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Believe it or not, "Free Comic Book Day" is once again fast approaching and, in 2025, it takes place on May 3. Marvel Comics will celebrate this exciting day for the industry with something for every fan.

That means readers can look forward to entry points for all-new eras of Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man, a prelude to an upcoming X-Men saga, and a glimpse at the very first event set in the new Ultimate Universe.

For the second year in a row, Marvel will also release a Star Wars "Free Comic Book Day" title which explores what’s to come in a Galaxy Far, Far Away. Plus, we'll see creators and characters from different cultures, communities, and identities spotlighted in a special "Free Comic Book Day" edition of Marvel's Voices.

As if all that wasn't enough, you’ll find the perfect first comic book for the young ones in your life...

2025's Free Comic Book Day is on May 3 and Marvel Comics has announced stories which will serve as entry points for all-new eras of Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man, a prelude to an upcoming X-Men saga, and a glimpse at the very first event set in the new Ultimate Universe.

For the second year in a row, Marvel will also present a Star Wars Free Comic Book Day title which explores what's to come in the Galaxy Far, Far Away. Plus, we'll see creators and characters from different cultures, communities, and identities spotlighted in a special Free Comic Book edition of Marvel's Voices.

Finally, those of you searching for the perfect first comic book for the young ones in your life with an all-new Free Comic Book Day: Spidey & His Amazing Friends.

Here's the solicitation text and cover art for each comic. We're not surprised to see the Fantastic Four...

Storm and Black Panther's grandchildren are introduced in a new comic, hinting at a potential rekindling of their relationship. Previous stories have explored the idea of Ororo and T'Challa having children in the future. Despite their rocky past, the depiction of T'Fuma and Zalika as future grandchildren suggests a happy reunion for Storm and Black Panther.

Warning: Spoilers for Marvel Voices: Legends (2024) #1 ahead!Although Storm and Black Panther have long since broken up, a new comic teases that the power couple may yet rekindle their connection. Despite the events of X of Swords making their reunion unlikely, this new story gives readers a glimpse at what Ororo and T'Challa's grandchildren might be like.

The final story in Marvel Voices: Legends (2024) #1 is "The World Is Not Ready" by Sheree Renée Thomas, Julian Shaw, and Carlos Lopez. Set in a future Wakanda, "The World Is Not Ready" introduces readers to siblings T'Fuma and Zalika,...

T'Challa and Ororo's grandchildren, T'Fuma and Zalika, possess impossibly strong mutant abilities, including potentially Hulk-level strength. The story in Marvel's Voices: Legends #1 showcases the future heroes that T'Fuma and Zalika could become, highlighting their extraordinary power and potential. The overwhelming strength and abilities of T'Fuma and Zalika suggest that the world is not ready for them, leaving room for future explosive appearances in Marvel Comics.

Warning: contains Marvel's Voices: Legends #1An adorable new story in Marvel's Voices: Legends #1 reveals the future descendants of the Black Panther and Storm, two incredibly powerful twin grandchildren named T'Fuma and Zalika who wield "impossible" strength. T'Challa's grandchildren, who appear to have inherited Ororo's X-Gene, making them mutants, are more than a handful for the Black Panther and Dora Milaje, proving just how formidable they truly are.

Marvel's Voices: Legends #1 is a celebration of Black History Month, featuring stories highlighting iconic Black heroes like Patriot,...

Spider-Man's struggle to maintain a social life goes beyond his superhero career, and has become a core part of Peter Parker's character, something should be addressed by Marvel. Miles Morales recently accused Peter Parker of ghosting him, and called out the older hero for not being there when he needed him. Marvel should eliminate Peter Parker's perennial flaw of being a bad friend, in order to make him a stronger and healthier character who has overcome this adversity and become better off for it.

Warning: Spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man Gang War: First Strike #1!

Introduced sixty-one years ago, Spider-Man has always struggled to maintain a social life – but after all that time, it seems as though the issue extends beyond Peter Parker's superhero career, and has become a core part of his character, one that Marvel should consider putting a rest to, in order to let the enduring character move forward.

Shang-Chi surprises readers and crime bosses alike by joining Marvel's "Gang War," showcasing his morally-gray attitude and willingness to fight. Shang-Chi's criminal ties and struggle between good and evil have recently been explored, highlighting his complex origin story and internal conflict. Shang-Chi's heel turn could be a strategic move to gain information for his friends, suggesting a larger plan and adding an intriguing twist to the event.

Warning: Spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War First Strike #1!Marvel's "Gang War" is exploding onto the page this month across multiple series, and the biggest surprise is that Shang-Chi is right in the middle, not to keep everyone in line, but to make sure he gets his own piece of the city. In The Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War First Strike #1, readers see the powder keg New York City's crime families find themselves in: Tombstone is out of commission, Madame Masque is dead,...

Madame Masque is revealed to be alive and is the mastermind behind the gang war in New York City. She manipulates the crime families and plans to take over their territories. The Gang War event will transform New York City and shake up the criminal landscape for Marvel's heroes. Spider-Man is building his own team to fight in the war. Madame Masque may have the best odds in the gang war, as she is a skilled manipulator and knows how to play the crime families against each other. Iron Man's ex is a force to be reckoned with.

Warning: Spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War First Strike #1!Ladies' man Iron Man has had his share of bad romance in his 60-year history, but one of his old flames is about to burn New York to the ground. She's gone by many names in her life, but some know her as Ms.

Spider-Man and Miles Morales' relationship is at an all-time low as they team up to face a deadly gang war in New York. Peter Parker's absence has caused Miles to seek guidance from other superheroes and face numerous challenges on his own. Spider-Man's history of being an unreliable team player has strained his relationships, and it will take a desperate need for teamwork to repair his bond with Miles during the gang war.

As Spider-Man's deadly Gang War event begins, he'll need every possible ally by his side - which makes it all the more tragic that they've never trusted him less, including his fellow Spidey Miles Morales. As Spider-Man finally hooks up with his successor after months apart, Miles takes Pete to task, pointing out that their relationship is at an all-time low... right as New York explodes into 48 hours of intense violence.

In a preview of Amazing Spider-Man...

A new issue of Marvel's Voices is on its way, and it promises two new Spider-Verse heroes among many returning favorites. Marvel's Voices: Spider-Verse #1 is an upcoming comic that will spotlight a diverse range of heroes from the fan-favorite multiversal alliance. This continues a new approach to this particular comic line, which has previously focused its specials on heroes from specific marginalized groups.

In April, Marvel's Voices: Spider-Verse #1 will feature original stories and art from a diverse group of creators. The issue will also feature the debut of two new characters: Spider-Friend and Recluse. Recluse will introduce a reality where Electro rules the world, while Spider-Friend is from a reality where sit-com clichés are an everyday part of life. Spider-Friend (Peter Park) is created by Jason Loo, while Recluse's debut comes from Cheryl Lynn Eaton, Julian Shaw, and Andrew Dalhouse.

Related: Marvel's Fan-Made Spider-Verse Hero Returns In Her Own New...

Donna Mathews joins from Channel 4 as executive director of PR and communications.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has restructured its senior management team.

Emma Baehr, formerly director of awards and membership has been promoted to executive director of awards and content; Tim Hunter, formerly director of learning and new talent) becomes executive director of learning, inclusion policy and membership; Louise Robertson, formerly director of partnerships, is now executive director of partnerships and fundraising; and Tim Yates is the new executive director of finance and information. He was formerly director of finance.

Additionally, Donna Mathews, formerly head of PR,...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced a restructure to its senior management team.

Emma Baehr, Tim Hunter, Louise Robertson and Tim Yates have been elevated to Executive Directors. Donna Mathews is appointed to the newly formed role Executive Director of PR & Communications.

The executive team will report into BAFTA’s Chief Executive Amanda Berry OBE & Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of BAFTA Enterprises, Kevin Price.

The new senior management team is:

Emma Baehr, Executive Director of Awards & Content (formerly Director of Awards & Membership at BAFTA) Tim Hunter, Executive Director of Learning, Inclusion Policy & Membership (formerly Director of Learning & New Talent at BAFTA) Donna Mathews, Executive Director of PR & Communications (formerly Head of PR, Content and Programmes at Channel 4) Louise Roberston, Executive Director of Partnerships & Fundraising (formerly Director of Partnerships at BAFTA) Tim Yates, Executive Director of Finance & Information (formerly Director of Finance at...

Industry veterans, Dov Kornits and Lou Balletti have announced the launch of a new theatrical distributor operating in Australia. The company pitches itself as a one-stop shop straddling distribution and media promotion, and will begin operations with a Friday 13 December release of horror title “Wrinkles the Clown.”

Kornits is publisher of Australian film magazine and website FilmInk. He has also been head of theatrical for specialty distributor Umbrella Entertainment, and has consulted with distributors Label, Bonsai, Universal and Athabasca on local releases.

The company’s co-director Lou Balletti had her earlier career in exhibition, before becoming head of theatrical sales for distributor Hopscotch Films. In recent years she headed digital sales across Australia and New Zealand for Entertainment One, with responsibility for launching titles including “Peppa Pig,” “Vice,” “Green Book” and “The Walking Dead.”

The company’s 2020 release slate includes “Talking About Trees” (an audience winner at the Berlin and...

People often form an image in their minds of who a public figure is, and as an award-winning documentarian, it’s Julian Shaw job to find the proof of that representation. The writer-director is sharing his journey of discovering the darkest parts of himself when he turns his camera on Ceara Lynch, a beautiful woman who […]

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Use Me Available On Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD And On Demand November 26, 2019 From Gravitas Ventures Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has acquired international and United States rights to suspense thriller Use Me, written, directed by and starring Julian Shaw and the world’s most famous “mental humiliatrix” Ceara Lynch. The film will …

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“Consult the Book of Armaments!”

A series of previously unseen Monty Python sketches have been discovered in Michael Palin’s archives. The unused script ideas include a Wild West bookshop and “amorous Pink Knight” storylines cut from iconic comedy Monty Python And the Holy Grail.

According to The Times, Palin gave the material to the British Library in London which will display a collection of Python notebooks later this month. The show is expected to reveal how much Holy Grail and controversial classic Life Of Brian were altered to prevent causing (further) offence.

BAFTA has appointed Ellen Johnson as its Director of Communications. In the newly created role Johnson will drive the charity’s marketing and comms strategy and will report directly to BAFTA Chief Executive Amanda Berry.

Johnson previously worked at Barclaycard and more recently at Comic Relief, where she was Head of Marketing and Communications and responsible for...

Ellen Johnson joins Bafta’s senior management team which includes CEO Amanda Berry.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has appointed Ellen Johnson in its new director of communications role.

Joining the senior management team, Johnson’s role will focus on bringing Bafta activities to a global audience. She will report directly to Bafta CEO Amanda Berry.

Johnson’s prior work includes both agency and client-side experience for companies including Barclaycard. She was recently head of marketing and communications for Comic Relief, where she was responsible for campaigns including Red Nose Day and Sport Relief.

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Newly created role will oversee all five of BAFTA’s London-based ceremonies.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced that Emma Baehr has become its director of awards, a new role that oversees all five of BAFTA’s London-based ceremonies. These include the Ee British Academy Film Awards, held in February, and next month’s British Academy Children’s Awards.

The role will be responsible for the ongoing development of BAFTA’s Awards, ensuring output reaches a wide and diverse audience, increasing engagement with the film, television and games industries and identifying strategic partnerships.

Baehr will report directly to BAFTA chief executive Amanda Berry.

Baehr also joins Berry on BAFTA’s senior management team, whose members are: Clare Brown, director of production; Gilly Burgess, director of finance; Tim Hunter, director of learning and events; Kevin Price, chief operating officer; and Julian Shaw, director of BAFTA 195 Piccadilly.

As part of the restructure, BAFTA head of...

There is no perhaps no movie that has been spoofed, homaged, parodied and referenced more times over the years than Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. A movie that is absolutely chock full of iconic and memorable imagery, from the creepy twins in the hallway to Jack’s total destruction of the bathroom door, The Shining has pretty much become the go-to horror movie to reference, and countless movies and TV shows over the years have done just that.

It’s also pretty common for commercials to reference Kubrick’s masterpiece, and that’s what we’re here to talk about today. Let’s take a look at a handful of the best!

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Premier Inn

A seemingly innocent commercial for British hotel chain Premier Inn, this first one played up the idea that a stay in a hotel inferior to theirs could result in a restless...

Julian Shaw in GetUp!'s 'It's time' gay marriage ad

GetUp! Australia’s popular pro-gay marriage ad is to air in the Us to back the American marriage equality movement ahead of elections in November.

‘It’s time’, a same-sex love story that ends in a marriage proposal, first launched in Australia in November last year in the run-up to the Labor Party national conference.

An edited version of the ad is being used by a non-profit named after GetUp!’s film, It’s Time Marriage Equality, which is trying to raise Us$100,000 (Au$96,000) to fund airings across the country.

The group, which has legal consent from GetUp! to use the film, has partnered with fundraising platform Social Teeth and media buying group Aegis to get the ad on primetime TV. Networks including ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, CNN and Fox News have been targeted. So far, enough money has...

Six student short films from the Australian Film Television and Radio School will screen in a specially designated program at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Cinema des Antipodes is an organisation directed by Bernard Bories that screens and supports Australian and New Zealand films in France. Its non-competitive program runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival main program.

The dedicated Aftrs session consists of six films including writer/director Ben Matthews' Emily, which is currently in the running for a Student Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category. The psychological thriller examines teen suicide from the perspective of a parent.

Meryl Tankard, the creator of the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony also has a film in the program. Moth, which stars Sophie Lowe, is a story inspired by accounts from Australian reform schools in the 60's and 70's..

For a complete list of films, see below:..

Moth Written by Alana Valentine...

To many people, the love of their favourite sporting team is sublimated only by their love of their family. The piercing trill of a referee's whistle kicks off the highlight of their week (or month, or year), and the events of a competitive weekend tussle can quickly define and influence their mental state for a big slab of time. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in New Zealand, where the entire nation rises as one, or crumbles in a collective heap, depending on the form of their mighty national rugby union team, The All Blacks. It's fascinating grist for the documentary mill, and on the eve of The 2011 Rugby World Cup, Australian-based Kiwi and All Blacks tragic Julian Shaw has put his home nation - and his family - under the microscope.

Rugby fans need no introduction to John Kirwan. A former All Blacks player, he was one of the most devastating rugby wingers New Zealand - and indeed the world - had ever seen. Nobody knew, however, that the highly revered athlete was battling depression at the height of his career.   This is the subject of All Blacks Don't Cry, a film created by the BFI winning Julian Shaw who teamed up with Kirwan - his "childhood hero" - to create a powerful drama which he hopes will raise awareness about depression. His film will be released online during October which is also Depression Awareness Month.

Julian Shaw was recently awarded the prestigious Best Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year Award by the Byron Bay International Film Festival and Sydney International Film School for his powerful short film, Clearing the Air, a project which saw him team up with old school friend and rising star, Rhys Wakefield.   The pair, who attended Sydney's McDonald College of Performing Arts together, decided to collaborate when they were re-united at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, where Shaw was accompanying his award winning documentary Darling! And Wakefield The Black Balloon, in which he starred. "We decided it would be a lot of fun to do something together," Shaw reflects.

BERLIN -- Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree has won the Audience Award for best film in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.

Lemon Tree is the story of a Palestinian woman who inherits a lemon grove that borders on the land of the Israeli defense minister. More than 20,000 Berlin cinemagoers cast ballots for this year's Audience Award.

Second place went to Julian Shaw's documentary Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story about the famous South African satirist and AIDS activist Pieter-Dirk Uys. Another documentary, Samson Vicent's Erika Rabau -- Puck of Berlin, took third place. The film follows veteran Berlin Film Festival photographer Erika Rabau as she snaps her way through the 2007 event.

The Iranian-French co-production Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame by young Iranian director Hana Makmalbaf has won the Crystal Berlin Bear for best film running in Berlin's Generations sidebar. Set in Afghanistan, Buddha looks at the struggles of a young girl trying to raise the money to go to school. The Generations jury gave a special mention to the Norwegian film The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat from Grethe Boe.

The Black Balloon from Australian director Elissa Down, a story of dealing with autism, took the best film prize in the Generations 14plus section. Nina Parley's animated feature Sita Sings the Blues, which is based on an Indian folk tale, received special mention from the jury.

The Grand Prize of children's charity association the Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk, went to Oliver Jean-Marie's comic-book adaptation Go West! Lucky Luke Adventure. A special mention went to the coming-of-age story Mutum by Brazilian director Sandra Kogut.