Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows – Part II Trailer Goes All-Out Epic

That's certainly an epic trailer, but anything less than that would be disappointment, let's be honest.

We, as a movie-going audience, have been watching the Harry Potter series for a decade now. Those three kids as our leads, not to mention the supporting players, have grown up before our very eyes. It's odd to imagine that when Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows – Part II hits cinemas this July, that's it. It’s over.

JoBlo has the trailer. Why? Because they're awesome. That's why! All due respect to Phil and Kristina who I love, they're crazy. This is the movie of 2011. It doesn't even matter that April is almost over and we're just now getting this trailer. We're all going to see it!

Lost Out on Playing Batman & Superman? Why Not Settle for Lone Ranger!

He has the bricks and God-given built structure to play a superhero, and it's not like such an opportunity hasn't appeared before Armie Hammer. As we all know he was flat-out cast as Batman for George Miller's Justice League: Mortal and was a reported contender for Superman in Zack Snyder's The Man of Steel.

But if Hammer is so content with playing one similar to Bradley Cooper with The Crow, I'd personally say "No!" to this one and wait for something better. "TOLDJA" reports The Social Network star is in talks to play the title character in The Lone Ranger.

Even something as not-so-sure as The Brothers Grimm: Snow White for Tarsem Singh sounds like a better idea. I mean the guy's gonna stand next to Johnny Depp, and you just know Depp's going to do everything in his power to "steal" the movie; even if he's playing Tonto by his own choosing.

I don't know, I like the direction Hammer is headed in so far with Social Network and looking forward to his J. Edgar performance to see him immediately jumping on the superhero bandwagon.

The Man of Steel Has Its Faora

Following the revelation (via Latino Review) that Faora, and not Ursa, would be General Zod's "right hand bitch" for The Man of Steel, Variety reports the filmmakers have chosen their actress for said role.

German actress Antje Traue (whose biggest role for audiences appears to be Pandorum with Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster two years ago) will be causing havoc for Superman (Henry Cavill) in the Zack Snyder-directed reboot alongside Michael Shannon's Zod.

Not much else to go off of, to be honest. Since I've personally never seen her in anything, I don't have anything positive or negative to say about her acting abilities or lack thereof. Definitely more of a good thing personally, since then it'll be easier to accept her as the character. That and she looks Kryptonian. But I'm a racist anyway – all Kryptonians look alike to me.

New X-Men: First Class Trailer Plays like the Very First Trailer - Only Longer & Better

Am I the only one getting "trailer fatigue" for X-Men: First Class? Well if I am, then you good reader are in luck as Yahoo! Movies has the latest one – one that plays like an extended version of the very first trailer from a couple of months back. Now this time we actually get to see James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender becoming buddies and butting heads over ideology, amping up the Cuban Missile Crisis angle and hey, real dialogue from the first class of X-Men.

I'll say though I liked the "They're just kids. No, they were kids!" exchange and how Fassbender's Eric Lehnsherr lectures his students. Quality-wise, I do think us nerds are in for a good X-Men movie (something we haven't been able to say for awhile now). Alas I think the general public has washed their hands of the franchise after the last two installments. That sucks, but it's understandable.

India, Tom Savini & Battered-Person Syndrome Christian Bale Updates on The Dark Knight Rises

I read about more places where The Dark Knight Rises is filming that isn't New Orleans and a part of me dies a little, and cries for Christopher Nolan's head on a platter!

Jokes aside, Daily Bhaskar reports the third Batman installment will lens in India (the city of Jodhpur, to be specific) after getting the thumbs up from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. Not going to make wild speculations on what Nolan & Co. are specifically filming. But sources tell us it will most likely have something to do with, wait for it, Batman. Let that sink in for a minute there, kiddos.

A few other tidbits while we're on the subject of the cape and cowl, and no I don't consider fucking random pictures of Tom Hardy muscled up as "news." God, if only we'd seen pictures of him pumped up and bald before!

According to a post from Yahoo! News (that I conspicuously haven't seen reported anywhere else - maybe there's a reason behind that!), horror effects-wizard Tom Savini interviewed for an unspecified job on Dark Knight Rises. Assuming he got it, no word on what said job would entail - some makeup work or a acting gig? Were it to happen talk about world-exploded news for fandom.

Speaking of make-up (and questionable items), Movie Web has a snap-shot of Batman himself Christian Bale in what they claim may or may not be a make-up test for the threequel. Then again, there's the chance this is from The 13 Women of Nanjing, Rescue Dawn or countless other films where Bale got his ass handed to him.

Because Noone Asked For It: Post-Apocalyptic Zorro In Development

I'll always remember back during the summer of '98 and being pumped for The Mask of Zorro as a kid. That teaser trailer was in front of every other movie I saw during that season and I was counting down the weeks till it opened in late July. Even showed up during its opening 12:00 P.M. screening, and yes, I loved the movie. Didn't catch its 2005 sequel The Legend of Zorro because frankly, it reeked from its trailers and Phil has subsequently confirmed my sense of smell was working just fine.

But it's a matter of time before Johnson McCulley's pulp hero gets a new incarnation because there have been so many before in years past. Nothing wrong with that, but when I hear a radical new take is in development, I'm thinking they'll set it in modern-times, and the BBC's Sherlock has proven that can be successfully done. Correct me if I'm wrong, and that's already been done before with the character.

Zorro Reborn is the newest iteration in the works, and well, I'll let 24 Frames say it:

"Unlike many of the previous Zorros (real name: Don Diego de la Vega) brandishing whips and swords, the hero of the new installment will live in the future -- specifically a desolate and post-apocalyptic one, according to a person familiar with the film who asked not to be identified. A Fox spokeswoman declined to comment."

Fox has commissioned another special effects guy-turned-yes man director (Rpin Suwannath) who will have his nuts squeezed in every argument against studio heads. And who doesn't want to see Zorro sporting ass-less leather chaps and fighting mutants? Oh that's right; most of you good readers out there.

Yep, Looks Like He’ll Be Back - Arnold Schwarzenegger Attached to New Terminator Film

Disappointment comes to mind.

Since he's left office running California, we've heard plenty of Arnold Schwarzenegger mulling through potential projects for his return to the silver screen. My personal number-one concern was, in order for him gain acceptance from the general public, Arnold would be wise to take on something that while filling his action quota (because yeah who doesn't love to see the guy kick ass?) he also needed to embrace and admit to audiences, and in a way himself, that yes, he's gotten older. He doesn't run as fast as he used to or crack a baddie's skull as easily as in say Total Recall.

So honestly, it's disappointing to hear from "TOLDJA" that Schwarzenegger is now attached to headline a brand-new Terminator film with the previously-rumored Justin Lin (as first broken by What's Playing) to direct. No screenwriter is on-board as of now nor is a studio officially committed to the package deal (although Lionsgate, Sony and Universal are greatly interested).

And you just know the producers will use the lack of Arnold in the much-hyped Terminator: Salvation as the reasoning for its under-performance; something that isn't entirely wrong. But then again how would they justify the "OK, but not great either" box-office of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines that Arnold actually starred in?

I just go back to my main point. After all these years (and how we've seen him age), are people going to want to see Arnold (in his mid-60s by the time this new film would drop) walking around in his signature role once again? More importantly, would they accept it?

Chairs! But They're Superhero Chairs! First Official Picture from The Avengers Set!

Not too much (read: nothing at all, frankly) to read into here except the exclusion of Nick Fury. Oh, so a white-turned-green man gets a chair but a black man can't? I'm calling Al Sharpton and Spike Lee right now!

Tacky joke aside, courtesy of JoBlo here’s the first official set photo from The Avengers. Personally, I'm not crazy about Marvel's big "superhero meet-up" that opens next summer's box-office. But for the rest of you (which is most of you, good folks), you may commence nerdgasming.

Immortals Footage Takes Us Back to the Year 2007

The trailer was expected to drop tomorrow, but E! News broadcast the honest-to-God first look at Immortals, the overly-stylized fantasy action epic set for release this November. If you missed said broadcast and can't find their preview on YouTube anymore (since Relativity Media yanked it - a sign of confidence indeed!), E! Online now has the entire trailer for your viewing.

As we all know, its director and leading man (Tarsem Singh and Henry Cavill) are already on to bigger and better endeavors for 2012 (directing The Brothers Grimm: Snow White and being the new Superman). But they'll have to answer for this first and I already have a feeling their participation in those projects, especially Cavill for obvious reasons, will overshadow Immortals during its forthcoming press rounds. Opening the week before The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part I won't help either.

None the less, take a look at the footage and you tell me with a straight face this doesn't look like a 300 clone.

Cameo We'd All Heard About Confirmed - Johnny Depp to Appear in 21 Jump Street

Not that it was a surprise at this point. So I can't be that douche who yells, "AWWWWW! You spoiled it for everyone!"

We've known for quite awhile now the filmmakers behind 21 Jump Street were aiming to have Johnny Depp (star of the original late 80s Fox TV series; you know, before he fully embraced his inner-weirdo to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars) cameo in the big-screen version starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. I guess it all boiled down to Depp's schedule being open, and just plain, him being game for it.

Coming Soon says it's mission accomplished as they've received confirmation that Depp will show up sometime during production – which is already underway down here in New Orleans.

Truth be told, it's very cool that Depp is willing to do this when he clearly doesn't have to. He's just a cool guy.