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Why does every superhero movie feature the Military-Industrial Complex?

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Anghus Houvouras on superhero movies and the military-industrial complex… To say that comic book movies have become formulaic is like saying that Michael Bay enjoys explosions and hot women. It’s painfully obvious and hardly a revelation. I sat through Fantastic Four last week, and like many of you checked out around the halfway point, and […]

The Fantastic Four Film You Weren’t Meant To See

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With the forthcoming Fantastic Four movie about to arrive in cinemas, Neil Calloway looks at a doomed attempt to start the franchise… The latest Fantastic Four film is the second attempt to reproduce the comic characters on the big screen; everyone knows about the film made in 2005 and its 2007 sequel, both of which […]

Jamie Bell and Michael B. Jordan on what they want to see in a Fantastic Four sequel

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As 20th Century Fox prepares to relaunch its Fantastic Four franchise next week with the Josh Trank-directed reboot, Comic Book caught up with stars Jamie Bell (The Thing) and Michael B. Jordan (The Human Torch), asking them what they’d like to see in the sequel, which currently has a release date set for June 9th, […]

Ant-Man director Peyton Reed on his aborted Fantastic Four movie

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Before he succeeded Edgar Wright on Marvel Studios’ latest offering Ant-Man, director Peyton Reed had a brush with the superhero genre when he was attached to 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four back before Tim Story brought Marvel’s First Family to the big screen for the first time. Speaking to Yahoo!, Reed has offered up a […]

Mark Millar discusses the Fantastic Four controversy and gives an update on the sequel

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It’s no secret that Fantastic Four has been somewhat of a disaster for 20th Century Fox. Director Josh Trank started the blame game with the studio days before its release, some actors haven’t even seen the movie yet (while others are poking fun at its poor box office run), and there is a wild rumour that […]

2015 – The Best or Worst Year At The Box Office?

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This week, Neil Calloway asks whether 2015 has been a good year or a bad one at the box office… 2015 is looking to be the best year ever for box office. As things stand, two films released this year – Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron – are in the all time US […]

Ant-Man director Peyton Reed shares his thoughts on why Fantastic Four movies fail

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One topic of conversation this year amongst movie fans was the failure of Josh Trank’s latest adaptation of Marvel’s Fantastic Four. The movie failed wildly at the box office, was denounced by its director and cast and there have been rumours that a sequel could already be scrapped. Prior to that, the mid-2000 adaptations of […]

Rupert Murdoch blames Fantastic Four for Fox’s drop in earnings

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Twenty-First Century Fox, the parent company of studio 20th Century Fox, posted its quarter one earnings this week, with the first fiscal quarter coming in short of projected earnings, with profits of $678 million – over a billion down from the same timeframe in 2014. Speaking about the fall in revenue, Twenty-First Century Fox executive […]

Simon Kinberg on Fantastic Four: “I’m obviously disappointed with the way it turned out”

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With Fantastic Four finishing up its North American box office run with a dismal $56 million, it’s fair to say that 20th Century Fox’s reboot of the Marvel comic book series has been an unmitigated disaster. Speaking to THR, writer-producer Simon Kinberg has revealed that he was “disappointed” by the reception of the film, as […]