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FILM: Why Queer Women Love Wonder Woman

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It’s been a long time coming but our favorite female superhero finally made it to the cinema in her own movie. Not only did Wonder Woman make a respectable $103.1 million on its opening weekend, it was the also best opening weekend for a female director ever. In this case, Patty Jenkins. It even made more money than Iron Man when it premiered. This is quite a breakthrough as film and TV studios seem to be very nervous about producing female-centric superhero offerings. Marvel tentatively released Jessica Jones to Netflix but the second season is still being worked out whereas … Read more

FOR READERS: Books Into Movies

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: Do you look forward to movie versions of your favorite print works? What adaptions have worked for you? Which ones did not? Why? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

FOR WRITERS: Adapting Your Work

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Hank Cannon: Writers: Do you consider “pre-adapting” your work for eventual translation into another medium? Do you make voice and point of view choices that can make something easier to film, as opposed to requiring a lot of reworking? Is this something worthy to take into consideration, or is it just a pipe dream not to be entertained? Join the chat

FILM: Wonder Woman Has Biggest Opening Ever for Female Dirtector

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Director Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman” smashed the box office pulling in $103 million domestically for its opening weekend. This makes the superheroine film the biggest opening in history for a female director. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is the 15th superhero movie to break $100 million domestically. The top superhero films are dominated by Marvel. “The Avengers” is number one with a domestic opening of $207.4 million in 2012. “Avengers: Age of Ultron” comes in second with $191.3 million in 2015 and 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War” is third with $179.1 million. “Wonder Woman” is also the first … Read more

TRAILER: Blade Runner 2049

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The full-length trailer for Blade Runner 2049 has finally arrived, and, let’s get this out of the way first: It looks amazing. With cinematography by infinite Oscar nominee Roger Deakins and production by Dennis Gassner, the world of Denis Villeneuve’s sequel looks to rival Ridley Scott’s original for misty dystopian moodiness, with just a touch of Only God Forgives thrown in for good measure. (Gassner and Deakins have worked together many times before, including on Skyfall and The Hudsucker Proxy, so it seems only reasonable to assume that Blade Runner 2049 will look like a cross between the two.) Call … Read more

COMICS: Black Panther Film Erases Lesbian Relationship

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Marvel has moved to quash speculation that two warriors in the upcoming film Black Panther will be in a lesbian relationship. The film, due to be released in February 2018, is about T’Challa, the superhero king and protector of African nation Wakanda, who featured in Captain America: Civil War. Fans had been excited by the prospect of Okoye and Ayo, two of the titular character’s bodyguards, getting together as Ayo and fellow female warrior Aneka do in the comics. And these hopes were encouraged by reports that an early screening of the film featured Walking Dead star Danai Gurira’s Okoye … Read more

FILM: Wonder Woman Trailer

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“I am Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta. In the name of all that is good, your wrath upon this world is over,” Gal Gadot triumphantly declares in the latest Wonder Woman trailer, which she first shared on Twitter following her and costar Chris Pine’s appearance Saturday night on Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards. After promising on Friday an “even bigger surprise” than the stunning poster, the new footage turned out to be a spine-tingling look at the character’s first ever feature-length film. Full Story at Joe.My.God

REVIEW: Logan

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LOGAN, the latest and last (for now) solo Wolverine movie, was not kidding around when it opted for Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” as its trailer music. It’s not just the severity of the title, but the elegiac lyrics, and the dying man as guiding spirit / inspiration. Some trailers lie but this one spoke world-weary truth. This is exactly the kind of movie James Mangold, who also directed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, delivers. Wolverine’s mutation were never those iconic claws, which were a science experiment to weaponize him, but his ability to instantly heal which also slows down his aging … Read more