come a long way since the days when Tony Stark and Steve Rogers first led Earth’s Mightiest Heroes into battle, which continued throughout the Infinity Saga. Now, the franchise has progressed far enough to include a version of Marvel Comics’ Illuminati alongside Doctor Strange and Wanda Maximoff in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Marvel Studios’ latest theatrical release took the opportunity to explore different versions of classic MCU heroes and villains from across the Multiverse as the magic and action shot up to new heights....

If you like a good whodunnit, here’s one of the avian variety that just may stump you. How did European starlings become one of America’s most numerous songbirds? Wherever you live, you’ve undoubtedly seen them, heard them, read about them and, perhaps, even cursed them. European starlings are stocky black birds with feathers that are covered in white spots during winter that turn black and glossy in summer. They tend to show up almost everywhere, often in large and aggressive numbers, in shade trees over houses, on lawns, in agricultural fields where they devour grain crops and, even, in airplane engines....

As Henry Cavill returns to the public spotlight once again thanks to his role as Superman in the DCU, he has discussed how his girlfriend Natalie Viscuso helps support him through his Hollywood endeavors.The two have been together for over a year and a half, with Viscuso also in the entertainment business as Vice President of TV at Vertigo Entertainment. Cavill even recently brought Viscuso along with him to the Enola Holmes 2 premiere, solidifying the couple as red-carpet official....

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’s Jason Momoa is doubtful that the franchise’s threequel will have a fun tone. This comes on the heels of recent reports that Momoa’s Aquaman isn’t part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s vision for the rebooted DCU, although the actor would be a “pivotal figure” moving forward in another capacity.While DC Studios has yet to definitively confirm these claims, hopes are high that the long-awaited sequel to 2018’s Aquaman will make a splash at the box office on Christmas Day....

What exactly is the main goal of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?Ever since 2008’s Iron Man, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has been hard at work with other creatives in making some of the best comic book movie content ever to exist. Needless to say, they’ve been quite successful, seeing as the MCU has been going strong for nearly fifteen years at this point.Feige and company don’t even let those superhero fatigue naysayers get to them, feeling confident that their strength is in being able to utilize any genre they want....

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige recently shared with fans what movie franchise is currently “at the peak of the MCU” heading into Phase 5.Starting off next year with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Phase 5 is already bringing incredible levels of anticipation as the Multiverse Saga continues to expand. This will be the first of about a dozen new high-profile entries to hit theaters and Disney+, with the slate currently ending as July 2024’s Thunderbolts comes to the big screen....

The build-up to Lucasfilm’s Disney+ show Obi-Wan Kenobi was an interesting one. Many were beyond excited to see Ewan McGregor back in his iconic role—in fact, it was one of the most anticipated events in recent Star Wars history as shown by the series’ record-breaking viewership numbers. But there were still some who questioned if the show would’ve worked better as a movie or if the story needed to be told at all....

Almost no star in MCU history is as popular, even to this day, as Robert Downey Jr. after he brought Iron Man to life on the big screen. Making appearances in nearly a dozen movies, including a full solo trilogy and all four Avengers movies, Downey brought the thrilling character to life for more than a decade along with some of the coolest suits and armor in any superhero movie ever made....

As 2021 begins winding down to its final months, MCU fans grow more anxious by the day about the year’s final Phase 4 releases. More than anything else, though, fans are being driven to an almost ravenous stage over the status of a second trailer for a certain web-slinging threequel set to arrive in December.In simple terms, Spider-Man: No Way Home is living up to its billing as a special solo outing, even comparing it to the usual MCU standards....

A new Spider-Man: Freshman Year rumor may have revealed that Kingpin will appear in the MCU animated series, but this update appears to cast doubt on the Daredevil villain’s appearance in Sony Pictures’ upcoming Spider-Man 4. Spider-Man’s next big-screen adventure - rumored to take off in Phase 5 - is set to address the clean slate that Tom Holland’s titular hero experienced at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home. A past rumor revealed that Spider-Man 4 could now revolve around a street-level storyline featuring Charlie Cox’s Daredevil....

With rumors about his potential return as the webslinger swirling more and more by the day, a lot of attention is being directed at former Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield. Rumblings have suggested that Garfield is set to star alongside current wallcrawler Tom Holland and fellow Spidey veteran Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man: No Way Home. A supposedly leaked photo may have indicated that Garfield was indeed involved, which was only supported by Sony Pictures’ actions toward the leaked material....