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July 24th, 2008

Dark Knight Fastest Film to Hit $200 Million

Sorry Spidey, another one of your records just fell to the Caped Crusader. The Dark Knight hit the $200 million mark in just five days, surpassing the eight days it took Spider-Man 2 to get there.
Now experts are speculating it could make as much as $500 million and might even have a shot at finishing […]

By brian -- 0 comments

July 22nd, 2008

Is Batman Really Crazy?

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The recent events surrounding Dark Knight star Christian Bale are tinged with quite a bit of irony. After all, many folks in Gotham want the police to bring Batman in for his vigilante acts. Then, the actor gets arrested in a family dispute. Between Bale’s arrest and Heath Ledger’s death, the word curse […]

By brian -- 1 comment

July 21st, 2008

J. Steven York says “Buzz Off!”

The following is a post from sci fi writer, J. Steven York’s Multiplex of the Mind blog, reprinted here with the author’s permission. 
Don’t you hate it when one of your childhood heroes says something so profoundly wrong and stupid that you just have to call them on it? Unfortunately, it just happened to […]

By Cynthia -- 2 comments

July 21st, 2008

Dark Knight Shatters Records

As most anticipated, Spider-Man 3’s record opening weekend fell at the hands of The Dark Knight. The long awaited Batman sequel took in an estimated $155 million over the weekend. It also had the biggest opening day ever with $66.4 million and the most money from midnight showings, $18.5 million.
Bat-mania reached an all-time high […]

By brian -- 2 comments

July 20th, 2008

Comic Book Movies Reach Another Level

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No less of a critical luminary than Roger Ebert has noted there’s something special going on with the comic book movie. Beginning with Spider-Man 2 and culminating (at least so far) with Dark Knight, Hollywood is being turned upside […]

By brian -- 5 comments

July 17th, 2008

Iron Man Sequel May Have Writer

                                                     The Hollywood Reporter tells us that actor turned scribe Justin Theroux is negotiating with Marvel Studios to be the writer for Iron Man 2. If things work out, it won’t be his first collaboration with Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. Theroux has story and screenplay credit along with Ben Stiller on the upcoming […]

By brian -- 1 comment

July 17th, 2008

Woo To Direct Caliber Comic Adaptation

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Acclaimed action-film director John Woo has signed on to helm the movie treatment of comic book Caliber, an adaptation of the Arthurian legend set in the American Wild, Wild West.
Caliber is a creation of Barry Levine’s Radical Comics.  They’re a very new player on the comic book […]

By brian -- 2 comments

July 16th, 2008

Spider-Man and His Amazing Musical

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No, we’re not kidding. Spider-Man: The Musical is coming to Broadway. And it’s got big name talent attached to it. Tony winning director Julie Taymor is helming this one with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge.
The casting call out currently is […]

By brian -- 1 comment

July 14th, 2008

Hellboy II Takes Box Office Crown

In a battle of unconventional superheroes, Hellboy II: The Golden Army edged out Hancock to win the weekend. Hellboy brought in $35.9 million and became the third comic-book based movie to hold the no. 1 spot, following Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk.  A fourth comic property, Wanted nearly made it but was beaten […]

By brian -- 6 comments

July 10th, 2008

Meet New Hulk, Same Take As Old Hulk

An interesting column at the Hollywood Reporter notes that in spite of much more positive reviews from fans and critics, the new Hulk movie will pull in about what the first one did.
I’ve mentioned that I think the revamp is a lot better and infinitely more “summer box office” film. Ang Lee’s take would […]

By brian -- 8 comments

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