Warner Bros. debuted a new sneak peek for Shazam! today.

While not as long as the first trailer, this TV spot (seen below) offers a closer look at Billy Batson's transformation into Earth's Mightiest Mortal and his titanic showdown with Doctor Sivana.

We've put together a slideshow featuring 25 epic shots from the trailer. Check it out below:

In other Shazam! news, we recently learned just how expensive this hero's flamboyant wardrobe was. Each one of star Zachary Levi's ten costumes cost a cool one million dollars.

Shazam is set to hit theaters on April 5, 2019.

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Starz has unveiled the full trailer for American Gods Season 2, which finally hits our screens on Sunday, March 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The first season concluded back in June 2017, so Mr. Wednesday and Shadow Moon's much-anticipated return is a blessing indeed. Watch the new trailer above.

Here's Starz's description of the new season: "We were forged in God’s image, but the Gods are also made in ours — and in Season 2 the battle moves inexorably toward crisis point as the destinies of gods and men collide. While Mr. World plots revenge for the attack against him in Season 1, Shadow throws in his lot with Wednesday’s attempt to convince the Old Gods of the case for full-out war, with Laura and Mad Sweeney in tow. A council at the House on the Rock explodes into chaos, sending deities both Old and New on quests across America that will converge on Cairo, Illinois forcing Shadow to carve out a place as a believer in this strange new world of living gods — a dark world where change demands commitment, and faith requires terrible sacrifice."

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Another in-game event went live in Fortnite this morning, covering the entire map in snow and kicking off the Ice Storm event.

Earlier this week, a mysterious ice sphere appeared above Polar Peak. A silhouette of the Ice King, the final reward of Season 7's Battle Pass, was visible inside. Television sets across the map began broadcasting a forecast warning with a countdown to today's event.

The event started with ice sphere exploding, fully revealing the Ice King and clearing out any storm effects in the sky. A giant icy figure appeared over the ocean and sent forth a frosty wind across the map. Once the fog settled, the entire map was covered in snow.

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Something is happening to superhero movies. On average, they're getting less... superheroic. Films like Venom, Suicide Squad, Split, Glass and The Joker are putting the supervillains front and center, and the upcoming Superman allegory Brightburn goes one step further, turning superhero iconography on its head and making a "super" "boy" into a horror movie villain.

These films raise an interesting question, which is what about the rest of the villains? DC and Marvel Comics are filled with interesting bad guys, and they're not all secretly golden-hearted. Many of them are evil as hell. If they got their own movies they'd still be the villains, and most movie franchises that are centered around despicable monsters are in the horror genre.

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The most recent incarnation of the Justice League Dark boasts some pretty big names, but it's real heart isn't any of its A-listers like Wonder Woman or Zatanna or Swamp Thing. It's a talking chimpanzee in a deerstalker cap who goes by the name Detective Chimp, and he's the secret to making the DC's thoroughly complicated magical lore accessible. He's a hard-nosed sleuth with an eye for mysteries and a skill with deduction that rivals Batman, a bizarre everyman around to provide commentary and, inexplicably, logic, to even the most bizarre magical mishaps, and a charmingly put-upon moral compass for the JLD's exploits.

So, what on earth does an anthropomorphic primate have to do with DC's mystic heroes?

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Talking to THR, Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich has said that the studio has "turned a corner" when it comes to the DC shared universe thanks to Aquaman's success.

"We all feel like we've turned a corner now. We're playing by the DC playbook, which is very different than the Marvel playbook. We are far less focused on a shared universe. We take it one movie at a time." He added that each film is "its own equation and own creative entity."

Aquaman released in December of last year and made $1 billion at the global box office, making it the first DC film to hit the milestones since The Dark Knight Rises.

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Warning! This article contains full SPOILERS for Marvel's The Punisher Season 2. Check out all of our reviews for the second season right here. 

At the time of publication, Marvel's The Punisher on Netflix is alive and well. Even with the recent cancellations of Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Daredevil, we can still hope for more adventures with Frank Castle in a potential Season 3. While the Season 2 finale, titled "The Whirlwind," didn't end with a big cliffhanger or even a tantalizing post-credits scene, we still had questions about what might be in store, should the show get picked up for another blood-soaked outing.

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Warner Bros. has delayed the start of production for Fantastic Beasts 3, according to Deadline.

The push back is reportedly due to more necessary pre-production time and filming is set to begin shooting in late fall of 2019, opposed to the original July start time.

Actors for the third installment in the Fantastic Beasts franchise have been spoken to about the change in the filming schedule.

Deadline reports that previously, Warner Bros. administrations tended to rush event films to keep their release dates, but since Fantastic Beasts 3 was already rumored to release in 2020, Warner Bros. executives are allowing more leeway for the larger productions.

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