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What Will Happen to Special Features in the Era of Streaming Movies?
It’s difficult to think that something as definitive of modern-age movie-watching as DVD special features could become a thing of the past, but there are plausible scenarios in which that could...
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Movie News After Dark: Pacific Rim, Senna, Katy Perry and Preparing for The...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column that’s picking up the pieces as Hollywood takes off for an extended mid-week holiday weekend. Sure, the streets of Burbank are empty at the moment...
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‘Spider-Man’ Star Denis Leary On How to Bring a Movie With a Giant Lizard Man...
The Amazing Spider-Man can get ridiculous. By its very nature, there’s an inherent silliness to Marc Webb‘s reboot of the iconic character. There’s a giant talking lizard wearing a lab coat, and in...
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Superhero Movies And Their Tragic Obsession With 90s Rock Music
With The Amazing Spider-Man swinging into theaters this weekend, I wanted to take a moment to look back on past superhero movies – not to analyze the characters, the various actors who have played...
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Movie News After Dark: Elysium, The Imposter, The Spider-Man, What is IMAX...
What is Movie News After Dark? After inadvertantly taking the night off last night due to a surprise viewing of the extended cut of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (all 4 hours and 10 minutes,...
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341 Million Reasons Why We’ll See A Bunch of ‘Spider-Man’ Sequels
Although The Amazing Spider-Man opened the lowest out of all the other movies in the Sony franchise with a $65m weekend, it’s already scored $341m worldwide. Not bad for a week’s work. Sam Raimi‘s...
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Excelsior! The 10 Best Stan Lee Movie Cameos
There used to be a time when only die-hard comic book fans knew what Stan Lee looked like. His likeness appeared in many of the Marvel comic books for the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but to the average person,...
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10 Things ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2′ Must Do to Improve the Franchise
Here be Spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man. Consider yourself warned. With The Amazing Spider-Man performing considerably well — and better than a supposedly worried Sony had expected — we’re bound...
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Box Office: ‘Ice Age’ and ‘Spider-Man’ Remain Hot in the Shadow of ‘The Dark...
Between now and the end of summer, there’s going to be but one prime directive for those of us who think about, write about, care about and have any sort of general interest in the movies. The Dark...
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How Tim Burton, Joel Schumacher and McDonald’s Took a Visionary Approach to...
Part of the appeal of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films is that the basic conceit informing their aesthetic seems so natural. Batman is one of few major superheroes that isn’t actually a super-hero....
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Marc Webb to Take Another Swing at Spidey With ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Sequel
Despite the fact that it opened to mixed reviews and didn’t bring in as much coin as the movies in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, director Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man was profitable enough...
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10 Halloween Costume Ideas Based on Recent Movies
Continuing a yearly tradition that began at the defunct movie blog Spout, this is my 5th annual list of mostly original yet highly unlikely Halloween costume ideas. You can take any of these...
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With Shailene Woodley, ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ May Have Just Hit the Jackpot
Though reactions to Marc Webb’s reboot of Sony’s Spider-Man franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man, were mixed, the one thing that nearly everyone was in agreement on was that Andrew Garfield and Emma...
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Shailene Woodley Might Fit YA Adaptation ‘Divergent’ Into Her ‘Spider-Man’...
Recent months have been very kind to the career of young actress Shailene Woodley. Not only did she make herself ridiculously famous basically overnight by standing toe-to-toe with George Clooney in...
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The Cynic’s Oscars: Best Costume Design and Best Makeup Are the Halloween...
As any of us who’ve dressed up as movie characters for Halloween know, it’s the distinctly designed roles that make for the most interesting costumes. Nobody is dressing up as Alex Cross or Aaron...
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Max Insanity: Jamie Foxx In “Early Talks” to Play Electro in ‘The Amazing...
Consider the slow news days over with this amazing bit of casting buzz. Variety reports that Jamie Foxx is currently in “early talks” to take on the main villain role in the upcoming The Amazing...
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This Week In Blu-ray & DVD: Celebrate Christmas Early with Arthur, the...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Your Sister’s Sister Jack (Mark Duplass) is still suffering bouts of depression a year after...
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The Ingredients: ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ Confirms ‘Twilight’ is More...
The Ingredients is a column devoted to breaking down the components of a new film release with some focus on influential movies that came before. As always, these posts look at the entire plots of...
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Marc Webb Introduces the World to His New Harry Osborn
Now this is a way of announcing big casting that we can get behind. The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb has circumvented scoops, toldjas, exclusives, and the entire trade racket and gone ahead...
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It’s Amazing! It’s Terrible! The Story of 2012
If there’s one word I think of that’s best tied to the story of film in 2012, it’s “disappointing.” That’s not to say that 2012 was a disappointing year for movies. I don’t know if it was the best in...
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‘Superman: The Movie’ and the Prologue “Stinger”— Could Any Movies Get Away...
It’s only a coincidence that I’m writing this on the day Man of Steel hits home video, and it has nothing to do with the approaching 35th anniversary of Superman: The Movie. Rather, it’s something...
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Maybe a Female Superhero Can Save Sony’s Floundering ‘Spider-Man’ Franchise
Marvel Briefly: Hot on the heels of plenty of female-friendly news, from the revelation that Ghostbusters might be getting an all-girl makeover to our first look at Wonder Woman, Deadline reveals that...
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The Future of Non-Superhero Movies Might Be Superhero Movies
Sony Pictures I’m not sure what to do with the report that Sony is going to make an Aunt May spin-off movie without Spider-Man (other than have another cup of coffee and call it bullshit). Da7e at...
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The Demise of The Amazing Spider-Man Series and 7 Things We’ll Never Get to...
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. Spider-Man, amazing, superior, ultimate, or otherwise, is finally joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As part of a breathless and late-breaking press release from...
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Spider-Man is Wrong About Why Amazing Spider-Man Didn’t Work
It’s difficult to find someone who would argue that both Amazing Spider-Man movies worked on fundamental levels. It’s not just that they missed the mark, but that their foundations were cracked from...
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