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Marvel's Blood Hunters offer a new team of women-led heroes ready to take on supernatural threats and breathe new life into Marvel's comic universe. Elsa Bloodstone, White Widow, Dagger, and Hallows' Eve combine their powers to challenge Marvel's monsters with strength, cleverness, and teamwork. As the Blood Hunter team fights undead vampires in New York City, they prove they have staying power to become Marvel's next morally questionable monster-hunting squad, like a supernatural Thunderbolts team.

Warning! Spoilers for Blood Hunters #4 ahead!

Marvel has just established a new women-led team that could be the next Thunderbolts, but with a supernatural twist. In this summers ongoing Blood Hunt event, the world has been made to bow before hordes of ancient vampires. As the streets of New York City run red with the blood of innocents, the Blood Hunters will be there to kill the things that go bump in the night.

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Nordic sales powerhouse TrustNordisk is launching international sales on queer sex drama Sauna, which has begun filming this month in Denmark.

Set in the Copenhagen queer community, the film follows Johan, a young man who believes he can find community working in a gay sauna, and who then falls in love when he meets transgender William.

It is the feature debut for Danish director Mathias Broe, who wrote the film with William Lippert based on Mads Ananda Lodahl’s novel of the same name.

Mads-August Hertz is producing for Nordisk Film Production with support from the New Danish Screen at the Danish Film Institute,...

Tarf Media has acquired world sales rights excluding UK on romantic thriller White Widow, a debut feature from UK filmmaker Henry Mason.

Tarf will launch sales on the film at Cannes this week, with Yet Another Distribution Company representing UK sales rights.

Shot on location in London and Tanzania, White Widow follows a young man travelling home to Ireland to confront his dying father, when he meets a young American running from her recent past in Africa.

Written by Thomas Martin, the film is produced by established theatre producer Oliver Royds for his Bos Productions and Henry R. Swindell. Executive...

Marvel's White Widow explores the dangers of A.I. in the assassination industry, highlighting its relevant threats to artistic communities. White Widow #4 delves into an A.I. conspiracy and its impact on assassins, tackling ethical concerns through a comical lens. Yelena rejects the profit-driven A.I. plot, symbolizing the real-world debate about generative A.I. and its impact on artists' livelihoods.

Warning: Spoilers for White Widow (2023) #4 ahead!The rise of A.I. programs has been a prominent issue for a while, and Marvel's take on the issue is both unique and humorously thought-provoking. When White Widow Yelena Belova strikes at the heart of a corporate conspiracy, she discovers that no one is immune from having A.I. threatening their relevance - not even Marvel's greatest assassins.

In White Widow (2023) #4, Yelena finally uncovers the secret behind her town of Idylhaven and its corporate master, Armament. Puppeted by Renata Best, Armament has...

Yelena Belova, Black Widow's "sister," looks up to Wolverine and takes his advice seriously, potentially setting up a connection between the X-Men and the MCU. In the White Widow comic series, Yelena has become an assassin consultant and mentor, using her skills to train the next generation while also fighting against a nefarious corporation. Yelena's strong confidence, support for other women, and snarky personality could potentially tie the X-Men characters to the existing Avengers in future MCU films, especially with Deadpool 3 in production.

For all that Wolverine claims to be a lone wolf, he certainly has been a father figure to a lot of young female characters. In a recent flashback, Marvel revealed a new MCU star who thinks Logan is cool, and took some advice from him seriously: Black Widow's "sister," Yelena Belova. As the MCU pulls the X-Men into its orbit, and Deadpool 3 has marked...

Nicolas Cage is ready to show audiences he’s no Barney when it comes to joining the Dawn patrol for some heavy waves in The Surfer, a psychological thriller from Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan. The project recently wrapped production in Western Australia, with Cage taking the lead as “a man who returns to Australia to buy back his family home after many years in the U.S. but is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a group of local surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, he defies them and remains at the beach, demanding acceptance. As the conflict escalates, he is brought to the edge of his sanity, and his identity is thrown into question.” (via Deadline)

Today’s image for The Surfer depicts Cage with a look of bewilderment as he stares at a bullet. With a wound across his forehead and wrinkled clothing,...

Yelena Belova, the White Widow, is exploring her identity and making new discoveries about herself in her new series. Yelena has made a list of her likes and dislikes, including her dislike for Cyclops, the X-Men leader, because he refused to gossip with her. Yelena is becoming a part of her community, making friends, and exploring her own opinions after a life of being controlled by others.

Warning! Spoilers ahead for White Widow #1The White Widow Yelena Belova is finding out who she is as a person, trying new things and keeping track of her likes and dislikes, a list that includes one member of the X-Men. Yelena has been controlled by others for her entire life, but in her new series, White Widow has gone freelance, becoming an assassin mentor and consultant.

In White Widow #1, written by Sarah Gailey with art by Alessandro Miracolo, Yelena focuses on two...

Yelena Belova asserts her status as the greatest assassin in the world, rejecting Captain America's recruitment attempts. Yelena is stepping out of Black Widow's shadow and rising to new heights as the White Widow. White Widow #1 is available from Marvel Comics November 1.

As Yelena Belova gets her own series in White Widow #1, she faces off with Captain America - and makes sure Steve Rogers knows that she's a serious player in the Marvel Universe. A product of the Red Room experiments that created Black Widow, Yelena has often played second fiddle. But now, she's making it clear that nothing but Number 1 will do.

In a preview of Sarah Gailey, Alessandro Miracolo, Matt Milla and Travis Lanham's White Widow #1, fans get a flashback to a recent mission where Yelena faced off with Steve Rogers. Cap confirms that her target is secretly part of the Avengers' information apparatus and does his best to recruit Yelena,...

Yelena Belova's intriguing backstory in the Red Room was disappointingly rushed in the Black Widow movie, leaving fans wanting more. A TV show centered around the Red Room, similar to the darker Marvel Netflix shows, could effectively explore the ruthless nature of the organization while making audiences care for the characters. A White Widow TV show would provide closure for MCU fans by delving into the wickedness of the Red Room and giving Yelena Belova a proper backstory, correcting the treatment of female heroes in the MCU.

With a White Widow comic book series making its debut due to Florence Pugh's masterful portrayal of the former Russian assassin, many fans of the MCU have been left to wonder whether Yelena Belova will get the time she deserves in live-action. After her introduction to the MCU in Black Widow, the titular Natasha Romanoff's adoptive little sister, Yelena Belova, won...

Marvel Comics has recently revealed that Yelena Belova, the Russian assassin called the White Widow who is an ally of the Black Widow, will be getting her own solo series. White Widow #1 will launch before the character stars in the upcoming MCU film Thunderbolts, played by the impeccable Florence Pugh.

The upcoming White Widow series — from writer Sarah Gailey and artist Alessandro Miracolo — was first unveiled by The Mary Sue alongside an absolutely gorgeous cover from David Marquez. The series will be a fresh chapter for the complex Yelena Belova, with Marvel describing the antihero as, "Superspy. Rogue agent. Shadow of the Black Widow."

While the comics version of Yelena Belova debuted almost 25 years ago in 1999, her popularity mainly remained within the Black Widow fandom. Florence Pugh brought her to life in the 2021 Black Widow film — and then Hawkeye TV show — boosting the character's popularity and making her a household name.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has confirmed which MCU hero will be taking on the role of leader in the upcoming Thunderbolts movie. Comprised of characters who by no means would consider themselves heroes like the Avengers, the Thunderbolts will be a very different and likely darker team who will soon come together in the MCU. As such, it seems as though Marvel Studios has selected the perfect candidate to lead them.

While talking about Thunderbolts in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Feige confirmed the former Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes (played by Sebastian Stan) will serve as the "de facto leader" of the new team:

"We've got a lot of things that start shooting relatively soon. What's fun about that, and I sort of said this at D23, is that they are barely heroes. None of them would consider themselves heroes. When your de facto leader is Bucky Barnes, that's...