Bob Chipman, Author at The Escapist

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Friday Box-Office: The Rock Gets Beat Up By a Girl

Lucy projected to bludgeon Hercules over weekend The ongoing late-2013/2014 Hollywood story of big box-office takes for female-led blockbusters has another badass babe ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 26, 2014

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Original Uncut Japanese Power Rangers Coming to U.S. For the First Time

Two decades later, the series that brought Sentai to the U.S. will show its true face 22 years ago, musician turned multimedia mogul ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 26, 2014

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SDCC 2014: All Three Captain America Directors Tapped For Agent Carter

Winter Soldier and First Avenger filmmakers will helm early episodes of Marvel miniseries When Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D takes its mid-season break this coming ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 25, 2014

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SDCC 2014: Season 5 New Cast Announced for Game of Thrones

SPOILER: They gon’ die. Most of them. Probably. At some point. At the SDCC panel for their smash hit HBO series, creators and ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 25, 2014

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SDCC 2014: AMC Debuts Walking Dead Season 5 Trailer

Still dead. Still walking. AMC has debuted a new extended trailer for the fifth season of The Walking Dead at SDCC, while also ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 25, 2014

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The Wrap Says Joaquin Phoenix Wanted as Marvel’s Doctor Strange

Has Marvel bagged another unexpected star for The Sorcerer Supreme? Jeff Sneider, writing for reliable Hollywood news site The Wrap, is reporting that ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 25, 2014

MovieBob - Intermission

I Origins Is Irreducibly Irritating

I sat down to talk with Mike Cahill and Michael Pitt of I Origins to get to the bottom of this sci-fi flick. ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 25, 2014

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GTA V Star as Adult Swim’s Black Jesus Draws Protests

Controversial religious organization aims outrage at new late-night comedy series Actor/producer Gerald “Slink” Johnson is no stranger to controversy, having earned praise for ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 25, 2014

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Marvel Announces THIRD Untitled Mystery Movie For 2018

Superhero studio aims for hat-trick in 2018 Ever since Iron Man and Incredible Hulk both bowed in Summer 2008, Marvel Studios has generally ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 24, 2014

Retro Marvel TV

He’s Doctor Strange, not Doctor Interesting

Early attempts to bring Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme to video didn’t really pan out. Marvel Comics’ point-men in Hollywood spent the mid-to-late 1970s trying ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 23, 2014

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Indiegogo-Funded Satire Dear White People Heads to Theaters

Crowdfunding success-story turned festival hit debuts full trailer The recent history of crowdfunding and other internet fund-accumulation ventures has seen its share of ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 23, 2014

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Star Wars Rebels Debut Trailer Reveals New Characters

The NEW between-Trilogy continuity begins here As you may recall, the production of new Star Wars movies set after the events of Return ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 23, 2014

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