Several months back, there was talk that Christian Bale could re-team with The Dark Knight Rises cinematographer Wally Pfister for the latter’s directorial debut Transcendence. That potential casting didn’t quite pan out, but now Pfister’s enlisting the help of a different Batman actor. Morgan Freeman, who played Lucius Fox in all three Dark Knight installments, has [...]
Christopher Nolan is bringing back a major player from The Dark Knight Rises to flesh out the cast of his next film, Interstellar. Matthew McConaughey signed for the film not long ago, and now he’ll likely be joined by Anne Hathaway, who is coming off not only her Batman turn, but also an Oscar win [...]
Want to see a high-res image from Man of Steel? What was the inspiration for the new poster from The Wolverine? Which part of Iron Man 3 is Guy Pearce most excited about? Has Tom Hiddleston talked to Joss Whedon about The Avengers 2? How did the actor change Loki for Thor: The Dark World? [...]
Only one studio gets the rights to make actual X-Men movies, but fortunately for everyone but 20th Century Fox, no one has a strangehold on stories about groups of superpowered people. Man of Steel and The Dark Knight Rises producer Legendary Pictures has just acquired the rights to Brilliance, an upcoming novel by Marcus Sakey [...]
Has Sam Raimi seen The Amazing Spider-Man? How does Joss Whedon describe the tone of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Did San Diego Comic-Con tickets sell out fast? Where did Iron Man join the Guardians of the Galaxy? Want to see some surprising, and spoilerish, Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel toys? Do the Marvel comics take any [...]
Which of The Avengers will be presenting at the Oscars? How much did the film make on Blu-ray last year? Want to see some more Man of Steel toys? When is Kick-Ass 3 going to be released? Was Jessica Alba happy with her experience on Sin City: A Dame to Kill For? Is Alfred Molina [...]
What does James Franco think of The Amazing Spider-Man? Is Shailene Woodley excited to appear in the sequel? Want to see the trailer for Superman Unbound? Has Kevin Feige teased Tony Stark’s Avengers connection in Iron Man 3? Where can you buy original art from Watchmen? Did Juno Temple have a visceral reaction to arriving [...]
In 2012, nitpicking movies became the latest online craze. Everyone got wrapped up in it. Some may blame the movies, but I blame fans with video editing skills who make videos like the ones below. Three of the year’s most discussed movies – Rian Johnson‘s Looper, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight [...]
Marvel Studios apparently has no qualms about getting into bed with former DC stars for Guardians of the Galaxy. Just yesterday, The Dark Knight Rises actor / rumored Justice League star Joseph Gordon-Levitt was added to the pool of contenders for the lead role of Peter Quill. Today, he’s being joined by Michael Rosenbaum, whom [...]
Welcome to the first Superhero Bits of 2013! Want to read a possible roster for Justice League? How is Joe Carnanan‘s Nemesis coming along? Does Marc Webb have some Amazing Spider-Man regrets? Is Alan Taylor doing something different with Thor: The Dark World? Where can you see dozens and dozens of Christopher Nolan‘s Dark Knight [...]
Well, it’s 2013 and that means we can wipe the slate clean in all kinds of ways. Gone are the days obsessing over The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises. Now it’s about the latest and greatest. One such film, or at least Disney hopes, is Sam Raimi‘s Oz The Great and Powerful. The big budget [...]
You don’t have to be a movie junkie to figure out what some of the year’s biggest box office smashes were. Hell, we could’ve predicted in 2011 that The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises would rank near the top in 2012, though that doesn’t make their $1 billion-plus takes any less impressive. But do [...]
Next to the $1B+ grosses for The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, Project X‘s respectable $100M worldwide take seems like spare change. But there is one arena in which the Todd Phillips-produced raunchfest is king: illegal downloads. Project X has emerged as the single most pirated film of 2012 — as well as the lowest grossing of [...]
Will we find out how Professor X loses his hair in X-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to see a ton of concept art from The Dark Knight Rises including Bane and Catwoman? Which superhero movies were on the list of most pirated in 2012? How did they do the Deadpool makeup in X-Men Origins: [...]
Where can you download a full look at the For Your Consideration ads for The Dark Knight Rises? Has the Man of Steel trailer been sweded? What do Superman and Batman think of it? Want to see some Iron Man 3 toys? Did James Gunn delete a tweet regarding casting of Guardians of the Galaxy? [...]
2012 didn’t want for long-awaited blockbuster releases, what with The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, Skyfall, The Hunger Games, and The Hobbit all opening this year. But the one YouTube visitors spent most time poring over, it turns out, wasn’t a movie at all. The website has released its list of the 10 most popular [...]
Does Tom Hiddleston think he’s coming back for The Avengers 2? Did The Blob look different in X-Men Origins: Wolverine? What was Batman’s happiest day ever? Where can you see a bunch of awesome pop culture including Superman, Sebastain Shaw and Zod? Is Warner Bros. still pushing The Dark Knight Rises as an Oscar contender? [...]
Want to see the world premiere of the brand new, Wolverine-inspired, short film Logan (pictured above)? Why is President Obama hanging with Spider-Man? When will Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. premiere? Which Battlestar Galactica star is joining Arrow? How did Christopher McQuarrie‘s Wolverine film differ from James Mangold‘s? Was a superhero movie top movie from 2012 from IMDB [...]
Since we’ve helped some air grievances about certain films, it’s only right to offer an equal bashing to all of 2012?s superhero movies. We’ve covered people taking down The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spider-Man, and now it’s time for Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers to go under the bus. Out of the year’s three big superhero [...]
How is it possible for Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger‘s Jokers to get together? When is The Wolverine opening all across the world? Which two supervillains are about to team up in the Batman comic books? What did Jack Huston have to say about his Guardians of the Galaxy screentest? Want to see some early [...]