A sneak peek preview of Nickelodeon’s upcoming stop-motion Halloween special SpongeBob: Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom showcased this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con and you can check it out here…As per THR: “The special finds Bikini Bottom decked out for Halloween: Sandy’s treedome is a mad scientist’s lab, with a giant remotely operated Acorn Monster; Mr. […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming closing in on $600 million worldwide
Spider-Man: Homecoming may be slipping down the box office charts, but the film is marching towards the $600 million mark at the global box office, with its domestic and international haul this weekend pushing the Marvel and Sony blockbuster to $571.7 million. It hasn’t been completely plain sailing for the web-slinger; in its second weekend, […]
Is the Internet killing the straight-to-home entertainment movie?
Tom Jolliffe on whether the internet is killing the straight-to-home entertainment movie… Going to the cinema has long been an escape. It’s an event. A special outing. When that was your only option of seeing a film it obviously limited the options the general public had. The business became bigger and bigger. Cinemas spread through […]
Universal wants Channing Tatum for Van Helsing in the Dark Universe
Universal has already assembled plenty of star power for its Dark Universe, and it seems they could be looking to add another A-lister, with THR reporting that Channing Tatum is being eyed for the role of monster hunter Abraham Van Helsing.Van Helsing made his debut in Bram Stoker’s original Dracula novel, and has made numerous […]
Putting The “Con” In Comic-Con
Why we should stop dancing to the marketing man’s tune… By now you’ve probably had your fill of stories from Comic-Con. I hesitate to call them “news stories” because the vast majority of the stuff coming out of San Diego doesn’t remotely resemble news. What started out more than forty years ago as a grass […]
James Remar and Damon Gupton join Black Lightning
The CW showcased its DC superhero slate at the San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, offering up the first trailers for the new seasons of Supergirl, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Arrow.While the network didn’t have any footage from its newest DC show Black Lightning, we did however get word on two new series regulars, […]
Brainiac, Doomsday, Adam Strange and Hawkwoman confirmed for Superman prequel series Krypton
Having unveiled a brief teaser back on Thursday [watch it here], Syfy held its Krypton panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International yesterday, during which we got some new details about the Superman prequel series, including the fact that it isn’t just a show set in the past of Kal-El’s homeworld.“It’s a show that, although […]
What Sets Christopher Nolan Apart From Other Blockbuster Directors
With the release of Dunkirk, Eric Bay-Andersen explores the aspects of Christopher Nolan’s films that set him apart from his contemporaries… Over the past twenty years, Christopher Nolan has amassed a body of work so impressive that a new film by him is now an event in the cinematic calendar. But it’s not just the […]
Dunkirk: Its Greatness and Its Finest Moments
Samuel Brace on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, its greatness and its finest moments… This is what cinema looks like. Greatness is a word that gets thrown around a lot, used and abused until it means very little at all. But Dunkirk, the WWII drama/thriller by Christopher Nolan is indeed greatness; in fact, greatness is a descriptor […]
Description of the Black Panther footage shown at Comic-Con
Having dropped details on Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel, as well as a new trailer and footage for Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel put the focus on next year’s Black Panther as it continued its panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, screening some footage from the Ryan Coogler-directed solo movie. Apparently, it won’t be making […]
