{"id":2174902,"date":"2025-11-24T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2174902"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:14:55","slug":"the-original-fantastic-four-stars-spent-their-own-cash-to-promote-the-roger-corman-marvel-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-original-fantastic-four-stars-spent-their-own-cash-to-promote-the-roger-corman-marvel-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original Fantastic Four Stars Spent Their Own Cash To Promote The Roger Corman Marvel Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">In the analog, pre-internet age of the 1980s, hardcore genre fans eager to learn the latest about films in development had to rely on snippets from magazines like Starlog, Fangoria, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0057241\/\">Cinefantastique<\/a>. It was in the pages of these publications that we tracked the progress (or lack thereof) of &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27156887\/\">Star Wars<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060028\/\">Star Trek<\/a>,&#8221; and myriad superhero movies. Aside from a couple of &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8362852\/\">Swamp Thing<\/a>&#8221; flicks and the diminishing returns of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001659\/\">Christopher Reeve<\/a>-led &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5950044\/\">Superman<\/a>&#8221; movies, these years were a desert for comic book fans. Rumored big-screen adaptations of &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7100125\/\">Batman<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17532407\/\">Spider-Man<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1330276\/\">Captain America<\/a>&#8221; kept going nowhere. Then the dam broke. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000318\/\">Tim Burton<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096895\/\">Batman<\/a>&#8221; became the top grossing film&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the analog, pre-internet age of the 1980s, hardcore genre fans eager to learn the latest about films in development had to rely on snippets from magazines like Starlog, Fangoria, and Cinefantastique. It was in the pages of these publications that we tracked the progress (or lack thereof) of &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; &#8220;Star Trek,&#8221; and myriad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2174903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2174902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Original-Fantastic-Four-Stars-Spent-Their-Own-Cash-To.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174904,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174902\/revisions\/2174904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}