Irrelevant But Awesome

We live in interesting times. Justice League grossed 96 million dollars in its opening weekend, yet all of the box office analysis of this past weekend are talking about it like Justice League is a disaster financially. How can this be? In what world can 96 million dollars be considered a flop. Sure maybe it performed below expectations or desires, but a disaster? A flop? How is that possible? So, it’s worth it to take a little bit of time and break down the box office results of Justice League this past weekend, to see exactly where it sits. (Note: nothing in this article is meant to be a review or commentary on the actual quality of the movie itself. Just a look at the business side of the movie) First of all, we need to take a look at the budget of Justice League . Justice League reportedly had an estimated budget of $300 million. And keep in mind that this is just the production cost. If you want to include the advertising budget, distribution cost, etc., traditional rul...

With Comic-Con 2015 feeling a good bit like Celebration Part II this year, lets not forget that there are still other announcements being made. WB's biggest ace up their sleeve this year is an extended trailer for their new Batman v Superman movie that comes out next year. Check it out below. I will say, as mixed emotions as I feel about this movie, That shot of Superman pulling apart the Batmobile and then Batman standing up to face him, that was a pretty cool moment. What I really want to know, is what exact timeline are we working with here. Ben Affleck is the oldest person to ever play Batman, and it doesn't look like the movie is trying to shy away from that, with the gray just starting to seep into his hair. So has he been Batman before in this universe? Is Superman arriving what gets him out of retirement? It kind of looks like that with him getting out the old batsuit and turning back on the signal. But then again, for all we know, at least according to the...

I'm going to try very hard not to bash on DC or Warner Bros here. It will be tricky but at the end of the day, I'm hoping that Batman v Superman is fantastic. I hope that Wonder Woman comes out and is a great movie about the character in her own right. I hope that this is all leading up to a Justice League movie in a few years that will blow everyone's socks off and easily compete with Marvel as a truly great super hero team up film. This is what I genuinely and truly want to have happen, as I'm sure you do as well. But it's getting harder and harder to thing that might ever come true. Ok, we know that right now DC is trying to play catch up to Marvel. Marvel is releasing their second Avenger Movie this week, the tenth movie total in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while DC still won't have two characters meet on screen till March of next year. Now DC has been trying to catch up on this Multi-film universe trend for a while now. Even before the first Avengers m...

It wasn't just Star Wars. I  mean yes, It pretty obvious that in the world of movie trailers, the second teaser for The Force Awakes was clearly the biggest thing to happen in the past week, but in all the excitement of watching, and re-watching, and re-watching the Star Wars trailer, we haven't mentioned any of the other trailers that were released this past week. So as a quick roundup, here are three other trailers for big blockbuster movies that have recently come out. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice  Jurassic World Fantastic Four All in all, I have to say it's been a pretty good week.

From artist  DenisM79  comes a handful of concept drawings imagining the main members of the Justice League if they had lived in the wild west. Impressive art below.

Yesterday was the birthday of a great man. An amazing man. A man who contributed more to your movie going experience than you will probably ever know. This Man. John Williams, who turned 80 this year is responsible for seemingly almost every iconic film score. Anything theme you can hum just from hearing the title of the movie is most likely composed by Williams from Star Wars, to Indiana Jones, to Harry Potter to Jaws. It helps that Williams has had a long time working relationship with Steven Spielberg, having composed music for all but two of his projects. So even some of the less iconic Spielberg movies, Hook, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, aslo have Original scores by Williams. But it's these "lesser known" works that I want to touch on for a minutes. After all Williams has been nominated for an Oscar 47 times (winning five of them) which is second only to Walt Disney who holds the record at 59. (Ironically, thats the same number of times Williams has been nomina...

I don't know how many people out there know about Superman Lives. It's not exactly the best kept secret of the industry but it's not as if the average guy on the street would know what you were talking about if you brought it up. After all we are talking about a movie that never ended up being made. So first a quick recap. Superman Lives was actually one of several "5th Superman" movies that got started and stalled in between Superman IV The Quest for Peace in 1987 and Superman Returns in 2006. After Quest came out to less than stellar success it killed off the current plans for the next Superman chapter. Other stalled projects include Superman Reborn which would have told the " Death of Superman " story from the comics. As well as Superman:Flyby and a rumored Superman vs. Batman movie that were both in pre-production in the early 2000s. Each of these movies has a crazy story behind it and makes for a fascinating look at what could have been but r...