Sigourney Weaver Says There Will Be Three Avatar Sequels

Attending the premiere for his forthcoming USA Network drama Political Animals (Speaking of, why are there red-carpet premieres for a TV show?!), Sigourney Weaver tells Showbiz 411 she'll be back for the Avatar sequels. All three of them:

"Then she films 'Avatar' 2, 3, and 4 with James Cameron. That's right: they're making three sequels to the blue 3D phenom all at the same time. Weaver says she has no idea how long it will take, or how it's going to work. 'I just show up,' she said."

James Cameron dropped hints of Avatar extending beyond a trilogy back in May to the New York Times. Not entirely a "Where did THAT come from?!" surprise. A head-scratcher, nonetheless, since he hasn't even scratched the surface of Avatar 2. Let alone Avatar 3 and 4.

But Weaver will be back? She was the best part (besides those pretty pictures)...

Alex Cross Trailer

Can Tyler Perry work without the dress and Bible-thumping? You be the judge by the trailer to Alex Cross, the Rob Cohen-helmed reboot of James Patterson's literary copper:

Dropping Idris Elba for Perry made financial sense. Taking one look at Perry in that awkward wig and van dyke gives second thoughts to that decision. Brings back memories of his Star Trek cameo. The film practically stopped for that brief moment when the camera zoomed in on Perry's random mug. Did the folks snickers (They did during my screening!)

Nothing Perry, or original choice Elba, could have done to improve what appears to be another cliché-filled serial killer romp. Perhaps it's for the best Mr. Madea is the sacrificial lamb. At least Matthew Fox looks like he's enjoying himself. To prepare for his role, he reportedly gnawed on a ham-bone for months.

Pixar's The Man of Steel - Sadly Not Real

A year ago came one of the coolest works of fan art I've seen visualizing a Pixar rendered Superman. But that was for Superman Returns. 2006 came and went as did its Man of Steel Brandon Routh and helmer Bryan Singer. Its 2012, darn it and time for Zack Snyder and Henry Cavill to make their mark on Clark Kent. So a poster at the Super Hero Hype! Forum rolled up their sleeves and presented this awesome art of how The Man of Steel's Supes would look.

Too cool to be real unfortunately. Tell me if this doesn't make you wish Time Warner went belly-up and Disney lapped up DC Comics?

Taken 2 Trailer Suffers From Sequelitis

The real life version of Taken 2 would involve the baddie digging up dirt on the Irish-sounding "American" Bryan Mulls (Liam Neeson) who killed his son, seeing all the bones he cracked to get his daughter back and saying, "Screw revenge! Leaving this dude alone!" The end.

Not much dough 20th Century Fox could make from that. Funny, and accurate, as it is. We'll have to settle with this feature-length version whose trailer comes our way thanks to Yahoo! Movies:

Karl Urban Is The Law in Dredd Trailer

Half win/half lose results on the Dredd trailer that premiered on G4's Attack of the Show and now online.

If the goal was to act as mouth-wash getting that bit of bad breath left by the 1995 Stallone incarnation, mission accomplished. No one is going to think of "I AM DA LAW!" after seeing Karl Urban's (Our modern answer to Tom Atkins) low-key reading of the same line.

Downside is Dredd looks like every other futuristic-set actioner, same problem facing Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake.

Lloyd Christmas Has Left the Building

Talk about a change of heart.

It was not that long ago Jim Carrey was happy as a clam for Dumb & Dumber To (Nodding in approval at this title as I type). Bigger cheerleader than even the Farrelly brothers and Carrey is by no means a sequel guy. Save for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.

ETOnline says Carrey is, metaphorically, waving the middle-finger at Warner Brothers/New Line Cinema and exiting the sequel:

"According to sources, Carrey grew increasingly frustrated by New Line and Warner Brothers, who he felt showed a lack of enthusiasm regarding the project.

A sentiment seemingly reinforced by a statement exclusively obtained when ETOnline reached out to the actor's publicist for comment. In addition to confirming the story, Carrey exclusively tells ETOnline, 'I would have thought Dumb and Dumber To was a no-brainer, after all it's implied in the title.'"

Sounds like a salary dispute. Foolish move on his part, he needs Dumb & Dumber To more than ever.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part II Trailer - Commence Your Bitching, Internet

Years from now, we'll look back at the Twilight phenomenon.

Will the first question our children ask be "Why was this a big deal?" or "Why were people so vitriolic against it?" Fads come and go. We shake our heads and laugh at what we were so religious towards for a few brief years. Young and old, male and female, we've all been into crap.

It's the hatred to Twilight and its fans (or "Twihards") that baffles. What's the big deal little girls (You know, the target audience) are into it? They've always been into soap opera romances and that non-sense. Nothing new. "Bella Swanson is a horrible person and a terrible role-model for little girls?" Oh shut the Hell up. She's not real!

Hey if we're gonna play that game then Batman is a horrible role model for little boys. Guy witnesses his parents' murder and instead of going into therapy he dresses up like a black bat and beats up criminals at night. Even gets another, much-younger orphan involved! Ah, double standards!

I'll shut up now and tell you the trailer for the Twilight finale Breaking Dawn - Part II is online courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. Is it any good? Not really. For the "epic finale," it didn't grab me as particularly epic. But again... I'm not the demo they're going for, and that's fine. Girls will like it.

Don't rain on their parade, let them enjoy:

There Are Four Monsters University Teasers - Don't Ask Why

Pixar is braving into new territory; the dreaded prequel.

There might be feelings of reassurances from X-Men: First Class and Rise of the Apes (and let's go ahead and include Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom for continuity's sake). Those, however, are the exceptions to the rule. Filling in the back-story blanks tends to do more damage than good. But... this is Pixar we're talking about. Cars 2 notwithstanding, have they really let us down before (Don't start with the revisionist history on A Bug's Life!)?

We'll find out next June with Monsters University, the prequel to 2001's beloved Monsters, Inc. taking Mike and Sully (Billy Crystal and John Goodman) back to their college days. No, I didn’t know monsters had to have college degrees to terrorize your kids either.

Disney has released four teasers (via Disney, Huffington Post, iTunes, and Yahoo! Movies) attached to Brave this weekend. Excessive if you ask me (Come on, fellas, just pick one and avoid this hit-whoring, attention-grabbing bullshit). Follow the links above if you actually want to spot the differences in all four. Below is just one. Because we value your time, good reader:

First Look at Angelina Jolie as Maleficent

When Disney announced Angelina Jolie was playing the title role in Maleficent, the "true story" of Sleeping Beauty playing the sympathy-card on the iconic villainess, what was there to argue? One might tire of that sub-genre within a genre (the revisionist fairy-tale). But the casting was aces.

Jolie always had an exotic look to her and she's been known for her eccentricities over the years (That blurry-line between sibling-love and incest with her brother, writing then-hubby Billy-Bob Thornton's name on a tee-shirt in her own blood, adopting kids by the truck-load with Brad Pitt, etc.) It was never hard to visualize her sporting the black dress and horns.

This morning, the studio has provided the world a first-look at her in character, and she looks exactly how you thought she would.

The Dark Knight Rises Has a Fourth Trailer You Didn't Really Need

The last trailer for The Dark Knight Rises had a brilliance to how it eloquently sold the action, scope and finality to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. That was it, we all thought. From here on out, until its July 20th opening, the only new footage we'll get a glimpse of will be from various TV spots and official press clips to tide us.

Nope.

This morning comes a fourth trailer. There are new tidbits, some extensions of what we saw from the afore-mentioned television ads, and it still leaves the overall plot a mystery (At this point, I feel like we could guess what happens and not be too far off the mark). It's OK. Just unnecessary after the note of the last trailer left us on.