Fox‘s belated “start of production” announcement for Matt Reeves’ sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes comes with some more casting info, and a better rundown of the plot than we’ve been so far given (assuming you’re interested).

Toby Kebbell of Wrath of the Titans, and Enrique Murciano of Traffic seem to have roles of some sort in the film, though no further details have been offered. Fox also offered this synopsis:

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.

More detailed information will, as per usual, be made available as we receive it. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is scheduled to open May 23, 2014. It will feature Andy Serkis as Caesar, with appearances from Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Enrique Murciano, Kirk Acevedo, and Judy Greer.

Source: /Film

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Above is the newest concept art for Captain America: The Winter Soldier…Of The Winter Soldier himself, apparently - courtesy of Luvindowney’s Tumblr.

This art was also featured in the recent, Iron Man 3 covered issue of Entertainment Weekly. Here’s what Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige had to say to EW about the upcoming Cap sequel:

“We weren’t going back to World War II. Cap cannot travel in time. So  while Tony can go home to Malibu and Thor goes up to Asgard and Hulk can sort of  ride the rails, Cap was stuck. So Cap does stay with S.H.I.E.L.D. because he has  nowhere else to go. But he’s not necessarily comfortable there. As you might  imagine, somebody who’s spent 70 years in ice, frozen, wakes up and has to fight  a bunch of aliens with a bunch of weirdos—he is trying to figure out what  his life is. And just as he’s given permission to let go of the past and to  focus on the modern world, a ghost comes up. With the Greatest Generation in  World World II, there’s a tendency to reflect on that period and say, ‘Things  were black and white back then, and now it’s hard to know who the bad guys are.’  ‘We wanted to play on that a little with Cap being uncomfortable with the way  S.H.I.E.L.D., and in particular Nick Fury, operates. Fury certainly rides a  line, sort of rides the shadows. He has, I think, lied to every character in  every movie, though always for seemingly for the good.”

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is due for release in theatres on April 4, 2014.

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This new clip from J.J. Abrams’ hotly anticipated Star Trek sequel: Star Trek: Into Darkness (via Apple) shows Chris Pine’s Captain James T. Kirk facing off with Benedict Cumberbatch’s superlatively creepy John Harrison while the latter is being held in what I can only assume is the Enterprise‘s brig (the exchange feels more than a little like the convo between Loki and Black Widow while the former was imprisoned in The Avengers…but that could just be me).

Pine is appropriately righteous and indignant, while Cumberbatch is just plain eerie…If this is what we can expect from Into Darkness, it might well surpass its predecessor:

And there’s more!

Charitybuzz is auctioning off a four-pack of VIP tickets to attend the Star Trek: Into Darkness premiere in Los Angeles, the proceeds going towards The Mission Continues: A charity that works with post-9/11 veterans. Paramount and Bad Robot are putting up $25 Grand to match the winning bid.

The winners will walk the red carpet, meet director J.J. Abrams and the cast, and attend the premiere after-party.

Sounds like it could be fun

And EVEN more!

IMAX is beginning a new promotion called IMAX FANFIX: They’re offering this original poster by artist Mark Englert to fans who show up to their 8pm show on Wednesday, May 15th at participating locations.

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As filming continues on Marc Webb‘s Amazing Spider-man 2, the first official images from filming have made their way out from Columbia Pictures. With people having already seen Jamie Foxx‘s Electro, with his blue skin and bald head, Webb decided it was time to show off the powerless scientist Max Dillon with the caption “Day 52. My name is Max.” A far cry from the Navi-skinned person we saw previously, Foxx is much more nerd than Peter Parker ever looked.

Check out the first look after the jump.

A lot of people have been disapproving of Foxx’s look, but they must realize this is a movie and there are make-up departments that specialize in making someone look different. Jamie himself has described Max as a “nobody” so it fits his character has to look the part. You can’t expect him to be all groomed and professional like Harry Osborn, after all. Speaking of which, not long after Webb tweeted his picture Dane DeHaan released a first look at this franchise’s Harry and thankfully he’s no James Franco.

Dane certainly looks like someone who’s the successor of Oscorp and if you’ve seen Chronicle you know how evil he can be on screen. He might finally be the Harry Osborn we’ve wanted for a long time. Now we just need to see Paul Giamatti and we’re all set.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2, starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Shailene Woodley, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore, Chris Cooper, Sally Field, and Felicity Jones is slated for theaters May 2nd, 2014.

Source: Coming Soon

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Since fans and critics everywhere have all but universally declared Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead remake even Eviler and Deader than the original – not to mention pulled in a tidy $26 million for the studio over the past weekend – it comes as no surprise whatsoever that talk of a sequel, or even a whole new franchise is in the air.

Alvarez and original Evil Dead trilogy star/J.R “Bob” Dobbs avatar Bruce Campbell recently sat down with IGN and rapped about the future of the Evil Dead series. With any luck, we’ll have both a second installment of Alvarez’s Evil Dead – AND Army Of Darkness 2 to look forward to…not to mention a possible crossover between the respective fictional universes.

Let’s give ‘em a listen, shall we?

In the meantime, I’ve yet to encounter anyone who has anything negative to say about the new Evil Dead. I haven’t been fortunate enough to see it, but I hope to remedy this soon.

Evil Dead is now playing at theaters nationwide.

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In preparation for the highly anticipated Iron Man 3, Marvel and Disney have released a new series of interviews. In them, co-star Gwyneth Paltrow and Producer Kevin Feige reveal key details about the sequel’s plot and characters…Said details COULD be seen as spoilers to some, so please: Read ahead at your own risk.

The following quotes and the interviews they were taken from are courtesy of Superhero Hype. Let’s start with a word from Feige regarding the Iron Partiot:

What we learn in the beginning of ‘Iron Man 3′ is that they’ve made an arrangement. Tony has let Rhodey have this suit; he’s using it in conjunction with the US Government. So, at the beginning of ‘Iron Man 3,’ we see that the President has asked Rhodey as War Machine to get a new paint job and take on the new moniker of the Iron Patriot in order to do American business and be the American hero as opposed to The Avengers or Iron Man himself, who is sort of a separate entity… In a way it becomes a buddy action film, in the third act, where they team up. Neither of them have a suit at a certain point in the movie and they really team up in a great, sort of old- fashioned action movie way and Don and Robert have such an amazing rapport.

He continues by discussing Guy Pearce’s character and AIM:

Killian heads a brain-trust organization called AIM that is developing Extremis, which is something that taps into human DNA and is able to reprogram it and regenerate limbs and enhance strength and cure wounds. But it also could change the whole world, which is what Killian intends to do with it.

And finally, Gwyneth Paltrow talks about how Robert Downey, Jr. wanted Pepper Potts to do more in this film:

There were talks of Pepper getting in the suit at the end of ‘Iron Man 2,’ but Marvel wasn’t ready to do it yet….I know Robert was really interested in having Pepper do more in this movie, and it was also a factor in me coming back and getting to do things that were a little bit more fun and different and a little bit more adventurous. It would’ve still been nice, but it would’ve been very much the same thing just to be buttoned-up Pepper, and in this movie there’s a whole different experience of her.

Does Pepper get to wear the suit in IM3? HELL YES SHE DOES!

I didn’t mind wearing the suit at all. I thought it was light and perfectly comfortable and my children thought I was extremely cool. They were here on a day where I was in it, so they were trying it on and when my son saw me in the suit, he had the biggest eyes, so it was definitely worth it.

That kid will win every “My Mom Can Beat Up Your Mom” argument for the rest of his childhood.

Iron Man 3 is due in theatres May 3rd.

Source: /Film

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Much to the chagrin of fan-boys everywhere, Michael Bay‘s Transformers franchise is continuing, with T4 currently in development. Now, before you enraged bastards evoke a satanic ritual to curse the production, a plot detail has been revealed which may turn heads… in a good way.

The Michigan Film Office announced today that Michael Bay‘s Transformers 4 has been approved for a film incentive from the state.  The film, expected to film this spring in metro Detroit, opens soon after the end of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, where a great battle left a city torn,  but with the world once again saved.

That’s not the eye squinting, beard stroking, worthy news. Details regarding the films big-bad, however, is. Here’s how the Michigan Film Board describes the “plot” (I use the term loosely) for the movie:

As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet. However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues.

“an ancient, powerful Transformer menace”? My inner Autobot immediately assumes that means… UNICRON, the planet-eater! Man, if Bay did anything like the 1986 Transformers animated movie – which Unicron is famous for – the haters might finally stop hatin’. This is what we want, what we’ve been waiting for! Of course, after seeing what they did to Devastator in the 2nd Transformers movie, I have no hope that it would be done right.

Unicron, or no Unicron: T4 is bound to continue the racism, objectification of women, and gratuitous bodily excrement jokes synonymous with the franchise. I can’t let my inner child continue to hope that Bay might eventually give me the Transformers I long for.

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Acclaimed independent filmmaker Colin Trevorrow has been selected to helm the long-awaited fourth installment of the Jurassic Park franchise. Trevorrow, director of the well liked but relatively unknown Safety Not Guaranteed will be making his big studio debut with this film, though it’s widely believed that soon he’ll also be in the director’s chair for Disney when Flight Of The Navigator begins filming. Trevorrow was hired to rewrite the upcoming reboot’s script, and his negotiations with Disney lead some to suspect (erroneously, of course) he was being considered for Star Wars: Episode VII.

Deadline broke the story earlier today. The identity of JP4′s director had been a matter of much supposition, as news of the film’s production and release had already been publicized. The sequel will be produced by Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, with Steven Spielberg as Executive Producer (it was rumored, for a time, that Spielberg would be returning as director for this installment), and a script by the writers of Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes: Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.

Up until now, the only unknown aspects to this project have been the director and the cast….now all that remains is to announce who’ll be starring in this thing.

Jurassic Park 4 is due in theatres June 13, 2014.

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Surprising News: Sam Raimi has no interest in directing a follow-up to his recent megahit, Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Might Be Surprising If Anyone Cared News: Nicolas Cage has stated he will not be playing the title role in a third installment of one of Marvel’s relatively rare cinematic missteps: The Ghost Rider franchise.

Let’s start by talking about a movie people would actually SEE: Disney is apparently already moving forward with an Oz sequel, which shocks no one, but Raimi had this to say in a recent interview with Bleeding Cool:

I haven’t planned on directing the sequel. I did leave some loose ends for another director if they want to make the picture. I tried to make it a complete ending, so that the audience would be fulfilled, but I also let Evenora and Theodora get away. I was attracted to this story but I don’t think the second one would have the thing I would need to get me interested.

Raimi’s never had a problem with sequels in the past (or with inexplicably changing his mind), so perhaps there’s still a glimmer of hope for a second Raimi-helmed Oz.

Not so much for a third Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider, however…and I’m trying my best to give a crap–but I don’t seem to have one to spare.

For what it’s worth, here’s what Cage told Collider when the subject was broached:

It’s possible, but it won’t be with me. I’ve said what I have to say. I don’t want to say never… anything’s possible. But I doubt, highly, that I would be in a third installment of that.

Apparently Cage was, I quote, “very pumped” about the idea just last year (The fact that /Film couldn’t even be bothered to give this news it’s own article shows you how “pumped” everyone else was). If he’s lost interest/come to his senses, then the chances of a GR3 that isn’t direct-to-DVD seem rather scant. No huge loss, to be honest.

Source: /Film

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Remember that sequel to Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey that you first heard about a year or two ago? Wonder why you haven’t heard much about it since? (I know I have!)

Well, /Film got the answer while interviewing Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston, esq.–also known for his supporting role in The Lost Boys, and as creator of the short-lived, underrated MTV comedy series The Idiot Box) regarding his upcoming Napster documentary Downloaded, which will be premiering this week at the South By Southwest film festival (C’mon, like you’re gonna have a conversation with Alex Winter and NOT ask about Bill And Ted 3?): It seems there’s been no major hold-ups, obstacles, or setbacks. The problem is simply the nature of internet news. There was a time when the media wouldn’t learn that a film even existed until it was already well on it’s way to completion–or at least actually written and casted. Now movies are being discussed long before production begins–and we, the public, expect daily updates on a process that’s long, grueling, and largely uninteresting. Years can (and do) go by before anything of note occurs between the announcement that a movie is in the works, and the actual start of production.

Here’s what Winter told /Film:

Well the funny thing is there really isn’t a hold up. Nothing held it up other than it got leaked really early in the process, so these things take a shitload of time to get bobbed around and we are really just in the process. It’s really mundane to report the day-to-day process of trying to get a movie made. “Right now they’re doing a rewrite?” You know? That’s my news, “they are doing a rewrite.” That will take a while and then we will look at it and that might need another rewrite and that will be my next bit of news. So it’s just like… The short answer is it got leaked way too early. It got leaked just as we started, me and Keanu and Chris and Ed, the two writers just started to put it together. Then you’ve got the whole genesis of putting it together in front of you still, which is where we are at now.

When asked about the effect of the internet on how movie news is reported, Winter continued:

Well completely. I mean absolutely. There’s such a constant… The flow of information… The comprehension of how things work has not caught up with the flow of information. Do you know what I mean? So that often leads to confusion, because people are just like “Well I read about this four years ago” and I’m like “Well yeah, but it takes four to six years to get most of this stuff made.” It’s just where we are at, and look I don’t have any problem with the fact that it got leaked, because it’s nice that people are interested in talking about it. It’s not like you could complain that people are interested and we all feel kind of jazzed that people give a crap frankly. We’re just off trying to make sure that if we do it, it’s good.

We know that not only is Winter and co-star Keanu Reeves on board for the sequel, but Dean Parisot of Galaxy Quest fame is attached to direct. We’re anxiously awaiting something worth reporting on this project–beyond the fact that there’s nothing worth reporting yet.

Source: /Film

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