Curated category
Films shot in London
- Avengers: DoomsdayMarvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced two new Avengers films at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2022. The titles were Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and…
- Batman (1989 film)Batman, the 1989 film directed by Tim Burton, arrived in theaters on the 22nd of June 1989 and earned $2.2 million in late-night previews alone before most…
- Justice League (film)Justice League spent part of its 2017 reshoot schedule removing a mustache. Henry Cavill, who played Superman, had grown facial hair for Mission: Impossible…
- Avengers: Age of UltronAvengers: Age of Ultron arrived on the 1st of May 2015, carrying a price tag that few films in history had matched: a net production budget of $365 million.
- Alien (film)Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film that begins with a single, deceptively quiet transmission. A commercial starship called the Nostromo is hauling…
- A Clockwork Orange (film)A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film that opens with a young man staring directly into the camera, a glass of milk-plus raised to his lips, and the audience…
- Deadpool & WolverineDeadpool & Wolverine almost went by a different name. In February 2024, a title leaked online: Deadpool & Friend. Ryan Reynolds later claimed it had been the…
- InceptionInception begins with a question that Christopher Nolan first put to paper around 2001: what if someone could steal your secrets while you slept?
- Let It Be (1970 film)Let It Be, the 1970 documentary film, ends with a line that few bands could have delivered with such perfectly calibrated irony.
- Rogue OneRogue One: A Star Wars Story ends with two lead characters trapped in a citadel on Scarif, unable to escape a demolition beam.
- A Hard Day's Night (film)A Hard Day's Night arrived in cinemas in July 1964 at the precise moment when Beatlemania had turned ordinary public life into a kind of controlled chaos for…
- Highlander (film)Highlander, the 1986 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy, opens on a parking garage beneath Madison Square Garden where a sword fight…
- Black Mirror: BandersnatchBlack Mirror: Bandersnatch arrived on Netflix on the 28th of December 2018 with almost no warning. The release date was announced just one day before.
- Ex Machina (film)Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction film that opens with an office prize nobody expects: a solitary week at the isolated home of a tech CEO.
- The Beatles: Get BackThe Beatles: Get Back opens with a scene from January 1969. Paul McCartney sits at his guitar, waiting for John Lennon, who is running late.
- Yellow Submarine (film)Yellow Submarine, the 1968 animated musical film inspired by the music of the Beatles, opens not with its famous band but with an act of colour theft.
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reached theaters in 2023, decades after Paramount Pictures signed a deal in 1979 for five Indiana Jones films.