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Dear readers, it’s time to get serious about the upcoming 2024 movies, as the new year is about to become our current reality. Concerns like running times and release windows for forthcoming release are about to be hotly discussed, and that first category recently came up in connection to Civil War. A rather juicy rumor about the length of writer/director Alex Garland’s latest film arose and was quickly debunked. It was suggested that a pretty long running time would be in play for the upcoming A24 film. While I’m glad…

via Warner Bros. One of the biggest early casualties of James Gunn’s DCU was Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3, which admittedly wasn’t the co-CEO’s doing, but the ball nonetheless remains in his court when it comes to picking up the pieces. The third installment in the franchise was initially placed on the fast-track to development shortly after the release of sequel 1984, which seemed strange at the time given the wildly divisive responses to Diana Prince’s second solo outing. However, after falling…

Germain’s copy of The Nightmare Before Christmas, to prove the point.Photo: io9If you have one, go grab your copy of The Nightmare Before Christmas. No, it’s okay, we’ll wait. *Whistles a tune.* Back? Okay, look at the cover and tell us who directed the film. More than likely it says Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, right? Surely, Burton—the man behind Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and more—crafted this stop-motion Disney masterpiece. Only, he didn’t. The Nightmare Before Christmas was directed by…