In May, a report from journalist Chris Higashi, who was in attendance at the Disney Blockbuster Consumer Products presentation, revealed a significant amount of information about the villains and plot of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Though it was met with heavy skepticism as the time, Higashi claimed that the presentation revealed a trip of villains set to menace the Web-Slinger in the new film: Scorpion, Boomerang and Tombstone.
With Michael Mando back as Mac Gargan, Scorpion is a lock and now, as production continues in the UK, another of those three baddies has been confirmed.
According to Deadline, Marvin Jones III has joined the cast of Spider-Man: Brand New Day as Tombstone, The Horror of Harlem.
Jones voiced Tombstone in Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2018 and also has experience as a live-action baddie after playing DC kingpin Tobias Whale in the CW’s Black Lightning.
With Marvel Studios recently having completed principal photography on Avengers: Doomsday (though plans include “a healthy dose of additional photography down the road”), directors Anthony and Joe Russo will begin post-production work on the film while also prepping for production on Avengers: Secret Wars. Incredibly, despite filming for five-and-a-half months, true leaks from the set were scarce, leaving fans with only a few bread crumbs about what might be going down in Avengers: Doomsday; however, thanks to one of the film’s hair and makeup artists, the first looks at the new costumes of the entire main cast has made its way online.
Via her IG story, hair and makeup artist Giovanna Ponci has revealed art of 28 characters confirmed to appear in Avengers: Doomsday. While the most notable costume changes belong to the Fox X-Men, there’s plenty from the artwork to dissect.
Promo art for 'Avengers: Doomsday' reveals updated costumes for the main crew, including Cyclops in a comic-accurate, Jim Lee-inspired suit! pic.twitter.com/dxy40yzis0
Top row (L to R): Doctor Doom, Reed Richards, Bucky Barnes, Yelena Belova (partially obscured), Magneto (partially obscured), Beast (partially obscured) and Ghost
Second row (L to R): Thor, Sue Storm, Shuri, Red Guardian, Charles Xavier, Cyclops and Falcon
Third row (L to R): Captain America, Thing, Shang-Chi, M’Baku, Gambit, Nightcrawler and Sentry
Bottom row (L to R): Ant-Man, Johnny Storm, Loki, Namor, Mystique, John Walker and Franklin Richards
The art reveals that James Marsden‘s Cyclops will be sporting a comic-accurate, Jim Lee-inspired blue and gold suit, confirming previous rumors, and Rebecca Romijn‘s Mystique will be wearing a white dress, per her classic look.
Yelena Belova and her New Avengers are all featured in the artwork and while their Avengers: Doomsday costumes were revealed in the Thunderbolts* tag, it’s worth pointing out that Lewis Pullman is in full Sentry mode, something that could certainly change the course of the film in more than one way.
Wakandans Shuri and M’Baku are both sporting new looks while their new ally, Namor, is wearing collared costume that looks to be comic-inspired as well.
After filming for roughly five-and-a-half months, principal photography on Avengers: Doomsday has wrapped, according to THR. The trade report confirms suspicions stemming from multiple social media posts from crew members but comes with one caveat: with 15 months until the film’s December 18, 2026 release date, the studio already has plans for “a healthy dose of additional photography down the road.”
Crew members of ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ were gifted a T-shirt from the film.
With Avengers: Doomsday simmering until additional photography begins, directors Anthony and Joe Russo can begin to turn at least some of their collective attention to Avengers: Secret Wars, the capstone to the Multiverse Saga which will land in theaters on December 17, 2027.
Stephen McFeely is writing the script. We are right in the middle of the writing process. We’ve always worked very closely with Markus and McFeely through all the work that we’ve done together. It’s a little bit like getting back on a bike. We have a really codified process that we all work together through… It’s very complicated to iron out a story of this scale.
-Joe Russo
“It’ll be similar [to the process of filming Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame], but we’ll have a larger break in between the two movies than we did,” Joe Russo explained in October 2024. According to his brother, Anthony, that “break” will consist of “a year or so,” allowing the brothers time to do some post-production work on Doomsday while also preparing for Secret Wars, which will be written by Infinity War and Endgame co-writer Stephen McFeely.
Doctor Doom has officially arrived in the MCU. This villain, a master of cutting-edge science and powerful magic, will unleash a cascading crisis across the entire multiverse.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps was a critical and financial success for Marvel Studios this summer. The film, which introduced Marvel’s First Family into the MCU, reportedly took in $517M globally, making it the highest-grossing of the studio’s three 2025 films and the highest-grossing Fantastic Four film yet. Now, as it’s box office run wraps up, the studio is officially ready to launch the next phase.
According to EW, The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be available in digital platforms on September 23rd with physical media, such as 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD, available to purchase on October 14th.
Credit: EW
According to EW, “Collectors will have the option to purchase more commemorative SteelBook editions, including an Amazon exclusive that comes with a custom magnet-front variant cover, five collector cards, and an issue of The Fantastic Four: First Steps #1 comic.”
Credit: EW
Additionally, a “Walmart exclusive pop-up Blu-ray package, which comes with a slipcover and pop-up display featuring the Fantastic Four riding in the Fantasticar,” will be available.
EW also revealed a gag reel, multiple featurettes and deleted scenes will be available on both digital and physical copies.
Featurette: Meet The First Family
The creation of the Fantastic Four saved Marvel Comics in 1961 and has only flourished as years have passed. Matt Shakman and the cast explain how they found themselves gravitating toward each role and creating the ultimate family.
Featurette: Fantastic Futurism
The filmmakers discuss the process of immersing the cast and crew in the film’s retro-futuristic aesthetic. Join Matt Shakman and crew as they discuss the experience of shooting in gigantic mid-century New York sets and stepping into an otherworldly era.
Featurette: From Beyond and Below
The team explores bringing complex characters from the page to the screen, including a larger-than-life Galactus, grounded Harvey Elder/Mole Man, and an emotionally rich Silver Surfer.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps was a critical and financial success for Marvel Studios this summer. The film, which introduced Marvel’s First Family into the MCU, reportedly took in $517M globally, making it the highest-grossing of the studio’s three 2025 films and the highest-grossing Fantastic Four film yet. Now, as it’s box office run wraps up, the studio is officially ready to launch the next phase.
According to EW, The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be available in digital platforms on September 23rd with physical media, such as 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD, available to purchase on October 14th.
Credit: EW
According to EW, “Collectors will have the option to purchase more commemorative SteelBook editions, including an Amazon exclusive that comes with a custom magnet-front variant cover, five collector cards, and an issue of The Fantastic Four: First Steps #1 comic.”
Credit: EW
Additionally, a “Walmart exclusive pop-up Blu-ray package, which comes with a slipcover and pop-up display featuring the Fantastic Four riding in the Fantasticar,” will be available.
Credit: EW
EW also revealed a gag reel, multiple featurettes and deleted scenes will be available on both digital and physical copies.
Featurette: Meet The First Family
The creation of the Fantastic Four saved Marvel Comics in 1961 and has only flourished as years have passed. Matt Shakman and the cast explain how they found themselves gravitating toward each role and creating the ultimate family.
Featurette: Fantastic Futurism
The filmmakers discuss the process of immersing the cast and crew in the film’s retro-futuristic aesthetic. Join Matt Shakman and crew as they discuss the experience of shooting in gigantic mid-century New York sets and stepping into an otherworldly era.
Featurette: From Beyond and Below
The team explores bringing complex characters from the page to the screen, including a larger-than-life Galactus, grounded Harvey Elder/Mole Man, and an emotionally rich Silver Surfer.
Deleted Scenes
Thanksgiving Soup Kitchen
Fantastic Four Day
Subterranea
Birthday Sweater
Taking Turns
Be the first to bring Marvel's first family home. 💙
Buy The Fantastic Four: First Steps on Digital Sep 23. Own it on Blu-ray Oct 14.
In more ways than one, Avengers: Doomsday has remained enigmatic despite filming for more than five months. Sure, a five-hour publicity stunt revealed 27 actors meant to lead the way in the Russo brothers’ return., however, the premise of the film has remained relatively secretive…until now.
Coming out of a marketing expo in Shanghai, fans have now been exposed to the first synopsis for Avengers: Doomsday.
Doctor Doom has officially arrived in the MCU. This villain, a master of cutting-edge science and powerful magic, will unleash a cascading crisis across the entire multiverse.
-First synopsis for Avengers: Doomsday
A new banner featuring Spider-Man and Doctor Doom and a first synopsis for AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY has been released during the Walt Disney Marketing Expo in Shanghai:
"Doctor Doom has officially arrived in the MCU. This villain, a master of cutting-edge science and powerful magic,… pic.twitter.com/x0MTjXD4P6
Of Disney’s three major Summer theatrical releases, only one truly took charge at the box office. Even with a pair of critically acclaimed Marvel Studios projects opening on either side of it, it was Walt Disney Studios’ live-action Lilo & Stitch that took in the cash. The film’s $423.5M domestic box office total was nearly equal to the combined cash brought in by Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, despite each of those films being expected to factor heavily into the final phase of Marvel’s Multiverse Saga. But that’s the problem…or at least it’s one problem that is frequently cited on social media as folks explain why they have stopped watching Marvel Studios movies.
Setting aside the truth (people haven’t stopped watching them, though they’ve certainly quit watching them in theaters but that’s a different article for a different day), fans certainly didn’t NOT go to see The Fantastic Four: First Steps because it was too connected to prior projects and required too much homework. Kevin Feige made it clear ahead of the film’s release that “it is a no-homework-required movie. It literally is not connected to anything we’ve made before.” And even if that’s why they thought they didn’t go see it, it still made 1.3 times the amount of money at the box office that Thunderbolts*, a movie that did have connections to more previous MCU projects than any non-Avengers film before it. But did it really require a first-time audience member to watch each of the associated projects in order to enjoy or understand it?
The answer is a definitive no; however, a prevailing complaint about Thunderbolts* was that there were just too many characters and too many back stories to follow in order for a Marvel newbie–or oldie–to keep up. Unfortunately, that’s just nonsense and, ironically, Disney’s biggest box office success of the Summer provides a wonderful example of just how silly the Thunderbolts* narrative (that took over social media and message boards and became internet “fact”) truly is.
Lilo & Stitch may be a remake but before we begin, let’s reject the preposterous notion that “everyone” had seen the original or knew the story ahead of time, or, even if you refuse to do that, remember that the original animated film was also wildly successful when it was released in theaters in 2002.
And then realize that whichever of the two films you want to think about, audiences knew absolutely nothing about any of the characters and relied on exposition to learn what they needed to know. Stitch is an experiment gone wrong, but who are Jumba and Pleakley? There was no Jumba and Agent Pleakley D+ streaming series introduing the devious evil genius and the Earth expert, yet audiences, including young children, are completely capable of deducing what they need to know about them from what they learn in the film. Wondering about what happened to Lilo’s parents? You didn’t miss the prequel where one of Jumba’s prior experiments came to Earth and assassinated them. Wait…Cobra Bubbles is CIA or MIB? Nope, there was no Cobra Bubbles film or series. Audiences didn’t know the characters before they watched the film and things turned out wonderfully.
In the case of Thunderbolts*, a convincing argument could be made that having seen Black Widow would have added to the experience; however, it’s debatable if even that was necessary. Yelena is sad because her sister died. Do you need to know her sister was Natasha to understand that she’s sad? Alexi is unhappy. It’s obvious he and Yelena are family. Nothing he did in Black Widow matters in Thunderbolts*. Didn’t know he was a super soldier? Give him a minute and he’ll tell you.
Everything you needed to know about John Walker (dime store Captain America), Ghost a S.H.I.E.L.D. reject), Taskmaster (the dead one who destroyed half of Budapest) and even Val…all in the exposition provided mostly by Walker in the first act of the film. Bucky, obviously, provides a problem IF you need to understand every reference or need to know who the Winter Soldier is to enjoy the film. If you missed the exposition during the fight in Val’s O.X.E. stronghold where you SHOULD have learned everything you needed to know, give Alexi a minute and he’ll tell you what you need to know. They’re a bunch of people who have done bad things sometimes, but aren’t bad.
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
Like Stitch, Bob is an experiment gone wrong and, like Stitch, his story requires and is given a fair bit of exposition. And in a wonderfully serendipitous moment, like Stitch, it’s Bob’s ohana, which he finds during the course of the film, that allows him to finally put the monster away and saves him from a terrible fate.
The similarities between Lilo & Stitch and Thunderbolts* run deeper than what’s been discussed here but they are both incredibly enjoyable films and if you can enjoy one, you can also enjoy the other…even if you don’t know anything about any of the characters before you sit down to watch.
To date, there’s been no official word from Marvel or Sony and Ruffalo was not seen on set in Glasgow, Scotland when the film began production. With production having moved mostly indoors, it’s possible Ruffalo may never be seen “on set” to confirm his role but the actor was asked about the rumors in a recent red carpet interview with ET Online.
“I don’t know, I’m still waiting to hear. I haven’t read a script yet,” said Ruffalo when he was approached about his return to the role.
“If it does happen, it would be incredible,” laughed the star. “I grew up with this, and it’s changed my life in the best ways. Each time, it’s a new director, a new world, and it’s so exciting. There’s nothing else like it. A TV show doesn’t change its world from one director to the next, and that’s what is exciting.“
Based on what’s been seen and shared so far, Tom Holland and new Spidey franchise director Destin Daniel Cretton seem to have something special cooking in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which looks to diverge significantly from the previous MCU-set Spider-Man films. Adding a rampaging Hulk to the already long list of problems Holland’s Wall-Crawler will face in the film might make for one of the Multiverse Saga’s best projects, if not one of its most action-packed.
Principal photography on Avengers: Doomsday recently took place at Windsor Great Park in the UK where a set referred to as the “Luke Cage House” was constructed in a secluded area. Rumors indicated that the home belonged to Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter and was located in the alternate timeline created when Rogers used the Time-Space GPS to travel time to live with the love of his life.
Despite all that, fans are convinced that the pair of stars are in the film and a report that they recently shot scenes alongside Tom Hiddlestonhas supported a rumor that Rogers’ decision created the first Multiversal incursion, kick-starting the end of everything. Now, as filming in Windsor Great Park wraps, a new behind the scenes photo confirms a mid-20th century setting for the recent scenes.
Photographer UnBoxPHD, who has been delivering photos from UK sets of Marvel Studios films over the past couple of years, shared a shot of a car carrier transporting a pair of classic cars: a Plymouth Special Deluxe and a Chrysler New Yorker, both from the early 1940s.
Given that Rogers travelers back to 1949 to have his dance and begin his life with Carter, the cars support the recent set report; however, until Atwell and Evans are seen on set or officially announced as part of the cast, their inclusion in the film will remain a subject of debate.
Cameras have been rolling on Avengers: Doomsday for just over five months and Marvel Studios has gone to great lengths to try to keep details about the 2026 film in house. With most of the movie being filmed either on a soundstage or in locations that are very secluded and/or secure, the studio has managed to limit the major leaks that have plagued almost every project it has produced in the past five years…until now, perhaps.
A recent rumor indicated that Chris Evans –who has not been officially announced as part of the cast of the film–would be reprising tlhis role as Steve Rogers and that his story would pick up where itedt off in Avengers: Endgame. Now, a pair of social media reports have combined to shed an even brighter light on the role and reveal the first truly major spoiler from the project. Proceed with caution…
The rumor mill began rolling when photographer UnBoxPHD shared the news that Tom Hiddleston was on the set of Avengers: Doomsday to film. That information could in no way be considered spoilery given that Hiddleston was among those announced as part of the cast in March; however, a follow-up report by a trusted Marvel insider may have connected a series of dots and revealed a major plot point.
According to longtime social media scooper Daniel Richtman, Hiddleston filmed his scenes along with Evans and Haley Atwell, presumably at the “Luke Cage house.”
Tom Hiddleston has filmed a scene in Steve and Peggy’s home where he’s having a [conversation] with them.
-Daniel Richtman
If accurate, it means that the God of Stories will have left his throne at the Citadel at the End of Time from where he protects the Multiverse. And it would take something incredibly important to cause him to make that choice…
Though it’s far from confirmed, such a scene could very well lend support to rumblings recently making the rounds that suggest Steve Rogers’ decision to live a life “in the past” with Peggy caused the first incursion and has made him the target of Doctor Doom’s ire. Aside from the rich possibilities of Rogers and Loki meeting again on screen (remember, this is the Time Heist Variant of Loki, which means he has a past with Rogers but has evolved over the course of an incredible journey), having Avengers: Doomsday tie directly into the epilogue of Avengers: Endgame would be a smart move for the studio. It also presents an intriguing dynamic in which Rogers–The Man Out of Time who led Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to victory over Thanos–inadvertently started the destruction of the Multiverse while Loki–the God of Lies whose attempt to conquer Earth assembled the Avengers–must now try to save it…again.
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