It’s going to be easy for people to cry recency bias the moment I say this, so let’s just get it said and take the hit: Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the greatest film we’ve ever gotten centered on this character. I have slept on that sentence for a full week before writing it here […]
Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO, stood on a stage at Last April’s Time100 Summit and told the assembled room that the movie theater model was, in his own words, “outdated.” Most Americans, he explained, can’t even walk to a multiplex. They’d rather watch at home, “thank you.” He allowed, generously, that theaters could still be admired
Spider-Man: Brand New Day could make over $800 million on Opening Weekend Globally. Friday Update: Sony and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now tracking toward an all-time record opening day, previews included, somewhere between $167 million and $173 million, comfortably clearing Avengers: Endgame’s previous first-day-and-previews record of $157.4 million. For comparison, that’s also
There is a moment, deep in the murk of Supergirl‘s climax, where the screen turns the exact color of a phone left face-down on wet concrete mixed with shades of a CGI Sahara Desert. A few aliens brawl. Something explodes that was probably a spaceship. A bafflingly melodramatic cover of Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle”
Well, how could this be? I was told that The Odyssey is going to flop because YouTube dislikes are the most accurate representation of the opinions of moviegoers around the world. As you read this article, somewhere, a man in his thirties is typing the words, “This is what the fall of the West actually
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Watch our new $400 million movie, filmed entirely on a soundstage in London, on Dolby, umm, sorry, Infinity Vision. Give us your money. Give us more of it. Watch it in “Infinity Vision,” whatever that means, five months before a single finished frame exists to justify anything but. There’s a particular kind of corporate nakedness
Well, how could this be? I was told that The Odyssey is going to flop because YouTube dislikes are the most accurate representation of the opinions of moviegoers around the world. As you read this article, somewhere, a man in his thirties is typing the words, “This is what the fall of the West actually
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1,687 days is a long time for fans to go without a live-action Spider-Man movie. In fact, it is the second-longest gap between live-action Spider-Man films, after the 1,887-day gap between Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man, which marked the end of Maguire’s franchise and the start of Garfield’s Amazing Spider-Man duology. Judging by the
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