Pim Razenberg on Multi-Part Film franchising… In the 2015 article The Future of Franchising: The Shared Universe, I discussed the development of franchising strategies within Hollywood. In the 2010s, these strategies cumulated in the dawn of interconnected franchising through “cinematic universes”, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe. Today, as we […]
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and the Art of Career Transformation
Tom Jolliffe on films stars who re-invent themselves after career decline… Hollywood is unforgiving. You find a degree of success and get to the top. Maybe a string of flops send you crashing back to anonymity. You may still work solidly. Mickey Rourke for example, perceived to have disappeared around the beginning of the 90’s […]
New look at Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Captain Marvel vs. The Hulk, more Twilight and Hunger Games movies and more – Daily News Roundup
AWW! LOOK AT THE CUTE THING! Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, some brand new images from Rian Johnson’s hotly-anticipated Star Wars: The Last Jedi were revealed yesterday, featuring Rey (Daisy Ridley), Luke (Mark Hamill), Finn (John Boyega), Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), Chewbacca and the Ahch-To inhabitants the Porgs and […]
Lionsgate keen on more Twilight and The Hunger Games movies
Lionsgate scored a couple of big successes with its YA franchises Twilight and The Hunger Games, and although it completed its adaptations of both book series (even managing to get split the finales into two films apiece), it seems the studio is keen on resurrecting both properties. “There are a lot more stories to be […]
Funko unveils New York Comic Con 2016 exclusives
Funko has revealed a selection of its New York Comic-Con 2016 exclusives which includes Golden Girls ReAction figures, Jane of the Volturi Guard from Twilight, Knives Chau and Scott Pilgrim from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Dark Crystal Garthim ReAction Box Set, a Pop! Anime Dragonball Z Super Saiyan Trunks vinyl figure and a Pop! […]
Trends and the Lack of Originality in Hollywood
Eric Bay-Andersen on trends and the lack of originality in Hollywood… At the beginning of this year I went to the cinema and saw a preview of all the big films coming out in 2016, and it really depressed me because almost every upcoming ‘event’ film was a sequel, a re-boot, or a prequel to […]
Twilight gets a range of Funko Pop! Vinyl figures
Funko has unveiled its upcoming Twilight Pop! Movies vinyl figures which includes four different Edward Cullen figures – Edward in his gray pea coat, in his vampiric form (Barnes & Noble exclusive), in his wedding tuxedo, and glittery (Hot Topic exclusive) – along with Bella Swan, Bella ‘Wedding Dress’, a topless Jacob Black and Jane of […]
Ten Stock Female Characters Hollywood Needs to Stop Writing
Kirsty Capes with ten stock female characters Hollywood needs to stop writing… From Mary Sues to Disposable Women, Hollywood seems to have a problem with writing interesting and original female characters. It’s not a problem, I would argue, that seems to happen with male characters, and I for one find it interesting, if not a […]