While he spent more time with Batman than Iron Man, director Christopher Nolan has praised the move to cast Downey Jr. in the title role. Although he had been on a minor roll by 2008, starring in Zodiac, A Scanner Darkly and, uh, The Shaggy Dog, Robert Downey Jr. was far from being a box … Read more
James Gunn says Superman: Legacy is the first movie in the new DCU canon, even though actors from the previous iteration will return. Orchestrating a reboot of a single property is tricky, but reintroducing audiences to a universe is far more complex. Do you start from scratch? Do you keep certain characters because of their … Read more
“The Blackening” is not the first movie to challenge the rules. In 1999, there was a film called “Deep Blue Sea,” starring Thomas Jane. The movie was about the ultimate in human hubris as a scientist, played by Saffron Burrows, genetically altered the brains of great white sharks. Of course, the sharks become so smart … Read more
People hate Zack Snyder’s man of steel, and a decade later, I can’t figure out why the movie didn’t register with audiences more. After making a splash during its opening weekend, Man of Steel dropped like a rock at the box office and ended its run with a good, but not great, $600 million, resulting … Read more
In a recently resurfaced video, Mel Gibson is seen inflating another man’s tire while playfully engaging in conversation. ace Braveheart‘s William Wallace once put it, “Every man dies, not every man truly lives.” And has a man truly lived until Mel Gibson has bailed him out of a jam on the side of the road … Read more
Away from the ballfield and the cameras, Brown was arrested in 1965 for assault and battery involving an 18-year-old named Brenda Ayres. Though he was cleared of the charges, Ayres later sued Brown for the paternity of her child. At the time, Brown was married to Sue Jones, with whom he had three children, including … Read more
Willow, Big Shot, Y: The Last Man and more are among the many shows set to be removed from Disney+ and Hulu. Well, this is just depressing. It was reported last week that Disney would start removing content from their streaming services, and the first casualties have been revealed. The dozens of TV shows and … Read more
Creator Mike Mignola took to Instagram to confirm that production on Millennium Media’s newest Hellboy reboot The Crooked Man has finally been completed. In his post, Mignola congratulated the cast and crew while also praising co-writer Chris Golden for staying true to the “heart and soul” of the source material, which he described as one … Read more
David Corenswet is being touted at the front-runner to play the title role in James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy. With Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 dominating the box office, and ending James Gunn’s run at Marvel, the cast for his upcoming Superman: Legacy appears to be shaping up. According to a bombshell report in THR, … Read more
When Iron Man was released in American theaters on May 2, 2008, few people could have expected it would lead to movies that feature characters like Rocket Raccoon, Kang the Conqueror, and Namor, the Sub-Mariner. But now that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been thriving for a decade and a half, it’s worth looking back … Read more