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Is Box Office More Important Than a Film’s Critical Success?

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Samuel Brace on whether box office is more important than critical success… How should we measure a film’s success? The metric we use to determine whether or not the latest feature film has reached heights high enough to warrant being labelled successful, seems to be up for a rather heated debate. Is a film’s worth […]

Failing On The Basics: Why You Can’t Fix a Film Which Never Had the Right Foundations

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Tom Jolliffe on why trying to salvage a film in post production is pointless if you never had the basics right in the first place… So Justice League came out. I’d say too much fanfare but whilst there was undoubtedly excitement, and whilst it has inevitably made a lot of money already (not as much […]

Justice League will lose around $100 million, Batgirl still on track with Joss Whedon, The Last Jedi tracking big at the box office and more – Daily News Roundup

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#ALLIN The DC team-up movie Justice League has dominated the headlines since its release, with a lot of negative reviews and a pretty disappointing opening weekend at the box office. Earning the least of all the DCEU movies, Forbes is now reporting that Warner Bros. is looking at an overall loss of between $50 million and […]

Why Joss Whedon should not direct Batgirl

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Ricky Church on why Joss Whedon shouldn’t direct Batgirl… Earlier this week the internet was filled with a lot of rumours that Warner Bros. was no longer interested in a Joss Whedon-directed Batgirl film. Though Whedon has created some of the best stories for the comic or sci-fi genre, from Avengers to Buffy The Vampire Slayer to Firefly, he […]

Exclusive Interview – Director Doug Liman on his latest movie The Wall, growing as a filmmaker, and more

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Alex Moreland talks to Doug Liman about The Wall, growing as a filmmaker, and more… Could you tell us a little bit about the development of the movie? How did you initially get involved with The Wall? I mean, with the script I had read as a writing sample. People didn’t think I’d be interested in […]

Captain Marvel adds new cast member, DCEU not being cancelled, no Lando in The Last Jedi and more – Daily News Roundup

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HUGE CAPTAIN MARVEL CASTING The first female-led Marvel Studios movie, Captain Marvel, landed some big casting news yesterday, with Variety reporting that Jude Law has signed on to play Carol Danvers’ (Brie Larson) mentor in the movie. He will join Ben Mendelsohn as the yet-to-be-named villain and Samuel L. Jackson who reprises his role as […]

Exclusive Interview – Alex Lawther on The End of the F***ing World, his creative influences and more

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Alex Moreland talks to Alex Lawther about his new show The End of the F***ing World, his return to theatre, and more… First of all, how did you get involved with The End of the F***ing World? What drew you to it? What drew me to it at first… Charlie’s writing. Charlie Covell, who adapted […]

What can we look forward to in DC’s Doomsday Clock?

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Ricky Church looks forward to DC’s Doomsday Clock… Tomorrow DC Comics begins its anticipated event series Doomsday Clock, a semi-sequel to Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel Watchmen and a crossover with the main DC Universe. Written by Geoff Johns with art by Gary Frank, Doomsday Clock is the culmination of everything in DC Rebirth thus far. Readers will finally learn […]

Justice League: Director’s Cut, Lord & Miller break silence on Han Solo firing, Ant-Man and The Wasp set photos and more – Daily News Roundup

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JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT It was revealed earlier this year that Zack Snyder was stepping down as director on Justice League, with Joss Whedon filling in for him. However one of the bigger complaints from film goers about the rather disappointing DC team-up movie was that Whedon’s jokes and Danny Elfman’s music were misplaced […]

Is Justice League’s Steppenwolf the worst superhero movie villain ever?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether Justice League’s Steppenwolf is the worst superhero movie villain ever… Yes. Totally. I don’t even think this is debatable. I’m curious to see if anyone steps up to defend the opposing position. Marvel and DC villains have been notoriously terrible. You can name all the good/interesting villains on one hand. Loki […]