• Marvel Animation has released the first trailer for X-Men ’97 Season 2, confirming that the Emmy-nominated Disney+ series will return on July 1 — two years after the first season concluded
• The trailer confirms Deadpool will appear in Season 2, making it his first animated appearance in the current Marvel continuity; the character’s inclusion had been teased ahead of the trailer’s release
• Season 2 also introduces Danger — a character from the X-Men comics — and features new character costumes; the episode count for the season has been revealed alongside the premiere date announcement
• X-Men ’97 has been described as the most-watched Disney+ animated series; the Season 2 trailer dropped to significant fan response

The X-Men are back — and they brought Deadpool. Marvel Animation released the first full trailer for X-Men ’97 Season 2 this week, and it confirmed what many fans had been hoping for: Deadpool will appear in the new season, marking the character’s return to animation in Marvel’s current continuity, per Collider.

The season premieres July 1 on Disney+. The trailer is dense — new costumes for the core team, the introduction of Danger (a synthetic being from X-Men comics lore capable of generating lifelike simulations), and what appears to be a substantially elevated threat scale from Season 1. Season 1 ended on several unresolved cliffhangers that the second season will be expected to address, per Comic Book Movie.

Deadpool in the Animated Universe

The Deadpool confirmation is the headline grab. Ryan Reynolds voiced the character in the live-action films, but this appearance is in the animated context of X-Men ’97 — a separate continuity. Two years after Season 1 wrapped, the show returns as one of Marvel’s more critically lauded recent projects, per MovieWeb. The July 1 premiere drops X-Men ’97 into a crowded summer streaming landscape — but given the response to that trailer, it has the attention it needs.

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• An untitled Oasis documentary covering the band’s 2025 reunion tour hits IMAX and select theaters worldwide on September 11.
• After its limited theatrical run, the film streams exclusively on Disney+ internationally and on Hulu and Disney+ in the U.S.
• It features the first joint interview with Liam and Noel Gallagher in over 25 years, plus rehearsal and backstage footage.
• The film was produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace.
• Oasis Live ’25 was the second highest-grossing tour of the entire year.

Liam and Noel Gallagher are coming to a screen near you. An untitled documentary about Oasis’ blockbuster 2025 reunion tour is heading to IMAX theaters and select cinemas worldwide beginning September 11, before moving to Disney+ internationally — and to both Hulu and Disney+ in the U.S. — later this year.

The film, a magna studios production presented by Sony Music Vision in association with Sony Music Entertainment UK, was produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the duo behind beloved music documentaries Shut Up and Play the Hits and Meet Me in the Bathroom. Producers Sam Bridger (Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now) and Guy Heeley (Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man) round out the team, with Oscar-winning sound mixers James Mather (Top Gun: Maverick, Belfast) and Tarn Willers (The Zone of Interest), plus cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos (Belfast, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) handling the technical side.

For anyone who spent 2025 jealously scrolling concert footage from their couch, this is the closest thing to a second chance. The documentary chronicles Oasis Live ’25 — the band’s first time performing together since 2009, and the second highest-grossing tour of the entire year — with cameras capturing rehearsals, backstage moments, and full onstage performances across the UK, the U.S., and beyond.

The Interview Nobody Thought Would Ever Happen

But the real headline? The film includes the first joint interview Liam and Noel Gallagher have given together in over 25 years. Let that sink in. These are two men who, for the better part of a decade and a half, were barely on speaking terms — brothers whose legendary volatility became as much a part of the Oasis story as “Wonderwall” or “Champagne Supernova.” Their infamous 1995 interview Wibbling Rivalry is practically band mythology at this point, and plenty of people had serious doubts the 2025 reunion would even make it to the finish line without another spectacular falling-out. It did. And apparently, someone had cameras rolling for all of it.

Knight, who is also currently writing the new James Bond films, clearly understood the weight of what he was documenting. “I genuinely cannot wait for the world to see this film,” he said in a statement. “I believe it captures the spirit and emotion of a global cultural moment and does justice to the wit and genius of two exceptional people. I wanted to tell the story of the brothers and the band, but just as important, the story of the fans whose lives the music has touched and sometimes changed forever. It is also the story of how music and songwriting can unite generations, cultures, countries and in a time of spite and division, give us all some reason to hope.”

Disney’s president of direct-to-consumer International Originals, Strategic Programming, and Emerging Media Eric Schrier echoed that. “Opportunities like this are incredibly rare,” he said. “The film is an intimate story of reconciliation, the power of music, and Oasis, one of the most successful and influential acts of all time. It’s a privilege to bring this extraordinary film to the big screen and to Disney+ subscribers around the world.”

A Rich History of Oasis on Film

This won’t be the first time the Gallaghers have been captured on documentary film — not by a long shot. Asif Kapadia’s Supersonic, released through A24 in 2016, remains one of the best music docs of its era. Before that, Lord Don’t Slow Me Down followed the 2005-06 Don’t Believe the Truth tour, and Oasis…There and Then documented the band’s peak Britpop years in 1995. Liam also got his own solo documentary in 2019, As It Was, which arrived after his 2017 comeback album As You Were — the project that many credit with quietly thawing the ice between him and Noel and eventually making the reunion possible.

But none of those films had what this one has: both brothers, in the same room, talking — together — for the first time in a generation.

Further details, including full cinema listings, are still to be announced. In the meantime, Liam is apparently feeling the post-tour blues just like the rest of us. When a fan posted on social media that they missed having an Oasis concert to look forward to, Liam replied simply: “Same.”

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• Tatiana Maslany says her She-Hulk future in the MCU is “open-ended” but has one key condition for returning
• Any new story would need to reflect what’s happening in the world today — that’s She-Hulk’s whole power, she says
• Maslany says series creator Jessica Gao would be essential to bringing the character back right
• She joked fans would be “so mad” to see her on their screens again, while rumors about her Marvel status have swirled for months
• No second season or confirmed Avengers appearance is currently on the books

Tatiana Maslany hasn’t suited up as Jennifer Walters since She-Hulk: Attorney at Law wrapped in 2022 — but she’s not closing the door on a return. She just has conditions.

Speaking to Screen Rant while promoting her new Apple TV+ series Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, the Emmy-winning Orphan Black star laid out exactly what it would take to bring She-Hulk back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And it’s less about contracts or cameos and more about creative purpose.

“That to me feels very open-ended,” Maslany said of her future as She-Hulk. “I do feel like Jessica Gao would be the person to ask about that because she just has such a grasp on the tone of that show and the story of that character. But I do think whatever it is would have to be talking about what’s happening now. So it would have to be something about the world now because that’s She-Hulk’s power, is seeing what’s happening and sort of calling it out.”

It’s a clear, principled answer — and honestly, it makes a lot of sense for the character. Jennifer Walters wasn’t just a superhero. She was a narrator, a fourth-wall-breaker, a woman using her platform to point at absurdity and name it. A version of that story set against today’s world? There’s no shortage of material.

Why Jessica Gao Is the Key

Maslany has been consistent about this: she doesn’t see herself as the person driving a She-Hulk comeback. That’s Gao’s territory. When she appeared on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast, Maslany expanded on why the character’s singular format makes ensemble appearances tricky.

“I think it would take somebody like Jessica Gao to weave her into that world because she knows that character so deeply and loves her and gets her tone,” she said. “But there is something about She-Hulk being the star of her own show that makes sense. Because of the direct address, she is our narrator. So, I think it would be a real cool challenge to see her in some other context, but I do think the sort of joy of She-Hulk is in the singularness of it.”

That’s a real creative tension. She-Hulk works because Jen talks to us. Drop her into an Avengers ensemble and you lose the whole mechanism that made the show click. It’s not impossible — but it’s not simple either.

When pressed on whether a second season or a move to the big screen felt more likely, Maslany didn’t exactly drum up confidence in either option. “I don’t know. I think people would be so mad at me being on their screens again,” she laughed.

The Messy Months Behind the Jokes

That quip lands differently when you know the backstory. The past year has been a chaotic one for Maslany’s relationship with Marvel — or at least the public perception of it.

In 2024, she told interviewers that a second season of She-Hulk was unlikely, citing budget issues: “I think we blew our budget, and Disney was like, ‘No, thanks.'” Then came her appearance on the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast, where she went full satirical: “Disney has approached me to play She-Hulk again. Guys, I said no… I was really mad at them for kicking me out of Deadpool & Wolverine. I was just mad… They really wanted me to be in Doomsday, Avengers-style, or whatever. I turned them down. I’m confirming it here.”

Given that this was a comedy podcast, most people took it as a bit — but the internet being the internet, it spread anyway. When Entertainment Tonight asked her to clarify in February, she was delightfully unhelpful: “You’ll never know. I don’t know. Do you know? I don’t know.”

She did get more serious when pushed. “Obviously, there are She-Hulk stories from the ’80s all the way to now, and they continue to be written, so there’s a lot in that character that’s very exciting,” she said. The comics, she pointed out, are still being made. The well isn’t dry.

Things got thornier late last year when Maslany publicly encouraged followers to cancel their Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN subscriptions amid the Jimmy Kimmel controversy. A scooper known as MTTSH subsequently claimed that “Marvel Studios wanted to use She-Hulk in a big way for Avengers: Secret Wars” but that Maslany “has no interest in working for Disney” — and that if she couldn’t be convinced, the options were recasting or removing the character entirely. Marvel has not commented on any of this.

Where Things Stand With the MCU

As of now, Maslany has no confirmed role in Avengers: Doomsday or Avengers: Secret Wars. Fan speculation flared last year when she cancelled a convention appearance around the time Doomsday was filming, but nothing has been confirmed. There’s always the possibility of a surprise — Marvel loves those — but it would be strange for the studio to tease it this openly if something were imminent.

A crossover with Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock has also been floated, given that Daredevil appeared in She-Hulk before returning in Daredevil: Born Again. Cox himself has left the door open, saying of a potential reciprocal appearance: “It’s an opportunity. It’s a whole different kind of fun with that. And maybe at some point we’ll get to see the favor returned.” But he’s also acknowledged the tonal gap — the Matt Murdock of Born Again is a much more serious creature than the one who did a walk of shame in She-Hulk.

Meanwhile, Marvel is navigating its own priorities. Kevin Feige has been vocal about pulling back on output after the Multiverse Saga’s uneven reception, and the studio is reportedly planning a soft reset post-Secret Wars — carrying over the characters and storylines that resonated most. Whether Jennifer Walters makes that cut is genuinely uncertain.

What is certain: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was more popular than its reputation suggests. Recent data revealed it was one of Disney+’s more-watched Marvel series with general audiences, even if it divided the hardcore fandom. Maslany was genuinely great in it. And a She-Hulk story built around the chaos of the present moment — the kind of pointed, funny, self-aware storytelling the character was made for — sounds like exactly the kind of show that could work.

The question is whether Marvel agrees. And whether Maslany and the studio can get on the same page long enough to make it happen.

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• The Season 2 finale saw Matt Murdock publicly reveal he is Daredevil in court before being arrested for his vigilante activities.
• Wilson Fisk was stripped of power and exiled from NYC, ending the two-season Mayor Fisk storyline.
• Mike Colter made a surprise return as Luke Cage in the finale, with Finn Jones confirmed returning as Iron Fist in Season 3.
• The Season 2 finale broke the MCU Disney+ record on IMDb with a 9.6/10 rating from over 11,000 users.
• Season 3 is already filming and tentatively set for March 2027, with the first half expected to function as a de facto Defenders Season 2.

Daredevil: Born Again just changed everything. The Season 2 finale, “The Southern Cross,” dropped on Disney+ on May 5, and by the time the credits rolled, the show had fundamentally dismantled the status quo it spent two seasons building — and then set up something that looks a whole lot more exciting than what came before.

Matt Murdock is in prison. Wilson Fisk is in exile on a beach, alone, grieving, and stripped of every lever of power he spent years constructing. And somewhere out there, Luke Cage just walked back through the door of his family home. The street-level corner of the MCU has never looked more alive — or more complicated.

The Moment That Changes Everything

The centerpiece of the finale is Matt (Charlie Cox) doing the unthinkable: standing up in Karen Page’s courtroom and announcing, out loud, to the world, that he is Daredevil. It’s the show’s “I am Iron Man” moment, and according to showrunner Dario Scardapane, it was always the plan.

“We knew going into Season 2 that we were heading towards the ‘I am Daredevil’ moment,” Scardapane told Variety. “It was super awesome because it allowed Charlie to give one of his best Matt Murdock performances as a lawyer and then literally shift into Daredevil in the middle of the scene. We probably started talking about the end of this season while we were working on Season 1.”

The fallout is immediate. Fisk’s case collapses. The Kingpin, unhinged and unleashed, storms out of the courthouse and mauls civilians in the street before Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and White Tiger intervene. He eventually takes a government deal — resignation, exile, no prosecution — and disappears to the island he and the late Vanessa once shared. Matt, meanwhile, is arrested for his years of vigilantism and sent to a maximum-security prison.

Two men at the peak of their respective powers, and both of them end the season in a box.

As for whether Season 3 will find some clever way to walk the identity reveal back — don’t count on it. Cox himself made clear he has no interest in that. “It’s a genie I don’t think we can put back in the box,” he told The Wrap. “Or at least, I don’t want to put it back in the box.”

The Defenders Are Back — For Real This Time

The finale’s final minutes delivered the moment fans of the Netflix era have been waiting years for. Mike Colter returned as Luke Cage, quietly walking back into the life he’d left behind — back to Jessica (Krysten Ritter), back to their daughter Danielle, back to a world where Alias Investigations is open for business again. It’s a single scene, but it lands like a mission statement.

“The world of Matt Murdock extends into the world of Jessica Jones, and then, because of what’s happened in her life, her world really extends into the world of Luke Cage,” Scardapane explained. “That last moment you see in the finale when the door closes and it says Alias Investigations — I probably had that shot in my head two or three days into Season 1.”

Ritter had already noted that Colter’s physical presence in that scene wasn’t guaranteed. “Originally it was gonna be a slightly different shape,” she told EW. “We didn’t know if it would be Mike or not, but I was so excited because it sets up what’s to come and gives us a little bit of a window into where their story could go.”

It turned out Colter was very much in. And now, based on set photos already circulating, the full reunion is confirmed: Finn Jones is returning as Danny Rand/Iron Fist in Season 3, marking his first MCU appearance since Iron Fist ended on Netflix back in 2018. According to insider @MyTimeToShineH, the first half of Season 3 is essentially “The Defenders 2” — with Luke, Jessica, and Danny carrying the story while Matt sits behind bars.

Scardapane confirmed as much to EW, while doing his best to play coy about the leaked set photos: “I guess those guys were hanging out playing D&D in some black robes. I’m not exactly sure what that’s about.”

More seriously, he added: “The relationship between Luke Cage and Jessica Jones — we start that picture of those three people, that family, at the end of episode 8 in this season. The questions and the story that starts there play into Season 3, absolutely.”

Where Fisk Goes From Here

Vincent D’Onofrio is confirmed as a series regular in Season 3, so the Kingpin isn’t going anywhere. But the version of Fisk who returns will be a fundamentally different animal. No Vanessa. No mayor’s office. No empire. Just a man on a beach with nothing left to lose.

“One of the things that I inherited that was a fun problem in a way: When your villain has become the mayor of New York City, where is there to go?” Scardapane said. “How does he react to a fall? Now we have a totally different Fisk. There is no Vanessa. There is no network of power. What does Fisk, at his core, climbing back into power, look like?”

Set photos have already shown Fisk in disguise — winter hat, trenchcoat, thick white beard — which suggests the Kingpin’s next move will involve rebuilding from the shadows. Whether that draws from the comics’ “Return of the King” arc or something else entirely, Scardapane is keeping his cards close. What he did say is that “both these characters, Murdock and Fisk, have really become their true selves” by the end of Season 2, and the consequences of that are what Season 3 will explore.

Matt in Prison — and the Comic Run It’s Pulling From

Sharp-eyed fans already know where this is heading. The setup — a publicly exposed Matt Murdock locked up alongside the criminals he helped put away — maps almost directly onto Ed Brubaker’s legendary “Devil in Cell Block D” comic run, widely considered one of the best Daredevil stories ever written. Scardapane didn’t confirm it outright, but he wasn’t exactly hiding it either.

“There’s a very, very legendary run that Matt in jail nods to where we’re going,” he told Variety. “The sharp-eyed viewers will see which Fisk run we’re doing with that ending, as well.”

He also pointed to the real-world resonance of the setting. “The current stress and strife at Rikers Island is pretty real, and the idea of building a flawed world that neither vigilante nor a lawyer can have any effect on — yeah.”

With Danny Rand confirmed for Season 3, the classic comic storyline where Iron Fist dons the Daredevil costume while Matt is imprisoned is also very much in play. The pieces are all on the board.

The Rest of the Board: Bullseye, Muse, and More

The finale didn’t just close the Mayor Fisk chapter — it opened several new ones. Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter (Wilson Bethel), aka Bullseye, boards a plane with the mysterious Mr. Charles (Matthew Lillard), heading off for what sounds like government-sanctioned black ops work. Scardapane confirmed this dynamic has legs going forward: “Bullseye and Charles — a million seeds for stories going forward. We call them Charles’ Dark Whispers.”

Luke Cage, notably, was previously doing similar work for Mr. Charles before returning to his family — which means the show has quietly built a shadow world of enhanced operatives that could pay off in interesting ways down the line.

Meanwhile, Heather Glenn (Margarita Levieva) officially donned the mask of Muse by the end of the finale, completing a slow-burn arc that Scardapane says was designed to give the character’s transformation real psychological weight. “We talked to Margarita about that. It seems supernatural if you watch the way it’s progressing,” he said. “Now you have the development of, why would she become this thing? Why would she go to such a dark place? And I think you understand it.”

Angela del Toro (Camila Rodriguez) stepped fully into the White Tiger mantle during the courthouse battle, and her future in the MCU looks bright — with some fans already speculating she could be a natural fit for a Young Avengers lineup alongside Ms. Marvel and Kate Bishop. And with Elodie Yung recently posting workout videos and confirming she’s in New York, speculation is swirling that Elektra could return in Season 3 to take up the Daredevil mantle while Matt is locked away.

The Numbers Don’t Lie

Whatever the viewership situation — and reports suggest it’s down roughly 50% from Season 1 — the people who are watching Born Again are passionate about it. “The Southern Cross” currently holds a 9.6/10 on IMDb based on over 11,000 user ratings, making it the highest-rated episode of any MCU Disney+ series ever. It nudged out the previous record-holder, the Loki Season 2 finale, which sits at 9.5. Remarkably, Season 2 Episode 4, “Gloves Off,” holds third place at 9.4.

For Marvel Studios, those numbers matter — they’re the kind of quality signal that makes the case for a show even when the raw viewership tells a messier story.

What’s Already Filming

Season 3 has been in production since March, and Scardapane gave EW a surprisingly detailed update on where things stand. “I’m writing the finale right now. We wrap in early July at this point. So we’re right about the halfway mark. All the scripts except the last one are written. We’re shooting episode block 2, so we’re just wrapping up episode 4 right now.”

The season is tentatively slated for March 2027, continuing the pattern of annual March releases that the show established with Seasons 1 and 2. In the meantime, Jon Bernthal’s Punisher special presentation, One Last Kill, arrives the week after the finale to bridge the gap and explain Frank Castle’s absence from Season 2 — before Bernthal heads into Spider-Man: Brand New Day this summer.

The street-level MCU has never had this many moving pieces in play at once. Matt Murdock is behind bars with his identity exposed to the world. Kingpin is feral and rebuilding from nothing. The Defenders are back together. And somewhere out there, Bullseye is on a government plane doing things that probably can’t be declassified.

“These two have kind of an endless battle,” Scardapane said of Matt and Fisk, “but in a lot of ways the battle shifts at the end of this season.” He’s right. It shifts — and then it gets much bigger.

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