Should Studios Brace for Death of Superhero Movies?

Not all superhero movies are made the same way.

Long story short, superhero movies will stay...for now.  

According to a report by Vasily Karasyov, the Senior Media, Cable, and Entertainment Analyst at the Susquehanna Financial Group, Hollywood should brace for the decline of the superhero genre.  Karasyov reported that the genre in the film industry has particulary been a box-office success for many studios, but will spiral downward in the next several years.  

The entertainment expert also reported a bit of the history of the current era of superhero movies that began in early 2000 because of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) becoming a lot more popular and it was easier to make movies with CGI.  Also is noted is that there are only four franchises that have been successful at the box-office in the past decade:  Spiderman, Batman, X-Men, and Iron Man.  Of course, there were a whole bunch of superhero movies besides these franchises (such as The Punisher, Daredevil, Hulk, Superman Returns, and several more), but they were not necessarily successful or warrented a sequel (Hulk was rebooted, but still didn't get the big money, future Daredevil and The Punisher projects are shelved and Superman is being rebooted).  

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'Dark Knight Rises' Teaser Trailer Finally Released in HD

Finally!  After days of searching for the Dark Knight Rises trailer that was leaked, we're finally given the real deal by Warner Brothers in full HD glory.  Seriously, we had the video a couple of times here and they were quickly taken down by Warner.  The real question is, for what this trailer revealed, was it even worth Warner Brothers time to go through all the sites and send a cease and desist?  Seriously, raise your hands if the reason why you saw Harry Potter was to see this teaser?  No?  Exactly.

Anyway enjoy this teaser because we're probably not going to see anything from this movie for a while as it's releasing 12 months from now:

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'The Dark Knight Rises' Trailer Leaked

Looks like you don't have to wait until Friday to see the trailer to The Dark Knight Rises.  Earlier in the week, Warner Bros. debuted the first teaser poster for the Christopher Nolan directed film, you can click here to read the article written by Patrick Fancher.  The trailer for the film is set to debut before the last Harry Potter film but it seems someone, who was invited to an early screening, recorded the trailer from their camera phone.  

A trailer was leaked before but that one was reportedly fake, a good one at that.

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Footage From 'The Dark Knight Rises' Online

So begins the onslaught of dissecting every bit of news from The Dark Knight Rises, slated to be released July 20, 2012. We here at Get The Big Picture are as obsessed to find out what the plot of the third and (likely) final entry in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is all about. 

And so, with fandom comes filmed footage from the set of the Nolan-directed film. It's clearly not shot professionally, although who's going to take aim at that, and features Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne and Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle having a conversation in plainclothes.

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Licensing Expo Reveals New Promotional Posters For Anticipated Films

In the wake of the Licensing Internation Expo opening in Las Vegas on Wednesday June 15, fanboys are going to be seeing a lot creative materials for their anticipated film and/or franchise. Collider does clarify that these "images aren’t official marketing materials, these are some of the biggest properties around, so it’s pretty cool to get a look at some title/logo work." As seen above with next summer's hotly anticipated The Dark Knight Rises from director Christopher Nolan.

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