Sentences with phrase «early movie comics»

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After being spoiled by $ 100 - million epics from the MCU, it's easy to get hung up on the primitive special effects, but the early Superman movies capture what we love about comics: heroism, hope and fun.

As a teen comics fan in the early Eighties, I remember all the talk about a new Batman movie, so I really like the parts about the flick's long development; it's cool to know what was going on behind the scenes while we geeks waited anxiously.

He studied art and cinema as a young adult, often spending a considerable amount of time on his father's movie sets, and honed his skills in his early twenties not in the arena of directing (as might be expected), but in that of painting.Danny Huston's directorial assignments began inconspicuously, at the age of 24, with the 1987 made - for - television comic fantasies Bigfoot and Mr. Corbett's Ghost (the second of which featured John Huston in the cast).

Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp...

(The name is a tip of Lee's cap to Mantan Moreland, a talented African - American comic of the early sound era best known for his popeyed performances as a terrified «darkie» in numerous Charlie Chan movies.)

Andrew Garfield showed up in costume at Comic - Con — click here if you missed Sarah's recap earlier today — and then flew straight to the South of France to see his girlfriend Emma Stone where she's working on Woody Allen's new movie with Colin Firth.

Spider - Man is a fun movie, much in the spirit of the comic book's early days, that amazingly is able to give Spider - Man's origin, as well as that of the Green Goblin, while also introducing many characters like J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, and Harry Osborn, enough to seem familiar, and then set up the exciting showdown all in the span of a modest two hours.

A surprise late - film cameo from a member of the usual gang (hint: not Ben Stiller, but the other one) livens things up a little, but it also raises a troubling question: Vaughn, Wilson, and their pals have emerged in the past few years as the most reliable big - budget comic collective since the first batch of Saturday Night Live vets started making movies in the late»70s and early»80s.

The first Venom trailer, which premiered earlier this year, didn't really impress me, mostly because it looked like a retread of about a hundred other comic - book movies of its ilk.

In chronological order, it covers the design and evolution of Batman's vehicle in the DC comic books, the early film serials, the 1960s TV show, the cartoons, and all eight movies, with input from various individuals of importance, including Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, Adam West, the TV Batmobile's customizer George Barris, Tim Burton (in seemingly old footage), Batman historians, crew members, stuntmen, comic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Ducomic books, the early film serials, the 1960s TV show, the cartoons, and all eight movies, with input from various individuals of importance, including Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, Adam West, the TV Batmobile's customizer George Barris, Tim Burton (in seemingly old footage), Batman historians, crew members, stuntmen, comic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Ducomic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff DuComic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Dunham.

The site was started in early 2018, in the dark days before anyone on the Internet had anything to say about comic book movies or pop culture.

Though this is Aniston's movie, Adriana Barraza, so wonderful as Amelia in Alejandro Gonzaléz Iñárritu's «Babel,» in my view the best film of 2006, knocks out the movie's most comic scene as a woman who, like others in her boss's life, wonders why she didn't leave her rich employer months earlier.

He did Dead Again during the early 90s craze for thrillers, and now that it's 2011 comic book movies seem to occupy the same place in Hollywood — everyone watches them.

Cyrus» comic timing and energetic presence not only make her early movies worth watching, but leave you wishing she had better material to work with — which is precisely why she's worked so hard at subverting expectations since 2013.

He's the 44 - year - old London - born writer - director who turned comic - book movies on their head with his Dark Knight trilogy, a brooding take on Batman that retained the cocksure intelligence and visionary edge of his earlier films like Memento and Insomnia.

In Saturday Night Live sketches and early movies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, Sandler certainly has something, but part of what's compelling about him as a comic presence is a kind of goofy, vamping sheepishness about being the center of attention — coupled with a secret desire to hold that attention, hence the stammer - to - roar dynamic of the old «Denise Show» bit on SNL or the righteously ill temper of Happy Gilmore.

«X-Men: First Class» is a prequel to the popular comic book movie series from the early 2000s.

Back in June we brought you some images from the set of Thor: Ragnarok showing early construction of some practical Asgard sets, and now thanks to Comic Book Movie we've got another peek thanks to another batch of photos which indicate that the building work is almost complete; check them out here... SEE ALSO: Thor: Ragnarok Comic - Con footage -LSB-...]

«By far the silliest, most comic book - y of the X-MEN movies, APOCALYPSE is overstuffed with inferior callbacks to Singer's earlier efforts.»

A generous section of full - screen Galleries is divvied up into numerous sub-sections - «Production Stills» (55 pictures); shots of an Old Yeller comic book under «Publishing» (13 stills); «Biographies» (43 frames) for Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Kevin Corcoran, Beverly Washburn, and Chuck Connors (strangely, the remaining cast member, Jeff York — who also played with Parker in the «Davy Crockett» series — is not included); lobby cards, posters, and merchandise in «Advertising» (17 stills); fan letters to Fred Gipson and invitations for early movie screenings found within «Documents» (30 stills).

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Comic - book movies have mostly focused on the superhero world as of late, but in the early 2000s Hollywood was taking bigger chances on darker...

With the release of the movie a few months away (in early November), Comic - Con was their big launching grounds.

There's a new trend emerging in studio comedies where humorous set pieces are treated almost like action sequences in comic book movies — they come early and often and there's never much time to let the characters breath and develop in between the wild hijinks that blow up the big screen.

For what it's worth, I downloaded some comics in around 2002 (because I was curious after seeing the early X-Men and Spider - Man movies) and that's what got me interested in the medium.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes nails that Marvel feel, whether its pulling straight from the comics or making direct references to the 2012 Avengers movie — early on, the movie's ending shawarma scene is brought up in a joking manner.

Sonic will likely never recreate his early 90s success, but if Sega just focuses on putting him in good works — whether they be games, comics, movies, Harlequin novels, whatever — the character will continue on.

12:45 - 1:45 Legendary Pictures: Preproduction Preview — Legendary Pictures holds its first - ever Comic - Con panel and shares an early look at some of the movies on the company's upcoming film slate.

His earliest childhood was marked by his fascination with mass media, from television and movies to magazines and comic books, that continued to influence his art throughout his career.

Even earlier, she began asking garbage trucks and scows to drive in circles, as Work Ballets, like comic echoes of a movie by Jacques Tati.

«In terms of form, I absorb everything I admire,» explains the artist, «from Japanese woodcut prints, to early Manga comics, and concept artwork for science fiction movies.

But searching through the voluminous collection of private artwork — Burton has kept nearly everything he's produced, even from his earliest youth — Magliozzi was reminded more of newspaper comics, sci - fi movies, and bubble - gum cards than of Otto Dix or Hans Bellmer.

Since that early period of their output, their practice has expanded, appropriating themes and visuals from American mass media of the 1950's and 60's — Hollywood movies, advertisements and comic books, to name a few — to address these subjects.

Longo developed an early fascination with all forms of mass media; especially movies, television, magazines, and comic books.

We got our first look at Steven Spielberg's next big science fiction movie Ready Player One at San Diego Comic - Con earlier this year, and today, Warner Bros. released a new trailer on Facebook Live, with author Ernie Cline answering questions about the origins of the story.