the avengers

Will ‘Civil War’ finally burst the superhero film bubble?

The new superhero orgy ‘Civil War’ is a reminder that costumed heroes are everywhere at the movies. Have we reached peak comic book?

Do directors matter in blockbuster movies?

Joss Whedon won’t be directing any more ‘Avengers’ films for Marvel. But superhero flicks are no place for an auteur anyway, writes Jaime Weinman

Hollywood banks on profitable superhero universes

Studios with colliding worlds brace themselves for the ultimate showdown in 2015

Fix our expectations, not S.H.I.E.L.D. and Homeland

Not every TV series must live up to the ‘golden age’

Tell us what we paid

The battle for box-office supremacy

Why are modern movie fans so obsessed with how films perform at the box office?

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Cannes: Where the stars talk politics

Superheroes save the world at home, but anti-heroes are the avengers in France

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Hollywood re-engineers the DNA of superheroes

Comic-book blockbuster movies have finally become comic

The Avengers: No room for Ant-Man and the Wasp? Really??

How Hollywood decodes which superheroes are just unmarketable

Trailers are out of control

Movie trailers are out of control

Studio previews are being premiered like blockbuster events, complete with reviews