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 […]
Vacation directors to write the Spider-Man reboot
They may have missed out on directing to Cop Car’s Jon Watts, but it seems that Sony and Marvel were impressed enough with John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein to snap them up as screenwriters for the upcoming Spider-Man reboot. The duo, whose writing credits include Horrible Bosses, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and Cloudy […]
Ant-Man tops U.S. box office with second-lowest opening for a Marvel Studios movie, earns $114 million worldwide
Marvel’s latest superhero adventure Ant-Man opened in cinemas worldwide this past Friday, dethroning Minions in the States and continuing Marvel’s perfect streak of number one domestic debuts with $58 million. Internationally, it added a further $56 million from 37 markets, for a global opening weekend of $114 million. Ant-Man’s domestic debut is the second-lowest for […]
Marvel announces Color Your Own Deadpool adult coloring book
Dig out those crayons, as the Merc with a Mouth is set to receive his own adult coloring book this February, with Marvel announcing the release of Color Your Own Deadpool, which will arrive just in time for 20th Century Fox’s upcoming spinoff. Deadpool is many things. Mercenary. X-Man. Soon-to-be-Uncanny Avenger (we’re not kidding). But […]
Marvel Cinematic Universe crosses $9 billion at the global box office
Thanks to Ant-Man’s success in China, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become the first franchise in history to cross $9 billion at the worldwide box office, with its twelve releases having pulled in a whopping $9.0186 billion and counting. Via Box Office Mojo, here’s the list of MCU films, ranked by highest grossing: The […]
Mark Millar discusses the Fantastic Four controversy and gives an update on the sequel
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 […]
Fantastic Four looking at $25 million domestic opening weekend
Although initial tracking had put it in the $40 – $50 million bracket, it seems the flood of negative reviews and poor word of mouth on Fantastic Four is set to result in a domestic opening weekend of around $25 million. SEE ALSO: Josh Trank places blame for poor Fantastic Four reviews on Fox The […]
Tye Sheridan on playing Cyclops in X-Men: Apocalypse
During an interview with IndieWire to discuss his latest film The Stanford Prison Experiement, Tye Sheridan got onto the topic of X-Men: Apocalypse, which is set to see him take on the role of Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops. “There’s no franchise I’d rather be a part of and doing sort of as my first foray […]
Ant-Man director Peyton Reed shares his thoughts on why Fantastic Four movies fail
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
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 […]
