SATURDAY AM: The long-term lasting impact from Covid thwarting moviegoing is easily felt this weekend as two movies, one a $180M sci-fi franchise reboot in Tron: Ares, and the other a star-studded caper with a hunky leading man, Roofman, are coming in under their estimates respectively with $35M-$37M and $8M. Impact meaning: audience moviegoing habits…
No, Dr. Doom didn’t show up at this year’s Comic-Con. But Disney sure as hell brought the dazzle with a laser light show that one-upped what they pulled off at CinemaCon, complete with a Tron: Ares logo in full neon red and two Tron-like warriors marching to the front of the stage. “Did you see…
Whenever Marvel Studios doesn’t show up at San Diego Comic-Con, it’s like pulling the brain out of the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Or, to put it in fanboy speak, it’s like pulling the brain out of Twiki the robot from NBC’s 1980s series Buck Rogers. Twiki the Robot For the most part, whenever…