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The Week in Spandex – Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Luke Cage, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Batman v Superman, Gotham, Arrow, Hellboy III, Heroes Reborn and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse, Wolverine 3, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Gotham, Supergirl, Arrow, The […]

Stan Lee on why Fantastic Four flopped, confirms X-Men: Apocalypse cameo

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While the Marvel brand is a license to print money these days, 20th Century Fox’s reboot of Fantastic Four tanked hard at the box office, with the film yet to pull in $150 million worldwide, making it one of – if not the – biggest failures of the year so far. Speaking to Larry King […]

Looking Back on the Summer Blockbusters of 2015

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Matthew Lee takes a look back at the summer blockbusters of 2015… Last year, Forbes reported that last summer’s box office was down by a whopping $1.223 billion. Hollywood executives were undoubtedly shitting themselves. This was significantly more problematic considering last year’s summer held a number great critical surprises; Guardians of the Galaxy was a […]

Bad Movies & Bad Content: There Has To Be Consequences

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Samuel Brace on bad movies on bad content… There has to be consequences for making a bad movie. There just has to. Consequences for bad movies, bad TV shows, bad video games, whatever. If a studio produces a movie, a bad one, one that is below a certain standard, a standard that we are not […]

The Week in Spandex – Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Blade, Man of Steel 2, Suicide Squad, Gotham, Supergirl, Heroes Reborn and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Blade, Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 3, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage, X-Men: Apocalypse, Gambit, Fantastic Four, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man […]

Margot Robbie on losing out on Sue Storm in Fantastic Four, and Jared Leto’s Joker

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Next year Margot Robbie is set to give a big screen debut to the fan favourite DC character Harley Quinn in Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad, and speaking to Daily News, the Australian actress has revealed that she had previously been under consideration to play Susan Storm in 20th Century Fox’s box office bomb Fantastic Four […]

Is Fantastic Four the worst blockbuster ever?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether Fantastic Four is the worst blockbuster ever… This summer has been rough on some of the most notable big budget franchises in Hollywood. Jurassic World and Furious 7 set new highs for their respective franchises. Avengers: Age of Ultron delivered a solid sequel that made mad bank. Mission: Impossible delivered the […]

The Week in Spandex – Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Jessica Jones, Marvel’s Most Wanted, Deadpool, Wolverine 3, Batman v Superman, Man of Steel 2, The Crow and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Marvel’s Most Wanted, Guardians of the Galaxy, Fantastic Four, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, Wolverine 3, Gambit, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel 2, Suicide Squad, […]

Pixels tops the UK box office thanks to four extra days of previews

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UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 16th August to Sunday 18th August 2015… Adam Sandler’s sci-fi comedy Pixels topped the UK box office chart with £2,660,772 from its opening “weekend”, which happens to include four days of previews, which accounted for £1.33 million of that figure. If it wasn’t […]

Original version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four had Galactus, Mole Man, Herbie the Robot, the Fantasticar and Doctor Doom as a Latverian dictator

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Like Tim Burton’s Superman Lives or James Cameron’s Spider-Man, we will never see the true version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. Among the many public problems the film has had in the last couple of weeks (see here, here, here, here, here and here), it was revealed by screenwriter Jeremy Slater that not much of his script was […]