Sentences with phrase «studio superhero movies»

Until then, anyone can only speculate as to what the future looks like for studio superhero movies.

The fun here is in the little moments the actors find, and in the way that Waititi, within the massive machine that is a studio superhero movie, brings out a looseness and playfulness in the performances.

Not exact matches

Time Warner's (twx) Warner Bros. has a full slate of superhero titles (Wonder Woman, Justice League, and The LEGO Batman Movie), and the studio is already seeing a lot of buzz around Blade Runner 2049, its long - awaited sequel to the beloved 1980s sci - fi mMovie), and the studio is already seeing a lot of buzz around Blade Runner 2049, its long - awaited sequel to the beloved 1980s sci - fi moviemovie.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

With major studios pumping more and more money into superhero movies and tentpole franchises with sky - high budgets, any relatively low - cost opportunity to attract a millennial audience is worth exploring.

But now, director James Gunn — the filmmaker behind the $ 770 million hit Guardians of the Galaxy — has a message for studios looking to replicate Deadpool's success: Don't make all superhero movies raunchy, R - rated, wise - cracking rip - offs:

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles...

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

During the past year, several of the studios releasing superhero movies have upped their game, moving into new territory without tossing aside the tropes that differentiate comic book - inspired fare from its traditional action / adventure cousin.

Sure, you don't want the studios to cut corners to the point where movies start looking cheap and silly — a big reason why superheroes and aliens have been making such a huge impact on movie screens in recent years is that we can finally make them look cool instead of tacky.

Since it was Comic Con weekend the studios were working hard to inundate fans with new superhero footage and the second Wonder Woman trailer is here... which has some color to it but a lot of blue grays since that's how DC (and action movies) likes to play it these days.

His previous films alternate between Spanish - language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), winner of three Academy Awards; and American studio movies, such as the vampire superhero action pic Blade II (2002), the supernatural adventures Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); and the sci - fi monsters - versus - robots film Pacific Rim (2013).

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

Marvel's ambitious plan for new superhero movies extends all the way until 2028, according to a new profile of the Disney - owned studio's president, Kevin Feige.

The big studios have abdicated power by focusing solely on superhero movies.

Final Verdict: Bryan Singer might have Marvel studios to compete with, but if he keeps bringing out movies like this, then he will have no problem staying ahead of the superhero game.

I understand that a lot of fanboys have visions of Spidey web - slinging alongside Captain America and the Hulk and Iron Man dancing through their heads, and that they're rooting for Sony's Spidey reboot to fail because they have some misguided notion that if the franchise flops, the studio will surrender the movie rights to Spider - Man back to Disney and Marvel Studios, considering their whole superhero thing a failed experiment.

Within their brief bit of information on the superhero ensemble movie, they included one cast member who hadn't yet been confirmed by the studio, and one that we hadn't heard of at all yet.

At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.

There's a reason for that, as the ever more risk - averse studios have retreated into formulaic action movies and by - the - numbers superhero franchises, of which there are now a dizzying amount.

As Kimmel, celebrating the success of Black Panther as both a cultural and commercial enterprise, noted on the Oscars stage, «I remember a time when the major studios didn't believe a woman or a minority could open a superhero movie.

«I remember a time when the major studios didn't believe that a woman or a minority could open a superhero movie.

Back in February, 20th Century Fox pushed Gambit out of its October 7, 2016 release date, although the studio didn't issue a specific new date for the superhero movie.

You can tell that the studio intervened here, in an attempt to turn the film into a generic superhero movie at the last minute.

«I remember a time when the major studios didn't believe a woman or a minority could open a superhero movie - and the reason I remember that time is because it was March of last year.»

While I think he stumbled a bit with this movie since it's a much bigger movie and the studios breathing down his neck, but at least he brought a brand new superhero in style.

films to get there, but in 2019 we will finally see a female - fronted superhero pic from the foremost superhero movie studio around.

It is long overdue, and while Marvel has given us some memorable female characters along the way — notably Peggy Carter and Black Widow, mostly thanks to Joss Whedon — it's about time the studio dove headfirst in an honest - to - goodness female - led superhero movie.

Applauding the recent box office success of Wonder Woman and Black Panther, the host joked: «I remember a time when the major studios didn't believe a woman or a minority could open a superhero movie and the reason I remember that time is because it was March of last year.»

That would be Captain Marvel, which will mark the studio's first female - driven superhero movie.

Most superhero movie soundtracks are cobbled together with tired old hits and studio scraps.

What do you do when the studio demands you take a break between the shooting and the editing of a huge superhero franchise movie?

You can't have expectations with projects sometimes unless you're doing some gigantic superhero studio movie and you know is definitely coming out.

When studios like Disney / Marvel and Warners are asked why they so seldom attempt to make female superhero movies, they invariably shrug their shoulders and point to the marketplace.

A superhero movie conceived outside the studio system for just $ 30 million.

Now the studio is starting to address the lack of superhero films with leads who are not white men, including upcoming projects such as «Captain Marvel,» starring Brie Larson, and a Black Widow movie with Scarlett Johansson that is in development.

Director Edgar Wright has stepped away from the superhero movie Ant - Man, citing differences in the vision of the movie with Marvel, the studio producing the film.

However, Talalay has confirmed to Vice that she was never in talks with the studio for that project, but would certainly be keen to tackle a superhero movie — and in particular, one revolving around Jennifer Walters, a.k.a. She - Hulk.

However, the studio plans on exploring the cosmic side of the shared universe following the close - out of Anthony and Joe Russo's Avengers 4, and they may first want to see how Ryan Coogler's Black Panther - the studio's first black superhero movie as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe - performs before committing to another black superhero flick.

The idea is that box office success for a movie centered on a nonwhite superhero and cast could inspire Marvel to produce and create more movies like Black Panther in the future (the studio's previous 17 films have all featured white men as the superhero leads).

But what truly sets Black Panther apart is that it envisions something no superhero movie — no major studio blockbuster of any kind, really — has ever even come close to contemplating: The complex intersection of black joy and black liberation.

After nearly 11 years of studio hesitation and apparently enough sexual favors for Wolverine, Deadpool finally has his own superhero movie (something that star Ryan Reynolds has fought long and hard (see, I can make sexual innuendos too and use parentheses inside of parentheses) for to see come to fruition), and with opening credits featuring billings such as «some really hot guy» and «an overpaid tool» the tone is set for an irreverent and refreshing outing from a genre slowly entering a phase of stagnation and repetitiveness.

It doesn't matter who the on - screen villain is, studio execs are the film's real target, which makes it an experience custom built for comic book obsessives and superhero movie junkies.

If it's true that the movie - going public is growing tried of superheroes, the studios aren't listening.

Illustrating that the word «problem» is a relative one, while one major movie studio continues to search for the voice of its shared superhero universe and deliver its first unqualified critical and commercial hit, another's biggest hurdle is continually living to an insane level of expectations its unprecedented string of hits has built up.

Once the studio comes up with an absurd way to revive all of its newer superheroes, the older ones will retire and the MCU will continue making successful movies for the rest of eternity, while the film industry smolders around it.

Long - delayed plans for a female - led Marvel superhero movie following Wonder Woman's triumph should deliver one of the studio's biggest hitters

Black Panther review: Ryan Coogler kicks off Marvel's 2018 with one of the most anticipated movies in the studio's epic series of superhero films.

Now, with the film (and its cliffhanger conclusion) debuting to surely gargantuan numbers, it's clear that Marvel's perpetual - motion machine couldn't even get that right, and the only real infinite war is the one the studio is waging against a superhero - free night at the movies.

«Panther» marks the first time that a major studio has greenlit a black superhero movie with an African - American director and a primarily black cast, including Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong» o, Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright as Shuri, the princess of the fictional African country Wakanda.