With a new trailer for Justice League set to arrive this spring, we imagine that the promotional campaign for Zack Snyder's upcoming DCEU entry will begin to pick up shortly. Photos, clips, posters and more will soon start to hit the web, as Warner Bros. aggressively markets what's sure to be one of 2017's biggest films. The studio's got a lot riding on this one - the entire future of the DCEU, some might say - and they need to do everything they can to ensure it's a hit both critically and commercially.
Suicide Squad proved to be quite divisive when it landed in theaters back in August, though the general consensus ultimately seemed to be one of disappointment. Make no mistake about it, Task Force X absolutely crushed it at the box office, bringing in almost $750 million worldwide, but for fans and critics, the group's debut outing was a wholly mediocre one.
It's been a while since we heard anything about this one, but about eight months back a rumor hit the web that told us Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road, Lawless, Dunkirk) was set to shoot a cameo for Rian Johnson's follow-up to The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII. Apparently, the Academy Award-nominated actor was going to appear in a brief scene as a First Order Stormtrooper, in much the same way Daniel Craig popped up in the previous film.
It's not too controversial to say that Henry Cavill's take on Superman hasn't exactly been a huge success. While the actor's not necessarily at fault, the way that director Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. have chosen to portray the iconic hero hasn't sat well with most fans, with a lot of people actually preferring Tyler Hoechlin's take on the character over on The CW's Supergirl. But Cavill isn't going anywhere, and as such, the only hope we have for a brighter, more cheerful Supes is getting some new blood behind the camera.
When Bryan Singer's latest X-Men flick, Apocalypse, didn't do very well at the box office, many speculated that it might be the last we see of the actors that boarded the franchise as younger versions of the team in X-Men: First Class. Sure enough, Michael Fassbender didn't sound very confident that he'd return as Magneto in a recent interview, and Jennifer Lawrence strongly insinuated that she wouldn't play Mystique again - however, James McAvoy sings a slightly different tune.
Now that the Ghost Rider storyline has wrapped up (for the time being, anyway), Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. kicks off its LMD arc when it returns from its winter hiatus next Tuesday night. It's already been confirmed that Doctor Radcliffe's beautiful, but deadly android Aida will be the show's next big bad, and in this first sneak peek from the midseason premiere, "Broken Promises," we see her rebel against her human masters for the first time.
Over the years, Marvel has managed to adapt a wide variety of their properties for both the big and small screen, including relatively obscure characters such as Doctor Strange and the Guardians of the Galaxy. However, one of their more popular second-tier heroes (well, antiheroes) has yet to get his chance in the spotlight: Marc Spector, AKA Moon Knight.
While Marvel has often struggled with crafting compelling villains on the big screen, the same cannot be said for their antagonists on television. Almost all of their Netflix shows have done extremely well in that regard, especially Daredevil. Bringing Wilson Fisk aka the Kingpin to life in a very effective fashion, actor Vincent D'Onofrio gave a fantastic performance in season 1 of the show and also returned - in a much smaller capacity - for the second outing.
The Walking Dead was never a show one would attempt to describe as being light-hearted, but this latest season has been its darkest yet by far. Fans of the source material had been waiting anxiously for the debut of the villainous Negan, but even they had to have been taken aback by just how gruesome and disturbing things got when Jeffrey Dean Morgan finally made good on his sinister promise of retribution via a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat he'd christened Lucille.
