Monthly Archives: July 2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming’s 5 Biggest WTF Questions
When Tom Holland’s Spider-Man first showed up in Captain America: Civil War, his very presence in the MCU raised a bunch of questions. And now, with the release of his first solo movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming, many of those questions have been answered. But of course, there are still plenty of other dangling story threads regarding the ongoing story of Peter Parker and his friends in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that we’ll have to wait for future movies to see resolved.
That said, here are our 5 Biggest WTF Questions About Spider-Man: Homecoming… Spoilers of course follow!
As Homecoming wraps up, Zendaya’s character Michelle drops a bombshell: Her friends call her “MJ,” she says! Of course, this comes after months of rumors and reports that the actress was playing the MCU version of Spider-Man’s iconic love interest MJ, a.k.a. Mary Jane Watson. So was the Internet right about Michelle’s true identity? In a word, nope.
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Hearthstone’s Frozen Throne: Everything Blizz Would Tell Us
Blizzard unveiled its next Hearthstone expansion yesterday, and boy, is it going to shake things up. Knights of the Frozen Throne is coming in August and will take players to Northrend and give them 135 new cards to play with, including a new type of card, the Hero card. There’s one of these per class and playing them sees the hero transform into a Death Knight version of themselves. An evil, undead version of themselves.
Rexxar, for instance, becomes Rexxar Darkstalker. Playing his card will gain you armour, do AOE damage and give you a new hero power that lets you stitch together hideous chimera-like creatures, via a double Discovery, where you choose two beasts and then they fuse into one, with all the stats combined, all the abilities represented and costing whatever the total mana cost is. (Mike Donais has clarified how this works a little. You’ll be offered Hunter and neutral beasts at equal rates, they’ll always be five mana or below and the first pick is cards with text, the second with keywords or vanilla.)
Jigsaw: First Poster Released for the Next Saw Movie
Castlevania Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix
Netflix has renewed its animated Castlevania series for a second season.
While the first season of the video game-inspired adaptation spans four episodes, Netflix has increased the episode count for Season 2 to eight.
Season 1 of Castlevania debuted today, July 7, on the streaming service. The animated series follows the final surviving member of the Belmont clan, who's trying to thwart the efforts of Vlad Dracula Tepe and save Eastern Europe.
For more on Netflix's new animated series, check out its first trailer and blood-red poster.
The Batman Director Matt Reeves on Possible Trilogy
The Batman director Matt Reeves recently spoke to the possibility of his upcoming DC film serving as the start of a trilogy centered around the Dark Knight.
"I have ideas about an arc, but really, the important thing is just to start... you have to start with one," Reeves said in an interview with Fandango.
Reeves, who directed the upcoming War for the Planet of the Apes, went on to add that "you have to start with a story that begins something," noting that the story arc for the trio of new Apes films wasn't mapped out beforehand.
Spider-Man: Homecoming Easter Eggs and References
Spider-Man: Homecoming set off our Spider-sense because it was filled with so many comic book Easter eggs and references.
Here’s everything we found:
Make sure to check out our review of Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Joshua is IGN’s Comics Editor. If Pokemon, Green Lantern, or Game of Thrones are frequently used words in your vocabulary, you’ll want to follow him on Twitter @JoshuaYehl and IGN.
NVC: Splatoon 2 and Zelda: Master Trials Reactions
Our weekly Nintendo show is back with reactions to the two biggest Switch topics of the week: the many announcements from the Splatoon 2 Direct and Legend of Zelda's new, brutal challenges.
Join Brian Altano, Zach Ryan, Jonathon Dornbush, Peer Schneider, and -- in her NVC debut -- Casey DeFreitas to hear our tales of woe from the Master Trials. We'd probably need an entire episode of NVC to list everything Nintendo revealed at the Splatoon 2 Direct, but we promise that we tried our best to condense it all for you and let you know what we think.
Spider-Man: Homecoming Debuts Strongly at Box Office
Spider-Man: Homecoming earned $15.4 million in Thursday night preview showings at the domestic box office, a stronger start than either of the two previous Spider-Man movies, and one of the best Thursday night hauls of 2017.
The Thursday night box office total, via Box Office Mojo, which will be factored into the film's Friday box office once the weekend is over, is the third-highest preview night of 2017. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 currently holds the record for the highest Thursday night gross with $17 million, followed closely by Beauty and the Beast, which earned $16.3 million from its Thursday night showings.
Ant-Man and the Wasp Casts SHIELD Agent Jimmy Woo
Fresh Off the Boat star Randall Park has joined Ant-Man and the Wasp as a SHIELD agent.
The Tracking Board reports Park will play Jimmy Woo. The character's first comic book appearance was in the first 1956 issue of the espionage series Yellow Claw, where, as an FBI agent, he's tasked with apprehending the titular villain.
More recently, the character has been an agent of SHIELD in the Ultimate Marvel universe.
Randall Park in Fresh Off the Boat.