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Pacific Rim shared universe, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer, all-female Marvel team-up movie and more – Weekend News Roundup

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PACIFIC RIM SHARED UNIVERSE It should come as no surprise given the latest Hollywood trend, but it has been revealed that Pacific Rim: Uprising could be a launching platform for a shared universe. “If enough people show up to this, we’ve already talked about the plot of the third movie, and how the end of […]

Spider-Man: Homecoming to open huge, Paul Walker returning to Fast and Furious, new Batman trilogy and more – Daily News Roundup

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HOMECOMING BRING HOME THE GOLD After a string of incredibly positive reviews, it looks like the opening weekend for Marvel Studios/Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming could be huge. The studio has projected a modest $80 million domestically but the film could earn anything between $85-$110 million, and $200 million worldwide. This would best both The Amazing Spider-Man […]

Critical Thinking: Don’t Believe the Hype

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Anghus Houvouras on hype and hyperbole… Hype is something every film writer constantly struggles with. The perpetual entertainment news cycle gives film fans so much to chew on. There’s a formulaic cycle of hype that happens with every new movie that strokes the cockles of film fans. Some movies come with preordained hype. A new […]

The 4 Spider-Man Storylines We Need In the MCU

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Ben Robins on the 4 Spider-Man storylines we need in the MCU… With this month’s Spider-Man: Homecoming marking the third big screen incarnation of the famous wall-crawler in the 21st century alone, you’d think we’d be hard-pressed by this stage to find storylines that hadn’t already been adapted at least somewhere down the line. We’ve […]

Directorial Vision vs Crowd Pleasing

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Tom Jolliffe on directorial vision vs crowd pleasing… We’ve all done it in our lives. The crowd leans a certain way and we adhere to that. Maybe it was in school. Oasis vs Blur (yes, I’m old). The consensus is Oasis, so you put Oasis in your tape deck to please everyone. Secretly though you’re […]

Interview – David Bradley talks about his role as the First Doctor in Doctor Who “Twice Upon a Time”

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With the Doctor Who Christmas Special “Twice Upon a Time” now just a week away, here at Flickering Myth we’ve got interviews with David Bradley who plays the First Doctor, Mark Gatiss as The Captain and also Pearl Mackie who returns as the excellent Bill Potts, along with a few words from both Steven Moffat […]

Why 1980s Science Fiction Is Huge Right Now

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Neil Calloway looks at why dystopias from thirty years ago are the biggest influence on Hollywood… With a new Blade Runner movie opening to rave reviews, a new (and hopefully decent) Terminator film on the way, it looks like 80s science fiction is the way to go if you want to get a movie made […]

The Rise of the Stupid Smart Character, or Why Helmets Matter

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Henry Bevan on the rise of the stupid smart character… If you’ve been browsing this website over the last couple of days you will have noticed there has been a lot of Alien: Covenant content. We’ve published not one, not two but three reviews. We’ve written letters to David Fincher, we’ve talked about Ridley Scott, […]