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/Film | 7/16/2019 | Ethan Anderton
What comic duo is reuniting for a new Batman comic? Want to see Supergirl‘s new outfit and haircut for the fifth season? How many pieces does it take to build a life-size LEGO Iron Man statue? Want...
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/Film | 7/15/2019 | Ethan Anderton
Why will we have to wait until Shazam 3 for Black Adam to square off with Zachary Levi? How close is Avengers: Endgame to surpassing Avatar at the global box office? Do some inactive Facebook pages...
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Breitbart | 7/11/2019 | John Nolte
Hot on the heels of the hoaxtroversy involving that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Crazy’s dancing video and the even dumber hoaxtroversy about Disney casting a black actress as their Little Mermaid, we...
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The Playlist | 7/8/2019 | Charles Barfield
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...
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/Film | 7/8/2019 | Ethan Anderton
How is Dark Phoenix a bigger box office bomb than the reboot of Fantastic Four? How are Earth’s cities faring after endless attacks in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Why can’t Gwyneth Paltrow...
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Variety | 7/5/2019 | John Hopewell
In this week’s International TV Newswire, “Money Heist’ fanbase heaves with anticipation at Part 3, two prominent European doc fests change directors, All3Media confirms “Dark Money’s” pre-sales...
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IndieWire | 6/26/2019 | Staff
Netflix’s sci-fi series “Dark” requires intense concentration to watch, and not just because viewers have to put down their phones to read the subtitles. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese,...
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IndieWire | 6/26/2019 | Staff“Dark Phoenix” is already disappearing from movie theaters after a few weeks because of its dismal box office performance, but the debut of new concept art photos are revealing part of the movie...
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Superhero Bits: Josh Gad Isn’t Playing The Penguin, ‘Dark Phoenix’ Starting to Leave Theaters & More/Film | 6/24/2019 | Ethan Anderton
Is Josh Gad playing The Penguin or not? Why does a Spider-Man: Far From Home advertisement have Samuel L. Jackson pissed off? Did you hear Dark Phoenix is already starting to leave theaters? Did you...
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NewsBusters | 6/24/2019 | Staff
Sunday’s edition of the NBC Nightly News Democratic-propaganda campaign featured the so-called “Big Idea” from Montana Governor Steve Bullock, despite the fact he failed to meet the requirements to...
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IndieWire | 6/23/2019 | Staff
The second season of “Dark” ends with far more questions than answers, but for the love of all that is unholy, some of those answers are completely and utterly bananas.
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/Film | 6/20/2019 | Ethan Anderton
Want to take another look at concept art for Thor‘s brother Balder intended for Thor: The Dark World? Did you hear Batman is getting his own star on the Walk of Fame? Did you know Chris Hemsworth...
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IndieWire | 6/21/2019 | Staff
Done? Wunderbar. The German-language sci-fi series co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese returns with more time-travel paradoxes, murders, affairs, and surprise ancestors who may or may not...
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/Film | 6/19/2019 | Fred Topel
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner spoke with /Film in anticipation of next week’s premiere of the final season of FX’s Legion. We’ll bring you the full Q&A with Shuler Donner, who produced all the...
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NewsBusters | 6/19/2019 | Staff
On Wednesday, the network morning shows uniformly panned President Trump’s Tuesday night launch of his reelection bid in Florida, slamming the speech as “dark,” “scary,” and just rehashing the “same...
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/Film | 6/15/2019 | Chris Evangelista
Remember Dark Phoenix? It came out a week ago, but the latest X-Men movie already feels like a thing of a past, primarily because audiences didn’t flock to the film like previous entries in the...
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IndieWire | 6/15/2019 | Staff
Simon Kinberg isn’t burying his head in the sand. After debuting his feature filmmaking debut, the critically savaged and drastically underperforming “Dark Phoenix” last week, Kinberg popped up on...
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Collider | 6/14/2019 | Haleigh Foutch
Dark Phoenix had a brutal opening weekend. The would-be blockbuster culmination of Fox’s decades-long X-Men franchise fizzled out at the box office with just $32.
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Collider | 6/12/2019 | Vinnie Mancuso
Of the many issues surrounding Dark Phoenix, probably the most undercooked is the film’s villains. Created by legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the D’Bari and their leader, Vuk (Jessica Chastain in...
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/Film | 6/12/2019 | Hoai-Tran Bui
Netflix’s upcoming Dark Crystal prequel series may be bringing back the old-school puppetry and high fantasy of Jim Henson’s 1982 classic, but it’s not passing up the chance to go a little high-tech...
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/Film | 6/11/2019 | Hoai-Tran Bui
The Dark Phoenix apology tour continues as the cast of the abysmally-performing film try to pique our interests with a hypothetical “what could’ve been’s.” In an interview on the ReelBlend podcast...
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IndieWire | 6/11/2019 | Staff
It’s no secret writer-director Simon Kinberg drastically overhauled the ending to “Dark Phoenix” during the film’s much-discussed reshoots. Reports surfaced after the film’s dismal box office...
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The Playlist | 6/11/2019 | Charles Barfield
Leading up to the release of Fox’s “Dark Phoenix,” the running theme of the news surrounding the film seemed to be about the last-minute reshoots and changes made.
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The Daily Caller | 5/31/2019 | Staff
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday that members of Congress need their current $174,000-a-year salary increased or they might be tempted by “dark money.
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Collider | 6/10/2019 | Matt Goldberg
This week on The Collider.com Podcast, we’re joined by Vinnie Mancuso to talk about Dark Phoenix. We talk about the film’s weaknesses, how it compares to other X-Men movies, if Simon Kinberg was the...
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/Film | 6/10/2019 | Ben Pearson
When HBO’s Game of Thrones came to an end, author George R.R. Martin shared a message on his personal blog about the show’s finale…but it contained a fascinating tease about something else he was...
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Breitbart | 6/10/2019 | Staff
Reports say that the latest X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, will lose at least $100 million, which could be a drop in the bucket compared to the upcoming New Mutants. A lot of think-pieces are being...
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/Film | 6/10/2019 | Chris Evangelista
We’ve noticed an interesting trend in recent years. Anytime a big movie arrives with the stink of failure all over it, a trade publication will release a story with anonymous sources close to the...
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The Playlist | 6/10/2019 | Charles Barfield
This past weekend saw “Dark Phoenix” attempt to rise from the ashes of “X-Men: Apocalypse.” Unfortunately, for everyone involved in the film, the newest ‘X-Men’ movie didn’t just fail to live up to...
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IndieWire | 11/2/2018 | Staff
“Dark Phoenix” opened in theaters nationwide June 7 and ended the 19-year-old “X-Men” movie franchise at rock bottom. With just $33 million at the box office over its debut weekend, “Dark Phoenix”...
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www.yahoo.com | 6/9/2019 | Staff
A note about reshoots: They’re completely normal on a superhero film of this size, and are routinely budgeted. Just because a superhero movie undergoes reshoots doesn’t mean that it’s destined to...
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The Daily Caller | 6/10/2019 | Staff
“Dark Phoenix” had a horrific debut this past weekend. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film led by Sophie Turner only made $33 million domestically, which was the lowest debut for an...
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/Film | 6/10/2019 | Ethan Anderton
The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious...
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Breitbart | 6/9/2019 | Staff
The Secret Life of Pets 2 topped the latest superhero flick, Dark Phoenix, at the weekend’s box office. But no one is popping any Champaign corks since both seriously underperformed.
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Collider | 6/9/2019 | Vinnie Mancuso
E3 2019 doesn’t officially start until June 11, but we’ve already got some mighty spicy looks at the next few years of video gamin’. Yesterday brought the first gameplay footage from Star Wars Jedi:...
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IndieWire | 6/9/2019 | Staff
We’ve seen a happy pattern in the early summer weeks as a handful of franchise titles soar: “Avengers: Endgame,” “Aladdin,” and “John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum.
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Variety | 6/9/2019 | Rebecca Rubin
Disney-Fox’s “Dark Phoenix” failed to rise in North America, but the latest “X-Men” saga looks off to a slightly better start overseas, where it earned $107 million from 53 international markets.
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TheWrap | 6/9/2019 | Jeremy Fuster
It was a bad weekend for franchise blockbusters at the box office, as Universal/Illumination’s “The Secret Life of Pets 2’ and Fox/Disney’s “Dark Phoenix” arrived in theaters and opened both below...
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The Federalist | 6/9/2019 | Paulina Enck
Some spoilers ahead. With “Dark Phoenix,” X-Men fans must say goodbye to a franchise that has delighted, entertained, and disappointed for 19 years. From highs such as the Academy Award-nominated...
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Breitbart | 6/9/2019 | Staff
Dark Phoenix, Godzilla, and the Elton John biopic Rocketman are flopping bigtime or, if you prefer … under-performing. It would be quite the stretch, however, to call Dark Phoenix anything but a...
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Variety | 6/8/2019 | Variety Staff
June gloom has officially spread to the U.S. box office. According to Friday’s grosses, this weekend’s two biggest releases – “The Secret Life of Pets 2” and “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” – are debuting...
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Collider | 6/8/2019 | Vinnie Mancuso
Sadly, it’s looking like 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise is going out less with a bang and more with one of those sparkler things you can buy at Target. Dark Phoenix flew to $14 million on Friday...
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IndieWire | 6/8/2019 | Staff
Whenever you find yourself face to face with a swirling orb of indeterminate matter, it’s probably a big problem. Such is the lesson in the latest look at “Dark,” the Netflix mystery series...
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The Playlist | 6/7/2019 | Charles Barfield
“Dark Phoenix” arrives in theaters this weekend, ending the 20-year run of Fox ‘X-Men’ films. However, the version of the film that the audience will enjoy now is very different from what was...
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Collider | 6/7/2019 | Matt Goldberg
Spoilers ahead for Dark Phoenix. Dark Phoenix is a movie that doesn’t really work on any level. Even by its own metric where in the opening voice over, Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) asks who we’re meant...
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Breitbart | 6/7/2019 | Staff
Unless you insist on counting the Deadpool films, Dark Phoenix is not only only the ninth X-Men movie, it is the worst by a country mile. And, sadly, it will be the last in a series that has been...
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IndieWire | 6/7/2019 | Staff
It’s been a rough week for titles referencing darkness, as the new season of “Black Mirror” and X-Men movie “Dark Phoenix” both stumbled with our critics. But for every post-“Bandersnatch”...
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The Federalist | 6/7/2019 | James Dawson
If Marvel’s gargantuan “Infinity Gauntlet” epic had been downsized to a strip mall jewelry store heist for the movies, the result couldn’t be more disappointing than the painfully squandered...
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IndieWire | 6/6/2019 | Staff
“Avengers: Infinity War” and “Dark Phoenix” may not have a lot in common, but they do share one annoying proclivity: shoehorning in off-kilter moments meant to bolster the genre’s lackluster...
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The Daily Caller | 6/5/2019 | Staff
Actress Sophie Turner admitted that she cried genuine tears for a part in the upcoming “X-Men” film, “Dark Phoenix,” because her electronic vape was taken away. WATCH: Performance “She started...
Episcopal Celebration Relocates from Roman Catholic Site Following Objections A retirement service of Holy Eucharist honoring a...
Great Journalism: The Untold Story of How Firefighters Saved Notre-Dame This story in The New York Times utilizes some...
Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly returning to Africa as medical missionary FORT WORTH, Texas — Dr. Kent Brantly sat on his...
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Red algae steal genes from bacteria to cope with environmental stresses It's a case of grand larceny that could lead to new...
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Researchers use nano-particles to increase power, improve eye safety of fiber lasers Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research...
Artificial intelligence breakthrough: Self-taught AI solved Rubik's Cube in just 1 second “The solution to the Rubik’s Cube...
‘Gossip Girl’ Is Getting a Reboot on HBO Max HBO Max subscribers will be returning to the luxurious and scandal-driven world of...
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