Take notice, comic book fans. This week sees Superman seize control in an act of injustice while Batman is forced to ally with some of his most villainous rogues. Meanwhile, fantasy RPGs take hold of the rest of this week’s videogame releases.
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The 2013 Central Canada Pop Culture Expo (formerly the Winnipeg Comic & Toy Expo) launches in early April, and this year spotlights a classic TV show by welcoming a trio of bat-tastic special guests!
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We’ve all done it. If you collect movies on DVD or Blu-ray, you’ve undoubtedly purchased a disc at some point that you later regretted. Perhaps it was a blind-buy that you expected to like, only to discover that you hated it. Perhaps you even bought the movie knowing that you didn’t like it, but needed to own it for collectible purposes (or because you wanted to watch the bonus features). In today’s Roundtable, we share our shame.
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Did you all take advantage of the slowdown in Blu-ray releases over the past couple of weeks to save up a few dollars? I hope so, because December will have no mercy on your wallets.
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Almost lost amidst all the chatter about the Disney/Lucasfilm deal, this week also brought us the unexpected news that Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed on to reprise his role as Conan the Barbarian in a new sequel that will apparently disregard last year’s attempted reboot. With that in mind, we thought that we’d use today’s Roundtable to call out other long-dormant movie characters that deserve to be resurrected in belated sequels.
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Christopher Nolan’s epic conclusion to the Batman saga will get a Blu-ray SteelBook exclusively available at Best Buy in the United States.
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Christopher Nolan says that he’s done with the Batman film franchise. It should surprise no one to learn that Warner Bros. plans to continue making Batman movies without him. About a month ago, Luke here speculated about how a potential Batman continuation or reboot might work. More recently, rumors have circulated that Warner may forego a reboot altogether and move directly into a ‘Justice League’ team-up movie instead. Do you think this is a good idea? Would you rather see a Batman reboot or a ‘Justice League’ movie first?
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Even though box office grosses slipped between 39 to 52%, this weekend’s Top 4 line-up is exactly the same as last weekend’s. The three major new releases pathetically debuted in the #7, #10 and #12 spots.
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Talk about a light weekend at the box office. Almost none of the movies, new or old, hit their projections. The most noteworthy statistic of the week is that ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ crossed the domestic $400 million mark and is closing in on the worldwide $1 billion mark.
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After three solid weeks atop the domestic box office, ‘The Dark Knight’ has finally fallen not just one, but two spots down the rankings. That’s not to say that final film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series isn’t still raking in cash, because it is. The movie earned another $19.5 million domestically and another $32.4 million overseas, which brings its four-weekend worldwide total to $835.4 million.
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