The Batman Sequel According to Caine

“There is nobody, there’s no script, there’s nothing,” Michael Caine told MTV News as he was promoting his new film “Harry Brown” at the Toronto International Film Festival. Also, if you close your eyes, there is no universe. Apparently unaware that negative confirmations...

September 23rd, 2009 | Read More

Thor Casts Sif and Some Secret Villainous Guy

And yes, you can forget about that rumor that had Jessica Biel playing Asgardian babe warrior Sif, even though watching Biel flexing those perfect abs with a sword in her hands would have been so much more preferable than watching her chase Faceman and his pals. But oh well. Instead, THR reports that...

September 22nd, 2009 | Read More

Dreamworks and Transformers Guys Eyeing James Farr’s Xombie

Wow, zombies sure are popular, huh? Who knew being undead would ever become a trendy thing in Hollywood. The latest resurrected popular kid might be Dirge, a zombie cop name “Xombie” and the star of a comic book that’s based on an online comic strip by James Farr. According to THR,...

September 22nd, 2009 | Read More

X-Men 4, First Class, and How Twittering Can Ruin Your Movie Career

There’s not a whole lot of story here (much of it is “we hope to be doing this [or that]” type stuff), but it does give me another opportunity to present evidence to you that Twitter is not you friend, and the sooner you realize it, the better. So what am I talking about? Last week,...

September 22nd, 2009 | Read More

Green Lantern Movie Needs a Scummy Villain and a Beefcake Sinestro

As expected, when Ryan Reynolds slips on the green tights in 2010 to play Green Lantern, protector of the spaceways and creator of cartoony green hammers with his mind, he’ll be facing Sinestro as his first foe. Or is he? As you’ll recall from the comics (and even the recent “Green...

September 18th, 2009 | Read More

An Amick, a Dourif, and a Plummer Walk into a Post-Apocalyptic Vampire Movie…

No, it’s not the beginning of a really bad, naughty joke. It’s just another casting announcement. The latest word from the set of “Priest”, Scott Stewart’s post-apocalyptic Western tale of vampires, warrior priests, and Maggie Q., has the director tweeting that his film...

September 18th, 2009 | Read More

X-Men to Get First Class Treatment, but will Tim Pocock be a Part of it? Updated

There has seemingly been no end to rumors and reports of X-Men spinoff films, including proposals for Deadpool and Magneto origin stories. The films just keep splitting off of each other like mitosis on overdrive. Now Tim Pocock, who played the young Scott Summers/Cyclops in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”,...

September 18th, 2009 | Read More

Nicolas Cage Explains why he Left the Green Hornet

Originally it was reported (and believed) that Cage had left Michel Gondry and Seth Rogen’s “The Green Hornet” because his people and the studio couldn’t reach an agreement, contract-wise. That, apparently, wasn’t the real reason. Cage explains to The Canadian Press that...

September 16th, 2009 | Read More

Waiting for That Superman Sequel? Keep Waiting.

According to Diane Nelson, the new head of DC Entertainment, the studio has no plans to make a sequel to Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns”. Or, actually, anything related to a live-action version of Superman at all. Or as Nelson puts it to MTV: “We actually don’t have any...

September 15th, 2009 | Read More

Green Hornet Gets a Villainous Basterd

Looks like the boys at the “Green Hornet” compound actually traded up: days after losing Nicolas Cage, the film landed its villain replacement in “Inglourious Basterds” villain Christoph Waltz. So yes, it appears Waltz will continue playing bad guys for a while, which is an odd...

September 15th, 2009 | Read More

Sam Mendes Updates Preacher, Says it’s Getting Closer

It’s not easy being a Southern preacher with a vampire sidekick. Just ask Jesse Custer, whose trials and tribulations was originally supposed to be a TV show from Mark Steven Johnson on HBO, but that fell through. (Some, especially non-fans of Mark Steven Johnson, would say it was for the best.)....

September 14th, 2009 | Read More

Bruce Campbell May or May Not by Mysterio in Spider-Man 4

Bruce Campbell in “Spider-Man 4″? Sure, probably. It is being directed by Sam Raimi, after all, and Raimi and Campbell go together like peanut butter and a fake guy watching Desperate Housewives alone at nights with the lights turned down so the neighbors don’t see. The latest rumor...

September 13th, 2009 | Read More

UnCage Him, Green Hornet! Nic Cage Drops Out of Seth Rogen’s Movie

Apparently Nicolas Cage’s role in Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry’s “The Green Hornet” was never a done deal, because Heat Vision Blog is reporting that, after negotiations for the actor and studio fell through, Cage has now left the project and the studio is on the look out for...

September 8th, 2009 | Read More

Unsurprisingly, Jay Chou’s Green Hornet Stunt Double is Less Attractive

The folks at SuperheroHype have your first look at the gang from “Green Hornet” on set. Look! There’s Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz shooting a scene in front of fake press people! Look! That’s Jay Chou’s Kato stunt double driving around in a car! The film stars Rogen as the...

September 7th, 2009 | Read More

Guy Ritchie To Go Toe-To-Toe With Lobo

Hoping to get a enormous paycheck from that high-paying cinematic machine known as the Comic Book Movie Adaptation, “Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels” director Guy Ritchie has announced that “Lobo,” a series published by DC Comics, will be the next literary character he...

September 3rd, 2009 | Read More

Direct-to-DVD 30 Days of Night Sequel Gets Director, Shooting Date

Looks like Sam Raimi still wants more of your hard-earned money, only he doesn’t want to spend too much trying to get it. According to the boys at Bloody-Disgusting, the sequel to the Raimi-produced and David Slade-directed “30 Days of Night” will commence production sometime in October...

September 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Astro Boy Movie Gets New Poster, Trailer

Truthfully, I know next to nothing about “Astro Boy,” other than it’s an upcoming movie directed by “Flushed Away” mastermind David Bowers which stars Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson and Charlize Theron,...

September 1st, 2009 | Read More

Guillermo del Toro is a Deadman. Or, er, he’s Going to Produce a Deadman Movie.

If it’s nerd-based, but also horror-inclined, it’s always a good idea to see if Guillermo del Toro is available to produce. That’s what producer Don Murphy and Warner Bros. have done, and lo and behold, del Toro has agreed to produce a live-action adaptation of the D.C. comic book “Deadman”....

August 31st, 2009 | Read More

That Fantastic Four Reboot is Now More Than a Crazy Rumor…

Crazy rumor of the day, or craaaaaaazy rumor of the day? Either way you slice it, it looks like Fox really does have every intention of rebooting the barely four-years old “Fantastic Four” franchise. (We first reported on that here, oh, about half a year ago courtesy of the site IESB.) Now...

August 31st, 2009 | Read More

A Swamp Thing Remake? In 3D?

According to the folks at MTV, mega producer Joel Silver, at a press conference for the upcoming thriller “Whiteout,” has announced that he’d love to tackle “Swamp Thing” as a big-budget 3D extravaganza. And while I’ll be the first to admit that the two “Swamp...

August 31st, 2009 | Read More