Yesterday, Reuters reported on the amazing success of Man Of Steel, which set a record for highest grossing opening weekend box office for the month of June. They also recognized director Christopher Nolan, pointing out that he scored hits with The Dark Knight and Inception as well. Of course, Christopher...
Man of Steel‘s official box office numbers for the weekend have come in, and the film generated $113 million from Friday to Sunday domestically, along with $12 million from the discounted Wal-Mart screenings on Thursday. That gives the film the best opening weekend ever in June and the fourth-best opening...
Superman, we’ve been told, is a difficult character to get right. If you believe the comics press (and we’ve been guilty of this ourselves from time to time), nobody has done right by Big Blue in years, and the Silver Age Superman remains the unchallenged beacon of light from which...
Superman is back in a big, bad way. Even with the official Warner Bros. estimates coming in at a little below the numbers that exhibitors have been calling out all weekend long, the film will have broken the record for the biggest opening weekend ever in June, in addition to...
Shortly after the release of Man of Steel this weekend, ComicBook.com ran a story in which we pointed out that screenwriter David S. Goyer had traded quite aggressively in the idea of Superman as a global force for good in a story he wrote for Action Comics #900, but backed...
It has been widely reported that Warner Bros. is fast tracking the Man Of Steel sequel. We had even heard from sources that Warner Bros. might try to rush Man Of Steel 2 out by sometime in 2014. We were leery of this information, because we just didn’t see how...
We’ve heard that Warner Bros., on the heels of a successful box office for Man of Steel, is considering Wonder Woman and the Justice League as the next films in the DC Cinematic Universe (which is a phrase we’ll actually be able to use in probably a month, when the...
Let me preface this by saying that Mark Waid is a grown man who can take care of himself, and a good deal more influential than I am, so there’s really no need for me to defend his right to his opinion. That said, Man of Steel has proven to...
As part of a discussion on his Facebook page about Man of Steel (That’s being charitable: The question posed was whether fans would rather “release the Kraken or the World Engine”), DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio heaped praise on Man of Steel’s Amy Adams, saying that in his opinion she...
This weekend’s massive $125 million-plus domestic and $150 million-plus worldwide opening weekend at the box office beat any expectations the studio may have had for the film’s success, a studio executive told Deadline, which seems to solidify fan impressions that this weekend will mean a sequel for the Zack Snyder-directed...
Before the Man Of Steel was released, one of the big rumors that circled the Internet was that the late Christopher Reeve would have a cameo in Man Of Steel through the wonders of CGI. The origin of the rumor seemed to be a report that a classic Superman movie...
Deadline reports that Man of Steel is headed for a $150 million weekend at the global box office, with the most current projections suggesting that the film will rake in around $125 million in the U.S. this weekend, and another $20-30 million at the international box office for a huge...
One of the many blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Easter eggs hidden in the background of Man of Steel might give a clue as to one potential pot point in the next film. During Superman’s big battle with General Zod, the pair blow past a building that’s illuminated with the logo of the Utopia...
For weeks now, Warner Bros. executives and the creative types behind Man of Steel have suggested that the box office performance of the film will determine the future of the DC Cinematic Universe. Now, with what looks to be a record-setting opening weekend that will make it second only to...
Man of Steel screenwriter David S. Goyer told Bleeding Cool that he and director Zack Snyder have already discussed sequel and spinoff ideas coming out of Man of Steel, but that the first tall building their film will have to leap in a single bound is Superman’s day job. “We...
