Tag: Batgirl
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When accountants attack: why Netflix is cancelling Halle Berry’s new sci-fi movie
Could The Mothership have been 2024’s Ex Machina? We’ll never know, as the alien farm drama joins Batgirl in the dustbin of write-offsWhy would you scrap a movie that is all but finished before anyone except studio suits have had a chance to see it? The answer, for Hollywood bigwigs, is a tax write-off. In…
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‘Batgirl’ Directors Watched ‘The Flash’ and ‘Were Sad’ They Got Booted From DC Before Audiences Could Judge; Axed Film Was ‘More Like Tim Burton’s Gotham’
“Batgirl” directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah told Insider while promoting their new Syrian war drama “Rebel” that watching Warner Bros.’ most recent DC tentpole, “The Flash,” was a sad experience for them. They claim they were told by studio executives that “Batgirl” would release after “The Flash,” thus continuing Michael Keaton’s revived run…
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Blue Beetle review – perky superhero caper offers more of the same
DC’s first live-action Latino superhero adventure is a milestone for representation and a solidly entertaining diversion but suffers from overplayed beatsFor a long while, there had seemed an endless appetite for superhero stories, crowds rushing to and cheering at exhaustively interconnected adventures of good v evil even as critics started to sour. But in the…
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‘Rebel’ Trailer: The Batgirl Directors Finally Get To Release A 2023 Movie; Their Radicalization Cannes Drama
How do you show range as a filmmaker? If you’re directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, you can make a “Bad Boys” movie (“Bad Boys for Life”) and then two disparate movies in one year: 2022’s superhero film, “Batgirl” and then the Cannes drama, “Rebel.” Of course, we all know what happened to “Batgirl.”…
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‘Birds of Prey’ Should Be Part of the Dcu’s Future
Birds of Prey is one DC supergroup that’s too often left in the shadows. A TV series was lackluster, the movie (even starring Margot Robbie) was a box office bomb, and their future in the Dcu is up in the air. However, none of that means that the newly formed DC Studios led by James…
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Is Apple TV+ the New Place for Prestige?
When Apple TV+ was first announced in 2017, many looked at it as yet another cash grab by a big tech company among the wave of similar services by Facebook and Amazon. However, a few years later, the streaming landscape is very different. Disney+ is dealing with MCU and Star Wars fatigue, with both properties…
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Alicia Silverstone Is Open to Reprising Batgirl Role in ‘The Flash’ Multiverse
Alicia Silverstone isn’t shutting the door on the Dcu.Twenty-six years after she played Batgirl in 1997’s “Batman and Robin,” the “Clueless” icon told IndieWire that she is open to reprising the role.“If somebody wants me to play Batgirl, and they’re incredible, I’m in,” Silverstone told IndieWire during the Tribeca Film Festival while promoting horror film…
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Where to Watch ‘The Whale’: Stream the Oscar Winning Film
The fabled “Brenaissance”, otherwise known as the glorious comeback of beloved actor Brendan Fraser, has really been ramping up in the past few years. While Fraser’s return to the spotlight hit a minor speed bump with the historic and shocking cancelation of Batgirl, where he was initially set to join the Dark Knight’s coterie of…
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Starz Rescues ‘Three Women’ Series with Shailene Woodley After Showtime Dumps It
Days after Showtime cut bait on the already completed series “Three Women” starring Shailene Woodley, Starz has swooped in to acquire and rescue the show, as first reported in THR.“Three Women,” which is based on the book by Lisa Taddeo, was reportedly also shopped to HBO and Amazon before it landed at Starz.Starz had no…
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‘Tuca & Bertie’ Showrunners and Others Allege Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Diminishes Female Poc Series
The creators behind series “Tuca & Bertie,” “Gordita Chronicles,” and “Whistleblower” have issued statements alleging the Warner Bros. Discovery merger has had disastrous effects on female Poc showrunners.The statements, published as an addendum to a December 21 Writers Guild of America report on the effects of mega-mergers, are titled “How the Warner Bros. Discovery Merger…