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Kevin Feige comments on Ant-Man “disagreements” with Edgar Wright

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With the accompanying press release for the first Ant-Man trailer came the news that original director Edgar Wright and his writing partner Joe Cornish will not receive a screenwriting credit on the twelfth instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite spending the best part of a decade working on the script. Instead, the duo will […]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 hits $700 million worldwide

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 has become the ninth film of 2014 to cross $700 million at the global box office, with the Jennifer Lawrence-headlined sequel pushing its worldwide haul to $701.1 million this past weekend. The penultimate chapter of The Hunger Games franchise is now the second-highest grossing instalment, having overtaken the […]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 overtakes Guardians of the Galaxy to become biggest domestic release of 2014

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The third instalment in The Hunger Games franchise has just overtaken Marvel’s space opera Guardians of the Galaxy to become the highest-grossing domestic release of 2014, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 having now pulled in $333.2 million since its release in November. This marks the first time ever that two entries from […]

Details on the Spider-Man deal revealed, Sony still planning Sinister Six, Venom and female-led spin-off without Marvel’s involvement

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Yesterday brought us the huge news that Sony and Marvel have reached a deal regarding Spider-Man, which allows Marvel Studios to bring the character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, whilst launching a new series of movies at Sony, produced by Kevin Feige. Variety has been digging into the specifics of the deal, revealing that Disney […]

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson reportedly wants to pull out of Fifty Shades of Grey sequels

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Given the spectacular box office performance of Fifty Shades of Grey, Universal Pictures must surely be keen to get the second instalment going, but if The Sun is to be believed (and that’s generally a big “if”), the studio may have to do so without director Sam Taylor-Johnson. According to the paper, Taylor-Johnson is contracted […]

Fifty Shades of Grey shatters records at the UK box office

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UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 13th February to Sunday 15th February 2015… Well, given its colossal worldwide opening, this won’t come as a surprise at all, but Fifty Shades of Grey has shattered records here in the UK with its debut weekend of £13,550,290 giving it the biggest […]

Fifty Shades of Grey retains UK box-office crown, becomes highest-grossing 18 certificate of all time

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UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd February 2015… In just two weekends, Universal’s adaptation of the E.L. James bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey has become the highest-grossing 18 certificate film ever here in the UK, with a second weekend haul of £4,597,092 pushing its total […]

Drew Goddard in talks to write and direct The Spectacular Spider-Man for Sony and Marvel

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Latino-Review is reporting that Marvel and Sony have identified the man to relaunch the Spider-Man franchise, with Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) set to meet with studio execs this week with a view to writing and directing the latest reboot, which is apparently going to go under the title of The Spectacular Spider-Man. […]

Fifty Shades of Grey hits half a billion at the box office

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Universal’s adaptation of the E.L. James erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey has shattered numerous box office records since opening last month, and now the Sam Taylor-Johnson directed film has surpassed half a billion at the global box office. This past weekend saw the Dakota Johnson / Jamie Dornan headlined film push its total gross […]