The first footage from Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and The Wasp screened for San Diego Comic-Con attendees today. It was a long and arduous journey getting Ant-Man onto the big screen in 2015, with the film’s original director, Edgar Wright, suddenly dropping the project in 2014 after working on the story for years. Reed (Yes Man) and Adam McKay (Anchorman) entered as director and writer later that summer, respectively, and took over the reins for the production....

Apple has agreed to pay out $30 million to settle a lawsuit from employees who say they were forced to face security bag checks off the clock. This comes after over 8 years of back and forth in the case, which was first filed by employees against Apple in 2013. Apple discontinued the controversial bag check policy in 2015. This has been a long-running case for Apple. Apple retail workers filed the class-action suit against Apple in 2013, saying that they were required to submit to search before leaving for the day, including searches of their bags, purses, backpacks, brief cases, and personal Apple devices....

24 hours after releasing it to developers, Apple is today releasing the latest iOS 15 beta for public beta testers. Apple refers to this as iOS 15 public beta 6, and the audit includes continued changes to the controversial Safari design and more. Update: Apple is also rolling out a new public beta of watchOS 8. If you’re interested in signing up for Apple’s public beta testing program, you can do so via Apple’s website right here....

News broke this afternoon that the E3 electronics entertainment expo set for June in LA will be nixing its in-person event and going fully virtual. With companies having to make event decisions further out amidst a surge in COVID-19 cases, what are the odds Apple chooses to make WWDC 2022 its third all-virtual conference? We’re currently in the middle of CES 2022, which has returned to an in-person event in Las Vegas this year....

Apple announced today during its “California Streaming” event that all previous Apple Watch bands will be compatible with Apple Watch Series 7. Rumors were pointing out that the company could ditch the old bands thanks to new sizes and flat-edge design. As it didn’t happen — after all, it was only rumors — Apple confirmed during its event that all previous Apple Watch bands will be compatible with Series 7....

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced today that Apple TV+ has won two Primetime Emmy Awards ahead of the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, which is set to take place on Sunday, September 19. Apple Original Calls won for outstanding Motion Design while For All Mankind: Time Capsule won for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media. For All Mankind explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended....

Jason Momoa has revealed that ahead of filming DC’s upcoming Aquaman film, he was offered a pearl of wisdom from none other than X-Men star Michael Fassbender. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger in 1941, the character made his DCEU debut in 2017’s Justice League. Although the film proved to be a critical and commercial disappointment, DC and Warner Bros remained steadfast in their plans for a solo adventure. The return of the sea-faring hero will mark the first standalone outing since the blockbuster team-up, with many fans hoping it’ll serve as a turning point in the collective franchise....

Press events at SXSW are like nowhere else. Forget civilized junkets with afternoon tea and posh hotel settings. The stars and director of Free Fire celebrated their upcoming shootout drama with a far more appropriate interview setting: a paintball battlefield. On a chilly morning in Austin, helmer Ben Wheatley and co-stars Sharlto Copley and Armie Hammer joined a band of bloggers on the muddy grounds of Stunt Ranch for a rousing game of marksmanship and bursts of paint....

Despite the many fan theories to the contrary, Arrow hasn’t found its Vigilante yet. Arrow fans have been wondering about the identity of Vigilante ever since the character first came in contact with Oliver and his team during the first half of season 5. Producers have been teasing a connection to a character on the show for a while, leading fans to believe that the Vigilante could be someone we already know, especially since we never get to see his face....

As if the trailer for Avengers: Endgame wasn’t emotional enough, a fan had to go and edit it in the style of Logan, set to Johnny Cash’s “Hurt.” There have been many deeply emotional moments during the MCU’s 20-film (to date) run, including Steve Rogers’ decision to sacrifice himself to stop Red Skull’s plan in Captain America: The First Avenger, Tony Stark’s realization that The Winter Soldier murdered his parents in Captain America: Civil War, and T’Challa encountering his ancestors in the afterlife in Black Panther....

Thanos is coming, and The Avengers are not ready. Infinity War is only a year away. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, and Black Panther are all due before this third Avengers team-up film, but the fans know that May 2018 is the next true mega-event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it simply can’t come soon enough to sate their ravenous appetites. News is already trickling out of the Marvel hype machine, fueling the frenzied fans into a state of hype unrivaled by anything this side of Star Wars....

UPDATE: The Avengers 4 trailer has been released. Watch it here! It’s taking a long time for the Avengers 4 trailer to release, but why is that? Anthony and Joe Russo’s 2019 Marvel installment is one of the most anticipated movie releases of all time, and it makes sense considering everything that the sequel represents. Avengers 4 is being billed as the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first saga, which began a decade ago with Iron Man - and many of the characters that audiences have come to love are leaving the MCU after Avengers 4....

WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Batgirl & The Birds Of Prey #22 – In order to honor a fallen friend, current Batgirl Barbara Gordon has returned to her role as the white-hat hacker Oracle. This won’t slow her efforts at physically protecting the streets of the Burnside borough of Gotham City, however, or prevent her from taking to the field as one of The Birds of Prey. Barbara Gordon first took the codename Oracle in the pages of Suicide Squad, using her computer skills to back the team remotely....

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. We live in an era where the movie industry is built almost entirely on sure things. Risks (to the degree that anything is “risky” in the world of multimillion dollar entertainment) are the province of the books, comics, TV series, true stories and (occasionally) original ideas big movies are made out of. By the time anything is at the point of getting a sizable movie where financial success is important, it’s supposed to have proven itself as a brand capable of earning the necessary amount to turn a profit against its budget, spawn a succession of sequels, and likely a lot of merchandise....

When it comes to comic book reboots, DC is king. Ever since 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths merged the previously-multiversal DCU into a unified whole (to the dismay of many longtime fans but the joy of others) writers and editors have used subsequent storylines such as Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, 52, Countdown, Final Crisis and others to further reshape the company’s ever-changing superheroic continuity. But the so-called “New 52” continuity - which reverted the DC heroes to younger, edgier versions of themselves - spinning out of the most recent such event, Flashpoint, has been widely criticized by fans (and some creators) for rendering some beloved characters unrecognizable while creating ongoing confusion about which older stories still count and which don’t....

One cosplayer brought a mix of Avengers: Infinity War villain Thanos and McDonald’s Grimace to life and fans are pretty much losing their minds about it. After years of build-up, Marvel Studios finally fulfilled their promise of bringing one of Marvel’s most iconic heroes on the big screen in this year’s Infinity War. Played by Josh Brolin, the arrival of Thanos in the MCU marks the beginning of the end of the long narrative that the franchise has been building on....

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Ant-Man and the Wasp. Ant-Man in the Wasp is a movie about a very complicated family growing bigger and overcoming its issues. And by the end of the film, most of these issues are resolved before it’s all thrown for a spin in a similar fashion to the conclusion of Avengers: Infinity War. Let’s break down where these threads end and what Ant-Man and the Wasp’s ending means for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Apple on Monday acquired AI Music, a startup that has developed a platform capable of creating songs using artificial intelligence. The acquisition, according to sources familiar with the matter, was completed in recent weeks. As reported by Bloomberg, AI Music’s technology can create royalty-free soundtracks using AI.The soundtracks are dynamic and can change based on user interaction in real time. As an example, a song can have a different tone during more intense parts of a workout....

Apple has partnered with musician Olivia Rodrigo and several digital illustrators to inspire artists on TikTok. A series of videos posted to Apple’s account feature iPad, Apple Pencil, and the Procreate app. Inspired by Olivia Rodrigo’s track “Brutal,” TikTok followers are encouraged to create their own #BrutalMasks. Apple worked with artists including Braeden O’Brien, Designical, and fiona_art to create tutorials. The videos follow a similar format to Today at Apple online sessions, where viewers are taken step-by-step through the creative process and invited to share their work....