Marvel fans can’t wait for Loki to premiere next week, particularly because there’s been a lot of hope that the Disney Plus series will explore elements of the God of Mischief that haven’t been explored in the MCU before now. Chief among them, Loki’s various other forms, including his female self. And it seems like we can finally rest assured that Lady Loki will end up appearing, as a new promo for the show confirms that the Asgardian trickster is gender-fluid.

The official Loki Twitter account shared a short teaser this Sunday, which opens with a familiar clip of Tom Hiddleston’s antihero and Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius M. Mobius before offering a glimpse at the Time Variance Authority’s file on Loki. If you pause and zoom in on it, you can see a breakdown of his stats. Many of them, including age and ethnicity, are unknown, but next to “Sex” it clearly reads “Fluid.”

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This is a pretty big deal for a couple of reasons. As said above, it heavily implies that Lady Loki is coming. British actress Sophia Di Martino’s role in the series has been the subject of much scrutiny, with it widely believed that she could be playing the female Loki. And this new promo only adds more fuel to that rumor.

Moreover, though, this confirmation of his gender-fluidity actually makes Thor’s brother the MCU’s very first leading character to be part of the LGBTQ+ community. Obviously, this should have already happened long ago, but at least we know there are many more on the way after this. Including Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos in Eternals, Xochitl Gomez’s Miss America in Doctor Strange 2 and Valkyrie in Thor: Love and Thunder.

Don’t miss Loki when it debuts the first of its six episodes on Disney Plus this Wednesday – not Friday – June 9th.

With Black Widow, Eternals and Spider-Man: No Way Home mostly gaining all the attention, the fact that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is also coming this year is being unfairly overlooked to some extent. From what we saw in the first trailer, the martial arts-themed Marvel movie promises to be an awesome ride, and this scrap of new footage further teases the epic action that awaits us.

MCU fans have noted that some theaters have begun showing an updated promo as of this weekend, which includes an extended glimpse at one of the film’s thrilling fight sequences. Specifically, it’s from a scene that appears to be a flashback to Simu Liu’s hero’s training in his youth.

Twitter account @ShangChiBr shared a recording of the moment in question on social media and you can check it out via the tweet below:

Uma nova cena de #ShangChi está sendo exibida nos cinemas. pic.twitter.com/uhpYaCUxnp

— Shang-Chi Brasil (@ShangChiBR) June 6, 2021

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We already got a look at this flashback fight in the original trailer, but there are a few extra shots slid into this clip that better demonstrate how good Shang-Chi is in combat. After all, he’s not the son of the Mandarin for nothing.

Yes, the iconic supervillain is finally making his MCU debut in this movie, as played by Tony Leung. The familial connection to Shang-Chi is an innovation for the screen, though, as is the reimagining of the titular mystical rings that grant him his powers as arm bands instead of hand jewelry – maybe to better differentiate them from the Infinity Gauntlet.

When the film begins, Shang-Chi has managed to escape his father and lives an ordinary life in San Francisco, having befriended Awkwafina’s quirky Katy. However, the kung-fu master must confront his past when he’s once again drawn back into the world of the sinister Ten Rings organization.

Slotting in between Black Widow in July and Eternals in November, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings hits theaters on September 3rd.

We’ve now got only a handful of days to go before Loki finally debuts on Disney Plus. Yesterday, Marvel Studios Legends dropped a new episode on the platform, which recapped the Asgardian trickster’s MCU journey so far, including his death in Avengers: Infinity War and subsequent return in Avengers: Endgame. If you’ll recall, Loki memorably stole the Tesseract in an alternate 2012 and disappeared, but where did he go next?

Well, this new promo for the incoming series teases the answer. As you can see above, it recaps Loki’s escape from Avengers custody in Endgame before showing the Time Variance Authority forces tracking him down to some kind of desert. It’s unclear exactly where this is or why Loki retreated there after he nabbed the Space Stone, but it doesn’t look like his freedom lasted long, as he’s swiftly bested in combat by Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) and taken to TVA HQ.

As we’ve seen in previous trailers, Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius then enlists the antihero to work for the TVA – against the advice of Judge Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) – and help them fix some dangerous alterations to the timeline. What’s more, this promo teases the secret mastermind behind these changes. One brief shot depicts a shadowy figure sitting in front of a bank of computer screens. Anyone have any theories on who this mystery villain could be? Kang, is that you?

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Showrunner Michael Waldron has previously promised that Loki will have “wide-reaching ramifications across the MCU.” It’s unclear what they’ll be, but we’re pretty confident that this isn’t a one-off event show like WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as it’s believed that Loki could run for a few seasons – maybe three in total. After all, the misadventures the God of Mischief gets into as he’s let loose across time can definitely fuel an ongoing series.

Loki premieres on Disney Plus on Wednesday, June 9th.

Netflix have been making a concerted effort to increase the amount of in-house animated movies coming to the library, something that’s worked out pretty well over the last month based on the success of The Mitchells vs. the Machines, which did admittedly cost the streaming service $110 million to acquire from Sony. However, the platform has never dealt with any 2D effort quite as bonkers as America: The Motion Picture.

In the broadest strokes, it could be described as the bastard animated love child of Mel Gibson’s The Patriot, The Avengers and The Expendables, which is fitting when Dave Callaham is the credited writer, with the scribe responsible for penning the first outing for Sylvester Stallone’s aging band of action heroes.

An insane spin on the American Revolution, Channing Tatum voices a foul-mouthed and chainsaw-wielding George Washington, who assembles a crack team of the nation’s heroes to battle the nefarious forces of Simon Pegg’s King James and Andy Samberg’s Benedict Arnold. The crew contains the hard-drinking Sam Adams, famed scientist Thomas Edison, Paul Revere and Geronimo, while Abraham Lincoln will of course appear as well, as played by Will Forte.

The ensemble includes Judy Greer, Bobby Moynihan, Olivia Munn, Jason Mantzoukas and more, while Archer executive producer Matt Thompson will make his feature directorial debut, with Tatum also producing alongside Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who are no strangers to irreverent animation given their prior credits on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The LEGO Movie and The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

In short, America: The Motion Picture is shaping up to be an absolute blast, and there’s not long left until the revisionist animation explodes onto Netflix on June 30th.

Nobody goes to see a Fast & Furious movie expecting a hard-hitting character piece punctuated by a gritty sense of realism once the action inevitably takes to the streets. No, the people want absolute nonsense of the most preposterously entertaining kind, and that’s what made the franchise so universally popular after it reinvented itself a decade ago from a string of mid-budget action thrillers to $200 million blockbuster behemoths.

Very little makes sense in the world of The Fast Saga, and the filmmakers know that full well, yet continue to lean even further into it for the sake of our enjoyment. Indeed, action on an epic scale is clearly a global language when you consider F9 has made more than $230 million at the international box office in just over a week, and it’s coming to domestic screens in 23 days.

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As the final marketing push begins, a new clip has now arrived that sums up Fast & Furious in all of its unhinged brilliance. Vin Diesel’s Dom and Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty are being shot at by a helicopter, so they naturally decide to drive straight off a cliff and fortuitously hinge the front wheel in the process, which swings them right the way around the face of a mountain to the other side, where their vehicle rolls about a dozen times before coming to a stop the right way up, and not a hair is out of place on Letty’s head.

It’s the sort of absolute disregard for physics and gravity that fans of the franchise fell in love with a long time ago, and if they’re giving this clip away for free, then you can guarantee that Fast & Furious 9 as a whole is ten times as crazy.

In just over six months, the fourth installment in The Matrix franchise will arrive simultaneously on the big screen and HBO Max, but details surrounding the return of the beloved sci-fi series for the first time in eighteen years remain so tightly guarded that we don’t even know what the movie is called yet.

There were various rumors flying around that it would come bearing the subtitle Resurrections, or it would drop the prefix entirely and simply be known as Matrix, but in a rare move from any studio, Warner Bros. reached out to one of the outlets reporting on the story and issued a rebuttal in January of the this year to outline that the fourth adventure for Keanu Reeves’ Neo hasn’t settled on an official title.

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They’ll have to come up with one soon, though, because you’d imagine it won’t be too long before we see the first trailer for The Matrix 4, and attaching it to one of the company’s upcoming tentpole releases like August’s The Suicide Squad or October’s Dune is looking like the most realistic option. Until that day comes, however, we’ll have to make do with fan trailers like the one you can see above, which does a solid job of imagining how Neo would find himself drawn back into the world almost two decades later.

Sadly, we didn’t get to have The Matrix 4 and John Wick: Chapter 4 debut on Keanu Reeves Day, but post-production on the former has been underway for quite a while now after cameras stopped rolling last November, so director Lana Wachowski and editor Joseph Jett Sally must be fairly far along when it comes to putting the pieces together.

Paramount caused a stir a few weeks back when the studio announced that they were pulling big budget sci-fi blockbuster Infinite from theaters and sending it to their brand new streaming service instead, while it transpired in the aftermath that they didn’t consult either director Antoine Fuqua or star Mark Wahlberg about the decision, having clearly paid no attention to the Warner Bros. fiasco late last year.

Nonetheless, Infinite has been given a June 10th release date, and with less than two weeks to go, the first trailer has finally arrived. It’s certainly an exciting promo, one that already promises a typically stoic and straight-faced Wahlberg in action hero mode, which is arguably the least exciting of his various screen personas, but luckily it would appear that Chiwetel Ejiofor is in full-on scenery chewing mode as a villain with an implacable accent and a penchant for exposition.

The promo then explodes into life with a barnstorming vehicle chase through a mysterious facility, before a voiceover continues to outline the broad strokes of the high concept plot and bombard our eyeballs with a series of sweeping visuals and standard action epic imagery. All told, it looks like a whole lot of fun, with Fuqua typically a reliable pair of hands when it comes to delivering studio pictures with decent-sized budgets, and Wahlberg is more than familiar with this sort of territory as well.

It’s the first major in-house title for Paramount+ as the nascent platform looks to instantly gain a foothold in the streaming wars, and Infinite certainly possesses the potential to drawn in plenty of new subscribers to the service based on nothing but the track records of Fuqua and Wahlberg, as well as the glossy sci-fi trappings seen in the trailer and its high concept premise.