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The big drama that dominated the start of Peter Weber’s season of The Bachelor was former The Bachelorette Hannah Brown’s emotional return, but one Bachelor alum doesn’t think it was her decision. In a recent interview, Melissa Rycroft posited that while Brown’s emotions were real, her appearance was largely driven by producers. Former Bachelor Nation leads and popular contestants returning to the show to facilitate a date is a common occurrence, but Brown’s appearance on Weber’s premiere episode quickly went off the rails....

As the most highly anticipated film of the 22 entries taking place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and one of the most culturally significant cinematic events in the past several decades, Avengers: Endgame had a big responsibility and a lot to deliver for its fans. Not only did it have to tie up loose ends and complete character arcs, it had to do so in a way that respected the emotional labor of its fandom....

One clever Avengers: Endgame fan has sculpted Thanos himself from a lone coffee bean. Unsurprisingly, despite releasing last April, Avengers: Endgame is still a big discussion point among moviegoers. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award, for Best Visual Effects. At this point, what can be said about Avengers: Endgame? Even those who don’t enjoy comic book movies can’t deny the film is a crowning achievement. Somehow, directors Anthony and Joe Russo were able to complete the story arcs of Captain America/Steve Rogers and Iron Man/Tony Stark, while including almost every major character in the MCU....

Over the past few years, Marvel Studios has set up base camp for almost all of their films in Atlanta, Georgia. Thanks to a city that can double for almost anywhere else in the world and Pinewood Studios providing an abundance of sound stages and green screen to work with, almost every MCU movie passes through Atlanta at some point. This has resulted in some precise scheduling in the past - Spider-Man: Homecoming began filming there the day after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

New information regarding Avengers: Infinity War confirms Bucky Barnes will shed the Winter Soldier moniker and become the White Wolf. Comics are well-known for reviving characters and crafting new identities for them, but the post-Bronze Age for Marvel and DC has proven to be especially adept at rebranding sidekicks. Jason Todd returned from the dead to become the Red Hood, while Marvel pulled a similar move when they revived Captain America’s wartime partner Bucky and transformed him into the Winter Soldier....

Thanos has been a part of the MCU for roughly four years now, having first shown up in a post-credits scene after the original Avengers movie back in 2012. That makes him easily the most heavily teased movie villain of all time, but eventually all that teasing will come to an end when Marvel’s The Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 is released in May of 2018. In the comic books, Thanos has been around even longer....

Marvel Studios shouldn’t kill the original Avengers during Avengers 4, even if that’s what everyone expects. The prevailing thought process when it comes to Avengers 4 is that it will be the final chapter for several of the biggest heroes to take center stage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe But, just because Marvel has the ability to kill them, doesn’t mean they actually should. Ever since the Avengers first formed in 2012’s The Avengers, they’ve been the undisputed core group of characters in the MCU....

Bachelor in Paradise’s Kristina Schulman got revenge on Blake Horstmann by keeping him around in Mexico to watch Hannah Godwin and Dylan Barbour’s relationship flourish. Her plan may have already backfired, however. Hortsmann has become the “villain” on this season of Bachelor in Paradise - a reality competition show that puts former Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants in a beach resort in Mexico to find love. So far this season, he’s hooked up with multiple contestants, including Godwin and Tayshia Adams, and prior to the show, he’d been with Shulman and Caelynn Miller-Keyes....

If critics and comic book fans felt Batman V Superman was too depressing, bleak, or devoid of joy and tolerance… then the year and a half since its release must be downright unbearable. The criticisms leveled against Zack Snyder’s even darker vision of the DCEU, and the way it would react to superheroes were fair, and unsurprising. Fans of Superman like their hero to embody optimism. Fans of Batman expect an authority figure who both embraces his human urges, and rises above them as a nearly infallible crusader....

[WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Batman V Superman.] - As the marketing for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice began to ramp up, few images caught the eye (and curiosity) of comic fans like Ben Affleck’s Batman, goggled, coated, and battling armed soldiers in a post-apocalyptic desert. As the weeks and months passed, fans were given enough to deduce that the sequence in question - dubbed the Knightmare - was nothing but a dream - a terrifying ‘worst case scenario’ that Bruce Wayne envisioned, should his fears of Superman prove accurate....

The Big Bang Theory appeals to the geek in all of us, but all good things must come to an end sometime. It can be hard to leave the quirky, lovable characters from a favorite show behind, but don’t worry, you don’t have to shock your system by switching genres and moving onto Game of Thrones if you don’t want to. If it’s the slightly nerdy angle that you love, there are plenty of geeky sitcoms out there to enjoy....

The Avengers: Endgame writers reveal Iron Man almost dropped the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first F-bomb in his final words to Thanos. Earlier this year, Marvel Studios released Avengers: Endgame, the epic conclusion to the MCU thus far. The movie wrapped up what Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige termed the Infinity Saga, the story the MCU has been telling since 2008’s Iron Man officially launched the franchise. Endgame united all six of the original Avengers, and some of their friends, in a time travel mission....

Avengers: Endgame was the biggest event movie in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe - and the directors and screenwriters are now opening up to explain the plot and explore its implications. Back in October 2014, Marvel Studios announced that their Phase 3 plans would culminate in a two-part Avengers epic. By May 2015, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely had been recruited as writers, and a year later Marvel chose to bring on board Joe and Anthony Russo as directors....

Anthony Mackie reveals the final fight for Avengers: Infinity War is 25 pages long. There have been plenty of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to deliver on the spectacle, but none will be able to match the scale of Infinity War. The nineteenth film in the MCU brings together stars from every different franchise so they can try and stop Thanos. The marketing for Infinity War has primarily showcased two major throwdowns with the Mad Titan....

Bachelor in Paradise’s Blake Horstmann is at the eye of the drama storm again after he made out with Hannah Godwin in front of her love interest Dylan Barbour. If it wasn’t obvious enough to the contestants of Bachelor in Paradise that Blake couldn’t be trusted, he has really proved it this time. This isn’t the first love triangle that Blake has been apart of. In fact, he ended up in a love pentagram with most of the Bachelor in Paradise cast....

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has confirmed earlier reports that Apple Pay would launch in China this week, social media posts stating that its service will go live on Thursday 18 February. A further 18 lenders are signed up to the service, Reuters reporting that two of them – China Guangfa Bank Co and China Construction Bank Corp – will launch on the same day as ICBC. Apple has been working on bringing its mobile payment service to China for some time, creating a Shanghai-based company to manage the rollout back in September of last year, with this month long rumored to be the target launch date....

Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson is among those few who know the basic story for Avengers: Endgame, and teased it will be better than Avengers: Infinity War. The hype for the upcoming Avengers film is at its peak, with fans all over the world spending hours to get tickets on presale and thus breaking sites everywhere. Avengers: Endgame will mark the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we have come to know it, in a story that has been building up since the release of Iron Man in 2008....

WARNING: Major spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame. Avengers: Endgame utterly fails Black Widow. For a movie that gives such a fitting send off to MCU founding heroes Iron Man and Captain America, allows Thor an exciting future with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and provides Hulk and Hawkeye with the stories they’ve always needed, it’s shocking the founding female Avenger is given such a short shrift. Natasha Romanoff dies halfway through Avengers: Endgame....

New Avengers: Endgame fan-art visualizes Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) getting Tony Stark/Iron Man’s (Robert Downey Jr.) message as seen in the recently-released trailer for the film. The inaugural couple of the MCU, the two’s relationship has gone through so much since the first Iron Man movie in 2008. From being Tony’s trusted assistant, Pepper has become his girlfriend and eventually fiancee, but their journey as a couple was not without its fair share of ups and downs....

In what may be the most brief episode of Cribs of all time, Dean Unglert gave Caelynn Miller-Keyes a tour of his van after their time on Bachelor in Paradise. There doesn’t appear to be too much room for activities, but that seems to be just fine for the happy homeless couple. From the moment he stepped onto the beach in Mexico for the sixth season of Bachelor in Paradise, Unglert has not been shy about discussing his cramped living quarters....