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Fans treated to super Saturday at Comic-Con

Pop culture fans were treated to a truly super Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con as both Marvel and Warner Bros dropped trailers for several upcoming blockbusters.

Comic-Con • 24 Jul 22

Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder

Win! Thor: Love and Thunder Merch Packs!

Here's a chance to win some mighty Marvel goodies as RTÉ Entertainment has some Thor: Love and Thunder Merch Packs to give away.

Movie • 19 Jul 22

The first three books in the series will be published on June 14.

Penguin Classics teams up with Marvel Comics

Penguin Classics has teamed up with Marvel to publish a series of comic book anthologies.

Entertainment • 31 Mar 22

Marvel trailer introduces its first Muslim superhero

Marvel has released the official trailer for its latest series Ms Marvel which is set to feature the franchise's first Muslim superhero.

Television • 16 Mar 22

Storytellers kicks-of on Monday, October 25 at 12.05pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player

Will Sliney: The storyteller behind Storytellers

Cork native and Spider-Man illustrator (how cool!) Will Sliney has a brand-new show coming to RTÉ2 that will teach budding young artists how to use the most powerful weapon in the world - a pencil.

Television • 24 Oct 21

Letitia Wright:" I honestly assert that this was completely untrue."

Letitia Wright denies report she shared anti-vax views

Letitia Wright has denied reports she shared anti-vaccine views on the set of Marvel blockbuster Black Panther 2.

Movies • 14 Oct 21

Scarlett Johansson and Disney reach settlement

Scarlett Johansson and Walt Disney Studios have settled the dispute over an alleged loss of earnings for the superhero film Black Widow.

Movies • 01 Oct 21

David Harbour wants another shot at playing Marvel's Red Guardian

David Harbour wants to reprise Black Widow character

David Harbour has said he would like to play his Black Widow character Red Guardian again as he feels there is a lot still to explore.

Movies • 11 Jul 21

Rachel Weisz: "I was quite surprised to be invited into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but very, very pleased, and really chuffed."

Rachel Weisz 'surprised' at role in Black Widow

Rachel Weisz has said she was "quite surprised" but "really chuffed" to be asked to star in a Marvel film.

Movies • 07 Jul 21

Chris Pratt has heaped praise on Chris Hemsworth after working with him closely on the upcoming fourth Thor film

Pratt 'astounded' by Hemsworth on Thor set

Chris Pratt has said he was "astounded" by Chris Hemsworth while filming the fourth Thor movie, Thor: Love and Thunder, saying his co-star is a "man-god in real life."

Movies • 17 Jun 21

Tom Hiddleston says Loki role 'changed my life'

Tom Hiddleston has said that playing Loki has changed his life and that he feels "a huge responsibility in honouring the affection" in which character is held by the audience.

Television • 10 Jun 21

Barry Keoghan - Eternals in cinemas from 5 November

Teaser for Barry Keoghan's Marvel film Eternals arrives

The teaser trailer for the Barry Keoghan-starring Marvel adventure Eternals has arrived, with the Dublin actor joined by Angelina Jolie, Kit Harington and Richard Madden in the new film from Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao.

Movies • 24 May 21

Chloe Zhao won the Oscar for Best Director for her film Nomadland

Jolie says Oscar-winner Zhao brings 'new voice' to film

Angelina Jolie has praised her Eternals director Chloe Zhao for "bringing a new voice through her films" and said she was very happy to see her win the Best Director Academy Award.

Movies • 07 May 21

Andrew Garfield says he has not got the call about a Spider-Man return

Andrew Garfield denies Spider-Man rumours

Former webslinger Andrew Garfield has set the record straight, for now, about suiting up to play Spider-Man once again in the forthcoming Marvel movie, No Way Home.

Movies • 06 May 21

Killian Scott linked to new Marvel series for Disney+

It is reported that Dublin Murders and Love/Hate star Killian Scott is in negotiations to join Samuel L Jackson in Secret Invasion, the new Marvel series for Disney+.

Television • 30 Apr 21

Martin Scorsese: "The art of cinema is being systematically devalued, side-lined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator."

Scorsese says streaming services are 'devaluing' cinema

Martin Scorsese has said that streaming services are 'devaluing' films by reducing them to 'content'.

Movies • 17 Feb 21

What's on? 10 top telly tips for Friday November 13

JoJo Rabbit lands on Sky Cinema, there's three hours of fun with Children in Need 2020, Gabriel Byrne and Andrea Bocelli are on The Late Late Show, and for music fans there's the return of The Live Lounge Show . . .

Television • 13 Nov 20

Barry Keoghan (far left) and his Eternals co-stars at Disney's D23 EXPO 2019 in California

Barry Keoghan's Marvel movie delayed for nine months

The Barry Keoghan and Angelina Jolie-starring Marvel movie Eternals has been moved from a February 2021 to November 2021 release as Disney rearranges its slate in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Movies • 23 Sep 20

Chadwick Boseman at the European premiere of Black Panther in London in February 2018

Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther star, dies aged 43

The death has been announced of the African-American actor Chadwick Boseman, the star of Marvel's Black Panther and Avengers films. He was 43 and had been battling colon cancer.

Chadwick Boseman • 29 Aug 20

Olivia Wilde looks set to direct a big budget Spider-woman movie

Olivia Wilde to direct big budget Marvel movie

Olivia Wilde is getting ready to start work on a top-secret, female-led superhero movie which she has hinted will be Spider-Woman.

Movies • 20 Aug 20

Angelina Jolie and Barry Keoghan have worked together on the upcoming Marvel adventure The Eternals

Angelina Jolie hails 'unique' Barry Keoghan

Angelina Jolie has heaped praise on her Eternals co-star Barry Keoghan, saying that the Dublin actor is "very unique" and that she thinks "very highly of him".

Movies • 18 Aug 20

Zoe Saldana apologises for playing Nina Simone

Marvel movie star Zoe Saldana has apologised for playing revered singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone in a much-maligned 2016 biopic.

Zoe Saldana • 06 Aug 20

Missing Marvel movies? Try Mortal

Brings the Thor legend back home to the land of the ice and snow with The Fault in Our Stars' Nat Wolff playing the unlikely hero. Strangely, it works.

Movie Review • 04 Aug 20

Michael Keaton on the set of 1989's Batman

The greatest cape. Keaton 'in talks for Batman return'

It is reported that Michael Keaton is in talks to reprise his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne almost 30 years after starring in Batman Returns - this time in another DC Comics spin-off.

Movies • 23 Jun 20

Disney streaming service passes 54m subscriber mark

Disney's streaming service Disney+ has realised more than 54 million subscribers around the world.

Disney • 06 May 20