There have been a lot of rumors and speculation about the fates of certain characters in Marvel's upcoming film Captain America: Civil War. Most of them have revolved around Steve Rogers. If you want to read more about that, click here. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo have also said that they don't think Marvel fans are prepared for what they are about to see in the movie, which tells me there are some big changes coming that some fans aren't going to like.

Well, that could involve the deaths of multiple Avengers characters. That Hashtag Show claims to have learned the fate of three of those characters, which you can read about below. This is just a rumor at the moment, but just in case, I'll throw out a SPOILER WARNING:

This rumor comes from the same outlet who recently said that Steve Rogers bites the dust, so on top of his possible demise is the possible demise if James "Rhodey" Rhodes, a.k.a. War Machine (Don Cheadle). In the trailer we saw that this character got pretty jacked up, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's dead. The reports says that at least one of the "death scenes" that has been shot will actually only lead to a severe injury.

They also say that Elizabeth Olson's Scarlet Witch isn't going to make it. That would be a shame because I was just getting to like her! I was also looking forward to seeing her and Dr. Strange kicking some ass together with all kinds cool magic. There have been previous reports that Scarlet Witch and Vision would be in some kind of relationship in the film like they are in the comics. There are also rumors that at the end of the movie Vision will leave earth. If that's true, maybe it is Scarlet Witch's death that makes Vision want to leave. The report also says that they think she will die at the end of film as the Avengers battle Baron Zemo (Daniel Bruhl).

Finally, there's a chance that Sam Wilson, a.k.a. The Falcon (Anthony Mackie), will die. This is the hardest one for me to believe. Actually, all of these rumored deaths are hard for me to believe! I just don't see Marvel killing off all these characters, two of whom are black and one a woman. With Marvel trying to increase diversity in their films, I seriously doubt they would do that. It doesn't make sense, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Captain America: Civil War hits theaters on May 6th. For more information on the film and to catch up on all of the previous news and rumors, click here.

Sorry Pluto, you aren't getting reinstated and are still the redheaded stepchild of the solar system. That being said, it looks like daddy had a knock on the door and learned he left behind more than an old flame in Vietnam. We have reason to believe there is a new planet, and it might just be the most important planet we have! Estimated to be about the size of Neptune, this planet is theorized to be on the other side of the Sun, and is responsible for the unique rotation of our planets along the Sun....or something like that. Truthfully, I don't know, but these guys in the video below, this seems right up their alley...seeing as they discovered it.

What should the new planet be called? I vote "Better Pluto."

Werner Herzog doesn't just make bad ass emotional documentaries, he also has the voice of an angel. When he releases something, you watch it. Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World is a documentary that explores the current state of robotics and what technology we can expect in the near future. Of course, since it's Wernor Herzog, it also breaks things down on a very emotional and intimate level that only he can do so well. Deadline had an exclusive on this one, so hopefully they'll have more footage of this film to come!

I freakin' love the movie Labyrinth! It was one of the films that I enjoyed watching over and over again as a kid. David Bowie starred in the Jim Henson movie as Jareth the Goblin King, and he was awesome! As a tribute to this wonderful film and to its star David Bowie, Screen Junkies released an episode of Honest Trailers that I think fans of this timeless classic will get a kick out of. 

Since we had to say goodbye to David Bowie so soon, we decided to honor him by reviewing that one weird kid's movie he was in that was way worse than we remember. 

It's been awhile since I've actually seen this movie, but I have fond memories of watching it. This is one that I'll be watching with my kids again in the near future.

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Among its list of original content for 2016, Netflix announced today they would be adapting the popular science fiction series Altered Carbon into a series (via Variety). Here's a quick synopsis via Wikipedia...

Altered Carbon is a 2002 hardboiled cyberpunk science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan. Set some five hundred years in the future in a universe in which the United Nations Protectorate oversees a number of extrasolar planets settled by human beings, it features Takeshi Kovacs as a former U.N. elite soldier and a native of Harlan's World, a planet settled by a Japanese keiretsu with Eastern European labour.

Just reading enough into the plot before I spoiled myself, it sounds really interesting. The series at it's roots will deal with the ability to live indefinitely through the process of "resleeving." The book explores the physical and moral implications of the human body living well past it's typical age, and it's essentially the basis of the story. While I did roll my eyes a bit at the sight of "dystopian" in the part I read, this book won the Phillip K. Dick award back in its day, so it should be a pretty good watch.

Fans of the series, do you care to weigh in? You think Netflix is up to the challenge of making this a series?

"It's showtime!"

Sideshow Collectibles has revealed their exclusive 1/6 scale Beetlejuice action figure, and it's just as awesome as you'd hope! This is the ultimate Beetlejuice collectible, so if you're a fan of Tim Burton's classic 1988 film, this is a must own! As you can see, they perfectly captured the look of Michael Keaton's hilariously disgusting character. They really made sure to get all the nitty-gritty, grotesque details. You can get a closer look at the figure in the photos below.

If you want one, pre-orders start today, Thursday, January 21st. The regular and exclusive editions of the Beetlejuice Sixth Scale Figure will be priced at $239.99, and the Beetlejuice Tombstone Environment will be priced at $124.99. 

Here are the details:

From Tim Burton’s supernatural cult classic comedy, Sideshow is proud to introduce the Beetlejuice Sixth Scale Figure and Tombstone Environment.

Presenting Michael Keaton as the self-proclaimed ghost with the most, Beetlejuice is dressed to impress in his black and white striped suit, with wide eyes and wild hair. Crafted on a fully-articulated poseable body, the fast-talking ghoul comes with a variety of swap-out hands and accessories to liven things up when pitching his qualifications as a bio-exorcist.

Guys and ghouls who order the Sideshow Exclusive Edition will also get their hands on a bonus accessory, The Handbook for the Recently Diseased – er Deceased.

The perfect companion piece to the Beetlejuice Sixth Scale Figure, Sideshow is also proud to introduce the Beetlejuice Tombstone Environment.

Grab a shovel, or just say his name three times and see what happens! Trapped in a house haunted by the living, Adam and Barbara Maitland’s last hope to scare the intruders away arrives when this mysterious miniature gravestone appears in the attic.

Home of the famed bio-exorcist, with fantastic detailing as seen in Adam’s model town graveyard, here lies Beetlejuice!

Packed with personality and screen accurate details, the Beetlejuice Sixth Scale Figure and Tombstone Environment are must-haves for fans of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.

A couple new photos of Michael Fassbender's Magneto and Olivia Munn's Psylocke from X-Men: Apocalypse have found their way online, along with some additional details about the characters.

In the story, these two characters end up being recruited by the villain Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) to help him accomplish his diabolical mission. Both characters come to him at low points in their lives. They join Apocalypse because they feel they have nothing else going for them.

Apocalypse enlists Psylocke's kickass fighting skills. She's someone you'd want to have by your side in battle. I did find it interesting that Magneto joined up with this ancient mutant because he's not really one to follow anyone else. Magento has always been a leader, but it's explained that when Apocalypse comes to him, he is at a point in his life where he's lost all hope. Magneto sees Apocalypse as someone who can finish what he wasn't able to.

While talking to IGN about her character, Munn said:

“[Apocalypse] first meets her and she's a bodyguard [for the mutant Caliban] and she's got this amazing skill and she has zero fear when she goes up against him, so he needs her. What he sees in her is that she is someone who can protect and has no fear and is an amazing fighter, has these amazing abilities. So with her, she's just a very powerful weapon for him. That's the role that Psylocke plays in the Horsemen.”

She went on to talk about the possibility of her own spinoff movie, and what she would like to see from that.

“I think if Psylocke had a chance to tell her story, it would be great to start with the genesis and having an understanding, maybe right as she's getting out of university and we jump in right before all of her family is taken out, and we have an understanding of what she had to lose, and then her figuring out her powers and how powerful she is. I think that that's something that I always loved about her. She came from a good family and lost everything. I would like to tell that story."

Munn described her character in a separate interview with JoBlo, saying:

“She’s methodical and very loyal and she's very calm and she's fearless. Her aggression is below the surface, but it's like, it's bubbling ... It's right there at any moment to access. She's a very calm, easygoing, kind of person within this world of insanity, but she's so powerful and strong. That feeling of whendid anything where you're learning a skill. Once you learn it, you feel really powerful. She's very comfortable in her skin.”

Also in that interview, Fassbender discussed what's going on with his character in the story.

"I start off in Poland. Erik is basically living a normal life, has a family, has fallen in love, and has basically disappeared for the last eight years or so. He doesn’t use his powers, has left that life behind and lives a sort of simple life."

He explained why Magneto decides to team up with Apocalypse, saying:

"He [Apocalypse] arrives and it’s like, 'Okay well something much more powerful than me has arrived,' in a way kind of like a god; he’s the original mutant. And...Magneto doesn’t really follow anyone, so it was kind of a hard thing like, well how does he just become one of Apocalypse’s Horsemen, and is he cool with that? But he appreciates that this guy is going to do what he couldn’t do. He’s got just so much more power than him, he’s such an immense force. In a way, it’s like that classic thing of joining any cult or radical group, he’s caught him at a very low, vulnerable point where he doesn’t really care anymore whether he dies or not or what happens, so he’s like, ‘Yeah I’ll join this guy. I’ll go on this path of judgment.’ Apocalypse is sort of bringing judgment to the Earth.”

We've heard so much about this new X-Men film and how epic and big it's going to be. I'm excited to see how exactly Bryan Singer tells this story and where it will take these characters that we've come to know. You can read some more great information on other characters in the film right here, and I highly recommend it! There's info on Storm, Quicksilver, Beast, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, and more! 

The internet has done many great things for geeks. Perhaps the most important is abolishing the notion that we are all loveless virgins who will die alone with our toys. We have girlfriends, wives, side chicks, and girls we creep on the regular. Occasionally, the stars align and a geeky man is paired with an equally geeky girl, and proposals like this occur. As much as I wanted to love the video, I couldn't stop myself from thinking that the Darth Vader thing didn't really make sense.

Lack of respect for canon aside, the cinematography in this is pretty damn awesome!

Either way, awesome video, Ian Coulson! Congrats to you and your future wife!

I thought Terminator: Genisys was an okay film. I didn't love the movie, but it was better than Terminator: Salvation. I was curious to see where the filmmakers would take the story next, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen. According to THR, Paramount and Skydance Entertainment's Terminator sequel, which was set to be released on May 19th, 2017, has been removed from the schedule. The studio moved the release of the upcoming Baywatch movie in its place.

I guess the news isn't really all that surprising to hear. A lot of people felt the movie was a disappointment. The movie made $440 million dollars at the box office, but it doesn't seem like the studios are willing to make a gamble on another sequel. They don't come right out and say that the movie was cancelled, but it's pretty easy to read between the lines of what is happening. 

It's kind of a shame that it came to this. Paramount and Skydance went through a long road of just trying to secure the rights to this franchise, and then once they got it, they didn't really know what to do with it. This Terminator film should have been incredible! It should have had that Mad Max: Fury Road kind of awesomeness and excitement behind it, but it didn't. They just didn't make the best film they could have made. They had this great opportunity to do something amazing with the Terminator franchise, and it was wasted on we got. I think the decision not to continue was for the best.

If it really is cancelled, who knows, maybe 10 or 20 years down the road someone else will try to revive the franchise again.

Wow, if there was one person who would give Lex Luthor a run for his money, he's the guy. Can you imagine Superman and Batman having to deal with someone the likes of House of Cards Frank Underwood in office? I'm not so sure they could successfully remove him from office with the way he stacks the cards! Artwork is courtesy of Prince Mahlangu of South Africa. Take a look at his stuff, this is just the tip of the iceberg!

After years in development, it seems like Triple Frontier may finally start production sometime soon. Written by The Hurt Locker scribe Mark Boal and originally intended as a directing vehicle for Kathryn Bigelow, All is Lost and A Most Violent Year director J.C. Chandor will now direct the crime thriller, which takes its title from "the notorious border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where the Iguazu and Parana rivers converge — making “la triple frontera” difficult to monitor and a haven for organized crime."

Variety reports that Johnny Depp is in early talks to join the movie. He was reportedly interested back when Bigelow was going to make this her Hurt Locker follow-up, and he's still exploring the idea of joining the cast under the leadership of Chandor. I've liked two of the three movies Chandor has directed so far (Margin Call and A Most Violent Year), so I'm excited to see what he can do with what sounds like a more straightforward crime thriller. The producers apparently still have an offer out to Tom Hanks for one of the ensemble roles; Hanks has been attached to the movie for at least the past five years, so it seems like a project he really likes. Will Smith was also attached at one point, but he had to drop out recently due to a scheduling conflict with his upcoming film Collateral Beauty.

We'll keep you in the loop on further developments, but this is shaping up to be a promising movie, and hopefully teaming with someone like Hanks will cause Depp to step his game up a little bit.

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Last week, I wrote about The Walking Dead actor Ross Marquand's spot-on celebrity impressions. He's really great at them, and if you haven't seen the video I'm referring to, be sure to check it out here before you watch this new one.

Now there's a second part of the video that's become available, and Marquand is back with more "nano-impressions," prompted to act out funny scenarios like Pierce Brosnan noticing his fly is down or Jack Nicholson being afraid to dance. I don't think there are quite as many home runs in this video as there were in the first one, but this video is absolutely worth watching for his drop-dead accurate Ewan McGregor and Gary Busey impressions alone.

Via: Uproxx

Whenever you deal with time travel in a narrative, things can quickly spin out of control. So after heavily featuring the concept in X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer and writer Simon Kinberg are now having to explain where the story picks up in this summer's sequel X-Men: Apocalypse (it's set in 1983, continuing from the events of the '70s as depicted in the previous film) and how the plot isn't necessarily heading in the direction some might think. Kingberg told Collider:

“It’s not leading necessarily toward exactly where we found Patrick Stewart and the X-Men at the beginning of X-Men 1. There are some things that lead in that general direction, that was part of the philosophy we had at the end of Days of Future Past is that you can’t fully change the course or current of the river, but you can just divert it a little bit, and we diverted it a little bit. So some things will be surprises; people could die that were alive in X-Men 1, 2 ,and 3, or people could survive that died during 1, 2, and 3.”

Singer jumped in to elaborate:

“So what I’m doing with these in-betweenqueels is playing with time’s immutability and the prequel concept, meaning that yes we erased those storylines and anything can happen. That means the audience goes into the movie thinking that anything can happen. I mean anything, anyone could die. Any possibility could occur, but characters are still moving towards their immutable place. Jean and Scott, are they meant to be together? Is Scott, this guy who hates schools and hates authority, destined to become a leader? You don’t know. Is Jean ever going to discover the full potential of her power? You don’t know, but we move in those directions character-wise but then we have the freedom story-wise to do whatever the fuck we want because we erased those three movies.”

This franchise was so screwed up by the events of X3 that I think they were basically forced to introduce time travel in order to have any hope of getting things back to a workable semblance of order. Still, it's a little disheartening to hear the guy who made the first two films seem so happy about erasing the events of those films — why should we care about anything that ever happens in this franchise if there's the possibility it'll all be wiped out just so someone else can tell a different story later on?

For me, the ending of Days of Future Past — in which Wolverine wakes up in the "corrected" future — marked a clear new future point of the franchise, meaning that the events of Apocalypse will take place in the 1980s of that timeline. Kinberg seems to agree:

“All these movies now exist in the same timeline and certainly the intention at the end of Days of Future Past was that final future we saw was the destination for the characters. So barring another time travel or something else that would upset the timeline, that would be the fate of those characters.”

But Singer doesn't like to make that assumption, and in fact he sounds downright giddy about the possibility of switching things up yet again:

“Time can always be fucked with, we’ve now learned that. We’ve now learned that once you alter time that could be the future, but I don’t believe if you look at all the X-Men movies and Days of Future Past, I don’t believe that’s definitive.”

“I’ll kill any of those characters any day I want. They’re all fair game. Anything can happen. When two things are happening simultaneously in quantum physics it’s what’s called the Super Position and when the Observer finally observes the outcome that’s called the ‘Collapsing of the Super Position’ which is what happened when Wolverine woke up and saw all the happiness. So yes that is the outcome we hope for, that is the outcome we aspire to, and that’s the outcome we are moving towards, but we saw in Days of Future Past another dark world. What says that can’t happen again? What says the awakening of a being that has such power and can acquire the power to destabilize that? So anything is possible. That’s what we’d like to think happens, that’s what Simon would like to think is a good outcome, but to me it’s fair game.”

On one hand, this sets up an interesting dynamic moving forward in the franchise were you know that no one is safe, so it removes the worst aspect of prequels (knowing that certain characters are going to live and evolve into characters we've already seen), which is sort of a cool way of handling this. I like the idea of being so invested in the story that I'd be on the edge of my seat to see if someone will get killed off, and that possibility now exists. But again, the other side of that equation is a sort of nihilistic, "who cares about anything anymore?" line of thought when it comes to this franchise, because now anything can seemingly be erased at will, so it removes any sense of finality.

What do you think? There's more in the full interview, so check that out if you're interested.

X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters on May 19th.

Disneyland has officially started the construction of Star Wars Land, which was announced last year at Disney's D23 Expo. The expansion will include 14 acres of unused space, and we've only seen a few pieces of concept art for what fans can expect to see. We now have a map that shows us the layout of Star Wars Land that shows us where all the attractions will be, and it shows us just how big that the expansion is going to be. It will be the biggest freakin' land at the theme park! It looks so big compared to the rest.

The map comes from MiceChat, who claims that Disney is hoping to open Star Wars Land sometime in 2018. The site talks about what we can expect to see:

"The final layout of the land has a northern and western perimeter walled off from the outside world by massive show buildings over 150 feet tall that will push right up against the existing toll lanes and tram route that parallels Disneyland Drive. Built to look like sheer rock cliffs and forested mountains from inside the land, the show buildings will be partially sunk into the ground yet still tower overhead. The largest show building in the land, for the headliner battle escape attraction coded named “Alcatraz” at WDI (get it?), will dwarf even the largest backstage buildings for Anaheim’s other massive E Tickets like Pirates, Indy or Radiator Springs Racers."

That Battle Escape Attraction sounds like it could be amazing! Hell, it's bigger than freakin' all of Toon Town! There will be three entrances to the land: from Big Thunder Trail, another from where Big Thunder Ranch used to be, and one by the Hungry Bear Restaurant. The site also offers some info on what we will see when entering Star Wars Land:

"The reveal moments from the two tunnels off the Big Thunder Trail will be the most architecturally stunning, while the winding path through the forest north of Critter Country will be memorable for the sudden appearance of X-Wing fighters parked on rocky ledges and landing pads as you enter the alien land from the west. The goal here is to meet or exceed the Wow! moment that people experience when they walk through the archway into Cars Land from the Pacific Wharf area."

I seriously can't wait for the day when I actually get to go to Star Wars Land. You can bet I'll be spending the whole day just exploring it and having fun...with my family, of course! Making Star Wars also offers up some rumored information on what the land will entail. Here is the information that they have to offer:

• Poe Dameron’s black X-wing fighter will greet guests at the 3rd entrance to Star Wars Land, although an Episode VIII feature to the fighter might make it different from what we know about it from The Force Awakens.

• Characters and creatures from Star Wars: Episode VIII will be featured in the park.

• The Falcon will be real, life sized, not scaled down at all, and sitting on top of a launch pad.

• The Falcon will be opening and closing its main door and aliens/ troopers will be walking around asking people if they’ve seen anyone leave the ship.

• There will be two major attractions, one larger than “Toon Town” itself.

• Don’t worry about not being able to go inside the Falcon. One of the major attractions will take care of that for you as you fly in the cockpit of the freighter itself.

• The word is the Imagineers loved the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story script, but if that will come into play is still hazy. Initial word was the second major attraction would feature Rogue One content, but now that appears to be somewhat unlikely.

A full scale life-size Millennium Falcon!? And there's an attraction where you get to fly in the cockpit!? Star Wars Land can't get here soon enough! 

I love Keegan Michael-Key & Jordan Peele, so I'm thrilled to see that the red-band trailer for their first feature film together, Keanu, looks hilarious. The comedic duo play a couple of normal suburban guys who have to act like gangstas in order to save an adorable adopted kitten. In typical Key & Peele fashion, it looks like there's a great mixture of comedy and commentary here, touching on concepts of masculinity, identity, and culture, and I'm very excited to see what they do in a full-length movie. Key & Peele series director Peter Atencio is behind the camera here, so we know at the very least, it'll look terrific.

Keanu arrives in theaters on April 29th.

Karyn Kusama's The Invitation screened at some film festivals last year, and from what I can tell, it received a tremendously positive response from those who were able to see it. It's a psychological thriller about a guy who attends a dinner party for his ex-wife and her new husband, and things start to go terribly, terribly wrong. The trailer does a great job of not giving anything away while building an eerie sense of dread, and those of you who like psychological horror thrillers will probably have a lot of fun putting yourselves through the wringer watching this.

The Invitation arrives in theaters and on VOD on March 25th.

In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body), the tension is palpable when Will (Logan Marshall-Green, Prometheus) shows up to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard, Into the Woods) and new husband David (Michiel Huisman, Game of Thrones). The estranged divorcees’ tragic past haunts an equally eerie present; amid Eden’s suspicious behavior and her mysterious house guests, Will becomes convinced that his invitation was extended with a hidden agenda. Unfolding over one dark evening in the Hollywood Hills, THE INVITATION blurs layers of mounting paranoia, mystery, and horror until both Will — and the audience — are unsure what threats are real or imagined.

Early this week, 20th Century Fox held surprise screenings of Deadpool for some fans in Los Angeles and New York City, and the fan response was tremendous. One fan in particular really enjoyed the movie: Rob Liefeld, the creator of the Deadpool character. He was in attendance at the L.A. screening, and addressed the crowd after the film finished:

“This is my second time seeing it and it was even better than the first time. This movie comes out twenty-five years to the day we published him at Marvel and you couldn’t get a better gift if you’re a Deadpool fan. I have seen twenty-five years of stories come and go, and Rhett [Reese] and Paul [Wernick] will tell you, back in 2009 I freaked out when I read the screenplay because Deadpool has never ever been better than he was in that screenplay and when I saw this movie six weeks ago I was like, ‘How much of this script will carry?’ and what you just saw is the best version of Deadpool I have ever experienced in my life.”

That's quite a statement from the guy who literally came up with the character and has written a ton of stories about him over the years. Here's hoping he's not just blowing smoke up fans' asses and that the movie turns out to be as great as everyone wants it to be.

Deadpool hits theaters on February 12th.

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We've known for a little while now that The CW was bringing it's animated superhero Vixen into live-action with an appearance on Arrow, and now we have the first image of actress Megalyn Echikunwoke suited up in costume for the role. Here's what the character looks like in animated form:

Echikunwoke looks terrific, and the coolest part is that she's the same actress that provides the voice for the Vixen character on the titular CW Seed series (that's CW's online digital channel, in case you've never heard of it). I'm blanking right now, but I'm sure some of you can jump into the comments and help me out with this one: what are some of your favorite cases in which actors have provided the voices for animated characters and then reprised those roles in live-action?

Vixen is set to appear in episode 15 of Arrow’s current season, which will air on February 24th. I wonder how long it'll be before she makes her first appearance on The Flash...