Can Fantastic Four save Marvel – and DC – from superhero movie malaise?
Comic book legends Mark Millar and David Ayer suggest the genre may have run out of road – can the 2025 return of the classic comic characters to the big screen change that?
August 2023
Week in geek
Is Taylor Swift joining Harry Styles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Cleopatra at 60: new book reveals ‘stunning profligacy’ of infamous Hollywood epic
September 2022
Thai court orders repair of The Beach location 22 years after filming
Ruling on Maya Bay, on Ko Phi Phi Leh, comes decades after local authorities filed lawsuit over environmental harm
March 2022
Oscar-winning producer Alan Ladd Jr, who greenlit Star Wars, dies at age 84
The films he produced or greenlit won more than 50 Oscars and 150 nominations
October 2021
Week in geek
Is borrowing superheroes from failed movies really a good idea, Marvel?
Kevin Feige now has his pick of ex-21st Century Fox mutants, but does anyone care to see those X-Men or Fantastic Four pitch up in Marvel’s cinematic multiverse?
April 2021
DisneyMustPay: authors form task force to fight for missing payments
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies review – Star Wars film boss gets his name up in lights
November 2020
Star Wars author appeals to Disney in fight over royalties
Alan Dean Foster claims media giant has not paid him royalties for his books after acquiring Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox
June 2020
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Could Secret Wars be Marvel's next climactic superhero smackdown?
Combining the storyline of the classic 1984 series with an alternate universe concept could see the studio inviting old favourites back into the fold
January 2020
Disney drops Fox name from 20th Century film studios and Searchlight
Executives were reportedly worried the name has become too closely associated with Rupert Murdoch’s rightwing channel
December 2019
Spies in Disguise review – Will Smith brings pecks appeal to animated caper
A secret agent ruffles feathers in the espionage world when he is accidentally transformed into a pigeon in this entertaining family adventure
July 2019
Disney breaks own record for global box office returns in a year
The Netflix cash machine needs the kind of hits that money can’t buy
March 2019
'A monopolistic blob': what the Disney/Fox merger means for cinema
Peter Bradshaw
Week in geek
Marvel shouldn't rush to introduce the X-Men to its cinematic universe
July 2018
Business leader
Trump’s trade war makes political sense to his base. Rivals must beware
China may have underestimated the president’s determination, and the global fallout from any US ‘victory’ will come later
April 2018
Will Choose Your Own Adventure work on the big screen?
Week in geek
Can Marvel help the Fantastic Four get their powers back?
January 2018
Week in geek
Apocalypse now: what happens when the X-Men crash the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Disney’s $66bn deal to buy Fox offers the prospect of Wolverine and Deadpool meeting Spider-Man and the Avengers. But be careful what you wish for …
