Watch This: A Christopher Nolan-ized Superman in New Man of Steel Trailer
Move over, Star Trek Into Darkness. Your time, or at least your final trailer’s time, as the center of our attention lasted less than 24 hours because Warner Bros. just surprised us with a new trailer...
View ArticlePacific Rim – Critics Agree It is Big & Dumb Though They Differ on the Fun Part
It may officially be called Pacific Rim, but the latest from director Guillermo del Toro – due to be released in the US, UK and most everywhere else this Friday (7/12) – might as well have simply gone...
View ArticleAnnouncements, Dropouts & Lawsuits: What the Heck is Happening With the Dumb...
Readers of The Hollywood Reporter and lovers of Hollywood backstage intrigue just received another helping of awesome when details of a countersuit between would-be producers of a sequel to the 1994...
View ArticleBack in a Flash: Barry Allen To Be Introduced on Arrow to Set Up a Flash...
Updated: 7/31/2013 – Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns conducted a conference call with reporters to offer more specifics about their plans to make a spin-off of Arrow focused on The...
View ArticleHoly Role Reversal! China’s Owed Hollywood $150 Million Box Office Gross...
By some projections, China will be the leading marketplace for films within 5 years, after having grossed $2.75 billion in box office gross last year in comparison to the United States and Canada’s...
View ArticleBen Affleck is the New Batman–No, Seriously. We’re Not Sure What to Think...
Ben Affleck’s path to career renaissance has largely been to turn himself into George Clooney, Jr. – a respected writer-director who also happens to act in his own films. Heck, he’s even mentored...
View ArticleFox Lands Gotham, a Batman-Related TV Show, But Is D.C. Wasting an...
UPDATE: 12/3/2013 – According to BleedingCool, the script for what would be the first episode of Gotham is now complete. An inside source WB claims the script features Detective Jim Gordon “trying to...
View ArticleSuck It, Marvel: D.C. Has Yet Another TV Show in The Works,...
So, clearly, Warner Bros./D.C. doesn’t like Disney/Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. budding into what had previously been exclusively D.C. territory: television. Tony Stark and the Avengers can rule...
View ArticleWhy We’re Not Excited About Gal Gadot Playing Wonder Woman in Batman Vs....
WB/DC has their Wonder Woman, and, yes, she will indeed appear in the Man of Steel sequel we’re all just calling Batman Vs. Superman until they give us an official title. Director Zack Snyder...
View ArticleTrailer Watch: Rejoice in Minimalism in the Teaser Trailer for Godzilla
There’s a new Godzilla movie coming out next summer. Hey, don’t laugh. Everyone seemed to really like the footage they showed at San Diego Comic-Con this year. Here’s the first official trailer:...
View ArticleWeinstein Company/Miramax Developing Shakespeare In Love & Rounders Sequels,...
Get ready for Shakespeare in Love…Again. Or maybe Shakespeare in Love…Still?. Also, prepare yourself – if it’s at all possible – for Entourage 2.0: Swingers, the TV Show. According to The Hollywood...
View ArticleWhy We’re Not Sure Anyone Let Alone Joseph Gordon-Levitt Can Truly Adapt Neil...
According to Deadline, WB/DC is officially moving forward with a film adaptation of beloved fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s classic comic book The Sandman. Gaiman is aboard as producer as is David S....
View ArticleBatman Vs. Superman Pushed Back to May 6, 2016 – Be Honest: They Probably...
Holy, scheduling change, Batman! Warner Bros. has pushed Batman Vs. Superman back nearly a year from July 17, 2015 to May 6, 2016. Why? Boy howdy are they not saying much about that, other than to...
View ArticleShould We Really Care That Gal Gadot’s Multi-Picture Deal with WB Includes a...
We’ve already gone on the record as objecting to Zack Snyder being the director to bring Wonder Woman to the screen as has FilmSchoolRejects, but we have no real problem with the casting of Gal Gadot....
View ArticleVeronica Mars Will Now Be the First Major Hollywood Studio Film to Open in...
A long time ago we used to be friends, but then you went away for 6 years so we gave you nearly $6 million to come back. Or at least that’s the story for Veronica Mars and its fans, specifically the...
View ArticleSuck It, WB – Marvel Not Backing Down, Opening Captain America 3 Opposite...
It’s official: Marvel is currently scheduled to release Captain America 3 on May 6, 2016, the same date Warner Bros’ recently claimed for Batman Vs. Superman. No one should seriously believe that this...
View ArticleRumor Patrol: Sony Moving Back Amazing Spider-Man 3, Warner Bros. Has 7 DC...
When is a movie which has grossed $700 million worldwide considered a failure? The answer is when the movie in question was expected to make $1 billion worldwide, or so the thinking currently goes in...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why Warner Bros. Might Release 7 New DC Comic Book Movies...
Here’s something I didn’t know until yesterday: In 1989, Batman saved Warner Bros. At the time, the studio was owned by the company First National. Warner Bros. put everything it had into making...
View ArticleParallel Script Development: How Warner Bros. Approach to Aquaman Could Be As...
In this post I finally get around to reacting to Warner Bros.’ peculiar approach to its forthcoming Aquaman movie, and look to the X-Men franchise for guidance. Wait, why the X-Men franchise? Because...
View ArticleNo Laughing Matter: How Warner Bros. May Have Learned the Wrong Lesson from...
Imagine you are some higher up at Warner Bros., likely with a job that, as Troy from Community would put it, “Looks from a distance like you do nothing.” In the past year, there has been some pretty...
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