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via eurweb: *Marvel Comics and espnW are giving Serena Williams, Simone Biles and Misty Copeland a superhero makeover with reimagining them as comic book characters. The transformation is part of an effort to honor the top 25 sport influencers who have made the biggest impact for women in the last year, Essence reports, citing an announcement made by ESPN. Despite not achieving a […]

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Ta-Nehisi Coates can be identified in many ways: as a national correspondent for The Atlantic, as an author and, as of this month, as a nominee for the National Book Award’s nonfiction prize. But Mr. Coates also has a not-so-secret identity, as evidenced by some of his Atlantic blog posts and his Twitter feed: Marvel […]

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Marvel Studios will hire a local crew to help film the movie ‘The Avengers” this summer in Cleveland. The production will be the largest feature film ever made in Ohio. The Greater Cleveland Film Commission said the movie will employ hundreds of Ohio-based cast and crew, and use local service and supply vendors. Crew members […]

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich says filming of the Marvel Studios superhero movie “The Avengers” will take place in Cleveland. Kasich made the announcement Thursday before Mayor Frank Jackson’s State of the City address. The film for release next year features the Marvel comics superheros, including Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Samuel L. Jackson as […]