One of the fun things about using these R2-D2 measuring cups is that you get to play like you’re a Jawa. See, you found this droid, and in order to make it useful, you’re going to have to take it all apart. Utinni! But NOT with your ion blaster. Sorry. And we recommend an apron for the kitchen vs. those brown robes with the potentially flammable cuffs. Continue reading
There seems to be a lot of hype building up for the new Supergirl series in development by Warner Bros. TV and CBS. We now have some additional details that I think you’ll be interesting in knowing. According to CBS entertainment chairman Nina Tassler, the series will be a crime procedural, and we may not see her show up in Arrow or The Flash after all. Here’s what she told EW:
“There will be cases, but what [executive producers] Ali Adler and Greg Berlanti pitched was a real series arc for her. The beauty of it is now with shows like Good Wife and Madam Secretary, you can have serialized story elements woven into a case of the week. She’s a crime solver, so she’s going to have to solve a crime. She’s going to get a bad guy.”
I kind of totally forgot that the live-action G.I. Joe movies were a thing that were happening. And now it looks like Paramount is gearing up for a third go at this, with another new director.
Deadline is reporting that DJ Caruso, who is currently in the process of making The Disappointment Room with Kate Beckinsale and Lucas Till, is in early negotiations to direct G.I Joe 3. He’ll take over for John Chu, whose G.I. Joe Retaliation, which effectively rebooted the films with Dwayne Johnson as the lead, grossed over $372 million worldwide.
And, yeah, Chu’s Johnson-starring sequel was a much better G.I. Joe movie. But the first film was one of the most fun/awful things I’ve ever seen in the theaters. I will never forget the part where shooting an iceberg resulted in the smaller pieces of ice starting to sink. Amazing.
Over at Latino-Review, El Mayimbe just broke the news about a handful of actors who are actually testing for the roles of young Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Storm in Bryan Singer’s upcoming sequel X-Men: Apocalypse.
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At a BAFTA event this past weekend, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice star Henry Cavill spoke out about the recent rumor that Batman v Superman might be split into two films. Continue reading
There’s a new superhero animated series coming to CW Seed called Vixen, which will be set in the same universe as CW’s Arrow and The Flash. The show will include appearances by both of the main heroes, and it’s being developed by Arrow producer Marc Guggenheim. The news was announced at the Television Critic’s Association press tour yesterday.
Fantastic Four‘s very own Mister Fantastic, Miles Teller, said in a newly-released interview with Digital Spy that he signed on for the Marvel Comics adaptation, in no small part, because it wasn’t Spider-Man.
What makes that a good thing? Well, Teller said that he didn’t particularly want to carry a massive franchise like a superhero tentpole all on his own.
“If it was Spider-Man, that entire movie’s on my shoulders and that’s a more isolating experience,” he said.
“I don’t know if I would be into it, but the fact that it’s a movie that I knew we’d share… the superhero world, that’s a whole different animal. That’s a pretty serious commitment.”
That quote might sound somewhat troubling, given the fact that the Josh Trank-directed film is shrouded in controversy — “It isn’t my fault if it flops” is an easy translation to make there.
It’s more likely what Teller means is that the cast of up-and-comers he’s working with mean not only the pressure, but also the obligations in terms of filming time, sequels and the press tour fall more evenly on the group. Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell will be just as in-demand as Teller is, and the fact that they’re all acclaimed actors thought to be “on the rise” means the others are likely attractive to work with.
Fantastic Four will open in theaters this August.
Following its debut on the College Football Playoff National Championship on ESPN, Marvel Studios has now brought online the new Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, which you can watch using the player below!
Avengers: Age of Ultron is the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., who returns as Iron Man, along with Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk. Together with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and with the additional support of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine, Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill and Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig, the team must reassemble to defeat James Spader as Ultron, a terrifying technological villain hell-bent on human extinction. Along the way, they confront two mysterious and powerful newcomers, Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen, and Pietro Maximoff, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and meet an old friend in a new form when Paul Bettany becomes Vision.
Written and directed by Joss Whedon and produced by Kevin Feige, Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963. Louis D’Esposito, Alan Fine, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham, Patricia Whitcher, Stan Lee and Jon Favreau serve as executive producers. Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron opens in theaters on May 1, 2015.
Last year it was revealed that yet another DC series was making the leap to television with “Supergirl,” which already has a series commitment from CBS. Speaking at TCA today (via Variety), CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler opened up about the series in development, saying:
“We fell in love with the pitch. She’s a great character. I love the superhero genre….There is a human drama there. We’re watching an evolution to the way superhero characters are portrayed.”
Tassler confirmed they’re still in the process of casting and conflicted with previous reports that the series could crossover with The CW’s series, adding:
“That’s a different network so I think we’re going to keep Supergirl to ourself right now.”
Nerd Report later asked Tassler about the pitch for the character that she fell in love with, which she laid out as follows:
“It’s a wonderful amalgamation of the mythology of the character with kind of a very modern coming of age. She’s a very strong, independent young woman and she’s coming into her own. She’s dealing with family issues. She’s dealing with work issues and it’s a female empowerment story. You look at the strong female characters we have on the air, it really is resonant of that.”
Set to feature a slew of DC characters including Cat Grant, James Olsen, Winslow ‘Wynn’ Schott (Toyman) and Hank Henshaw (Cyborg Superman), the pilot was written by Ali Adler (“No Ordinary Family”) and Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “The Flash”). They will also executive produce along with Sarah Schechter and Warner Bros. TV.
A few new details have surfaced regarding the upcoming Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell horror series Ash Vs. Evil Dead, which fans are all pretty freakin’ excited about! The episodes will be half an hour long, and in an interview with IGN, Starz head Chris Albrecht talked about the upcoming series.
“The half hour idea was their idea. And I can tell you it’s a chock-full half hour.”
Well, it’s good to know that those 30 minutes are going to be packed full of all kinds of great stuff. When asked where the series will shoot, he said,
“We are shooting it in New Zealand. We’ll have to import some cars that drive left hand and import some signs because it kind of takes place in classic American towns or cities.”
I’m curious about the show taking place in classic American towns and cities. It sounds like there’s going to be some traveling going on. In a previous interview with EW, Campbell used The Walking Dead as a reference point and explained how it will be different.
“It’s about as big of a counterpart to Walking Dead as you could program because Walking Dead is unrelentingly grim and hugely popular. We’re going to give people a little of the old fashioned slapstick: horror and comedy. The beauty of Starz is there’s no content issues. Let’s face it: fans want the carnage and the mayhem. So we intend to give them quite the explosion of viscera. Most of it directed at me, unfortunately.”
Campbell also talked about some of the other, younger characters that will be joining Ash on his adventure against the deadites, They haven’t been cast yet, but he explained,
“One is a male-bonding situation, and the other is a father-figure deal, since Ash could have a daughter the same age as this character. Hopefully we’ll pull Ash out of his loner-veteran mode and get him back into being a human being again.”
There has been speculation that the daughter could be the character Mia, who was played by Jane Levy in the Evil Dead remake. There’s no confirmation of that, but I think it would be cool if that ended up being the case. As for when we will see the show premiere, Albrecht said,
“I think most likely it will be fourth quarter [of 2015]. End of third quarter, fourth quarter, something like that. We’ve got a lot of shows this year. We’re very, very excited.”
Sounds pretty great what do you think?
