Tag: Tony Stark
Marvel Reveals Fantastic Four and Avengers Titles, Plus the Identity of Their Next Big Villain, at SDCC
Now, for the biggies. Marvel talked about the upcoming releases they desperately need to get right, and one of the reveals – the big one – had me cursing up a storm at how far something I once loved like few other franchises has fallen. First, though, let’s talk Fantastic Four. The film has a ...
Read MoreReport Says Captain America 4 Has Astronomical Budget
In a time when Marvel’s movies tend not to be big hits, Marvel keeps making new ones that really, really need to be big hits. The latest is Captain America: Brave New World, the long-delayed and extensively reshot film starring Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson. According to “a contact” reporting t...
Read MoreMusings on Wolverine, the Multiverse, and Tony Stark
It’s been a few days since the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer arrived, and I’ve watched it many times since. It’s a great trailer that promises a fun movie with two fan-favorite characters played by the actors who made them big-screen stars, and it gives frustrated Marvel fans some hope tha...
Read MoreRobert Downey Jr. Open to Playing Iron Man Again
Robert Downey Jr. is willing to save the mega-franchise he helped start. In an interview with Esquire (which was published today but was conducted partly in January and partly in the days after he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer), Downey was inevitably asked about Marvel and ...
Read MoreIs Monkey Man the Future of Hollywood?
Did you see Monkey Man this weekend? Probably not; the action movie and directorial debut of actor Dev Patel made $10.1 million, coming in second place at the box office to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which made three times as much money in its second weekend. That’s well under predictions, ...
Read MoreDenis Villeneuve Thinks Movies Talk too Much
Great filmmakers generate conversation about film, and Denis Villeneuve is doing that even outside of his movies. The director, whose Dune: Chapter Two opens this week, spoke to the UK newspaper The Times about his new film and said that he doesn’t like dialogue and that it is a detriment to fil...
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