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Newsweek
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
EXCLUSIVE CLIP: Thunderbolts* Star Reveals Secret Character Details in Behind the Scenes Footage
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors The summer box office is heating up at the movie theaters, but Thunderbolts* is heading for your living room this July as it makes its way to 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD. Pre-orders are live now across digital retailers, and if bonus features are your thing, you're going to want to opt for the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray format. Disney revealed there'll be a multitude of additional features available for fans to get stuck into, including deleted scenes, a gag reel, and director's commentary. Also available on the bonus features is "Assembling a Team to Remember", a behind-the-scenes look at how the group was brought together. (L-R): Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), and John Walker (Wyatt Russell) in Marvel Studios' THUNDERBOLTS*. (L-R): Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), and John Walker (Wyatt Russell) in Marvel Studios' THUNDERBOLTS*. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios READ: Thunderbolts* Gets New Digital Release Date – How To Watch We have an exclusive look at this available to watch above, where Hannah John-Kamen gets into the nitty gritty of her character (Ava/Ghost) and the loneliness she feels. Thunderbolts* hits physical formats on July 29, and more details about the release are available below. Thunderbolts* Physical Release Date Thunderbolts* is coming to 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 29 Copies are now available to pre-order across digital retailers. Thunderbolts* Bonus Features The 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray releases come with hours of bonus features, including: Deleted Scenes – Check out the scenes that didn't make the final cut. Door is Unliftable Gary Announcement – Check out the scenes that didn't make the final cut. Assembling a Team to Remember – Spend a bit of quality time with the cast and crew of Thunderbolts* as they divulge how the film's fictional team of superpowered mavericks, misfits and antiheroes was assembled. – Spend a bit of quality time with the cast and crew of Thunderbolts* as they divulge how the film's fictional team of superpowered mavericks, misfits and antiheroes was assembled. Around the World and Back Again – Discover the eclectic locations and astounding production design that helped make Thunderbolts* a rousing reality, including a visit to the sprawling sets in Kuala Lumpur where we join Florence Pugh performing stunts atop one of planet Earth's tallest buildings and blowing up buildings on the streets. – Discover the eclectic locations and astounding production design that helped make Thunderbolts* a rousing reality, including a visit to the sprawling sets in Kuala Lumpur where we join Florence Pugh performing stunts atop one of planet Earth's tallest buildings and blowing up buildings on the streets. All About Bob, Sentry & The Void – Deep dive into the making of three different characters: Bob, Sentry, and The Void – all performed by Lewis Pullman. – Deep dive into the making of three different characters: Bob, Sentry, and The Void – all performed by Lewis Pullman. Gag Reel – Enjoy fun outtakes on set with the cast and crew of Thunderbolts*. – Enjoy fun outtakes on set with the cast and crew of Thunderbolts*. Director's Audio Commentary – Watch the film with audio commentary by director Jake Schreier. (Bonus features may vary depending on format and retailer) Where To Watch Thunderbolts* If you don't want to purchase Thunderbolts* on physical media, you still have options to watch the film from home. Thunderbolts* is now available to rent and buy on Video on Demand platforms such as Fandango at Home, Prime Video, and Apple TV. While Thunderbolts* is not yet available on streaming, it should arrive on Disney+ in the coming weeks.
Geek Tyrant
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
THUNDERBOLTS* Concept Art Offers Alternate Versions of Red Guardian's Suit — GeekTyrant
New concept art for Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* has surfaced, giving fans a glimpse at a grittier, more tactical take on David Harbour's Red Guardian. Shared by concept artist Aleksi Briclot on Instagram, the design veers away from the bold, comic-inspired look we saw in Black Widow and leans into something a bit more covert. 'I went for a darker vibe,' Briclot explained, showcasing a suit that ditches the bright reds for a muted black with subtle crimson accents. Even the signature chest star goes full black, adding to the stealthy tone. It's a sharp contrast to the bulkier, more traditional version Red Guardian ultimately wears in the film. Briclot described his approach, saying the goal was 'less Santa Claus' and more 'Spec Ops.' It's easy to see how this iteration would've suited a darker, more grounded tone for the team-up film—one that feels more Mission: Impossible than Avengers. While the final costume stuck closer to Harbour's original look from Black Widow , it's fun to imagine what might've been if the creative team had opted for something a little more shadow ops.
Time of India
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Robert Downey Jr's FIRST LOOK as Doctor Doom LEAKED from 'Avengers: Doomsday' sets
The first look of Robert Downey Jr as Marvel's newest supervillain, Doctor Doom, has been leaked online. A new photo from the sets of Avengers: Doomsday has revealed what appears to be Downey Jr in full costume as the infamous Doom. The photo, which is quickly making the rounds online, shows a figure clad in metallic armour with a dark green hood and matching cape — instantly recognisable to comic book readers as the classic look of Victor Von Doom. — sm_leak (@sm_leak) This is the first picture of the actor in character for the highly anticipated film. The costume itself has fans buzzing. With its intricate armor, cloak, and faithful design, many are calling it the most comic book-accurate adaptation of the supervillain seen on screen to date. Unlike previous interpretations that saw doom in a suit, this practical armour has fans waiting to see the final output on the big screen. Social media reactions have been overwhelmingly positive. One fan wrote, 'An actual suit instead of mocap is badass. I'm sure they'll use CGI at some point but kudos for this.' Others echoed the sentiment, praising Marvel for leaning into a tangible, physical design rather than relying entirely on post-production effects. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like New Container Houses Egypt (Prices May Surprise You) Container House | Search Ads Search Now Undo Avengers: Doomsday is expected to usher in a new era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Doctor Doom reportedly being positioned as the next major overarching antagonist following Thanos. RDJ playing the villain after his decade-long run as the superhero Iron Man have fans increasingly sceptical about the plot of the film that will end the multiverse saga. The film will also see the return of several familiar faces, including Chirs Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Strom, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as Bucky, Paul Rudd as Antman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Thing, Simu Liu as Shang Chi, Florence Pugh as Yelena, Lewis Pullman as Sentry, Danny Ramirez as Falcon, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, David Harbour as the Red Guardian, Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Pedro Pascal as Mr Fantastic and many others . In the film, the Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, New Avengers, and the X-Men reportedly team up to fight against a new threat - Doctor Doom. According to reports, several superheroes will reportedly meet their end at the hands of Doom. Hemsworth's Thor is also rumoured to meet his end in the film, after the actor posted an emotional farewell post on playing the character for 15 years. With leaks like this stirring excitement, the wait for the film's December 2026 release now seems longer. Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . Don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
I Rewatched Black Widow After Seeing Thunderbolts*, And It Has Me A Lot More Emotional Over Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It's hard to believe, but Fantastic Four: First Steps is the only title left among upcoming Marvel movies before we get our first Avengers movie since Endgame, Avengers: Doomsday. And while I probably wouldn't have believed you if you told me before seeing it, Thunderbolts* is my favorite MCU movie in years, and I have to say a lot of that is thanks to Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova. Never mind the actress already being some of my favorites in movies like Dune: Part 2 or Midsommar, her character is quickly rising in the ranks in the current superhero lineup. And when I rewatched her first appearance in Black Widow, it only made me appreciate her more. I remember digging Black Widow when it came out, but I'll be honest, I've kind of forgotten about it since I saw it. Of course, there's the fact that it probably came out at the wrong time, given the COVID-19 pandemic was still heavily affecting theaters and Disney was experimenting with its Disney+ service, perhaps to the detriment of the movie's performance. But, I need to talk about how seeing Thunderbolts* reminded me to go back to the 2021 release and deepen my love for Yelena Belova further. SPOILERS are ahead for Thunderbolts* and Black Widow. There's a lot to love about Thunderbolts* in my opinion, but the biggest highlight of the movie for me is the relationship between Yelena and her 'dad,' the Red Guardian. My favorite scene was definitely in the third act of the movie when Yelena gets honest with him about how she's been feeling really alone and having a lot of regrets about her life. In response, Red Guardian tells Yelena that when he looks at her, he 'doesn't see' her mistakes. Instead, he remembers who she was as a kid, and how she wanted to be the goalie on her childhood soccer team in order to be the 'person everyone relies on when they make a mistake.' Without that scene in the movie, I just don't think Thunderbolts* would be as good as it is. It had me thinking back to when Yelena and Red Guardian's relationship was established in Black Widow. I remember the two actors being just as funny and grounded in the 2021 movie, and yet I hadn't placed the movie high in my mind to realize this going into seeing Thunderbolts*. So I made it my mission to revisit Black Widow after seeing the latest Marvel movies. When it comes to Marvel movies in order, I had actually forgotten that the movie takes place in 2016 in the MCU timeline, two years prior to the events in Infinity War and the events of Thunderbolts* takes place a little over a decade after Black Widow (with the five-year gap of the snap in between to think about). And after seeing Black Widow again, I think the movie does a good job of establishing an older Yelena who has dealt with a lot more life and loss, and having the context of her upbringing with the Red Guardian and Melina really helped me understand her better. It was so much fun to see how the character was introduced in the movie, because Pugh very much stays true to who Yelena is between them. Oh, and it slipped my mind how quotable Yelena was in Black Widow to the point of actually stealing the thunder off of Scarlett Johansson's MCU sendoff. But the one thing that really caught me off guard is how much Yelena clearly looks up to Natasha Romanoff throughout the movie, even if she's always taking shots at her Avengers position and "posing". While I read it more as MCU banter the first time I saw it, this time I noticed how much that relationship really gives sister energy, and while Natasha kind of brushes Yelena off (as big sisters often do), Natasha means a lot to her. I realized getting to do a mission with her and reunite with their 'parents' is kind of the best thing for Yelena, because she's spent a lot of time alone. Throughout the movie, you see how, while Natasha has kind of lost her respect for her parental figures, Yelena is still attached to them. As she says in one memorable line: "It was real to me." It made me extra sad about the death of Natasha in Endgame, and how in Thunderbolts*, Yelena feels like she wants to make a difference like her sister did, but she's having problems making the transition (inwardly and outwardly). So, when I finished Black Widow, knowing that her second MCU movie ends with her becoming a new Avenger, I found it especially poignant. She still clearly feels the loss of Natasha, now she's going to get the chance to serve with the Avengers and be the person she has always looked up to: her sister! I'm not crying, you are. Disney+: from $9.99 a month w/ ad-supported planYou can stream Black Widow now as I did with a Disney+ subscription. In fact you can check out every MCU movie on Disney+, starting at $9.99 a month for its new ad-supported plan. Go ad-free and pay $15.99 a month or save 16% and pre-pay $159.99 for a Deal While the Thunderbolts* director has suggested the movie isn't a Black Widow sequel, I would argue the new Marvel film wouldn't have worked for me as well as it did if it weren't for the 2021 movie. If I hadn't seen the scene where Yelena and Red Guardian sing 'American Pie' together, I wouldn't have bought into their continued father-daughter dynamic as much, and there's a kind of twisted found family element in the Kate Shortland film that spiritually carries over into Thunderbolts*, I think. The only thing that really bummed me out after seeing Black Widow is how the movie perfectly served Thunderbolts* the chance to feature Scarlett Johansson one more time through the shame rooms created by Sentry. I think it would have been really beautiful if she had shown up for a moment and allowed Yelena to get some closure or something. But, I also understand that Johansson is hesitant to return to the MCU after her long stint, and I was kind of into the fact that Thunderbolts* wasn't packed full of cameos. Because while Yelena Belova kind of sees herself as not as good as Natasha, the fact is she's being given way more to do in the MCU already than her sister was. Sure, it was different times, but I've always felt so conflicted about how Black Widow was handled as a character. She's very much in the center of things going into Doomsday, and I love that for her, but now I'm never getting out of my mind how the character will be constantly missing her sister as she becomes a hero in her own right.
The Guardian
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The Thunderbolts* big twist means Marvel wants them to save the MCU. Are they serious?
This article contains major spoilers, so do not read if you have not watched Thunderbolts*. There was always something deeply suspicious about that asterisk, and now the word is out. If you've been to see it during the past week, you'll know that the motley crew of antiheroes and sometime superheroes led by Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova and David Harbour's Red Guardian may well be the New Avengers. The problem is that even with the cat out of the proverbial bag, there's something off here. First of all, the Avengers are supposed to be Earth's mightiest heroes, a crew of idealists and icons who are never happier than when punching the likes of Thanos in the face and delivering heartfelt monologues about sacrifice and teamwork. The Thunderbolts*? They're the last people you'd call if you were being invaded by Chitauri, Ultron, or even a moderately aggressive Roomba. This bunch of emotionally unstable grudge-holders are less 'Earth's mightiest' than 'Earth's most accessible'. Second, Marvel knows this. If Thunderbolts* is about anything, it's about how a group of third-rate superheroes, reformed assassins and sad sacks come together to save the day because nobody else was around. In terms of IP exploitation, this one's up there with that Disney+ series about Hawkeye and the time Marvel thought it would be a good idea to hire Angelina Jolie as a warrior goddess with memory loss, then somehow forget to give her a storyline. Of course, the studio has been here before. Nobody had heard of any of the Guardians of the Galaxy before James Gunn somehow delivered a trilogy of well-received films about a bunch of space idiots shouting at each other in slow motion over staples of 1970s AM radio. Marvel's 1960s heyday was built on the then outlandish riff that superheroes might be just as flawed and existentially constipated as the rest of us. Their imperfections are what make characters such as Iron Man and Spider-Man worth investing in, while Thor is only ever even remotely interesting when he drops the whole invulnerable space god thing and reveals he's really just a lightning-powered metaphor for fragile masculinity. But Thunderbolts* feels different, because this new crew are not so much relatably flawed as completely broken. They're not charmingly dysfunctional – they're emotionally unavailable, morally compromised and in at least two cases (Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes and Hannah John-Kamen's Ghost) a bit bored to be here. There's no sense that they want to be a team, nor that we should want them to be one. The joke in the Thunderbolts* end-credits scene is that Captain America (Sam Wilson) has already been in touch to complain that they're infringing on his copyright. It's as if Marvel has anticipated every brickbat – that Thunderbolts* is a cynical rebrand, that the team have no chemistry, that they're just cosplay Avengers with unresolved trauma – and made sure to get in there first. And yet perhaps this willingness to punch itself in the face before anyone else does is what has led the new film to emerge as one of the best-received episodes in the studio's recent history. It's hard to accuse Marvel of making a cynical cash grab when they seem to be actively undermining themselves for kicks at a time when the MCU has been lurching from flops to reshoots to box office faceplants. It's as if the studio is challenging every critic of superhero films to watch this new one and witness a machine that has decided there is nothing left but to cheerfully eat itself while the world looks on. Naturally, the smart money is on this cavalcade of misfits, also-rans and never-weres finding themselves sidelined when the real heroes roar back in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. And yet there's a sneaking suspicion that Marvel wouldn't have cast actors of the calibre of Pugh and Harbour if they were only intended to act as narrative duct tape to hold Phase Five together until Spidey and the X-Men sort out their scheduling conflicts. The question now is how Marvel creates a future that lives up to the euphoric buzz of the studio's first decade, while honouring the strange, broken little corner of the universe it's spent the last few years quietly assembling. Like it or not, the Thunderbolts* – sorry, New Avengers – are in the system now. And in the multiverse, nobody ever really gets written out.
