After a long and drawn out search, Warner Bros. is ready to move on from Ben Affleck as the Caped Crusader and will chose a new actor to take up the mantle in 2019. The news come from The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit who provided some insight into the development of the highly anticipated standalone Batman movie. According to Kit, director Matt Reeves has already turned in a script...
Aquaman is swimming into theaters this weekend, marking the first solo DC movie since Wonder Woman graced the big screen last summer. One of the biggest questions surrounding the new movie is if it would be any good given the unfortunate track record of DC movies. With its Rotten Tomatoes score now available, we can see what the critics are saying. With 121 reviews accounted for,...
Aquaman hasn't swum overseas to the United States yet, but he's already flush with cash, to the tune of almost $250 million in worldwide box-office pull according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie hit Chinese theaters in the second week of December and another 42 markets this weekend. The total take so far is up over $260 million, with $189 million of that coming from China....
Since Aquaman briefly graced the big screen in 2016’s Batman v. Superman, we’ve been waiting for his standalone movie to arrive in theaters. The wait will come to an end on December 21, but in case you are impatient and happen to be an Amazon Prime member, you can catch the newest DC movie a week early. Amazon announced a partnership with Warner Bros. that will allow Prime members to...
Batman director Matt Reeves spoke this week at the Television Critics Association and offered a much-needed update on the state of his take on the Dark Knight. It’s coming along, he says, with plans to roll cameras in the first half of 2019. “We are working on getting our draft in the next couple of weeks and things are progressing,” he said. “We have conceptual stuff going and coming...
The mystery surrounding Aquaman is starting to dissipate little by little. The upcoming Entertainment Weekly issue features a special report on the upcoming DCEU movie with exclusive first look images, including our very first look at one of the villains of the story, Black Manta. The first look image shows David Kane, portrayed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, located in a lab of sorts...
Twice in the last six months, the world’s mightiest heroes have come together to battle a threat from beyond the stars. A being with unimaginable strength with designs on our planet, seeking the power contained in some arcane objects from out of time. In one story, our heroes succeeded, while in the other, they failed. As our heroes failed to stop this villain from achieving his...
DC’s Shazam! movie is filming on location in Toronto right now, and despite DC and Warner Bros. best efforts, a few pics are leaking out here and there. Shazam! is one of the few movies on the DCEU timeline that has a release date and is currently in production, so we’re watching this one pretty closely for details to get an idea of where it’s going. Here are the photos: https://...
Everyone has their theory about why the DCEU is lagging. They’re handling the characters wrong. Marvel is part of a fast, far-reaching conspiracy. People are dumb and have bad taste. But then, not all of the people offering theories have had piles and piles of their creations turned into piles and piles of movies. Comic creator Mark Millar offered his theory on the gap in a recent...
The DCEU is struggling. This last weekend, Marvel’s Black Panther outdid Justice League‘s entire domestic run in just a few days. While Wonder Woman was excellent and Aquaman has strong buzz, we’re worried about the Flash film, Flashpoint, and Warner Bros. and DC Comics aren’t doing much to help soothe our worries. Sure, there’s the fact that the movie was without a director for what...