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The Flash and Elemental are Massive Bombs

AlexGherzo | Jun 19, 2023 | 0

Dads stayed away from the movies this Father’s Day weekend – along with everyone else. Two big movie premiered on Friday: Warner Bros./DC’s The Flash and Disney/Pixar’s Elemental. Neither was tracking well; The Flash was predicted to bring in $70 million, while Elemental was looking at a $35...

REVIEW: The Flash (2023)

AlexGherzo | Jun 15, 2023 | 2

I’m not sure I’d call The Flash a mixed bag; that implies a fairly equal good-to-bad ratio, and The Flash is more bad than good by a wide margin. And what’s bad is abysmal, not only embracing many of the grating modern superhero movie tropes but hooking them up to rockets and shooting them int...

Kevin Smith Teases Schumacher Cut of Batman Forever

AlexGherzo | Jun 15, 2023 | 0

DC movies have more alternate cuts than Blade Runner (well, maybe). On his Fat Man Beyond podcast – formerly Fat Man on Batman, which was a much better title, although apparently, they had to change it for legal reasons – Kevin Smith told his co-host, Marc Bernardin, that he has a copy of the �...

The Flash’s Unusual Marketing and Potential Future

AlexGherzo | Jun 6, 2023 | 0

It’s almost becoming a cliché to say that the behind-the-scenes or other real-world events surrounding a movie make a better story than the film itself, but the way Warner Bros. is marketing The Flash, as detailed in a Variety piece, is interesting. A lot of this is born of necessity because of t...

RUMOR: Andy Muschietti Directing The Brave and the Bold?

AlexGherzo | Jun 5, 2023 | 0

DC Studios has an awful lot of faith in a movie that’s tracking to underperform. The newest DC rumor is that Andy Muschietti, the director of The Flash, will also helm the next Batman film (outside of the sequel to The Batman and Joker: Folie à Deux), The Brave and the Bold. Muschietti directing ...

New Flash Trailer is All About Batman

AlexGherzo | Apr 25, 2023 | 2

Warner Bros. Discovery is hoping the Dark Knight will reverse DC’s cinematic downward spiral. Today, the beleaguered studio (although that could be almost any studio lately) released a new – and, presumably, final – trailer for Batman… I mean, The Flash, their next big superhero blockbuster ...