According to a new report from The Wrap, WB may be forced to look elsewhere for a Caped Crusader, as insuring a recovering alcoholic may be a tad too pricey. “More than likely the studio will replace him because the insurance costs are going to go through the roof,” a representative for a completion bond company stated.
What with Avengers: Infinity War becoming only the fourth motion picture ever to conquer the elusive $2 billion plateau, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, on the whole, exceeding $17 billion - and counting - hauled in at the worldwide box office, it would indeed appear the sky’s the limit for the highest grossing film franchise of all time. That said, the world of moviemaking ain't all sunshine and rainbows, especially when your boss is the House of Mouse.
While a tentative release window has been set - sometime in 2019 - intel regarding The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer streaming service couldn’t be seeping through any slower. Admittedly, though, the House of Mouse has picked up the pace as of late, and today, we finally learned the name of this BAMTech-powered network.
It may not seem like that long ago two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain announced she'd begun principal photography on IT: Chapter Two, but evidently, the Sacramento County, California native has already wrapped production, and we’ve got the Instagram story to prove it.
Say what you will about the genre, but there's no denying that comic book movies sell. At the worldwide box office in 2018, four out of the top five highest grossing films are based on some variant of superhuman. Not to mention, Avengers: Infinity War became only the fourth ticket booth titan ever to conquer the elusive $2 billion plateau this year. Unfortunately, though, there is a downside to all the success. At least, according to Ethan Hawke, that is.
With the release of Shane Black’s The Predator so close that you can practically hear the faint clicking of the eponymous beast in the distance, 20th Century Fox has shifted the marketing blitz into high gear, and we’ve got the latest TV spot to prove it.
In case you missed it, yesterday, Marvel halted production on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and for good reason. Not only is the irreverent supergroup without a director, but at the frequency and ferocity Dave Bautista is attacking the House of Mouse, they may very well find themselves minus Drax the Destroyer. Thankfully, though, filmmaker Joe Carnahan has a solution to the many a woe plaguing Disney and Marvel at the moment: “Rehire Fucking James Gunn.”
While it really should’ve come as a surprise to no-one, Marvel halted production on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 yesterday, and, as you might expect, the internet did not handle it well.
Although The Walt Disney Company has seemingly moved on from the controversy, evidently, Dave Bautista isn’t quite finished tearing the House of Mouse a new one over the firing of filmmaker James Gunn.
Well, we still may be a quarter of a year, or so, removed from the first Avengers 4 trailer, but that’ll give us plenty of time to prepare for the ginormous blockbuster in a healthy manner mentally; and they’ve gone and beheaded Thanos (Josh Brolin).
