Word: batmanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scared, scarred Selina Kyle is trudging homeward after another wretched day as secretary to the mighty Power & Light lord Max Shreck when she bumps into a fellow in a black cape. "Wow! The Batman!" she apostrophizes. "Or is it just -- Batman...
...movie Batman, director Tim Burton's first go at the Bob Kane comic- book character, earned well over $1 billion in its theatrical and video release and in a boffo merchandise blitz. Yet, however imposing its grosses, however many kids in developing countries wore T shirts with the logo that is supposed to look like a bat in a halo but inevitably suggests a gaping mouth with five rotten teeth, the film was wan, jangled, lost in meandering murk...
...summer with blockbuster sequel products," notes Martin Grove, film analyst for the Hollywood Reporter, "which virtually guarantees that the early summer business will be strong." Lethal Weapon 3 leads the assault this weekend, , followed quickly by Alien 3 (May 22), the Red October sequel, Patriot Games (June 5) and Batman Returns (June 19), the last easily the season's most anticipated and expensive movie...
...sequel usually costs more and earns less than the original film, though Lethal Weapon 2 and last summer's top finisher, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, bucked that trend spectacularly. Batman Returns, like T2 before its release, is now the subject of a whisper-down-the-lane campaign on its sprawling budget ("It cost $70 million." "I heard 80. Who'll go for 90?"). Says Variety reporter Charles Fleming: "The only way you make money on a picture like this is if everybody in America goes three times." But all will be forgotten if director Tim Burton, who has turned dicey...
...Blockbuster coming -- get out of the way! The competition is stepping aside for Batman Returns: no other studio movie opens that weekend. Does Hollywood think everybody is going to just one movie on June 19? Have the bosses forgotten the lesson of 1989, when brave little Disney opened Honey, I Shrunk the Kids the same day that Batman opened and eventually earned $130 million for the $10 million comedy? Mark Canton, president of Columbia Pictures, hopes there is room for the long shots, the Lil E. Tees, to sprint past the big-budget Arazis. "Our films aren't supertankers...