Super Burnout: With Most Superhero Movies Flopping, Can Marvel and DC’s 2025 Slates Reverse an Unprecedented Box Office Drought?
Sony Pictures billed “Venom: The Last Dance” as the final chapter in Tom Hardy’s alien-symbiote-buddy-comedy franchise. But with its $51 million domestic opening weekend — 44% and 55% lower than the previous two installments — the movie also signifies the continued twilight of superhero cinema as the dominant force at the box office.China Box Office: 'Venom: The Last Dance' Enjoys Hollywood's Second-Best Launch of the Year Superhero movies used to be an indispensable revenue driver for the film industry. In 2018 and 2019, the average global gross for superhero fare was more than $1 billion. This year, it’s half that, even...
The 20 Best Comic Book TV Shows of All Time, Ranked
[Editor’s Note: this list was originally published in March 2018. It has since been updated with new entries.]25 Years Later, 'Home Movies' Remains a Linchpin of Contemporary Adult Animation It’s easy to think of the kind of stories that get told in the comic book world as just one genre or tone, but as seen below, graphic novels, comic strips, and other sequential art have offered up an incredible range of storytelling. And these stories have been inspiring great TV shows for years, even before superhero stories dominated the box office. There were plenty of options that nearly made the list, like...