The nod, which Mangold shares with co-writers Michael Green and Scott Frank, is the first screenplay nomination for a superhero film. That could be read as a sign that the film academy is finally starting to give in to the era’s most bankable box-office force. Where other superhero films are all heroism and invincibility, the violent, R-rated Logan - styled after a Western - is filled with pain and vulnerability. In a quest for scale, lives become cheap.”This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Hugh Jackman from the film, Logan. (AP)With Academy Awards ratings falling in recent years, the broadcast could certainly benefit from welcoming the most popular movies on the planet into the show.

Source: Hindustan Times February 28, 2018 12:33 UTC