Sentences with phrase «other superhero properties»

The CW series offers something few other superhero properties do: meaningful relationships between women.

Not exact matches

The «Batman» television show (1966 - 1968) cast a long, pop art - infused, camp shadow over the property and, after the big budget failures of a series of superhero films in the 1980s (some more campy than others) such as Howard the Duck (1986), WB apparently had cold feet.

Marvel and Fox have been rumoured having a feud over the «X-Men» properties and other superhero characters.

It took the clever nods to other properties in the first Deadpool movie and took those nods and turned them into blatant references, especially in the outrageous mid-credits sequence where the film re-visited Ryan Reynolds» ill - fated superhero movie past — you got lucky that they had bigger fish to fry, Blade: Trinity!

Joss Whedon showed what can happen when an insanely passionate filmmaker / creative mind takes control of a superhero property earlier this year with The Avengers, and Marvel smartly locked him down to consult on the studio's other films through at least 2015.

«X-Men,» more than any other film, is responsible for the glut of superhero movies we now have — the film was the first in a long time to treat the source material with respect (after the 90s «Batman» movies and things like «The Phantom,» this proved important), and showed that they could work without A-list stars, with the property doing the heavy lifting.

WHY: In a summer filled with superheroes, sequels and other movies based on preexisting properties, it's nice to see an original film like «The Shallows» come along to prove that bigger isn't always better.

While Marvel and DC continue to focus on legacy properties that cater to a fairly narrow range of genre fans and are produced by artists who don't own the characters they work on, Image has gone in a different direction with an array of creator - owned comics that include superhero, science fiction, and other types of stories.