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DC, the home of iconic characters such as Batman and Superman Booster Gold, is launching a streaming service–DC Universe–that will offer access to both live-action and animated shows. Seeing the success of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, among other platforms, everyone and their sidekick is now launching a streaming service, but is DC’s worth checking out?

At San Diego Comic-Con 2018 we got to check out a demo of the service and get some more details about it. In the video above Mat and Chris talk about everything they’ve learned and their experience of it so far.

We know that among the things you’ll get access to through DC Universe is Titans. The first trailer for that show was among the big reveals on the first day of SDCC; DC Universe won’t bank entirely on its quality, but if that turns out strong, it would be a major boon for the service as it tries to get off the ground.

DC has confirmed that there will be an annual subscription to the service that’ll cost $74.99, with monthly subscriptions available for $7.99. The annual subscription is available to pre-order from DCUniverse.com right now, and you’ll get a bonus of three free months for doing so. You can also sign up at the DC Booth at this weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con.

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Both Joe and Anthony Russo are proud of what they’ve managed to achieve with Avengers 4, the upcoming sequel to Avengers: Infinity War. The two brothers co-directed both movies, as well as Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War.

In an interview with Deadline at San Diego Comic-Con, Joe Russo said, “I think ultimately Avengers 4 may be our best work for Marvel. I think we’ve grown with every movie that we’ve made there.” The box office certainly agrees with Russo. Each Marvel film the Russo brothers direct is more financially successful than the last. The Winter Soldier grossed $714 million worldwide, while Civil War grossed $1.1 billion, and Infinity War grossed over $2 billion.

Russo and his brother aren’t watching the numbers though. They want to focus on producing the type of story they want to tell. “You know, it’s always an agenda of ours to block out the outside noise because it can lead you to make some bad choices with the material,” Russo said. “We’ve learned over the years just to listen to ourselves, and it’s great that there’s two of us that we can have conversations with each other.”

Production on Avengers 4 started and finished before the numbers came in for Infinity War, so Russo believes the “purity” of the film is still intact. Neither brother could be swayed by what people said worked and what people said didn’t work for Infinity War. “We’ve been in post-production on [Avengers 4] since the release of Infinity War,” Russo said. The crew has some additional photography that they’ll be doing soon, but things are on track for Avengers 4‘s May 3, 2019 release date.

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DC movies weren’t the only thing Warner Bros. showed off during its massive Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2018. The studio also brought the latest Harry Potter universe film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and showed off some brand new footage with the cast in attendance to answer fans’ burning questions.

The new Fantastic Beasts 2 trailer began with a welcome look at Jude Law’s young Dumbledore walking the halls of Hogwarts, and teaching a young Newt Scamander in Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Newt reveals that his biggest fear is “having to work in an office.”

Johnny Depp’s Grindelwald was a big focus, advocating in the trailer for wizards coming out of the shadows. On a foggy bridge, Dumbledore tells Newt that he can’t go after Grindelwald himself–it has to be Newt. The special effects look amazing, from Newt’s furry, dangerous creatures to a glimpse at a showdown between Newt and Grindelwald. “Mr. Scamander, do you think Dumbledore will mourn for you?” Grindelwald asks.

The trailer ended with a surprising meeting with Nicolas Flamel, a famous alchemist central to the backstory of the Harry Potter books. Thankfully, Warner Bros. released the trailer online shortly after it debuted at the panel, so you can see it for yourself above.

As a final surprise, Johnny Depp appeared onstage in full Grindelwald costume and character, delivering a speech about the inferior “No-maj” people.

At the panel’s start, a larger-than-life video of Newt Scamander welcomed attendees to Paris, the movie’s setting, from the inside of his carrying case. As his giant face uttered the spell “Lumos,” the bracelets given to attendees as they entered lit up with the Deathly Hallows logo. Eddie Redmayne took the stage shortly afterward to thunderous applause. The rest of the cast joined him onstage shortly afterward.

“There’s an awful lot at stake. It’s very much a ‘Whose side are you on?’ story,” Jude Law said during the panel. He said the wizarding world and the human world will be pitched against each other, but wizards will fight wizards as well–and that Fantastic Beasts 2 will go to darker places than we’ve seen in the Harry Potter universe before.

Later in the panel, asked what she would do with her own magic powers, actress Zoë Kravitz quickly answered she’d “impeach Trump,” eliciting laughter and cheers from Hall H’s enormous crowd. Prompted by moderator Aisha Tyler, actor Dan Fogler even created the spell on the spot: “Impeachious Maximus,” he invented, after ruminating on it for a moment.

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The highly anticipated My Hero Academia film, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, is set to screen in theaters in North America this September, as announced at SDCC 2018. It will be shown with dubs and subs on five separate days in over 400 theaters.

Two Heroes marks the first film of the hit anime and manga series My Hero Academia. It will drop just a few weeks before the series’ first video game, My Hero: One’s Justice, does on October 26. The film will follow the story of Deku and All Might as they receive an invitation to I-Expo, the world’s leading expo for quirk demos and hero items. There they meet Melissa, a young girl who is quirkless like Deku was once. But in the midst of the excitement, the expo’s security system is hacked by villains, and All Might will have to save the day.

You can catch the film in English on September 25, 27, and 29. It will be aired in the original Japanese dub with English subtitles on September 26 and October 2. To figure out where it’s screening near you, head on over to Funimation.

“Based on the incredible response from the three thousand fans at our sold-out world premiere during Anime Expo, I have no doubt that audiences everywhere will enjoy My Hero Academia: Two Heroes as well,” said Gen Fukunaga, CEO and President of Funimation in the Funimation blog. “The stories and characters of ’My Hero Academia’ have connected in such an incredible way with its viewers that it now has created a fan base that normally would take a decade to establish. This first feature film for the franchise does not disappoint.”

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