In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers 4, Black Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Thor: Ragnarok, Daredevil, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Runaways, The New Mutants, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Gambit, Wolverine, Justice League, Aquaman, Harley Quinn, Black Lightning, Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, Krypton, Hellboy and more… As filming on […]
Arrow executive producer rules out a Batman appearance
Back in October, Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen name-dropped Bruce Wayne in an episode of Arrow, sparking speculation that The CW may have been lining up a potential appearance from the Dark Knight in its long-running DC TV series. However, it seems that isn’t the case after all, as executive producer Marc Guggenheim has revealed that […]
Disney’s three Star Wars movies have passed the studio’s Lucasfilm purchase price at the worldwide box office
In 2012, The Walt Disney Company paid $4.06 billion to acquire Lucasfilm from George Lucas, and it looks like that has proven to be a very shrewd investment, with the studio’s first three Star Wars movies – Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Last Jedi – […]
Poster, trailer and images for horror film The Devil’s Well
Wild Eye Releasing is set to unveiled the spine-chilling horror The Devil’s Well on DVD this January, and we’ve got the poster, trailer and images for you here… Karla Marks mysteriously vanishes while conducting a paranormal investigation with her husband into the Devil’s Well, an underground location reported to be a gateway straight into […]
Sophie Turner talks X-Men: Dark Phoenix, praises director Simon Kinberg
The latest – and potentially final – instalment of Fox’s main X-Men franchise is set to arrive in November 2018, as long-time franchise writer and producer Simon Kinberg takes a second stab at one of the most popular X-Men comic book arcs in X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Unlike X-Men: The Last Stand, Kinberg finds himself in […]
Margot Robbie “can’t wait” for her return as Harley Quinn
Beyond the December 2018 release of Aquaman and the impending start of production on Shazam!, Warner Bros. either seems to be keeping its DCEU plans very close to its chest, or the studio is yet to decide where to take the franchise following the box office underperformance of this year’s big superhero team-up Justice League. […]
First official image from Transformers spinoff Bumblebee: The Movie
In a little under a year’s time, the Transformers franchise will return to the big screen for the first live-action spinoff – and first instalment not to be directed by Michael Bay – in Bumblebee: The Movie, and thanks to a scan from Empire we have our very first official images, which features Hailee Steinfeld’s […]
The Artist director boards Little Jules Verne animated movie
Deadline is reporting that Oscar-winning filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) has joined Enormous Pictures’ CGI-animated movie Little Jules Verne, which reimagines the early life of the French writer whose classic adventure novels include Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Hazanavicius has been working on […]
Fox wanted The Greatest Showman to be a jukebox musical
After close to a decade in development, the Hugh Jackman-headlined musical The Greatest Showman finally made it to the screen this month. One big selling point of the film was its original music numbers, but director Michael Gracey has revealed to Den of Geek that 20th Century Fox was originally pushing for a ‘jukebox musical’, […]
Michael B. Jordan says Marvel’s Black Panther “took me to a dark place”
After portraying Johnny Storm in 20th Century Fox’s disastrous Fantastic Four reboot, Michael B. Jordan makes his return to the Marvel universe this coming February as he takes on the role of the villainous Erik Killmonger in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther. During an interview with Empire Magazine, Jordan has been speaking about his experience in […]