Warning: This review contains full spoilers for X-Men '97 Season 2, Episode 6! At what point does Disney need to change the name of this series? It may be X-Men '97, but the show is really starting to lean into the early 2000s era of the comics with Episode 6. That being said, when the result is that X-Men '97 starts drawing from all-time classics like the Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely New X-Men and Joss Whedon/John Cassaday Astonishing X-Men runs, who are we to complain? As is the show's wont, "Danger.exe" covers a lot of ground in the span of 30 minutes. This episode pulls in many elements from the first half of the aforementioned Astonishing X-Men, albeit with Polaris (Carolina Ravassa) filling in for Kitty Pryde. Meanwhile, on the New X-Men front, we get the introduction of those lovely Quitely-designed costumes and some key developments late in the episode. It's a stew with a lot of ingredients, but they all come together nicely enough in the end. This isn't a case like Episode 5, where the show failed to truly take advantage of the source material it was adapting. One of the main draws of "Danger.exe" is that we finally get to see the Xavier Institute treated as what it actual
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The TikTok deal is likely a replacement for Disney's scrapped partnership with OpenAI's Sora As streaming services continue to scramble for ways to compete with social media, Disney just announced a new deal with TikTok that will bring…
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The TikTok deal is likely a replacement for Disney's scrapped partnership with OpenAI's Sora As streaming services continue to scramble for ways to compete with social media, Disney just announced a new deal with TikTok…
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Read original at Engadget →For those keeping score at home: Wonder Man season two is cancelled, and the Blade movie is definitely not happening with Mahershala Ali. Now DC has some bummer news to add to Marvel’s tally of misery, with writer David…
Read original at Gizmodo →It's been well over a decade since Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. And while they wasted no time in taking advantage of the Star Wars franchise on the publishing side, they've been strangely reticent to focus on Indiana…
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The TikTok deal is likely a replacement for Disney's scrapped partnership with OpenAI's Sora As streaming services continue to scramble for ways to compete with social media, Disney just announced a new deal with TikTok that will bring…
View source →Creators will be granted access to a deep library of Disney assets to use in their videos. Disney and TikTok have penned a deal that will allow TikTok creators to bring Disney-centric vertical videos to Disney+. Disney launched its…
View source →For those keeping score at home: Wonder Man season two is cancelled, and the Blade movie is definitely not happening with Mahershala Ali. Now DC has some bummer news to add to Marvel’s tally of misery, with writer David Jenkins (creator of…
View source →It's been well over a decade since Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. And while they wasted no time in taking advantage of the Star Wars franchise on the publishing side, they've been strangely reticent to focus on Indiana Jones. Even when…
View source →When you’re looking for a great miniseries to binge over a weekend, your first stop is most likely HBO Max for shows like Watchmen and True Detective, or Netflix, for the likes of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. But while…
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The inaugural VivaTech x Bloomberg Awards ceremony, hosted by Bloomberg Television’s Francine Lacqua and Tom Mackenzie, was held on June 18, 2026, at the VivaTech conference in…
