Discussing the right actors to play popular comic book characters is enough to get any comic book geek fired up in opinion. There is always regular debate over who plays the better Superman or Batman or Spider-Man (in my opinion, I’m still waiting for the right one) or even Hulk (it’s Eric Bana – just kidding). One comic book movie …
Welcome to our Weekly Round-Up for the The Extras! A collection of the 15 most popular movie related clips, posters, pics and just plain cool stuff posted on our Twitter profile and Facebook page using the hashtag #TheMoviesExtras in the last week. Remember, these are only the contributions that received the most likes and views since last Thursday, so if …
Besides for Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark/Iron Man, I can’t think of another actor in Hollywood who so completely embraced his role and made it his own as much as Hugh Jackman has with X-Men‘s Wolverine. The Aussie actor simply is the clawed mutant. But as impossible as it may seem, those claws are about to be hung up. The …
I don’t know if you recall, but back in 2013, Fox tapped comic-book scribe superstar Mark Millar to be their creative consultant in helping them build a cohesive shared universe of all their Marvel comic book properties. Except, he was then barely ever heard from again. But when it was announced that Chronicle director Josh Trank would be helming a …
Besides for that fanboy-tastic Batman v Superman trailer, the other big franchise trailer that saw heroes facing off against each other and totally brought the house down in Comic-Con’s Hall H was Fox’s footage for X-Men: Apocalypse. It technically wasn’t an actual trailer, but merely a collection of scenes they’ve already shot in the movie’s current 5-weeks of shooting, which …
First came the Marvel Cinematic Universe, now we might be getting a Fox Cinematic Universe as well. With the massive success that Bryan Singer has had with his X-Men movies, rumour has it that 20th Century Fox want to hand him their reins and, alongside producer Simon Kinberg, have him usher in their own shared cinematic universe in an attempt …
The X-Men franchise has been a series that truly has understood the idea of evolution. It’s a theory that has allowed the films to be massively successful, while remaining mostly fresh. The original films made the superhero genre a blockbuster concept, the solo films were spin-off licenses to print money and the current First Class and Days of Future Past movies were …
It’s been a massive journey for the X-Men franchise as of late. Kicked off in 2000 with the first film, the franchise would grow to include more sequels, Wolverine spin-offs and pseudo reboots in the years to come since then. But it looks like the times are changing for the children of the Atom, as the era that Bryan Singer …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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