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 […]
In The Dark Knight, Chin Han keeps a step ahead of the Gotham mob as Lau, a Hong Kong crime lord who launders the crooks’ money. In addition to snagging a role in the biggest film of the year, Han will also play a pivotal part in Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic 2012. SF Universe got […]
I’ve gone on record as saying I would love it if Sci Fi shut down its B-movie factory and used that money to salvage popular genre shows like Moonlight or Jericho. As my colleague Cynthia previously reported, the network has announced 36 movies for its Saturday and Sunday slots, including Lake Placid 3.
Oh, they […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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And a million Marvel fans just released their collective breath. Jon Favreau, director of the runaway hit Iron Man, has agreed to helm the sequel according to Deadline Hollywood Daily.
There was some concern on Favreau’s part about the extremely ambitious release schedule Marvel […]
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