Crime has a new/old/adorable enemy when The LEGO Batman Movie soars into theaters next year. And we’ve got the film’s first official poster for you in today’s Movie Morsels. Plus, the latest on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Indiana Jones 5, and more! Although Bruce Wayne hits the screen in this week’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, I’m personally far more interested in seeing next year’s The LEGO Batman Movie. Starring the voices of Will Arnett (reprising his role at the Caped Crusader from The LEGO Movie), Ralph Fiennes, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, and Mariah Carey, the film hits theaters February 10, 2017. Photos arrived online yesterday, and now we have the movie’s poster, in which Gotham City is rendered within the Bat Symbol… Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice And speaking of Batman v Superman… Two new featurettes have landed, one focusing on the film’s IMAX release and the other on that former champion of the oppressed, now bringer of darkness, despair, and misery: Superman.
Snyder’s latest stars Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, and Gal Gadot. And speaking of Gal Gadot… Word on the streets is that her Wonder Woman shows promise in Batman v Superman, but doesn’t get enough time to showcase the breadth of her powers or character. So I’m hoping director Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman solo film will finally do the Amazonian princess justice when it debuts on June 23, 2017. Hot Toys has just unveiled images of its new figure based on Gadot’s Wondy, offering perhaps our most detailed look yet at her costume in the DC Extended Universe… Why did Harrison Ford agree to do an Indiana Jones 5 after Crystal Skull was so poorly received? It’s not like he needs or even appears interested in the money. The answer says, Ford, is Steven Spielberg. Here’s what the actor had to say about his decision when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night…Though Olympic figure skater Tony Harding’s story helped inspire the new screen comedy The Bronze (starring The Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch), the infamous athlete is getting the proper biopic treatment in I, Tonya.
The film is set to star none other than Hollywood’s new golden girl Margot Robbie, last seen making a cameo in The Big Short and soon to appear as the one and only Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad. No director has been announced yet, but a script has been written by Steven Rogers. (No, not that Steve Rogers!) What do you think of today’s top stories? Let us know below!These days, mid and post-credits scenes are an almost essential facet of comic book movies. They're something fans look forward to greatly and it's extremely disappointing in the rare instances that there aren't any in the modern day (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, we're looking at you!). That being said, something that can be equally disappointing is when the scenes in question turn out to be pointless. Sometimes, you can tell when you watch them that they're meaningless. Others could potentially lead to something, but end up meaning nothing in the long run. Scenes like Nick Fury turning up after Iron Man's credits had rolled and Thor's hammer showing up in the desert after Iron Man 2 were iconic, and led to something bigger - and that's how credits scenes should be done.
This article will run through ten examples of movie credits scenes that were, in one way or another, meaningless. The Avengers eating Shawarma. This was a very popular little scene, so some people might be somewhat perturbed by its inclusion on this list, but the fact is it was actually something of an anticlimax. Although delightful in its execution - it was a cute throwback to a line Tony Stark had delivered earlier in the movie - the post-credits scene in 2012's The Avengers was one from which fans expected more. Having been treated to the first appearance of none other than Thanos himself in the mid-credits scene, audiences waited several more minutes only to be "treated" to the Avengers eating shawarma in silence in the wreckage of a New York eatery. Let's now move on to a DC movie entry (the only one on this list, actually).'LEGO Batman' might be the best Batman movie ever Zack Snyder reveals Deathstroke will appear in Justice League Well, isn't this a doozy?
While this tweet from Zack Snyder begins innocent enough - just a behind-the-scenes look at Snyder as he apparently is in the middle of cosplaying as Batman if he were a steampunk college professor: — Zack Snyder (@ZackSnyder) September 29, 2016 ...it, however, becomes much more when we look closer at the tablet screen he's looking at. If we zoom and enhance (per the parlance of every hacker movie and CSI episode ever), we see something else: Apologize for the blurriness of the photo (apparently "enhance" is a bullshit thing Hollywood made up) but we can still clearly see the distinct eye-patch of none other than motherf*cking Deathstroke! It seems he's going to be in JUSTICE LEAGUE as well as Ben Affleck's solo film. And looks like an awesome action scene to boot! Now, I don't know how I personally feel about this (I don't want the film as overstuffed as the last two DC films), but I imagine a lot of people will be excited to hear this. And, hell, I'm not against it - just cautious.
I'm excited for this movie nonetheless. JUSTICE LEAGUE will be released in theaters November 17th, 2017. So what do you guys think about Deathstroke in JUSTICE LEAGUE? Zack Snyder directed the animated children's film LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLEOscars 2017: Who Should Win Every Award (And Who Actually Will) 10 Things You Need To Know About Avengers: Infinity War LEGO Batman Movie: 75 Easter Eggs & References You Need To SeeSkip to contentZadzooks: Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham reviewHard-Hitting News and Conservative CommentaryBe the first to knowNo thanksThat’s about the best way to describe what you get with The LEGO Batman Movie, a film that doesn’t have the narrative heart and soul of the terrific The LEGO Movie, but is more than willing to compensate by giving you a blast of Batman geekery that’s hard to resist. The focus is heavily on Will Arnett’s Batman character, with the same wry, dry, undercutting wit that made him one of the flat-out standouts of the first film.
It’d be fair to say that from the off that director Chris McKay and his team are very keen to give the audience what they want. Thus, you get the utter pleasure of Arnett’s Batman narrating the opening credits, giving you a commentary on the company logos as they appear. I don’t want to spoil the many great lines he spits out, just that within five minutes, the core audience will be very firmly on side. It’s just a taste of the many zingers that you’ll be taking away when the credits roll, too. There’s particular delight in the many ways that The LEGO Batman Movie references and skewers the Batman movies that came before it, not least in a glorious exchange between the Dark Knight and The Joker, that takes aim at his plots from both 1989 and 2005. It’s affectionate, certainly, but also, Batman of old is fair game. Good knowledge of previous Batman movies, whilst not essential, will be rewarded. The LEGO Batman Movie, too, might not be a direct sequel per se to The LEGO Movie – that’s coming in two years’ time – but it’s following a similar template.
It’s already the film that needs more spoiler warnings than any this year, given the sheer breadth and number of surprises that the movie is willing to throw at us. Every time the story is slowing down, or the on-screen events are becoming a little less interesting, there’s another gag around the corner. If ever a film wished it could come off the screen and regularly tickle you, it’s this one. There is, though, some papering over the cracks as a consequence. The core story of the film is Batman dealing with being alone, and wanting to fight crime by himself. At heart, it's quite inward looking. The narrative beats from there you can probably fill in yourself, with a fair degree of success, and watching said story go from A to B is the least interesting part of the film. Think back to the coda of The LEGO Movie, and how that enriched and underpinned the events to that stage. The LEGO Batman Movie doesn’t have that, and could really use something of its ilk. What we get in place of that are dazzling, fast, furious action sequences, the screen filling with bricks, blasts and colour.
All well and good, but if anything, it gets a little over-busy. Yet coming back to the issue of papering over the cracks. Some films do it better than others. Shrek 2, for instance, was a less interesting tale than the original (and the last decent Shrek movie before diminishing returns really kicked in), but DreamWorks was savvy enough to bring in Eddie Murphy’s Donkey for more comedy sequences. The ploy worked, and for all its faults, Shrek 2 was and is funny. So is The LEGO Batman Movie. And to see, then, a huge big screen Batman film pull apart DC, Batman movies and pop culture in a way many of us have done over a beverage (citing many of the same arguments) is fabulously entertaining. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d watched a movie a step down from its predecessor, yet nor could I deny that I’d laughed my backside off consistently throughout. Thus, I’m going to pull in Anchorman logic to give this a star rating. Few people would argue that Anchorman is a sparkling piece of narrative cinema, yet it’s so endearing, so full of moments and so deliciously entertaining, that it reaches four star status.