Have you ever passed up a role in a movie so you can star in another movie just for your movie to flop while the original offer goes on to make millions and be revered as one of the greatest films ever? Yeah, me neither. Kevin Costner has though!
These 5 Upcoming Live-Action Adaptations Are Facing An Uphill Battle
Hearing about your favorite book, comic, or game being adapted into a movie used to be one of those things to get excited about. Sure, The Legend of Chun-Li was a bad movie. So was Resident Evil though, and Eragon, and Death Note. Okay, the bar is kind of low with those, but there have been fantastic and well-regarded adaptations too. Marvel has made a whole business off of it!
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11 Disturbing Lines From Horror Movies That Shook Viewers To The Core
Horror has such a long and varied history at this point it’s hard to feel shocked or scared by a movie anymore, especially from a single line of dialogue. Some movies though can take that one line and chill audiences to the bone. The moments where a reveal makes you say “Oh **insert choice of expletive here**” and flips the entire script. Lines that truly establish a character as a legitimate threat, or a sudden, unexpected danger.
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5 Actors That Went All Out In Terrible Movies
Chewing scenery isn’t something that just any actor can do. There have to be a million special elements that all come together from the writing to the actor, especially when it comes to budget.
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5 Video Game Movies That Don’t Suck
If I had a nickel for every video game adaptation that’s been announced in my lifetime I would have an unnecessarily large amount of nickels. It would be like a five-gallon bucket of nickels.
So What Happened To Alyson Hannigan After How I Met Your Mother Ended?
Alyson Hannigan is a recognizable face no matter what niche fandom you may know her from, but she doesn’t pop up all too often.
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How Evil Dead Clawed It’s Way Out Of Hell In 2013
In 2012 I was sitting in a British Literature class during my senior year of high school when my teacher asked if I had heard about the new Evil Dead remake coming out.
We had spoken about the movies before, I was a massive fan of Army of Darkness and had written an essay on it earlier that year. I responded as almost any fan of the series did at the time- “Why would they need a remake?”
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Iron Man 3 Set A MCU Standard Ten Years Ago
Iron Man 3 came out ten years ago, which doesn’t seem that long ago but real life has almost caught up to post-blip MCU time.
Upon release the third was pretty divisive with critics and fans, but how has it aged in retrospect? While it might have ended the Iron Man trilogy itself, it was only about halfway through Tony Stark’s character arc as a whole.
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Why We Don’t Hear About Summer Glau Anymore
Summer Glau was one of the most recognizable names in sci-fi and fantasy during the early 2010s, having made her mark on the scene with multiple cult-favorite shows and movies that were sadly cut too short.
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