Lois Lane Hearts Stuffed French Toast

You'd think having an American icon like Superman (being played by the British Henry Cavill) would be big enough to get better chains than iHop to show up in The Man of Steel. Just imagine a scene where upon after punching Antje Traue, Cavill stops for a moment to enjoy a nice, cold Coca-Cola or eats a Big-Mac for the energy he needs to kick Michael Shannon's Zod in the balls.

In what's basically a cute little article from TribLocal (That's been mysteriously pulled) on a local and his 15 minutes of fame as a background extra comes a tiny revelation. Amy Adams has already reported on set for the Superman reboot, and filmed a sequence where she's dining at the local Smallville iHop.

Didn't occur to me that the Daily Planet reporter might step foot on Supes' home-turf.

Here are some exerpts from the now defunct article courtesy of Waubonsie Valley High School student & iHop employee turned actor for a day Ahmed Helmy.

On How He Scored The Part:

“Most of my friends knew about the movie already and some even tried out. I was at work when they came in and just asked me if I’d play myself as a waiter.”

On Filming His Scene:

“Well I was surprised that it was kinda’ tiring waiting around so much outside the restaurant while they got the scene just perfect, but once we started filming it was cool."

On Amy Adams:

“I think I’ll be in the film because I walk past her table a couple of times; I’m in the background.

On Zack Snyder:

“He’s a really cool and funny guy. He knows how to get the shot just perfect. I could tell because he would shout cut only after a few minutes."

Rob Kazinsky Lost The Hobbit, but Gains Pacific Rim

Rob Kazinsky, as you may remember, was originally cast as the dwarf Fili in The Hobbit and made all the press-tours before production began along with his fellow dwarves and Martin Freeman. However, a month into filming, he dropped out citing "personal reasons" and the role was taken over by Dean O'Gorman.

Something such as that transpiring well into the shoot could mean one of many things. Perhaps there were in fact issues at home that needed to be sorted out or perhaps he was a pain-in-the-ass for Peter Jackson to deal with and was shown the door. Who knows? Either or, it didn't do him any favors. Notice how great Stuart Townsend's career has gone since being fired off The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

But, in his favor, he's recovered from that loss of appearing in a big studio blockbuster (that would get his name out there to a wide audience) by appearing in another. Variety reports he's joined the cast of Guillermo del Toro's futuristic monster-movie Pacific Rim.

Maybe it's a pure coincidence that Kazinsky ended up in a movie directed by del Toro, who we all know was the originally-assigned director on Hobbit before vacating his seat.

Red Tails Trailer Made with 100% Real Cheese

If you were optimistic of Red Tails (like I was for the longest time), then that First Showing report of post-production woes and extensive reshoots under the direction of its producer George Lucas didn't ease those knee-jerks "How will Lucas screw this up?" concerns. Hey, you know you had them! That news-item dates back to February of last year and, besides a late January 2012 release date; mum's been the word on the WWII-drama focusing on the Tuskegee Airmen.

Its trailer is here for your viewing pleasure via Yahoo! Movies.

There's a great movie to be made on the subject of Airmen, and Lucas has been passionate about getting it done for Lord knows how long. So I was rooting for him and director Anthony Hemingway to pull it off and shut up his critics. Unfortunately I can't say I'm impressed with anything outside of the visual effects. Sorry but this looks like an overload of heavy-handedness and cheese. To its credit, it doesn't fall back on Edward Zwick syndrome, i.e. "God bless white people!"

Breaking News You Should Have Already Figured Out – Star Trek 2 Not Hitting June 2012

At the rate things were going with proposed start-dates (of which we got a few) coming and going with nothing happening mixed together with no firm commitment on J.J. Abrams' return to the director's chair and frequent, non-committal "We're still working on the story" updates from Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof and Roberto Orci, Star Trek 2 wasn't going to make its June 29, 2012 release date.

So if you're surprised to hear Paramount is slotting its G.I. Joe sequel (now titled G.I. Joe: Retaliation instead of the deliciously-cheesy Cobra Strikes as first reported by Movie Hole) there instead, you really shouldn't be. Nevertheless, "TOLDJA" says the options on the U.S.S. Enterprise have been exercised, which is a fancier way of saying Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest are coming back. Not that that was ever in doubt.

Meanwhile, Abrams himself is "moving toward a commitment to direct" and a new start-date (Here we go again...) aiming around January with a new release date either towards Christmas 2012 or summer 2013. Most likely outcome will be the latter and Paramount beaming it into theaters around the July 4^th weekend.

Loved Star Trek, can't wait for its sequel, yadda, yadda, yadda. We've all heard this before. Can we finally get things going on Star Trek 2 for real now?

New Change-Up Trailer Makes Use of Its Red-Band Status

Having sat through the big blockbusters this summer, I can personally vouch that the closing Leslie Mann shit joke (and Jason Bateman's "Guns are still hot" reply) was the sole highlight of The Change-Up's first, otherwise crappy, trailer.

Screen Junkies have a new trailer for the Bateman/Ryan Reynolds body-swap swap comedy. This time coming in the form of a red-band that lets you know it's a hard-R with nonstop swearing (Not complaining whatsoever, mind you) and a closing joke again involving Mann and, I'll admit, a clever take on what happens when someone outside of the body-swapped were to be told about such an occurrence.

Maybe They'll Stop Calling Bourne Legacy a Reboot Now?

From the moment Universal and Tony Gilroy said The Bourne Legacy was going to carry on from where The Bourne Ultimatum left off with a new protagonist (Jeremy Renner), we've heard "reboot" being branded next to it.

Why I have no idea, beside it being the new "buzz" term to represent something brand-new, cooler or as The Simpsons said it best, "Aren't these just words that dumb people say to make themselves sounds smart?" Hopefully this will put an end to that nonsense.

Variety reports Joan Allen and Albert Finney will return for the Bourne sequel in their respective roles of Pamela Landy, the CIA agent originating from The Bourne Supremacy first as an adversary and by the end of Ultimatum an ally, and Albert Hirsch, the doctor responsible for the Operation Treadston program throughout the Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass-directed films.

All for continuity, but this is starting to feel a little Teen Wolf Too here.

Ron Howard Decides Against Directing The Lost Symbol

Bit of a surprise here. Sony is developing the third Robert Langdon adventure The Lost Symbol (following the bore-tastic The Da Vinci Code and its follow-up that I avoided like the plague Angels & Demons) and given its steady-stream of revenue, we assumed both Tom Hanks and helmer Ron Howard were coming back.

Reports "TOLDJA" Hanks will definitely be back rocking the mullet. Howard, on the other hand, is calling it a day from the Dan Brown-adapted films. As per their Sony moles, he's just plain getting bored with those characters and retreading that territory for a third time. Fair enough.

Since his docket is full, including The Dark Tower (which Universal just dropped like a bad habit but another studio, like Warner Brothers or Disney, could grab) and the Chris Hemsworth-attached Rush, it's not like Howard won't keep on chugging along while Sony searches for his replacement on Symbol.

Battleship Teaser Trailer – They're Kidding, Right?

As if there wasn't snickering at the thought of a movie based on the Battleship board-game getting made and it involving aliens comes this teaser trailer from Yahoo! Movies.

It's never a bad thing to be open-minded and remember that we're not supposed to know all the details on these big movies from the start-up and allow the filmmakers and cast (in this case, Peter Berg, Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson and Alexander Skarsgard) the benefit of the doubt. Unforunately, our first look, due in theaters next May, doesn't help that cause.

Somwhere at this very moment, Funny or Die is pissed they didn't think of this first.

Lucifer from Paradise Lost Kinda Looks like Bradley Cooper

Straight from their official site (and following the Comic-Con panel where there wasn't exactly swarms of hard-core info or footage to show off, since a single frame has yet to be captured), Legendary Pictures has released this artwork from Alex Proyas' Paradise Lost showing off our first look, for lack of a better term, at Bradley Cooper as Lucifer.

Remember though, kids, this is a motion-capture production so there's no telling how much of that A-Team/Hangover mug will translate over to the traditional mo-cap zombie look.

Comic-Con: Silver Samurai Is the Villain in Wolverine 2

Not Earth shattering news because we all came to this conclusion. But since it hasn't been verified yet, it is worth a mention unlike, say recent batches of "exclusive confirmations" of information we've known since last October towards the Lizard being the baddie in The Amazing Spider-Man. I'm looking directly at you, Entertainment Weekly.

Hugh Jackman has confirmed he'll face off against the Silver Samurai in The Wolverine.

Given that the sequel/prequel is based on the popular Frank Miller limited-run comic series from the early 80s and the character was the antagonist in that, we all put one and one together. It's good to have official confirmation from Logan himself though.