Sentences with phrase «while superhero books»

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While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

While they also respond to books and DVDs aimed at both genders, boys especially love items geared toward them, such as The Potty Movie for Boys and Potty Superhero.

The new Black Panther comic book series at Marvel, featuring Ta - Nehisi Coates as the writer and Brian Stelfreeze as the illustrator, will be the first time in a little while that a high - profile character will be penned by two creators of color — and it's Black Panther, one of the first black superhero characters ever.

While much of the Marvel superhero comic - book world came cooked up in Cold War atomic radiation, 1963 - born Doctor Strange seemingly came baked in LSD.

The director of the Captain Marvel movie has a big responsibility: they have to introduce a character who isn't particularly well known outside of comic book shops to a wide audience while also shouldering the burden of making the first solo female superhero movie set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

With Martin Campbell's Green Lantern we are given a film that feels like a cheap carbon copy of superhero films of the yesteryear; offering elements of comic books movies we have all witnessed before while at the same time lacking in any form of originality.

While some critics might be a bit miffed by «comic book movies» and in their criticism, the MCU movies have found their «golden ticket» formula of success with public (i.e a mixture of heart, humor, and blockbuster superhero nuances), raking in millions upon millions at the worldwide box office with each new release.

Black Panther (1966)-- While Black Panther is predated by the black characters of All Negro Comics (1947), Waku, Prince of the Bantu (Jungle Tales, 1954), Lobo (Dell Comics, 1965), and even Gabriel Jones of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (1963), he is the first black superhero in comic books.

The previous films in the DC Comics Extended Universe series (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad) have left both critics and comic - book fans increasingly disappointed in the franchise's output; as a result, Wonder Woman, which is receiving its release ahead of the first Justice League movie (set to premiere this November), has been saddled with the burden of recovering DC's tainted reputation in the eyes of viewers, while also representing the first major female - fronted superhero flick in more than a decade.

While I love a good comic - book or superhero movie as much as the next, I wouldn't consider myself a so - called «geek» when it comes...

The 26 - year - old helmer was the man behind «Chronicle,» which made back its $ 12 million budget ten times over on release in February, and since then he's been lining up all kinds of projects; while he won't direct any «Chronicle» sequel, he is attached to a film version of Soviet - themed comic book «The Red Star, «and is developing not one, but two major superhero franchises, in Sony's «Venom «and Fox «s «Fantastic Four.»

While there will of course always be an audience for PG - 13 comic book movies, the market has become saturated in superhero media.

This picture book by the dynamic author - illustrator of the Olympians graphic - novel series uses a comic - book aesthetic to tell the story of a boy and a girl who, while playing superheroes around the house, learn a huge lesson about telling the truth.

One of the reasons Faerber's recent work is so good is because while he puts in some wacky elements, you always get the sense that if superheroes exist, their lives would be like the heroes in Faerber's books rather than in the comics from the Big Two.

Everybody likes superheroes, and while there's lots of fun to be had when reading about them in comic books and watching them on the big screen, sometimes the best way to experience their... Continue reading →