Tease Of "Oz The Great And Powerful" Super Bowl Spot

Disney's fantastical adventure imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved character, the Wizard of Oz. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot--fame and fortune are his for the taking--that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity--and even a bit of wizardry--Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.

"Jack The Giant Slayer" TV Spot #2

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend—and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

Star Wars 3D Re-Releases 2012-2012

Disney slapped 3D on The Lion King, reissued it theatrically and swam in the receipts. They followed with a number of other animated favorites to less favorable, and profitable, results. So they quit while they were ahead and cancelled further rereleases including The Little Mermaid.

Lucasfilm had a similar situation. Rerelease every Star Wars chapter in 3D starting with The Phantom Menace once a year. Only it did just OK last year. And since then you might have noticed them selling their company to the afore-mentioned Disney and Episode VII coming in 2015. The novelty of the rereleases was seeing them on the big screen. Since there were never gonna be anymore, right?

They certainly thought of that as they announced this afternoon those plans have been scrapped citing their plans to focus on the new trilogy. Thing is Lucasfilm says it was their call. But doesn't 20^th Century Fox still retain distribution rights? Wouldn't it be their decision to make? And does this call bode well with them?

Source: Star Wars.com

Nicolas Cage's Superman is Here to Haunt Your Dreams

Fanboys are oohing and aahing over the latest Man of Steel photos.

But think back to that magical (Read: fucked up) time Warner Brothers almost let Tim Burton make a Superman movie with Nicolas Cage. Imagine an alternate reality where Zack "I end every sentence with 'Awesome!'" Snyder wasn't rebooting Supes after Bryan Singer. A world where Superman Lives was real.

One picture of Cage in suit wasn't enough to disturb us. Another one has surfaced online and it looks... strangely like Nicolas Cage as Superman. Still trying to find out where it came from – I spotted it on the Super Hero Hype! forums (Thanks to Kal-El.9859).

While we're on the subject, run to Kickstarter and throw some bucks Jon Schnepp's way, if you can. He's making a documentary on the making, and unmaking, of Superman Lives and working to get interviews with everyone from Kevin Smith (a non-issue given his self-admitted "Press whore" status) all the way up to Burton and Cage. His plans are as ambitious to film select films from what would have been Burton's relaunch, had Warner Brothers been run by idiots and given it the greenlight.

Paul Giamatti is The Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man Sequel

This here is the face of a rhino. Strike that, the Rhino, the baddie from the Spider-Man comics whose abilities was yes to smash stuff up, like a rhino. THR says he's another member of Spidey's rogue gallery giving him grief in the Amazing Spider-Man sequel.

Like Electro, they're striving for Oscar-worthy talent versus Andrew Garfield. Paul Giamatti is in talks. A casting item years in the making, he confessed his desire to wear the horn on Conan a couple of years ago:

Giamatti as Rhino, Jamie Foxx as Electro and Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn (His villain status here remains TBD) - sounds like they're going for the Sinister Six. Was that always the plan on the sequel or is this an answer to The Avengers? A couple of superheroes versus one supervillain and aliens, you say? How about one superhero versus a bunch of supervillains, mothafucka?!?

The Webhead has the best roster of antagonists in comics-land (Sorry, Bats!) You might as well exploit it in the movies while you can, Sony - before Disney gets its stinking mouse-mittens on the web-slinger.

Brad Bird's 1952 Headed to Tomorrowland

What's been referred to as 1952, the Brad Bird-directed, Damon Lindelof-penned project for Disney, has undergone a title change.

The studio has officially re-titled it to Tomorrowland. George Clooney will star, its set for a December 2014 release in 3D and no, we don't have a clue what it's about yet.

New "Man Of Steel Images Of Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe & Michael Shannon

The Brothers Warner are starting to ramp up the marketing a little bit for their upcoming summer tentpole Man Of Steel. Superman will grace the cover of the March edition of Empire, there is a second special edition cover featuring just Superman without all of those annoying words. Along with the cover, there are also photos of Michael Shannon as Zod and Russel Crowe as Jor-El to be enjoyed in the magazine itself. Photos below.

The Wolverine Wears a Suit!

No, not that suit.  But still, wouldn't it be awesome if Hugh Jackman showed up at the Oscars like this next month? 

The latest issue of Empire Magazine features this new image from The Wolverine, which opens in theaters this summer.  Besides being the first photo we've seen from the film where Wolverine is actually wearing a shirt (not that I had a problem with that), this is the first time in any of the X-Men films where we've seen Wolverine in a...is that a suit?  And a tie?  What is going on here?

Set after the events of the third X-Men film, The Wolverine is based on the popular Claremont/Miller saga from the comics, which has Wolverine tangled up with the Japanese criminal underworld.  Director James Mangold recently spoke about the adaptation, and his comments about bringing out Wolverine's beserker rage in the film:

"All that talk about getting darker and more intense had us wondering how that might affect the film's rating. "The whole point is not about violence or rating; it's about intensity," Mangold said when asked exactly how dark and dangerous things get. "I wanted to make a film that in a way captures the intensity of his character. One of the things that has always been a feature of Wolverine in the comics is that he has a berserker rage, that he has anger and some of his abilities are driven by something more primal." And how do you showcase the primal nature of those abilities? Easy, Mangold said: You give the character opportunities to get pissed off. "Honestly, to get really pissed off — not cute pissed off, not quippy pissed off, not funny pissed off or cigar-chomping pissed off, just pissed off — that can then help drive the fighting, drive the combat," he explained. "That is interesting for me and then for the character, some of the jet fuel underneath some of the combat in the film."

That certainly sounds promising.  The Wolverine opens in theaters on July 26.

Man of Steel May Have the Strangest, Meta "Cameo"

Cameos of past Superman actors in the latest film incarnation isn't new. In fact, it's an unofficial tradition. Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill played Lois Lane's parents in Superman the Movie and Jack Larson tagged along with Neill for Superman Returns as Jimmy Olsen's bar-tender buddy and the old woman Lex Luthor swindled outta her fortune.

Spanish fansite Superman Javi Olivares has covered this "cameo." It comes from video taken a year back during the Chicago leg of the Man of Steel shoot. Henry Cavill's Clark Kent, sans glasses, is riding a bike in downtown Metropolis.

Take a look at the mild-mannered, fedora and possibly glasses wearing extra in the background. The theory is this is "Christopher Reeve" – a symbolic way of passing the torch to Cavill and saying "Out with the old, in the new?"

Not something to brush off as fanboy bullshit; this is so out there, I buy it.

For the record, this wouldn't be the first time "Christopher Reeve" appeared via cameo in another guy's Superman movie. That Superman Returns Noel Neill cameo I mentioned earlier? After she croaks and gives Luthor everything, he walks out of her bedroom and is faced down by her family... with a paraplegic center frame. Reeve was originally set to cameo before his passing prior to the start of filming.

More X-Men Going Back to Future for Days of Future Past

Bryan Singer directing X-Men: Days of Future Past opened the door for his alumni to return. Why else would Sir Ian McKellen show up after the semi-atrocious, semi-poetic fate of Magneto in The Last Stand. Turning him "straight" with the Mutant Cure - the whole thing is one big gay parable. Notice he hasn't been back since.

More are returning as Singer tweeted to expect to see Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore and, the big surprise here, Ellen Page. Her casting was the big contribution by Brett Ratner - Kelsey Grammer and Vinnie Jones were Matthew Vaughn hires before he quit.

Didn't think we'd see Page return, this was pre-Juno and her initial contract undoubtedly expired in the seven years since. Figured they'd spin the Days of Future Past storyline (one of the X-Men psychically time-travels to the past to prevent an event leading to a mutant holocaust) and approximate it for Mystique instead. Jennifer Lawrence is hot, The Hunger Games is big and she’s about to win her Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook. I guess not.

This is going to be an over-stuffed roster. Would it be more appropriate to re-title this Giant Sized X-Men given the growing, and more to come, cast?