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Nearly 70 years since the release of its last new issue, EC Comics has been resurrected by Oni Press with the publication of Epitaphs from the Abyss #1, which will soon be followed by the August 7th release of Cruel Universe #1. To celebrate the scary good news, Oni Press has teamed up with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund for the annual Cbldf San Diego Welcome Party at the Westgate Hotel tonight at 8:00pm, followed by the "EC Comics Lives Again at Oni Press!" San Diego Comic-Con panel this Friday at 5:00pm in Room 23Abc.

Daily Dead is also celebrating the creepy occasion with a new Q&a feature with J. Holtham, whose story "Killer Spec" is featured in the historic first issue of Epitaphs from the Abyss, with amazing artwork by Jorge Fornes. Below, you can read the full Q&a with J. Holtham, and we also have additional...

Before David Simon debuted his groundbreaking socio-political tapestry “The Wire” to audiences and helped garner the prestige HBO now only reserves for “Game of Thrones” and superhero spinoffs, he wrote the book on the world of crime and law enforcement in Baltimore. Published in 1991, his non-fiction book “Homicide: A Year of Killing Streets” pools two years of research from Simon’s time spent observing the Baltimore Police Department, which itself followed four years spent on the police beat for The Baltimore Sun newspaper.

Wishing to adapt the book into a feature film, Simon got a copy to filmmaker and Baltimore native Barry Levinson, who felt the material was better suited to a TV series. Levinson shared with Paul Attansio, a former Washington Post film critic whose would go on to write the Oscar-nominated “Quiz Show,” as well as “Donnie Brasco,” and together the team brought the project to NBC, where...

It’s been five years since Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger was canceled by Freeform after two seasons, and the rumors of a series revival have started to gain momentum again. There was not much news on the series after it was scrapped, but an insider has provided an insight as to the fate of the show.

Oliva Holt and Aubrey Joseph in Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger / Marvel Television

Cloak & Dagger was well-received by fans after the first installment aired in 2018, but the sequel proved to be a hit-and-miss as viewership dropped tremendously. While this is not entirely the reason why it was never renewed, ratings play a big part in a franchise’s life.

The Latest Update On Rumored Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Renewal

In a Discord Marvel Studios Q&a with Alex Perez via Cosmic Circus, the industry insider revealed news regarding the revival of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger.

Quick Links Davey Osborne Creates a Fantasy World and an Imaginary Hero Cloak & Dagger Is a Hitchcockian Children's Thriller Jack Flack Always Escapes Until Children Stop Believing Cloak & Dagger tiptoes the line between thrilling and too dark for kids by placing a child in danger without going too far. The film blends fantasy and thriller elements, borrowing a style from Alfred Hitchcock to create a unique viewing experience. By portraying villains as one-dimensional automata, Cloak & Dagger keeps a light tone despite its intense storyline.

When a film places a child in danger, as is the case throughout the 1984 childrens action-adventure film Cloak & Dagger, such a film risks offending an audiences sensibilities. The ability of Cloak & Dagger, which pushes the boundaries of just how exciting and intense a childrens movie should be, to navigate this tricky genre tightrope represents the films supreme achievement.

While Cloak & Dagger...

The McU's new Marvel Television banner can learn some valuable lessons from mistakes in the previous Marvel Television's projects. The old Marvel Television shied away from comic-accurate costumes, reversed major MCU events, and wasted many brilliant minor characters. Mistakes from Marvel Television's past negatively impacted the MCU, so this should be avoided in the future.

Mistakes in Marvel Television's previous TV shows, released adjacent to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, can teach the new Marvel Television some valuable lessons. Long before Marvel Studios began producing its own TV shows for Disney+, Marvel Entertainment entrusted Marvel Television with developing series for various networks that expanded the world of the MCU significantly. In recent years, doubt has been cast on whether Marvel Television's previous projects are considered canon to the McU's main continuity, and this dispute has been exacerbated by the recent revival of the Marvel Television banner, which will now develop shows specifically set in the MCU.

ABC Family Freeform has had some very successful scripted shows -- and a lot more of the less successful kind. Which are your favorites? Which of the current TV series will be cancelled or renewed for another season? Stay tuned!

Scripted Freeform shows listed: Alone Together, Baby Daddy, Beyond, The Bold Type, Chasing Life, Cruel Summer, Dead of Summer, Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Everything's Trash, Famous In Love, The Fosters, Good Trouble, Grown-ish, Guilt, Kevin from Work, Marvel's Cloak & Dagger, Melissa & Joey, Motherland: Fort Salem, Mystery Girls, Party of Five, Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, Ravenswood, Recovery Road, Shadowhunters, Single Drunk Female, Siren, Stitchers, Switched at Birth, Twisted, The Watchful Eye, and Young & Hungry.

Updated with the latest ratings for Grown-ish.

There's a lot of data that Freeform execs look at when...

Marvel Studios has introduced a new banner for the McU's upcoming TV shows, reviving Marvel Television. Marvel Television's upcoming series include Agatha All Along, Daredevil: Born Again and Ironheart. Marvel Television's revival proves Marvel Studios is actively trying to fix its recent mistakes with its TV production techniques.

Following recent criticisms and major creative overhauls, Marvel Studios has implemented new banners for its upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe projects, proving the studio is learning from its recent Phase 4 and 5 mistakes. For over a decade between 2008's Iron Man and 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home, Marvel Studios' Infinity Saga comprised only feature films, but the MCU saw a huge expansion into the world of TV and animation in 2021. This came after the establishment of the Disney+ streaming service, marking the beginning of the McU's Multiverse Saga, but this produced its own set of problems for Marvel Studios.

Since the release of 2021's WandaVision,...

Award-winning actor Dabney Coleman passed away on Thursday, May 16 at the age of 92. His daughter, Quincy Coleman, confirmed the news of her father’s death in a statement. Dabney had a long list of credits under his name and made his mark in Hollywood during his life. What was Dabney Coleman’s net worth at the time of his death? Continue reading to find out the details.

‘9 To 5’ Actor Had A Colorful Career In Hollywood

When it came to her father’s death, Quincy Coleman had a few thoughtful words to share with his fans. “My father crafted his time here on earth with a curious mind, a generous heart, and a soul on fire with passion, desire, and humor that tickled the funny bone of humanity. As he lived, he moved through this final act of his life with elegance, excellence, and mastery,” she said.

Quincy continued, “A teacher,...

Legendary Hollywood actor Dabney Coleman died at 92 on Thursday. Coleman leaves behind an endearing legacy of elegance, passion, humor and excellence in his acting career spanning over 60 years. The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor's impressive resume includes films like 9 to 5, Tootsie and You've Got Mail. Boardwalk Empire, The Guardian and Yellowstone are just a tiny portion of the television work he amassed since the early 1960s.

Hollywood veteran actor Dabney Coleman dies at the age of 92. The thespian, who is arguably best known for his memorable roles in 9 to 5 (1980), Tootsie (1982), WarGames (1983), Cloak & Dagger (1984) and Youve Got Mail (1998), passed away at home in Santa Monica, California on Thursday, May 16. Colemans daughter, Quincy, confirmed the reports of her fathers death in a statement provided to Entertainment Weekly. It reads as follows:

"My father crafted his time here on earth with a curious mind, a generous heart, and a soul on fire with passion,...

Ben Stiller, James Woods, John Ales and more Hollywood notables have taken to social media to pay tribute to Dabney Coleman, who died at 92.

The legendary comic actor known for his roles in 9 to 5, Tootsie and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, died Thursday at his Santa Monica home, his daughter, singer Quincy Coleman, told The Hollywood Reporter.

“My father crafted his time here on Earth with a curious mind, a generous heart and a soul on fire with passion, desire and humor that tickled the funny bone of humanity,” she said in a statement. “As he lived, he moved through this final act of his life with elegance, excellence and mastery.”

Following the news of his death, fellow actor Stiller took to X (formerly Twitter) to write, “The great Dabney Coleman literally created, or defined, really – in a uniquely singular way — an archetype as a character actor. He was so good...

Dabney Coleman, the character actor who delighted audiences in films like 9 to 5, Dragnet, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Tootsie, WarGames, Cloak & Dagger, You’ve Got Mail, and the TV shows The Guardian and Boardwalk Empire, has died at 92. The news leaked earlier today but has only just been confirmed by his daughter, Quincy Coleman. Often underappreciated in Hollywood’s vast populous of show-stopping performers, Dabney Coleman was a master of playing smarmy, selfish, hot-headed, and dick-ish characters with class and playfulness. Details about Coleman’s passing spread quietly on Twitter before getting confirmed by mainstream outlets, with many showing their love for Mr. Coleman’s rich body of work and unforgettable contributions to the entertainment industry.

Dabney Coleman made his Broadway debut in a brief run of A Call on Kuprin before setting up camp in the television space with roles in Kraft Suspense Theater’s The Threatening Eye and as Dr.

Veteran actor Dabney Coleman, whose decades-long career in Hollywood included memorable roles in 9 to 5 and Tootsie and an Emmy award, has died at the age of 92, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Coleman had a long career in theater, film and television before playing sexist boss Franklin Hart Jr. in the 1980 hit comedy 9 to 5, alongside Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. After that movie’s success, Coleman became a familiar face to moviegoers throughout the 1980s, with roles in Tootsie, WarGames, On Golden Pond, Cloak & Dagger and The Muppets Take Manhattan. He also starred as...

Marvel Television was originally a separate entity from Marvel Studios, spearheaded by Jeph Loeb under the watchful eye of former Marvel Entertainment Chairman Isaac Perlmutter.

Before being shut down in 2019 (when Disney handed full control of all things Marvel to Kevin Feige), Marvel Television produced the likes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Netflix's Defenders slate, and even the likes of Cloak & Dagger, The Runaways, and M.O.D.O.K.

The vast majority of characters were off-limits to Marvel Television, with Marvel Studios' desires prioritised by Disney. For Feige, Loeb's outfit was an annoyance, particularly as much of what they produced - Inhumans, for example - damaged the MCU brand.

Marvel Studios has since discovered that producing TV shows isn't as easy as it looks. Last year, the decision was made to creatively overhaul Daredevil: Born Again and the studio's small screen output as a whole, with "Head Writers" finally replaced with proper showrunners.

If you were a kid growing up in the ’80s, one thing was true. Video games were the spawn of Satan. Okay, we know that isn’t true. But our parents? Adults were terrified of your Atari and your Nintendo, and filmmakers made all sorts of movies that painted games in a negative light. In Wargames a nuclear war was damn near started! While there were plenty of films that understood the imagination and the creative spirit that video games could foster, such as Tron and The Last Starfighter for examples, there’s also a film such as Cloak & Dagger, which goes to some really dark territory to teach a lesson to kids that, honestly, everyone could stand to learn.

Cloak and Dagger starred Henry Thomas. Y’know, the E.T. kid (who we recently profiled on Wtf Happened to this Celeb), who grew up to become the Suicide...

Fans were thrilled when, over the course of a few days in December 2021, Charlie Cox’s Daredevil and Vicent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin were officially introduced into the main MCU continuity in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye, respectively. Of course, they were technically part of the MCU before, but in the forgotten sector of Marvel Television that was largely abandoned when Disney+ arrived. Daredevil and the other Netflix series were not alone in this group. There were also the network tv shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Cloak and Dagger, and shows on Hulu – Runaways and Hellstrom. Several of these have transitioned over to Disney+, so some fans are theorizing on Reddit as to how popular characters could find their way into the upcoming films and TV shows.

This article may contain spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

This week we got a big first trailer, a TV spot, and a new poster for Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and they were packed full of so many interesting tidbits! Marvel Zombies! Wanda back in Westview! Strange Supreme! Defender Strange! Professor X! The Illuminati! Captain Carter! Rintrah! Gargantos! America Chavez! The Savage Land?! But one thing the trailer didn’t show us was who might be the puppet master of this terrifying multiversal breakdown of reality, despite Mordo pointing his finger straight at Strange.

Marvel’s official synopsis for the highly anticipated movie reveals a little more, however. It confirms that in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Stephen will traverse “the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse” to confront “a mysterious new adversary.” That does seem to...

The Cloak and Dagger Freeform series may be over, but there is always a chance the characters could return to the MCU. If they do, comic fans know there is a lot for the franchise to draw on in terms of stories and characters. Cloak and Dagger have strong ties to many major Marvel Comics characters, including Spider-Man.

Related: 10 Things Only Comic Book Fans Know About Spider-Man & Venom's Rivalry

From their debut in the 1980s, Cloak and Dagger have interacted with a number of powerful characters like Doctor Strange and the X-Men, positioning them for fantastic adventures in the MCU. From their first appearance to the present day, Cloak and Dagger remain intriguing characters with lots of comic history to chew on for potential fans.

Peacock is developing a one-hour drama series about millennial nuns from “The Thing About Pam” creator Jessika Borsiczky, Variety has learned exclusively.

The series is titled “Called” and is based on the Huffington Post article “Behold, The Millennial Nuns” by Eve Fairbanks. The series will follow three young women at a convent, each on their own path, and each carrying secrets that force them to confront temptation, scandal, and self-discovery as they struggle with whether the answers do in fact lie in the Divine or back in the world they’ve left behind.

Borsiczky is writing the series and will also serve as an executive producer. Kristen Campo will also executive produce, with A+E Studios producing for Peacock.

The development deal keeps Borsiczky in the NBCUniversal fold. She most recently created the upcoming limited series “The Thing About Pam” starring Renee Zellweger for NBC. She was originally set to serve...

Hollywood acknowledges the existence of America’s proto- C.I.A. intelligence agency with this espionage tale of Yanks working with the resistance in occupied France. It’s basic cloak ‘n’ dagger action, with intrepid Alan Ladd and the daring Geraldine Fitzgerald risking life and limb to plant plastic explosive bombs. The details are fairly interesting: Ladd outwits the Gestapo by working with a turncoat inside their ranks. The outcome is grimly realistic, even if that old Paramount glamour is part of the package. The writer-producer is Richard Maibaum, who would later write almost thirty years’ worth of franchise James Bond 007 adventures.

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Starring: Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Gloria Saunders, Richard Webb, Richard Benedict, Harold Vermilyea, Don Beddoe, Onslow Stevens, Gavin Muir, Egon Brecher, Joseph Crehan, Bobby Driscoll, Julia Dean,...

This article contains Loki spoilers.

Now that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has gotten all timey-wimey, it’s not so simple to keep track of this massive franchise’s order of events. With Loki, the latest Marvel TV show to premiere on Disney+, Phase Four is delving even further into time travel, a narrative concept first properly introduced to the MCU in Avengers: Endgame when our titular heroes traveled back into their own timelines to collect the Infinity Stones needed to defeat Thanos.

For the most part, Endgame didn’t mess with the MCU’s own timeline, but rather tried to slot its timey-wimey shenanigans into the spaces of its established chronology. In the first episode of Loki, Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson) even tells Loki that all of the time travel done by the Avengers was part of the Sacred Timeline. It was all “meant” to happen, so it’s fine.

Disney+ has revealed the company's new branding strategy when it comes to non-mcu films. The Marvel Legacy section has demonstrated that Marvel Studios have thought about how to categorize old content, which may suggest its future use, perhaps in the multiverse that's beginning to develop after Loki.

Related: Ranking Every Marvel Trilogy From Worst To Best

However, it's difficult to tell what is and isn't considered Marvel Legacy. For instance, the Marvel Netflix shows may still be a part of the MCU, as are other shows that have been featured on Disney+ or Hulu such as Cloak And Dagger, The Runaways, and Inhumans. There is a great range of films and TV shows though that can definitely be categorized as Legacy content.

Updated July 16th, 2020 by George Chrysostomou The Marvel Cinematic Universe appears to be transitioning into the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse. As Disney continues to highlight some of the Marvel...