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David S. Goyer Talks a ‘Cohesive’ DC Universe and Not Emulating Marvel
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Warner Bros. is both expanding and organizing its DC film and television universe with upcoming projects The Flash – a direct spinoff of the Arrow TV show – and the Man of Steel sequel, tentatively known as Batman vs. Superman, which is going to introduce versions of Batman and Wonder Woman that exist in the same world as Henry Cavill’s Kal-El/Clark Kent. Many people watching all this from a distance have argued that WB is, in no uncertain terms, clearly emulating Marvel Studios’ approach to brand-building – and, to be fair, that’s a fairly persuasive and reasonable argument to make, given that Marvel’s recent financial success is ...
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- Sandy Schaefer
'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Posters: Three Fingers, One Weapon
6 hours ago | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
A couple weeks ago, the first trailer for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" introduced the world to the latest (nosed) iterations of the classic cartoon and comic book characters. And now a collection of character posters continues to set the tone. Each one-sheet highlights a single of the martial arts-trained reptiles and their weapon of choice. Hardcore fans of the retro cartoons and comic books won't find anything to take issue with in the posters. The ...
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Sheila Nevins, Anton Yelchin, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Wesley Among Jurors at 2014 Tribeca Film Festival
9 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Organizers of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival have tapped a roster of industry types including Sheila Nevins, Anton Yelchin, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Wesley, Catherine Hardwicke, Toni Collette and Natasha Lyonne, among others, to serve as jurors for the fest’s seven competitive categories.
Hardwicke will judge the world narrative competish with a jury that includes Lake Bell and Steven Conrad (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”), while the world doc winner will be selected by a team that includes New York magazine’s David Edelstein and BBC journo Nick Fraser.
Thesps Jeff Goldblum and Adepero Oduyo are part of the jury to pick the award winner for new narrative director, while Heather Graham and Michael Stuhlbarg are among those selecting the recipient of the new doc helmer laurel.
Wesley, Goldberg and Nevins, along with Christine Lahti and Alfonso Arau, will crown the winner of the narrative short film competish and Collette »
- Gordon Cox
Lisa Cholodenko named LAFF guest director
4 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Lisa Cholodenko, the filmmaker behind hit The Kids Are All Right will be in situ at the Los Angeles Film Festival, set to run from June 11-19.
Previous guest directors include David O Russell, Kathryn Bigelow, William Friedkin, Guillermo Del Toro and recent Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón.
Spc chiefs Tom Bernard and Michael Barker will receive The Spirit Of Independence Award and present a film from their library and discuss their work with festival artistic director David Ansen.
Laff will present a series of Master Classes, kicking off with composer Atticus Ross, who will perform an original electronic soundscape created for the festival and discuss his creative process scoring films such as The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
The festival’s annual celebration of women’s achievements in film will focus on Women Who Call the Shots: Women Directors and Showrunners. A panel will feature Nicole Holofcener, Marta Kauffman and Gina Prince-Bythewood.
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Astronomers Predict High Likelihood of Zombies in Outer Space
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Is there intelligent life out there on other planets, looking down on us? It's a question that's been pondered by generations, and will continue to be pondered by generations to come. But astronomers Stephen Kane and Franck Zelziz aren't worried about intelligent life. They're worried about unintelligent death.
As reported by io9, the two astronomers recently published a study that suggests the possibility of over 2,500 zombie-infested planets, within 326 light years of our solar system. Yes, Kane and Zelziz believe in the potential existence of extraterrestrial zombies, and they've got the evidence to back up their wild claims.
The basic gist of the study is that since there's a high likelihood of life other than us humans out there in the universe, there's also a high likelihood that those forms of life have been hit by devastating pandemics, like the ones that have ravaged our kind throughout the years; smallpox, Black Death, »
- John Squires
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review | Xan Brooks
34 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Marc Webb's superhero sequel is savvy, punchy and dashing enough to stir the blood of even the most jaded adult
Childhood heroes never die, they simply outgrow us, outlive us, transferring their attentions to the generations that follow. Even Spider-Man, who I loved as a kid, has now long since moved on. He's taken the Hollywood shilling, embraced three-dimensions and pitched himself squarely at the multiplex crowd. By rights it should be all over between us.
Yet The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is so savvy, punchy and dashing that it won't be denied. It's the thread that won't break and the yarn which still binds.
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- Xan Brooks
‘Borgman’ Trailer: The Bastard Child of Luis Buñuel and Micheal Haneke
45 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
There are some wizards cutting trailers for Drafthouse Films, and this new Borgman trailer is quite good, and very chilling. The film is something of an enigma: a man fleeing a strange persecution turns up on the doorstep of a bourgeois family, and soon ingratiates himself into the family’s life, if not without a few […]
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Film Review: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
52 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Necessity is the mother of invention, which is why Marc Webb’s 2012 superhero do-over “The Amazing Spider-Man,” for all its polished proficiency and kicky star casting, felt so perfunctory: Rebooting the blockbuster Marvel franchise just five years after Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 3,” it couldn’t claim to be a film anyone needed. The swiftly delivered “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” finds no solution to that redundancy, but it acrobatically spins enough sound and fury to distract from the issue, while the tinderbox chemistry between leads Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone delights once more. Continuing Peter Parker’s investigation of his shady family history while serving up a brace of villains — one more familiar than the other — for him to contend with, this bloated but enjoyable outing will pull in enough crowds to justify Sony’s reluctance to relinquish this heavily built-up creative property.
Perhaps one reason the studio preferred to return to the source, »
- Guy Lodge
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