This week, DC and Warner Bros. made a startling announcement: they are going to begin making films that are not set within the larger DC Extended Universe, instead launching a second, new banner for “elseworld” stories such as the already announced Joker origin film set in the ‘80s. Before this announcement, DC was full steam ahead with a cohesive movie universe not unlike Marvel Studios’ own Marvel Cinematic Universe, meaning every movie from Batman V Superman to Justice League to The Batman would all be part of one larger narrative, the same way the Captain America trilogy, The Avengers, and even Doctor Strange are all connected. It is the age of the movie universe, and DC is second only to Marvel in developing their own, with four movies already released, starting with 2013’s Man of Steel, and two more officially in production, this November’s Justice League and next year’s Aquaman.
- 8/26/2017
- by Nick Doll
- LRMonline.com
Ready Player One, Thor: Ragnarok, and Justice League top Tanner's Comic-Con roundup!Ready Player One, Thor: Ragnarok, and Justice League top Tanner's Comic-Con roundup!Tanner Zipchen7/24/2017 12:24:00 Pm
San Diego Comic-Con, the world’s biggest celebration of comics, film, television, and everything pop culture just wrapped up another big weekend. This year was particularly busy for the infamous Hall H, as thousands of people lined up for a seat to one of the many panels full of exclusives and reveals. (One particular fan I spoke to, who was about a mile down the line along the San Diego harbour, said he had been waiting for 12 hours at that point!)
On the film side, it was all about Saturday with the Warner Brothers panel kicking it off. Ready Player One, the Steven Spielberg film based on the novel of the same name, gave the crowd the first look at the trailer.
San Diego Comic-Con, the world’s biggest celebration of comics, film, television, and everything pop culture just wrapped up another big weekend. This year was particularly busy for the infamous Hall H, as thousands of people lined up for a seat to one of the many panels full of exclusives and reveals. (One particular fan I spoke to, who was about a mile down the line along the San Diego harbour, said he had been waiting for 12 hours at that point!)
On the film side, it was all about Saturday with the Warner Brothers panel kicking it off. Ready Player One, the Steven Spielberg film based on the novel of the same name, gave the crowd the first look at the trailer.
- 7/24/2017
- by Tanner Zipchen
- Cineplex
Image via HBO
The DC Extended Universe has definitely been a wholly unique beast. Batman v Superman took a completely unexpected turn when it was revealed prior to its release that it would be receiving an extended cut. Not only did that extended cut contain 30 minutes of great footage that helped make sense of the main narrative, but it also contained one key scene involving Lex Luthor and a strange hologram alien figure.
The clip was released online first, and after a few rounds of speculation, it was widely accepted (and later confirmed) to be that of Steppenwolf, Darkseid’s uncle and lieutenant. Later on, it was confirmed that Steppenwolf would, in fact, be the big bad for the Justice League to take on in the 2017 film of the same name. So, yes, the main villain in a forthcoming movie was indeed revealed in a cut scene from a movie,...
The DC Extended Universe has definitely been a wholly unique beast. Batman v Superman took a completely unexpected turn when it was revealed prior to its release that it would be receiving an extended cut. Not only did that extended cut contain 30 minutes of great footage that helped make sense of the main narrative, but it also contained one key scene involving Lex Luthor and a strange hologram alien figure.
The clip was released online first, and after a few rounds of speculation, it was widely accepted (and later confirmed) to be that of Steppenwolf, Darkseid’s uncle and lieutenant. Later on, it was confirmed that Steppenwolf would, in fact, be the big bad for the Justice League to take on in the 2017 film of the same name. So, yes, the main villain in a forthcoming movie was indeed revealed in a cut scene from a movie,...
- 11/4/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Supergirl, Timeless, New Girl and How to Get Away With Murder!
1 | Couldn’t the SNL writers have found some way to get Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin in a sketch with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump for a 30 Rock reunion? And why hasn’t Lorne Michaels hired Jack McBrayer to play Gary Johnson yet?
VideosSimpsons Sneak Peek: Sarah Silverman Tries to Kill Homer in 600th Episode
2 | Aren’t you a little sad that...
1 | Couldn’t the SNL writers have found some way to get Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin in a sketch with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump for a 30 Rock reunion? And why hasn’t Lorne Michaels hired Jack McBrayer to play Gary Johnson yet?
VideosSimpsons Sneak Peek: Sarah Silverman Tries to Kill Homer in 600th Episode
2 | Aren’t you a little sad that...
- 10/14/2016
- TVLine.com
If actor-turned-director Brady Corbet’s post-World-War-i saga, The Childhood of a Leader, did little more than send American readers to Jean-Paul Sartre’s lesser known short story of the same name, one would be thanking the cinematic gods for its appearance.
The final story in his Sartre’s 1939 collection, The Wall, “The Childhood of a Leader” chronicles the life of Lucien from his rebellious potty training days as a lovely, long-haired tot, son of a rich industrialist, to his transformation into anti-Semitic murderer. There goes Holden Caulfield but for the grace of God.
When we first meet Lucien, with his lustrous blond curls and attired in a blue angel’s costume, he is mistaken by his mother’s consorts as a girl.
“What’s your name? Jacqueline, Lucienne, Margot?”
The embarrassed boy blushes and sets the record right, but “[h]e was no longer quite sure about not being a little...
The final story in his Sartre’s 1939 collection, The Wall, “The Childhood of a Leader” chronicles the life of Lucien from his rebellious potty training days as a lovely, long-haired tot, son of a rich industrialist, to his transformation into anti-Semitic murderer. There goes Holden Caulfield but for the grace of God.
When we first meet Lucien, with his lustrous blond curls and attired in a blue angel’s costume, he is mistaken by his mother’s consorts as a girl.
“What’s your name? Jacqueline, Lucienne, Margot?”
The embarrassed boy blushes and sets the record right, but “[h]e was no longer quite sure about not being a little...
- 8/14/2016
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
It’s hard out there for a Game of Thrones good guy — take it from cast members Liam Cunningham and Isaac Hempstead Wright.
Comic-con 2016 Exclusive Videos, Casting News, Scoop and More
The actors behind Davos Seawright and Bran Stark — two of the least villainous characters on the HBO hit — are surprised to have survived into Season 7, they told Michael Ausiello at TVLine’s Comic-Con studio presented by Zte.
Cunningham, in fact, joked that Thrones fans are so hard up for characters without blood on their hands that they often think of young Arya Stark as a role model — despite the...
Comic-con 2016 Exclusive Videos, Casting News, Scoop and More
The actors behind Davos Seawright and Bran Stark — two of the least villainous characters on the HBO hit — are surprised to have survived into Season 7, they told Michael Ausiello at TVLine’s Comic-Con studio presented by Zte.
Cunningham, in fact, joked that Thrones fans are so hard up for characters without blood on their hands that they often think of young Arya Stark as a role model — despite the...
- 7/23/2016
- TVLine.com
There are films that make you want to run to the bookstore or, in reality, Amazon.com. Any Jane Austen or Dickens adaptation. Atonement. Requiem for a Dream perhaps.
Then there is Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Martin Short, Reese Witherspoon, Maya Rudolph, and Benicio Del Toro, plus a bevy of other game thespians. This adaptation has a contrary effect. It makes you want to hightail it to the incinerator with every Pynchon paperback you might own. Farewell, V. Sayonara, Gravity's Rainbow.
But before I get too critical, let me just note that this apparently was a project of love for Anderson. Anyone who would tackle Pynchon's verbiage and hope to get a slightly comprehensible screenplay out of it would only do so out of an illimitable devotion for the author. Anderson's chance of success, of course,...
Then there is Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Martin Short, Reese Witherspoon, Maya Rudolph, and Benicio Del Toro, plus a bevy of other game thespians. This adaptation has a contrary effect. It makes you want to hightail it to the incinerator with every Pynchon paperback you might own. Farewell, V. Sayonara, Gravity's Rainbow.
But before I get too critical, let me just note that this apparently was a project of love for Anderson. Anyone who would tackle Pynchon's verbiage and hope to get a slightly comprehensible screenplay out of it would only do so out of an illimitable devotion for the author. Anderson's chance of success, of course,...
- 2/24/2015
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
Viewing the first fifteen or so minutes of Jason (Up in the Air) Reitman’s latest offering unencumbered with any foreknowledge of its genre, you might just imagine you were encountering a gripping thriller in the making a la Panic Room.
First there’s the narration taken directly from Joyce Maynard’s novel upon which the film is based. The adult Henry (Tobey Maguire), looking back at the three days that transformed his world, the Labor Day weekend of 1987, notes:
“It was just the two of us . . . after my father left.”
His mom, Adele (Kate Winslet), approaching 40, has become a recluse since her divorce, seldom leaving her home anymore. She’s enveloped herself in unceasing sadness that began with several contiguous personal losses. Being abandoned by her spouse was the final straw. But as Henry notes, I don’t think losing my father broke my mother’s heart; rather losing love itself.
First there’s the narration taken directly from Joyce Maynard’s novel upon which the film is based. The adult Henry (Tobey Maguire), looking back at the three days that transformed his world, the Labor Day weekend of 1987, notes:
“It was just the two of us . . . after my father left.”
His mom, Adele (Kate Winslet), approaching 40, has become a recluse since her divorce, seldom leaving her home anymore. She’s enveloped herself in unceasing sadness that began with several contiguous personal losses. Being abandoned by her spouse was the final straw. But as Henry notes, I don’t think losing my father broke my mother’s heart; rather losing love itself.
- 1/7/2014
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
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