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Man of Steel Showed Superman’s (and DC’s) Fragility for All to See
Few superheroes have had as tumultuous a media presence as Superman. Joel Shuster and Jerry Siegel’s 1938 creation grew in popularity outside of comics thanks to Christopher Reeve’s movies and the 1990s cartoon (and the subsequent DC Animated Universe shows that spawned from it). During the 2000s, the character’s live-action efforts consisted of the 10-season…
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A Star Trek Movie Should’ve Been Out This Weekend
Making movies is a hard endeavour, and it’s very easy for things to go wrong. The last few years have proven that numerous times as various tentpole blockbusters have been delayed (sometimes more than once) — or, in the current case of the WGA strike, have had their productions halted for the foreseeable future. While…
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Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Might Be More Star Wars Than He Realises
In the early 2010s, not long after Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder met with Lucasfilm to pitch a stand-alone Star Wars movie to be directed by him. The partnership didn’t work out, but a decade later, Netflix embraced the idea with open arms, a sizable budget, and the option to turn Rebel Moon into…
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Watch Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau Discuss the Legacy of Iron Man
Fifteen years ago this month, movie history was changed forever. And we don’t say that lightly. On May 2, 2008, when Marvel Studios released Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr., not only was a brand new mega-franchise born, a new era of cinematic storytelling came with it: the shared universe.