Following the release of that action-packed, M.O.D.O.K.-centric story trailer, the Marvel’s Avengers team has now shared a co-op trailer for “War Zones.” The game’s online component will see players working alongside up to three other members of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, all of whom can either be other people from across the globe or A.I. 

From there, you’ll be able to customise both your weapons and costumes, not to mention pulling off a series of badass team-up moves like having Thor use Mjolnir to give Iron Man a power boost.

Talking of the God of Thunder, he takes centre stage in a seven-and-a-half minute gameplay video which shows us more of what we can expect from Marvel’s Avengers. It looks like the levels will be fairly open, giving players the chance to make their way through the game in any number of ways. In terms of combat, though, it looks like we can definitely expect to mash a lot of buttons!

All in all, the game looks like a lot of fun, and if you weren’t already sold on it, these latest videos should help. September is fast approaching, and despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Marvel’s Avengers reportedly remains on course to hit shelves despite previous delays.

Check out the videos below:
 

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Things have been quiet on the #ReleaseTheAyerCut front these past few weeks, and Suicide Squad director David Ayer seems to have slowed his roll when it comes to dropping any big reveals! 

However, with so much chatter surrounding his original vision for Task Force X’s big screen debut, there are a lot of rumors floating around online. For example, one Twitter user looking for Retweets and Likes recently dropped the bold claim that there’s an additional 39 minutes of Joker footage sitting somewhere in the Warner Bros. lot. 

It’s not exactly breaking news that much of Leto’s performance was cut by Warners brass, but nearly 40 minutes? That seems like a lot, and Ayer, who has said in the past that it’s more like 10 minutes, was quick to set the record straight. 

Even just those extra 10 minutes would be a blast to see, especially as Ayer recently divulged that the Joker was going to reappear during the final act to make a bargain with Enchantress. 

There are claims out there that WarnerMedia is seriously considering releasing the #AyerCut of Suicide Squad on HBO Max, but it’s likely they will want to see how Justice League does before making a commitment. 

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With Doom Patrol set to return on Thursday, the DC Universe and HBO Max have released a ton of photos from the first three episodes of season two. The first of the three hours will pick up a short while after the events of last season’s finale with the entire team, save for Negative Man (Matt Bomer), still miniaturized. 

However, while the team seeks out a way to get back to normal, they also have to deal with the fallout from releasing Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro) as they get acquainted with her many “imaginary” friends.

Check out the new photos from the second season premiere, titled “Fun Size Patrol,” below and click-through to view in hi-res!

DC’s strangest group of heroes — Cliff Steele aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor aka Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Rita Farr aka Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane aka Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), and Victor Stone aka Cyborg (Joivan Wade) — are back again to save the world. That is, if they can find a way to grow up…both figuratively and literally. Following the defeat of Mr. Nobody, the members of the Doom Patrol now find themselves mini-sized and stranded on Cliff’s toy race car track. Here they begin to deal with their feelings of betrayal by Niles Caulder aka The Chief (Timothy Dalton), while confronting their own personal baggage. And as each member faces the challenge of growing beyond their own past traumatic experiences, they must come together to embrace and protect the newest member of the family: Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro), Niles’ daughter, whose powers remain a mysterious but real threat to bringing on the end of the world.

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Stargirl continues to be one of this summer’s most pleasant surprises and following an action-packed installment that saw the new Justice Society of America – Stargirl (Brec Bassinger), Wildcat (Yvette Monreal), Doctor Mid-Nite (Anjelika Washington), & Hourman (Cameron Gellman) – head out on their first mission, which was a near disaster until S.T.R.I.P.E. (Luke Wilson) showed up in the nick of time to give them a much-needed assist.

Next week, the team will take on a more personal challenge as they discover that their mean classmate Cindy Burman (Meg DeLacy) has been hiding a secret alter-ego of her own as she’s in fact Shiv, a.k.a. the diabolical daughter of the mysterious Dragon King (Nelson Lee)!

LEA THOMPSON (“BACK TO THE FUTURE”) DIRECTS THE EPISODE — As Pat (Luke Wilson) teaches Courtney (Brec Bassinger), Yolanda (Yvette Monreal), Beth (Anjelika Washington) and Rick (Cameron Gellman) the importance of teamwork, the ISA converge to figure out who is trying to take them down. Elsewhere, as the school prepares for homecoming, Cindy (Meg DeLacy) lashes out against her father’s strict rules, while Barbara (Amy Smart) accepts an offer from Jordan (Neil Jackson). Trae Romano, Christopher James Baker, Jake Austin Walker and Hunter Sansone also star. Lea Thompson directed the episode written by Evan Ball (#107). Original airdate 6/30/2020.

The new DC UNIVERSE drama series DC’s STARGIRL follows high school sophomore Courtney Whitmore as she inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past. This new drama reimagines Stargirl and the very first superhero team, the Justice Society of America, in an unpredictable series that focuses on the character that started creator Geoff Johns’ career as a comic book writer when he created her in 1999, lovingly inspired by his late sister who was killed in a 1996 plane explosion.

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We at ComicBookMovie are excited to announce this casting announcement! Twitch’s Emmy-winning sci-fi series Artificial has added Dante Basco (Hook), and he’ll be making his debut during this Thursday’s upcoming episode.

If you’re unfamiliar with Artificial, it is a live audience-interactive scripted sci-fi series on Twitch. New episodes stream every Thursday, allowing the audience to participate in the decisions made by characters. It contains a choose-your-own-ending element without the ability to go back and change your decisions.

Dante Basco is best known for his portrayal of Rufio, the leader of the lost boys in Steven Speilberg’s Hook. On the voice-acting side of things, he is celebrated for his performance of Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender which recently marked its 15th anniversary.

In the below image for Week 5: Designing for Dante, the full breakdown of the upcoming episode is included along with instructions on audience participation and how to help create and influence Basco’s character. Check it out!

Check out a teaser for last week’s episode called Likelihood of Being Liked below, and be sure to share your thoughts on this exclusive announcement in the usual place!

Season 3 follows Elle (Christy St. John), a brand new character in the world of “Artificial.” Elle is a wildly idealistic and brilliant young scientist who is leading a live-streamed experience to help an artificial intelligence, “SV3” (Tiffany Chu), become human, using the help of the Twitch audience to do so. She’s vibrant, bold, and a bit quirky: a perfect match for Twitch.

Still licking the wounds suffered from the fall of Sophie Version 2 (“SV2”), who the audience decided should be deactivated, Sebastian (Stephen Chang) and his organization see an opportunity to relaunch a new Artificial Intelligence being using the technology that Dr. Matt Lin (Tohoru Masamune) first used to bring Sophie to life.

After installing a blank slate consciousness into Sophie’s old shell, “SV3” is activated and quarantined to a single home. Not wanting to repeat the same mistake of AI homicide that her predecessor Sophie (SV2) made, Sebastian rules that no humans are allowed to physically interact with SV3. He hires Elle, a cognitive science graduate student, to help raise this isolated SV3 in front of a live Twitch audience. 

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Nearly three decades after first gracing the silver screen, Steven Spielberg’s eternal classic Jurassic Park has, uh, found a way back to the top of the domestic box office. 

With a weekend haul of approximately $517,600 from 230 locations, the original dinosaur blockbuster won the weekend, barely edging out another Spielberg classic, Jaws, which earned around $516,300 from 187 locations across the United States. The rerelease of both catalog titles actually proved to be quite a bit more lucrative for Universal, improving on last weekend’s top two films: The Invisible Man ($383,000) and Trolls World Tour ($275,700).

Jurassic Park‘s original opening on June 11, 1993 was followed by a three-week reign atop the box office, making this weekend the fourth time in cinematic history the film has held the #1 position. To date, Jurassic Park has earned over $1,033.4 billion worldwide ($404.3M domestic; $629.1M foreign).

At the moment, a vast majority of major theater chains remain shut down, but with many expected to reopen within the next few weeks and new films slated to arrive near the end of July, including Disney’s Mulan on July 24 and Warner Bros.’ Tenet on July 31, business should start picking up in a significant manner relatively soon. However, with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic remaining an imminent threat in the United States, there is a possibility moviegoers will see further delays in the coming weeks.

Here’s last weekend’s box office top ten: 

1. Jurassic Park (Uni) 230 (+98) theaters, 3-day: $517,600 (+226%),lifetime cume: $404.3M /wk no. 1,411
2. Jaws (Uni) 187 theaters, 3-day: $516,300, lifetime cume: $263.9M/wk. no. 2,349
3. The Invisible Man (Uni/Blumhouse) 157 (+10) theaters, 3-day: $201,300 (-47%), cume $68.4M/Wk 17
4. Trolls World Tour (Uni) 289 (+41) theaters 3-day: $160,000 (-42%), cume: $3.9M/Wk 11
5. The Hunt (Uni) 95 (+12) theaters, 3-day: $136,700 (-40%), cume: $8.4M/Wk 15
6. Back to the Future (Uni) 122 theaters (+91), 3-day: $131,600 (-50%)/Running lifetime cume: $214.3M/wk 1,825
7. Followed (Atlas) 42 theaters, 3-day: $127,231/Wk 1
8. E.T. (Uni) 100 theaters (+22), 3-day: $126,100 (-35%)/lifetime cume: $435.4M/Wk 1,985
9. Jumanji: The Next Level (Sony) 97 theaters (+5) 3-day: $117,900 (-44%), cume: $323.2M/Wk 28
10. The Goonies (WB) 170 theaters (+34) 3-day: $110,850 (-28%), lifetime cume: $65.6M/Wk 1,829

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These days, a lot of comic book fans express a certain amount of fatigue when it comes to DC Comics’ Dark Knight and the fact he receives more attention on the big screen than perhaps any of the publisher’s other equally iconic characters. However, when Batman was released in 1989, a new take on Bruce Wayne was welcomed, especially as most casual viewers still perceived the character as that campy do-gooder from the swinging sixties. 

It wasn’t an easy journey to bring this new take on the Caped Crusader to theaters, and director Tim Burton only managed to get the movie greenlit after Beetlejuice proved to be an unexpected hit. Even then the odds were stacked against him, especially after Keaton’s casting as Batman resulted in a huge amount of backlash (at the time, he was best known for his comedy roles, and there were many who doubted he could pull of a serious character like this). A-Lister Jack Nicholson, meanwhile, was happy to come on board as The Joker…providing he got to call the shots with his shooting scheduled, received a huge payday, and received top billing above The Batman himself. 

Despite a few challenges behind the scenes like a rapidly increasing budget, Batman soon started taking shape, and earned widespread critical acclaim along with a whopping $400 million at the box office (making it the fifth highest grossing movie in history at the time). It was by no means perfect for a lot of fanboys – the change made to The Joker’s origin story proved to be particularly divisive – but it still ushered in a new era of storytelling for Batman and put Keaton on the map. A sequel – Batman Returns – would soon follow, and while it was all downhill for the Dark Knight after that (well, until 2005’s Batman Begins came along), the film remains a classic to this day. 

Now, over thirty years after Keaton first suited up as the DC Comics icon, he’s in talks to reprise the role in The Flash two years from now. Assuming those talks work out, he will join the DC Extended Universe as a Batman who has spent decades protecting Gotham City and a mentor to new characters like Batgirl and, presumably, Terry McGinnis. The possibilities are endless, and it’s impossible not to be excited about seeing him back in the role. 

As for Batman, it set a benchmark for the character on screen many fans feel still hasn’t been reached, and if you grew up with The Dark Knight Trilogy or Batfleck, then going back and checking these out – if you haven’t already – should be a priority.

What are some of your favourite Batman moments?

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