Whether you like them or not, Disney’s push for live action remakes isn’t likely to slow down anytime soon. As if you actually need a reason as to why, just look at this month’s release of The Lion King. Jon Favreau’s photo-realistic adaptation of the 1994 animated classic opened to middling reviews, but is just a week or two shy of grossing a billion dollars worldwide. Even if most moviegoers left unimpressed, more often than not, the live action remakes are guaranteed to make some sort of profit, so why stop now?
Quentin Tarantino’s new surefire hit Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has finally been released in theaters, and the writer-director has been as verbose as ever on the promotional circuit. Now that fans are lining up for his ninth movie (of an alleged ten total films), QT has taken some time to examine all of the projects he had to turn down or abandon, including his Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction spinoff The Vega Brothers.
Sure, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is only a few months away from blasting into cinemas, but talk about 2017’s The Last Jedi seems as heated as ever. For a very small but very loud group of fans, the latest entry in the mainline Star Wars saga seems to have misused fan-favorite characters in an attempt to ruin their childhood, and they’re hoping J.J. Abrams' next film will retcon its entire story.
As Avengers: Endgame gears up for its home video release, Marvel is building hype by churning out behind the scenes featurettes and deleted scenes that fill in a few of the movie’s blanks. In fact, the latest excised clip answers one of the largest questions Endgame left open-ended: what happened to Gamora?
Looking back, the Hellboy comic book series was always a perfect match for Guillermo del Toro. The director, who went on to make Pacific Rim and the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water, has a penchant for injecting humanity into his monsters, and even if he looks like Satan on steroids, Ron Perlman’s take on the titular character was vivacious as he was tragic. That makes it all the more saddening that the director’s intended trilogy was never completed in any form.
As optimistic and earnest as he is grounded and tough, a live-action adaptation of Steve Rogers could’ve easily been as campy as it could have been authoritarian, yet the MCU utilized his perfect balance of hopefulness and resolute strength. According to Avengers: Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, Warner Bros. could learn a thing or two from their approach to the hero when it comes to adapting Superman.
According to the company’s July 17th quarterly report, Netflix added only 2.7 million subscribers worldwide this quarter, barely half of the 5 million new customers it previously expected. Within six days of the report, the once-ubiquitous brand of streaming media shed more than $24 billion worth of value while its stock sunk 15 percent.
Like nearly every comic book movie in development at this moment, there isn’t exactly a ton of confirmed information regarding Matt Reeves’ The Batman floating around on the Internet. Thanks in large part due to Robert Pattinson’s casting as Bruce Wayne though, we know that the film will focus on a younger, less experienced version of the character. As for the villains, various sources have heard that Reeves is planning on introducing multiple members of Bats’ infamous rogues gallery, but exactly who and how many is anyone’s guess.
This past weekend saw Marvel Studios officially announce a few shocking sequels at their SDCC 2019 panel. While many fans were expecting details on a possible Captain Marvel 2 or a Black Panther follow up, we were instead gifted info on the future of the Doctor Strange and Thor series. And if their titles - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder - are any indication, the next phase of the MCU is about to get weird.
Warner Bros. may soon be revealing a pretty big surprise of their own, and its all centered around their new multi-million dollar deal with J.J. Abrams. According to a new rumor, the Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker director will soon be helming either a Superman or a Green Lantern film for the DCEU, if not both.
