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Dave Bautista stepped out of the wrestling ring in 2010 having “caught the bug” for acting after starring in Wrong Side of Town. Bautista would pursue acting with little success and even say that he was “terrified” when auditioning for Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy. Director James Gunn ended up loving the former wrestler and his performance as the character, later saying that Bautista played Drax “honestly, expertly, & with heart....

Teyonah Parris made her Marvel debut in WandaVision, portraying SWORD agent Monica Rambeau who is the daughter of Lashana Lynch’s Maria from 2019’s Captain Marvel. Parris had a memorable performance in the Disney+ series, which served as her origin story her superhero origin story before venturing into space alongside Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan in The Marvels. Aside from being busy with her Marvel gigs, a new report has revealed her next project under the House of Mouse umbrella....

He’s not called the God of Mischief for nothing. Tom Hiddleston’s Loki has had his fingerprints on many of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most memorable moments, but the trickster’s greatest impact came in his self-titled solo series. Loki’s introduction of the Time Variance Authority, the Sacred Timeline, and He Who Remains shook the MCU to its core. With the TVA bent on maintaining the Sacred Timeline, branch realities were immediately pruned by the organization’s Minutemen....

Wonder Woman 1984 is set to open a brand new chapter of the DCEU this Christmas. After numerous delays over the past months, the Gal Gadot-led sequel will finally premiere on HBO Max on December 25 while also being released in theaters on the same day. Given that, the anticipation for the sequel is sky-high. Since then, marketing for the film’s eventual release on HBO Max has ramped up in the past weeks, with a couple of promotional posters arriving online to boost fan excitement....

Zendaya and Tom Holland started out as co-stars in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, with both of them playing as classmates at Midtown High School. Eventually, the pair’s bond grew romantically during 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, with the sequel’s ending showing Peter Parker and MJ as a couple. Spider-Man: No Way Home presented the hardest challenge yet for Peter and MJ, where the former’s identity as the MCU’s web-slinger was revealed to the world....

Edible flowers add delight and distinctly delicious flavors to food and drinks. Fluttered as a garnish or tossed in salads they are fresh and fun, but they can also be incorporated into a number of staples that allow their usage beyond blooming season. Employ spicier petals, like garlic, rosemary, nasturtium or chive flowers (pictured above) for savory dishes; use sweeter blooms, like rose, violet, or lemon verbena petals for cocktails and desserts....

Of the 78 million baby boomers in the United States, most appear to want to retire in a nice big, single floor house on a cul-de-sac. Having seen too many of my parent’s generation do that and be totally miserable, I’ve tried to make the case that boomers should be doing the opposite, and should be looking to live in walkable communities where they won’t be trapped when they’re forced to hang up the car keys....

Black Adam deleted a second post-credits scene that indicated there may be more to come for the Justice Society’s Doctor Fate in the DCU. Along with finally introducing Dwayne Johnson’s Teth-Adam, Black Adam also launched the Justice Society of America (JSA) into the DCU with Pierce Brosnan’s Doctor Fate, Aldis Hodge’s Hawkman, and more. But unfortunately, not all of these long-awaited introductions were lucky enough to make it out alive.During the climactic fight of the flick, Brosnan’s Kent Nelson sacrificed himself to help defeat the demonic Sabaac and save Hawkman from his doomed fate....

The visual effects department has become a key player in Marvel movies, especially now that these films have dominated the big screen over the last decade. The MCU has some of the most impressive forms of VFX across the industry, with many still surprised when they can’t tell what’s real or not when watching these movies. After every release, it has been a common trend for the VFX crew to showcase a detailed breakdown of what went down behind the scenes, unveiling interesting secrets....

It’s gonna require some clever maneuvering, say analysts. According to surveys, 20% of American drivers and 40% of European drivers expect their next car to be electric. Yet legacy automakers are continuing to drag their feet, pushing out some reasonably impressive models but at nowhere near the volume needed to meet such demand—should these expectations turn out to be true. Meanwhile Tesla—which has no sunk costs in legacy auto technology or dealerships or manufacturing facilities to maintain—appears to have turned a corner and is now churning out long-range, reasonably affordable electric cars at a rather astounding rate....

DC Studios CEO James Gunn has revealed five MCU actors he hopes to and believes he will “probably” will work with in the DCU.James Gunn has always been a filmmaker who likes to keep his friends and most admired talent close to him from project to project. For example, after working with him on Peacemaker, the director called Chukwudi Iwuji the “best actor [he’s] ever worked with,” leading him to offer him the villainous role of the High Evolutionary in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Shazam! Fury of the Gods received a new teaser during DC Japan’s New Year’s celebrations. After years of production and a number of delays, Shazam 2 is finally on the horizon for DC Studios. The Shazam! sequel will see the entire Shazam family back in the saddle, this time to take on the daughters of Atlas (played by Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, and Rachel Zegler). With all the changes coming to the DC Universe (DCU), there have been plenty of questions about Shazam’s place in the next phase of the franchise....

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn is never afraid to speak out on social media, which was shown once again through a recent interaction regarding the SnyderVerse coming back to the DCU.Gunn now has a great deal of responsibility since taking on his new position, part of which involves reworking the entire future of the DC Universe. But with a completely open slate, after 2023’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom comes to theaters, the new DC leader has also fielded plenty of messages about what audiences want to see on the big and small screen....

James Gunn has promised a look into the future of the DC Universe is coming by the end of January. A new slate of DC movies will be announced one way or another. Will it be an entire “Phase” of DC movies? Will a new Superman be revealed? Or will it just be a broad idea of what the blue brand will look like with new leadership?All of these questions have been asked since Gunn and Peter Safran were named as the new heads of DC Studios....

While Shazam!: Fury of the Gods will include a number of big names from the current era of the DC Universe, Dwayne Johnson doesn’t appear to be one of them.Dwayne Johnson helped to close out 2022 for the DCU with Black Adam, an antihero with irrefutable ties to Zachary Levi’s Shazam, although the two haven’t shared a movie together yet. For a time, they were actually set to make their DC debuts together in an early version of 2019’s Shazam, but Johnson revealed that he publicly asked Warner Bros....

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness put Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen back into the spotlight as Doctor Stephen Strange and Wanda Maximoff for an epic magical sequel. Olsen took a particularly interesting journey in this new outing, becoming the main villain of Doctor Strange 2 as Wanda fully dove into her new persona as the Scarlet Witch. Since the film debuted in theaters, Olsen has been quite involved with the promotional tour as she shares her experience making the movie and explains what fans can expect from her role....

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed. UPDATE: A commenter points to a Brookings Institute study Rooftop solar: Net metering is a net benefit. which clearly contradicts the back of the envelope article I reference and build this post around. It concludes: In short, while the conclusions vary, a significant body of cost-benefit research conducted by PUCs, consultants, and research organizations provides substantial evidence that net metering is more often than not a net benefit to the grid and all ratepayers....

The late Kevin Conroy will return as to his longtime role as Batman in the upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League video game from Rocksteady Studios.Conroy has been the voice of the Dark Knight for nearly 30 years, appearing in Batman: The Animated Series (TAS), the Arkham series of titles, as well as so many more. The actor passed away back in November after a private battle with intestinal cancer....

It’s been nearly a year since Marvel Studios’ third Disney+ series premiered. Tom Hiddleston returned once again for Loki, starring alongside Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, and special guest Jonathan Majors. The series was a time-traveling, Multiverse-opening adventure about guilt, shape, and self-healing. Complicated, but one of the highest viewed Disney+ Marvel shows to date. The six-part series ended with an eerie, mind-bending finale that lends itself nicely toward a second season....

The imagination of fans ran wild when an animated series called What If…? was announced by Marvel Studios, boasting the return of many of the characters’ original actors. The show even became one of the most demanded on Disney+. The first publicly-released footage from the show featured T’Challa sporting Star Lord’s iconic helmet for an episode. However, after the passing of Chadwick Boseman, fans became unsure whether the actor had recorded his lines for the character before his passing....