Let’s not underestimate the impact of Chris Nolan leaving the studio. He’s one of the rare directors that can attract an audience with his name alone, which basically makes him the equivalent of a franchise. The efforts Zaslav makes to convince us that they will focus on theatrical releases reads like a direct…

I understand the politics and business side of the decision but that doesn’t mean that the “irredeemable” rumor is false. We can still deduce that it probably wasn’t The Dark Knight in term of quality either or they would have tried a little harder to show the film. Changing the film from HBO Max to theaters was a…

But apparently, the original rights holders, Square Enix, ran out of patience with the studio.

Even if you don’t compare them to the MCU, they have been sleeping on their non-Batman-nor-Superman properties for years. They were really caught flat-footed when The Avengers came out and they’ve been playing catch up ever since. Much to their detriment because they don’t have the people for something that ambitious.…

I wasn’t a fan of Constantine, nor Watchmen, but I don’t really hold it against them because this wasn’t really DC Comics superheroes per se (they were part of Vertigo at that time, which was different). No, I’m talking about the “classic” DC line-up. It’s incredible that The Dark Knight trilogy’s success, right when…

For the first (and still to this day, only) company to own an entire superhero brand, Warner Bros. did remarkably little with it during the big boom of the genre. It could have been the company’s Golden Age and they let it go by.

Lara Croft has been played by two Oscar winners; the films wasted both of them. At some point, Hollywood will have to learn that buying an IP won’t help if the movies you make suck.

And let’s talk about the examples she picked: those are all the POC directors of Marvel. When they got signed, the A.V. Club was publishing articles about how POC never got opportunities in Hollywood and how them getting the job was a big step for diversity. Now, it’s a sign that things are getting worst? Damned if…

“A great example of colorism is to believe I can be compared to anyone. I’m the youngest talk show host ever. The first Black woman to star in her own show on Nickelodeon, & the youngest & first Black Cinderella on broadway. I’m an incomparable talent. Baby, THIS, is Keke Palmer.”

It’s what I got from her trying to kill Luke just because Obi-Wan was protecting him. Otherwise, I don’t get how to would get her closer to kill Vader.

The trailer doesn’t look bad but I hate the music they chose. I don’t understand the need to put contemporary music on a movie with a medieval setting. If you want to make a Spielberg-like movie, you need to find your John Williams. It won’t make your film look cool, but it might make it look timeless.

An actress can lead a spy franchise but giving her the James Bond identity is setting her up to fail. She would be forced to deal with the comparisons, with the differences she would bring being viewed as a negative instead of a positive.

I don’t agree that it got better. She turned into Darth Vader’s enemy for one episode, then she went back into hating Obi-Wan for no reason for the finale. It doesn’t help that the big reveal was very predictable.

The problem is that it’s not just one scene that she copied but the whole concept for her book. Plus, it’s hardly an homage if she pretends she never even heard of the book.

Of all the fandoms, Star Wars has arguably the biggest one; more fans means more people talking, which usually leads to escalation. Star Trek might have been big, but it was never “Star Wars big”, so it would make sense that the fans would be more “under control”.

The person they showed in the passageways last week, the one that almost saw Charles’ daughter, was definitely a guy. At the very least, it wasn’t Cara Delevingne’s silhouette. That also goes for the person Bunny was meeting, whose matchstick box was found.

It’s okay to criticize Marvel films - at least, I hope it is because otherwise, I’m in trouble! - and there is a legitimate argument to be made that Marvel isn’t director-friendly enough. The problem is that Scorsese and Coppola went further than that.

None of this is particularly surprising. Every time the movement would begin to die down, Snyder would somehow ignite the fire again, at no point correcting the misconception that the cut was ready to be released. That is, until the very end when he needed all the money in the world to finish the film. So no, him…

You know there is huge messaging problem when the anti-choice movement is called “pro-life” and the pro-choice movement is considered pro-abortion. It is made very clear that it was Juno’s decision to have the baby. If the film had been anti-choice, the decision would have been made for her.

It’s kind of remarkable that the Black Widow, Marvel’s quintessential femme fatale, did not get laid once in over a decade of movies because the studio was afraid to be accused of treating her like an object; Favreau even had to defend himself because she was supposedly a little too sexy in Iron Man 2. Yet, that kind…