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Has the Mainstream Audience Outgrown Comic Book Movies?

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Has the mainstream audience outgrown comic book movies? We ponder whether comic book movies have enough audience to warrant such big budgets now… Remember a time when short of being one of the big two of Batman or Superman, comic book adaptations were seen as a sure-fire money pit? We saw failed Punisher, Phantom, Shadow […]

Blade trailer reveals new Marvel game in development from Bethesda

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While his MCU introduction has hit various roadblocks in its development, Marvel’s resident vampire Daywalker and exterminator Blade is getting his own video game. Coming from developers Arkane Lyon and Bethesda, Blade was revealed at The Game Awards in an announcement trailer and will take players on a mission to Paris, France. The synopsis reads “In […]

Mahershala Ali delivers promising update on Marvel’s Blade

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From rocky relationships with directors to allegedly almost exiting the project altogether, Mahershala Ali’s journey at Blade has been rough. At one point, it felt like this project would be canned when Kevin Feige and the higher-ups at Disney began to clean house, but something kept this new take on the iconic Marvel vampire hunter […]

The 1990s in Comic Book Movies

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the eclectic range of comic book movies brought out in the 1990s… The MCU. The DCU. Modern multiplex cinemas have been packed to the rafters with comic book adaptations for decades now, but in the 1980s, the notion of comic book films being a lucrative well to create marketable movies was […]

Marvel Studios delays entire movie slate, leaving Deadpool 3 as sole 2024 release

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Just as The Marvels opens worldwide, Marvel Studios adjusts its upcoming slate. In the ever-shifting landscape of the MCU, many braced themselves for some changes after the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, but no one saw this coming. With one of the studio’s biggest shocks in some time, they’ve wiped the slate clean and left […]

Comic Book Preview – Marvel’s What If …? Dark: Tomb of Dracula #1

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Marvel Comics releases What If …? Dark: Tomb of Dracula #1 this coming Wednesday, and you can sink your teeth into the official preview below… Legend MARV WOLFMAN returns to TOMB OF DRACULA and the character he co-created! WHAT IF…the legendary Dracula transformed BLADE the vampire slayer…into a vampire?! What If …? Tomb of Dracula […]

Mahershala Ali almost exited Marvel’s Blade after being “relegated to the fourth lead”

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In the massive report about the current state of Marvel, recently run by Variety, one of the most damning stories to come from it was the treatment of Mahershala Ali and the upcoming Blade film. Marvel Studios is reportedly struggling with many issues behind the scenes, including rushed VFX, actors getting arrested, and a general […]

The Essential 1990s Superhero Movies

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Hasitha Fernando on the essential superhero and comic book movies of the 1990s… The popularity of the superhero sub-genre has waxed and waned over the years. Despite having a fairly early start in cinemas it wasn’t until blockbusters like 1978’s Superman: the Movie and 1989’s Batman that cape and cowl affairs began to be taken […]

Blade at 25: Revisiting the Marvel Action-Horror Classic

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Hasitha Fernando revisits Blade, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary… 1998’s Blade was release during a time when comic book movies had reached their proverbial nadir, with the likes of Richard Donner’s Superman and Tim Burton’s Batman being a thing of the past. However, the effort was blessed with some serious talent in front of […]