Josh Brolin Gets His Tommy Lee Jones On Men in Black 3 Set

Unfortunately, the Internet has been forced to have to pay Men in Black 3 a compliment.

Josh Brolin makes for a good looking young Tommy Lee Jones from these set photos taken by The Daily Mail standing next to a shockingly Will Smith-looking Will Smith.

You can go back and play now, kids. Go back to complaining about the script troubles and pretend like stuff like that never happens to other big $200-$300 million summer movies.

Joaquin Phoenix In Talks for Paul Thomas Anderson's "Scientology" Drama

It was one of the most disappointing times to hear of a film falling apart.

Last year, Paul Thomas Anderson was working on a 50s-era drama at Universal centering on a Scientology-like religious organization and the relationship between its leader (to be played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and his closest ally (to be played by Jeremy Renner). Don't believe it ever had an official title, but many of us were referring it to as The Master.

Obviously, the non-subtle Scientology subtext caused concern with studio brass (Because as we all know, it's A-OK to poke at Christians but no one else!) and the project got nuked with the age-old "indefinitely delayed" phrase used. It didn't help that Universal couldn't take such a financial risk after all the misfires they approved previously including this weekend's Your Highness.

Thankfully for us fans of potentially-great films, word seeped through Vulture awhile back that funding for The Master looked like it was coming through after all, and now in a bit of perfect casting (given his history) Joaquin Phoenix is in talks to early talks to replace Renner according to Variety.

Playing someone who starts out crazy and over the course of the film begins to realize the insanity of this Scientology-type (*Wink wink*) group could be an interesting way to convince people he really isn't crazy. Like he deliberately made everyone think for two years. It won't fully win people back, but it is a start for Phoenix.

For Reasons We Can't Explain Bradley Cooper IS The Crow

It feels like Bradley Cooper is settling for whatever comic-movie a studio is willing to throw at him. He lost out on Green Lantern after all (surprisingly, I'd add given the time of his testing arose as The Hangover was a mega-hit in theaters) and there have been those Flash rumblings.

But Heat Vision says Relativity Media has thrown him a bone to be The Crow instead, and it appears he's going to take it. I never understood why he came off Hangover's popularity with all the press and all. He was perfectly fine, but he was the straight man to the zanier and by default memorable, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms. But if he's so keen for this type of role, I'm sure there are other characters better suited for him out there.

Why go for The Crow, a reboot of a franchise known 100% for its lead actor dying during its production? Maybe he feels in debt for Relativity putting him in Limitless, his first non-Hangover hit?

Green Lantern Suit Still Looks Iffy – But Now with Toes!

Are you fans out there still unsure about the CG-suit-and-masked Green Lantern? Even after seeing that improved, but still in-the-works WonderCon footage?

Then, these pictures courtesy of Breaking News USA probably won't help that uneasiness. No, this doesn't look that awesome either, and these are doctored pictures too! I will say though, I like the little touch of his toes being visible in the "suit." The mask is still shit though.

New Zod Speaks! Thinks New Superman Will be "All Right!"

This is refreshing to hear. Michael Shannon was at the RiverRun International Film Festival and since he was just hired as General Zod, the topic of Man of Steel was brought and the Boardwalk Empire star didn't play coy like most would.

He's so laid back, doesn't go out of his way to be political by overly-praising his soon-to-be-director Zack Snyder and new Superman Henry Cavill and he's honest about the process of getting involved with a big "Event" film with all the craziness of secrecy and testing. That said, he's still professional and courteous. In fact, his thoughts are some of the more genuine I can think of from an actor in awhile.

Alyson Hannigan Gets Finger Back in the Pie

It was news, but not really. I mean was anyone, honestly, surprised when they heard how most of the American Pie cast was signing up for American Reunion?

Outside of Sean William Scott (who's well in the comedy genre is just now about dry), nobody in the cast has amounted to much in their filmography. To think a decade ago, American Pie 2 was one of the most anticipated films with all the secrecy around the production and how those actors were popping up all over the place and up for quite a few high-profile gigs (Remember Chris Klein being rumored as Anakin Skywalker?)

The only other Pie alum with a stable career has been Alyson Hannigan, thanks to TVs How I Met Your Mother. She's also been the biggest question-mark of those to return for just that reason. But it appears we've avoided hearing about her character off-screen as she's signed on for a fourth slice.

For those curious about what to expect (Personally that series was never my cup of coffee – never understood what people saw in them), check out What's Playing for plot details.

Tobey Maguire Joins Life of Pi

Way before you kids knew him as Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire was a reliably solid character-actor appearing in one great movie after another. Go ahead, and check out his filmography pre-dating 2002 and tell me I'm wrong. I'll wait.

With his days as the web-slinger over, he's going back to those roots and that’ a great thing. In addition to Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (an example of director and material that seem like a great fit, not to mention that cast), Variety reports Maguire has signed on to reunite with one of his early collaborators: director Ang Lee for his adaptation of Life of Pi.

He'll play the writer who interviews the protagonist as an adult (played by Irrfan Khan, who also appears in The Amazing Spider-Man in a strange case of connecting-the-dots) about his experience as a young boy shipwrecked for 227 days stranded in a boat with a Bengal tiger.

Victory for Wraith Fans! Nick Cassavetes Replaces Neeson in Hangover 2!

In a case of last minute changes (The film opens at the end of next month), Variety reports Liam Neeson's role in The Hangover Part II (itself already on everyone's radar after the originally-intended Mel Gibson was fired) has been recast. But don't start assuming Zach Galifianakis refused to work with him because he didn't really save those poor people's lives in Schindler's List or didn't actually rescue his daughter from slave-traders in Taken.

Simply, reshoots were required for his cameo as a Bangkok tattoo artist and Neeson was already on the other side of the ocean filming Wrath of the Titans. So in steps actor/director Nick Cassavetes, of all people, to fill in.

Who would have thought we'd go from Mel Gibson to Liam Neeson to Nick Cassavetes? No disrespect to him; just so random.

R.I.P.D. is Dead to Galifianakis

While we're on the topic of Ryan Reynolds vehicles, the supernatural action/comedy/thriller/whatever-it-is-it-sounds-silly R.I.P.D. has been hoped to be his first project following Green Lantern opening. In the event the WB/DC epic goes over well, then Universal will look like geniuses and have something ready to go while Reynolds' stock is high. If it doesn't, well we know it wouldn't be their first expensive write-off in recent years.

Zach Galifianakis was supposed to co-star, but that is no longer the case says "TOLDJA." The Hangover star has pointed the reason to scheduling conflicts; an oft-used ploy that can be the cordial way of saying, "I want out of this chicken-shit crap" or the honest-to-God truth. But it's said to be the latter in this case.

WB wants Reynolds on Green Lantern 2 ASAP (already been rumblings of bringing back the production to New Orleans = awesomeness) and Galifianakis is supposed to film the Will Ferrell/Jay Roach comedy Southern Rivals and potentially another season of Bored to Death. Just from the sounds of that, cameras won't roll by this fall on R.I.P.D. like Universal has hoped.

Fox Locks in Freshman Director for Deadpool

Oh for the love of...

I don't care what they claim out loud to the contrary. Warner Brothers isn't going to say, "Oh sure, Ryan Reynolds! Even though we just spent $200-$300 million for you to be Green Lantern for a bunch of movies and maybe even Justice League, sure you go right ahead and run over to Fox and do that Deadpool movie! We're totally fine with them jumping on our coattails in the event that Green Lantern is a mega hit and doing a rival comic-book tentpole with you! It's not like we still harbor ill-will over that whole 'Bryan Singer thing' and want to fuck over our competitors when and if we can!'"

24 Frames says that Deadpool spin-off movie they've spoken of is for real and has a director. Not following in the tradition of recent bigger-name hires like Matthew Vaughn and Darren Aronofsky (even though the latter didn't work out as history proved), visual-effects artist Tim Miller will make his directorial debut here. That hiring follows a similar path as Wolverine helmer Gavin Hood. Translation: he's controllable as Hell.

Fine, they're making Deadpool. But the only way Reynolds headlines is if Green Lantern either under-performs (resulting WB getting skittish towards the property) or outright bombs this June. If however it explodes like they hope, we'll hear some press-release talking about conflicting schedules and all that "official, everyone following the same narrative" bullshit.