The 18th of December might mark Doomsday, but things are already looking a little brighter beyond that in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After all, we just got some pretty amazing casting announcements for Phase Six, and chief among them is the shocker that closed out the Saturday night San Diego Comic-Con panel: David Jonsson will be starring in the next Black Panther movie! Right in the last moments of a starry SDCC panel that featured all of the Avengers: Doomsday cast, plus the reveal that Ryan Gosling is going to play Ghost Rider, Marvel Studios President, and SDCC’s proverbial master…

Over centuries in the Marvel Universe, Ghost Rider has gone by many names: he has been the demon Zarathos, his hosts have included the stuntman Johnny Blaze, the troubled teen Danny Ketch, the street racer Robbie Reyes. But now, he’s just Ken. Ryan Gosling was announced at SDCC 2026 to join the MCU as the next Ghost Rider, in a film directed by Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy. At the moment, details are unclear about which incarnation of Ghost Rider Gosling will play, but coming off of hits Barbie and Project Hail Mary, he’ll likely be the movie’s primary…

Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has a lot of ground to cover in its third season. Not only is there still much to see and do in the show’s canon, based on the legendary J.R.R. Tolkien’s expansive Middle-earth appendices, but there are many faces, both new and old, that LOTR fans have yet to meet. The show’s expansive panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 went a long way in introducing some of those faces. From Eddie Marsan as dwarf Thrain, to Andrew Richardson as son of Elendil Anarion, to…wait a minute, this can’t possibly…

There are two emerging schools of thoughts around HBO’s upcoming adaptation of the Green Lantern mythology on premium cable: there are those who love that it looks like a real HBO drama—most specifically True Detective with maybe a sprinkling of Watchmen (fitting since one of the series’ creators is Damon Lindelof)—and those who recoil at such a low-fi approach to one of the DC Universe’s spaciest and most operatic of space operas. That divide might be changing, though, after a groovy three-minute sizzle reel that just dropped on the San Diego Comic-Con faithful in Hall H. Accompanied by cast and…

For some reason, the first trailer for Ebenezer doesn’t emphasize its new vision for one of the most memorable stories in English literature. Instead the trailer leans into the audience’s fondness for its star Johnny Depp, citing roles such as Captain Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands, the Mad Hatter, and, of course, his very first screen character, Glen Lantz. No, the on-screen titles don’t explicitly state Glen’s name, nor do they mention his film, 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. But one shot in the trailer does recall Glen’s final fate. Among the images of Depp giving a very hammy performance…

Fans have reason to worry any time a beloved work gets adapted into a different medium, but few have as many reasons as fans of the Resident Evil video game series. While that franchise has spun off into seven live-action movies, the results have been mixed. The Paul W. S. Anderson movies starring Milla Jovovich take only the most external trappings of the games and apply them to a totally different genre of action and tone, while the 2021 reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City remained superficially faithful to the games but did not tell a compelling story. For…

As any comic book reader can tell you, the subtitle of the latest Spider-Man movie, Brand New Day, comes from a 2008 Marvel Comics storyline. There Peter Parker genuinely undergoes a reinvention, a status quo shakeup after his longstanding marriage to Mary Jane had been erased, as well as all memory of his exposed secret identity vanished. In the MCU, the Spider-Man played by Tom Holland has gone through a similar ordeal, with all knowledge of Peter Parker removed from the entire populace. But will his brand new day be as drastic as that of his comic book predecessor? According…

This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Find out how you can subscribe to get the full physical copy right here! When Jason Dessen and his reclaimed family left a world full of turmoil for an unknown alternate reality at the end of Dark Matter season 1, that could easily have been the end of the story for Apple TV’s ambitious sci-fi series. As Jason closes the door behind him, the quantum tunnel stretches off into forever, allowing the audience to decide what future lay in store for the Dessens after the ostensibly happy ending. “I loved the…

Not so long ago, video game movies were made by people with no interest in video games. One need only recall the shock and disgust gamers experienced while watching Mario and Luigi visit a leather club in Super Mario Bros. or see Jimmy and Billy Lee battle a Vanilla Ice-styled Robert Patrick in Double Dragon. But with its latest trailer, Resident Evil assures fans that director Zach Cregger is approaching the material with the love and devotion of a longtime stan. Any references to the game will probably pass by non-gamers without notice. Instead they’ll just see medical supply delivery…

This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4, episode 1. Even the biggest fan of new Star Trek has to admit that Strange New Worlds has something to prove. After its first two excellent seasons, the prequel series took a wrong turn with its third season. Between a mean-spirited overarching story that involved eye trauma and a nonsensical Doctor Who-style resolution, and far too much emphasis on Spock’s love life, the season left many disappointed. The season 4 premiere, “Valles Marineris,” seeks to right the ship, in part because it follows the model of one of…

This article contains spoilers for Dark Matter season 1. It’s been nearly two years since Dark Matter wrapped up its first season on Apple TV, and the adaptation of Blake Crouch’s bestselling novel has quickly become one of the streamer’s biggest sci-fi hits, blending high-concept physics with a heartfelt personal story about love, regret, and the roads not taken. Now, with season 2 arriving in August, it’s the perfect time to revisit where Jason Dessen’s journey left off, especially given that, with the novel fully adapted in season 1, the story is now entering uncharted territory. It would take more…

Monkey D. Luffy stands triumphant on the cover of an OFFICIAL SPECIAL EDITION issue of Den of Geek magazine coming to San Diego Comic-Con and AnimeNYC, providing anime fans with a sneak peek inside Netflix’s THE ONE PIECE, a bold new adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s legendary saga. The magazine is also available in a special CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS 2 variant cover and offers a preview of Netflix’s animation slate including BLUE EYE SAMURAI, BASS X MACHINA, and Brad Bird’s feature film RAY GUNN.  The limited edition collectible is bundled with the latest issue of Den of Geek magazine, featuring Tom Holland…

This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 1 The mission of any ship in Starfleet involves boldly going and seeking out new life and new civilizations. That’s especially true of Strange New Worlds, where the mission statement is there in the name. Yet, the first episode of the series’ fourth season seems to reject that premise. In “Valles Marineris,” Captain Pike stays firmly in our solar system, visiting Earth and dealing with visitors from the planet Mars, albeit in the distant past. Banal as that might seem, Star Trek has long had an unconventional…

In the first line of Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, the poet beseeches the Muses, “Tell me about a complicated man.” That line, of course, refers to Odysseus, the crafty genius whose journey back home to Ithaca takes up most of The Odyssey. It could also refer to Christopher Nolan, who worked from Wilson’s translation to make an idiosyncratic, historically inaccurate, but critically and commercially successful film adaptation of The Odyssey. It could not, however, refer to Elon Musk. Not because he’s any less worthy of complication than any other human being. But rather because the inheritor of riches…

While we’re all a little disappointed that Matt Reeves has pushed The Batman: Part II back to 2028, and we’re all annoyed that we still have no details on an official DCU Batman, that doesn’t mean we have to stay out of Gotham City. The upcoming film Clayface will bring the shapeshifting villain to the screen before the Dark Knight, telling the story of up-and-coming actor Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) who tests an experimental serum after a mobster mangles his face. The latest trailer for Clayface helps us get over the lack of Batman by leaning hard into its…

This article contains spoilers for X-Men ’97 season 2, episode 6. The latest episode of X-Men ’97, “Danger.exe” opens with a satisfying action scene, in which the government-sponsored X-Factor takes on the Purifiers, an anti-mutant religious cult led by Reverend William Stryker. Satisfying as it is to see Polaris unleash on the hate-mongers, the real fight occurs shortly afterward, when team leader Havok accosts her for going too far. Havok defends himself by insisting that the team does good, finding mutants before other, more hostile forces can and getting them to safety—even if that safety is a prison cell. Havok’s…

Decades of animation have given us some truly great and memorable villains. Some of them unsettle viewers for personal reasons, others become iconic to audiences everywhere, while still more achieve real cult status, and we’re here to celebrate some of the greatest of all time. The very best animated villains linger in the mind long after the TV or movie credits have rolled. Disney alone has produced more than its fair share of legendary antagonists, but we’ve deliberately kept their presence to a minimum here. Those villains deserve a spotlight all their own, and they have one right here. Instead,…

Looking scary is only part of being a memorable horror villain. The hard part is actually living up to that first impression. Plenty of creepy characters make a dramatic entrance, only to spend the rest of the movie watching their plans fall apart or getting outsmarted much more easily than anyone expected. Some become more famous because of their design than their actions, while others are simply too distracted, overconfident, or bizarre to feel like a real threat. They may still be entertaining, but they’re hardly the unstoppable nightmares they first appear to be. Here are 15 horror villains who…

Like most Marvel fans, we’ve spent the day here at Den of Geek poring over the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, looking for clues, cameos, and just enjoying seeing our favorites on the screen again. So exciting has the trailer been that it’s easy to overlook the other thing that Marvel dropped today, a new poster for the movie. The Avengers: Doomsday poster lacks any actual Avengers. None of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Wakandans, or most of the other characters highlighted in the trailer appear. Instead, we just see Doom from behind as he ascends stairs to look…

With Christopher Nolan‘s latest dominating the box office, cinema lovers aren’t just excited to learn what the director has planned next. They’re also excited about the second epic we have this year, another massive movie helmed by a filmmaker whose name evokes big ticket sales: Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune: Part Three. It’s not hard to see the similarities, as both films feature mythic heroes on strange adventures, and they even share cast members in Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. However, fans of the books know that the connections between Dune and The Odyssey go deeper than one might expect. The secret is…