So it’s finally happening! The Kickstarter funded Veronica Mars movie has begun production, and today he get our first look at the shoot as well as our first look at stars Kristen Bell and Jason Dohring reprising their award-eligible roles as Veronica Mars and Logan Echolls.

The film began shooting this week following a ton of casting announcements concerning the show’s key cast members including Tina Majorino (Mac), Percy Daggs III (Wallace), Enrico Colantoni (Keith), Daran Norris (Cliff), Francis Capra (Weevil), Chris Lowell (Piz), Ryan Hansen (Dick), Krysten Ritter (Gia), and Amanda Noret (Madison).

The plot of the film finds Veronica returning to her hometown of Neptune, CA for her 10-year high school reunion, and after a decade of not-sleuthing she’s drawn into a murder-mystery involving her ex, Logan. The scene in the photos below take place outside a club called the “09er,” which fans of the show will recognize as the nickname that all the rich kids at Neptune High had. Is this the scene being staged for our murder? I guess we’ll see.

Check out the full gallery below:

Source: Geek Tyrant

Every year, for three days at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, various companies get together to show off all their latest upcoming projects at the annual Las Vegas Licensing Expo. All the toys, games and television for the next few years will get previewed in some capacity, but one of the biggest highlights are Hollywood’s upcoming movies.

Between an opening keynote speech from Gwyneth Paltrow and an opening night party co-hosted by Flo Rida, the expo gives studios like Lionsgate and Warner Bros. their first chance promoting what could be a blockbuster film. Thankfully, the guys and gals of Coming Soon will be in attendance at the event providing those of us that forgot to reserve our tickets an exclusive look at films like Godzilla, Fast and Furious, its clone Need for Speed and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It’s a nice way to show us all what we’re going to be flaming message boards and spending money on in the next few months.

Check out all the posters in the gallery below.

A few of these are certainly coming out of left field, but seeing as all the kids love talking chipmunks and birds, it’s no surprise that Rio 2 and Alvin and the Chipmunks 4 are coming our way. One rather unpleasant surprise, however, is Ninja Turtles, which dropped the “teenage mutant” that has become so synonymous with the franchise. What’s the matter, Michael Bay, you couldn’t just continue to drive Transformers into the ground? You had to bring our pizza loving turtle friends down too?

Mild nerd rage aside, it’ll be interesting to see where some of these movies go; their release dates are up to two years away, and many of these are only just getting off the ground. Maybe we’ll happily embrace all of these in the months come… except Ninja Turtles.

Source: Coming Soon

Fresh off the success of Bioshock Infinite, the creator of the Bioshock franchise, Ken Levine, has been taken on by Warner Bros to write the screenplay for a Logan’s Run remake. A remake for the 1976 sci-fi cult classic film has been long-awaited.

The film was based on the dystopian novel published in 1967 William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. In the year 2116, humankind now lives inside a dome-enclosed city in a post-apocalyptic world where the answer to population control is willful execution at the age of 21 – the maximum age a person can reach is 30. Anyone who tries to escape this is called a “runner”. And, of course, the story follows Logan 5, who is a 30 year old runner and is definitely exploring his options.

It’s been talked about for a while, this remake – even Bryan Singer tried his hand at it – but it seems that Warner Bros is looking for a different perspective on things. Levine will continue being involved with his video game related work while he pens the screenplay for Logan’s Run.

I think he’s a great choice; what he’s done with the Bioshock world is just awesome and perhaps that’s the kind of look the studio wants for this upcoming film. What do you guys think?

Source: Deadline

The headline alone should be spoiler warning enough. If you read past this sentence and have NOT seen Zack Snyder‘s Man Of Steel then prepare to have secrets revealed. You were adopted. Ok, that was just a test to make sure you’re paying attention because the spoilers start quick.

With the rebooted Superman movie crushing box office records and a looming sequel (and dollar signs in Warner Bros. execs eyes,) the internet and comic book industry are still heavily debating how Snyder characterized the Last Son of Krypton and his snapping of things and crushing other things. It goes way beyond the red undies on the outside and has started more than a few flame wars across the internet. We have the directors official explanation for the changes coming up. Last chance before we dive in, spoilers start after the jump.  (more…)

Once we were looking at next summer for the long in the works third sequel to Jurassic Park, but like many aspects of the production of Jurassic Park IV, it was not meant to be. For fans looking for solid dinosaur action/adventure, it seemed like it might be another long wait for the film, this time under the supervision of Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow, who, according to sources, was planning some impressive set pieces for the film thus resulting in a new round of delays. But as it turns out, the wait won’t be too long after all.

Exhibit A: a picture of a banner from the 2013 Licensing Expo taken by ComingSoon. You’ll notice the banner has the date 2015 underneath the Jurassic Park logo, which strongly implies that the film is now looking at a 2015 release date. In addition, materials at the Expo seemed to indicate that the film will indeed bye shooting in 3-D, which I don’t think is a surprise, but may be a confirmation nonetheless.

Still, interesting about Jurassic Park IV coming out in 2015. That will place the new film directly in the flight path (potentially) of The Avengers 2, Assassin’s Creed, Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Prometheus 2 and Justice League. Sounds like another nerd-friendly summer slate that’s primed to disappoint.

What do you Bastards think? Still anxious to see JP4?

Source: Collider

Officially the role that Felicity Jones is playing in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is unknown, but many believe that she will be playing Felicia Hardy, aka the Black Cat. In a recent interview with Flicks in the City’s Jan Gilbert Jones was asked:

Are you looking forward to everyone seeing you as Black Cat?

Felicity’s bumbling answer, that is trying hard NOT to be an answer, is endearing in its simplicity. She wasn’t ready for that question, in that form, and you can see her stumble to get something out there while not confirming anything. I’m sure she’ll get better at it with practice. Although I have to say, this cat is out of the bag and won’t go back in.

Expect IMDB to update her role listing in a day or so.

Via: Bleedingcool

Mark Millar‘s Kick-Ass was a violent and humorously dark look into the world of costumed heroes. The Sequel, Kick-Ass 2 looks to be every bit the thrill ride the first movie was and more. More action, more heroes, more villains, and 100% more dogs biting bad guys in the nuts.

I’m ready for Millar to get serious and get his graphic novel The Pro onto the big screen, that would be a hoot. If you haven’t read The Pro, I suggest you get out to your local comic book shop and pick it up. It’s not something you’ll want to give to your mother for Mother’s Day, but it’s a fantastically farcical look at what happens when a hooker gains superpowers.

Take a look at the trailer below and let us know what you think, will Jim Carey steal the show? Will Hit-Girl make the cheer-leading squad?

Inspired by Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), other masked heroes appear. One such, Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), forms a team and Kick-Ass joins them on patrol, while Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) “retires”, and tries to have a normal life. Meanwhile Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)—reborn as The Mother Fucker—returns to play supervillain with his army, and exact revenge on Kick-Ass for his father’s death.

Via: Blastr

If Dan Harmon bears some resentment towards the studio that fired him after three seasons producing the acclaimed comedy he created, it’s understandable, even if he’s in the rare position of being hired back in a quasi-mea culpa after that same studio studio realized that Community needed Harmon more than Harmon needed Community. So I guess in the same spirit of you can’t burn the same bridge twice, Harmon recently discussed the state of his creation on his podcast Harmontown Sunday.

Of the previous season of Community that he had nothing to do with, Harmon said that the season was “unflattering” and that watching episodes of season 4 was like, “flipping through Instagram watching your girlfriend **** a million [people].”

David Guarascio and Moses Port were brought in to be showrunners after season 3 and Harmon’s termination. Sony’s thought was that they might broaden the niche appeal of Community to a bigger audience, but fans and critics more or less agreed that the pair was merely riffing on what Harmon had done, and since the ratings held steady from the Harmon era of the show, neither going up nor down, NBC and Sony decided that if they couldn’t do better without Harmon, they might as well do the same with him.

Harmon continued to talk specifically about what he thinks Sony hoped to accomplish with his expulsion from Community:

“There’s a system in place that’s winning because I would have had too much leverage, too much power, too much salary, as would have a lot of writers coming into Season 4. So they just flushed us and replaced us with two guys who didn’t know what they were getting into…

“Writers fighting other writers is the American Dream in the eyes of Sony. That is what they want. They want creative people rewriting each other. They want creative people replacing each other. They want us interchangeable. They want to think about writing the way they think about the guy on assembly line 24 that puts the final screw in the f****** Playstation… I shouldn’t even say ‘they’ because it’s an ‘it,’ it’s a f****** machine. There isn’t a single person that works at that corporation that isn’t also thought of like that by the f****** SkyNet… The system just wants us all to not be human.”

Well, all I have to say is ‘ouch’ for Sony. But I will add that while Harmon has every right to be ticked about his treatment, maybe he could take the high road and just sit back and enjoy the fact that the studio thought they knew best and they ended up coming crawling back to him in the end. That’s got to be the best kind of revenge, right?

Source: Screen Rant

When Anthony Mackie was cast in the role of Captain America’s modern day partner, the Falcon, fans were excited to see this character brought to life on the big screen. Mackie recently talked about Captain America: The Winter Soldier and his role with EW.

It’s a cool story and brings in some amazing characters and the Falcon is one of the things that fans are already excited about.

It’s a movie that has kind of turned into a bigger-than-life opportunity for me. I’ve had these little milestones along the way and now to play a superhero and to work with people like Robert Redford, Sam Jackson, and Chris? It’s just turned into this amazing moment.

Mackie stressed that the Falcon didn’t wake up with or get bitten by some radioactive insect or other accidental method like so many other heroes:

He’s a really smart guy who went through major military training and becomes a tactical leader,  he’s not some guy that fell into this.

The Falcon’s personal code and character are another defining part of the role.

The most important thing I got from everybody at Marvel about the Falcon was the need to show that he’s a very righteous, man-forward kind of guy. He would do anything to protect the man next to him and to protect his country. That’s the integrity of the character and the integrity of the man and that that’s what I have focused on.

The biggest thing for me, the most exciting thing for me, is to come out on Halloween and see all the little black kids dressed up like the Falcon. There are so many parts of our society that are not catered to or represented fully and this will give a new generation of our society someone to look up to and identify with. That’s why I am so intensely focused on bringing the character to life in a special way.

I find myself liking what Mackie has to say about the character and Mackie’s own feelings about the Falcon and the Falcon’s importance in the Marvel Universe. As a huge Captain America fan, I’m really looking forward to this movie and the new characters.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, hits the big screen on April 4th, 2014.

Via: Comingsoon

Jack Black was a recent guest on the Jimmy Kimmel Live and Black brought his latest film project with comedy partner Kyle Gass. It’s a Teen Wolf sequel, Adult Wolf. If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Teen Wolf after High School, it’s not a pretty picture, in fact it’s kinda depressing.

Don’t worry it’s not all about bad stuff, although this film doesn’t have the standard 80′s movie training montage, it does have a “Getting Dressed Montage” that will rock your socks off.

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Via: Geektyrant