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SDCC '14: BATMAN V SUPERMAN Tops The New List Of New WB/DC Films To Be Announced

San Diego Comic Con is just sixteen days away with attendees preparing to line-up with their badges and special costumes to gather celebrate the four-day event to learn more about their beloved multi-media properties, and that especially goes for superhero movie fans eager for what lies ahead from the folks at DC and Warner Bros. with the upcoming release of Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice. That being said, leave it to Deadline founder-now self-employed industry reporter Nikki Finke to share what she’s learning from her sources about what fans can expect from an announcement to be made next month when SDCC 2014 kicks off. On Thursday, Finke’s first piece on her new site introduces a list of films that are reportedly in development and may very well be announced next month. A few of these films have made some headlines in previous months, with BvS being one and another […]

Sneaky Zebra Blows The Competion Away In THE WONG WAY!

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Entertainers Nick Acott and Gary Scullion have been keeping themselves quite busy in the past year making visually inspired, fun, action packed shortfilms on their YouTube channel where they host their UK-based independent film company, Sneaky Zebra. They eventually stopped by this summer’s exhilarting events at San Diego Comic-Con over the summer where they met up and hung out with VFX impressario, actor and independent filmmakers Freddie Wong and Jimmy Wong. They spoke, pitched ideas and mingled minds and agreed to it, prior to crossing paths once more at Pax Prime in Seattle in August. This week, that particular project comes in the form of The Wong Way, a hilarious action comedy short that lasts just a few minutes, and blends action, gun play, fantasy and comedy that fans usually enjoy. You can now check that out at the bottom of the page where you may also subscribe to Sneaky […]

HERCULES 3D Director Renny Harlin Drops Sequel Clues

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Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2 and 12 Rounds director Renny Harlin is lining up post-production on his next hopeful blockbuster, Hercules 3D, starring Kellan Lutz, and also starring Liam McIntyre and Scott Adkins. With all hopes in place for a sequel, Empire got the most recent scoop from the director on what the next hopeful installment would entail. “Our story is the young Hercules, so I would say that the sequel will probably dive into the Labours.” Harlin says. “As you know, in the mythology Hercules ended up killing his wife and children, and as atonement he got the 12 Labours. So we definitely reference them as a future thing, but he doesn’t go through them because he’s just starting his journey.” Harlin’s current production is described as being a cross-between Louis Leterrier’s Clash Of The Titans (2010) and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000), where the screenplay will focus on Hercules’s unrequited […]

SDCC 2013: Ultron To Bridge CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 With AVENGERS 2: AGE OF ULTRON

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According to a statement from Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier co-director Joe Russo via The Huffington Post, the character, Ultron, will likely appear at the end of his upcoming film, which he says establishes there being a significant relevance between the end of the 2012 Marvel’s The Avengers, and his own film. “There’s a very strong connection in the narrative between the events of the end of Marvel’s The Avengers that drive this film [Captain America: The Winter Soldier] and there’s a very strong hand off to The Avengers: Age of Ultron at the end of this movie.” he says “And Kevin Feige’s whole thing is that this is the biggest bridge of all of Phase 2 movies; it really is. It does involve the most amount of Avengers of any of the films in Phase 2, and it has sort of a, you know, there’s a very big […]

SDCC 2013: Katniss Returns As The Symbol Of Hope In The New Comic-Con Trailer For HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE

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The first official teaser for Hunger Games: Catching Fire, was released back in April during the MTV Movie Awards. Today, the brand new trailer unveiled on Saturday during the events at San Diego Comic Con where actress Jennifer Lawrence also surpised fans with an appearance by Michael Fassbender, accompanied with the cast of X-Men: Days Of Future Past. Francis Lawrence inherits the director’s seat from Gary Ross who helmed the first film. Briefly picking up where The Hunger Games left off, Catching Fire sees actress Lawrence and actor Josh Hutcherson as the reigning champions of the 74th annual Hunger Games, which takes them on a victory tour through the districts of Panem, where a rebellion continues to brew day by day. Meanwhile, behind the curtains are the President and the Gamemaker as they prepare the next competition, The Quarter Quell, while conspiring against the peoples’ heroine in the hopes of suppressing the […]

SDCC 2013: Warner Bros. Announces Next Man Of Steel Film As Part Of DC Cinematic Universe

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According to prior statements made by Man Of Steel star Henry Cavill, a Justice League would not be likely to happen soon unless other films were done to help create the universe to fit the characters. This was particularly the case with The Avengers as it had 2 Iron Man movies, 2 Hulk movies, and initial film installments of Captain America and Thor, both with sequels pending, and largely why The Avengers continues to be so successful. Also, interestingly enough, with Christian Bale retiring the Batsuit with The Dark Knight trilogy helmer Christopher Nolan‘s involvment with the sequel previously unknown at the time, there has also been talk of the next Batman film following the Batman Beyond story seperate from the Batman Nolanverse. I gotta say, it sounds like a lot of hype with people throwing out a lot of possibilities for the future of the character. Truth be told […]

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MORTAL KOMBAT LEGACY 2 Cast, Director Heading To SDCC

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It’s the news BEFORE the news that Mortal Kombat fans are longing to follow up on in attendance at San Diego Comic Con, with the upcoming September web airing of Mortal Kombat: Legacy – Season 2. And with a movie currently in the works (in addition to the creation of a new original character for the currently developing film), hopefully the public will gain a more broader and bigger (apologies for the pun) a taste of things to come. Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Brian Tee (The Wolverine), Ian Anthony Dale (Mortal Kombat: Legacy), Samantha Jo (Mortal Kombat: Legacy), and Ed Boon (creator of Mortal Kombat) join series creator and director Kevin Tancharoen (Mortal Kombat: Legacy), producer Lance Sloane (Mortal Kombat: Legacy/Act of Valor), and Machinima’s executive vice president of network programming Aaron DeBevoise for an in-depth discussion about the highly anticipated second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy, set to premiere exclusively on Machinima, the number one global video entertainment brand for young males. Moderated […]

Syndicate Superhero Movie Roundup: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, AGENT CARTER, THE WOLVERINE

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Today was a pretty loaded day with some comic book film news. Notably, a few new photos from Thursday’s installment of Entertainmemt Weekly were unveiled for director Mark Webb‘s upcoming film, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which is set to release on May 2, 2014. The Columbia Pictures film, starring Andrew Garfield as the title hero opposite actor Jamie Foxx as the new villain, Electro, is expected to make its arrival at the San Diego Comic Con next week. The film also stars Emma Stone, Paul Giamatti, Dane DeHaan, Sally Field and Martin Sheen. The story will focus on character Peter Parker balancing life between high school and fighting crime as New York’s friendly neighborhood web-slinging superhero, conflicted between his feelings for love interest, Gwen Stacy, and keeping the promise he made in the first film to her father, played by actor Dennis Leary. Recent reports also concluded that the character, […]