Category: Movies
Warner Bros. Discovery Not Bowing to Diversity Demands
That Batgirl news is making a bunch of angry activists polish their “I told you so” lectures. A few days ago, Bloomberg ran a story about Warner Bros. Discovery and its hiring practices under CEO David Zaslav – specifically, that they’re hiring too many white men. Zaslav apparently has a his...
Read MoreBatgirl Movie Shelved Indefinitely
Following poorly received test screenings, DC and Warner Bros. are shelving their Batgirl movie. This means the film won’t premiere in theaters or on HBO Max, as was previously announced. Despite a reported budget of $70 million already in the can, the film’s reception made releasing it a bigg...
Read MoreMarvel’s Phase 4 Profits are Down by Half
Marvel Studios is facing a much more menacing villain than Kang the Conqueror or Doctor Doom: declining profits. The Wall Street Journal reports that Marvel’s Phase 4 output has been underperforming mightily. “Since Disney acquired Marvel in 2009, the studio has produced 25 superhero films that ...
Read MoreJon Favreau Didn’t Want Tony Stark to Die
Happy Hogan was even more devastated by his best friend’s death than we thought. In one of those Vanity Fair videos where filmmakers talk about scenes from their movies, Joe and Anthony Russo discuss Tony Stark’s sacrifice in Avengers: Endgame. They call it the moment that brought them the most ...
Read MoreOppenheimer Teaser Goes Nuclear
Universal Pictures dropped the bomb today as they released a teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie Oppenheimer. Nolan’s first film after his split with Warner Bros., Oppenheimer depicts the creation of the atomic bomb by J. Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues in what became kno...
Read MoreSamaritan Trailer Makes Stallone Super
Sylvester Stallone is taking his piece of the comic book pie, as Amazon has released a trailer for their upcoming superhero film Samaritan. Samaritan stars Stallone as a garbage man whom a neighborhood child recognizes as a superhero everyone thinks is dead. Based on the comic book by Schut, Marc Ol...
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