The Fantastic Four: First Steps is set up to be a unique adaptation of the popular Marvel story, and Kevin Feige's recent comments confirm it. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is finally introducing Marvel's First Family to their universe, but telling this story has proven to be too big a challenge in the past, time and time again. However, the MCU has managed to pull off seemingly impossible feats several times over at this point. 3g4d72

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has had unprecedented success at the box office, but the disparity between its highest and lowest earners is mind-blowing. The box office is generally viewed as one of the best metrics for determining the success of a film. While it doesn't offer critical acclaim, and often doesn't align with the movies that take home the most awards, it does reveal what audiences are spending their hard-earned money to go and see.

There's a truly heartbreaking Darth Vader moment from Star Wars Legends that I've decided needs to be considered canon. As sinister as the Dark Lord is, the story of Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker is one of great loss and tragedy. To that end, one of my favorite Darth Vader stories of all time has to do with a key moment in The Empire Strikes Back when the Sith Lord was forced to grapple with his past.

Star Wars’ Ryan Gosling-led film, Star Wars: Starfighter, is making franchise history in two surprising ways. Directed by Shawn Levy, very little has been revealed about Star Wars: Starfighter, though the movie’s latest casting news does prove that the franchise is moving in a surprisingly different direction. The film, which Levy has confirmed is a standalone story, will see Gosling’s character protect a youngling from dangerous, yet-to-be-named hunters, and is reportedly set to start production this fall.

Steven Spielberg has been vocal about his opinions on superhero films, but equally, his positive praise of one MCU movie bodes well for the DCU's Superman. The superhero genre has received a lot of negativity from so-called "serious" filmmakers. Despite dominating the box office, creating incredible demand, and inspiring vast communities of like-minded fans, not everyone in Hollywood considers superhero movies to be cinema.

The DCU is steadily building their universe and already with the first three projects, it feels like they are correcting a major MCU problem. The MCU has been dominating the box office since 2008 when Iron Man was released. However, since the Infinity Saga ended, and the MCU shifted focus to covering multiple mediums, including TV and film, things have slowed down considerably. Meanwhile, the DCU is about to debut their first movie with Superman.

Prometheuswas one of the most divisive movies in the Alien franchise, but the film's biggest issues are helped by watching the Alien series in chronological order. 33 years after kicking the story off with the brilliant 1979 original movie, Ridley Scott returned to the Alien franchise with 2012's Prometheus. Serving as a prequel, it followed the story of explorers venturing out into deep space in search of the creators of humanity but finding something darker, which leads to the creation of the xenomorphs.

Train to Busanand its animated prequel revolutionized the zombie movie genre, but the sequel missed the mark and didn't live up to its predecessors. The 2016 original film hails from South Korea and was a shot in the arm of the sagging zombie film craze. By the latter half of the 2010s, zombies had been thoroughly played-out thanks to franchises like The Walking Dead, but Train to Busan still had something new to say. Combining fast-moving zombies with a gripping and dramatic plot involving human survivors, Train to Busan combined the best elements of previous zombie media.

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina unites both new and returning characters from the John Wick franchise. The cast is led by Ana de Armas in the role of Eve, an assassin trained in the Ruska Roma tradition who is seeking vengeance for her father's death. Along the way, she meets John Wick himself, as Keanu Reeves reprises the role for the first time since John Wick: Chapter 4. De Armas and Reeves are ed by a cast that includes Ian McShane, Angelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Juliet Doherty.

The Lord of the Rings has influenced writers of the page and screen for generations, but one scene, in particular, made its way to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. English high fantasy inventor J.R.R. Tolkien wrote and released his magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, in three parts between 1954 and 1955. However, it wasn't until Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies that the story truly became a household name. The movies were so influential that they often seep into Amazon Prime Video's Lord of the Rings show, notably in one intriguing scene.