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Nightwing director reveals what he’s looking for when casting Dick Grayson

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Back in February of this year it was announced that The LEGO Batman Movie helmer Chris McKay is set to swap the world of DC animation for the live-action DC Extended Universe as director on a Nightwing feature, and the filmmaker has been speaking on Twitter about the appeal of the character and what he’s […]

When Will DC Learn How to End Their Movies?

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Samuel Brace on DC’s movie endings… Fistfight! Explosions! Chaos! This has been the climactic scene of every DCEU (are we still calling it that?) film so far, this is how the powers that be have decided to end the movies that populate their connected universe up until this point. Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: […]

What Sets Christopher Nolan Apart From Other Blockbuster Directors

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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 […]

Is Luke Skywalker evil, Wonder Woman Oscar campaign beings, new Justice League banner and more – Daily News Roundup

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MARK HAMILL ADDRESS THEORIES A new fan theory his kicked around online based on previous posters for Star Wars, which claims that Luke Skywalker will be the villain when it comes to December’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Posing this question to Mark Hamill himself, The Jedi Knight had a rather humorous response. Check it […]

Christopher Nolan praises Wonder Woman, unlikely to return to the superhero genre

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Although he remained nominally involved with the DC universe following The Dark Knight Trilogy by serving as producer on Man of Steel and receiving an executive producer credit on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Christopher Nolan has now moved away from the DCEU as he focusses on other projects – most notably his latest […]

DC and Dynamite announce The Shadow/Batman sequel series

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DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment have announced the upcoming release of The Shadow/Batman, a sequel to the Batman/The Shadow miniseries from the creative team of writer Steve Orlando and artist Giovanni Timpano. Here’s the covers to the first issue of the six-issue miniseries, along with the official solicitation… The World’s Greatest Mystery. The World’s Greatest […]

Wonder Woman becomes highest-grossing superhero origin film domestically

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Wonder Woman has now become the highest grossing superhero origin movie ever in the U.S. The Gal Gadot led film has been accumulating all kinds of records since its run began back in June, and the film has recently crossed the impressive $800 million mark at the international box office. As a result, the movie […]

Wonder Woman set to become the biggest summer movie of 2017

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DC’s Wonder Woman is set to tick off more achievements and become the biggest summer movie of 2017 domestically. Having already become one of the biggest films of the year, and taking fifth place in the highest grossing action heroine movies of all time, Wonder Woman should be passing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 […]

Rumour: Wonder Woman 2 set during Cold War, Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor returning

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Warning: There are spoilers for Wonder Woman below in this post… According to Screen Rant, some production notes they have obtained have spilled the beans that the sequel to the critically and commercially successful DC Extended Universe superhero extravaganza Wonder Woman will be set during the Cold War, sometime in the 1980s, and features Gal Gadot’s Diana […]