Henry Cavill spoke with Entertainment Weekly about another stand alone Superman film in the newly formed DC Cinematic Universe.
“There’s plenty of time for individual Superman sequels. He’s a tough character to tell. People like the darker vigilante. I think it speaks to the human psyche more easily rather than a god-like being that we can’t really understand. Once we have a more expansive universe, we can delve more into the character of Superman and hopefully tell more stories,” said Cavill.
Netflix announced that the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” teaser trailer that was released yesterday was a fan made trailer and not official, according to the Huffington Post.
You may have been busy celebrating the fourth over the weekend but while you were away Jeff Goldblum created a Facebook account and has been posting updates from Independence Day: Resurgence filming.
Independence Day: Resurgence is directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox and Brent Spiner, Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joey King and William Fichtner. The film is scheduled for a June 24, 2016 release.
We thought we wiped them out. The Resurgence is here. #IDR
Doctor Doom’s hold over Battleworld deepens as the heroes begin to discover its secrets in Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic’s Secret Wars #3 from Marvel Comics, the best-selling comic book of June 2015 according to information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors.
Marvel Comics was June’s top publisher with a 40.86% dollar share and a 43.16% unit share. DC Entertainment was the month’s number two publisher with a 25.06% dollar share and a 28.03% unit share. June’s number three publisher was Image Comics with a 9.81% dollar share and a 10.83% unit share. In fourth was IDW Publishing with a 5.18% dollar share and a 3.86% unit share. Dark Horse Comics placed fifth for the month with a 4.25% dollar share and a 3.51% unit share.
In May, Marvel Comics had seven titles in the top ten, including Dan Slott and Adam Kubert’s Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1 at #2 and Jason Aaron and John Cassaday’s Star Wars #6 at #3. DC Entertainment had three titles in the top ten, led by Bryan Hitch’s Justice League of America #1 at #4 and Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman #41 at #5.
The woods outside Litchfield, New Hampshire hide dark and ancient secrets in Scott Snyder and Jock’s Wytches Volume 1 from Image Comics, the best-selling graphic novel of June and one of the publisher’s five titles in the top ten. Marvel Comics also had five titles in the top ten, led by Jim Starlin’s original graphic novel, Thanos: The Infinity Relativity, at #2.
Quirk Books’ The League of Regrettable Superheroes, a compendium of the strangest characters comic book history has produced from the Golden Age to today, was June’s best-selling book. Of note, Dark Horse Comics placed two titles among the top ten: Realms: The Roleplaying Game Art of Tony DiTerlizzi at #5 and perennial best-seller Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia at #7.
As we near San Diego Comic Con, where DC is expected to dominate the news feed, the DC vs. Marvel debate is heating up. Ben Affleck, who will take his turn as Bruce Wayne/Batman in the upcoming Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, has chimed in with his own opinion as to what differentiates the DC film universe from Marvel.
In the latest print edition of Entertainment Weekly, Affleck gave his thoughts on what makes DC different and better than Marvel, which has owned DC in Hollywood the last seven years. “It is more mythic, it is more grand in that way,” he says,” and it is a little more realistic,” said Affleck. “Just by their nature, these films can’t be as funny or as quick or as glib as Marvel movies.”
Affleck has a point, but thus far the mythic and deified qualities of the very infant DC universe hasn’t matched the fun and elation from the early Marvel films. however, now may be the perfect time for DC to jump ahead of Marvel. Avengers: Age of Ultron was hollow and forgettable for the most part, so a weighty and more substantial comic book film may be what audiences want. At the same time, Marvel’s upcoming Ant-Man sure sounds like another fantastic addition to a generally lauded series of MCU films.
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice hits theaters next March.
WARNING: There are certain big spoilers that cannot be avoided when discussing this episode, so I suggest if you haven’t seen the episode to come back later.
It’s been a long uphill battle for this new True Detective, fighting through two slogging episodes to finally arrive at some sort of identity for the characters, the story, and the forward thrust. We have arrived both at the heart of the murder investigation, and the full realization of these people. I only wonder if the big moment at the end of the second episode, which is covered and explained and eschewed off to the side rather quickly here, was a bit of TV trickery to get people paying attention.
That’s right, Ray Velcoro is not dead, as anyone who has seen the preview clips of the season may have been able to discern. The gunshot to the gut was rubber riot shot, simply incapacitating him and not ending him. However, the shot was enough to knock him smooth out for several hours, pushing him into a bizarre, Lynchian discussion with his father (Fred Ward) – who is very much alive – and a young Conway Twitty dressed as Elvis, singing on stage at the bar Velcoro and Semyon occupy regularly. The sequence is cool, perhaps, but strange simply for the sake of being strange. Luckily, the episode doesn’t dwell on this aspect of the story, or spend too much time in some sort of purgatory dreamscape everyone has seen before. Instead, we dive headlong into the murder investigation, and Frank Semyon’s desperation begins to light up the screen.
I’m still not convinced that the murder of Caspar is really why we’re all here watching this story unfold. The details of the investigation never feel as important as the characters doing the investigation. Then, there is the slimiest mayor of all time, Chessani (Ritchie Coster), and his oversexed homestead, where Bezzerides and Woodrough head to try and pick up some clues. If any clues do pop up from witnessing the debauchery of Chessani’s home, it’s that he and Caspar most certainly occupied the same depraved sexual worlds.
Meanwhile, poor Ray Velcoro has finally seen the light after his near-death experience, and is dead set on changing a few of his bad habits. As the doctor tells him, it’s okay to have some bad habits, just don’t have them all. He wants off the case, he wants to lay low and perhaps get his life in order, but as the episode unfolds it’s clear that the damage has been done. Meanwhile, Katherine Davis (Michael Hyatt), the lead investigator in charge of Bezzerides, is pushing her basically into the lap of Velcoro to try and get on his good side and figure out just how deep his corruption runs. This may be the dust lighting some strange sexual moments between her and Velcoro in the near future.
Kitsch’s Paul Woodrough also blooms a bit here, and his secret sexual past rears its head in several uncomfortable scenes. But the real star of this third True Detective episode is Vaughn’s Frank Semyon. Frank is about to crack, shaking down old extortion businesses to try and recoup some of the money he lost, trying to produce a child with his wife, Jordan, and putting the word out on the street that he isn’t nearly as straight and narrow as he wants to be, not yet anyway. His confrontation near the end of the episode with the street-level gangsters he is clearly trying to separate himself from shows off the nasty side of Semyon, and finally allows Vaughn to show his teeth in the role, a role that was rather boring and lifeless through the first two episodes.
Everything is beginning to come together now. Pizzolatto’s screenwriting doesn’t feel like lip service to a forced macabre world anymore, but a real examination into this new world. No matter how flaccid the big surprise with Velcoro may have turned out to be, at the same time I am relieved we weren’t privy to an extended dream episode that The Sopranos pulled off once, and everyone has tried to replicate since.
San Diego, July 6th, 2015 – We have the one, the only, the legendary world creator himself STAN “THE MAN” LEE signing at the Arcana booth (2515) on Friday July 10th at 5pm.
Not only will Arcana be at San Diego Comic-Con in a few short days, not ONLY will we be selling exclusive merch from Pixies, Howard Lovecraft and The Steam Engines of Oz, NOT ONLY will we be holding a panel discussing all upcoming films and projects on the Friday … but … the legend will be on hand signing!
“BUT HOW?” you ask, as you shout at your mobile device and/or laptop. Arcana is teamed up with Stan and his company “POW! Entertainment” for his upcoming project Stan Lee’s The Unknowns a brand new world of super-powered teens fighting alien invaders sprouted from the brain of Stan Lee himself and organized by Chris “Doc” Wyatt (Iron Man: Armored Adventures) and our very own CEO and Head Honcho Sean Patrick O’Reilly.
Obviously the co-creator of Spider-Man and walking cameo legend himself has very limited time and we WISH we could let you all shake hands, selfie, and sign to your nerdy heart’s content. However, space is limited for this event so we’re doing things the only fair way we know. By encouraging cross media promotion and assigning rewards at random.
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Winners* will be contacted and announced and will get some face time with the Captain of Comics himself. We look forward to seeing you all at the big show!
*Winning is not a guarantee of interaction with Stan Lee. Some conditions may apply. Offer subject to change without notice. Arcana Studio is not responsible for any and all minds lost by interacting with a Comic Book super legend. Legal filler is hard to type. Purple monkey-dishwasher.
The Fourth of July Weekend was slated to be a battle between two movies- Terminator Genisys and Magic Mike XXL. Predictions had it as a fairly close battle with both of the movies pulling in somewhere in the neighborhood for 50-55 million dollars. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the movies and the results were a very different outcome than what most were predicting. Inside Out (a movie that came out weeks ago) ended up making 45.3 million dollars over the holiday weekend to take the title as this weekend’s #1 movie. Jurassic World was in a dead heat for 2nd with Terminator Genisys each pulling about 44 million dollars apiece. Magic Mike XXL finished 4th making just 27 million dollars for the holiday weekend. This weekend provided some telling insight into where the public is spending his/her money at the box office. Let’s break it down.
Never underestimate the power of families–
Inside-out is showing some impressive staying power at the box office. According to Variety “Inside Out is showing at 4,100 theaters and has earned around 250 million dollars at the box office over the last 3 weeks.” According to boxofficemojo.com, Inside Out is showing very little in the way of slowing down as well even with the addition of other choices for the public to choose from. As a father of a 2 ½ year old, I can say that I am not at all shocked at the success of this movie. How often can we say that a movie is not only kid friendly, but able to keep adults engaged, and has a tremendous message for all children? Families matter and have the power to dictate the box-office I fully expect this to continue this weekend when the Minions hits theaters.
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia-
Jurassic World and Terminator both drew in people this weekend with promises of taking us back to when we were much younger. I know that even though I was going to see both of these films for free, I was excited to sit in that theater and compare the past movies with the new ones. Jurassic World took me back about 22 years to the original release of Jurassic Park. I could feel myself on the edge of my seat from beginning to end, just like I had been so long ago. People are drawn to movies that take us back and will continue to be drawn to them for the foreseeable future. As long as movie companies are committed to making sure the product is up to standard then these movies will make lots of money.
Never overestimate the power of a terrible idea-
Magic Mike XXL was released in about 3,300 theaters this holiday weekend with hopes of dancing its way into the #1 spot over the weekend. I remember thinking as I was heading into the theater, haven’t we done this already? As I was leaving the theater and I was telling anyone who would listen just how horrible that movie was I immediately felt that even writing the review for Magic Mike XXL would be a futile exercise. I had this feeling that women would go see this in groups thus making this movie a runaway hit. I didn’t take into account the power of word of mouth reviews. According to Variety ” Magic Mike XXL made 15 million dollars in its first two days of being released.” This had industry insiders already to hand Magic Mike the crown but then the word got out about this movie. The very women who went to this film started to realize how much of a terrible idea it was to buy tickets for this cinematic accident and started telling their friends, Ticket sales came to a screeching halt.
Faced with the prospects of not enough women to help hit those projections, this movie is destined to fall off that box office cliff into the Dollar Spot at Target.
Overall –
I think this weekend is a perfect example of no matter how much we try and predict what’s going to transpire at the box office, it all comes down to what families truly want to see. A family based film has a broader appeal. Nostalgia based films have a wider appeal as well. A movie made primarily for women, with no intrinsic value otherwise, has no broad appeal. Unfortunately, Magic Mike XXL is a dumpster fire of a movie and I’m glad that the word is now out. I fully expect Jurassic World, Inside-out, and Terminator Genisys to continue to make money. Magic Mike XXL will end up dying a quick death at the box-office.
Jurassic World continues to dominate the boxoffice
With Comic Con around the corner, two new Deadpool images were leaked online with one image the movie poster. Do you think that Deadpool is shooting a teddy bear because he doesn’t like Mark Wahlberg or Seth MacFarlane?
Deadpool is directed by Tim Miller, starring Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano, Ed Skrein, and Brianna Hildebrand.
AndrewSS from the Ukraine created an amazing Captain America: Civil War teaser poster. If Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios were smart they would make this poster. This image captures the emotion of Civil War as this will be the first Spider-Man will be incorporated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Set for release in the United States on May 6, 2016, “Captain America: Civil War” is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo (Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Community”) from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (“Captain America: The Winter Solider,” Marvel’s “Captain America: The First Avenger”). The film returns Chris Evans (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron”) as the iconic Super Hero character Steve Rogers/Captain America along with Robert Downey Jr. (“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” Marvel’s “Iron Man 3”) as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson (“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”) as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Sebastian Stan (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Captain America: The First Avenger”) as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie (“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”) as Sam Wilson/Falcon, Paul Bettany (“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Iron Man 3”) as The Vision, Jeremy Renner (“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” Marvel’s “The Avengers”) as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Don Cheadle (“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Iron Man 3”) as Jim Rhodes/War Machine and Elizabeth Olsen (“Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Godzilla”) as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch.
After his debut in Marvel’s “Ant-Man” on July 17, 2015, Paul Rudd (“Ant-Man,” ”Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”) will make his first appearance alongside the Avengers as Scott Lang/Ant-Man in “Captain America: Civil War.”
The film also includes outstanding additional cast, including Chadwick Boseman (“42,” “Get on Up”) as T’Challa/Black Panther, Emily VanCamp (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Revenge”) as Sharon Carter/Agent 13, Daniel Brühl (“Inglourious Basterds,” “Bourne Ultimatum”), Frank Grillo (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Warrior”) as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones, William Hurt (“A History of Violence,” Marvel’s “The Incredible Hulk”) as General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross and Martin Freeman (“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”).
“Captain America: Civil War” picks up where “Avengers: Age of Ultron” left off, as Steve Rogers leads the new team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. After another international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to enlist the services of the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers while they try to protect the world from a new and nefarious villain.
Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” is produced by Marvel Studios’ president, Kevin Feige, with Louis D’Esposito, Alan Fine, Victoria Alonso, Patricia Whitcher, Nate Moore and Stan Lee serving as executive producers.
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo’s creative team also includes director of photography Trent Opaloch (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Elysium”), production designer Owen Paterson (“Godzilla,” “Matrix”), and three time Oscar®-nominated costume designer Judianna Makovsky (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”).
Based on the Marvel comic character first published in 1941, “Captain America: Civil War ” continues the lineage of epic big-screen adventures chronicled in “Iron Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor,” “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Iron Man 3,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and the upcoming release schedule, which includes Marvel’s “Ant-Man” on July 17, 2015, Marvel’s “Doctor Strange,” on November 4, 2016, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy 2,” on May 5, 2017, and Marvel’s “Thor: Ragnarok,” on November 3, 2017.
