Following the success of Tim Burton’s Batman many studios were scrambling around to get their hands on their own comic book-type property, so that it could turn into the next big thing, this led to Universal Pictures teaming up with producer Martin Bregman who had acquired the rights to the pulp action hero The Shadow….
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) – Review
How do you make a sequel to a successful film when the setting of said film apparently sank beneath the waves? This was the quandary facing producer Irwin Allen after the success of his 1972 disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure, and while he wished to rush a sequel into production as soon as possible it…