Extended Comic Con Footage of The Goon Shows Up

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Eric Powell’s comic The Goon has a wonderfully bold style, and when Jamie posted the first test footage from the project a few days ago we had our first chance to see what Blue Sky had in store for Powell’s creation. After storming Comic Con last night Powell, voice actor Paul Giamatti and producer David [...]

Mark Ruffalo Hulk Deal Coming to Comic Con? UPDATED

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So, with only hours before the Marvel movie panel there’s a report from Deadline that the deal is done and Marvel are hoping to haul Ruffalo in front of the waiting world when The Avengers gather at Comic Con. This would bring the nasty saga of Marvel’s Hulk casting to a close with the third [...]

For The Love of God and All That is Holy, Give Me the ‘Priest’ Trailer!

Thanks to Comingsoon.net via twitter, we now have a trailer for the new Scott Stewert film Priest which reunites him with Legion star Paul Bettany.  I don’t know about all of you but I have been anxiously awaiting this trailer because up until now I have only seen a few pictures and had no idea what it was [...]

CONFIRMED: Jeremy Renner is Hawkeye

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Earlier today I posted an article that confirmed Nathan Fillion as Ant-Man for the upcoming Avengers film.  Well I have another tidbit of Avenger news for you coming straight from the carpet of comic con.  Ontheredcarpet.com has just confirmed with Joss Whedon that Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) is now officially Hawkeye, aka Clint Barton, and will [...]

First Image from Skyline

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Comingsoon have unveiled the first official image from the upcoming independent sci-fi / alien film, Skyline. The film, directed by brothers Greg and Colin Strause, stars Donald Faison, Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson and Brittany Daniel. Synopsis: After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie [...]

Comic-Con: Thor Helmets Revealed

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Marvel Studios have revealed Loki, Odin and Thor’s helmets at their Comic-Con booth. The helmets, the exact ones wore by the actors during filming of the comic-book adaptation, were displayed in a cabinet for all attendees to see. Thanks to Comingsoon, you can see the image below. Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, stars Chris Hemsworth, [...]

The First Footage from Ironclad

The Ironclad panel took place at SDCC last night and MTV have premiered the first footage that we’ve seen from the movie. This is just a taster of what was shown at the event but it’s great to see it all the same! Pretty much all we’ve had for Ironclad so far is this poster [...]

Nathan Fillion Is(n’t) Ant-Man!

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Update: It now eppears that Whedon said this as a joke and this is, in fact rubbish! – Apologies everyone. It’s official!  Nathan Fillion (Serenity, Firefly) has been selected to join the elite superhero film, The Avengers, as none other than the mighty Ant-Man. Ant-Man shall shrink you and then, when you are sleeping, will command [...]

New Scott Pilgrim Clip from Comic Con – You and Her

Comic Con has proved a perfect ending point for all the Scott Pilgrim Pilgrims with director Edgar Wright unexpectedly playing the film to the collected fans, and early word reviews are peppered with hyperbole and acclaim. Those of us not at Comic Con won’t get to see it until the end of August but there’s [...]

8 Minutes of Tron: Legacy Comic-Con 2010 Footage Leaked

Now, I’m sure before this footage was shown at Comic Con, the audience were asked not to film the screen but one naughty chap or chapette has flouted the rules and filmed the eight minutes footage that were shown during the panel last night. I’m sure that this footage will be taken down in the [...]

Inception’s Impressive First Week At The The Box Office

Deadline.com is reporting the extremely reassuring news that Inception has passed the $100 million barrier after just 7 days at the domestic (US) box office. On the surface, this may not be considered a huge feat for your average summer blockbuster, but when you consider that the film is an original piece of work, competing [...]

Scarlett Johansson Orbits Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity

In February it was reported, by various sources, that Angelina Jolie was in talks to star in Alfonso Cuaron’s upcoming sci-fi adventure, Gravity. Then, in March we reported that Robert Downey Jr had been cast to compensate for the departure of Jolie. Now, according to the NY Daily News reports (via Bleeding Cool), Robert Downey [...]

New Trailer for Monsters Lands

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So, bypassing the obligatory ‘new District 9′ nonsense, let’s get down to business. There’s a new trailer for Gareth Edwards’ alien invasion film Monsters roaming around the internet this evening and we’ve managed to cage it for you good people to see. We were at the Edinburgh Film Festival when this film was shown, our [...]

Josh Brolin and Matthew McConaughey Both Have Dreams of a Dying Heart

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Hilary Swank’s next film is in need of a male co-star, and two names to be hurtled towards the film Dreams of a Dying Heart are Soon-to-be Man in Black Josh Brolin and romantic every-leading-man Matthew McConaughey. Here’s what Deadline had to say on the film, Swank will play a soldier who returns home after [...]

New Hesher Images

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Last night, The Playlist debuted some new images from the upcoming indie-drama, Hesher. The film, Spencer Susser’s directorial debut, stars Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception), Rainn Wilson (Juno), Devin Brochu (In the Valley of Elah) and Audrey Wasilewski (Year of the Dog). Synopsis: In the wake of his mother’s recent death, thirteen year [...]

Red Band Machete Trailer Has Guts

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If you’re searching for the antidote to the clean cut niceties of Megamind then look no further than this literally gut wrenching new red band trailer for Machete. There’s all sorts of blood letting and external internal organs and the Robert Rodriguez film has never looked better, it’s certainly an improvement on the last trailer [...]

Quirky Poster for It’s Kind of a Funny Story

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Movieweb have premiered the official debut poster for It’s Kind of a Funny Story. It comes almost a week after we showed you the first full-length trailer for the comedy-drama. It’s Kind of a Funny Story was directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who were responsible for the quirky drama Half Nelson, and stars [...]

Comic-Con Megamind Footage Emerges

While Comic-Con continues its incessant outpouring of news and rumour squashing announcements there’s plenty of fun to be had and the Dreamworks people decided to show off four minutes of Megamind, their latest animation due out in the US on the 5th of November. Following the tradition of all huge animated blockbusters there’s a fairly [...]

Rodriguez Discusses Predators Sequel

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IGN got talking with Robert Rodriguez about Predators while at Comic-Con and he said that a further sequel looks likely. “[The studio] said, ‘Let’s do some other ones. What other story ideas do you have?’” said the filmmaker. “Because it was like, let’s test out the market with this one. They really wanted it to [...]

Die Hard 5 on the Cusp of a Green Light?

Bruce Willis has been chatting to MTV at Comic-Con (he has both The Expendables and Red there) and he claims that production on Die Hard 5 is  “imminent”. Oh dear. Surely I’m not alone in thinking it’s time to put this franchise to bed? Live Free or Die Hard was for me, a tired-looking action [...]