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New ‘Avengers’ Deleted Scene Features Alternate Captain America Intro And Stan Lee Cameo [Removed] By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2012 10:23 am EST Marvel is really pulling out all the stops with the upcoming Blu-ray release of The Avengers. While we’re used to seeing deleted scenes from major blockbusters, rarely do we get so many clips that would have radically changed the film. Tuesday we saw a totally different opening of Joss Whedon’s film and now we have a clip that completely changes the introduction of Captain America....

New ‘Captain America’ Images Include The First Look At Sidekick Bucky Barnes By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2011 2:15 pm EST Here are three new images from Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger, which come from the French edition of Premiere. Two of them are nothing too new: a good shot of the Hydra footsoldiers that we’ve seen in other pics, and another shot of bad guy the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) with his human face on....

New ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer In Front Of ‘The Avengers’ By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2012 6:00 am EST As if you needed more incentive to check out The Avengers on May 4, a Warner Bros. exhibitor site has let it slip that a brand new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises will likely play in front of the Marvel superhero movie. It’s not guaranteed though. Read more after the jump....

New Photo: Thor And His Hammer By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2010 11:02 pm EST Marvel Studios has released yet-another photo from the big screen adaptation of Thor, this time in Wednesday’s edition of USA Today. The new image shows Thor’s alter ego, a wet and grungy Donald Blake (Chris Hemsworth), pulling his mighty hammer Mjolner out from a pile of rock. For those of you who don’t know, my momentary comic consultant Harry Hopkinson explains that after the hammer fell to Earth from the heavens, no one was able to move it....

Nickelodeon’s TeenNick Channel To Bring Back ’90s Programming By Angie Han/March 10, 2011 10:00 am EST If you’re one of the people who got all nostalgic at yesterday’s news about Nickelodeon’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, prepare to take another trip down memory lane. Nickelodeon’s TeenNick channel has announced a plan to show reruns of ’90s shows like Pete & Pete and Rugrats as part of a new programming block....

No Surprise: Christopher Nolan Emphatically Says The Joker Won’t Return In Batman 3 By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2010 9:07 am EST Briefly: I’m not sure why this would even be a question, but apparently there has been some lingering curiosity about whether Christopher Nolan might bring back — i.e. recast — the Joker in Batman 3. You can officially lay any curiosity to rest at this point, as Nolan said the following to Empire in response to questions about the character’s return:...

Paul Verhoeven To Direct ‘Eternal’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2010 5:00 am EST We’ve heard about a few possible projects for Paul Verhoeven over the past couple years. Last seen directing the very good Black Book, he’s got a film called The Surrogate on his plate, along with The Hidden Force and possibly an adaptation of a Jordan Mechner video game. Add one more to the pile, as the director has signed on to Eternal, which could put him back in erotic thriller territory, albeit with a twist....

POTD: Real Life Ninja Turtle By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 1:00 pm EST In 2008, we posted a fan-made design we believed was closest to what a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would look like in real life. Turns out we’re wrong. A real life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would probably look something more like binome’s Worth1000 entry for “Reality Cartoons 3”. POTD: Real Life Ninja Turtle By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 1:00 pm EST...

By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2010 4:17 pm EST Ridley Scott wants to shoot his Alien prequel (or possibly back to back prequels) in 3D. We thought that was just Scott doing what he always does — riding the current wave of popular cinema and doing his own tricks as he does. Turns out there may be more to it than that. If Vulture’s current report has it right, Scott is moving to purchase “an ownership stake” in one of the bigger 3D technology companies: MasterImage3D....

Robert Schwentke May Direct Ryan Reynolds In R.I.P.D.; Will Deadpool Fall Prey To Reynolds’ Green Lantern Schedule? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 10:44 am EST McG was formerly linked to the film, but dumped it to make This Means War. Now the LA Times says that with McG gone, Schwentke, who had been in consideration before, looks like he might be the guy. Neal Moritz recently described the film to Collider:...

Rumor: Jennifer Aniston Joining Scream 4? By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 1:40 pm EST Update: As expected, reps are saying this story is false.Star Magazine claims that Jennifer Aniston will reunite with her Friends co-star Courteney Cox in Scream 4. According to the report, Aniston would play the character who (spoiler alert/invisotext) gets killed off in the opening sequence. Any fan of the series knows this is a trademark of the franchise, which started in the original film with actress Drew Barrymore....

Rumors: Edward Norton, Gael García Bernal, And Rebecca Hall Circling ‘Robocop’ Remake, Sean Penn Being Eyed By Angie Han/April 13, 2012 10:30 am EST Now that Joel Kinnaman is locked for the lead role in José Padilha’s Robocop reboot, MGM has started looking to fill out the rest of its cast — which of course means the rumor mill has begun churning in earnest. A new story has surfaced claiming that Edward Norton, Gael García Bernal, and Rebecca Hall are circling the project, and that producers are looking to get Sean Penn on board as well....

Russell Brand And Julianne Hough Confirmed For Roles In Diablo Cody’s ‘Lamb Of God’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 26, 2011 3:30 pm EST In June, Diablo Cody’s directorial debut was announced: Lamb of God, a film the writer and soon-to-be director described as “about a woman who survives a plane crash and loses her faith in everything. (Comedy gold!) Seriously though, it’s not the cynicism-fest implied by the log line. It’s a nice Christmas story....

San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive: Tom Whalen, Dave Perillo And Tim Doyle Do ‘Land Of The Lost,’ ‘Yo Gabba Gabba,’ ’ H.R. Pufnstuf’ And ‘The Aquabats’ By Germain Lussier/July 5, 2012 7:00 am EST San Diego Comic-Con is many things to many people. For collectors, it’s both an opportunity to find something they’ve long desired and pick up new things that will only be for sale those four days. Action figures, ornaments, books, comics; you name the category, and there’s a Comic-Con exclusive....

Screenwriter James Vanderbilt Returns For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Sequel By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2011 2:00 pm EST Marc Webb’s 3D Spider-Man reboot The Amazing Spider-Man won’t hit theaters for almost a year and a half, yet Sony has already ordered development of a sequel. Columbia Pictures has hired screenwriter James Vanderbilt to pen a follow-up. THR reports that Vanderbilt “had a meeting with the Spider-Man filmmakers and studio execs yesterday outlining his take, getting a thumbs up, and will now begin writing....

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Will Reiser And Jonathan Levine Head To ‘Jamaica’ By Germain Lussier/July 6, 2011 5:00 pm EST The creative team behind September’s fantastic film 50/50 have already agreed to make another movie together. Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jonathan Levine and Will Reiser will once again collaborate on the road-trip comedy called Jamaica for Mandate Films. Everyone will be filling the same roles they did in the making of 50/50: Levine will direct, Reiser will write, Rogen and Goldberg will produce the film, which is based on a vacation Reiser took to the Caribbean island with his grandmother when he was only fourteen....

Three More Added To David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2010 11:00 am EST Hot off the success of The Social Network, director David Fincher is currently directing the American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. We already know the adaptation of the popular book by Stieg Larsson will star Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander and Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist plus Fincher just announced that actors Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck), Steven Berkoff (A Clockwork Orange) and David Dencik, who appears in the original Swedish film, will join a cast that already includes Robin Wright Penn, Christopher Plummer and Stellan Skarsgård....

Two New Images From ‘The Three Musketeers’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 20, 2011 2:30 pm EST We have yet to see even a still image from several of the major films coming out later this summer, but Paul W.S. Anderson and Summit haven’t been shy about showing the goods for their October 14 release, The Three Musketeers in 3D. We’ve seen an official image and some really good set photos featuring all of the stars of the films: Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz and Milla Jovovich....

Video Tour: Harry Potter And The Forbidden Journey From The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2010 9:00 pm EST Last month, Universal Studios finally announced details of the centerpiece attraction of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, “a revolutionary, 360-degree theme park experience and first-ever combination of live-action, advanced robotic technology and innovative filmmaking.” We’ve been interested since that announcement to finally see what this attraction might look like....

VOTD: ‘Deleted’ Season 1 ‘Lost’ Scene Shown At Comic-Con By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2011 2:30 pm EST The most disappointing, albeit it inevitable, part of attending Comic-Con is when you hear about something that happened you would have loved to see but totally missed. For me, that happened at Entertainment Weekly’s Totally Lost: One Year Later panel when show runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse made a surprise appearance with a “deleted scene” from the finale of the first season....