New MAN OF STEEL Poster Is Just as Boring as the Last 12

The Man of Steel Facebook page showed off another new poster for the film today, showing us that they still don't know how to make a cool poster.

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Remember when movie posters used to mean something? Now they're "take a bunch of stills from the trailers and drown them in photoshop or put them in a generic pose?

Jeez. 

Star Wars Episode VII Will Film In UK

Lucasfilm announced today that production of Star Wars: Episode VII will take place in the United Kingdom. All of the six previous live-action Star Wars movies have included UK production in such famed studios as Elstree, Shepperton, Leavesden, Ealing and Pinewood Studios. 

"We've devoted serious time and attention to revisiting the origins of Star Wars as inspiration for our process on the new movie, and I'm thrilled that returning to the UK for production and utilizing the incredible talent there can be a part of that," said Kathleen Kennedy, President of Lucasfilm. "Speaking from my own longstanding connection to the UK with films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun and recently War Horse, it's very exciting to be heading back." 

Earlier this year, representatives from Lucasfilm met with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in London to establish an agreement to produce Star Wars in the U.K. "I am delighted that Star Wars is coming back to Britain. Today's announcement that the next Star Wars film will be shot and produced in the UK is great news for fans and our creative industries," Osborne said today. 

Star Wars: Episode VII will be directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Michael Arndt and is scheduled for a 2015 release.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Get Captured in Latest Set Pic.

From the New York City set of Michael Bay's upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (courtesy of Super Hero Hype) we see Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello captured by Foot Soldiers.

$10 says Raphael is the one to come save them.

New MAN OF STEEL Poster Shows WB Breaking the Creative Bank.

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

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Official Plot Synopsis for DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Revealed

With principal photography commencing for 20th Fox's sequel to it's 2011 preboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the big Fox has revealed the plot for 2014's sequel.

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.

The cast includes Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, Public Enemies), Gary Oldman (Robocop, The Fifth Element),  Toby Kebbell (The Prince of Persia, Wrath of the Titans), Kerri Russell (FX's "The Americans"), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, The Road), Enrique Murciano (Black Hawk Down), Kirk Acevedo (The Thin Red Line), and Judy Greer (The Descendants, 13 Going on 30), and Andy Serkis (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) reprising his role as Caesar.

The film, directed by Matt Reeves (Let Me In, CLOVERFIELD) is set for Memorial Day Weekend, May 23, 2014.

Anyone else excited? I loved "Rise" and this sounds like the movie all the Apes' fans have been waiting for. Cast looks great, and time only means good things for WETA's advancements in the field of VFX and Mo-cap.

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All of Your AVENGERS Want More Money, or No AVENGERS 2.

According to Deadline, Marvel doesn't want to give it's super-team some more dosh for their next 50 movies, so who knows maybe Avengers 3, Captain America 7: Fin Fang Foom Returns, and Iron Man 5 might not happen with Chris Evans and Co...the article is a long read; but good. Below are some excerpts, to read more go see what Deadline has to say. 

Robert Downey Jr is set for another huge payday from a mega-hit Marvelmovie, this time Iron Man 3. I’ve learned he’s already made $35 million from the actioner which grossed $680 million worldwide in its first 12 days. He should exceed his biggest payday to date — that $50M from The Avengerswhich I’ve learned was more like $70M-$80M now that the film is all in. But it’s reallyAvengers 2 where he’ll clean up big-time — if he wants to reprise the role. He’s hinting to some media it may be time to retire Tony Stark. And saying to other outlets that Marvel better show him more money for Avengers 2. ”I don’t know,” he said on The Daily Show. ”I had a long contract with them and now we’re gonna renegotiate.” (“You are Iron Man! You are!” cheered Jon Stewart.) I’ve learned that Marvel and therefore owner Disney are going to run into big trouble on that sequel because the upfront pay, backend compensation, break even points and box office bonuses aren’t pinned down yet for several big stars and castmates. This is major hurdle which Walt Disney Co Chaiman/CEO Bob Iger hasn’t even mentioned to Wall Street or shareholders although he’s already been hyping Avengers 2 for more than a year now.

More:

”Marvel has created so much animosity by strong-arming and bullying on sequels already. It’s counterproductive,” one source tells me. Says another, “I’m sick of Kevin Feige telling me again and again how Marvel is ‘reinventing the movie business’. It doesn’t work like this. They’re reinventing business, period.” I’ve learned Marvel already has threatened to sue or recast when contracts and/or options are challenged. That prompted a few cast members to respond, “Go ahead.” I hear Hemsworth especially wasn’t anxious to go back into that arduous diet and training regimen and subsist primarily on egg whites for Thor: Dark World which hits theaters November 8th. I also understand that Scarlett Johanssen told castmates she’s “not going to cut her quote” for Marvel’s Avengers 2. The actress as butt-kicking operative Black Widow in The Avengers and Iron Man 2 is wrapping Captain America: The Winter Soldier and has a whopping 8 options total.

An excerpt from an interview with Joss Whedon:

DEADLINE: Marvel is notoriously cheap and some of the Avengers cast will want more money for the sequel. How could that affect Avengers 2?
WHEDON: I’m not going to comment specifically because I’m not privy to that sort of stuff and I don’t think it’s my place to talk about. In general terms, yes – Marvel can be very cheap, God knows. They can also be sensible and frugal. They have a very small infrastructure and they’re not heaping this money on themselves. I don’t know a producer who’s done more and is paid less than Kevin Feige. I think that it’s an issue but it’s part of a bigger issue, which is there was a time when there was a crisis in the acting community where stars were getting $20 million and character actors were disappearing as a concept. There were no middle class actors. It was suddenly bit players and Jim Carrey, and that was it. Now the studios have gotten to a point where they’re like, “Do we need that star?” With what they’re able to to digitally and the way they create franchises there’s a little bit of a feeling of, maybe we can eliminate the actor – not totally and not totally cynically, but I’ve literally heard people at the agency say, not about Marvel, “This studio is eliminating the middle movie. They’re not making dramas or prestige pics or anything that isn’t either a franchise or a Paranormal-style found footage”. I think that changes the landscape for actors because really good actors are interested in doing a franchise because they need something.

Here's Megan Fox as April O'Neil + FOOT Soldier in TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

From Screen Crush, here you go nerds, go cry about your yellow jump-suit or BAWW Michael Bay ruined MUH CHILDHOOD.

We'll be waiting here in grown-up land.

Fox looks pretty good, and I'm liking the FOOT Soldiers look.

I just hope Vanilla Ice gets a cameo..

New MAN OF STEEL Banner.

A new banner was released through Warner Brothers today for their upcoming summer film, Man of Steel.

A boy discovers he has supernatural powers and he was not born on Earth. Later, he undertakes a journey to understand where it comes from and why he was sent on our planet. But it will be a hero if he wants to save the world from total destruction and embody the hope for all mankind ...

Man of Steel flies into theaters June 14 2013. 

New X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Image; Kitty Pryde as John Connor

Take a shot every time Bryan Singer tweets a pic!

Take a shot every time you wish it was a pic of Fassbender....

Today Bryan Singer tweeted another image from the set of next summer's X-Men: Days of Future Past and this time it's Ellen Page as Shadowcat, a very central character to this film's plot. 

Hello, Kitty @ellenpage #XMen #DaysofFuturePast twitter.com/BryanSinger/st…

— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) May 3, 2013

 I really do love these costumes.

X-Men: Days of Future Past comes out July 18 2014 in 3D.

Spielberg to do next Bradley Cooper film; "Hangover guy" wins Oscar before Leo

In some news from The Hollywood Reporter today, it was announced Steven Spielberg, who recently took a trip to the Oscars the past few years with War Horse and Lincoln will now direct Bradley Cooper in the docu-drama of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.

Jason Hall (Spread) wrote the script and will executive produce.Sniper will now be a Warner Bros./DreamWorks co-production, with Warners handling domestic.

A first-quarter 2014 start date is being targeted.

The book, whose complete title is American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, reveals how Texas native Kyle came to record the highest number of sniper kills for an American. The book has been praised for its frankness in telling a first-person account of a warrior who shoots from far and close distances.

Well. We should put Leo on suicide watch when this inevitably gets Cooper the Oscar he almost had for David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook just last year. It's clear Cooper has been eying more serious work, especially since the franchise that made him famous, The Hangover is ending just this summer with it's Part 3.

The actor also recently was the latest to drop out of Natalie Portman's Janies Got a Gun which will probably never be made. Shucks..?