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First ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Set Photos Confirm New ‘Heroic Age’ Inspired Suit By Germain Lussier/April 17, 2013 9:00 am EST Agent Coulson might have had a few ideas about Captain America’s suit in The Avengers, but recent Marvel Comics have influenced his suit in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The first batch of set photos from the sequel have just hit the internet, showing Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson in some kind of industrial situation....

First Look: Daniel Craig In ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’; More News Of Unpublished Fourth Novel In The Series By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2010 11:01 pm EST NO PHOTO Hot on the heels of the massive debut of The Social Network, director David Fincher is already shooting another film. His new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, and the first set photos of both actors have shown up online....

James Cameron To Direct ‘The Informationist’ After ‘Avatar’ Sequels By Germain Lussier/Oct. 23, 2012 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cameron is hoping to producer and direct the film at 20th Century Fox, but it won’t happen until he’s completed Avatar 2 and 3 so no need to rush out and pick up this book just yet. Read much more, including quotes from Cameron and producer Jon Landau, after the jump....

Jon Spaihts Script ‘Passengers’ Comes Back To Life, Brian Kirk Directing By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2013 12:04 pm EST A space-based drama called Passengers is the script that led to Jon Spaihts scripting the Alien prequel that became Prometheus. Popular as Passengers was with those who read it, the project has languished for years in a sort of development hell. The script is built around a great concept in which a malfunction on a ship transporting sleeping humans through space wakes one passenger....

Lady Gaga And The Muppets To Host Holiday Special For ABC By Germain Lussier/Oct. 24, 2013 6:00 am EST What’s next, a Star Wars Christmas Special? This year, Disney got Pixar to do a Halloween TV special and on Thanksgiving, they’re doing it again. They’ve recruited another of their popular properties along with one of the biggest pop stars in the world. The Muppets are teaming up with Lady Gaga for a Thanksgiving special on ABC called Lady Gaga & The Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular....

LOL: Jeremy Renner Mocks ‘The Avengers’ On Saturday Night Live By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2012 9:20 am EST Jeremy Renner hosted Saturday Night Live this week and, considering he was a part of the year’s most successful film, the subject obviously came up. I’m talking about The Avengers, and SNL went all out, dressing cast members as all of the main characters: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, Nick Fury and Maria Hill....

Marvel Wants Aaron Johnson For Quicksilver In ‘The Avengers 2’ By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2013 3:22 pm EST Whedon recently explained his interest in the characters: Well, besides the fact that I grew up reading them, their powers are very visually interesting. One of the problems I had on the first one was, everybody basically had punchy powers. ‘I can hit,’ ‘I can also hit.’ Hopefully it didn’t get too boring....

Michael Bay Producing And May Direct WWII Tale ‘Sabotage’ [Video] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2013 6:15 pm EST This sounds familiar — Michael Bay is developing a new story idea, acting as producer, with the possibility of directing depending on how things shake out. That’s the deal with UbiSoft’s Ghost Recon, and now for a project called Sabotage. Paramount just bought the pitch by Neal Bascomb based on his book proposal that tells the WWII story of an Allied effort to stifle Hitler’s nuclear ambitions....

New ‘Walking Dead’ Promos Feature Crucifixions And Machetes In Heads By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2011 10:00 am EST After what feels like forever, The Walking Dead is finally coming back to AMC on October 16. Of course, it comes at the expense of the unbelievably awesome Breaking Bad, whose fourth season finale is the week prior, but Sunday night zombies are a pretty nice consolation for Sunday night meth. AMC is starting to promote the hell out of their biggest hit making its triumphant (we hope) return for a full season after the short first one and two new promos reveal that, this year, things get way more violent and way more upsetting....

New ‘Welcome To The Punch’ Trailer Released; Read Buzz From UK Release By Germain Lussier/March 20, 2013 3:45 pm EST Films like Guy Ritchie’s Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Matthew Vaughn’s Layer Cake represent a very particular kind of British crime drama. They’re modern, they’re slick, they have memorable characters, and feature tons of twists and turns in the plot. Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch looks very much like that....

Page 2: Star Wars, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Hanks, Walking Dead, Up, The Searchers, Guy Ritchie, Hitchcock, Bond, Princess Mononoke, 2001, Pocahontas, Evil Dead By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: AustinMadison celebrates Disney’s purchase of LucasFilm Are Disney and George Lucas Hiding Something? Is 2012 The Year of the Box-Office Bomb? Star Wars / Disney memesMitt Romney Will Just Not Give Up Friday Night Lights The audience is always wrong at the multiplex...

Pixar Comes To The Rescue On Final Ken Loach Film By Russ Fischer/Oct. 30, 2013 8:00 am EST The image you see above is a custom drawing of Mike and Sully sent from Pixar editor Steve Bloom (Boundin’, La Luna, Monsters University) to noted British director Ken Loach. See, Loach is editing what he says will be his final film, and he ran into a spot of trouble. Having never gone digital, Loach still shoots film and cuts it by hand....

Rumor: Disney Plans Darth Vader TV Specials By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2013 1:39 pm EST Want to watch Darth Vader on TV, and not via Blu-ray or that VW commercial? Attendees of the European Brand Licensing Show, which took place in London over the past three days, were reportedly given a Lucasfilm brochure which details Star Wars brand plans for the next couple of years. Among the plans are things that we know, such as the launch of Star Wars Rebels on Disney XD, and the new Episode VII feature film to hit in 2015....

Scrat Stumps For ‘Ice Age’ Once More In ‘Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up Part 2’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 17, 2011 12:30 pm EST Here’s the first part of Scrat’s Contintental Crack-Up, as a refresher. And here’s part two, new today: Check it out in HD at Apple. Scrat’s nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he’s been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences – a continental cataclysm that triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid....

Sequel Bits: Arnold Schwarzenegger, ‘Human Centipede 3,’ ‘Clerks III,’ ‘Driven,’ ‘Independence Day 2’ By Germain Lussier/May 29, 2013 2:27 pm EST There are lots of small updates on upcoming and hypothetical sequels, which means it’s time for another edition of Sequel Bits. Read about the following after the jump: Arnold Schwarzenegger says The Legend of Conan, Terminator 5 and Triplets are all still being written. Kevin Smith has a production schedule in mind for Clerks III....

Seth Rogen, Jack Black And Rainn Wilson Are ‘Ghostbusters’…For Jason Reitman’s Live Read By Germain Lussier/Dec. 12, 2012 11:00 am EST In a piece of fan casting worthy of years and years of Ghostbusters 3 speculation, director Jason Reitman has revealed that for his next live reading, Ghostbusters, he’s cast Seth Rogen, Jack Black and Rainn Wilson as Venkman, Stanz and Spengler respectively. The event, part of an ongoing series presented by Film Independent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, takes places Thursday December 12....

The 600th Edition Of Superhero Bits By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2014 4:00 pm EST Want to see a video on the secrets of The Amazing Spider-Man 2? When can you rewatch Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe? Which characters does Bryan Singer want in X-Men: Apocalypse? Has James Gunn done some additional shooting on Guardians of the Galaxy? Are the Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors doing their own comic book? Read about all this and more in the landmark 600th edition of Superhero Bits....

UPDATED: ‘Jem And The Holograms’ Adds Juliette Lewis And Molly Ringwald By Angie Han/May 20, 2014 12:30 pm EST Jem and the Holograms snapped up its four leads just weeks after the project was announced, and now the rest of the casting is briskly falling into place. The newest addition is Juliette Lewis, who seems uniquely qualified for this music-driven feature — she’s a real-life rock star when she’s not being a Hollywood actress....

VOTD: ‘Wall-E’ And ‘Oblivion’ Trailer Mash-Up By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2013 12:00 pm EST Many who watched the trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s upcoming sci-fi film Oblivion might have had the same lingering question. “Haven’t we seen this movie before?” The aesthetic is certainly similar, but many sci-fi films are. It’s the story that rings a bell. A lone wolf, cleaning up a desolate Earth after the planet was destroyed. Hmm. Wait a minute, it’s the same thing as Wall-E!...

Want To See ‘Dredd 2’? Sign The Online Petition By Germain Lussier/July 25, 2013 9:19 am EST Briefly: Earlier this week, Karl Urban was quoted as saying only the fans could make a sequel to 2012’s Dredd happen. Now that statement has been taken up a notch. An official petition has begun to circulate, as well as an official Facebook, offering fans the chance to voice their opinions and hopefully let executives know they want to see more stories of everyone’s favorite bad ass judge, jury and executioner....