After a few turbulent years of self-discovery, Disney is now ready to play the hits with sequels, reboots and the company’s patented live-action remakes. And in 2025, director Marc Webb (500 days of summer, The Amazing Spiderman) will dare to rewrite authenticated history when his remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsadapted from the ...
Lucasfilm has released the first trailer for Skeleton Crew, This will be the next Star Wars series to hit Disney Plus on December 3rd when it debuts on the streaming service. Footage from the D23 Expo following The Acolyteand complements Lucasfilm and Disney’s experimentation to take Star Wars out of its Skywalker-centric comfort zone. The ...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is under more pressure than ever to get it right. After years of unchallenged box office dominance and widespread critical acclaim, the tide is turning against the once unassailable box office giant. a major drop in box office figuresa general atmosphere of “superhero fatigue” and the conviction and parole of actor ...
When Marvel Studios first announced Thunderbolts* at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 as part of the ambitious schedule for Phase 5 and 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, the film didn’t yet have that strange asterisk in its title. There weren’t many details, either, aside from a July 26, 2024 release date, which, along with ...
It is just over a month until the premiere of The PenguinHBO’s live-action crime drama set in the universe of Matt Reeves’ 2022 film The BatmanShowrunner Lauren LeFranc, executive producer Dylan Clark and Reeves attended San Diego Comic-Con and took the stage on Saturday alongside stars Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti and Rhenzy Feliz to talk ...
As previously reported, DC Comics had not planned a presentation at the San Diego Comic-Con this year because, as DC boss James Gunn put it, he was too busy developing his new version of SupermanWe wondered if DC would find other ways to present some big reveals at the Expo, and sure enough, the “Jim ...
Get ready for another new adventure with Kazuma Kiryu – this time in a live-action TV show. In June, we first learned that Amazon was adapting the Like a Dragon (formerly Yakuza) video game series into a Japanese live-action series. We knew it would be a six-episode series, released in two parts of three episodes ...
Pre-film adaptations of pop culture have become so commonplace that they are almost parodies in themselves. Do we really need to know how Han got his last name, Solo? Why Poirot grew a moustache? That Cruella de Vil’s mother was murdered by Dalmatians? But that doesn’t mean there aren’t soft spots worth exploring in the ...
For those who have not heard the massive annual flood of news from the Comic-Con International Trade Exhibition — popularly known as San Diego Comic-Con, or SDCC — one of the big news coming in 2024 is that this year, for the first time since 2019, the con will not have a corresponding virtual or ...
The second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians has not yet started filming, but the San Diego Comic-Con panel revealed a big news in the casting: Daniel Diemer (Half of it) will join the cast as Percy’s cyclops half-brother Tyson. The character was previously played by Douglas Smith in the critically panned 2013 adaptation ...
