Cinefix is back with a new entry in their "Things You (Probably) Didn't Know" series, and this time they turn their attention to the 1989 Walt Disney animated classic The Little Mermaid. I'd heard about the boner thing - everyone knows that - so I'm glad they didn't include that in their official list, but they gave plenty of information that I had never heard before about this terrific movie.

In case you hadn't heard, Sofia Coppola has been hired to direct a live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid for Universal (see a parody trailer for that here), and just yesterday the news broke that Tim Burton would direct a live-action Dumbo for Disney, so the exploitation of old animated classics for more money continues (although Joey's review of Cinderella indicates that not all of those are creatively worthless). Anyway, watch and learn below:

Marvel's Daredevil comes to Netflix on April 10th, which is just under a month from now, so one would assume that all of the work has been completed on its first season by now. That may or may not be true, but today Marvel has officially announced some more supporting characters are coming to the show. It's unclear whether these actors have been on board for a while and they just chose today to make this announcement, or whether they'll have small roles in the back half of the season and we'll potentially see them again in the second season or in a different Marvel Netflix show.

From the comics, Rob Morgan (“Person of Interest,” “Believe”) will play Turk Barrett, a smalltime criminal in Hell’s Kitchen, while Matt Gerald (“Avatar,” “Dexter”) will play Melvin Potter, a machinist caught between a rock and a hard place.

Siding with Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) are Peter Shinkoda (“Falling Skies,” “Hawaii 5-0”) as Nobu, a Japanese businessman with an agenda all his own; Wai Ching Ho (“Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Blue Bloods”) as Madame Gao, a powerful woman running her own trade; and Nikolai Nikolaeff (“Camp,” “Sea Patrol”) and Gideon Emery (“Grimm,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2”) as Vladimir and Anatoly, two Russian brothers looking to forge new names for themselves in America.

In the comics, the character of Melvin Potter actually becomes a bad guy named Gladiator before eventually reforming and becoming a big supporter of Daredevil. I imagine we'll see that come into play over the course of the show. As far as the rest of the new additions go, I don't think there are any more that will be major players in the mythos of the show they're creating. To see the newest trailer, click here.

Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron is going to be the biggest movie of the year until Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrives in December. The latest trailer for Joss Whedon's superhero sequel makes the film look totally worthy of all of that attention, and we've even seen some interesting alternate takes on it since its debut last week, including one with Spider-Man inserted into the action, and a compilation of all of the trailers cut together.

But none have been as adorable as this one from Mashable's The Watercooler video series, which features voiceovers and sound effects from three young kids playing over the visuals from the trailer. Check it out below, and for more on Age of Ultron, be sure to click here.

Via: LaughingSquid

A new international trailer has been released for director Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland, and it features a ton of new footage. It’s really an interesting trailer because it shows how the story is connected to Walt Disney and Disneyland. 

As some of you may remember, the marketing for this movie all started with a mysterious box that was supposedly left in Walt Disney’s personal development lab, which later became the Imagineering department. With this trailer, we finally know how that actually ties into the movie, and it’s pretty awesome. 

This looks like it’s going to be a spectacularly fun movie to watch, and I’m incredibly excited about seeing how the full story plays out. It includes so many elements of things I love about the movies.

Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as TOMORROWLAND!

The movie will be released in theaters on May 22nd, and it stars George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Judy Greer, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, and Thomas Robinson.

Via: MovieWeb

The latest Homemade Shot for Shot video from CineFix fantastically recreates the badass fight sequence between The Bride and Vernita Green, a.k.a. Copperhead, from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Out of all the Homemade videos that I’ve seen from these guys, this one might actually be the most entertaining. I couldn’t help but laugh at all of the ridiculous props they used to bring this scene to life.

Watch the HOMEMADE version of the The Bride’s showdown with Vernita Green re-created shot-for-shot, without any special effects or post-production trickery!! 

I also included a behind-the-scenes video, along with a side-by-side comparison. 

Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk are teaming up to bring us a comedy series called Con Man, and they want you, the fans, to produce it. They started an Indiegogo campaign so you can help support the project, which is inspired by their experience with geek conventions after Firefly was cancelled, and it's described as “Extras meets Galaxy Quest.”

I’m already sold on the fact that these guys are teaming up again so they can give us a series for our geek entertainment pleasure! Of course, you want a little more information than that, so here’s a description of the series that Tudyk wrote up:

Wray Nerely (Alan Tudyk-Me!) was a co-star on Spectrum, a sci-fi series which was canceled -Too Soon- yet became a cult classic. Wray’s good friend, Jack Moore (Nathan Fillion) starred in the series and has gone on to become a major movie star. While Jack enjoys the life of an A-lister, Wray tours the sci-fi circuit as a guest of conventions, comic book stores, and lots of pop culture events.  The show will feature all the weird and crazy things that happen to Wray along the way to these events.

The series is a light-hearted take on the personalities, luminaries, and characters in the sci­-fi community we are privileged to call ourselves members. Con Man is a way to share some of the surreal occurrences we have had, while telling the story of a guy learning to love and embrace his fans.

I wanted to make a show that featured all of my favorite convention artists and friends together. Not only that, I wanted to celebrate the world where heroes, villains, zombie hunters, and space pirates all overlap. I especially wanted to work with my friend Nathan Fillion again.

This sounds like it has the potential to be an incredibly fun show that fans are going to love. The initial goal for the project was $425,000 for three episodes, but since the campaign was launched on March 10th it already has over $1.1 million! This means that they will at least get to produce 7 episodes, and the more money they get, the more episodes they'll make. The fans are really stepping up to the plate and helping these guys develop their series, and it's awesome!

This is exciting, and I can’t wait to see how it turn out! Watch Tudyk and Fillion explain the series below.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Cinderella in this Disney princess rap battle against Belle, who is played by Whitney Avalon. It's amusing to watch Gellar rap as a Disney princess, and I'm sure many of you will enjoy it.

Something magical is afoot! Cinderella (Gellar) and Belle (Avalon) throw down in the fourth Princess Rap Battle.

There are actually a few of these "Princess Rap Battles," and I included a couple other videos for you to check out in case you haven't seen them.

Thanks to EW we have our first official look at the Sand Snakes from HBO's Game of Thrones Season 5. The Sand Snakes are three deadly young women, all half-sisters and warriors from Dorne. Their names are Nymeria, Obara and Tyene, and they all share the same father, the late Oberyn Martell. 

The Sand Snakes are understandably pissed off and out for revenge after their father met his demise at the hands of The Mountain. These three characters are going to play a key role in the upcoming season, and they will represent something new in Westeros. Keisha Castle-Hughes (Obara) explains,

"We haven’t seen women like this on Game Of Thrones before. You have lone wolves like Arya and Brienne, and others like Daenerys or Cersei, who are politically strong surrounded by men. But you haven’t seen women who are strong together and who collaborate – which is a dangerous thing. We’re three girls who are violent and manipulative who are thirsty for Lannister blood.”

 Showrunner David Benioff adds,

“It’s fun because they’re constantly fighting, but it’s the kind of family that if an outsider comes in, they all band together and unify, who cast actresses of different nationalities for the roles who all still manage to pass as siblings."

These are three badass characters, and I'm looking forward to seeing them in action when the series returns on April 12th!

I’ve got an incredibly cool short film for you to watch today called "Super Zero: Badass Journey Into Zombie Awesomeness." The title alone was enough to grab my attention, but as it turns out, the film itself is really freakin’ good! One of the things that I like most about it is the main character, who finds himself embarking on one hell of an insane journey of fighting zombies and self-discovery. The short also carries a positive message with it that is explained in this synopsis:

For a comic book-loving, hashtag-hating gamer, the rise of the undead isn't actually the biggest of his worries. See what happens when you harness the power of your own awesomeness in this mash up of sci-fi zombie superhero fun.

The short was released last year, but it wasn’t until recently that I got an email from the creator Mitchell Cohen asking me to watch it. I did, and obviously loved it. I think you will too. There’s also a chance that this could get picked up and adapted into a series, which would be pretty awesome. I’d definitely watch it! 

The short also features a cameo by Mars Rover engineer and internet personality Bobak "Mohawk Guy" Ferdowsi. Now enjoy the show!

David Ayer's highly anticipated Suicide Squad is gearing up for production, and we've got some new information on a fan favorite character in the DC universe: Deathstroke. First of all, Cinema Blend is reporting that one of their insider sources say that actor Joe Manganiello (True Blood) is close to signing on to play the villain. The guy is a great actor, and I can totally see him in the role, so I think it would be great if he landed the gig.

We also have some additional information on the character thanks to El Mayimbe from Latino-Review. He claims that Deathstroke won't have any powers like he does in the comics, he will start out as a hired assassin working for Onslaught. He will also be the "breakout" character in the film, and apparently his introduction in the film is going to be absolutely "INSANE!" The character will come face-to-face with the Suicide Squad early on in the movie and nearly takes down the entire team single-handedly. Here are some additional details from the report:

"He's a hired assassin and he doesn't have any powers like in the comic book. They're going for a pre-super villain Deathstroke. He's a huge part of both of the major set pieces of the film. His introduction is INSANE! He's badass & almost takes the team down on one mission single handed. Deathstroke has THE breakout & choicest role in the film. The running gun battle that sources are describing is something else. His suit is very stealth oriented. They used an actual US military tactical outfit for the basis. He's armed to the teeth, uses a sword and automatics. In concept artwork he has two eyes. The mask is there and it's the iconic one."

It sounds like Deathstroke might end up being one of the highlights of the movie. Ayer seems to be handling the character in the right way, and it's something that I think fans will get excited about seeing.

Suicide Squad centers on a secret government agency that recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions in exchange for clemency.

The movie stars Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jared Leto as the Joker, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, and Jesse Eisenberg is rumored to be reprising his Batman V Superman role of Lex Luthor.

The movie hits theaters on August 5th, 2016.

A rumor recently hit the internet saying that Warner Bros. is looking at casting Chris Pine in the role of Green Lantern. There's no official word on if it will focus on the Hal Jordan version or the John Stewart version of the character, but we have to assume that if the studio is indeed looking at Pine, we'll see Hal Jordan on screen once again. 

Thanks to BossLogic, we have an idea of what Pine might look like in the role. He basically used one of Pine's Star Trek character posters as the base, and gave it a complete overhaul to make him look like the Emerald Knight. I'm on board with the idea of Pine taking on this character as he's got the look and the attitude. 

It will be a while before Green Lantern gets his own standalone movie again, but he is expected to appear in Zack Snyder's two part Justice League film. The first part will be released on November 17th, 2017, and part two hits theaters on June 14th, 2019. 

Dracula wants to teach his grandson how to fly in this first adorable teaser trailer for Hotel Transylvania 2. It's probably not the safest way to teach someone how to fly, and child social services probably wouldn't be too pleased with what he does, but it makes for some fun comedy!

Being a father of three girls, I connected with the first movie and really enjoyed it. So of course I'm looking forward to taking my kids to see the sequel. 

Genndy Tartakovsky came back to direct the film which include the voice cast of Adam Sandler as Drac, Selena Gomez as Mavis, Andy Samberg as Jonathan, Kevin James as Frank, Steve Buscemi as Wayne Werewolf, Keegan-Michael Key as Murray the Mummy, and Mel Brooks as Vlad.

The Drac pack is back for an all-new monster comedy adventure in Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania 2! Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania...

Dracula’s rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny – and in for a major cultural shock of her own – “Vampa” Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a “monster-in-training” boot camp. But little do they know that Drac’s grumpy and very old, old, old school dad Vlad is about to pay a family visit to the hotel. And when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure blood – and humans are now welcome at Hotel Transylvania – things are going to get batty!

The movie is set to be released on September 25th. Enjoy the trailer!

I'm a huge Fast & Furious fan, so Furious 7 is one of my most anticipated movies of the year. I love the way the franchise has evolved over the years, and I'm very curious to see what Saw and The Conjuring director James Wan is going to bring to the table for the newest film in the series. We've seen from the trailers and TV spots that he's definitely trying to live up to the insane bar the franchise has set when it comes to crazy action sequences, and one of the highlights from the trailer was seeing Dom, Brian, and the gang skydive out of a plane in cars.

Universal has released a brand new behind the scenes featurette that shows exactly how this was accomplished, and I was astonished to find out that they used real cars and actually did these stunts for real instead of making them CGI. I just assumed there was no way to control something as huge and heavy as a car if you really dropped it out of a plane, but the stunt team figured it out, and I respect the movie even more than I already did for going that extra mile and finding a way to make the action feel as real as possible. Check it out below.

Though Liam Neeson starred in Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Batman Begins in the late 90s and mid-2000s, it wasn't until 2008's Taken that he fully re-established himself as an ass-kicking leading man. That movie kick-started a whole new phase to his career, setting him down the path of starring in Taken 2 & 3, The A-Team, Unknown, The Grey, Non-Stop, A Walk Among The Tombstones, and this week's new release, Run All Night. But at age 62, Neeson is realizing he won't be able to keep this up forever, and in an interview with Collider, he says he plans on ending this phase of his career relatively soon.

“Maybe two more years. If God spares me and I’m healthy. But after that, I’ll stop [the action] I think...The success of certainly the Taken films, Hollywood seems to see me in a different light. I get sent quite a few action-oriented scripts, which is great. I’m not knocking it. It’s very flattering. But there is a limit, of course.”

I feel like Run All Night has some potential, but I'm still glad to hear that Neeson is self-aware and doesn't plan on milking this particular phase of his career completely dry. After a while, a lot of those projects start to feel like the same movie over and over again, and while I don't blame him in the slightest for cashing in on all of them and taking advantage of Hollywood giving him a late-career opportunity to become an action star, I'd love to see him go back to some regular roles that don't involve a use of that particular set of skills.

What do you think? Would you like to see Neeson churn out action movies until he's in his late sixties or early seventies, or do you think two more years sounds like a good cut-off point?

2015 is the year that we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future. As a tribute to that, an anonymous Reddit user created this fun graphic showing the 30 year age comparison of aged makeup effects used in the movie vs. what these actors look like now in real life. I think it's funny that the only one who looks older now than how he looked in the film is Thomas Wilson as Biff. I think that both Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson look younger than their movie characters. 

Via: GeekxGirls

Disney CEO Bob Iger spoke with investors on a call this morning, and he's revealed some information regarding the future of the Star Wars franchise. StarWars.com has the news. First up, Rian Johnson has been officially confirmed as the writer/director of Star Wars: Episode VIII (something the filmmaker has been pretty open about but the studio hadn't confirmed, for some mysterious reason, until now). That film has a release date of May 26th, 2017, moving away from the holiday release of Abrams' The Force Awakens and back into the traditional summer slot that Star Wars fans have come to expect.

Secondly, Gareth Edwards' standalone film has an official title: Star Wars: Rogue One. We'd heard rumors a while ago that the third standalone film might focus on the adventures of an X-Wing squadron, but the most current rumor suggests that this film will be about bounty hunters hired to steal the plans for The Death Star. None of the plot details have been confirmed for any of the upcoming movies yet, but Iger did say that the events depicted will "go well beyond the core Star Wars saga." He also said that Oscar nominee Felicity Jones will star in Rogue One, confirming a report from last month.

Exciting stuff! Here's the official announcement:

Rogue One is the title for the first film in a unique series of big-screen adventures that explores the characters and events beyond the core Star Wars saga. Rogue One will be directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters, Godzilla) and written by Oscar nominee Chris Weitz (Cinderella, About a Boy, Antz). The first actress cast is Felicity Jones, who garnered an Academy Award nomination and critical acclaim for her performance in The Theory of Everything. The idea for the story of Rogue One came from John Knoll, an Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic. He will executive produce along with Simon Emanuel (The Dark Knight Rises, Fast & Furious 6) and Jason McGatlin (Tintin, War of the Worlds). Kathleen Kennedy and Tony To (Band of Brothers, The Pacific) are on board to produce and John Swartz (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will co-produce. The film starts shooting this summer in London and is due for release on December 16, 2016.

In addition, Iger confirmed that Rian Johnson will write and direct Star Wars: Episode VIII. The film, which continues the saga after the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is set for release on May 26, 2017 — forty years and a day after the release of Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977. Johnson is widely considered one of cinema’s most gifted young filmmakers, having directed the modern sci-fi classic, Looper, as well as Brick and The Brothers Bloom. He was also behind the camera for three episodes of the critically-acclaimed TV series Breaking Bad, including “Ozymandias,” which series creator Vince Gilligan named as the best installment of the show. Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman, producer of Looper, Don Jon, Brick, and The Brothers Bloom, are on board to produce.

Year after year, HBO's Game of Thrones has proven itself to be one of the most watched and most discussed shows on television, and it's broken into the popular consciousness in a big way. (When your parents start watching, you know something has crossed out of just the geek-friendly realm and jumped into the mainstream.) The TV series, based on George R.R. Martin's novels, is pretty dense, and there are a ton of characters and kingdoms and plotlines to keep track of. So asking the cast to summarize the first four seasons in 30 seconds, as EW just did, seems like an impossible task. Still, they try - with varying degrees of success - and I like Peter Dinklage and Maisie Williams' responses the best. For some brand new looks at the characters on EW covers and the first official look at the Sand Snakes from the upcoming season, click here and here.

If you've never heard of the 2012 web series Inferno Cop, you're missing out on the best "fxxxing" 30 minutes of anime you'll see in awhile. For those that don't know the back story, this web series gained its studio, Trigger, enough money to develop what was regarded one of the best animes of 2014, Kill La Kill. The series just went up on CrunchyRoll yesterday to cheers from fans, but you can watch the entire series for free right below via Youtube! Don't worry, it's an official upload by the creators and totally worth the thirty minutes it takes to watch the entire series.

Inferno Cop is best described as a surreal mix of pop culture and anime tropes mixed in with Ghost Rider if he were actually Deadpool. That's about the best way I can describe it because in truth, there is no proper description that will do it justice. Things start with a police officer stopping an assault and quickly escalate to a zombie invasion, a race across America, and a battle against God. It's....INFERNO COP!

The mix of humor and stop motion animation are on point, and I watched the whole series in one sitting because I was so engaged. That's saying a lot because I absolutely hate stop motion animated features (looking at you, Marvel). I'm hoping its recent addition to CrunchyRoll will get it enough attention to possibly get picked up by Adult Swim, or at least develop interest in creating a second season, so I have an appeal to make: Watch it, recommend it, and try to hype it as much as possible because by the end you'll be wanting a second season as much as I do! Watch the first episode below!
 

For some reason Tim Burton is going to direct a new big screen adaptation of Dumbo for Disney. I don't understand why he would do this after making Big Eyes, which was such a great film. I want to see him make more movies like that! 

After the movie was announced, PETA's senior vice president Lisa Lange wrote an open letter asking Burton and Disney to change the ending of the movie. The original 1941 animated film ends with the Dumbo and his mother, Mrs. Jumbo, getting their own luxury circus train car. Apparently that's not a happy enough ending for PETA, who is known for doing outrageous stunts, some of which are to attract attention to their organization. Lange said:

"We’re hopeful that in your adaptation of Dumbo, the young elephant and his mother can have a truly happy ending by living out their lives at a sanctuary instead of continuing to be imprisoned and abused in the entertainment industry."

I'd say its fine to do that if the movie has a modern day setting. But if Burton plans on setting the film in 1941, then the original ending should stay in place, because that's just how the world was back then. Did animal sanctuaries even exist back then? Lange goes on to say:

"We love the original Dumbo because it tells the story of the heartbreaking abuse that elephants in circuses endure, and we hope you will keep this storyline in the new film. A bullhook is a sharp metal weapon used in circuses to control elephants — and it’s the same tool used by elephant trainers in film and television. And just like in the circus, elephants used in film and television don’t perform because they want to. They perform because they’re afraid that they’ll be beaten if they don’t."

Like all of the live-action adaptations we've seen from Disney in recent years, there have been changes made to the story, and I'm sure that will be the same case with Dumbo. We just don't know exactly what those changes are yet. 

The movie will be a live-action/CG hybrid, and Dumbo will likely be a CG animated character. Ehren Kruger wrote the script and will produce with Justin Springer. 

What do you think about PETA's proposed change for the film's ending?

It should come as no surprise that Disney's Frozen is getting a sequel. The first film was such a huge hit, so of course they are going to want to cash in a build a successful franchise out of it. 

The news was announced at Disney's Annual Meeting of Shareholders earlier today by CEO Bob Iger, Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, and Josh Gad, who is confirmed to return to provide the voice of Olaf. 

The movie is already in development at Walt Disney Animation and the directors of the first film, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, have returned to bring Frozen 2 to life. Other than Gad, none of the other actors have been confirmed, but I think it's safe to assume that they'll all be back to reprise their role of their characters.

What's funny about this whole thing is that in an interview with BuzzFeed last week, the two directors said that Frozen 2 was not in development. I guess we can't trust anything they say again. When talking about coming up with a story for the sequel, they said:

"It all comes down to the story. Like with the short, it was so daunting until we found the story. Then it was all of the things it usually is and we were thinking of every emotion and moment and feeling. I think that’s all we can do. Until we find our way into what’s next, emotionally, it will feel too big. We just finished the short two weeks ago. One year ago, it was a lot to even think about doing a short. We were quite tired. We don’t really know what it’s like to stop for a minute and think about what we want to do next."

Well, it looks like they are doing Frozen 2 next. There's no word on when the movie will be released, and there are no details what kind of story the film will tell. There's a fun short film based in the world of the popular animated movie though called Frozen Fever, which is attached to Cinderella and hits theaters tomorrow.

Dreams really do come 2!!! #FROZEN2 #itsofficial pic.twitter.com/qF6qTQlnqi

— Kristen Bell (@IMKristenBell) March 12, 2015