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via Warner Bros. For all of his influence on an entire genre of cinema, Shane Black hasn’t half had a run of rotten luck at the box office, with The Nice Guys not even the first one of his acclaimed efforts to bomb at the box office. Making his name for reinventing the face of action cinema as the writer behind Lethal Weapon, virtually everything he’s touched ever since with the exception of Iron Man 3 has gone down in a ball of commercial flames, regardless of how good it turned out to be. Sure, The Predator…

via Sony On paper, a high concept sci-fi action thriller produced by Sam Raimi that was written and directed by the creators of A Quiet Place and starred Adam Driver in the lead role was an unmissable opportunity for a genre-bending rump destined to find cult classic status, or at the very least become a midnight madness favorite. Sadly, 65 was nothing but a chore to sit through. “Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs” is all anyone needed to be sold on the project, and even though it does live up to those…

via Sony As the sequel to not just one of the best animated movies of the last decade, but arguably one of cinema’s finest comic book adaptations ever, there’s a whole heap of pressure and expectation on next year’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It doesn’t help that the anticipation has been rising for what feels like forever after the second installment was pushed back from its original April 2022 theatrical release to October, before being kicked all the way to June 2023 as the pandemic-induced domino…

Marvel fans may have been disappointed with the D23 Expo, but the resulting memes have been glorious. That sad, weeping sound you heard last night? No, that wasn’t the overworked and underappreciated Marvel Studios VFX department. Rather, it was the combined sound of all the fans who were waiting on some major D23 news. Unfortunately, Kevin Feige shot his biggest guns at San Diego Comic-Con, and we’re still reeling from those announcements. That set the bar quite high for D23, and fans could not hold back their…