Let’s catch up a little bit with French filmmaker Claire Denis since we’re slightly behind on the most recent updates. For one, her latest film is no longer titled “Fire” in the U.S. and has reverted to the international title, “Both Sides Of The Blade.” The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February […]
Continue readingIn 1998, when Steven Norrington’s “Blade” was released in theaters, it caused only the smallest stir in the consciousnesses of comic book fans. Based on a character from Marvel comics, Blade (Wesley Snipes) was a half-vampire, shades-and-sword-sporting badass who stalked into the night to kill vampires. In the world of “Blade,” vampires were the head […]
Continue reading(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)Superhero movies have become such a staple of cinema that it can be hard to remember a time when they weren’t the pillars holding up the box office. […]
Continue readingAt San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, Marvel Studios revealed plans to move forward with a new “Blade” film, announcing two-time Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”) as the new lead character. Movement on the picture had been seemingly slow, but the film has been picking up the pace of late. Eventually, the studio hired Bassam Tariq (“Mogul […]
Continue readingWesley Snipes made the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s favorite vampire slayer an iconic comic character in three “Blade” films between 1998 and 2004. Next up to assume the position is two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali in an upcoming Marvel Studios film directed by “Mogul Mowgli” filmmaker Bassam Tariq. Naturally, during press duties for his new […]
Continue readingDelroy Lindo is joining the cast of Marvel Studios’ “Blade,” starring Mahershala Ali as the titular human-vampire hybrid. Lindo, who most recently appeared in the Netflix Western “The Harder They Fall,” is the first actor to join the cast since Ali broke the news of the “Blade” reboot at the end of Marvel Studios’ 2019 […]
Continue readingI was fortunate enough to speak on a panel at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, the last “normal” Comic-Con before, well, everything happened. I stared in awe as I saw the lines for the infamous Hall H wrap around San Diego city blocks, and when the Marvel announcements for Phase 4 came pouring out, I […]
Continue readingVampires beware: Blade is heading to the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, Eric Brooks debuted in “Tomb of Dracula” #10 in 1973, though that version of the character is drastically different than the one most fans would recognize. Eric’s mother was slaughtered by a vampire during his birth, which transformed […]
Continue readingOctober has come and (mostly) gone, which means we’ve officially hit the weekend of the calendar year. And to think people actually have the audacity to consider themselves “not a fan” of the colder autumn and winter months. Fools, the lot of you! Many might be tempted to mourn the end of Spooky Szn, but […]
Continue readingSnipes is a charismatic vampire-human action hero in this exciting, energetic pre-mcu Marvel movie from 1998The first film in the Blade trilogy, made in 1998, is getting a re-release: Wesley Snipes is the implacable and massively ripped daywalker marching around in his shades and leatherised protective armour, slaying the vampires with his cold steel implements […]
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