Don't expect the Dark Knight to be well-versed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Christian Bale claims he had no idea what the MCU was before he joined Thor: Love and Thunder. The Batman Begins star, set to make his Marvel debut as the villainous, goth-adjacent Gorr the God Butcher in the fourth instalment of the Thor franchise, shared as much in an interview with Total Film Magazine published Tuesday.

There's a scene in the first episode of Disney's "Ms. Marvel" series in which protagonist Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old Pakistani American girl from New Jersey, is about to take her driving test. "Bismillah," she says while in the driver's seat of the car, as she braces herself for the test to begin. (Spoiler: It does not go well).

The sequel to Doctor Strange will be streaming at the end of the month. Marvel announced today that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will be available on Disney Plus starting on June 22nd. The film, which once again stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular sorcerer and is directed by Sam Raimi, first hit theaters on May 6th.

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After the insanity and gravity that came in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Marvel Studios will return to one of its funnier franchises with Thor: Love and Thunder in July. With Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman both in tow as the Gods of Thunder, this new solo outing looks to take the Thor franchise to new levels of excitement and hilarity at the same time.

Ever since officially unleashing the multiverse in Loki, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has largely used it as an excuse for payoffs and fan-service. That was basically the whole premise of What If…?, with its alternate versions of heroes and ultimate mega-villain (Ultron with the Infinity Stones), and it helped bring untold mountains of cash to Sony and Marvel by allowing for three different Spider-Mans to meet up in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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As Doctor Strange and The Flash enter the multiverse, scientists question what it means for the future of their study. In 1961, DC Comics published the 123rd issue of The Flash. In its pages was the story “Flash of Two Worlds,” where creator and writer Gardner Fox staged the historic meeting of two superheroes from parallel worlds.

This sorcerer still reigns supreme. Disney and Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” earned a formidable $36 million in Thursday previews, setting the stage for what could be a massive $175 million-plus debut this weekend. This ranks as the eighth largest preview performance ever, behind “Avengers: Infinity War’s” $39 million in 2018.

James Gunn is presently working on the third installment of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. 3 for Marvel Studios, but the writer/director isn't sure what the future holds for him in the MCU. James Gunn has been an increasingly significant character in the MCU with the release of Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014, especially when it comes to the cosmic aspect of Marvel's narrative.

James Gunn started making a mark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his Guardians of the Galaxy film before following it on Vol. 2 in 2017. With two weeks to go before the sequel of Marvel Studios, time is running out for director James Gunn to solve Rick and Morty’s mystery in the Atlanta set since February. James Gunn, the writer, and director, revealed that only 13 days remain until wrapping on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.

Ethan Hawke came to the set of Moon Knight with ideas. The Oscar-nominated actor stars in Marvel's latest Disney+ series as Arthur Harrow, the charismatic and almost cultish zealot who faces off against Oscar Isaac's hero. Isaac's Moon Knight is all chaos and uncertainty, but Harrow has an unsettling calm about him, moving through the world with an unwavering fanaticism and a single-minded eye on his goals — even if those goals lead to collateral damage.

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It is no spoiler to say that Marvel Studios’ “Moon Knight” is unlike anything attempted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008’s “Iron Man.” Not only is it Marvel’s first Disney Plus series that doesn’t focus on already established characters, the first four episodes of the show, which Variety has seen, contain not a single spoken reference to the MCU. No one talks about Thanos or the Snap, Spider-Man or Wakanda. There are no mentions of the Avengers or the Eternals, infinity stones or multiverses. And not a single familiar face — not Doctor Strange or Wanda Maximoff, Captain Marvel or Shang-Chi — makes an appearance.

Nicolas Cage doesn’t see eye to eye with his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola. After Coppola again slammed comic book films as “one prototype movie that is made over and over and over and over and over again to look different,” Cage revealed in a March GQ interview that he doesn’t “understand the conflict” between Marvel and independent cinema. “Yeah, why do they do that?” Cage posited to GQ regarding directors like Coppola and Scorsese bashing comic book films. “I don’t understand the conflict. I don’t agree with them on that perception or opinion.”

Andrew Garfield has spoken out over Spider-Man: No Way Home being largely snubbed at this year’s Oscars, saying he is “satisfied” by the huge audience response. The Marvel blockbuster was released to huge success late last year, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2021 and the sixth highest-grossing of all time.

There are few things better than a perfect pairing of director and subject, and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness has all the potential of a blissful marriage. The legendary Sam Raimi helped shape the comic-book blockbuster landscape we see today with his smash-hit trilogy of Spider-Man movies in the ’00s, having started out as the horror mastermind behind the Evil Dead trilogy.

Benedict Cumberbatch is Oscar-nominated this year, but already he’s looking ahead to his next film’s release: “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” in theaters May 6. The “Power of the Dog” star gushed to Empire magazine that the “Doctor Strange” sequel is a “big, big movie,” one that could rival the box office record–breaking “Spider-Man: No Way Home” in terms of scale.

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