Last night we were invited to the Sony offices in London for a screening of upcoming superhero-horror movie Brightburn. Whilst we were deep in to our screening Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot and Warner Bros. were dropping this intensely colourful first poster for Wonder Woman 1984. Warner Bros. has confirmed that it’s movie arm will be skipping Hall H at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. But that didn’t stop Jenkins from sharing this awesome poster artwork featuring Gal Gadot in new, gold, armour. Comic book fans will no doubt see the resemblance to Wonder Woman’s Golden Eagle armour which she…
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Neil Vagg
Neil is the Editor-in-Chief at GYCO. He has a BA in Film & TV and an MA in Scriptwriting; he currently works 9-5 in an office and 5-9 as a reviewer. He has been reading comics for as long as he can remember and is never far away from any book which has the word Bat in the title.
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Dark Phoenix is now in cinemas across the UK and hits North America tomorrow. In the early hours of yesterday morning the review embargo lifted and we finally got an idea of what the critics thought. At the time of writing the movie holds a score of 22% on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest of any movie in the X-Men franchise. The critics consensus, according to the site, reads: Dark Phoenix ends an era of the X-Men franchise by taking a second stab at adapting a classic comics arc — with deeply disappointing results. Here’s some snippets from the top reviews: Rolling Stone Sophie…
Fans of X-Men comics will no doubt know that the relationship between Logan and Jean Grey plays an important part of the Dark Phoenix storyline. Likewise that relationship was a huge factor in the X-Men: The Last Stand movie. With Hugh Jackman retired from the role of Wolverine/Logan it left filmmakers with an interesting conundrum when it came to Dark Phoenix. To recast the character, coax Jackman back to the role or leave him out completely. Well, in fact, the reason he was omitted from the movie may come as a surprise to you. Speaking with Rolling Stone director Simon…
Amazon Prime has unveiled the first teaser for upcoming fantasy series Carnival Row. The series comes from the mind of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Rene Echevarria, who also serves as showrunner, Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim) and Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein). The first season will run for eight episodes when it debuts in August. An official synopsis for the series reads: Carnival Row is a fantasy-noir set in a neo-Victorian city. Mythical creatures fleeing their war-torn homeland have gathered in the city, and tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population. The series follows the investigation of a…
Finally we have some potential news on when Doctor Strange 2 might enter production. Star Benedict Wong recently appeared at Denver Pop Culture Con and LRM (via CBR) has some news for you… Whilst appearing at the convention Wong was quote as saying “I know they’ve now got a writer on board who I met at the Endgame premiere. So I think that may be happening some time next year.” What isn’t 100% clear at this stage is whether Wong meant that writing would begin next year, or whether the cameras will roll with a writer currently working on the movie. At…
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Whilst most of us here in the UK were sleeping, the cast of Dark Phoenix were walking the red carpet at the movies premiere. Thankfully for us Marvel Entertainment streamed the whole thing live on YouTube and you can watch all the action in the player below! Director Simon Kinberg and the movies all-star cast of James McAvoy (Charles Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Sophie Turner (Jean Grey/Phoenix), Tye Sheridan (Scott Summers/Cyclops), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nightcrawler), Evan Peters (Quicksilver), Jessica Chastain, are all appearing on the red carpet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdw7YeL4tgc In Dark Phoenix, the…
Sad news for Image Comics fans this morning as Deadline is reporting that SYFY has announced it is cancelling both Deadly Class and Happy!. Both series have struggled in with their rating this season though it is understood they will be shopped to other networks and streaming platforms for potential renewals. Deadly Class is based on the ongoing series by Rick Remender and Wes Craig. The series followed Marcus, an orphan in the 1980s Bay Area who gets recruited into a secret private school for assassins. The series was executive produced by Remember alongside longtime Marvel Studios directors Joe and Anthony…
Today DreamWorks and Netflix announce a new animated series based in the world of the Jurassic World franchise. Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous will debut in 2020 and we’ve got a first look at the series in the tweet below! Scroll down for the full press release and a first-look still from the series. https://twitter.com/netflixfamily/status/1135926118702297090 Here’s the press release from Netflix: LOS ANGELES, Calif. – June 4, 2019 – DreamWorks Animation today announced Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, an animated action-adventure series, is set to debut globally on Netflix in 2020 as part of an ongoing multi-year agreement with Netflix to produce original animated…
Today marks one month to go until the release of Stranger Things season 3. To celebrate the beginning of the countdown Netflix has released this awesome new, of course 80’s inspired, poster on social media. Alongside the tagline “one summer can change everything” we get new looks at all of the series’ main cast. There’s also another look at one of the new creature which will debut when the series returns in July. https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1135912841356013569 Stranger Things stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Natalie Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Priah Ferguson, Cary…