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By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)I was one of the very few people who was really excited to see Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. It looked like it could have been a very interesting take on the material… but then, I actually saw it.As truly awful as it was, you couldn’t help but see some places … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)If you’ve ever been to a comic convention in the 1990s, then you probably remember coming across that one booth where some shady guy was selling a bootleg copy of what he said was a long lost Fantastic Four film. I bought one of those and after watching it I … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)Fox’s development on Gambit has been pretty stop and go since Channing Tatum was hired to play the Ragin’ Cajun. Everything from directorial changes, to release schedule delays, to even Tatum almost dropping out have occurred.While no new release date has been … [Read more…]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS)Twentieth Century Fox has reportedly “talked” with Marvel Studios about a potential superhero crossover movie, according to a new rumor.Fox currently owns the cinematic rights to Marvel comic book properties X-Men and Fantastic Four – the latter of which … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)Remember the worst superhero movie of 2015? Probably not, since most people didn’t bother to show up to watch Fantastic Four. Oh, how I envy thee.The film did terribly at the box office, and despite the poor reviews Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice has (27% … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)While everyone is tweeting about Leonardo DiCaprio’s first Oscar win, a far more important list of award winners was announced: The 36th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards (aka, The Razzies). For those of you who aren’t really familiar with the Razzies, it is an … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)The Fantastic Four have been having a terrible time in the last year or so, and it isn’t shaking out to be any better in 2016.If you have been paying attention to the Marvel comics stories as of late, then you know the comic publisher has just reset their … [Read more…]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS)While the Academy Award nominations offers up only a few surprises each year – its mischievous counterpart the Golden Raspberry awards, aka the Razzies, is equally predictable.Yes the nominations are out for the worst films of the past 12 months and stalwarts to … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)Recently, I covered the best films I’ve seen all year — and I watch a lot of movies. The downside about watching so many is that the probability of seeing a terrible one increases. Every time I see an awful film, I always hope I’m doing a service in that I’ll … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)In a move that surprises absolutely no one, 20th Century Fox has quietly changed the release date of Fantastic Four 2 from July 9, 2017 to possibly never. While Fox said they were still committed to making the sequel, after critical and box office disaster of the … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)With a title like Apocalypse you would think the next X-Men film could be the last. Of course, it’s set in the early 80s, and the upcoming films like Gambit, Deadpool, and Wolverine 3 are set in the present or the near future, so the world probably doesn’t come to … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)I was just sitting here thinking about Fox and how they’ve handled their Marvel movie properties. The Fantastic Four reboot was a disaster, they categorically rejected Deadpool for years until the fans forced the issue, and the pre-production issues on Gambit all … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)Lots of X-Men news this week! First we received confirmation of not one but two X-Men television series, Hellfire and Legion, and now we’ve gotten word that 20th Century Fox and Channing Tatum is courting Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman for Gambit. Deadline … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)Back in 2012 when Josh Trank was hired to direct the Fantastic Four reboot for Fox, he had been hired along with screenwriter Jeremy Slater to pen the story. In 2014, producer Simon Kinberg delivered a rewrite of that screenplay, which is what eventually ended up … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)Rarely does a film spectacularly fail on so many levels quite like the Fantastic Four has. It’s been battered by critics, which Rotten Tomatoes aggregates to a 9% “rotten,” and has made a paltry $26.2 million at the box-office. To put that in context, it is the … [Read more…]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)20th Century Fox’s X-Men films were one of the earliest successful comic book films that ushered in the current phenomenon, and the studio has been turning out one mutant film after another for the past decade and a half. One thing that many people have been … [Read more…]
