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Avengers: Doomsday ups the stakes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Multiverse Saga. The highly anticipated blockbuster sees the titular supergroup take on a new and nefarious big bad in Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom, with its working title playing into the shenanigans fans can expect in the saga's latest chapter. The movie's pre-production budget is also a sign that a massive budget will be given to the Avengers sequels.

Per Forbes, the official working title for Doomsday is "For All Time Productions UK," with principal photography on the film expected to commence later this month in London. Fans of the hit MCU Disney+ series, Loki, will be familiar with that phrase, as the Time Variance Authority's (Tva) motto is "For All Time, Always." The working title could hint at the multiversal madness that's likely to unfold when the Avengers face off with Earth-616's Victor von Doom.

Meanwhile, with production looming,...

Avengers: Doomsday is set to begin shooting in the UK any day now and, according to public records acquired by Forbes, Disney has already spent double on pre-production - $8 million - compared to 2023's Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. 

Not only does this point to the House of Mouse putting its weight behind the Marvel Studios movie, but it's likely a sign that some huge sets are being built. In comparison, the Ant-Man threequel was shot almost entirely on The Volume, giving it something of a lifeless feel in the process.

The fact costs are already racking up on Avengers: Doomsday is bound to raise some eyebrows, particularly after the Russo Brothers reportedly spent as much as $320 million on their recent Netflix critical flop, The Electric State. 

Of course, it's worth remembering that Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame had a combined budget of $1.3 billion, with both movies making that back and then some.

Exclusive: Daryl Dixon and AMC are stepping inside the UFC Octagon tonight.

Two weeks before the new season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol debuts on the cabler and its AMC+ streamer, the Norman Reedus fronted series is going to be in front of all those watching UFC 306 tonight from Las Vegas’ Sphere.

To be specific, the logo for the September 29 premiering Season 2 series is going to be right on the canvas for Saturday’s pay-per-view extravaganza out of Sin City, I’ve learned – as you can see here:

Going straight for a core Twd demographic, like AMC did in many ways during the heyday of Mad Men, the promo will be in the paid center of the octagon for the entire evening. Preliminaries for the $79.99 priced UFC 3036 start at 4:30 p.m. Pt/7:30 p.m. Et on ESPN+ and the night’s main event...

Between 1959 and 1964, there wasn't a more consistently brilliant show on television than Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" — an accomplishment that's all the more amazing given its anthology concept. Every episode offered a completely new story, often in a completely different genre, from an occasionally different writer. Sure, the rotating staff was a murderer's row of scribes that included Serling, Richard Matheson, and Charles Beaumont, but, good as they were, they didn't have the safety net of writing for the same characters every time out. All they had was their imagination.

Considering Hollywood's risk-averse nature, it's a little surprising that more "Twilight Zone" episodes haven't been turned into full-blown features — at least, not as official remakes. Obviously, "Poltergeist" owes a massive creative debt to "Little Girl Lost" and it's hard to imagine "Child's Play" without the arsenic-laced genius of "Living Doll," but for straight-up adaptations there's Richard Kelly's "The Box...

Loki season 2 brings more time travel drama to the MCU, with the God of Mischief exploring and investigating the multiverse. The biggest tease for Loki season 2 came in the post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, indicating that Marvel Studios plans to expand the stories of secondary characters on Disney+. Loki season 2 released on October 5, 2023, with Tom Hiddleston returning as Loki and the majority of the season 1 cast reprising their roles. The season will consists of six episodes that were released every Thursday.

Loki season 2 released as part of Phase 5 of the MCU, with the Disney+ show revealing more about what the McU's future might look like. After meeting his demise at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, the Avengers' Time Heist in Endgame unleashed a variant of Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief on the MCU, and Loki season 1 saw him exploring the world of the Time...

The following contains spoilers from Loki, Season 2, Episode 4, "Heart of the Tva," now streaming on Disney+.

Marvel Cinematic Universe fans finally learned who pruned the titular God of Mischief in the Loki Season 2 premiere.

The fourth episode of Loki Season 2, "Heart of the Tva," revealed that Loki pruned himself. After being separated from Sylvie, Loki spots himself — at least, the time slipping version from the Season 2 premiere — approach the elevator where he saw Sylvie appear. With a time stick in his hands (having picked up the one that previously belonged to D-90), Loki creeps up and prunes himself, completing the time loop.

Marvel EP Explains How Loki's Balder the Brave Easter Egg Came to Be

Victor Timely Meets His Untimely Demise

After reuniting with Sylvie, finding Victor Timely and rushing back to Mobius, "Ob" and the others, the group discovers that there isn't much time left to stabilize the Temporal Loom.

Cbr supports the hard work of creators and industry professionals to create movies fans all know and love, but it's important to remember the ongoing controversy with Ezra Miller. You can find Cbr's continuing coverage of Miller here.

The following contains spoilers for The Flash, now playing in theaters.

The Multiverse remains in vogue for comic-book movies, despite a few minor hiccups from the Marvel Cinematic Universe which embraced the notion in a big way starting with Loki Season 1, Episode 6, "For All Time. Always." The Flash leans heavily into the notion and has great fun with it all: notably Michael Keaton's widely praised return as Bruce Wayne. Unfortunately, it relies on problematic tropes to do so, and its ideas act more out of expediency than careful thought. They're not hard to forgive -- The Flash is nothing if not entertaining -- but they also have the added challenge of...

The following contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, now playing in theaters.

Though ostensibly a hero, Miguel O'Hara serves as the antagonist for a considerable part of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's running time. Aside from perhaps The Spot, he makes more trouble for Miles and Gwen than anyone in the film. Yet, he does so for the right reasons and believes until the end that his way is the correct one. As it turns out, he's dealing with tragedy just like most of the film's Spider-People. That gives him some striking similarities to a prominent member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Wanda Maximoff similarly acts out of what she believes to be justifiable motives. Like Miguel, that causes considerable damage in the process. And like Miguel, her motives are tied to a tragedy that she tries to change in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Fans...

Marvel is known for its impressive story strategizing, which often involves planning future plot and character development years ahead of a movie’s release. Now that the studio has committed more fully to its TV series as a place to build the larger MCU, that planning necessitates even more work that must take place across both the film and TV landscapes. Interestingly, when working on Season 1, Loki director Kate Herron, who was involved much more than the average TV director in shaping the season’s story, didn’t initially know there would be a second season. That decision—or at least its announcement to Herron and the Loki writers—came mid-way through the production of Season 1.

“When I started and when we was working with the writers, we always were just working towards it being these six episodes,” Herron tells Den of Geek. “And then, obviously, everyone was just so...

This article contains Major spoilers for Loki Episode 6.

The Loki season finale introduced a major character—or at least his actor—to the MCU. In “For All Time. Always,” Loki and Sylvie reach the Citadel at the end of time and are met by He Who Remains, the man behind the Tva and the Sacred Timeline.

He Who Remains is played by Lovecraft Country‘s Jonathan Majors, who is set to appear as MCU villain Kang the Conquerer in the upcoming Ant Man & Wasp: Quantumania. As we learn from He Who Remains, there are many incarnations of himself across the multiverse, and some of them are set on ruling the timeline. While the character introduction itself is exciting, it’s what He Who Remains represents for the MCU moving forward that makes the reveal truly game-changing.

“[The introduction] showed that the films and the TV are so entwined with each other,” says director Kate Herron,...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Loki” Episode 6, “For All Time, Always” — now confirmed as the Season 1 finale — including its ending.]

To create an intriguing, if imperfect, ending for an MCU TV show, all Marvel had to do was not end anything at all.

On a big-picture level, that makes sense. Not ending things is what the superhero storytellers do best, even if “Loki” marks the first time one of their series embraced its own never-ending timeline. With “WandaVision,” the first episodic MCU narrative to premiere on Disney+, the finale struggled to live up to expectations in part because it was billed as a limited series, yet never fully functioned as a standalone arc (to say nothing of its issues delaying and addressing Wanda’s trauma). “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” painted a murkier reading of its intentions by submitting as a Drama Series at the Emmys, while seemingly setting up a new movie instead of a new season.

For once, fans were right about their theories regarding the man behind the curtain on a Marvel Disney+ show.

Loki and Sylvie went beyond The Void and Alioth on Loki Season 1 Episode 6, only to discover "He Who Remains." And while we never received verbal confirmation about his true identity, we can infer who he really is.

"For All Time. Always." was the perfect bridge between the finale of Loki Season 1 and the setup for Loki Season 2, which was confirmed during the credits. The episode was suspenseful, hit all of the emotional beats, and created a world of possibilities for Loki's future.

Since Loki and Sylvie discovered that the Time Keepers were not real on Loki Season 1 Episode 4, they have been on a mission to discover the truth behind the Time Variance Authority.

That truth finally came at them full force when they were met by Kang the Conquerer at a...

Marvel’s Kevin Feige confirmed earlier this year that some of the Disney+ shows were developed with multiple seasons in mind. While “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier” competing as a drama at the Emmys rather than a limited series gave us a hint the show will eventually return, “Loki” is the first of the Marvel series to confirm it’s an ongoing series within the narrative itself. The Season 1 finale, which is titled “For All Time. Always.,” ends on a massive cliffhanger before the mid-credits sequence reveals, in familiar Marvel fashion, that Loki (Tom Hiddleston) will return in Season 2. It makes sense, all things considered. The premise and framework of “Loki” allow it to continue in a way “WandaVision” cannot, but the series is also changing the very fabric of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. To limit the story of Loki, Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) and Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors...

This article contains spoilers for the Loki finale.

So, we now officially know that Marvel’s Loki will be back for Season 2, but this week it finished up its first season on Disney+ by blowing up the MCU as we know it and re-establishing the Marvel multiverse, which once existed but was actually at war with itself. Apparently, Miss Minutes was at least telling the truth in that part of her Tva orientation video.

In the Loki finale, “For All Time. Always.”, we met the villainous He Who Remains aka Kang aka Pick Any Card (Jonathan Majors), who first discovered that the multiverse existed as a scientist on Earth and decided that he had the answer to all of the multiverse’s territorial woes in the future: construct a Sacred Timeline policed by the Time Variance Authority to make sure the multiverse wouldn’t happen and our universe could continue...

This review contains Marvel’s Loki episode 6 spoilers

Loki Episode 6

If you thought Marvel’s Disney+ shows were done with Contact homages after Monica Rambeau’s transformation sequence in WandaVision, you thought wrong. The Loki season finale, “For All Time. Always.” opened with another one. We heard iconic dialogue from other MCU films, including Vision’s “What is grief, if not love persevering?” – which went from a heartbreaking utterance to an instant meme earlier this year – as we pulled out from Earth and its blistering sun and outward toward the Citadel at the End of Time where He Who Remains aka Very Old Kang resides, but not before we were joined by the likes of Neil Armstrong, Greta Thunberg, and Nelson Mandela.

Finally, we heard Sylvie calling out to Loki: “Open your eyes!” She’d go on to say variations of the same plea throughout this episode.

“What makes a Loki a Loki?...

Chicago – Jeff Garlin is what he is. He wants to emphasize that characteristic over any in the formation and development of his many characters – most famously as Jeff Greene on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and The Captain in the animated classic film “Wall-e.” Garlin also co-wrote and directed his latest film, “Dealin’ with Idiots.”

The film is a treatise on kid’s sports, in this case Little League baseball. Garlin portrays Max Morris, a “top twenty” comedian who simply wants his son to have fun playing the game. The other parents, the coaches and the rules conspire against that notion, and the Max character constantly fights against that system throughout the story. The film is off-beat and funny, using the same set-up and techniques as “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” with the actors improvising scenes based on an outline.

Jeff Garlin is Off Base in ‘Dealin’ with Idiots’

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Hannibal Lecter will be opening a celebratory bottle of Chianti and finding someone to have for dinner at the news that Jonathan Demme’s 1991 thriller The Silence Of The Lambs is part of the National Film Registry’s typically eclectic list of films to be Preserved For All Time.*Announced by the Library of Congress across the pond, the list is always made public around this time of year and movies make the cut because, according to Librarian of Congress James H Billington, they are “selected because of their enduring significance to American culture. Our film heritage must be protected because these cinematic treasures document our history and culture and reflect our hopes and dreams."So what other “treasures” are on there besides the psychopathic slitherings of Doctor Lecter? Robert Zemeckis’ still-divisive, Oscar-scooping Forrest Gump for one, and Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 classic The Kid for another.Also on the list?...