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...
It wasn’t that long ago that ComicBook.com was wondering, “Could Man of Steel have the best June opening ever?“ Well, barring an absolutely catastrophic rest of the weekend, it looks as though breaking that particular record is now a done deal. Yesterday, the Superman reboot brought in between $46 and...
Back when Man Of Steel was getting blasted by many critics, Comicbook.com predicted that the movie would play much better with audiences, and we were right. Man Of Steel has received an A- from viewers on CinemaScore, which is an excellent rating. While critics seemed to harp on the fact...
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Man of Steel, in theaters now. In David S. Goyer’s script for Batman Begins, the Dark Knight refused to intentionally take the life of Ra’s al Ghul, electing to do everything he could to save the villain until Ra’s himself chose to die. After the fairly...
In the course of the wide-ranging conversation that’s been taking place this week on the Internet about what Superman means to people, one of the most consistent claims is that Superman, pure and simple, doesn’t kill anybody. Certainly it’s a core part of his persona, and has been as long...
Warner Bros. appears to have opened up a huge can of worms with Man Of Steel by what they didn’t do. As previously reported on Comicbook.com, director Zack Snyder did not include an after the credits scene in Man Of Steel. We ran the information as a public service for fans,...
We’re going to label this report as rumor, but we’ve heard it from more than one source. The issue though appears to be that things are a little in flux, because the directors and actors that Warner Bros. wants have other things on their schedules that have to be coordinated....
Warning, this article contains spoilers for both Man Of Steel and Iron Man 3 (which we’re assuming most have seen by now). Earlier this summer, Comicbook.com’s Russ Burlingame posed the question of if Iron Man 3 was the most divisive comic book movie yet. Many fans loved Iron Man 3,...
We’ve talked a lot the last few days about the disparity between Man of Steel‘s incredible word-of-mouth, its strong audience appeal and the fairly mediocre rating it scores among critics on the popular review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Apparently nobody was caught more off-guard by that last part than Rotten Tomatoes...
Deadline have jumped on the bandwagon with Box Office Mojo and are now predicting an opening weekend box office total of between $120 million and $135 million for Man of Steel. Unnamed sources at Warner Bros. are suggesting that the day could bring in more than $40 million–maybe closer to...
It wasn’t that long ago, before the New 52 and the costume change and the Wonder Woman relationship, that it seemed the big Superman controversy of our decade would be one that came up in a David S. Goyer story. That would be back in 2011, when Superman renounced his...
This is probably not a surprise, since it happens to many big-budget movies, but audience responses from the first night of Man of Steel screenings are leaps and (single) bounds better than the marks the movie has been getting from critics. While only 58% of reviewers have given Man of...
Like Mark Waid and Chris Haley before him, Kevin Smith is a guy whose connection to comics and comics fandom runs so deep that people really care about his opinions of Man of Steel in a way that’s probably not entirely rational. (In fairness, he did once write a script...
