Here's a fun action packed stop-motion LEGO short featuring Superman and Wonder Woman fighting Lex Luthor. The video was created by John Huang, and as you'll see it turned out really cool! 

Check out this funny new red-band trailer for Judd Apatow's This is 40. The movie follows the lives of the married couple from Knocked Up, Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann). It takes place a few years after the events of Knocked Up and basically shows us what married life is at 40. Anyone that's married with kids will find the real humor in this film. The movie also stars  Jason Segel and Melissa McCarthy with Albert Brooks playing Rudd's dad. I really liked this trailer, and it looks like a movie I'll enjoy watching. It comes out on December 21st!

A few months ago it was announced that Clint Eastwood's Academy Award winning western Unforgiven was going to get a Japanese samurai remake. Ken Watanabe (Inception) plays a swordsman who takes a job as a bounty killer. This is the same role that Eastwood played in the original film, only he was a retired outlaw gunman. 

The story takes place in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido in the 1880's, during a time when Japanese settlers were displacing the native Ainu people. Watanabe plays a samurai with a fearsome reputation as a swordsman who is living in retirement with his Ainu wife when poverty and a large bounty tempt him into action again.

The movie is set to be released in Japan on September 13th, 2013. I'm sure one day it will make its way to the States. The movie was directed by Lee Sang-il (Hula Girls), and also stars Kunimura Jun, Yagira Yuya,Sato Koichi, Emoto Akira, Koike Eiko and Kutsuna Shioli.

I loved the original movie, and this looks like it will be a solidly good movie as well. Usually Hollywood remakes the foreign films, so it's very different to see an American film getting a foreign remake. 

What are the odds that two female actresses who are primarily blondes dye their hair red for a movie, don a black jumpsuit, and star in a movie titled The Avengers and it not be a remake? I have no clue, and I suck at math, but I thought this was a pretty awesome similarity I recently found going through DVD's over the weekend. Mind you Scarlett Johansson's belt is a little more low key than the light heavyweight title Thurman is rocking across her hips, but that's not the point. Now I've never seen the 1998 movie titled The Avengers, but a quick synopsis and RT score of 16% makes me think that asking which movie you think is better is a no contest response. So... who do you think looks better? 2012 Johansson or 1998 Thurman? 

The Last of Us is looking to be one of the last great games of this generation. Once this title comes out in the late spring, it will be the last exciting thing (so far) before the release of the new systems. This is just what I feel now, though. There could be a butt-ton of games coming out after, but all I can see at the moment is The Last of Us.

The latest trailer provides some more insight into the world of the game and some of the driving force behind the characters. There are some nice shots of the inhabited cities and the abuse that is being caused by the law that controls the area. Also, HORSES!

Naughty Dog is looking to make something truly special. Let's just hope that the game lives up to the expectations that are riding on it.

Artist Mark Dos Santos has used some of Norman Rockwell's classic Saturday Evening Post cover art as inspiration for his series of Gotham Evening Post art featuring several characters from the Batman universe. 

I've always loved Rockwell's classic Evening Post art. It perfectly captured the spirit of America during that time period. It's always fun to see this art re-imagined with pop culture characters, and this set of Batman art is really cool! 

There's six collector prints for the art which you can purchase here for $10 a piece. 

Some more footage of Star Trek Into Darkness was screened for select members of the press, and there's a couple bits of new information that I'm sure fans would love to know! First, it's been confirmed that Klingons will for sure be a part of the movie, which is something I already thought was confirmed. But, a second confirmation from some recently screened footage won't hurt. The second part is that Alice Eve's role has finally been revealed to be Carol Marcus, Kirk's love interest and the mother of Kirk's son David in the original story line. Not sure if this sequel will follow that background, but we'll see.

This is some exciting news, and it will be interesting to see what role the Klingon's will play in the story. They were originally supposed to be in the first film, but they got the cut. I love the look of Abrams' Klingon designs that have previously been released. Click here to see the previously released image of a Klingon that was believed to be from the sequel. 

Here's a series of tweets from silaslesnick's twitter feed:

We've seen Klingons! They do have forehead ridges but with ornamental piercings and facial hair out of the original series!

— silaslesnick (@silaslesnick) December 10, 2012

There are 14 Klingon characters in the film, but only two have speaking roles and are the only ones to remove their helmets.

— silaslesnick (@silaslesnick) December 10, 2012

Alice Eve's STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS character revealed... She's playing Carol Marcus!

— silaslesnick (@silaslesnick) December 10, 2012

We're also going to see (or already have in the trailer) the Klingon homeworld, Quo'nos!

— silaslesnick (@silaslesnick) December 10, 2012

The movie hits theaters on May 17th, 2013!

Charlie St. Cloud and 17 Again director Burr Steers is set to direct a feature film adaptation of the horror novel Breed for Summit Entertainment. Harry Potter producer David Heyman is also attached to the project to help bring it to life. 

The book was written by Chase Novak, and the story follows "a couple who undergo an experimental fertility treatment that turns them into bloodthirsty savages." 10 years after they have twins, the kids discover there is something seriously wrong with their parents, and they set out on a dangerous search to find the truth behind their parents. This sounds like a disturbingly cool story! 

Steers has worked with Zac Efron twice already, and it makes me wonder if we'll see him in this movie as well. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Here's the full description from of the book, which is sure to make a great horror movie!

Critically celebrated novelist Scott Spencer delivers a Rosemary's Baby-like novel of gothic horror, set against the backdrop of modern-day Upper East Side Manhattan.

Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives-fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a passionate marriage. What they don't have is a child, and as they try one infertility treatment after the next, yearning turns into obsession. As a last-ditch attempt to make their dream of parenthood come true, Alex and Leslie travel deep into Slovenia, where they submit to a painful and terrifying procedure that finally gives them what they so fervently desire . . . but with awful consequences.

Ten years later, cosseted and adored but living in a house of secrets, the twins Adam and Alice find themselves locked into their rooms every night, with sounds coming from their parents' bedroom getting progressively louder, more violent, and more disturbing.

Driven to a desperate search for answers, Adam and Alice set out on a quest to learn the true nature of the man and woman who raised them. Their discovery will upend everything they thought they knew about their parents and will reveal a threat so horrible that it must be escaped, at any cost.

I'm going to have to read this book!

Before Tony Gilroy and Jeremy Renner went out and made The Bourne Legacy, Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass tried for years to get a fourth Bourne movie off the ground and into production. Damon revealed in a recent interview with Deadline that he even approached The Dark Knight writer Jonathan Nolan to come up with a story. When asked what it would take to see him reprise his role in the franchise he said,

Just a couple things, really. Paul Greengrass has to want to do it, and secondly and equally important, it comes down to Paul and I knowing what the hell we want to do. We just don’t have a story, and we haven’t had one. I quietly went to Jonah Nolan, because he and his brother Chris did such a brilliant job on Batman and that whole mythology. I just said, can you put your brain on this? I can’t figure it out. And he took a run at it and he couldn’t crack it either. Paul and I have been talking about it for years. And we can’t quite see what the movie would be. If we could get line of sight on that…

Nolan seems like a really talented guy and has written scripts for The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises. For some reason he just wasn't able to crack the story for a fourth Bourne film. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be. The Bourne Legacy was ok, but it was really kind of a pointless film. Damon goes on to say though that he'd love to make another film, of course it'd have to be under the right circumstances,

Neither of us is against it. I would love to do another one. I love that character. To me, the reason to make that movie is because people want to see it. Paul and I have said that to each other. We don’t take for granted the fact that we’ve built an audience for Bourne, that’s a real privilege. But our part of that bargain is that the movie is good and belongs with the other three. Until we can deliver that, we just can’t make it.

I think it's really interesting that he never brings up The Bourne Legacy. It's like if they do make another film, he doesn't want that one to be part of the story. It's hard to think that another Bourne movie with Damon will actually happen, but never say never, because you never know... it just might. 

I don't really care to see anymore Bourne films with Renner, but it'd be cool if Damon and Greengrass were able to come up with something really cool for the fans. 

Here's a hilarious piece of Disney and Marvel Mashup art that I came across recently called "The Little Thormaid". I couldn't help but laugh at this. It's so random, but at the same time the Thor and Little Mermaid mashup works so well!

The art was done by Sairobi and the animation below comes from Hydra-Lantern.

Last month it was announced that Mark Wahlberg was cast as one of the lead roles in Michael Bay's Transformers 4. Wahlberg will play the father of a high school girl that has a biker boyfriend. Twitch reports that those two young high school characters have been cast.

The lead female role will be played by Nicola Peltz (The Last Airbender, Bates Motel), and the biker boyfriend will be played by Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent). It was previously reported that the female character would carry on the franchise, so I guess Peltz has landed herself a really awesome acting gig!

It was also previously reported that we will see some new robot characters so that Hasbro and sell more toys! Transformers 4 will be released on June 27th, 2014. Excited? 

Columbia Pictures is moving forward with the sequel to Angelina Jolie's 2010 action movie Salt. The studio is currently in negotiations with Seven Years in Tibet and The Prince of Tides screenwriter Becky Johnston to work on the script. 

The first movie was pretty forgettable, and I don't really see the point of a sequel. But the first movie made over $293 million. Johnston is the second writer to take a crack at the script for the sequel. Last year the screenwriter of Salt, Kurt Wimmer, was hired to write it but Jolie didn't care for the script he wrote -- which is kind of funny because the script for the first movie wasn't all that great either. 

Maybe Johnston will find something interesting and different to do with the character. She's also worked on the unproduced films Wonder Woman and Brad Bird's 1906 San Francisco earthquake project. 

Were there any of you that thought the first Salt was a good movie? Are you excited to hear a sequel is moving forward?

The last couple of days we've seen some pretty awesome trailers for big, highly anticipated films such as Star Trek Into Darkness, Oblivion and After Earth. Today, we bring you an awesome second full trailer for Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger which stars Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. We've got a couple of other big trailers to look out for as well! Full trailers for Man of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness will be released later this week with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. 

The new trailer offers up a ton of new footage, and gives us a look at the origin of how the Ranger and Tonto meet for the first time. I was on the fence about this movie for a long time, but this trailer just sold me on it. The movie looks like it's going to be a lot of fun, and very exciting!

Synopsis:

From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ “The Lone Ranger,” a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice—taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

The Lone Ranger hits July 3rd, 2013. Enjoy the new trailer and let us know if it sold you on seeing the film!

Two years after we heard about Angry Birds being developed for the big screen, Rovio Entertainment has finally attached a producer to it. The film will be developed by Despicable Me producer John Cohen. Iron Man producer David Maisel is also attached to the project. This game is still growing in popularity, and it's sure to be a very successful film regardless of how good or bad it will be. There's just a huge market out there for the franchise, and that's why it's going to do very well. 

The story will basically follow a team of skilled birds fighting an evil army of green pigs who have stolen their eggs. Hopefully they can build a fun and entertaining story around the basic plot of the game. Cohen had this to say n a statement,

I'm so excited and honored to be working on this film with Mikael, David, and Rovio's incredibly talented game developers and artists. From both an entertainment and strategic perspective, Rovio is at the forefront of game innovation and is trailblazing terrific new ways for Angry Birds fans to interact with these characters. I've personally spent countless hours playing the Angry Birds games over the last few years, which I can now happily justify as research for the movie.

Are you excited to see an Angry Birds feature film? Do you have any ideas of what they should do with it?

Here's the full press release:

On the third anniversary of the release of Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment announced that Despicable Me producer John Cohen has signed on as producer of the upcoming Angry Birds movie. David Maisel, former Chairman of Marvel Studios and executive producer of Iron Man, will be executive producer of the feature film, coming to theaters in summer 2016. The film will be produced and financed by Rovio Entertainment.

“John’s an exceptionally talented producer, and we’re delighted to have him join the flock,” said Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio Entertainment. “With John’s hands-on producer background and David´s expertise in establishing and running his own successful studio, these two are the dream team for making a movie outside the studio system. Both professionals have the ideal skills and vision to achieve incredible things.”

John Cohen most recently produced Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures' Despicable Me in 2010 and executive produced Illumination/Universal's Hop in 2011. Prior to Illumination, Cohen was VP of Production at Twentieth Century Fox Animation. He worked closely with Blue Sky Studios on films including Ice Age, Robots,Ice Age: The Meltdown and Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who. Cohen had the idea to reimagine Alvin and the Chipmunks and developed the 2007 film.

“I’m so excited and honored to be working on this film with Mikael, David, and Rovio’s incredibly talented game developers and artists,” said Cohen. “From both an entertainment and strategic perspective, Rovio is at the forefront of game innovation and is trailblazing terrific new ways for Angry Birds fans to interact with these characters. I've personally spent countless hours playing the Angry Birds games over the last few years, which I can now happily justify as research for the movie."

Following Marvel Studios’ example, which was architected by David Maisel, Rovio will produce and finance the movie outside the studio system and retain full creative control while creating innovative entertainment at the highest level of quality.

"John's experience, expertise, and passion are perfect for the Angry Birds film and I look forward to working with him to create the best movie experience for all the fans,” said David Maisel. 

The upcoming movie marks Rovio Entertainment’s first foray into feature films, though fans have already gotten an introduction to the Angry Birds world through Rovio’s games, books, consumer products, and animations. Since its debut in 2009, the Angry Birds game has been downloaded more than 1 billion times across platforms and versions. The most recent venture, Angry Birds Star Wars, soared to the top of the US iPhone charts within 2.5 hours of release.

The full length Man of Steel trailer is finally here, and I have a feeling you're going to love this awesomeness! This is one of those trailers that gave me the warm fuzzies and goosbumps. Damn, I love Superman, and it looks like this film captured the right spirit of the character, and at the same time it looks completely badass. Even though this is a full trailer it still manages to not reveal a lot which is fine, because there's more to come! I love how this trailer made me feel, and I'm excited as hell for Zack Snyder's vision of this film!

Synopsis:

Next summer, “Man of Steel” is coming to the big screen. The film is from director Zack Snyder and producers Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer from a story by Goyer & Nolan, based upon Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics.

Man of Steel flies into theaters on June 14th, 2013! Let us know what you think of the trailer!

On this week's episode we talk about the various awards that are given out around the end of the year. Including the Machinima IGA's, TIME's Top 10 Video Games and of course those lovely Spike TV Video Game Awards that many people both love and hate. Last but definitely not least, we discuss what we want Santa to give us in the next generation game console.

For this week's music, we are featuring some of the tracks from the fantastic Deus Ex: Human Revolution Original Soundtrack by Michael McCann, available on Amazon.com or iTunes.

James Cameron is being sued by someone named Gerald Morawski who sold some art pieces to Cameron a couple of decades ago intended for a film adaptation of a short story called Burning Chrome that Cameron was working on. Morawski claims that after he sold Cameron the art he pitched a movie to the director about a struggle between an evil mining conglomerate and an indigenous tribe, and believes that movie became the mega hit Avatar.

To prove that Avatar is solely Cameron's idea, the director wrote up a 45-page sworn declaration that explains in detail how he came up with Avatar, its themes, and even where Avatar is going in the next two films. Cameron's road to Avatar spanned five decades, starting in elementary school in the 1960's when he wanted to be a scientist. 

It moved on to the eleventh grade when he drew a picture he called "Spring on Planet Flora" which he says became the concept behind the alien jungle landscape on Pandora. He also talks about several unproduced film projects that he worked on and wrote over the years that led him to making Avatar, starting out with a college project called Chrysalis about a "cosmic journey of self-discovery and transcendence taken by a wheelchair-bound man who elects to surgically remove all external sensory input, so that he can journey through his own mind."

Another film he talks about in great detail is a movie called Xenogenesis that he wrote in the late 1970's. This story served as a major inspiration for Avatar and the upcoming sequels. Here's some information on that story,

Xenogenesis is the saga of the voyage of Cosmos Kindred, a mile-long spaceship employing a fusion ramjet interstellar drive unit. In the face of destruction of the Earth, scientists engage in a last-ditch effort to preserve a nucleus of humanity by trying to find a new planet on which to live. Cosmos Kindred carries a cyber (artificial intelligence) that has cell samples, which, under the cyber’s direction, will be developed into cloned individuals once the spaceship finds a suitable new home planet.

The central section of the Xenogenesis story focuses on the human drama of the pilot dealing with a female stowaway who has been raised by the cyber. They experience exotic, danger-filled alien landscapes on different planets that I created, on which they see bizarre flora and fauna, and take samples.

There's a lot more information on how this story ties in with Avatar in the court report embeded below. Something I highly recommend that you read because it's full of a ton of great stuff, and it goes into a lot of detail. It's very, very clear that this film is what Avatar became. As far as where the Avatar sequel could possibly go, he goes on to explain some of the other planets that the characters in Xenogenesis explore.

The characters in Xenogenesis also visit a world called “Techno- Planet.” On this world, our main characters discover an advanced civilization that has collapsed because the people withdraw into highly realistic fantasy worlds generated by computers. The alien characters of this advanced civilization are seen only as skeletons, lying long dead within their liquid-filled, womb-like eggs, their skulls still connected by cables to the central computer. The characters discover that the inhabitants had “gathered to fuse their individual minds together into one super-entity using advanced cybernetic networks, and the results were so pleasant or offered such god-like perceptions that they were unwilling to give it up, but chose to live vicariously in an electronic reality, dying without the replacement of procreation.

Another movie that Cameron wrote was called Mother, which was originally called E.T. -- he changed the title after Steven Spielberg began making his classic family sci-fi film. 

In Mother, humans have plundered Earth and look to exploit another planet. As I wrote in 1980-81: “It was a … plan, born of desperation. For Earth was becoming hell too, crushed beneath a sea of homo sapiens, and they needed new territory. Not simply a new continent: an entire world was required. And so they came.” This effort is spearheaded by an international and interplanetary consortium called Triworld Development Corporation, or “the Company,” which sets up mines on another planet, possibly Venus or an extrasolar planet or moon such as Titan. Due to the planet’s extremely high temperatures and a toxic atmosphere of carbon dioxide at high pressure, humans cannot survive there without environment suits. But that does not stop the Company.

He then goes on to talk about several of his other ideas that he worked on before 1991 including Aliens, Rambo II, The Abyss, The Terminator, The Terminator II, and how they also have Avatar themes. For example, he sites that the Paul Reiser character in Aliens is basically the same character played by Giovanni Ribisi in Avatar. He explains that some of the military gear in Rambo II served as inspiration for the heavily armed gunships in Avatar. He also claims that the idea of a neural-net was first explored in his Terminator movies. He then moves on to another unproduced movie called Wind Warriors.

The basic story of Wind Warriors was this: An aviatrix crashes into the Brazilian rainforest and mysteriously disappears. Her daughter travels to the jungle in order to search for her mother and, together with an archaeologist who speaks the language of the natives, hire a bush pilot to take them upriver in his converted World War I bomber plane. They are attacked by mercenaries under the command of a greedy industrialist, who is seeking a mysterious but extremely valuable metal. The industrialist has an airship, which the indigenous warriors believe to be a god, and he uses the airship to make them dig for more of the metal. The indigenous warriors ingest the root of a plant that makes them invincible, but causes others to have terrible visions that drive them mad and die. The protagonists are captured by these warriors, but are not killed because they ingest the plant to prove their acquaintance with the gods. The protagonists fight the mercenaries, who wear gas masks. When the protagonists, aided by a huge South American condor, destroy the airship, the shaman calls his people to rise up against the mercenaries, who are forced to withdraw. The archaeologist discovers that the metal is actually a remnant of an alien ship that crashed there.

One thing is for sure, Avatar is seriously Cameron's life work, it's what he's always wanted to do, and he's doing it. I don't think this guy suing him has a case after reading through this sworn declaration. Like I said, there's a ton of interesting details in this thing about the films Cameron has worked on over the years, and you should read through it, especially if you're a fan of Cameron and Avatar.

Here are some cool minimalist posters for the Star Wars Trilogy by Matt Ferguson. This is just a taste of the epic geek art he has for sale at his shop here. Check out more of his work on his Tumblr. 

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Christmas trees are already one of the weirdest things when you think about it, and then people go and add some lame-ass ornaments that contain pictures of their family or some other sentimental nonsense. What you should really be adding to the tree are pictures of your favorite comic book characters or old SNES cartridges. Yeah, time to spruce up the holiday with some nerdy stuff instead of Grandma. 'nah mean?

Thankfully you can get a start on sabotaging your tree with ornaments that have both Link and Zelda painted on them. GingerPots was nice enough to craft these beauties. Here is an excerpt from their page:

Inspired by the classic original Legend of Zelda game, this ornament set features series hero Link and Princess Zelda. Hand-painted on 2 1/2 inch glass ball ornaments. A metallic gold paint was used for the base color. Classic 8-bit style!

This item is currently sold out, but we are taking orders on a made-to-order basis. They may take around a week to compete and ship.

Other video game and cartoon-related ornaments available upon request, if possible, old school or new! From Mega Man to Halo to Angry Birds, we're open to anything!

Note: If you choose Angry Birds, you're a bad person.

The set will cost you $30 plus shipping but you have to do something to get those other silly ornaments off the tree, right?

DreamWorks has hired commercial director Ringan Ledwidge to direct their micro-budget sci-fi time travel thriller Glimmer. The story follows "a group of teens who discover a portal to the past. When one of them changes history, the effects start to snowball with tragic consequences."

As you can see there's a little mix of Chronicle and Back to the Future in there. Or even The Simpsons, remember when Homer had the time-travel toaster? I guess people will never learn when they go back in time not to touch or interact with anything. Hopefully it turns out to be a cool movie! Here's some more detailed info from scriptshadow,

Set in the small town of Hopewell, PA around a group of teenagers on the verge of graduation. There’s Tyler, an upper-tier nerd, his best friend Ben, a lower-tier nerd who believes he’s upper-teir, Mike, a preppy stud who’s friends with these two for reasons that are never explained, and his super hot girlfriend, Casey Lee. Joining the group later is Allison, the classic All-American girl unaware of her beauty, and longtime obsession of Ben.

Because school life doesn’t have much to offer these misfits, they’ve planned a little weekend getaway to the nearby forest, which word has it is haunted. Over the years, many people have disappeared into this forest, as we see on the opening page, where a picture shows a “missing persons” cork board.

Anyway, the five camp out the first night, have a hell of a time, but when Tyler and Allison wake up the next morning, everyone else is gone. They search high and low, but can’t find them anywhere. AND they seem to have taken Tyler’s video camera! 

You can see where the story is headed. Here's a couple of commercials that Ledwidge has directed to give you a sense of his style which is very heartfelt. The movie will start shooting next year in 2013. 

Barnardo's 'Life Story' - Ringan Ledwidge from Rattling Stick on Vimeo.