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Batman 75: How Robin Williams Almost Played the Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman...
So, Robin Williams is dead, and that’s a seriously tall glass of suck. We are left to binge-watch his movies (omg, The Birdcage is still so good), and lament all the potential future film and TV roles...
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No Laughing Matter: How Warner Bros. May Have Learned the Wrong Lesson from...
Imagine you are some higher up at Warner Bros., likely with a job that, as Troy from Community would put it, “Looks from a distance like you do nothing.” In the past year, there has been some pretty...
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UPDATED: The State of Comic Books on TV – 3 Returning Shows, 5 Set to Debut &...
UPDATED 9/19/14 – I updated the part about Supergirl (it’s been ordered to series at CBS), and added in the shows I missed the first time around: Clone, Letter 44, Outcast, and Ronin – As pointed out...
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Warner Bros. Aims for Some Guardians of the Galaxy Mojo with a Live-Action...
Thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy, the Hollywood studios are more emboldened than ever before to adapt just about anything into a movie. In the past two weeks alone, we’ve heard that Shazam, The Legion...
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7 Negative Takeaways from the Onslaught of Comic Book Movies Due Out Thru 2020
Yesterday, I focused on the positives to take away from Marvel’s recently announced line-up of superhero films. Today, I bring the pain and focus on the negative, expanding out to not just focus on...
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5 Reasons There Are So Many Comic Book TV Shows & What’s Next
Be honest: Have you lost track of how many comic books are being turned into TV shows right now? The last time I counted there were three already on the air and past their first season (Walking Dead,...
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Warner Bros.’ CEO Gives Us An Excuse to Talk About Superhero Fatigue Again,...
Some people might have been feeling it beforehand, but pretty much ever since Warner Bros. pulled its “Surprise! Here are the crap-ton of DC movies we’re putting out through 2020!” and Marvel countered...
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Geek News Alerts: Arrow/Flash Spin-Off Speculation, Mourning Star Trek’s...
You win, internet. I can’t cover every single thing in exhaustive detail on this site. So, here are my summaries of some of the news stories of the moment: Speculation about the 3 mystery characters...
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Review: Metaphors, Veronica Mars Comparisons & Polite Applause for the...
I so want to love this, yet I only kind of like it. It makes me want to watch Veronica Mars again. Though it’s about zombies, it feel like a Frankenstein’s monster cobbled together from parts of a...
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Finally, a Supergirl Trailer With Genuinely New Footage
I cracked. I watched the Supergirl pilot when it leaked online earlier this year. I wrote about it on the site. If you don’t remember (or don’t want to click on that link to find out), I had pretty...
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TV Review: Lucifer is Like a Supernatural Californication With a Far More...
At first glance, Lucifer doesn’t even seem like an actual TV show. It’s more like a parody of a police procedural. The premise? Tired of the tedium of hell, the devil relocates to Los Angeles to run a...
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5 Takeaways from the Justice League Set Reports
Uproxx, io9 and various other publications visited Justice League‘s London set last week, and here are 5 key takeaways I took from reading their reports: 1. They Might As Well Call It Justice League:...
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Making Lower-Budget Standalone DC Movies? Good Idea. Making The First One a...
Here’s the (maybe) good news: Warner Bros. is planning a separate batch of lower-budget, standalone DC movies. Here’s the (definitely) bad news: The first one of these might be a Joker origin story...
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Reminder: Titans & Young Justice Will Also Be Used to Launch a Streaming Service
This is how TV is in 2017: The networks hate airing shows they don’t actually own. They’re all terrified of Netflix. And they all want to have their own subscription streaming service (eventually)....
View ArticleJustice League Trailer Reaction: Where Do We Stand Now – Excited?...
Justice League is a contractual obligation film. It’s a project which was entered into under the assumption that Batman v Superman (and, to a lesser degree, Suicide Squad) would neither suck nor dampen...
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TV Review: With Black Lightning, The CW Has Finally Met Marvel’s Challenge to...
Black Lightning feels like what would happen if someone crossed Morgan Freeman from Lean on Me with Mike Colter’s Luke Cage and then fine-tuned it for the Trump age. It’d be a surprising, but welcome...
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SyFy Review: Krypton Plays a Lot Better If You’ve Never Seen Smallville. Or...
I…can’t. I just can’t with Krypton right now. It’s a comic book show. It airs on SyFy after The Magicians, a show I adore. It features DC characters like Adam Strange and Brainiac and dares to ponder...
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Will You Subscribe to DC Universe?
Every nerd reaches that point where they’re told they need to sell their comic book collection, grow up, be an adult – all of that stuff Shannen Doherty was yelling at Jason Lee about at the start of...
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An Update on Swamp Thing
Oh, poor DC Universe, you remain a mystery even to yourself. To reset the table for you: Swamp Thing, DC’s third live-action original for its still very young streaming service, was canceled less than...
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Harley Quinn: Watchable, But Not Worth the DC Universe Subscription
When WB hired a couple of sitcom writers with no background in animation and limited experience with comic book adaptations to create an animated Harley Quinn series for DC Universe, I had my...
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