Yesterday, Wednesday, March 2, the family of Alan Ladd Jr. announced that he had passed away peacefully at home. Ladd was a movie producer and the former president of Twentieth Century Fox, helping to bring films like Braveheart and The Man in the Iron Mask to life. He holds a special place in th...
Read MoreDisney had better watch its mouth. According to Deadline, a third Deadpool movie is a go at the Mouse House, which recently acquired 21st Century Fox Studios and, among other things, all of its Marvel properties. The producers and star Ryan Reynolds have been meeting with writers and hearing pitches...
Read MoreIt’s funny how life imitates art; in the comic books, the New Mutants were notorious for being a young group of X-Men trainees facing traumatic experiences from the very beginning, with tragedy surrounding them as much as or even more than the actual X-Men or the original X-Factor. The same th...
Read MoreI had been looking forward to Alita: Battle Angel for several years. I remember an article from 13 years ago where James Cameron discussed his two epic sci-fi trilogies that he was planning as his comeback to narrative filmmaking, having spent the better part of a decade developing moviemaking techn...
Read MoreA movie that was around 18 years in the making since Guillermo del Toro introduced James Cameron to the manga/anime, Alita: Battle Angel finally opened for the general public on February 14th. The original comic book – Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro, initially published in Shueisha’s Business Ju...
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