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Rupert Murdoch Calls Out Fantastic Four Film For Poor Performance
In today's financial reports from Twentieth Century Fox, Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch is quoted as saying that poor Twentieth Century Fox financial results "reflect the expected impact of challenging comparisons for our film studio due to the timing of key releases, as well as the poor performance of The Fantastic Four." Though he did add "We are[...]
A Promise That The Fantastic Four Will Return (Amazing Spider-Man #3 Mini-Spoiler)
So in today's Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker Industries has bought the Baxter Building. Ex-Fantastic Four member and current honorary Uncanny Inhuman, the Human Torch (name change to The Inhuman Torch coming soon anyone?) has a problem with this. Chaos ensues But in the middle of the melee, a promise made by Peter Parker to Johnny Storm[...]
Who Created The Fantastic Four? New Stan Lee Book Revives The Debate…
And, naturally, Colleen Doran was happy to show it off, a page in which Stan Lee talks about his inspiration for creating The Fantastic Four. Available here in the UK, and here in the USA. Yeah, I got to draw the awesome stuff AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE STAN LEE In stores Nov 3 pic.twitter.com/Ag85RFGD02 — Colleen Doran (@ColleenDoran) October[...]
A Marvel T-Shirt With X-Men And The Thing On???
A reader writes in excitedly to tell me that they have just bought a Marvel licensed T-shirt from Universal Studios that features both characters from the X-Men and the Fantastic Four on. Could this be an end to the licensing drought imposed by Marvel as a result of their falling out with Fox Studios and not[...]
What Happened To The Thing Scene From The Fantastic Four Trailers?
** Potential Spoilers ** One of the big questions folks have had about the Fantastic Four has been what happened to the scene in the trailer where The Thing drops from an airplane The scene was part of the original script that Josh Trank was working from The idea being that just after the one-year-later jump[...]
Conan Tries To Figure Out Why Fantastic Four Bombed
Last night, late night talk show host Conan O'Brien got in on the Fantastic Four jokes by showing a couple of his favorite clips from the movie… except he used footage from the 1994 Roger Corman film that was so bad Marvel had it blocked from being released The comedian says he isn't sure why[...]
Fantastic Four B-Roll Hints At Deleted Scenes Including Flying Car
One of the things that bugged me about the film Fantastic Four was there seemed to be a lot of set up but no payoff In this B-roll video we get to see that there was payoff for one of the things but it got deleted… the flying car or Fantasticar The flying car is[...]
A Dissenting Opinion On The Fantastic Four
The overwhelmingly bad critical response to the Fantastic Four has permeated all corners of the internet And as much as we've covered it from a few different perspectives… the one we haven't covered is the dissenting opinion And now we can. The folks at the Universe Box offered us their opinion on the film entitled: Why[...]
Fox Says: "We Remain Committed To These Characters"
After an onslaught of negative reviews and a dismal opening weekend box office, the future of the Fantastic Four is obviously in doubt But don't expect to see the characters revert back to Marvel any time soon Fox's chief of domestic distribution Chris Aronson told THR: While we're disappointed, we remain committed to these characters and[...]
When Will We Get A Fantastic Four Comic Back?
Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that Marvel Comics was to cancel the Fantastic Four comic last year, something that CBR were keen to back-up after we ran it. Cancelled as a personal reaction by Marvel CEO and Disney's largest single shareholder, Isaac Perlmutter, to strained relations between Marvel and Fox over the licensed[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 10th August 2015 – Fantastic Bore
From Ty Templeton's Everything You Need To Know About The Fantastic Four Movie In Four Panels Here's one of them…. Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. Conan To Go TV-MA To Premiere Deadpool Trailer 2. Fantastic Four – The Bleeding Cool Review 3. Fantastic Four Screens Openly Tomorrow, How People Are Reviewing It So Far 4. No Doctor Who Season 10 In 2016? 5. Ten[...]
What the Fantastic Four Got Wrong (SPOILERS)
By Joe Glass I cannot make it any clearer, this article contains MASSIVE spoilers for the new Fantastic Four movie, directed by Josh Trank So let's get this out of the way at the start: if you are planning on ignoring pretty much every review out there and go and see this film anyway, go do[...]
Putting The Response To The Fantastic Four Into Perspective
20th Century Fox's latest attempt to bring the Fantastic Four to the big screen has not been received well by critics The website Rotten Tomatoes pulls together all of the reviews for the film and comes up with a percentage of being "fresh"…  the Josh Trank film came in at 9% To compare that to[...]
"It's Not A Fantastic Four Movie" – A Bleeding Cool Review
24 hours after seeing the Fantastic Four at my local theater, I sat down and recorded my review and thoughts I didn't want to jump on the bashing bandwagon… but it's hard to find much nice to say about it either It will be interesting to see over the new few weeks and months just[...]
Ten Big Spoilers For The Fantastic Four Movie
Last night I ran a reduced spoilers review of The Fantastic Four But I have been inundated with questions from people thinking about going to see the movie So, for them, here are a few deeper spoilers, sometimes repeated what I said in the review, sometimes adding more detail, and in others brand new revelations[...]
Fantastic Four – The Bleeding Cool Review
Or for even more spoilers, go here. I was invited to see it by a PR firm working for Fox, at Vue Cinema in Leicester Square this evening. If you go and see the Fantastic Four movie (and I reiterate that you probably should) then consider, ten minutes before the end, walking out, You will have[...]
Honest Trailer For The 2005 Fantastic Four
We have a new Honest Trailer from Screen Junkies that hearkens back to the day when the Fantastic Four were Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba and Chris Evans Though with some of the reviews that we are hearing about the new version… we may start looking back at this film fondly soon. [youtube]https://youtu.be/n-8w4Sv50zE[/youtube] [...]
Fantastic Four Featurette – The Possibilities Of Teleportation
Michio Kaku the theoretical physicist is back, this time to talk about teleportation in this featurette for the Fantastic Four Fox is putting out a series of these looking at the science behind the film and this time it's looking at Reed Richard's obsession with teleportation and interdimensional travel Reed is played by Miles Teller. Fantastic[...]
Public Fail To Make Up Their Mind If Fantastic Four Is Any Good Or Not
A whole lot of people are coming out of screenings of The Fantastic Four at Cineworld cinemas in the UK, as part of a promotion with their Unlimited loyalty scheme. I haven't seen it, I'm seeing it tomorrow, there don't seem to be any spoilers here, but there also doesn't seem to be any kind of[...]
HeroClix Can't Do Fantastic Four Or X-Men – But They Can Do This
HeroClix, like many other manufacturers, have been denied the license to create Fantastic Four and X-Men toys by Marvel over the last year, as a result of Marvel's decision not to do anything that might promote those brands in any way, after their falling out with Fox Studios over the rights. So we have their latest[...]
Susan Storm Will Laugh At Anything In Fantastic Four Trailers
[youtube]https://youtu.be/YM5plkL9eYg[/youtube] Three different Fantastic Four trailers Three different lead in lines The same laugh each time (though the last one is a little more audible at least.) What is she actually laughing at? We must find out! Or cut/paste it and put it after other lines in the trailers[...]
The Latest Fantastic Four Trailer Has A Deadpool Appearance
At the end of this slightly extended trailer for Fantastic Four (which ran during American Ninja Warrior), a familiar looking guy in a red and black suit pops up Seems they're going to run the Deadpool trailer with the FF movie starting Friday and Ryan Reynolds wanted to tell everyone about it in character. [youtube]https://youtu.be/LNXSyq2E25I[/youtube] [...]
Fantastic Four Featurette – The Realities Behind Invisibility
Fox has released another Fantastic Four featurette that looks at the science behind the film Here Dr Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist looks at the powers of Sue Storm as played by Kate Mara For years scientist thought invisibility was impossible, but now they are working with meta-materials that react to light in unique ways. Fantastic[...]