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The Bat, The Cat & The Director: Tim Burton Directs Michael Keaton & Michelle Pfeiffer On The Set Of BATMAN RETURNS

Movies In Focus would argue that 1992’s Batman Returns is the best Batman movie. It may or may not be the case, but it’s a film with strong visuals and sense of tone. Michael Keaton returned as Batman, Danny DeVito and Michelle [...]

November 3, 2020

Richard Donner Directing Christopher Reeve In His SUPERMAN Screen Test

What can be said about Christopher Reeve’s casting in Richard Donner’s Superman which hasn’t been said before? The man is the epitome of Superman and Clark Kent. Reeve is strong, direct and full of the honest character that you would [...]

October 9, 2020

United Front: Zack Snyder To Film More Footage For JUSTICE LEAGUE; Affleck, Cavill & Gadot Will Return

It looks like the Justice League is reuniting. The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision has stated that Zack Snyder is getting the cast of the 2017 release back together in order to film extra footage for ‘The Snyder Cut’. Ben [...]

September 24, 2020

Production On Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN Paused After Crew Member Tests Positive With COVID-19

Matt Reeves’ The Batman only resumed filming at Leavesden on 1 September after production shut-down on 14 March when the Coronavirus pandemic started to sweep the globe. However, after just three days, filming has paused once again after a [...]

September 3, 2020

Chadwick Boseman Dies Aged 43

Actor Chadwick Boseman has died at the age of 43. The actor had been privately battling colon cancer since 2016 and he finally lost his fight with the disease on 28 August, 2020. Born in South Carolina on 29 November 1977, Boseman was best known for [...]

August 29, 2020

Henry Cavill’s Superman & Ezra Miller’s The Flash Race In This Behind The Scenes Image From JUSTICE LEAGUE

Justice League is fun in a comic book way, but it’s also an incredibly frustrating, disjointed movie. People constantly talk about ‘filmmaking by committee’, but Justice League is a movie that is so guilty of that charge that it [...]

August 27, 2020

First Teaser Trailer For Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN Starring Robert Pattinson

Many would say that there’s not a lot of mileage left in screen adaptations of Batman, but Movies In Focus feels that there’s plenty of ways to keep reinventing The Dark Knight on the big screen (much like in the comics). It looks like [...]

August 24, 2020

They’re Back! First Teaser Trailer For Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE

Well, it’s official – Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a reality. Here’s the first teaser for the Snyder Cut of the 2017 superhero team-up. Cut to the strains of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, this teaser looks [...]

August 24, 2020

New Trailer For WONDER WOMAN 1984

Movies In Focus really enjoyed Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman – that is until the last act descended into CGI hell. I hope Wonder Woman 1984 doesn’t do the same thing, but this new trailer for the Gal Gadot starrer makes me think [...]

August 24, 2020

Batman Forever! Ben Affleck Will Join Michael Keaton As Batman In FLASHPOINT

Well, knock me down with a feather! After stating that he was done with the role forever (which was recast by Matt Reeves for The Batman), comes the news that Ben Affleck will join the cast of Andy Muschietti’s Flashpoint. as Batman/Bruce [...]

August 21, 2020

THE BATMAN To Resume Production In September

According to reports Matt Reeve’s The Batman will resume production in early September. Shooting will take place at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, where sets have been constructed over the last couple of months. Production for Matt [...]

August 20, 2020

Will We Finally Get To See THE NEW MUTANTS This August?

Director Josh Boone started filming The New Mutants way back in July 2017. After a difficult shoot, the X-Men spin-off reportedly underwent reshoots to change the film’s tone. The comic book movie then got bumped around the release schedule [...]

July 25, 2020

Batman Returns: Michael Keaton Is Back On The Big Screen As The Dark Knight

The mighty Michael Keaton hasn’t played Batman since Tim Burton’s gloriously gothic Batman Returns in 1992 – but it looks like that is going to change as the star is currently in talks to join Ezra Miller in Andy [...]

June 26, 2020

Remembering Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS

After the success of Batman in 1989, Tim Burton was given carte blanche for this sequel, and he delivered the most bizarre Hollywood blockbuster ever made– an $80 million German Expressionist summer action movie. Michael Keaton once again returned [...]

June 21, 2020

Remembering 2017’s JUSTICE LEAGUE

The recent news that Zack Snyder is finally getting the opportunity to complete and release his cut of Justice League on HBO Max got me thinking about the 2017 superhero mash-up. Unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Comics Extended [...]

May 23, 2020

The Best Scene In Tim Burton’s BATMAN

There’s much to enjoy in Tim Burton’s Batman. The 1989 release is packed with wonderful production design from Anton Furst, a brilliant Danny Elfman score and great performances from everyone in the cast. Not bad for a movie which was [...]

April 25, 2020

THE BATMAN Gets A New Release Date After COVID-19 Delay

Production for Matt Reeves’ The Batman shut-down on 14 March due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Since then, the Batman reboot has been on indefinite hiatus and a locked-down Reeves has been going over footage in preparation for when things [...]

April 21, 2020

Darren Aronofsky Talks About His Failed Adaptation Of Frank Miller’s BATMAN: YEAR ONE

After the failure of Batman & Robin in 1997, Warner Bros. decided to take Batman in a different direction. They hired Darren Aronofsky (hot-off Pi and Requiem for a Dream) to develop a take on Frank Miller’s seminal tale, Batman: Year [...]

April 18, 2020

Tim Burton’s BATMAN

In 1988 director Tim Burton was working on his second feature, Beetlejuice, at Warner Bros, when the director was offered a Batman film. For the first time in a decade, the project gathered real momentum. Bringing along his Beetlejuice star Michael [...]

April 11, 2020

First Look: Matt Reeves Unveils Robert Pattinson As THE BATMAN

Director Matt Reeves has unveiled the first official look at Robert Pattinson as The Batman. It’s a mean and moody ‘camera test’ which shows s stylistic look at Pattison as The Dark Knight. I’m a little torn with this. [...]

February 14, 2020

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