Marvel pays tribute to the '90s with retro site for 'Captain Marvel'

Before there were social media and other more functional sites to help you create a website, there were the likes of Geocities, where you would spend many hours crafting these intricate, kind of gaudy (by today's standards) personal sites. To capture that era of the internet as well as the time Captain Marvel lived in, Marvel created a rather appropriate website to promote the upcoming film.

With the movie set in the '90s, we get a website filled with bright backgrounds, rather liberal use of pixelated GIFs for both words and images, and even the TV spot shown in a faux Real Player (which is cleverly renamed as Kree Player). Scroll down and you even see a site counter and a fake Guest Book. All the information about the movie is there, but it's just presented in a way that would certainly bring you back to the era.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Marvel’s ‘The Punisher’ gets final trailer ahead of release

We’re just a few days shy from the release of the second season of The Punisher. And it looks just as bloody as ever. We hear more from friend-turned-foe Jigsaw (Ben Barnes) in this season as he seeks revenge against Frank Castle a.k.a. The Punisher (Jon Bernthal). He wants The Punisher “to feel what I felt.” Whether he makes good on that promise, we’ll probably find out in this season. What we still don’t know at this point is whether this show will come back for another season. Only time will tell. Marvel’s The Punisher will start streaming on January 18^th.

Is Marvel ready to make an R-rated ‘Black Widow’ film?

While Captain Marvel marks the first female-led movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, another longstanding member of the MCU might be making waves in her own way. Writer Charles Murphy from the comedy and music podcast The Hashtag Show tweeted that he once heard Marvel Studios thinking about making the Black Widow movie an R-rated film. But this could also stand for other Marvel films, too. He adds “I’m not saying it will be for sure (no way to know what they will settle on at this point), but they have recently said that R-rated MCU films ARE a possibility, so it is a possibility.”

The buzz around possibly having R-rated MCU films came when Disney announced its acquisition of 21^st Century Fox, and with the latter having already made more mature films for Marvel characters like Deadpool and Logan, it seems like something that could happen. We don’t know much about the Black Widow movie but it does currently have a female director in Cate Shortland, Scarlett Johansson will be reprising her role, and filming is expected to start this coming March. Release date is said to be 2020. It’s being rumoured that the film will be a prequel and will follow Natasha Romanoff (or Natalia Romanova) as she works as a spy for the KGB.

Source: Inquirer.net

Netflix to bring back ‘The Punisher’ on January 18th

Following the release of a cryptic teaser a couple of days ago, Netflix announced the release date of The Punisher’s second season. The Marvel show will be coming back to the streaming service on January 18^th. We get to venture into Frank Castle’s story one more time. To tide you over before the show’s release, take a peek at the teaser trailer above. The Punisher is one of the last two Marvel shows still standing on Netflix. Will this be the last season for the show? We’re bound to find out soon.

Source: Engadget