re: Which movie kicked off the boom in comic movies?

what about spawn?

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Granted...the Batman franchise spanned 1989-1997 so there's that. The Superman franchise extended from 1978-1987. So that obviously kicked off batman.

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Neither Superman nor Batmans success warranted a risk of a large investment in non-iconic characters.

You're all missing the moment when the studio heads, that only care about the returns, became aware of the possibility that more than Superman and Batman were economically viable.

This all being said, I'm pretty sure Spiderman would've come eventually no matter what. That property just needed advancements in special effects for it to take off.

But as for an Xmen, that level of marketing and budget doesn't happen without Blade.

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But as for an Xmen, that level of marketing and budget doesn't happen without Blade.

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It's not like Blade blew up the box office. It made just over $70 million throughout its run. Even Batman & Robin, considered to be responsible for almost killing the comic book movie, grossed over $100 million the previous year. And when Blade first came out I, as well as many Americans, weren't even aware that it was based off of a comic book.

X-Men was the true starter. It unexpectedly finished #1 in its first week at the box office, went on to gross over $100 million and gave studio execs the courage to green light Spider-Man.

I'm not sure how it could be Blade when Batman and Robin came out the year before and was monetarily more successful.

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To me it's clear Hollywood always wanted to tell these stories, but it wasn't until technology caught up and allowed for cheaper more believable effects that everything blew up.

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Good point. T2 had great SFX but it was ahead of it's time. It wasnt for a few more years that every movie was able to have good SFX. So maybe we should credit Toy Story or Matrix.

Anyone recall the FF movie being made in the mid-90s which was never released? I don't recall the reason it wasn't released bc supposedly it was finished or mostly finished.

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Its not Blade. The masses don't know Blade was based on a comic. Pretty much everyone knew XMen was.

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True, but what Murray is saying is the studio execs saw how much money was made even from a minor comic character so figured more money could be made from major comic characters.

The public saw it as a vampire movie, but maybe movie makers drew a different result.

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Matrix.

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I made this point on the first page.

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Anyone recall the FF movie being made in the mid-90s which was never released? I don't recall the reason it wasn't released bc supposedly it was finished or mostly finished.

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It wasn't released because it was only made so that the company that made it could retain the rights. It was never intended to be released.

It's obvious that the answer is Howard the Duck.

And the people saying it's not Blade because people didn't know he was comic character are missing the point. It's that most people didn't know he was a comic character that made the movies success so important. And let's not trump box office numbers to downplay the success of a movie with two sequels.

Murray was peddling comics when most people on here was still shittin yellow.

If I want to find him on the droppings, I just start a comic book thread.


I don't know how he feels about Cyclops, but up until a few years ago he was still rocking Super Man lunch box.

Regardless of whether people knew Blade was a comic book character or not, the timing doesn't add up.