Science fiction and fantasy
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Green Lantern was a flop and the X-Men spin-off Deadpool looked dead in the water – that is until fans saw test footage of the actor as the wisecracking crimefighter, and decided that the red mask fits. By Ben Child
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James Luxford: While Marvel continued to turn out films with darker themes and sharper writing, other superheroes and sci-fi villains have had trouble keeping up
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Info dump on 4chan from alleged Lucasfilm employee puts new film on a par with 1977’s Star Wars and claims JJ Abrams is locked in battle with Disney over key issues
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Box office analysis: global Mockingjay makes most in poorest countries, but Paddington doesn't mint it in Mexico
Phil Hoad: Michael Bond’s marmalade-munching bear has good start to cinematic career in UK, but the future looks bleak for the Madagascar and Horrible Bosses franchises
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Andrew Collins gives his verdict on the week's TV including Legacy, Tomorrow's Worlds, Remember Me and Stalker
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Director says that the likes of The Silmarillion out of bounds for film-makers unless Tolkien estate has change of heart, as Hobbit star McKellen later predicts
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Stars, including Leto as the first actor to play the Joker since Heath Ledger’s death, will play supervillians in director David Ayer’s DC Comics film
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Promo for Star Wars 7 already clocked up over 50m views, with multiple spoof and fan versions hitting internet
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Review The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies review - exactly what it promised to be
3 / 5 starsAndrew Pulver: The final section of Peter Jackson’s monumental Tolkien trilogy rounds off the story of Bilbo Baggins with the monumental confrontation its title suggests -
Hobbit stars past and present were reunited on the, er, green carpet for the world premiere of the final film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
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As the world reacts to The Force Awakens teaser trailer it’s worth taking a moment to remember the disdainful heroine who stood out in a man’s world
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The 88-second teaser trailer for the new Star Wars movie was released last Friday, meaning Saturday and Sunday was a time for DIY posters. Stuart Heritage feels the force of Photoshop
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Peter Bradshaw: With this brief teaser footage, director JJ Abrams looks to sweep away memories of the awful Star Wars prequels – and just about manages it
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Review 2001: A Space Odyssey review – Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic back on the big screen
5 / 5 starsThe symbolism and spectacle of this 1968 masterpiece remain a thrill, writes Mark Kermode
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We round up reaction to the release of the new Star Wars trailer - let us know what you think of it in the comments below
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The first look at JJ Abrams’s instalment in the Star Wars franchise was released online and in select US cinemas today. Jordan Hoffman was among the crowd at the Regal in New York eager to experience it on the big screen
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Actor, who returns as Luke Skywalker in the third Star Wars trilogy, told British breakfast TV he’d discussed playing an Obi-Wan Kenobi-type character with George Lucas
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 88-second clip will offer what JJ Abrams calls a ‘tiny peek at what we’re working on’
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This is a timely rerelease of the Kubrick classic that influenced a generation of sci-fi films, writes Peter Bradshaw
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The veteran British director has confirmed he will no longer act as director on Blade Runner 2 – though he will still produce – and that Harrison Ford’s character won’t appear until the film’s third act
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Stand by for genetically modified hybrid dinosaurs running amok in a theme park in the latest film in the prehistoric franchise
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Star of Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis to play an unstoppable, immortal mutant in new superhero episode
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Teaser trailer for JJ Abrams’s movie will be screened in 30 cinemas across the US and Canada, while Gareth Edwards’s spin-off movie likely to involve mercenaries recruited to steal the plans for the first Death Star
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Stuart Heritage: While Imax cinemas are ideal for movies shot on a grand scale, seeing less ambitious films in the format holds little appeal
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Philip French admires Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking fusion of adventure story, love triangle and conspiracy thriller
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With Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001 about to be re-released in digital form, we trace how sci-fi movies reflect the deepest anxieties of each generation
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To coincide with the BFI’s sci-fi season and its digital re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, we thought this would be a good time to look at some of the British greats of the genre
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The Guardian Film Show The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Homesman, Winter Sleep and Get On Up: the Guardian film show – video reviews
Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard join Xan Brooks to review the week's big releases
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The veteran actor also likens his ‘genius’ co-star in Mockingjay Part 1 to Joan of Arc
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If this is the price we pay for the UK invasion of Hollywood, perhaps film-makers should give us a little more all-American attitude, writes Ben Child
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Flight of the Conchord writers are behind this wickedly funny mockumentary about a bunch of undead flatmates rowing about the cleaning, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 review – Jennifer Lawrence still engages in this operatic nightmare
3 / 5 starsThe YA drama seems to be evolving toward superheroism, showing Katniss Everdeen’s development into a sleek, black-robed ninja, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Absolute Zero, a comic-book prelude to the director’s recent blockbuster, tells the story of a previous expedition through the wormhole to find Earth’s new home
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Third film in the blockbuster franchise, which stars Jennifer Lawrence as teenage rebel Katniss Everdeen, is being delayed reportedly because international titles are outperforming domestic films at China’s box office
Topics
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Star Wars
- JJ Abrams
- Jennifer Lawrence
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Walt Disney Company
- Film adaptations
- Drama
- Stanley Kubrick
- Film industry
- Action and adventure
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Superhero movies
- George Lucas
- JRR Tolkien
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Comedy
- Lord of the Rings
- Martin Freeman
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