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The walls separating Hollywood’s superhero universes aren’t as sturdy as they once seemed. On Tuesday night, for example, the Flash from television primetime (portrayed by Grant Gustin) ran into the Flash from feature films (portrayed by Ez…
Some Super-vision clearly will be required for Arrowverse fans when they watch the CW’s upcoming “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover event, which promises to be the largest assemblage of superheroes in a live-action epic in TV history. That team-up will include no fewer than three once and future Superman actors…
Brandon Routh is suited up for action as Superman in this first-look photo from The CW. The actor who starred in Superman Returns (2006) is back in the cape again to portray a greying-at-the-temples version of the Man of Steel for The CW’s upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earth crossover event.
The stylized logo emblazoned…
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Frank Miller delivered a milestone masterpiece in the 1980s when he took Gotham City’s caped crusader back to his beginnings with Batman: Year One. Now, the restless creative mind behind The Dark Knight Returns, 300, Sin City, Ronin, Elektra: Assassin, and Give Me Liberty is taking the Man of Steel back to his…
It’s hard to think that any superhero film could qualify as a Hollywood rarity these days but Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is just that. As an animated big-screen adaptation of a comic book superhero the Sony film is on a surprisingly short list.
On Thursday the film’s three directors — Bob Persichetti, Peter Rams…
Adi Shankar, the producer of Netflix's Castlevania, says his upcoming project Superman Vs. the Ku Klux Klan has been indirectly energized by Bill Maher’s put-downs of comic book culture and comments about the late Stan Lee.
Shankar said the firebrand comedian’s appraisal of comic book culture as an example of “using…
Armed with his MAGA hat, Kanye West took over the Oval Office this afternoon, declaring President Donald Trump to be the father he never had, who makes him feel like Superman.
“My dad and mom separated, so I did not have lot of male energy in my home,” the husband of Kim Kardashian told Trump, who looked like a…
Henry Cavill has weighed in on the Superman situation, sort of, with a cryptic Instagram post. This follows word he will not be reprising his role in the DC Universe, and a subsequent statement from Warner Bros on Wednesday that said it has “made no current decisions regarding any upcoming Superman films.”
Evidently…
UPDATED WITH WARNER BROS. STATEMENT After 7:19AM post This has been in the wind for some time, but Henry Cavill will not be reprising his role as Superman in Warner Bros.’ DC films as others from Justice League such as Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa move forward on their respective superhero features Wonder Woman 1984 and A…
Yvonne Blake, the costume designer behind films including 1978's Superman and 1973's Jesus Christ Superstar, has died aged 78.
Blake, the British-born Spanish designer, died after suffering a stroke earlier this year, according to The Spanish Film Academy, where she was previously President.
Blake was elected…
Richard Alan Greenberg, an Oscar-nominated title designer and motion-graphics pioneer, died June 16 in New York City. He was 71.
Greenberg scored his Oscar nom for Best Visual Effects on the 1987 Anrold Schwarzenegger thriller Predator. Among his many other notable opening-sequence credits areSuperman, Alien, Dirty…
