Matt Reeves and Lizzy Caplan on the set of Cloverfield, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this month. (Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection) Fifteen years ago, Matt Reeves launched the Cloverfield universe by shepherding the 2008 found-footage monster movie to the big screen. The film’s $175 million global gross ensured that there would be plenty more cinematic universes in Reeves’s future, including the Planet of the Apes-verse and, more recently, the Bat-verse branch of the DC… Source link
Read More »Biden mistakenly refers to NHL commish as Gary ‘Batman’
Lightning star Victor Hedman couldn’t keep it together after U.S. President Joe Biden called Gary Bettman “Gary Batman” during Tampa’s White House visit. (Photo via Twitter/@greg_price11) During their Monday off, the Tampa Bay Lightning were honoured at the White House by U.S. President Joe Biden, a custom that has been extended annually to champions across various major North American professional sports leagues. In many ways, it was a nondescript event for the President, save for one… Source link
Read More »AMC’s ticket experiment for ‘The Batman’ seems to have worked
AMC (AMC) raised ticket prices for “The Batman” — an experiment that the company publicly declared it was testing in the U.S. as the theatrical experience gravitates toward a more premium one. But did elevated ticketing work, and could we see more higher prices as a result? According to box office analytics platform EntTelligence, AMC charged about $1 more than its average ticket price to see “The Batman” during the film’s opening weekend on March 4 ($14.50 vs. $13.66) with price increases… Source link
Read More »AT&T is white-labeling Google Stadia to give you free Batman game streaming
Months after we predicted that Stadia would soon become a white-label cloud-gaming service, AT&T appears to be taking Google up on the idea. AT&T is offering a free browser-based version of Batman: Arkham Knight exclusively for wireless customers that makes use of Stadia’s technology. AT&T confirmed that its new game streaming experience runs on Google Stadia’s tech (via 9to5Google). Google announced the shutdown of its internal Stadia game studio in February. While Stadia is still… Source link
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