Tag: Batman
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Before ‘Batman,’ Michael Keaton Did a Short-Lived ‘70s Slapstick Sitcom
Michael Keaton is a world-renowned, award-winning actor who has been wowing audiences for decades. For longtime fans and cinephiles, Keaton is best known for his genre-defining role as The Dark Knight, aka Batman/Bruce Wayne, starting with Tim Burton’s classic, iconic 1989 film, Batman. However, before he impressed audiences across the globe with his performance as…
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‘The Flash’ Global Box Office Struggles Toward the Finish Line
June was such a ruthless battle at the box office for so many blockbuster films. Some made it out alive with their head intact while others tripped in and fell to their financial doom. Sadly one of those latter films was DC’s The Flash. Despite a great marketing campaign that celebrated the legacy of DC…
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‘Superman & Lois’ Season 3 Did What Zack Snyder Couldn’t
Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Superman & Lois Season 3.Superman & Lois’s Season 3 finale brought in a big piece of the Superman mythos as Lex Luthor (Michael Cudlitz) revealed his twisted plan to take down the Man of Steel. The final moments of the episode call to mind another recent Superman story…
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‘Batman Forever’: Akiva Goldsman Says The “Schumacher Cut” Exists & Releasing It Would Be “A Nice Way To Honor” The Director
For fans of the “Batman” film franchise, there are two films that get a lot of shit from the fandom. You see, after Tim Burton released his two “Batman” films, beginning in 1989, Warner Bros. brought in Joel Schumacher to take the franchise in a new direction. And that’s exactly what happened, as the filmmaker…
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‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Almost Got an Nc-17 Rating
Director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy never shied away from pushing the dark-and-gritty envelope with its visuals, atmosphere, and violent depiction of the perpetually crime-riddled Gotham City. Nolan’s viscerally grounded take on the Caped Crusader emerged as a cultural and artistic course correction to Joel Schumacher’s campy, overwhelmingly derided Batman & Robin. Instead, Batman Begins echoed…
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George Clooney Was Actually A Good Bruce Wayne
There’s a case to be made that Batman & Robin is one of the most important comic book films of all time. Joel Schumacher’s famously disastrous Batman sequel was so reviled by both fans and critics that it temporarily killed the comic book movie genre, forcing studios to take greater care in making sure their…
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Sasha Nathwani’s ‘Last Swim’ wraps in London for ‘Sound of Metal’, ‘War Pony’ producer Caviar (exclusive)
Film is written by Nathwani and Screen Star of Tomorrow Helen Simmons.UK-based filmmaker Sasha Nathwani has wrapped his debut feature Last Swim, a day-in-a-life drama featuring a host of rising stars, co-written by Screen 2018 producer Star of Tomorrow Helen Simmons,The film stars newcomer Deba Hekmat alongside Under The Shadow actress Narges Rashidi, Screen 2022…
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Kevin Smith Wrote Nicolas Cage’s Axed ‘Superman’ and Was Forced to Add a Giant Spider; He Now Says It’s ‘Badass’ After Watching ‘The Flash’
Spoiler Alert: This article contains major spoilers for Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ “The Flash,” now playing in theaters.“I finally got to see Nic Cage be Superman. It has been an absolute delight for me,” Kevin Smith recently told Rolling Stone about watching “The Flash.” The film and that Cage-as-Superman cameo near the end is…
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Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ Almost Had a Very Different Joker
When pre-production was in full swing on Tim Burton’s original Batman, Warner Bros. knew exactly who they wanted for the pivotal role of the Joker. Not many things were certain on the set of Tim Burton’s accidental masterpiece; the fact the 1989 film would define multiple generations of comic book movies is a retroactive feat…
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‘Batman Returns’ Review: Stellar Performances Make It an Enduring Classic
It is a rare thing for a sequel to surpass its predecessor, especially when that original work is already a strong one on its own. Too often, in the hopes of recapturing the magic of what came before, filmmakers can play it safe by drawing from what was already done before without exploring much of…