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After the MCU’s first four projects of 2021, which include three Disney+ outings and Phase 4’s first movie in Black Widow, Marvel Studios will take its first chance with animation in August’s What If…? on Disney+. This ten-episode story will look back at the Infinity Saga’s 23 movies from 2008 to 2019, although key details of the original stories will be changed to create something new. While fans only have one collection of footage to enjoy from the trailer released at Disney Investor’s Day, rumors detailing certain episode plots have circled through news streams over the past few weeks....

Pros And Cons Of Getting An Inner Lip Tattoo Shutterstock By Joey Keogh/Jan. 8, 2020 5:38 pm EST The hottest spot for celebrities to get tattooed right now might just be the inner lip, with everybody from Miley Cyrus to Kendall Jenner and Ruby Rose showing off their own take on the trend. Rose, for example, has the word “MEOW” tattooed on the inside of her lip, telling Canvas magazine it was her most painful tattoo by far....

Solo: A Star Wars Story, the Han Solo prequel starring Alden Ehrenreich as the titular smuggler, hit theaters in May of 2018. Suffice to say, it didn’t pull in the box office numbers that Disney was hoping for. The movie dramatically underperformed and what’s more, was met with a lukewarm reaction by many fans and critics. Star Wars films have traditionally been released in the month of May, as was the case with the franchise’s first six movies....

Ask, and fans shall receive - that’s the message both Sony and Marvel appear to be communicating amidst the literal media blitz for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Following the release of the mysterious film’s second trailer, fans have been inundated with various posters, teasers, and TV spots; and most recently, the first few seconds of the Tom Holland-led threequel came to light On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios released No Way Home’s opening scene, which picks up right where 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home ended with The Daily Bugle’s J....

Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to be the talk of the comic-book-movie community as it nears its first full month in theaters with fans unable to get enough of the film’s Multiversal mayhem. Although the main nostalgia factor helped with this endeavor thanks to a returning Spider-Man villain or two, like Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin and Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock, the threequel also did its part to push the web-slinger’s narrative into uncharted territory in all aspects....

With The Book of Boba Fett now in the rearview mirror, it’s officially Obi-Wan Kenobi season. Lucasfilm and Disney officially unveiled the teaser poster for the highly-anticipated series, which coincided with the announcement that it would debut on May 25 - exactly 45 years to the day that fans first met the Jedi Master. In the coming months, there will be trailers, interviews, and posters aplenty to feed the hunger for the show’s release....

For quite some time, Star Wars fans have been waiting for Dave Filoni to assume his rightful place and rule the Star Wars galaxy. What was unknown to most, was that it happened last year. ADVERTISEMENT Yes, the George Lucas protégé and mind behind Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and The Mandalorian was promoted to executive creative director for the studio back in 2020. And the internet just found out....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch officially has its first week of episodes in the books, but, as always, the new content comes with controversy. The extended premiere for the series opened with a sequence on Kaller, in which Star Wars fans once again saw the tragic outcome of Order 66. In this case, the victims of the clones’ betrayal were Jedi Master Depa Billaba and her Padawan Caleb Dume, who survived and...

The most recent DC Comics release has been James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. While its financial success is questionable, fans and critics loved it. Sadly, that also happened to be the last DC project of 2021. Next year, however, DC’s slate is set to pick up. From The Batman, Black Adam, The Flash, and more—2022 is stacked. But there’s one film many probably aren’t thinking about: DC League of Super-Pets. ADVERTISEMENT...

In the wake of the coronavirus, it’s not only the film and television industries that have been disrupted, but also live entertainment and events. Each year, thousands of fans gather at conventions to celebrate their favorite pop culture franchises and eagerly anticipate the news that the studios bring about their latest projects. Now that both San Diego Comic-Con and Star Wars Celebration 2020 in Anaheim have been officially canceled, the team at The Direct has put together our favorite Star Wars convention moments so that we can all relive them vicariously until conventions return....

“Are we exclusive?” Shutterstock It’s no secret that commitment is a scary topic, but it’s also important to note that men and women are conditioned to think and act differently about it. “Women are ubiquitously taught about marriage, family, happily ever after,” explains Dr. Anjhula Mya Singh Bais. “And men are taught to be strong and independent, that they do not need anyone, that they do not cry, to be stoic....

The Real Reason Liam Hemsworth Gave Up His Vegan Diet Neilson Barnard/Getty Images By Hope Ngo/April 14, 2020 11:01 am EST In 2016, PETA named Liam Hemsworth the sexiest male vegan celebrity of the year, just five months after he gave up eating meat. Just four years later, Hemsworth says the time had come for him to reevaluate his dietary choices. “I was vegan for almost four years, and then February of last year I was feeling lethargic....

The Truth About Jane Fonda And Dolly Parton’s Relationship Kevin Winter/Getty Images By Joey Keogh/April 29, 2020 1:45 pm EST It all started with 9 to 5, the iconic and boundary-pushing 80s work-based comedy starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, and Lily Tomlin that also spawned the country legend’s unstoppable earworm of the same name. In the four decades since, the three ladies have remained close, but Fonda and Parton in particular share an unbreakable bond....

Diamonds are really, really old Stephane De Sakutin/Getty Images WP Diamonds revealed that most naturally-occurring diamonds are over a billion years old — that’s billion with a b! According to the National Center for Science Education, this was a time when the earth was populated solely by single-celled organisms — none of whom were too interested in pursuing relationships with other SCOs, much less staging romantic proposals, so the diamonds of that era weren’t in high demand....

Reenactment of me smelling cheese during my first dairy-free week Shutterstock I laughed at first, thinking this was some sick horror film—A Nightmare on Pecorino Street—and then reality set in. My dermatologist explained I only needed to cut out dairy to see if it had an impact on my stubborn skin. You see, my struggle with acne spans nearly 12 years. From two rounds of Accutane to countless at-home remedies, my 26-year-old face still breaks out on the reg....

This Is Why You Want To Change Your Hair During Quarantine Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/May 14, 2020 5:08 pm EST Perhaps one of the most noticeable aspects of corona culture has been everyone’s desire to try something new while staying safe (and stuck) at home. New recipes, new hobbies like gardening and chicken-farming, new babies (oh wait, not quite yet), and a whole raft of offbeat new products like, umm, burrito-themed makeup kits?...

Even though Marvel Studios has enjoyed success with its various series on Disney+, the plan was still considered somewhat of a gamble back in 2020. Before this year, MCU films were synonymous solely with box office success, and there were questions about whether fans would invest in its interconnected storytelling on a streaming service as well as in theaters. But the whole conversation changed when WandaVision dropped on Disney+. ADVERTISEMENT...

Ways Your Cell Phone Is Bad For Your Health Shutterstock By DB Kelly/Feb. 21, 2017 6:28 pm EST It’s an undeniable fact of modern life: our cell phones are a part of us. If you’re the type that panics when you realize you’ve left your phone at home or in the car and are going to have to get through a few hours without it, you’re definitely not alone. But those few hours might just be good for you, and it might do you even more good to forget it more often....

What Does It Mean When You Cry For No Reason? Shutterstock By Christine-Marie Liwag Dixon/Jan. 2, 2020 1:33 pm EST Many of us have quite likely been there at one point or another. There you are, going about your day, and everything seems to be going well. Then, out of nowhere, the urge to cry overwhelms you even though nothing happened to trigger your tears. This can be unsettling, not to mention inconvenient if it happens when you are out in public....

What Is The Brady Bunch’s Maureen McCormick Doing Now? Rachel Luna/Getty Images By Christine-Marie Liwag Dixon/Sept. 17, 2019 4:43 pm EST The Brady Bunch might be one of the most beloved and widely known sitcoms of all time. The theme song alone is enough to ramp up nostalgia in generations of viewers who either grew up with the show in its original 1969 to 1974 run, or caught it in reruns over the decades....