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Breakdowns & Blockbusters (formerly Bullets & Blockbusters) is a YouTube channel about how blockbuster films get made and why they succeed or fail: unmade scripts, troubled productions and the franchise decisions behind them. It has more than 240,000 subscribers and over 400 videos.
DC
Why So Many Early 2000s Superhero Movies Failed
@breakdownsandblockbusters · 9 min
DC
John Mason, Jar Jar Binks and the Joker: Testing Three Popular Fan Theories
@breakdownsandblockbusters · 9 min
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
What Star Trek: Enterprise Season 5 Would Have Looked Like
@breakdownsandblockbusters · 7 min
Thursday 15 October
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Wednesday 30 September
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Didn't Kill Superhero Fatigue, but It Proved Audiences Aren't Done With Superhero Movies
@breakdownsandblockbustersDC 8 min -
Spider-Man: No Way Home Nearly Had Venom, an Iron Man Suited Green Goblin and a Kraven Manhunt
@breakdownsandblockbustersMarvel 7 min -
How X-Men's Success Shielded Bryan Singer From Consequences for Nearly Two Decades
@breakdownsandblockbustersDC 9 min -
George Lucas's Big Criticism of The Force Awakens Was Simple: There's Nothing New
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 2 min
Monday 28 September
Saturday 26 September
Friday 25 September
Wednesday 23 September
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IMAX and 4DX Marketing Might Be Turning Regular Movie Theaters Into the Fallback Option
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The Star Wars Prequels Are Still Deeply Flawed, But Their Story Might Be a Masterpiece
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 6 min -
4DX and D-Box Effects Aren't Made by the Director, and One Halloween Scare Almost Got Spoiled Because of It
@breakdownsandblockbustersScreen 2 min
Tuesday 22 September
Thursday 17 September
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Tuesday 1 September
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Mephisto, Ghost Rider, and a $5 Million Christmas Trip: The Original Plans for Deadpool & Wolverine
@breakdownsandblockbustersMarvel 6 min -
How Batman Begins Made Hollywood Go Dark and Gritty
@breakdownsandblockbustersDC 2 min -
Spider-Man Homecoming Almost Turned the Vulture Into Peter Parker's Science Teacher
@breakdownsandblockbustersMarvel 5 min -
How Batman Begins Rewrote the Rules for Superhero Costumes
@breakdownsandblockbustersDC 3 min
Friday 28 August
Thursday 27 August
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How Nolan Turned Homer's Cyclops, Giants and Sea Monsters Into Practical Effects Instead of CGI
@breakdownsandblockbustersScreen 7 min -
Netflix's Famous Late Fee Origin Story Is a Myth, Not History
@breakdownsandblockbustersScreen 2 min -
Why Netflix Beat Blockbuster: Convenience Over Charm
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The Dark Knight Trilogy's Grounded Realism Became Hollywood's 15-Year Blueprint
@breakdownsandblockbustersDC 5 min
Saturday 22 August
Friday 21 August
Thursday 20 August
Wednesday 19 August
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How Netflix Actually Beat Blockbuster, and Why It Almost Didn't
@breakdownsandblockbustersScreen 6 min -
The Secret History of Spider-Man's Suit: How Hollywood Kept Reinventing the Costume
@breakdownsandblockbustersMarvel 5 min -
Why Sam Raimi Swapped Peter Parker's Web Shooters for Organic Webbing in Spider-Man
@breakdownsandblockbustersMarvel 2 min -
How J.J. Abrams Ruined Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 2 min
Tuesday 18 August
Monday 17 August
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Jake Gyllenhaal Was Lined Up to Replace Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 2, and the Script Looked Nothing Like the Final Film
@breakdownsandblockbustersMarvel 6 min -
What Spider-Man 3 Could Have Been: Vulture, Ben Kingsley and the Script Sam Raimi Never Wanted to Make
@breakdownsandblockbustersMarvel 5 min -
George Lucas Couldn't Stop Changing Star Wars, and Jabba's Palace Proves Why
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 2 min -
Rian Johnson Threw Out J.J. Abrams' Star Wars Plans for The Last Jedi
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 2 min -
The Room Scores an 8 Out of 10 Despite Being a Terrible Movie, All Things Considered
@breakdownsandblockbustersScreen 6 min -
The Room's "Oh Hi Mark" Scene Reportedly Took 32 Takes and 3 Hours to Shoot
@breakdownsandblockbustersScreen 2 min -
How Tommy Wiseau Blew Through $6 Million Making The Room
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How NBC's Own Ratings Panic Killed Star Trek and Then Made It a Hit
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 2 min -
Tommy Wiseau Spent $300,000 Keeping The Room's Infamous Billboard Up for Five Years
@breakdownsandblockbustersScreen 2 min -
George Lucas's Original Star Wars Plans Reveal a 12-Film Saga That Never Happened
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 6 min
Saturday 8 August
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How Obsession and Backrooms, Two YouTuber Horror Films, Outpaced The Mandalorian and Grogu at the Box Office
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 7 min -
The Original Star Wars Is Stuck on VHS and DVD, and That Is the Real Danger of a Bad Remaster
@breakdownsandblockbustersSci-Fi & Fantasy 2 min
Friday 7 August
Wednesday 5 August
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