Wesley Snipes’ Surprise Cameo as Blade Stakes Two Guinness World Records

Actor Wesley Snipes made a surprise appearance in Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine, reprising his role as Eric Brooks, aka Blade, a half-vampire “daywalker” who hunts vampires. In the process, Wesley Snipes’ Blade wound up shattering two Guinness World Records. Snipes appearance in the film means that he’s earned the distinction of “longest career as a live […]

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“Daywalkers Make It Look Easy” – Wesley Snipes Comments on Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Troubles

It has now been 26 years since Wesley Snipes first played Marvel’s vampire slayer Blade on the big screen, and 20 years since the last time he played the character in Blade: Trinity. The role is next being taken over by Mahershala Ali in Marvel’s upcoming reboot movie, but at this point we’re starting to wonder […]

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‘Blade’ at 25 – The Comic Book Movie That Changed the Game for Superheroes on the Big Screen

By 1998, it was a certainty that the studios had all but given up on superhero movies. After the financial flops that were Steel and Spawn, along with the sheer critical universal panning of Batman & Robin, the prospects for future superhero movies seemed dim. In the nineties it was very difficult for even a […]

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Wesley Snipes Returns to Comics With Noir Sci-fi Series ‘The Exiled’

Much like Keanu Reeves with his comic series BRZRKR, Wesley Snipes (Blade) is launching his own graphic novel with The Exiled, announced and detailed by Deadline this afternoon. “Prepare for a noir sci-fi tale from the mind of Wesley Snipes and the creators of The Kill Journal & Ascend,” the team teases the project, launching on Kickstarter on June […]

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The Blood Rave from ‘Blade’ Remains an Epic, Unmatched Superhero Entrance [Scene Screams]

Horror has finally seeped much more overtly into superhero cinema between the upcoming Moon Knight, Morbius, Werewolf by Night, and an MCU update on Blade. But perhaps they all owe a debt to the early pioneers and one particular box office juggernaut. A decade before Iron Man effectively launched the ever-expanding MCU as we know it, changing the landscape […]

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Wesley Snipes ‘Blade’ Trilogy Coming to Netflix on April 1st!

While we continue waiting for Marvel’s Blade reboot to make Mahershala Ali our new vampire-slayer, the original trilogy of Wesley Snipes Blade movies is headed to Netflix! The streaming service has announced today that Blade, Blade II and Blade: Trinity will be slaying their way onto Netflix on April 1st, and that’s no April Fool’s […]

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Carving Out Comic Book Movie History With ‘Blade’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Blood Rave, Baby. After heading back to the ’30s to check in with Countess Zaleska in Lambert Hillyer’s queer horror classic Dracula’s Daughter and hitting the road with Steve Zahn and Paul Walker in Joy Ride, we went back to Haddonfield to discuss David Gordon Green’s 2018 sequel Halloween. Now we’re heading back to the ’90s to discuss […]

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