Author: Jesse Borough

In a bit of strange news, a TV show adaptation of the classic 70’s movie The Exorcist has been ordered for a pilot by Fox. Well, the pilot will actually be based on the 1971 novel that the movie was made from, but the movie obviously remains one of the most culturally-significant movies in American cinema. The pilot was written by Jeremy Slater, who wrote the 2015 Fantastic Four (though he says that his work was mostly written-over in subsequent rewrites), and executive produced by Slater as well as James Robinson, David Robinson and Barbara Wall. The series is supposed…

McG, director of movies like Charlie’s Angels and Terminator Salvation, might actually be bringing us a Masters of the Universe movie. So far, the only Masters of the Universe movie we have ever gotten is the Canon Films 80s adaptation that was critically-panned (though it indirectly led to the creation of the hilariously dreadful movie Cyborg). There have been various attempts over the past 25 or 30 years to make another one that lives up to the popularity of the He-Man franchise, but they have all burned out or stalled. Now that He-Man has faded into nostalgia territory, though, movie…

Everyone freaked out earlier this week when Star Wars Episode VIII was delayed and put into December 2017, which meant that it was going to go head-to-head with both Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One and the mega-behemoth that is Avatar 2. But as we have learned now, Avatar 2 has moved away from December 2017, facing what seems to be yet another delay. Avatar 2, the first movie in a three-movie saga all shot back-to-back, was originally supposed to release December 2015. Due to production delays, it was pushed back by two years to 2017. Now it’s even further back.…

  Though the Thunderbolts team has undergone many radical changes over the years and is most well-known now for being a Suicide Squad-esque team of villains that were forced to do dirty work by Norman Osborn in the post-Civil War era of Marvel Comics, they were originally a much different team. Without getting into the complicated comic book continuity, the Avengers were thought to be dead, so a new team, the Thunderbolts, emerged as the world’s protectors… but were then revealed to actually be the Masters of Evil in disguise. And that’s what makes this latest tease so exciting.…

In a revelation that is a surprise to few, it turns out that The Force Awakens far surpassed The Phantom Menace for use of CGI. It turns out that there are over 2100 VFX shots in the movie, which is 200 more than The Phantom Menace had, and it had a fully-CGI battle between Droids and Gungans in the climax. The Phantom Menace also used heavy miniature work, while The Force Awakens used no miniatures at all, surprisingly. The best part about this is that The Force Awakens was able to make the movie SEEM like it had less CGI…

So if you’ve read the news, there’s going to be a new Thunderbolts team premiering in the comics soon. And unlike most recent incarnations of the Thunderbolts as government agents or rogue anti-heroes, this new comic seems to be harkening back to the original version, wherein the Thunderbolts were a group of disguised heroes. Which leads me to the big speculation: Is Marvel using this Avengers: Standoff event to build up to an appearance by the Thunderbolts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Will there be a Thunderbolts movie? This sounds like crazy, unevidenced speculation. And it is. But hear me…

In a move of JJ Abrams-level deception, it’s rumored that Civil War shot multiple death scenes in order to throw off leaks as to which character (or characters) will die in the movie. While this is obviously just a rumor, you can’t take anything for granted, so here’s the obligatory SPOILER WARNING. There. We are in the spoiler zone now. There was a death scene that is reportedly for Peggy Carter shot earlier this year, but there are also conflicting reports about other scenes. From what the rumor is saying, there were apparently four death scenes, including for Captain…

We reported earlier that Jessica Jones had ratings of just under 5 million viewers in the 18-49 demographic, according to a sample collected by NBC. Turns out that was wrong, maybe. Netflix has come out against NBC’s numbers, saying that they are completely inaccurate. Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer at Netflix, seemed to be throwing quite the sarcasm towards NBC as he commented on the claims. “There’s a couple mysteries at play for me. Why would NBC use their lunch slot to talk about our ratings? Maybe because it’s more fun than talking about NBC ratings.” He then went…

In 2009, when Marvel was bought by Disney, people on the internet freaked out at the horrifying possibilities. They were worried that Marvel would be kiddified or turned into another brand to be locked inside the Disney Vault, to be relegated to a world in the next Kingdom Hearts. But by the time Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, people on the internet cheered. In 2016, now that we’ve seen the result of Disney’s treatment of the property, people on the internet are more excited than ever. Now, people on the internet are able to dream up scenarios that people never…

Mad Max: Fury Road dominated at the Critics’ Choice Awards. Is this a predictor of Oscar success? The cast and crew of the acclaimed post-apocalyptic action movie took home 9 awards at the Critics’ Choice Awards last weekend out of 54 total awards. This event is special in that it has several genre-specific awards, but that only helped the movie look even better. Out of the big awards, Fury Road won Best Director for George Miller. It also won Best Production Design and Film Editing. For more technical awards, it won Best Costume Design and Best Visual Effects. For the…