While we await a new trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 (there’s a possibility we’ll see it at the upcoming DC FanDome event), more and more marketing and promo material for Patty Jenkins’ upcoming sequel continues to find its way online, and this latest image gives us our best look yet at Kristen Wiig as the fully transformed Cheetah.

This take on the DC Comics villain appears to be fairly comic-accurate, although she’s a little less feline-looking than her more animalistic counterpart. Truth be told, she actually looks a bit more like Cheetara from Thundercats, but we may feel differently once we see her in action.

Check out the card along with a new, but very blurry look at Diana (Gal Gadot) in her Golden Eagle armor, and keep an eye out for updates on that trailer.

WW84 was recently pushed back from August 14th to October 2nd, and there’s still a chance it’ll ultimately be delayed even further. Warner Bros. is currently waiting to see if Christopher Nolan’s Tenet will be able to make its Auguest 12th bow (that’s also looking more and more unlikely), and if it doesn’t, WW1984 will almost certainly be moved to 2021.

Right now, all we can do is wait and see. We should have a better idea of how things are looking over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, check out some recent Total Film covers below, and let us know if you’re looking forward to the movie in the usual place.

In Wonder Woman 1984, Diana Prince comes into conflict with two formidable foes—media businessman Maxwell Lord and friend-turned-enemy Barbara Ann Minerva/Cheetah—while reuniting with her love interest Steve Trevor.

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Kabam Games likes to keep things interesting and fresh in their hit mobile brawler MARVEL Contest of Champions by adding new characters to the roster each month. These new fighters often come with fun motion comics to promote their arrival.

The team at Kabam has chosen to shift the spotlight to Canada for the month of July which means that members of Alpha Flight will finally join the roster of champions. Unfortunately, players won’t see the likes of Puck and Snowbird, but there are plans to introduce additional members in the future. For now, the addition of Guardian and Sasquatch will have to appease fans of the team from the great white north.

Kabam Games was nice enough to designate two members of their team to answer some of our questions about MARVEL Contest of Champions. Gabriel Frizzera, the Creative Art Director, and John Phillipson, the Balance Designer (whom we’ve had the pleasure of speaking with in the past) had plenty to share, so check it out for yourself below!

 

Joe: Sasquatch and Guardian were chosen as the two newest champions, both members of Alpha Flight. How did you pick these two instead of Puck and the other members of the Canadian team?

Gabriel Frizzera: If I could I would have them all at the same time, but we only release two characters a month, so we picked the two we thought would work best for the game meta at this moment. But we do have plans to bring more Alpha Flighters in the future, including my favorite, Snowbird.

Joe: What led to the decision to focus on Canada for the month of July?

Gabriel Frizzera: Our studio is in Vancouver, Canada, and as good Canadians, we had Alpha Flight on our favorite list since day one. So, after a few years celebrating the 4th of July but not Canada Day (which is July 1st), we decided to finally bring Marvel’s mightiest Canadian Super Heroes to The Contest of Champions.

 

Joe: Are there any moves or anything that sets these two new Champions apart from the current fighters in the game?

John Phillipson: Guardian has got a combination of abilities from some of the strongest The Contest has ever seen to give him a Jack-of-All toolset. He has amazing blocking abilities thanks to the forcefield his suit gives him. He has massive shock damage that burns his opponent’s health bar away in the blink of an eye. Guardian also has a vast set of tools at his disposal to let you control the fight, and deal with any opponent The Contest may bring your way!

Sasquatch is going to be a threatening defender to run into in The Battlerealm. His thick hide and mastery of his powers will make him a massive tank if you don’t bring the right answer. He’s going to stack up a ton of damage resistance and frequently go Unstoppable making it really hard to find a good time for you to trade blows.

He’s no slouch on offense either. His ability to lower the power it costs to throw special attacks will let him pretty much always have the power to play with. Stack tons of ruptures on the opponent with your basic combo then cache them in for some massive damage and the only thing that will be harder to find than Sasquatch in the wild is going to be an opponent that can keep up with him ;).

Joe: Can you tease anything to come for the future of the game?

John Phillipson: We’ve got some exciting reworks coming up soon for both existing versions of Magneto in the game right now. Totally new kits that will pay homage to the original but each will be totally unique as well. You can expect Magento (Marvel NOW!) to have some awesome synergies and maybe a few other abilities to boost his team similar to Mister Fantastic!

What do you guys make of these comments from Kabam? Make sure to share your thoughts in the usual spot!

Sorry, we don’t mean to be sappy, but we hope you have fun exploring The Northern Expeditions. Have a Happy Canada Day! Enjoy some poutine, and of course, Marvel Contest of Champions.

Take a trip with Guardian to uncover the secrets of the North, and track down the ever-elusive Sasquatch! This series of 4 quests will be unlocked one at a time over the course of 4 weeks, and feature no Quest Completion or Exploration rewards, but have plenty of rewards strewn across the paths!

So pick your best team of 3, and start exploring! Enjoy the new format of Expeditions with reduced paths and a new limited-time CANADIAN difficulty, offering some serious challenges for serious rewards, including 6-Star Shards and Tier 5 Class Catalyst Fragments!

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Production on Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed DC vertigo comic series The Sandman was originally scheduled for last month, but with the COVID-19 pandemic still causing mass delays, that obviously never happened. Updates have been few and far between since the show was officially announced last year, but Gaiman has now given fans a bit more to go on during a virtual press roundtable.

Recent character breakdowns suggested the adaptation would be making some pretty major alterations to the source material, and Gaiman now seems to have confirmed as much while revealing that the Netflix show will update the story and characters for the 21st century.

“Okay, it is 2020, let’s say that I was doing Sandman starting in 2020, what would we do? How would we change things? What gender would this character be? Who would this person be? What would be happening?”

Gaiman also touched on why so many previous attempts to adapt his classic tale never came to fruition.

“People have tried making movies and TV adaptations for 30 years, and actively tried making them for 25 years, and they’ve never worked,” the writer continued. “And they never worked because of all the special effects and what would be needed to do the special effects. They never worked because you were making something that was adult. People would write Sandman movie scripts, and they go, ‘But it’s an R-rated movie, and we can’t have $100 million R-rated movies.’ So, that wouldn’t happen. You needed to get to a world in which long-form storytelling is an advantage rather than a disadvantage. And the fact that we have seventy-five issues of Sandman plus — essentially, 13 full books — worth of material, is a really good thing. It’s not a drawback.”

Gaiman went on to reveal that he’s seen some of the production designs for Lucifer’s castle and the gates of Hell, and wishes he could show everyone how well everything is coming together.

For the time being, Morpheus fans will be able to get their fix when The Sandman Audible Drama hits the Dreaming on July 15.

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Fans of B movies and horror flicks have kept the Puppet Master franchise alive for decades. The twelfth and newest entry recently released from Full Moon Features, and we’ve chatted exclusively with a number of the cast and crew members to help support the new movie.

One of the people we had the pleasure of speaking with is creature actor Alan Maxson, who is also known for his work as one of the heads of King Ghidorah in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Maxson was brought onto Blade: The Iron Cross to help act out Blade during scenes that couldn’t have the puppet moving on his own.

We learned a lot from our chat with Maxson, and we think you’ll enjoy his comments.

Joe: How did you initially become involved with Blade: The Iron Cross?

Alan Maxson: I’ve worked with Full Moon many times and particularly with John Lechago & Tom Devlin. When we first met, we became fast friends and always tried to work together as often as we can.

One day I got a call from John, and he told me about Blade & The Deadly Ten. He told me that he wanted to use a suit performer for Blade when he needs to move in ways that we can’t make the puppet move (running, jumping, falling, stabbing, slashing, etc.). John said that he and Tom immediately thought of me. That made me happy as hell because Puppet Master has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid, so without hesitation, I said yes!

The other role he needed was a grotesque, melting zombie who gets to kill and eat a Nazi. I couldn’t say no to that either.

Joe: What inspired you to become a creature actor?

Alan Maxson: I have loved monsters my entire life. I don’t think I own a movie without a non-human character in it. When I would buy action figures, I rarely bought human characters; I always wanted the aliens, monsters, and creatures from films. So naturally, I wanted to become them and bring them to life.

The makeup effects artists in movies are so extraordinarily talented, and everything they create looks damn amazing. I wanted to be part of that and play in their world.

Joe: Were you familiar with the Puppet Master franchise before taking on the role?

Alan Maxson: Absolutely. As I said before, I’ve been a big fan since I was a kid. I always tell people that some of my earliest memories are watching Puppet Master, Hellraiser & Aliens on TV before I even remember watching Sesame Street. Whether or not I watched them before Sesame Street, I have no idea, but that’s how I remember my childhood. I still have the Blade statue that I bought from Spencer Gifts in high school.

Joe: What was the direction that you took when donning the Blade costume? Did you base your performance on any of your past work or make it your own?

Alan Maxson: I studied the puppet movement from the previous films and practiced in the mirror. I wanted to make sure my movement and posture matched the rest of the franchise. Tom Devlin also had me on set, helping him with the puppet during filming. This way, I can watch his movement and make sure that how I move flawlessly matches his doll. That was most important since my footage would be intercut with his footage.

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For decades the fans have been clamoring for it, and now Full Moon delivers with the first standalone feature debut of one of its most beloved (and most frightful) characters; the hook-handed maniac puppet, BLADE!

Charles Band’s Puppet Master series continues as an unspeakable evil from Blade’s past emerges in the form of a murderous Nazi scientist named Dr. Hauser. As Hauser’s heinous crimes are discovered, the psychic war journalist Elisa Ivanov awakens Blade, and together the bloody journey of revenge begins. It’s Herr Hauser’s reanimated undead army versus a possessed doll and a beautiful vengeance-seeking clairvoyant!

Who will win, and how will it affect the Full Moon Universe? Find out in Blade: The Iron Cross!

Blade: The Iron Cross is now available with a subscription to https://www.fullmoonfeatures.com/Full Moon Features.

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Daniel Brühl first played Zemo in Captain America: Civil War, and while he may not have looked exactly like his comic book counterpart, he did something no other villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been able to do: he put an end to The Avengers.

The ramifications of his actions were felt right up until Avengers: Endgame, so his return is definitely a big deal. That’s set to take place in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier on Disney+, and a teaser video shared during last year’s San Diego Comic-Con showed Zemo in his comic accurate mask. 

During a recent interview with Collider, Brühl reflected on receiving the call to reprise the role, and what it was like to don that familiar mask.

“I remember that Kari Skogland, the director, came to Budapest and we recorded something with me being Zemo, and I was very happy and enthusiastic to see the mask. I was incredibly thrilled to go back because I remember that I had a lot of fun being in something completely different and getting to explore the MCU and become part of that.”

“I have the fondest memories of collaborating with all of these wonderful actors, and to see Sebastian Stan again, and Anthony Mackie, this time around, and to come back to something which, on the one hand, felt common and known, and on the other hand, being something completely new and something fresh,” he explained. 

Brühl would go on to share an update on where thing stand with the Disney+ TV series after production was halted thanks to COVID-19.

“We were affected by the coronavirus whilst we were shooting the show, so hopefully we’ll be able to return very soon. We were not able to finish and to wrap it up. That’s still something that we have to do. Fingers crossed that it will happen, as soon as possible.”

Clearly, there’s still a lot more work to do, and that means the show’s planned August premiere date is pretty much off the table at this point. Unfortunately, Marvel Studios has yet to comment either way.

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