Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With just over two weeks to go until the release of The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony’s marketing campaign has gone into full swing [sorry] on the Marc Webb-directed reboot, with a host of promotional material flooding the internet these past seven days. […]

If you’re a regular on this site you may remember I posted an article here on Flickering Myth back in May shamelessly promoting my book, Holy Franchise, Batman!, which was picked up for publication by the lovely people at Robert Hale Publishing. Well some three months and 100,000 words later and the book is almost […]

Our weekly round up of the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With Warner Bros. and Marvel Studios hosting their San Diego Comic-Con panels on Saturday and big things expected from both camps with regards to their respective comic book properties, we’re a little early again with ‘The Week in Spandex’. Fortunately […]

Must I really spell it out for them? No! No! No! Warner Bros. may be looking to replicate the success of Marvel’s The Avengers with their own big screen DC Comics team-up Justice League, but they’ll have to do so without the golden touch of Christopher Nolan. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Nolan once again reaffirmed […]

If you’ve been following the development of Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man at all, then you’ll no doubt be aware that director Marc Webb has overseen big changes to the Spider-Man franchise, and we don’t just mean replacing Tobey Maguire with Andrew Garfield. Out of all of the changes to the Spidey mythos, one of the […]

Our weekly round up of all the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Just over seven years after the journey began, the curtain fell on Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight’ trilogy yesterday with release of The Dark Knight Rises, although sadly the arrival of the much-anticipated blockbuster has been marred by the awful […]

Considering the early reaction from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans towards producer Michael Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman’s planned feature film reboot, it’s unlikely that too many tears were shed when Paramount announced last month that it was temporarily shutting down pre-production on Ninja Turtles and bumping the film back from a Christmas Day 2013 […]

Big things are always expected from Marvel Studios at the San Diego Comic-Con International; yesterday was no exception, and boy did they deliver the goods once again. Opening the panel to a packed Hall H, Marvel’s President of Production Kevin Feige got things underway by announcing that the studio has four ‘Phase Two’ movies in […]

Our weekly round up of the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes… Having recorded a solid $160m opening weekend in North America, Christopher Nolan’s Batman swansong The Dark Knight Rises crossed the $225m mark on Thursday and is currently the fourth highest-grossing domestic release of 2012 behind Marvel’s The Avengers ($615m), The […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Martin Hill, and Paul Butterworth; visual effects producers Michelle Eisenreich, and Unjoo Byars; executive producer Jason Bath, creative director Ahmet Ahmet, 3D cg supervisor Lee Nelson, 3D design lead Dong Ho Lee and Territory Founder / Director David Sheldon-Hicks… “I worked with Ridley [Scott] […]