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Rumor: Rosa Salazar Will Suit Up As ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ For Robert Rodriguez By Jacob Hall/May 27, 2016 10:00 am EST Movie fans with long memories may recall that Alita: Battle Angel was once known as Battle Angel Alita and that it was supposed to be James Cameron’s next film after Avatar. Then Cameron decided to make Avatar movies until the day he dies and the Hollywood adaptation of the popular manga was handed over to director Robert Rodriguez last year....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Agents Of SHIELD, The Flash, Stan Lee, Deadpool And Iceman Sexuality By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2015 4:30 pm EST Here’s a new photo from Deadpool of Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) preparing for the operation. Star Trek Into Darkness star Alice Eve talks about the possibility of appearing in a Marvel Studios movie. This Ant-Man costume is probably the best of the year....

This Week In Trailers: Chronic-Con, Episode 420: A New Dope, The First Film, SlingShot, Bartika, Through The Air By Christopher Stipp/July 14, 2015 4:00 am EST Here’s the thing, a lot of people dress up for Comic-Con. While I think there’s a lot of cosplay, and since everyone asks every year what my costume is going to be, I just don’t get why there’s this vibe that in order to gain entry into Comic-Con that you have to be rocking something other than your normal togs....

Three More ‘Transformers’ Movies Dated Through 2019 By Angie Han/Feb. 12, 2016 7:30 am EST Thought you’d seen enough of the Transformers already? Paramount would like you to know that it’s just getting started. The studio has just dated the next three Transformers movies for the next three years, taking us all the way into summer 2019. Get the Transformers 5 release date and more after the jump. Paramount has set Transformers 5 for June 23, 2017, to be followed by Transformers 6 on June 8, 2018 and then Transformers 7 on June 28, 2019....

Watch This Most Impressive Fanmade ‘Star Wars’ Oculus Rift Game Trailer By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2015 2:00 pm EST If you thought that Jedi GoPro video we recently posted was a cool new way to experience a galaxy far, far away, wait until you see this fanmade trailer for a proposed Star Wars virtual reality game. A company called Hammerhead VR created this trailer for Star Wars VR, a game intended to be played on the Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset that will end up changing the way we play video games forever....

‘Battle Of The Sexes’ First Look: Emma Stone And Steve Carell Prepare To Face Off By Angie Han/April 13, 2016 1:30 pm EST The header image above is an actual photo of King and Riggs at a Battle of the Sexes press conference in 1973. Below are Stone and Carell recreating that scene in Dayton and Faris’ movie. I tend to think physical resemblance is overrated when it comes to biopics — capturing the spirit and energy of the subject seems more important than recreating their exact physical features — but this is pretty spot-on....

‘Black Panther’ Officially Books A Flight To Wakanda For Director Ryan Coogler By Jacob Hall/Jan. 11, 2016 4:55 pm EST After months of rumors and false alarms, Marvel Studios has finally locked down their director for the upcoming Black Panther movie and it’s exactly who you thought it was going to be. Creed and Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler has officially signed on the dotted line and will be lending his talents to the Marvel Cinematic Universe soon enough....

‘Daredevil’ Trailer: Netflix’s Marvel Universe Kicks Off By Angie Han/Feb. 4, 2015 5:59 am EST During last night’s episode of Marvel’s latest television show, we got our first tiny taste of Marvel’s next television show. Now here’s something with a little more meat. Charlie Cox leads Daredevil as the titular superhero, a blind lawyer who relies on his other extraordinary senses. Also starring are Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple, and Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk....

‘Deadpool’ Adds ‘Homeland’ And ‘Firefly’ Star Morena Baccarin By Angie Han/Feb. 18, 2015 2:30 pm EST Morena Baccarin is jumping from one comic book universe to another. The Gotham recurring actress has clinched the female lead in Deadpool, Fox’s new film built around the Marvel character of the same name. She joins Ryan Reynolds, T.J. Miller, and Gina Carano in the film. More on the Deadpool Morena Baccarin casting after the jump....

‘Godzilla 2’ Delayed, ‘Godzilla Vs. King Kong’ Dated, And More Warner Bros. Release Date Shuffling By Jacob Hall/May 10, 2016 6:40 pm EST Grab your calendars and break out the erasers, giant monster movie fans – Warner Bros. is doing the Kaiju shuffle. The studio has announced a new release date for Godzilla 2, delaying Gareth Edwards’ sequel from 2018 to 2019, and has set Godzilla vs. King Kong for 2020....

‘Home’ Trailer: Rihanna And Jim Parsons Are Humanity’s Unlikely Saviors By Angie Han/Nov. 25, 2014 7:30 am EST Had DreamWorks stuck with its original plan, Home would be opening tomorrow. But the studio pushed it back to spring, so now we’re getting Penguins of Madagascar in theaters instead and all we’re getting of Home this week is a new trailer. Based on Adam Rex’s 2007 children’s book The True Meaning of Smekday, Home sees planet Earth getting taken over by an overly confident alien race called the Boov....

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’: Jeff Goldblum Doesn’t Like Anybody Messing With The Planet [Interview] By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 8, 2016 10:00 am EST Sitting down with Jeff Goldblum is just as delightful as you would expect it to be. The Jurassic Park and Independence Day star endlessly affable and wonderfully quirky. When I sat down with Goldblum on the set of Independence Day: Resurgence last year, he began by asking my name, and ran through “Six Degrees” connection from my name to him through actors and movies....

‘Monster Trucks’ Speeds Away From ‘Star Wars 7’ Box Office Showdown By Angie Han/May 6, 2015 4:00 am EST Star Wars: The Force Awakens is already crushing the opposition this holiday season. Paramount’s Monster Trucks is the latest release to speed away from a showdown with the Disney juggernaut, moving from Christmas 2015 to spring 2016. More on the new Monster Trucks release date after the jump. Paramount has set March 18, 2016 as the new Monster Trucks release date....

By Angie Han/July 12, 2016 4:30 pm EST After much speculation from fans, Sony and Marvel finally confirmed in April that the new Spider-Man movie would be titled Spider-Man: Homecoming. But since then, we haven’t heard much more in the way of details about the new movie. Even as the cast continues to grow, we have precious few details about whom most of these actors will be playing or how they’ll all fit together in the new superhero adventure....

‘The Choice’ Trailer: Nicholas Sparks Is Back By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2015 3:00 pm EST Like the seasonal return of locusts, Nicolas Sparks is back. It would be unfair to call Sparks movies a plague — there’s an audience for every movie — but films based on Sparks novels are certainly numerous, and now there’s one more that you can struggle to distinguish from the rest. The new film is The Choice, which features Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, and Tom Welling in the story of a romance that spans years and tries to overcome tragedy....

‘To The White’ Sea Back In Development, Without The Coen Brothers By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2015 4:00 pm EST Back in the early 2000s, before their one major career downturn, the Coen Brothers were planning to direct an adaptation of the novel To the White Sea, with Brad Pitt in the lead role. The story, based on the novel by James Dickey, follows an American gunner who parachutes into Tokyo from his burning plane during World War II, then makes his way across the frozen northern expanse of Japan in an attempt to reach the sea, and freedom....

‘Yoga Hosers’ Trailer: Bratwurst Nazis Run Amok In Kevin Smith’s Canada By Jack Giroux/June 6, 2016 3:30 pm EST Based on the last trailer and Kevin Smith’s recent output as a filmmaker, you probably already know whether you’ll see his upcoming film, Yoga Hosers. The Winnipeg-set comedy, which recently earned a PG-13 rating, picks up where Smith left off with Tusk. He keeps trying new things as a writer/director, telling oddball stories that aren’t for everyone....

Bradley Cooper Eyes ‘Honeymoon With Harry’ As Directorial Debut By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2015 10:00 am EST Bradley Cooper is adding a new title to his resume: director. The Oscar-nominated actor is eyeing as his feature filmmaking debut Honeymoon With Harry, a dramedy in which he’ll also star with Robert De Niro. More about Cooper’s possible directing gig after the jump.Deadline reports Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love.) is rewriting Honeymoon With Harry, which centers on a hard-partying womanizer who cleaned up his act after meeting the right woman....

Cameron Crowe Reveals The ‘Aloha’ Soundtrack, Plus A New Poster By Germain Lussier/April 21, 2015 2:45 pm EST Ladies and gentlemen, there’s a new Cameron Crowe movie coming out next month. That may sound crazy because buzz around the film has been almost non-existant, but it’s true. The director of Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire and Say Anything is about to release Aloha, a Hawaiian-set military romance starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, John Krasinski, Bill Murray, Danny McBride and Alec Baldwin....

Every Poster From Mondo’s New Info•Rama Gallery Show By Jacob Hall/June 24, 2016 5:00 pm EST Info•Rama was founded in 2014 by artists Kevin Tong and Tom Whalen, who set out to create beautiful infographics that were full of meticulously researched information while also doubling as gorgeous pieces of art. Since both Tong and Whalen regularly collaborate with Mondo, the purveyors of the internet’s favorite pop culture posters and merchandise, a team-up was inevitable....