‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ has had a great opening weekend at the box office. With an estimated $55.6M haul the film easily topped the charts taking out ‘John Wick 2’ and ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ in the process. Despite besting its foes the film fell slightly below Warner Bros. $60M estimate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPE1jIakaoA Audiences on the opening day gave the film a strong A- Cinescore which sits well with the score of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. All signs point to the film having some strong legs in the coming weeks. Earlier this week we gave the film a strong 7/10 in our…
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Neil Vagg
Neil is the Editor-in-Chief at GYCO. He has a BA in Film & TV and an MA in Scriptwriting; he currently works 9-5 in an office and 5-9 as a reviewer. He has been reading comics for as long as he can remember and is never far away from any book which has the word Bat in the title.
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We’ve known for a little while now that Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ was in production. Now Marvel has made it official with a video detailing the first day of production. Featuring concept art, behind-the-scenes-footage and some interview snippets you can checkout the video in the player below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZfeU4x-qzI ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ promises to be a huge undertaking for Marvel and for its audience. Bringing together casts from all the previous films the roster of heroes is outstanding. Rumours continue to swirl that several of the main stars, including ‘Doctor Strange’ himself Benedict Cumberbatch, will be replaced by stand-ins during the…
Whilst production is well underway on Marvel’s ‘The Defenders’ we still have one more hero to meet. This March sees Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) and Luke Cage (Mike Colter) joined by Finn Jones (‘Game of Thrones’) as Iron Fist. An official synopsis for the series reads: Danny Rand returns to New York City after being missing for years, trying to reconnect with his past and his family legacy. He fights against the criminal element corrupting his world around him with his incredible kung-fu mastery and ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist. Checkout…
Written by Christos Gage with art by Rebekah Isaacs and a cover by Steve Morris. Variant cover provided by Rebekah Isaacs, Christos Gage and Comicraft. Synopsis With the magical folk in the US being cataloged and relocated to a “safe” place, Buffy and her friends will have to decide if they will be divided . . . Or if they will try to run. With Slayers being recruited to help police the magical folk, escaping might not be so easy. Review I’m not afraid to say that I’ve been burned by ‘Buffy’ in the past. Season eight through ten all…
To celebrate the Friday release of ‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ we’ve created a playlist on our YouTube page. Featuring trailers, two featurettes, clips and the newly released b-roll footage there’s plenty for LEGO and Batman fans alike to enjoy! You can checkout the whole playlist in the player below and read our review of ‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW7TupgTqD0&list=PL22h2b5wZwUsrCtWfPuP1ts_45q08p7sC If you are viewing this article on Apple News unfortunately playlists don’t quite function normally so here are each of the individual videos from the playlist! B-roll footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su5-yu65gig Comic Con Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxGm5jOPfv0 Brick-by-Brick featurette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlqVYT5c1qY Behind the Bricks featurette…
‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ finally hits cinemas on Friday this week. Giving the film one final marketing push Warner Bros. and LEGO have released LEGO posters for several DC Comics TV series. Featuring characters from ‘Supergirl’, ‘Gotham’, ‘Arrow’ and ‘The Flash’ the posters give a cute insight in to what LEGO sets for the series would look like. Having seen the film we can sadly confirm that none of the below characters will appear in the film. Green Arrow and Flash will appear but in their comic book form rather than TV. A short ‘Arrow’ episode was included as downloadable…
Following the announcement late last month that ‘Tomb Raider’ was in production we now have our first set photos. Fan Twitter account AliciaVikander Daily has snagged four photos of lead actress Alicia Vikander in full Lara Croft getup. From the look of the photos below you can see Vikander in action during what appears to be a very physical sequence. Unsurprisingly her costume is very reminiscent of the recent rebooted ‘Tomb Raider’ games. She is sporting the shipwreck look over the tank-top and hot pants of the original 90s games. https://twitter.com/AliciaVikanderD/status/828650723797766144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw ‘Tomb Raider’ stars Alicia Vikander (‘The Danish Girl’) as…
Marvel properties were all pulling out the stop during last night’s Super Bowl. After the stunning first TV spot for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ it was the turn of ‘Logan’ to premiere new footage. Giving us a brief first look at Caliban (Stephen Merchant) the trailer continues to expand on what we’ve seen in the two cinematic trailer which came before it. Played to a soundtrack of ‘Amazing Grace’ the spot focussing on the action starring Hugh Lackman’s titular Logan and the newly introduced X-23. Checkout the trailer in the player below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yY3KI7O3XU ‘Logan’ stars Hugh Jackman, Sir…
Lots of new ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ footage for you this morning courtesy of another Super Bowl TV spot. Expanding on the first trailer this spot continues to serve as a reintroduction to the characters whilst showing off a few new ones. Checkout the trailer in the player below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDTy75imJI ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, and Kurt Russell, the film will be released in the UK on April 28th and on May 5th in the US. Marvel Studios…
After debuting a teaser image earlier this week the first trailer for the second season of ‘Stranger Things’ has been released. Airing as part of the Super Bowl in the US the 30second teaser shows off a whole load of action from the new season. Fans of the series were already prepared for the return of Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven but the trailer confirms the character will be back. It would also appear that the second season, set one year after the first, will see our world begin to turn upside down. Interesting the teaser doesn’t give away any…