Get Ready to Yell "FUCK YEAH!" to New Captain America Trailer & Poster

Lots of doom and gloom going down over the "OK, but not great!" box-office of Thor, the under-performance of X-Men: First Class and, by all accounts, the outright failure of Green Lantern.

"That's it! Everyone is sick of comic-book superhero movies!" we're hearing.

Not so fast there, bud. The last remaining release of that genre for this summer, Captain America, remains a month away and, of all four films, it always stood the best chance of success. So far, every step Marvel has taken with the Joe Johnston-directed, WWII-set epic shows off the same confidence in their product the House of Ideas displayed so openly as they did with Jon Favreau's Iron Man three years ago.

This morning we got a new poster (posted at the top of this article) and mere minutes ago, the new trailer dropped via Yahoo! Movies. There's not much else to add that I didn't say when the first trailer was released back in March.

Other than to say, people are ready to cheer for America as the good-guys again. Something that Sam Raimi wisely played up in his Spider-Man films and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, and from the looks of it Zack Snyder's The Man of Steel, missed the boat on. What seals the deal, for me, continues to be the underlining "ugly duckling" story with Chris Evans. That is what will get girls interested if you ask me.

But you can just feel it. This movie is going to work.

Yeah...That Looks Like The Hobbit

Two months following the first video production diary (and we haven't seen one since) and countless Facebook updates (Way to bring the marketing budget down, Warner Brothers!), we have our first look at The Hobbit.

Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly (in a move similar to them having Henry Cavill's first public interview since his casting as the new Superman because they're owned by the same parent company), here's Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, Sir Ian McKellen stepping into a time machine as Gandalf the Grey and nice little "Director in Action!" look at Peter Jackson with Freeman.

Previously, on "Back to the Future"...

Tomorrow is the official release date for "OUTATIME", the fifth and final(?) episode of Back to the Future: The Game, from Telltale Games.  This game has been really fun so far.  I've heard some gripes that it's a little too ridiculously easy, but since I'm terrible at these games anyway and I'm a hopeless Back to the Future geek, I've been loving it and my only complaint is that the game is ending already.  But we do have something particularly awesome to look forward to:  an appearance by Michael J. Fox, who will voice two as-yet unknown characters in the game's finale.

If you haven't checked out the game yet, IGN has a great recap of the story so far, which you can check out here:

Now I want to start the game over again!  Actually, I haven't finished Episode 4 yet, so I better get started on that first.  "OUTATIME" will be available for the PC and Mac tomorrow, with PSN and iPad versions to follow. 

Jamie Foxx IS Django

As been the case for so many, something felt off about Jamie Foxx upon winning his "Best Actor" Oscar for Ray. It wasn't immediate. Hell, he continued to deliver good, solid turns in Jarhead, Dreamgirls and Peter Berg's underrated The Kingdom. But after awhile, everything seemed to be cooling down for Foxx judging by his filmography as of late.

But to say that's changed with this announcement is an understatement.

First reported by Jeff Goldsmith and confirmed by Variety, Foxx will play the title character in Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's latest epic. This comes after a few weeks worth of bantering over actors including biggest movie-star in the known galaxy Will Smith who passed (so much for trying to work with directors willing to push you) and Idris Elba (who's instead starring in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim).

Foxx will portray a freed-slave on a journey to rescue his wife from a plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio; finally collaborating with Tarantino after an attempt to play Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds didn't work out) with the help of a German dentist/bounty-hunter played by who else but Christoph Waltz. Samuel L. Jackson, having recently told children across the world to Go the Fuck to Sleep, is also set to appear.

I've truthfully been putting off reading the script, but with this secured it's about time I get off my ass and take a read, don't you think?

Rise of the Planet of the Apes UK Trailer Zeroes In On Caesar With Surprisingly Solid Results

Sometimes all it takes is just one good trailer to turn the tide for a movie.

Courtesy of The Sun comes the UK trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and I'd be lying through my teeth if I said this didn't make me want to see it. While I stand firm in assessment in its lack of box-office potential (A monkey uprising is inherently silly sounding), we might be in for something good here judging by the strength of this new trailer.

Marvel Also Telling Comic-Con To Screw

First they heard Twilight was showing up once again ("TWILIGHT!?! BUT THAT’S FOR GURLS!?!") then came the news from the New York Times last week that a many big-wig studio was opting against appearing including Warner Brothers with The Dark Knight Rises and The Man of Steel which for unexplainable reason surprised people and this afternoon comes to the big bomb-shell for fanboys.

Marvel won't be attending the San Diego Comic-Con next month, reports Hero Complex.

Even yours truly is shocked by this. In the afore-mentioned piece that Peter covered, they mentioned that the House of Ideas was considering not attending. But I, and I think many others, thought they were bullshitting everyone. They love to wet the appetites of fandom with little morsels of footage (Last year they showed a brief teaser from Captain America that literally days before had just began production). This will be the first in awhile Marvel isn't in full-force at the convention.

Although as they state, Disney isn't planning on showing off John Carter or The Lone Ranger either and planning to save it for their own D23 Expo the following month. And since Marvel is property of the Mouse, it's not hard to connect-the-dots to an Avengers appearance there too.

Sorry, fanboys. You'll have to settle on The Amazing Spider-Man and Ghost Rider 2 footage to nerdgasm over instead.

Tang Cross-Promotion Absent From New Immortals Posters

The more I look at new materials for Immortals the more I think, "It's a good thing Henry Cavill has 'that whole Superman thing' to fall back on!"

Phil nailed it on Movie Moan a few shows back. This looks like a movie made years ago that keeps sitting on the shelf and keeps getting delayed when a similar-looking production opens every year. Only now with Cavill set to done the red-and-blue suit next year, now is as good a time as any.*

Maybe we're being too harsh. After all, Thor had some pretty bad trailers and that turned out really good. Let us also remember those X-Men: First Crotch one-sheets. Speaking of which, some new posters for Immortals have been released, and here are the high-lights including the afore-mentioned new Man of Steel, Mickey Rourke (in an outfit he may, or may not, have shown up to the set wearing) and Stephen Dorff striking up his best 300 pose.

* I'm fully aware Immortals' November 2011 release was set in stone long before Cavill was cast as Superman.

Megan Fox Prays to God For Work – Lands Role in The Dictator

The fascination with Megan Fox, Michael Bay, and apparently now Steven Spielberg (or as I call it "He's just like Hitler!" gate) is beyond me. I don't find it news-worthy of who actually fired her stuck-up ass off Transformers 3. If anything, it sounds like bringing this seemingly dead-topic back into the public's conscious is a calculated move on Bay's part to get press for Dark of the Moon.

Her place in the history books won't be for her attractiveness (Sorry, but she’s a dime-a-dozen "body" who can and by all accounts, has been replaced by a newer model) but instead serving as another pre-cautionary tale of never biting the hand that feeds you and letting all that hype go to your head.

While she is getting work still (She's set to appear in Judd Apatow's This is Forty), her doors haven't been torn down with offers up the wazoo like I'm sure she and her representation thought. At least while she was still involved with those giant, retarded robots.

But someone else has thrown her a bone, reports THR. She's set to cameo in The Dictator, the latest Sacha Baron Cohen/Larry Charles comedy currently-lensing and set for release early next May. Since it's a bit-part, we shouldn't expect to know what it entails. Maybe another "What the fuck?" cameo in the vein of Harrison Ford in Bruno, who knows. I'm sure that reality TV show is just around the corner for her.

Kenny Loggins Has Blood on His Hands – Footloose Remake Trailer Drops

So Kenny Loggins music kills a couple of teenagers and dancing gets banned? That's Hicktown, U.S.A. values for you.

The trailer for the Footloose remake has been released for your viewing pleasure. As one would expect, it's replicating the plot of the 1984 original that made Kevin Bacon a star (long before he was tutoring little Erik Lensherr in Germany) with the update being every teenager in town is secretly a professional hip-hop dancer. Who knew?

Poster Concept Art Featuring Dicaprio, Hanks, & Deniro

Jo Blo has some interesting but obviously unfinished poster concept art for J. EDGAR, NEW YEAR'S EVE, EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE and A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS.  Enjoy some unfinished business below.