Image Courtesy of DC Comics DC Comics has hit a level of popularity that didn’t seem possible a decade ago. DC is crushing Marvel in sales for the first time in ages and it’s an amazing time to be a fan of the publisher. This isn’t just Batman comics outselling everything while the rest of […]
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Image courtesy of Walt Disney Home Entertainment The Walt Disney Company is one of the largest media conglomerates on the planet, owning Pixar, Marvel Studios, and Lucasfilm‘s Star Wars and Indiana Jones, in addition to X-Men and Avatar through its 2019 purchase of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets. Despite that expansion, Mickey Mouse remains the […]
Actress Hayden Panettiere, best known to many fans for her role as Claire Bennet in the NBC TV series Heroes and for playing Kirby Reed in the Scream movie franchise, among other films and shows, has passed away. ABC News brings word of her death, with a statement from her representatives confirming it. No details […]
The Avengers series is one of the most landmark blockbuster franchises in Hollywood history, and it’s easy to see why. In 2012, the first Avengers movie changed Hollywood by proving Marvel’s shared universe experiment could work, earning positive reviews and record-breaking numbers at the box office. Infinity War and Endgame served as the two-part culmination […]
DC fans learned a lot about the Green Lantern mythos throughout tonight’s HBO premiere of Lanterns, and much of it was focused on Hal Jordan. Early in the episode, we see a 60 Minutes interview with Jordan from earlier in his career that reveals quite a bit about the timeline and how long Hal has […]
Image Courtesy of Marvel Comics Wolverine is one of the most popular superheroes ever and it’s been a long road to get here. James “Logan” Howlett started his superhero career battling the Hulk and Wendigo and got his big break joining the X-Men. He quickly jumped up the popularity ladder and since then has moved […]
Image courtesy of Cartoon Network In the 1980s, changes in legislation controlling advertising aimed at kids turned action figure lines into cartoons designed to move product as much as entertain audiences. For instance, Hasbro’s Transformers turned a set of Japanese die-cast robots into the ongoing war between Autobots and Decepticons that spawned decades of sequels […]
There is no doubt about it, monster movies are awesome and there’s a good reason for their appeal. Not only are they generally a genre of their own, but they frequently incorporate elements of other genres as well, typically sci-fi or horror in an effort to tell a story with major themes about humanity and […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe officially kicked things off with Iron Man in 2008, completely changing Robert Downey Jr.‘s career. A year earlier, he was still trying to find his footing in Hollywood after a pretty rough period in his life. He had already proven his talent decades earlier, but he was still trying to get […]
Image via WB Cast members keep getting announced for the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, potentially leading to a problem that already plagued the DCEU. The DCU is still in its early years, with Man of Tomorrow only being the third movie after Superman, Supergirl, and Clayface. Because of this, the DCU is still finding […]