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  • #107571

    …which may explain why THE ETERNALS 2 has not been greenlighted. Yet.

  • #107572

    But Marvel does seem to have a problem with number two movies.

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  • #107573

    Oh it was very intentional.

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  • #107593

    DC’s ‘Creature Commandos’ Gets Voice Cast Including Frank Grillo, David Harbour, Maria Bakalova, Indira Varma, More

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  • #107638

    But Marvel does seem to have a problem with number two movies.

    Secretary Pierce would like a word with you.

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  • #107642

    Fair point. Winter Soldier is still one of the best MCU movies.

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  • #107649

    Fair point. Winter Soldier is still the best MCU movies.

    Fixed that for you. You’re welcome. :-)

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  • #107666

    New looks at Sasha Calle as Kara Zor-El/Supergirl in ‘The Flash’
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  • #107727

    Anyone else seen The Penguin trailer? It’s looking pretty good.

    With this and Waller, DC have two good series inbound.

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  • #107728

    Yeah I thought it looked pretty good

  • #107736

    Yep, given how this is a show and a character I don’t really have any interest in… I suppose I’ll watch it, if the full trailers make it look as good. Still a weird choice to do this at all, but maybe it’s just a clever one – cover that Sopranos ground with DC properties. Sure, why the hell not?

    I wonder how these upcoming shows will make their way over here – there still isn’t an HBO Max Germany, the other shows have been scattered all over the place – Doom Patrol on amazon, Titans on Netflix, Watchmen on Sky and Peacekeeper nowhere at fucking all and I had to wait until a few months ago when the first season finally became available to buy in the open market. Hope that won’t be the problem with all the upcoming stuff.
    (Apparently, the problem here is that there’s a deal with Sky, but I don’t get why Peacemaker wasn’t released on Sky streaming here then… nor has Our Flag Means Death been. Motherfuckers.)

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  • #107739

    I’m hoping they do what they eventually did with Peacemaker for The Penguin – BR release.

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  • #107770

    Superman: Legacy Starts Pre-production – Variety

    “I’m honored to be a part of the legacy,” Gunn wrote alongside a photo of the “Superman: Legacy” script cover page. “And what better day than Superman Anniversary Day to dive fully into early pre-production on ‘Superman: Legacy’? Costumes, production design, and more now up and running.”

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  • #107872

    Not sure how legitimate this is but:

    https://gofund.me/5920bccd

  • #107892

    Sent that out to some friends. One guy replied: “Kind of strange as her net worth is listed as 5 million”

  • #107896

    Those net worth numbers given on celebrities sites are basically just wild guesses, I think. No reason to believe any of that.

  • #107909

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  • #107918

    Okay, yeah, nice moment to have that line from that meta issue of Animal Man in there. Still won’t make me watch any more Teen Titans.

  • #107919

    Those net worth numbers given on celebrities sites are basically just wild guesses, I think. No reason to believe any of that.

    Yeah. The ones in Forbes I think are fairly well informed guesses but the ones that appear when you just Google are a lot of guff as far as I can tell.

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  • #108014

    Having got and watched the Arrowverse crossover Crossroads a while back, decided to catch up and start watching the various episodes leading to Crisis on Infinite Earths.

    Started with Supergirl, second half of S4 and first half of S5.

    For all that the Arrowverse can be fun, it often hinders itself with lousy ideas and execution – which is the case here. Alex’s mindwipe, Haley, Lockwood, Baker, Lex – all weak, bad ideas.  S5 continues that with Lena showing herself to be exactly like her brother – a weak, foolish, insanely, vengeful, narcissistic mess. Oh, but the Luthor are genius level intellects? Yeah, but also massive idiots, with psychopathy to match.

    Outside of that, it’s fun enough, with some smart, good sequences that work well.  Lockwood’s zealotry backfiring and burning down his entire world was particularly good.

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  • #108018

    Ha! It’s fun seeing all the Keaton suits pre and post his movies…  specially the grey/blue one with the 89 symbol and white eyes… and of course the first one with guns… oh I can’t wait for all the nerds to complain about that one for the next decade. Too bad the one for the movie is kinda shit, literally all the others look better =/

    But yeah, the suits in general ain’t doing it for me… the fact that there’s so many CGI fake people shots ain’t helping either… but all the designs look a bit off, even the batplane and the batmobile.

    I absolutely hate the “I’m Batman” and “wanna go nuts” references… they’re so cringe inducing at this point… but yeah anyways, I might be tempted to see this one on theaters, but considering how fuckin lazy I’ve gotten with movies, I’ll wait for the reviews first and then maaaaaybe decide about it. I’d definetly be more hype about this if they hadn’t killed the “snyderverse”…

  • #108025

    I’m still quite looking forward to it, even if it’s increasingly looking like a Batman movie featuring the Flash.

    (That’s probably just due to the marketing though – presumably partly to focus on the ’89 nostalgia to bring in the longtime fans, and partly to not focus overly on Miller given all the controversies.)

    The thing that has me most excited about it is the visuals. There are loads of great comicbook shots and great designs and fun visual tricks in that trailer (I love the bit where the camera rotates as he runs up the wall).

    Which is something that’s been missing from the DC movies (and superhero movies in general) lately – a lot of them have felt quite visually flat and uninteresting. For all that we often make fun of Snyder, he was a great visual stylist and had a flair that feels like it’s missing from a lot of superhero movies.

    I still find it a bit jarring to see Burton’s Batman in a colourful, high-tech modern DC universe – taken outside of Burton-Gotham he feels like a weird fit – and I do think the trailer’s reliance on callbacks and alternate versions gets a bit tiresome.

    But I fully expect that to be a major feature of the movie – it’s their big multiverse blowout before the Gunn reset, so I’m sure there will be much more of this in the final film. (I’m guessing they’ve been emboldened by the success of No Way Home.)

    I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bale, Clooney, Pattinson, maybe even callbacks to older DC stuff like West Batman or Reeve Superman crop up in the movie. If they’re going to use the multiverse as a nostalgia-fest then they might as well go the whole hog.

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  • #108027

    Looks like it’ll be mad fun.  That’s enough for me on this.

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  • #108029

    Looks like it’ll be mad fun.  That’s enough for me on this.

    Yeah, it’s one of the most fun looking superhero movies in a while.

  • #108033

    The fact that Ezra Miller is in it has ruined it for me. When I see Miller, all I can think about is their creepy criminal behavior. I probably won’t ever see this movie because of them.

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  • #108065

    Speaking of problematic actors in DC movies:

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  • #108068

    The thing that has me most excited about it is the visuals. There are loads of great comicbook shots and great designs and fun visual tricks in that trailer (I love the bit where the camera rotates as he runs up the wall).

    Yeah, that’s true, the movie just looks really good.

    I’m game for this, definitely.

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  • #108072

    What did Miller do anyway? Was he ever charged or convicted with something?

  • #108073

    What did Miller do anyway? Was he ever charged or convicted with something?

    https://www.npr.org/2022/08/11/1116932907/ezra-miller-scandals

  • #108080

    Ailing ‘Superman’ Star Valerie Perrine Finally Finds Her Hero: “The Guy Should Be Sainted”

  • #108106

    And in “actor wants work” news:

    Karen Gillan wants to play Poison Ivy in the DCU

  • #108110

    ‘Justice League: Warworld’ Cast Unveiled (Exclusive)

  • #108208

    The post-Elseworlds chunk of Arrow S7 makes a good argument for it ending at S5.  It is a bit of a slog.

    At first the Emiko works OK but then it goes with her being the villain, which is a card the series has played too often.  Having Adrian Paul turn up as a major villain was cool, but clearly they could only afford him for a handful of eps.

    On the other hand, the first four eps of S8 have been a lot better. Maybe that’s due to it being written in the knowledge there will not be another series.  Plus, it’s all heading to Crisis on Infinite Earths.

    But yeah, still fair to say the series had difficulty finding its identity after the end of S5.

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  • #108220

    Hopefully they do a better job of it than this awful milestone 2.0 relaunch in the comics

  • #108263

    Ben Affleck Explains His Cancelled Batman Movie’s Villain Plan

  • #108291

    Oh how I wish we’d gotten that Batfleck movie =(

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  • #108347

    Kind of amazing it took them over five years to use a Queen track in a Flash episode, but it sure gave the S6 opener a major and very fun boost.

    The post-Elseworlds part of S5 was pretty good.  It only suffered from the usual Arrowverse tendency of being a bit too drawn out in its main plots.

  • #108378

    Black Adam

    I had expected this to be a bit of a dud but at a tenner? Worth a punt.  Instead of a dud, I get this gloriously bonkers movie.

    Oh and also? Marvel called, they’re sending a copyright invoice for the whole “jet launches from beneath a mansion’s lawb” sequence.

    At times it was also a comedy, probably not intended to be, but it was.  The recurring gag around not doing doors being a case in point.

    Casting was smart – did anyone expect Pierce Brosnan in a DC superhero film? Nope? Me too.  The JSA? Who the hell are the JSA? Well, it worked for Guardians of the Galaxy and it works here.

    The other thing that really works is, in an age of “we’ll keep plot X for the sequel / prequel / TV tie-in”, this film really went for it.  The makers of this knew they were probably never getting anything more than this one, so they put everything into it.

    It runs along at a good pace, doesn’t hang around and is a fun watch.  The soundtrack is pretty smart as well – who expects a zombie rescue to Baby Come Back?

    Finally, there is that mid-credits scene. And it is on the BR in its entirely, I had expected the last few seconds with Cavill to be cut, it wasn’t.  Does make the resulting mess with all that a bit worse but it remains a damn good scene, despite it never going anywhere now.

    This was a fun way to spend a couple of hours.

  • #108484

    number two movies

    Hur. Hurr hurr hurr.

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  • #108517

    Crisis on Infinite Earths

    They actually pulled this off.  A lot is said about DC superhero films and their films, TV? Less so.  Yet the Arrowverse sustained multiple series for years, doing a number of two, three and four way crossovers.  All leading up to this five way finale.

    No matter how you slice it, this is a major success of coordination.  Plus this one had far more demanded of it as it was the pay-off to years of story, hundreds of episodes.

    One of its biggest execution successes is in conveying the sheer magnitude and scariness of the Crisis, of entire worlds being erased.  It gives a great sense of what the stakes are.

    It also has quite a bit of fun with the wider DC material.  It weaves in nods to the older Superman films, Netflix’s Titans, Smallville, Conroy’s Batman even gets a turn, taking Frank Miller’s Dark Knight to its ultimate conclusion.

    And then there’s the finale where the characters realise it is now just a single earth, with all the chaos that entails.  This was a lot of fun and it successfully paid off a huge arc.

    Arrow finale

    Acting as an epilogue to the huge Crisis crossover, it also feels fitting that the show that started the Arrowverse and the road to Crisis, should end with its resolution.

    It’s a well executed finale to 7-8 years of stories.  An entire array of guest characters testify to just how much it achieved.

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  • #109017

    Searching for Superman: Inside the Quest to Cast DC’s New Top Hero (Exclusive)

  • #109213

    So I saw Black Adam. Man, that was a movie that didn’t work on a great number of levels. The plot was too by the numbers and full of daft clichés (man, the fucking skateboard kid!). The dialogues were incredibly bad – just so many terrible, terrible, cringey lines from the very start -, and the characters were all entirely 2D. Also, the plot relied on them being really, really fucking stupid (like Hawkman announcing to Black Adam he had to “kneel” instead of being in some way diplocatic). The mix of humour and serious also didn’t work – Black Adam quipping just didn’t work with his supposed bad-ass-seriousness. Also, just killing a lot of people all over the place didn’t chime so well with the supposed lightness of the movie. And the Rock just isn’t good enough an actor to pull the whole tortured-slave-tragic-father-anti-hero off. In fact, nobody looked good (much as I loved Aldis Hodge on Leverage) except for Pierce Brosnan who was awesome. Visually, some of it was cool and some of it looked shoddy. The last bits with the big demon guy just looked like a computer game.

    I think this probably could have worked as a JSA movie with Black Adam just the villain (albeit a complex one) instead of the protagonist and more room to develop that team – is that how it was originally planned before the Rock took over? It kind of feels like it.

    Um, with all that being said… it actually wasn’t NOT fun to watch, I have to say. Should’ve been drunk or high, maybe, but in spite of its many, many, many, many, many flaws it was kind of a good time. The action did look good a lot of the time, it was nice to see some of those characters, the Rock is always sort of fun to watch, and it definitely moved at such a high speed that you didn’t manage to stay annoyed at the individual sillinesses of the scenes for long. Kind of a good time in spite of everything.

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  • #109217

    So I saw Black Adam. Man, that was a movie that didn’t work on a great number of levels. The plot was too by the numbers and full of daft clichés (man, the fucking skateboard kid!). The dialogues were incredibly bad – just so many terrible, terrible, cringey lines from the very start -, and the characters were all entirely 2D. Also, the plot relied on them being really, really fucking stupid (like Hawkman announcing to Black Adam he had to “kneel” instead of being in some way diplocatic). The mix of humour and serious also didn’t work – Black Adam quipping just didn’t work with his supposed bad-ass-seriousness. Also, just killing a lot of people all over the place didn’t chime so well with the supposed lightness of the movie. And the Rock just isn’t good enough an actor to pull the whole tortured-slave-tragic-father-anti-hero off. In fact, nobody looked good (much as I loved Aldis Hodge on Leverage) except for Pierce Brosnan who was awesome. Visually, some of it was cool and some of it looked shoddy. The last bits with the big demon guy just looked like a computer game.

    I think this probably could have worked as a JSA movie with Black Adam just the villain (albeit a complex one) instead of the protagonist and more room to develop that team – is that how it was originally planned before the Rock took over? It kind of feels like it.

    Um, with all that being said… it actually wasn’t NOT fun to watch, I have to say. Should’ve been drunk or high, maybe, but in spite of its many, many, many, many, many flaws it was kind of a good time. The action did look good a lot of the time, it was nice to see some of those characters, the Rock is always sort of fun to watch, and it definitely moved at such a high speed that you didn’t manage to stay annoyed at the individual sillinesses of the scenes for long. Kind of a good time in spite of everything.

    Christel and I lasted 20 minutes before we bailed.

    From some information that has been revealed, the Rock was trying to use Black Adam as a way to set himself up as the new center of the DC movies. He even referred to it as “Phase 1”. He went so far as to nix a cameo in the Shazam sequel and didn’t seem to have any interest in tying into Shazam, which seemed like the natural thing to do.

    The Rock is in Fast X, which will be a hit, but I wonder if his star is beginning to set. It seems like his last few movies haven’t done as well as one might expect compared to several years ago.

  • #109257

    I like that he had such an enthusiasm for this. Who knows, it might’ve worked if they’d managed to build a better movie around him. As it is, it’s probably a fitting end-point to the “old” movie DCU.

  • #109277

    I was mildly entertained by Black Adam. It wasn’t good, by any means, but I didn’t really dislike it. That said, it’s probably pretty damning that The Rock signed on to be Black Adam damn near a decade ago with a solo movie in development for 5 years or so and this was the best they could come up with. It’s pretty clear that Johnson’s ego played a part in the downfall of this and probably Shazam!

    Because if he’d allowed himself to be the villain of the first Shazam! movie, that could have really changed a lot of things for the DC movie universe as a whole.

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  • #109281

    I was mildly entertained by Black Adam. It wasn’t good, by any means, but I didn’t really dislike it. That said, it’s probably pretty damning that The Rock signed on to be Black Adam damn near a decade ago with a solo movie in development for 5 years or so and this was the best they could come up with. It’s pretty clear that Johnson’s ego played a part in the downfall of this and probably Shazam!

    Because if he’d allowed himself to be the villain of the first Shazam! movie, that could have really changed a lot of things for the DC movie universe as a whole.

    Supposedly, Johnson has a requirement that he can’t lose fights in movies he’s in. I’ve read that in the Fast & Furious movies, he, Statham, and Diesel have their people count the number of punches they each throw to make sure no one throws more punches than the other.

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  • #109283

    WARNING: ARTICLE HAS A BIG SPOILER FOR FLASH MOVE!!!

    The Flash Director Spoils Major Cameo That Reshapes 25 Years Of The DC Multiverse

  • #109314

    Todd, are you turning into JR? 25 years?? more like 25 seconds

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  • #109429

    Todd’s been on commission for Cracked for years.

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  • #109493

    ‘The Flash’ Director Won’t Recast Ezra Miller in a Potential Sequel: No One ‘Can Play That Character as Well as They Did’

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  • #109675

    ‘The Flash’ Director Won’t Recast Ezra Miller in a Potential Sequel: No One ‘Can Play That Character as Well as They Did’

    Coming soon…

    WB Reconsidering Miller as Flash, Director Quits

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  • #109681

    The news seem to be that Muschietti is directing Brave and the Bold, so I doubt he’ll have much say with The Flash Sequel, if it even happens, we’ll see why the box office is like in the coming weeks.

    WB have royally fucked up the DC properties so I wouldn’t be surprised if they keep Miller. But it feels like absolute insanity to entrust a multimillion dollar franchise to someone so unpredictable.

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  • #109682

    Time for Ezra Miller and Jonathan Majors to film a buddy movie, dontcha think?!

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  • #109706

    Well the early reviews are very positive about Miller’s acting, so it’s not a 100% impossible, I suppose… it’ll depend on how much money it makes obviously, but also if Miller can keep it together in the near future and if WB deems the risk worth it.

    I was mulling over seeing it in theaters, but the VFX looks kinda bad, tbh… like, it seems to have some really visually cool ideas, but the execution is just not there, that’s the impression I get, so unless I hear otherwise, I’m probably gonna skip it too.

  • #109707

    There are fans of Grant Gustin (the CW Flash) who objected to the director saying Miller is practically irreplaceable.

    As for the movie, I will avoid crowded theatre and wait for the streaming on Max.

  • #109720

    As for the movie, I will avoid crowded theatre and wait for the streaming on Max.

    Go to an early showing on Saturday or Sunday, before 12:00 pm. There are usually far fewer people in the theater. I saw Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse last Saturday morning at the 9:30 am showing and there were probably less than 20 people in the theater.

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  • #109782

    ‘The Flash’ Review: This DCU Winner Promises A Good Time And Delivers – Forbes

  • #109820

    Here are the actors who could play Superman and Lois Lane in ‘Superman: Legacy’

  • #109867

    The 9 Most Beautiful DC Actresses Of All Time

  • #109868

    The 9 Most Beautiful DC Actresses Of All Time

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  • #109874

    The 9 Most Beautiful DC Actresses Of All Time

    I had to double-check to make sure it wasn’t me posting that :unsure:

     

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  • #109884

    The 9 Most Beautiful DC Actresses Of All Time

    Lynda Carter is only #4 and Julie Newmar didn’t even place? Margot Robbie is #1?

    What an absolute bullshit list.

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  • #109887

    What an absolute bullshit list.

    Hey, have some respect; HOURS of diligent and thorough masturbation went into compiling that list!!

    But, yeah, this list is…subjective.

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  • #109904

    Superman & Lois renewed for 10 – episode Season 4 at CW

    Good news! I am still really enjoying this show and looking forward to Michael Cudlitz’s Lex Luthor.

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  • #110036

    New Batman Film ‘Brave and the Bold’ Lands ‘The Flash’ Director Andy Muschietti (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety

  • #110056

    Haven’t seen Flash yet, but that’s probably a good thing, right?

    Is there going to be another Matt Reeves/Pattinson Bat-movie parallel to this, as well?

  • #110057

    Haven’t seen Flash yet, but that’s probably a good thing, right?

    I thought Flash was a mess so I’m not hoping for great things from this.

    I’m also surprised in general that an old-DCU director is being retained under Gunn’s new regime. It doesn’t help to make the new era feel like a break from the old one.

    Is there going to be another Matt Reeves/Pattinson Bat-movie parallel to this, as well?

    Yep, and also a spinoff TV series about the Penguin set in that same world.

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  • #110063

    I’m also surprised in general that an old-DCU director is being retained under Gunn’s new regime. It doesn’t help to make the new era feel like a break from the old one.

    Well, Gunn was publicly very complimentary about The Flash, so it makes sense, I suppose. And, I mean, Gunn is also retaining himself and he’s an old-DCU director :D

    Speaking of The Suicide Squad, he’s also keeping Viola Davis’ Waller and the Peacemaker team, so it’s not all that clean of a break anyway.

    Yep, and also a spinoff TV series about the Penguin set in that same world.

    Right! I forgot for a moment that that was still happening… such a weird decision.

  • #110081

    Apparently the Flash is shaping up for a lower opening weekend box office than Black Adam, which is, frankly, hilarious.

    Just kill it with fire and move on, DC.

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  • #110092

    Apparently the Flash is shaping up for a lower opening weekend box office than Black Adam, which is, frankly, hilarious.

    Just kill it with fire and move on, DC.

    In the article I saw at Deadline (I posted it in the Flash thread), it seemed they’re trying to blame the writer’s strike because it’s forced all the talk shows to go dark so the cast can’t go and hype the movie up. Add to the fact that the star is a huge PR disaster who they’ve probably kept locked up and sedated to them out of trouble.

    I don’t think the lack of a press junket is the problem. The reviews and word of mouth have been mostly bad. This is not a good movie. WBD probably should have used The Flash for the tax write down instead of the shitshow approach they actually used. I know they were expecting the movie to be a blockbuster and bent over backwards to bail Miller out of his problems to help insure success.

    The gossip is that Zaslav loved the movie and likes Miller and has expressed a desire for Miller to continue in the role. I have a feeling that may change with the movie tanking.

  • #110103

    I still want to see it. Will see if I can make it to the cinema though.

  • #110118

    Apparently the Flash is shaping up for a lower opening weekend box office than Black Adam, which is, frankly, hilarious.

    Just kill it with fire and move on, DC.

    Now the the three-day estimate is $55.1M.

    Ouch.

  • #110124

    My hope would be for the performance of this and other recent DC movies, as well as the seemingly increased ambivalence towards the MCU, to lead to Gunn embracing the chance to start completely fresh and forget about the whole shared universe thing. Just give us entertaining movies for each separate brand of character, branch out with spin-offs from whichever ones prove to be the most popular, and don’t worry about the clunky crossover crap that just doesn’t really work all that well.

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  • #110125

    In the article I saw at Deadline (I posted it in the Flash thread), it seemed they’re trying to blame the writer’s strike because it’s forced all the talk shows to go dark

    It’s a bit mystifying that a “talk show” needs a writer. Don’t people just sit down and… talk?

  • #110126

    In the article I saw at Deadline (I posted it in the Flash thread), it seemed they’re trying to blame the writer’s strike because it’s forced all the talk shows to go dark

    It’s a bit mystifying that a “talk show” needs a writer. Don’t people just sit down and… talk?

    Moreso than in the UK, the US talkshows have prepared sections like an opening monologue that obviously would require writers.

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  • #110128

    My hope would be for the performance of this and other recent DC movies, as well as the seemingly increased ambivalence towards the MCU, to lead to Gunn embracing the chance to start completely fresh and forget about the whole shared universe thing. Just give us entertaining movies for each separate brand of character, branch out with spin-offs from whichever ones prove to be the most popular, and don’t worry about the clunky crossover crap that just doesn’t really work all that well.

    Tempting to say they just do unannounced, stealth cameos but it’s extraordinarily difficult to keep those under wraps on a film set.

  • #110129

    My hope would be for the performance of this and other recent DC movies, as well as the seemingly increased ambivalence towards the MCU, to lead to Gunn embracing the chance to start completely fresh and forget about the whole shared universe thing. Just give us entertaining movies for each separate brand of character, branch out with spin-offs from whichever ones prove to be the most popular, and don’t worry about the clunky crossover crap that just doesn’t really work all that well.

    Tempting to say they just do unannounced, stealth cameos but it’s extraordinarily difficult to keep those under wraps on a film set.

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  • #110137

    My hope would be for the performance of this and other recent DC movies, as well as the seemingly increased ambivalence towards the MCU, to lead to Gunn embracing the chance to start completely fresh and forget about the whole shared universe thing. Just give us entertaining movies for each separate brand of character, branch out with spin-offs from whichever ones prove to be the most popular, and don’t worry about the clunky crossover crap that just doesn’t really work all that well.

    I don’t have an issue with the shared universe concept. It has been fun with Marvel.

    Where the DCEU screwed up was trying to force it right out of the gate. They were behind Marvel and were having to catch up. It was hamfisted generated some unpopular takes on characters. It was rushed and forced. Marvel’s approach felt more organic.

    Hopefully, Gunn will give each character time to breathe in their own movies and establish them before the inevitable crossover movie and keept cameos to a bare minimum. I would also avoid the multiverse for several years.

    I really hope he makes a clean break from everything that has come before. Give it a proper reboot and start fresh.

  • #110154

    In the article I saw at Deadline (I posted it in the Flash thread), it seemed they’re trying to blame the writer’s strike because it’s forced all the talk shows to go dark

    It’s a bit mystifying that a “talk show” needs a writer. Don’t people just sit down and… talk?

    Moreso than in the UK, the US talkshows have prepared sections like an opening monologue that obviously would require writers.

    Honestly, if a host can’t improvise an opening monologue why is he a talk show host?

    I’m not being funny, I really don’t get it. Didn’t Colbert, for example, start in stand-up comedy? And he’s a published writer. Doesn’t he write his own monologues? Isn’t that literally why he was hired?

    Actually, as I think this through, I guess the ones who can write their own material aren’t doing so, out of solidarity with the strikers.

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  • #110155

    Stand-up comedians rarely improvise their sets, they spend a long time writing jokes and fine-tuning stories. And a lot of them, especially in the US have people who write jokes for them too. Being an accomplished stand-up doesn’t mean you can do a monologue on short notice, let alone 5 a week.

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  • #110159

    Also, I suspect that even improvising a monologue like that could be seen as breaking the strike.

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  • #110178

    Also, I suspect that even improvising a monologue like that could be seen as breaking the strike.

    I think I read recently that Ryan Reynolds wasn’t allowed to improvise on the set of Deadpool 3 because he’s listed as one of the writers and any improvised dialogue would be considered writing.

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  • #110180

    Honestly, if a host can’t improvise an opening monologue why is he a talk show host? I’m not being funny, I really don’t get it. Didn’t Colbert, for example, start in stand-up comedy? And he’s a published writer. Doesn’t he write his own monologues?

    It may be underestimating the grind of those shows. They go out daily and the monologue parts are really long. The reason the monologues are long is there are a few of these a night across the networks so they run thin on guests with dozens of shows a week. A typical stand-up will do an hour show a year and they are burning through that in more or less a week.

    Graham Norton has it relatively easy because he has 3 jokes at the top of the show and then a parade of A list stars on the couch in his weekly show with only one or two serious competitors also with weekly shows (Ross and maybe Carr).

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  • #110199

    Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ Almost Had a Very Different Joker

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  • #110202

    Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ Almost Had a Very Different Joker

    We can only imagine how awesome that casting would have been.

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  • #110241

    https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/batgirl-should-have-been-released-instead-of-the-flash/

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  • #110296

    My dad took me to see that. I was so excited.

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  • #110334

    Harley Quinn Season 4 Premiere Date Confirmed by Max

  • #110346

    Holy fucking shit, The Flash is tanking HARD.

    ‘Spider-Verse’ Swinging Ahead Of ‘Elemental’ After Game Of Chicken; ‘Flash’ Edging Out ‘No Hard Feelings’ – Saturday PM Box Office

    Flash‘s running total by EOD Sunday is expected to be $87.4M. Chew on this: despite the hammering Dwayne Johnson’s fall box office savior, Black Adam, took from the press, that movie’s first 10 days ($110.9M) are 27% ahead of The Flash. Black Adam‘s second weekend was also bigger at $27.4M, -59% to Flash‘s -73%. Was it wise to nix Black Adam 2? Flash‘s running total at 10 days is pacing 2% behind that of Green Lantern‘s ($88.9M). That DC bomb, which starred Ryan Reynolds, posted a second weekend of $18M, -66% (also better than Flash). Black Adam finaled at $168.1M, Green Lantern ended its gross at $116.6M.

  • #110358

    Was it wise to nix Black Adam 2?

    yes, I believe Gunn and his Cohorts are just waiting to box up all these movies and start up their multiverse. His Waller is a better villain than retread Zod or whatever villain BA had(already forgotten). His Squad and Peacemaker will probably make it into whatever universe he builds. If he builds a universe at all, that is.

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