Below is a list of reports and exclusives that have been confirmed for this site. The majority of these cover Marvel and DC film and television projects. Items are listed from most recent to earliest. This page may not contain every item which we’ve reported on that has been confirmed.
Confirmed Exclusives:
- On February 28, 2022, Lizzie Hill exclusively reported about a monster in Thor: Love and Thunder, which was first seen on a Lego set, being from a child’s drawing. This was confirmed via this People.com report.
- Lizzie Hill’s 3/31/22 report on Twitter about Benedict Wong appearing in the She-Hulk series was confirmed via a press release on 5/17/22.
- Alex Perez’s 2/16/22 exclusive detailing a scene in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness involving Defender Strange, America Chavez, and the Book of Vishanti, was largely confirmed with the release of the film in May.
- This Blue Beetle exclusive about villains Carapax and Victoria Kord was posted by Lizzie Hill on March 24, 2022. The characters’ names and that they are appearing in the film were confirmed in an exclusive by The Wrap on March 29, 2022.
- Alex Perez’s exclusive about Mr. Knight appearing in Moon Knightposted on September 14, 2021, has now been confirmed via an exclusive image from the show shared by Empire Magazine on February 12, 2022.
- This Lizzie Hill exclusive from July 12, 2021 revealing that British stage and screen actor Simon Callow was cast in the Disney+ Hawkeye series was confirmed by his appearance in the series first episode on November 24th.
- This Alex Perez exclusive from September 25, 2021, stated that Spider-Man would briefly don the Cloak of Levitation along with a few more details about the confrontation between Peter and Dr. Strange in the film which were confirmed in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
- September 2021, Arian Moayed from Succession appears briefly in the first Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer, confirming Lizzie Hill’s February 2021 exclusive about him being in the film.
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever set images posted on Lainey Gossip proved Okoye and Shuri were in scenes filmed at MIT in August 2021, as Lizzie Hill stated several days earlier. A described scene with Riri and a male student mentioned in her article was also confirmed via set images.
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was seen filming at MIT in August 2021, confirming Lizzie Hill’s exclusive from July about them planning to film there.
- Lizzie Hill exclusive on May 17, 2021, about Dijimon Hounsou returning as the Wizard in Shazam: Fury of the Gods was confirmed by paparazzi images from the set in July.
- A Lizzie Hill exclusive for Shazam: Fury of the Gods posted on June 3, 2021 about Rachel Zegler’s character having a romantic flirtation with Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) was confirmed through some paparazzi pictures showing the two having a rooftop smooch while filming in July. The exclusive’s mention of her character wearing golden armor was also confirmed through set photos around the same time.
- This September 16, 2020 exclusive scene description acquired by Lizzie Hill for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and involving Georges St-Pierre (Batroc), Erin Kellyman, and Desmond Chiam, was confirmed true when the series aired in early 2021 (although our theory on Kellyman playing Songbird in the series was incorrect)
- A Lizzie Hill exclusive from September 3, 2020, about the working title of Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness being Stellar Vortex has been supported by many outlets and evidence since.
Confirmed Reports, Theories, and Detective Work Articles:
- May Calamawy’s character in Moon Knight was confirmed to be named Layla by the trailer. This was first reported by Alex Perez on 12/30/2021.
- A Lizzie Hill report on September 13, 2021 backed up rumors on MSS Reddit that Vincent D’Onofrio would appear as the Kingpin in Hawkeye.
- On July 20, 2021, Lizzie Hill reported that Yelena Belova is in multiple episodes of Hawkeye, “Not just as a cameo, but with a significant enough part where we continue to explore her character and what happened to her after Black Widow, and perhaps even deal with her and Clint mourning Natasha in some ways.” This was confirmed by the series itself. She also corrected reports that Julia Louis-Dreyfus would be in the series and that it was more than 6 episodes (despite what the IMDB said) in that same article.
- December 4, 2021, Alex Perez’s first report finding that the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse would be titled Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse was confirmed by the new trailer for the sequel!
- On October 11, 2021, Deadline and James Gunn confirmed our casting news/rumor report that Will Poulter had been cast as Adam Warlock. Our articles are available to read HERE (10/9) and HERE (10/11, 5 hours prior to Deadline’s report)
- This October 10, 2021 Assembling Elements first report by Alex Perez about Bill Murray possibly having a role in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniawas confirmed to be true on October 26 by Bill Murray himself! The confirmation came via Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung who interviewed him about Wes Anderson film The French Dispatch.
- Black Widow actress Jade Xu was first revealed to also have a part in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in this Lizzie Hill article on June 9, 2020. She can be seen briefly fighting in a fight club scene in the film.
- Fala Chen, who was later revealed to be playing Shang-Chi’s mother, was first revealed as cast in the film through another article by Lizzie Hill on May 18, 2020. This was confirmed by her appearance in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
- Erin Kellyman’s appearance in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was first revealed by a Lizzie Hill report on May 16, 2020. Not long after Discussing Film was able to confirm this, and again this was confirmed more by paparazzi set photos later in the year, and her appearance in the series itself.
- Lizzie Hill first presented evidence that Wakandans and Dora Milaji would appear in The Falcon and the Winter Soldieron April 26, 2020, in this connecting imaginary dots article. It was confirmed when the series aired in early 2021.