Marvel’s Merry Mutants are returning to the screen. Deadline exclusively reports that Marvel and Disney are developing a live-action X-Men movie, with Michael Lesslie in talks to write the script. No director or actors are attached, and it doesn’t even have a release date (which means it’s ve...
Read MoreChris Pratt is excited for more Nintendo movies. The former Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World star played Mario in last year’s massive hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the sequel for which was announced on March 10 (which is “Mario Day,” which you’re forgiven for groaning over) a...
Read MoreIn an entertainment era where seemingly everything is being dumbed down and homogenized, the Planet of the Apes films have managed to hold on, retaining their focus on larger ideas about society, human nature, and the rise and fall of civilization. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the fourth in t...
Read MoreMarvel has its new talking point now that its recent failures can no longer be denied. In the latest Disney quarterly earnings call, CEO Bob Iger said – or, more accurately, reiterated – that the new Marvel strategy is to put out fewer movies and TV shows per year, the idea apparently being that...
Read MoreIs Kathleen Kennedy the fall guy for her woke Disney overlords and Lucasfilm underlings? That’s what insider Matthew Belloni believes, in contrast to the common perception of the Lucasfilm president whom South Park hilariously parodied last fall. Speaking on his podcast, The Town, Belloni says th...
Read More[Insert lack of Marvel superheroes joke here.] Now that that’s out of the way, Alex Garland’s Civil War is a surprisingly smart movie, a film not about right and wrong so much as what would happen if a hellish civil war of the kind we mostly associate with third-world nations came to America, a...
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