Articles tagged with sequel

The Hellboy movie franchise, much like the comic series on which it is based, is an oddball among others of its type. At a time when most comic book films are produced on a budget of upwards of $150 million, the two entries have cost Universal only $145 million combined. And while comic book films released by rival companies have set box office records (Spider-Man 2 in 2004, The Dark Knight this year), the Hellboy films perform modestly. The first one, in...

By insisting that all plot details be shrouded in secrecy, I worried that 20th Century Fox and X-Files creator Chris Carter were merely providing a likely excuse for their decision not to offer advance press screenings of the new film, a usual sign of a studio’s lack of confidence in a product. If this had been their reasoning, it would have been unnecessary, as X-Files: I Want to Believe is not a bad film and is far better than others that have received press screenings in...

When Marvel Entertainment announced that it would begin producing its own films starting with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk and hired Louis Leterrier to helm the latter, the director stated that the difference between his Hulk film and the previous one was that his film “would be good.” That sarcastic remark notwithstanding, The Incredible Hulk offers a different if not markedly improved adaptation of the comic series.