The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema – including Flickering Myth’s Top 10 Films of 2015, a potentially huge Captain America: Civil War spoiler, Christopher Nolan’s next movie and much, much more…
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Year of the Star Wars.Now that 2015 is officially wrapped, in the can and sent off to the Weinsteins to re-edit, we can partake in High Fidelity’s favourite past-time: lists. Using actual numbers, the year’s highest grossing movies, most pirated, biggest opening weekends and box office flops have all been calculated.
Not that sort of pirated.You don’t want all that cold, hard, undebatable data, though; you want opinion-based rankings. For that, here’s Flickering Myth’s Top 10 Movies of 2015.
2015: What a fantastic year for movies.Sticking with numbered countdowns, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has now entered the Top 10 Highest Grossing Movies OF ALL TIME. That’s unadjusted for inflation, though. Your grandad ‘tuppence priced tickets count for nothing. Whether Episode VII would’ve done as well under it’s original name will have to be one of cinema’s great unanswered questions…
…but it totally would’ve. It could be called Jar-Jar vs Ewoks: Dawn of Star Wars and still make billions.
KILL IT.Episode VIII doesn’t have a subtitle yet, but that isn’t stopping John Boyega from starting production on the movie “in a few weeks.” Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away (the mid-90s), Leonardo DiCaprio could have been a part of that same Universe, revealing he turned down the role of Anakin Skywalker in the Prequels. That could’ve been the role that won him an Oscar.
Kicking himself to this day.If 2015 was Year of the Star Wars, then 2016 might be DC’s. The CW have announced a half-hour special on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (which you can see new images of here) to air on 19th January, and that it’ll feature the world premiere of the new Suicide Squad trailer. Notorious rumour-mongering site Heroic Hollywood claim to have a shot-by-shot breakdown of the teaser. Save that link so you can cross off each part they get wrong when it eventually airs.
We, on the other hand, have contracted Deadshot to shoot down any false reports.Head to the next page to find out a potentially huge Captain America: Civil War spoiler, see the first image of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, learn what Christopher Nolan’s next film will be and much, much more…
