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Jessica Chastain More Interested In Supervillains Than Heroes & Cagey About Discussing ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’

September 19, 2021 9:05 am

The televangelist biopic "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" is in theaters now and generating Oscar buzz for actress Jessica Chastain. Doing the press rounds to help promote her Toronto International Film Festival-premi...

‘Dark Phoenix’ Was The Film Industry’s Biggest Bomb Last Year Beating ‘Cats’ & ‘Terminator’

Charles Barfield

April 28, 2020 12:38 pm

Box Office, News

With not much to talk about when discussing this year’s box office (January’s “Bad Boys for Life” is still the #1 film of the year), it’s time to look back at the year prior. Now that the dust has settled and ...

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Sophie Turner Isn’t Sure What’s Going On With Future ‘X-Men’ Films But She’d “Kill To Go Back”

Charles Barfield

April 10, 2020 3:09 pm

News

Not only does the release of “The New Mutants” remain clouded in mystery, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but so does the fate of Fox’s ‘X-Men’ universe. While 2019’s “Dark Phoenix” seems to be the final time th...

‘New Mutants’ Director Isn’t Concerned About Negative Reviews: “You Can Only Go Up After ‘Dark Phoenix’”

Charles Barfield

March 20, 2020 11:16 am

News

Recently, it was revealed that the long-delayed ‘X-Men’ spin-off film, “The New Mutants,” was the subject of yet another release date change. It’s been two years since we were originally supposed to see direct...

‘Dark Phoenix’ Honest Trailer: A Terrible Attempt To Remake A Bad Film Based On A Beloved Story

Charles Barfield

September 18, 2019 12:25 pm

News, Video

Sometimes Screen Junkies takes on objectively good movies for the company’s Honest Trailers series. Those tend to be a bit more nit-picky and less interesting than the videos made about terrible films. And beca...

Hans Zimmer Shares New Unreleased Tracks Pulled From Over 16 Hours Of ‘Dark Phoenix’ Music

Charles Barfield

August 5, 2019 3:24 pm

News

It’s been two months and we would like to the mutant ability to wipe “Dark Phoenix” from the public’s collective consciousness. That isn’t to say that “Dark Phoenix” is some sort of dumpster fire of a film (it’...

Dark Phoenix Fantastic Four Box Office Bombs

‘Dark Phoenix’ Likely Will End Up A Bigger Box Office Bomb Than Josh Trank’s ‘Fantastic Four’

Charles Barfield

July 8, 2019 3:06 pm

Box Office, News

One of the biggest box office bombs of the summer, or probably the entire year, is Fox’s “Dark Phoenix.” The ‘X-Men’ franchise swansong debuted in June to the worst opening in franchise history and since then h...

‘Toy Story 4’ Has The Largest Opening For Any ‘Toy Story’ Film, But Still Falls Short Of Expectations [Box Office]

Rodrigo Perez

June 23, 2019 5:43 pm

Box Office, News

The box office problems for sequels in North America continues this weekend. Sure, Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” made an incredible amount of money— $118 million domestically—in its opening weekend, but the figure is f...

Simon Kinberg Falls On The Sword For ‘Dark Phoenix’ Critical & Box Office Failure: “That’s On Me”

Charles Barfield

June 17, 2019 10:42 am

News

A good leader is often someone that is willing to share success with their colleagues, while also taking the blame for when something goes wrong. And while we’ll never know how writer-director Simon Kinberg mig...

‘MIB’ Is DOA As ‘International’ Can’t Revive Franchise & ‘Dark Phoenix’ Posts Brutal Second-Weekend Drop [Box Office]

Charles Barfield

June 16, 2019 2:30 pm

Box Office, News

Outside of a few exceptions, the 2019 summer box office is getting off to a really slow start. Sure, you have films like ‘John Wick 3’ and “Aladdin” doing good business, but for the most part, we’ve seen disapp...

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