James Gunn Archives

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...

Guardians 3 Could Be Successful After All

AlexGherzo | May 17, 2023 | 0

Marvel’s scrappiest group of misfits is carving out an underdog story more endearing than anything it’s put out in the movies in years. After a disappointing opening weekend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 had mostly been written off as another Marvel underperformer, perhaps even a bomb. It was ...

Superman: Legacy Casting Rumors Take Flight

AlexGherzo | May 16, 2023 | 0

Casting rumors for James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy, the first entry (kind of, theatrically, unless you count The Flash or… whatever, nobody knows what’s going on right now) in his and Peter Safran’s DCU. After taking considerable heat for dispensing with Henry Cavill after his promised return ...

Guardians 3 Has Most Prosthetics in Movie History

AlexGherzo | May 12, 2023 | 1

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 may not be lighting up the box office, but it did set a record. According to a fascinating piece in Variety, the film has more prosthetics than any other movie ever made. Guardians 3 used “22,500 prosthetics, 500 wigs and 130 facial hairpieces,” unseating the previ...

What Does Guardians 3’s Weak Box Office Mean?

AlexGherzo | May 9, 2023 | 0

The opening weekend results are in, and it looks like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is going to be another Marvel disappointment at the box office. The last of James Gunn’s spacefaring MCU trilogy took in $118.4 million, which the entertainment media is complimenting as being above predictions, b...

REVIEW: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

AlexGherzo | May 4, 2023 | 3

After the last few years of Marvel duds, disappointments, and flat-out disasters, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 feels like a miracle. I’ll stop short of declaring it as such, but it’s an oasis in the desert made up of the remains of what the Marvel Cinematic Universe used to be. It feels like a...