Marvel has released the first teaser poster for Captain America: The Winter Solider! Looks like that shield is going to see some epic battles. It looks pretty heavily worn. 

The story picks up where The Avengers left off, "as Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C. " This is going to be more of a direct sequel to The Avengers which is pretty cool. Hopefully it turns out just as good!

Captain America is one of my favorite Marvel characters, and I'm really excited about this sequel. Marvel will be holding a panel for the movie at Comic-Con where they will screen the first footage from the film. We'll be there to tell you all about it!  

The Anthony and Joe Russo directed film stars Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Frank Grillo, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Scarlett Johansson, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Maximiliano Hernández, Robert Redford, and Georges St-Pierre.

The movie hits theaters on April 4th, 2014.

According to Zap2it, James Franco has joined the cast of the Veronica Mars movie.  

According to their source, Franco will appear as himself in the film. "He'll be one of several celebrities in the movie who have been victims of a hidden camera scam. No, not like on 'Duped!' -- one of those reality shows where people get duped into doing stupid things like giving some stranger their car or a bunch of money. But the kind of scam where someone hides cameras in famous people's houses and tries to sell the videos."

Sounds like the perfect case for Veronica to take on. I imagine Franco's role in the story won't be very big, but it's cool that he's going to be a part of it. 

The movie is being directed by Rob Thomas and stars Kristen Bell, 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).

It was previously revealed that "life has taken Veronica away from Neptune. In the years since spoiling Keith's chances to be reelected sheriff, Veronica hasn't taken a case. But something big is about to bring her back home and back to her calling." Veronica and her former classmates will be returning to Neptune for their 10-year high school reunion. For more information on what you can expect to see in the film, click here.

Warner Bros. is set to distribute the movie, and it will have a presence at Comic-Con. For more of the Comic-Con details, click here.

Here's an incredibly cool collection of fan art featuring several of our favorite Game of Thrones characters in the world of The Simpsons. The mashup redesigns were created by artist Adrien Noterdaem for the Draw the Simpsons Tumblr. 

Thanks to io9 for the heads up on this awesomeness!  

To promote their upcoming film Metallica Through The Never, the band will be playing live at San Diego Comic-Con. So for those of you who are fans, this should end up being a really awesome experience... if you can get in. Picturehouse made the announcement, and this information is from the press released they sent out.

Metallica, will appear for the first time ever at Comic-Con in San Diego with special live performance and Hall H Panel on Friday, July 19 in support of their new 3D feature film, Metallica Through The Never. The band will perform an intimate private concert at a secret location in San Diego. 

The film’s 6:30 p.m. Hall H panel includes all four members of Metallica: James Hetfield (vocals, guitar), Lars Ulrich (drums), Kirk Hammett (guitar, background vocals) Robert Trujillo (bass, background vocals); along with actor Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), director/writer Nimród Antal (Predators, Kontroll) and producer Charlotte Huggins (Journey to the Center of the Earth).

The Hall H presentation will world premiere the Metallica Through The Never theatrical trailer and poster, show exclusive preview footage and discuss the making of the film. Only during the Hall H panel will Comic-Con conventioneers in attendance have an opportunity to win tickets and learn the location where Metallica will play later that same evening.

Metallica Through The Never stars Metallica, one of the most popular, influential rock bands in history. In this music-driven, 3D motion picture event, Antal immerses audiences in a bracing, raw and visceral cinematic experience with spectacular live performance footage of Metallica’s most iconic songs -- created exclusively for film -- combined with a bold, narrative story featuring imagery drawn from the band’s trailblazing iconography. DeHaan portrays Trip, a young roadie sent on an urgent mission, during the Metallica’s roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena. The film features dazzling pyrotechnics, the most elaborate live-performance stage ever built and state-of-the-art 3-D photography, captured using up to 24 cameras simultaneously. Picturehouse will release Metallica Through The Never in North America on September 27, 2013 exclusively in over 300 IMAX 3D Theatres, and will expand into additional theaters on October 4, 2013. 

So if you're lucky enough to win tickets I'm sure you'll have a great time!

Check out this awesome series of Star Wars fan made art featuring some of the main ships in the film series. They were created Vesa Lehtimäki, who has done a ton of great Star Wars art and LEGO photos over the years, some of which you can check out right here. Here's a note from the artist:

"These posters are really not much you've not seen before, by that I mean that they are channeling the works of numerous other designers before me, like the always wonderful Justin Van Genderen and Sana Sini, to name some. I tried to avoid direct copying (I don't like that), but at some point I realized I cannot make these that much different after all, originality is hard, but I try."

"The Millennium Falcon is one of the most famous and original spaceships ever designed. It's asymmetrical which was rare before it came along. Here the Falcon shoots up against Tatooine twin suns backdrop."

"The snowspeeder is a peculiar macine, aerodynamically totally awkward for atmospheric flight, yet it couldn't be more at home when roaring above the frozen mountains of the planet Hoth. One of the coolest ships ever – literally. Here, a steep ascent against the three moons of hoth."

"The X-wing, probably the fastest looking fighter ever served in space. With the biggest cannons, no less. The design was somewhat based on a 1970's dragster car chassis, no wonder it looks fast. Here's the legendary Red 5 getting ready to lock S-foils in attack position and dive down to the trench of the Death Star."

"The Y-wing, what can I say, it's my personal favourite. I really like it's design because it's so tangible, I can easily imagine one in my garage ready for taking it out to spin, I can almost smell the hot oily engines. Here pictured against Yavin and it's moon, Yavin 4."

How in the hell did I miss this at the Sundance Film Festival? The movie is a western called Sweetwater. It stars January Jones and Ed Harris, and the story is set in 1886. It follows a young widow who risks everything to avenge her husband’s murder at the hands of a brutal sheep rancher. It's definitely a change of pace for Jones, in a good way. This could be a great role for her. It looks like a fantastic movie, and I'm kicking myself in the ass for not seeing it at Sundance because I love a good western. 

Sarah, a former prostitute living on the New Mexico plains with her husband Miguel (Eduardo Noriega), who are both having to deal with overbearing landowner and religious fanatic Prophet Josiah (Jason Isaacs). When Josiah has Miguel killed, Sarah takes the law into her own hands on an intense journey of vengeance, with a renegade sheriff (Ed Harris) hot on her tail.

There's still no word on when the movie will get a U.S. release date, but it looks like a film worth keeping an eye on. Watch the trailer for yourself, and let us know if it's something you'd want to see.

Thanks to Indiewire. 

The first gameplay video for Grand Theft Auto V is out, and things of course look better than ever. In addition to graphical enhancements, it looks like they put a lot more time into small things like scuba diving, tennis, and skydiving. Perhaps the most interesting feature is the ability to switch protagonists on the fly and join them in the midst of their average day. It's all in the video, check it out for more info.

Usually I post a lot of fan art of stuff you're already familiar with, but every once in a while I come across some original art that I have to share. Here's a beautiful set of fantasy art created by CGHUB artist totorrl. Most of them center on female characters, and all of them are pretty fantastic.

The reviews for Pacific Rim have been pouring out, and most that I've read have been extremely positive. The movie finally hits theaters this weekend, and after all the positive buzz I've read, I'm even more excited to see the movie! In anticipation of the film's release, Warner Bros. has released a 14-minute "Making Of" featurette filled with footage from the film, behind the scenes footage, and interviews with director Guillermo del Toro, the cast, and crew. If the reviews I've seen are right, Pacific Rim is going to deliver on the promise of absolute awesomeness. 

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)—who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Check out this impressive Darth Vader mask and lightsaber mail box created by Deviant Art user SenseiMonkeyboy who says,

A friend asked me to paint up a Darth Vader mail box for her... it started that direction then veered off sharply into this.

As you can see it, turned out way more awesome than it was supposed to be, and now I want one!

We've got two new featurettes for James Mangold's The Wolverine to share with you. The first is called "Logan" and obviously focuses on the badass character played by Hugh Jackman. The second one is part of the HBO "First Look" movie segment. Each one features Jackman discussing the movie and his character, saying that this is the best Wolverine that there is.

The movie will open in theaters on July 26th, and I'm looking forward to seeing Wolverine go ballistic and kick some ninja ass! 

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.

Here's a fan art mashup of The Walking Dead and Stars Wars featuring the Jedi Michonne taking out a horde of Stormtrooper zombies on Tatooine. This would actually make a really fun comic series. The illustration above was created by PJ McQuade and here's a little background on it:

Tatooine has been infected with zombie stormtroopers. Who ya gonna call? Michonne from The Walking Dead of course! Pay attention JJ Abrams. Given her prowess with a samurai blade, I always picture her with a lightsaber.  We all know she's a total badass, but now she has interstellar credentials. She even has a pelt of decapitated bounty hunter heads - Bossk, Dengar and she's about to collect IG-88's tin noggin. Michonne has this cloak of mystery around her so I imagined her as a bounty hunter to muddy the Jedi waters. I see her as a mercenary of sorts, not always towing the Jedi line note for note (perhaps there was a falling out) but she's on the side of good when the sugar honey ice tea hits the fan, I think...

 If you're interested in purchasing a print of this, click here.

Art by Brian Rood

Not long after San Diego Comic-Con ends, Disney will be holding their annual D23 fan expo. Disney is expected to announce their plans for some theme park developments as well as what they are looking to do for future films and TV series. This year they'll be adding Star Wars to their repertoire. I've gone to D23 the last couple of years, and I've always had a pretty fun time. 

Disney revealed some of their plans today in the following press release. The event is held at the Anaheim Convention Center from August 9th to the 11th. As the event gets closer they will reveal what panels will be held. 

Disney Consumer Products (DCP) will give Disney’s most loyal fans an up close look at an extensive collection of interactive experiences and merchandise that celebrate Disney, Marvel and Star Wars timeless characters during the bi-annual D23 Expo, the ultimate Disney fan event. Held at the Anaheim Convention Center from Aug. 9-11, 2013, Disney fans will have the chance to follow their favorite products from “sketch to shelf” and learn how Disney Consumer Products extends storytelling from character and content extension to product development through featured discussions, art and sculptures and final product displays.

While at the D23 Expo fans will also be able to immerse themselves in exhibits, hands-on demonstrations, special signing opportunities and exclusive product offerings at the Disney Consumer Products Pavilion.

Disney Consumer Products’ exciting lineup of events and attractions includes:

Celebrating Disney, Marvel and Star Wars

- Disney Junior Fun Spot – Get a sneak peek of brand-new toys before they hit store shelves this fall and enjoy special giveaways while supplies last. 

- Disney Princess Ariel-Themed Sephora Pop-up Shop – Sephora Pro artists and manicurists will give attendees the royal treatment with products from the Disney Ariel Collection by Sephora. The collection will be available for purchase along with an exclusive-to-D23 Expo-only Swarovski crystal-encrusted Ariel compact mirror. Attendees will receive starfish hair clips with every complimentary beauty service each day, while supplies last. 

- The Mystical World of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen – See feature animation art concepts, storyboards, unreleased film clips, and products from the mystical world of Frozen, the daring comedy-adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios releasing in November 2013.

- Steamboat Willie Redux – Celebrate the history and timelessness of your favorite character from the pioneering 1928 cartoon short, Steamboat Willie. Using the original story and characters as a template, each scene has been graphically re-interpreted by Disney artists and designers in a phenomenally fun mash-up tribute to Mickey Mouse. 

- Spider-Man’s Ultimate Innovation – Come check out products on the cutting edge of product innovation and design featuring one of the most popular Super Heroes in the world, Spider-Man, in Marvel’s first-ever appearance in the DCP showcase at the D23 Expo. 

- Star Wars at D23 Expo! – For the first time at the D23 Expo Star Wars fans can have access to experiences created for them by Lucasfilm and Disney. Darth Vader: The Evolution of a Villain, located in the DCP pavilion, showcases the development of the iconic villain from early concepts to striking realization. Crash Course in the Force: Star Wars Saga 101, presented by Lucasfilm’s resident authority Pablo Hidalgo in Stage 23, will give Star Wars newbies and experts alike a thorough grounding in all matters of the Force and the Star Wars legacy.

Fans will have the opportunity to participate in other immersive experiences, including: Find Your Voice with The Little Mermaid, a karaoke experience celebrating the music from the film; Journey through the Art of Tink, a gallery where Disney artists, designers, illustrators, and animators from around the world have re-imagined our magical, sassy and feisty fairy, Tinker Bell; What Makes a Puppet a Muppet?, which will help fans learn what it takes to create a Muppets “plush” and then create your own; Take a Ride with Disney•Pixar’s World of Cars and Disney’s Planes, which explains how the highly collectible diecast vehicles are made; Assembling The Avengers Franchise, an exclusive tour through the history of The Avengers and the chance to see the latest The Avengers products; and I heart Mickey & Minnie, a rarely seen collection of beloved Mickey Mouse toys, apparel, and accessories from past decades, along with a showcase of Minnie Mouse-inspired fashions from around the globe.

Will you be attending D23 this year?

At GeekTyrant we are always finding cool stuff that never makes it to the site. Inspired by Screenrant's Geek Picks and Slashfilm's Page 2, we've created what we are calling "Attacks." These attacks will cover cosplay, geek gear, videos, toys, and art.

Today's Art Attack features 37 art pieces of Spider-Man, Venom, The Avengers, Han Solo, R2-D2, Luke Skwalker, Seven Samurai, Black Hole, Man of Steel, Ghostbusters, Darth Vader, Alice, Boba Fett, Stormtrooper, DC Superheroines, Ariel, Hulk, and Deadpool.

Art Attack has a magazine style layout, slideshow galleries, and every image is clickable to show a larger version. Best of all, it's all on one page.

by skottieyoung

by skottieyoung

by icestation61

by icestation61

by icestation61

The Seven Samurai by Jon Paul Kaiser - Via Xombiedirge

by Mark Daniels - via Aintitcool

via CBM

by t-rexjones - via Geeks Are Sexy

by vandersteltstudio - via xombiedirge

Alice - by Omrikoresh

Abstract Star Wars - by lerms

 Hipster DC Girls by Elizabeth Beals

by omrikoresh

by m7781 - via Geeks Are Sexy

Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be showing up at San Diego Comic-Con this year to promote their upcoming prison break thriller Escape Plan. They will be holding a panel for the film, and we just learned that they will also be hosting a screening of the film!  

Summit Entertainment has announced that the screening of the film will take place at the Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15 on Thursday, July 18th. 

This movie looks great, and I really hope I get a chance to see it.  Getting tickets to these things is never easy, but someone has to get them, so you might as well try! Here are the details on how you can get tickets.

Passes for the screening will be available through online giveaways, at the Summit Booth on the convention floor and via giveaway outside the screening location, the evening of the event, while supplies last. 

The fan line will open outside the theater (701 5th Ave.) at 5:00pm. Here fans will have another chance to score a ticket to the special screening and welcome Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger when they arrive on the red carpet.

On the convention floor, Summit's booth located within the Grand Hall will highlight Escape Plan. Exclusive premium promotional items will be distributed to the attendees walking the convention floor and visitors will have the opportunity to win fan screening passes throughout the day on Thursday, July 18th.

In the October 18 release, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb." Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.

Artist and animator Mike McCraw is back with another action-packed animated short for the Power Rangers featuring the Yellow Ranger. This is the fourth short he's made. To watch the Blue Ranger kick some ass, click here, and for the Black and Pink Rangers, click here.

McCraw currently works on the Axe Cop animated series. His goal for this it to show his awesome vision of the Power Rangers while practicing his animation skills. I'm sure we'll see animated shorts for the Red and Green rangers sometime in the future. In the meantime, check out his latest masterpiece.

Check out this great set of fan made poster art featuring creatively stylish designs for Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, and Iron Man. The illustrations were created by Etsy user DigitalTheory, and they look like they would make a great set to own. I'd like to see the artist do some more of these for other superhero characters.

Portlandia   is a fantastic show. It's always good at calling out the hip trendsetters and putting them in their place. Seriously though, who hasn't met someone who claimed they were geeky because "they like Batman" or "have been playing a lot of Zelda on their brother's N64?" Please, knowingly dedicate over 80 hours of your life to a sci fi series, or find yourself killing conversations in bars because you're too into potential Justice League casting lineups, then give me a call.

Disney is moving forward with a live action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel The Jungle Book.  They've hired Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li) to write the script for the film. Disney previously adapted the book into an animated feature back in 1967, and as a live-action film in 1994. The '90s adaptation was directed by Stephen Sommers and starred Jason Scott Lee and Lena Headey.

I'm sure you're all familiar with the story of The Jungle Book, but if you've been living under a rock your whole life it follows the adventures of a young boy named Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, and is friends with a bear named Baloo and a panther named Bagheera. One of the villains of the story is a tiger named Shere Khan.

According to THR, the studio is currently on the hunt for a director, and if they bring the right person on board, this has the potential to be a solid film. Marks also adapted the sci-fi short film The Raven, and wrote an early draft of the script for Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea reboot.

Are you interested in seeing a live-action film adaptation of The Jungle Book?

Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's classic graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is set to get a pilot episode at Fox for a possible new series. 

This really was a great comic, but I didn't really care for the first big screen adaptation. There's a good chance the series the network is planning will be better, especially with the production value networks are putting into their shows these days.

THR reports that the series will be a drama about a group of Victorian age literary characters, including Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde who team up to fight a common enemy.

Michael Green (Green Lantern, Kings, The River, Heroes, Smallville) will serve as the writer, executive producer, and showrunner if the pilot gets picked up for a full series. I hope they are able to create an awesome well made series.