I actually didn't think this was going to happen, but Marvel has just revealed a full character poster for Paul Bettany's Vision from Avengers: Age of Ultron. The marketing team seemed to be wanting to hold back solid looks at this character, teasing him in far-off poses on a poster and a quick close-up in one of the many trailers, but just yesterday, they released a full, clear look at him on an EW magazine cover. I guess they've changed their mind about keeping him hidden, because now we get to scrutinize this character poster and see him in all of his glory.

Kevin Feige gave some spoilery details about the creation of the character in the film, and I'll copy those below. The first press screenings for Avengers: Age of Ultron are tonight, so expect to hear some big buzz about it on Twitter and in the blogosphere tomorrow. The film opens on May 1st.

Strucker has been using Loki’s scepter for human experimentation, which bestowed the siblings with powers of magic (Scarlet Witch) and speed (Quicksilver). But the bad baron piques the interest of Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark for other reasons. “Von Strucker was working on a lot of stuff, including robotics,” says Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. “Tony realizes, ‘[Those robotics] might be able to help me get over the hump of some of the AI stuff I’ve been working on.’?” Stark’s invention, Ultron, is born from the marriage of both men’s technologies. Alas, adolescence is a bitch, and Ultron goes rogue, shreds Stark’s other artificial-intelligence program, J.A.R.V.I.S., and gives rise to his own awesome creation: the synthezoid known as the Vision (played by Paul Bettany, who previously voiced J.A.R.V.I.S.).

A little while ago, we wrote about a new Godzilla-themed hotel opening up in Shinjuku, Japan, but all we had at the time were concept art photos and renderings of what The Hotel Gracery might look like. But now Kotaku points us to a video from Jiji Press that takes us on a video tour of the inside of the hotel, and it's pretty spot-on with what the concept art predicted. It's cool to see this was actually built the way they wanted to, and I can very easily see this becoming a must-visit place for hardcore Godzilla fans all over the world. Where else can you look out your window and see the giant King of the Monsters staring right back at you?

Earlier this week, we showed you a teaser featuring glimpses of madness from the upcoming horror film Sinister 2. The full trailer has now arrived, and it looks like it’s going to be just as unsettling and scary as the first movie. That first film sent shivers down my spine. It dealt with some pretty jacked-up subject matter and, as a family man, it really hit a nerve. I loved it, though. I enjoy feeling the fear.

The sequel follows “a protective mother (Shannyn Sossamon of Wayward Pines) and her 9-year-old twin sons (real-life twins Robert and Dartanian Sloan) as they find themselves in a rural house marked for death, the evil spirit of Bughuul continuing to spread with frightening intensity.”

The movie was not directed by Scott Derrickson this time around, he has been busy with Doctor Strange for Marvel. He did co-write it with Ciaran Foy (Citadel), though, and he’s producing it alongside Jason Blum. The movie was directed by Foy.

Sinister 2 will hit the big screen on August 21th.

Seeing Key & Peele's valet characters get excited about "Liam Neesons" was what finally got me to check out their Comedy Central show, and it's absolutely worth watching if you haven't taken the time to catch up. These valet guys are some of my favorite characters of theirs, and in this new video, they apply their ridiculous unbridled enthusiasm and penchant for wild gesturing to HBO's Game of Thrones, acting out major character deaths along the way.

This put a huge smile on my face (their pronunciations are half the fun, and I especially cracked up at "Taiwan Lannister"), and as is often the case with their sketches, it ends in an unexpected way. Check it out below, and be sure to watch their recreation of their unreleased "Aliens on the Run" sketch if you haven't seen it yet.

Game of Thrones returns this Sunday night on HBO.

HBO has released the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated return of True Detective. There aren't a lot of details given in the trailer, but it does show off the main cast of the film, which consists of Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, and Taylor Kitsch. As you'll see, the atmosphere is the same as the first season, and it's sure to be just as intense and heavy.  

All we really know at this point is that the series follows three police officers and a career criminal, who must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder. We also have some descriptions of the characters in the series that you can read right here.

True Detective Season 2 will premiere on June 21st. If you haven't watched the first season yet, I suggest you take the time to check it out. It was pretty spectacular. 

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Robert Zemeckis’ time travel classic Back to the Future. This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I can’t believe it has been thirty years since it was released in theaters. I still have memories of my parents taking me to see it. Over the years I've watched this movie countless time, and every time I see it, I enjoy the hell out of it. This film has never lost its flavor.

You might think you know all there is to know about this movie. I thought that before I started looking into it, and in the process I came to find out that there was a ton of stuff that I didn't know. I have put together a list of 25 Fun Facts here for you to go through as a way to celebrate 30 years of Back to the Future greatness. 

• President Ronald Reagan was amused by Doc Brown's disbelief that an actor like him could become president. Apparently he found it so funny that he had the projectionist stop the movie and replay the scene. The President also enjoyed the movie so much that he made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address saying, "As they said in the film Back to the Future, 'Where we're going, we don't need roads.'"
• The script was rejected 40 times before it finally got the greenlight.
• Apparently producer studio head Sid Sheinberg did not like the title Back to the Future, insisting that nobody would see a movie with "future" in the title. He sent a memo to Zemeckis saying that the title should be changed to "Spaceman From Pluto", so it would tie in with the Marty-as-alien jokes in the film. He also suggested other stupid changes like replacing the "I'm Darth Vader from planet Vulcan" line with "I am a spaceman from Pluto!" Sheinberg changed his mind after he got a response memo from Steven Spielberg, which thanked him for sending a wonderful "joke memo", and that everyone got a kick out of it.
• Most people know that Eric Stoltz was originally cast in the role of Marty before Michael J. Fox. They filmed for five weeks before everyone agreed that he wasn’t working out for the part. They ended up casting Fox, and he shot both Back to the Future and Family Ties at the same time. Every day during production, the actor drove straight to the movie set after he was done with Family Ties. The bulk of the production was filmed from 6pm to 6am to fit his schedule, with all the daylight scenes filmed on the weekends. Reshooting all of Stoltz's scenes added $3 million dollars to the budget.
• Thomas F. Wilson, who played Biff, almost had his collarbone broken in the scene where Marty and Biff are about to fight in the cafeteria. Apparently Stoltz roughed up Tom for real on every take, even after repeated requests from Tom to tone it down. Tom planned on getting back at him during the car park scene outside the dance, but Stoltz was fired before that confrontation could take place.
• Claudia Wells, who played Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future, gave her role up to Elisabeth Shue for Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III because her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
• Biff's popular catchphrases "make like a tree and get outta here" and "butthead" were improvised by Wilson.
• The film crew played a prank on Fox while filming the "parking" scene with Marty and Lorraine in the car. The scene called for Fox to drink from a prop liquor bottle filled with water and do a spit take when he sees Lorraine with a cigarette. during a specific take, the prop liquor bottle was switched with one that contained real alcohol. Fox, unaware of this, performed the scene and drank from the bottle, only to discover the switch after-the-fact. The full gag is featured on the "Outtakes."

• Ralph Macchio turned down the role of Marty McFly, thinking the movie was about "A kid, a car and plutonium pills."
• The inspiration for the film comes from producer Bob Gale finding his father's high school yearbook and wondering if he would have been friends with his dad as a teenager.
• Both Marty and Jennifer credit Doc as the originator of the saying "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." The thing is, Doc never says the line once in any of the Back to the Future movies.
• Doc's hunched-over look in the movie was developed when the filmmakers realized the big difference in height between Lloyd and Fox; Fox is 5' 4½" while Lloyd is 6' 1". To compensate for the height difference, Zemeckis used specific blocking where the two often stood far apart at different camera depths. For close ups, Lloyd would have to hunch over to appear in frame with Fox. The same approach was used in the two sequels.
• When Doc Brown first sends Einstein "one minute" into the future, the time elapsed between when the DeLorean disappears and reappears is actually 1 minute 21 seconds, just as the reappearance occurred at 1:21am, and the flux capacitor required 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.
• The 1985 version of Doc's home is the same garage that Marty and Doc hide the DeLorean in 1955. In the opening scene an article shows that the mansion burned down years before, either for insurance money or due to an explosive experiment. The presence of the commercial development also implies that Doc sold the land surrounding the house for more money to fund his project. After all, he does state later that it took "many years and his entire family fortune" to build the time machine.
• Billy Zane makes his first on-screen appearance in the movie as a character named Match, one of Biff's cronies.

• The time machine went through several variations. The first draft of the script featured the time machine as a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside.
• Apparently in one of the original script drafts, Doc and Marty sell bootleg videos so they could make money to fund the time machine. This plot point was removed at Universal's request, as they did not want to be seen as promoting movie piracy.
• "A brief scene was cut in-between the scenes of the McFly family dinner and Marty being woken up by Doc's phone call. It involved Marty preparing to send his demo tape to a record company. Marty decides not to do it, and leaves the empty manila envelope on his desk. In a scene that remains in the film, he goes to breakfast with the manila envelope sealed, suggesting he decided to send it in."
• John Lithgow, James Woods, Dudley Moore, and Jeff Goldblum were all considered for the role of Doc Brown.
• Just in case you’ve never bothered to read the two red labels on the flux capacitor, they say "Disconnect Capacitor Drive Before Opening" and "Shield Eyes From Light."
• The backlot used as the town of Hill Valley is also seen in the first episode of Twilight Zone. 

• In the opening sequence, when Marty is turning on the electrical equipment to play guitar, the first switch has a label which says "CRM 114," which is a reference to the radio equipment in Dr. Strangelove.
• The "To be Continued" phrase wasn't in the theatrical cut of the film. It was inserted into the end of the VHS release of Back to the Future, and was later omitted from the 2002 DVD release. "The cliff-hanger ending of the film was not originally intended to set up a sequel, but rather just as one last joke. It was admitted by the writer that had they originally intended the following two sequels, the ending would not have had Jennifer get into the car with Doc and Marty. This is why Jennifer was almost immediately knocked unconscious at the beginning of Back to the Future Part II."
• After the film was released, body kits were actually made so that people could make their DeLoreans look like the time machine.
• "In the original script, Marty's playing rock and roll at the dance caused a riot which had to be broken up by police. This, combined with Marty accidentally tipping Doc off to the 'secret ingredient' that made the time machine work (Coca-Cola) caused history to change. When Marty got back to the 1980s, he found that it was now the 1950s conception of that decade, with air-cars and what-not (all invented by Doc Brown and running on Coca-Cola). Marty also discovers that rock and roll was never invented, and he dedicates himself to starting the delayed cultural revolution. Meanwhile, his dad digs out the newspaper from the day after the dance and sees his son in the picture of the riot."
• I've included the original theatrical trailer below along with several deleted scenes that have found their way online.

Thanks to Imdb

Update: Apparently someone in Australia has already downloaded the new editions (it's already Friday over there), and they say that this rumor is not true: Greedo still shoots first in the digital editions. Bummer. Original article follows.

If you're reading this site, than I'm almost certain you're familiar with the "Han Shot First" argument, but just in case, here's a quick refresher. When George Lucas put the special edition of Star Wars in theaters in 1998, he made a change that radically altered the characterization of Harrison Ford's smuggler character Han Solo: he added a shot of Greedo shooting at him in the Mos Eisley Cantina before Han pulls the trigger and takes Greedo out. It makes him into more of a traditional "good guy," since he's reacting and retaliating. But here's the thing: in the original 1977 version of Star Wars, Han straight up kills Greedo when he threatens him, making him more of a rogue character instead of a normal good guy. And that's what people loved about him! That's just one example of Lucas tinkering with his movie when he should have just left it alone. (You can watch a comparison of the scenes here.)

But Lucas has been adamant about not making the original theatrical cuts of the movie easily available to own, so fans are stuck with the Special Edition version (and subsequent updates that keep the same basic alteration). According to Badass Digest, though, that might change with tomorrow's digital release of the whole Star Wars saga.

If my sources are correct - and we'll know in about 24 hours - Han will now shoot first in this edition of Star Wars. It's probably one of the most egregious changes made to the Original Trilogy (and a lot of those changes were egregious) and now, almost two decades after it was included in the Special Edition, it will be gone.

The site says they've spoken to "a number of people who have confirmed this," but they still caution us that the intel might not be 100% accurate, so we'll just have to wait until tomorrow to find out the truth. It sounds like that'd be the only change that's made, so it's not like the digital release will be the original release version (meaning it'll still have those stupid CG shots of creatures walking around for no reason and various other nonsense that Lucas added later), but having Han shoot first (as originally seen) would go a long way in appeasing fans who have been pissed off at that change for years.

Smosh Games has released a very funny Honest Trailer for the hit video game BioShock. Like many of you, I enjoyed playing this game. I loved the designs and the story it told was fun. I have some fond memories playing this game,  but these guys have a blast making fun of it in the video below, and it's really entertaining. If you've enjoyed the other Honest Game Trailers that have been released, then you've got to check this one out. 

From the developer that brought you one of the most influential and revolutionary first-person shooter games ever, comes System Shock 2: Under Water. Bioshock!

In my opinion, the best series Marvel has developed so far is Agent Carter. It's far superior to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but for some reason that's the series that is getting a spinoff. I enjoy watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but it should be a way better show than it is.

The new series will be set in the modern Marvel cinematic universe, and it's being developed by S.H.I.E.L.D. executive producer Jeffery Bell and writer Paul Zbyszewski, who has worked on shows such as Lost, The X-Files and Angel. Here's everything we know about the upcoming series thanks to Entertainment Weekly:

"We don’t know is which characters from the current series will be moving over to the proposed spinoff – so let the speculation being on that. There won’t be an implanted pilot episode this season directly setting up the spinoff, either (like how CW launched The Flash out of Arrow). However, story elements that are still to come on SHIELD this year will be used to lay the groundwork for the potential new series. So by the end of the season – assuming the details for this project haven’t already leaked, which is rather unlikely – the spinoff concept should be clear."

Hopefully whatever it turns out to be will be a better, more entertaining series. With the direction that S.H.I.E.L.D. is going it will either focus on a elite team of other S.H.I.E.L.D. members, or a show that focuses on Inhumans, that could pave the way for the Inhumans movie. 

I'm personally more excited for a second season of Agent Carter, so I hope that happens! Are you interested in seeing a S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff series? What do you think it could be?

Apparently I wasn't the only one to noticed the similarities between the upcoming movie San Andreas and Superman (1978) that both feature wanton destruction of California. Nick Acosta took the trailer from San Andreas and edited out Dwayne Johnson, rotoscoped Christopher Reeve as Superman into shots of destruction, and even peppered intercuts between the two movies. The mashup is well made and really illustrates the visual overlap these films have.

San Andreas will crack open theaters May 29th (USA).

A red-band trailer has been released for The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) and the movie might just go beyond the disgusting ridiculousness that you were expecting. It definitely looks a lot more unpleasant than the first two movies. The trailer describes the film as follows:

"Almost too disgusting to describe."

"The unthinkable has become all too real."

"The taste will never leave your mouth."

The absurdity of it all is seriously out of control! Just watch the trailer to see the lunacy for yourself. The movie was directed by mad man Tom Six, and here's the synopsis:

Bully prison warden Bill Boss (Dieter Laser), leading a big state prison in the US of A, has a lot of problems; his prison statistically has the highest amount of prison riots, medical costs and staff turnover in the country. But foremost he is unable to get the respect he thinks he deserves from his inmates and the state Governor (Eric Roberts). He constantly fails in experimenting with different ideas for the ideal punishment to get the inmates in line, which drives him, together with the sizzling heat, completely insane. Under threats of termination by the Governor, his loyal right hand man Dwight (Laurence R Harvey) comes up with a brilliant idea. A revolutionary idea which could change the American prison system for good and save billions of dollars. An idea based on the notorious Human Centipede movies, that will literally and figuratively get the inmates on their knees, creating the ultimate punishment and deterrent for anyone considering a life of crime. Having nothing to lose, Bill and Dwight create a jaw-dropping 500-person prison centipede.

The movie comes out on May 22nd.

Artist Yale Stewart, best know for his JL8 comic strip, usually sticks with drawing DC Comics characters. But for C2E2 in Chicago, Stewart has taken the Avengers: Age of Ultron lineup and rendered them in his signature style. You can pickup a limited edition 13"x19" print at C2E2 (Table U8) for $40. If you're like me and can't make it, an 11"x17" will be available online for $20. Stewart is crazy busy as it is, but the idea of a Jr. Avengers comic might be too good to leave alone. 

David Robert Mitchell's film It Follows has been making waves in the horror community since its 2014 debut, and the film was so successful in limited release that distributor Radius TWC is rolling the movie out to wider audiences, so you can probably find it in a theater near you. I know Joey liked the concept but wasn't a big fan of the final movie; I saw the film last week and appreciated the John Carpenter vibe and '80s feel, but I definitely see where Joey's coming from: I don't know if the movie is quite the instant classic that everyone's making it out to be. There's a lot to like in it, but I didn't fall head over heels with it like a lot of our colleagues did.

EW spoke with Radius TWC's president in a new interview, and despite the movie's ending, there are talks of a sequel:

“I don’t want to give away too much, but we’ve thought about it. Flip the title. There’s so much you could do.”

Follow It, huh? I can actually see how that'd be a natural direction to go — have the kids track the history of the sex demon back through their sexual partners to discover where it originated and maybe destroy it once and for all. It'd be a pretty cool idea, and one that would have been a little too ambitious to cram into the original story.

Have you seen It Follows? What did you think about the movie? Would you be down for a sequel?

This is about as simple as it gets in terms of internet parodies. Someone at Nerdist realized that "Chewy" sounds a lot like "Louie," and so they set out to recreate the opening credit sequence from the FX series Louie but with everyone's favorite Star Wars co-pilot Chewbacca replacing the stand-up comedian. Looks like the Wookiee can work that crowd on stage, though it appears he has a bit of trouble heading down that staircase to the Comedy Cellar.

Via: The AV Club

Wow, Hot Pursuit looks dreadful. I know it's not entirely fair to judge movies based on their trailers, but this looks aggressively unfunny to me. I guess it's just not my cup of tea, and maybe some of you will get a kick out of this, but Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara are two of my least favorite actresses, so putting them in a broad mismatched buddy comedy sounds like my idea of a nightmare. The film comes out on May 8th, and I'll certainly be avoiding this at all costs. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

In “Hot Pursuit,” an uptight and by-the-book cop (Witherspoon) tries to protect the sexy and outgoing widow (Vergara) of a drug boss as they race through Texas, pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.

For those of you who aren't into the sleek new modern design of the Apple Watch, maybe this retro Apple II Watch is more what you're looking for. This wearable handsome devil is based on the iconic design of the Apple II personal computer.

What makes this so funny is the fact that this watch is real and functional. It is not an official Apple product, but it was built by Instructables user Aleator777.

The watch features a scroll knob, a 1.8-inch screen, and a few non-working apps like Weather and Utility. It does actually tell time though, and it has has a flashy red LED. If you want one, the creator has posted the full instructions on how to make your own right here.

It looks extremely difficult to build for a guy like me, but if you think you have the kind of brain that can do it then you totally should!

According to The Wrap, Ryan Gosling is in talks to join Disney's big screen adaptation of Haunted Mansion, which is set to be written and produced by Guillermo del Toro. It's been a while since we've had an update on this movie, and it's good to know that the development of it is still moving forward. 

Gosling and del Toro were photographed hanging out at Disneyland over Oscar weekend, and while they were there they rode the Haunted Mansion, Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Cars ride. You can see a photo here. I assume that's when they started talking about teaming up for this movie. I'd love to get a call from del Toro inviting me to Disneyland!

The Haunted Mansion project was first announced at Comic-Con in July 2010, and it's been slowly developing since then. The most current script is being written by D.V. DeVincentis (High Fidelity), and the plan is to turn it into a supernatural family film.

One of the main elements of the film will be the infamous Hatbox Ghost which was removed from the ride shortly after it opened because it was too scary. The last we heard they had developed maquettes of the Ghost, over the body and face of Doug Jones, who is the perfect actor to take on the role of the ghostly apparition. Del Toro talked more about the film and the character in a previous interview, saying:

“There’s a legend that it was discarded on the first day of the ride’s operation because it was too scary. I like that legend, but the reality is that the imagineers could not make the illusion work, so they took it out.”

Here's some additional information on the Hatbox Ghost:

Because The Hatbox Ghost featured prominently in artwork and narration for popular Haunted Mansion record albums sold for many years at Disney parks, and because Disney continues to market the ghost’s image, he has never been forgotten and has become somewhat of a legend, complete with cult following. Many fans of the ride wish to see him returned and have gone so far as to circulate petitions calling for the figure’s restoration.

Del Toro has not committed to directing the film yet, but he would if he was available to do it. If not, at least we know he had a heavy hand in developing it. 

This isn't the first Disney production that Gosling would be a part of. The actor is a former Mouseketeer, and he co-starred in Disney’s classic sports movie Remember the Titans. He most recent wrote, produced, and directed a film called Lost River, which is being released by Warner Bros. on Friday. 

Captain America franchise writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely will be teaming back up with Joe and Anthony Russo as part of the creative team who will bring Avengers: Infinity War - Part 1 and Part 2 to life. The news comes from Badass Digest that they will be writing the two Avengers films for the studio. This is a talented team of individuals that is going to deliver something epically spectacular. 

Markus and McFeely have played a big role in building the Marvel cinematic universe. Not only did they write the first two Avengers film, but they also wrote Thor: The Dark World and created Agent Carter for ABC. They most recently wrote the script for Captain America: Civil War, which is sure to change the MCU as we know it in some very drastic ways. Civil War is going to set up a lot of stuff that will carry over into Infinity War.

It's crazy to think that Joss Whedon was basically a one man show in the writing and directing process of The Avengers. But for the upcoming films he has been replaced by four people. They've certainly got a lot on their plate, and they'll need all the help they can get.

Avengers: Infinity War - Part 1 will be released on May 4th, 2018 and Part 2 will be released on May 3rd, 2019.

A couple days ago Suicide Squad director David Ayer released a photo featured most of the cast of the DC Comics movie. One of the main actors that was missing from the group was Jared Leto. Well, the director released a new photo of Leto sporting some green Joker style hair, and it came with the hashtags: #WhereIsJared #SuicideSquad. The photo also pays homage to a famous piece of Joker comic book art from Batman: The Killing Joke. I included an image of that comic art below. The movie is set to be released on August 5th, 2016.

The only images we’ve seen of the Ant-Man villain Yellowjacket so far has been in the form of promotional and concept art. But today, thanks to EW, we have our first photo of the character, and he’s about to obliterate little Ant-Man with a devastating punch unless Ant-Man dodges it! 

Darren Cross, a.k.a. Yellowjacket, is played by Corey Stoll, and his suit is a lot more powerful than Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man. Director Peyton Reed explained in an interview with EW that “Hank Pym’s Ant-Man suit doesn’t have a single weapon, whereas Yellowjacket is armed with plasma cannons.” All I can say is that it’s going to be incredibly fun to watch these two characters fight each other. 

The story follows con-man Scott Lang (Rudd) who, armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Ant-Man hits theaters on July 17th, and it also stars Evangeline Lilly, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Abby Ryder Fortson, Judy Greer, David Dastmalchian, Wood Harris, and John Slattery.