Captain America: The First Avenger

Behold! The first official trailer of the movie

Ode To Action

Let Your Imagination Run Amok

This is a tribute to some of our favorite action films and video games.

New Spider-man to have comic book web shooters

"It's a device."

[Source: Syfy] If you look closely at the recently released photo of Andrew Garfield in his Spidey gear, you can just make out a pair of metallic doodads on his hands. Emma Stone confirms what sharp-eyed fans have deduced: that Peter Parker builds his web-shooters in Marc Webb's reboot.

Even though, in the comics, science whiz Peter Parker invented the gizmos that would allow him to shoot webs from his wrists, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy turned them into a biological process—a side effect of the same spider bite that gave Peter his powers. (That, in and of itself, might be a remnant from James Cameron's time on Spider-Man: In his 1991 treatment for an abandoned Spidey movie, Peter discovers the bio-organic web spouts after a particularly gooey dream.)

But on the Golden Globes red carpet, the new Gwen Stacy seems to have confirmed that the new webslinger will swing mechanically with three simple words:

"It's a device."

Battle Angel Alita Movie After Avatar 2 & 3

Cameron aims to include Motorball scenes from Manga

[Source: AnimeNewsNetwork] Director James Cameron told the Collider.com website this past weekend that he still intends to personally direct a film adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM) manga. Because Cameron and 20th Century Fox plan to release two Avatar sequels on December 2014 and December 2015, the director said that he "had to consider, do I hand [Battle Angel] off to another director? And then I thought, 'No, I love it too much.'"

Cameron added that he plans to adapt "the spine story" of the manga with elements from the first four books. Specifically, he intends to include the deadly high-speed competition of Motorball from the third and fourth books, along with elements from the first two books. Cameron has been working on an adaptation of the manga since at least 2003, and he already commissioned a script and a year of design work.

The Most Anticipated Movies of 2011

Here's a list of the most anticipated flicks of 2011

[Source: Yahoo! Movies]

Thor (May 6) 

This year we'll see comic books, fairy tales, current bestsellers and classic novels come to life on the big screen. You'll have to wait until 2012 for theA-list superheroes like Spider-Man, Batman and even Superman to return to yourlocal megaplex. In the meantime, there's "Thor." Unlike those others,this superhero is not a millionaire with a dark side or a high school kid withunusual insect bites. No. Thor is a god! This movie gives fans a chance to seethe mighty warrior (played by Australian actor Chris Hemsworth) in his ownflick. You'll see him next fighting along side Iron Man and the Hulk in thehotly anticipated "Avengers" movie, which also comes out in 2012. 

Pirates of the Caribbean:On Stranger Tides (May 20) -- Jack Sparrow is back, which isn't surprisingconsidering the huge piles of booty raked in by the last three flicks. Thistime Sparrow teams up with his old nemesis Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) andhis old flame Angelica (Penelope Cruz) to track down the Fountain of Youth.Blocking their path is Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and a host of supernaturalbaddies that includes zombies and mermaids.

[See also: Newest Bond girl cast for 'Hansel and Gretel']

The Hangover, Part II (May 26) -- If there's one place onthe planet that can top Vegas in terms of sin, it's the red-light districts of Thailand. Andthat's where Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) head for Stu's(Ed Helms) bachelor party. It's safe to assume that the party goes horriblywrong. The production landed itself in the news last year with word of twohigh-profile cameos. Bill Clinton appears briefly, perhaps the onlyex-president out there appropriate for a "Hangover" movie. MelGibson, after a lot of screaming and yelling, will not be in the flick. 

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (July 1) --"Transformers 2" might have made over $400 million domestically, butjust about everyone from hardcore fans to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura tostar Shia LaBeouf admits that the movie just wasn't that good.Michael Bay has promised that this flick will bebetter and reportedly will have cooler action and less "dorkycomedy." Also absent from this go-around is Megan Fox, replaced by Victoria's Secret modelRosie Huntington-Whiteley. 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (July 15) --It's taken just about ten years for everyone's favorite boy wizard to have hisfinal face-off with He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. While the previous Potter movie,the first half of J.K. Rowling's tome, started with some high-flying action(literally) only to level into a long stretch of angst, exile and self-doubt,this movie looks like it's going to be one long breathless chase to thatwizarding Gotterdammerung, the battle of Hogwarts. 

Cowboys & Aliens (July 29) -- Han Solo and James Bondstar in a Western about aliens. Do you really need to know more? It's averitable tiramisu of Fanboy awesomeness. Jon Favreau of "Iron Man"fame directs.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 (November 18)-- After the wild success of "Eclipse," Twi-hards everywhere are waitingwith bated breath to see how Stephenie Meyer's final book in the Twilightseries is going to be adapted. Thematically, "Breaking Dawn" ismarked with less moony-eyed longing than the previous books and with moreshocks, including a graphic, not to mention icky, child-birthing scene. How canthis movie possibly be faithful to the text and keep a tween-friendly rating ofPG-13? The producers are remaining tight-lipped about the whole thing, but theydid bring in Oscar-winning filmmaker Bill Condon to direct. We'll see if the"Dreamgirls" director can find a way to satisfy both fans and theMPAA.

The Muppets (November 23) -- Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and the rest of the gang is finally getting a reboot after a twelve yearabsence from the silver screen. The same guys responsible for "ForgettingSarah Marshall" -- Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller -- wrote thescreenplay, so expect the same silly comic sensibility as "Marshall" -- thoughpresumably with a lot less nudity. There are few public details about "TheMuppets" although Amy Adams, Zach Galifianakis, Paul Rudd and RickyGervais along with Segel do reportedly star.

Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol (December 16) -- TomCruise reprises his role as the seemingly indestructible IMF agent, Ethan Hunt.Not much is known about the plot aside from a couple of pictures with Cruisedangling from the tallest building in the world -- Burj Khalifa in Dubai. If that seemsincredible, it's just as well. The movie's director, Brad Bird, previouslydirected "The Incredibles." Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, JoshHolloway, and Simon Pegg also star.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (December 21) -- StiegLarsson's book might just be one of the most compulsively readable books outthere; it's a relentlessly riveting murder mystery that turns the popular viewof Sweden from a nice quiet country that makes great furniture to a hotbed offamily jealousy, investigative journalism and hidden crimes. It also featuresone of the most memorable literary characters in memory -- the punk-rock hackersavant Lisbeth Salander. It's not surprising then that film producers snatchedup the movie rights faster than you can say lutefisk. A well-crafted Europeanversion of the movie came out in '09, but now it's Hollywood's turn, featuring director DavidFincher, fresh off his soon-to-be-Oscar-winning flick "The SocialNetwork" and starring Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer and Rooney Mara asSalander.

The Green Hornet (January 14)

Starring: Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz and Jay Chou

Paul (March 11)

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost go on a road trip to attend San Diego Comic-Con and end up meeting a wise-cracking, booze-drinking illegal alien, as in the extra-terrestrial variety.

Sucker Punch (March 25)

Starring: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens and Abbie Cornish

Your Highness (April 8)

Starring: James Franco, Danny McBride and Natalie Portman

Watch 1st two minutes of live-action Space Battleship Yamato

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Star Blazers to the Big Screen

The big-budget live-action version on the classic military sci-fi anime series opens in Japanese theaters this week to rave reviews. This video clip reveals the opening scenes of the film as the Earth forces go head to head with the evil Gamillons. There's still no sign of a U.S. release date, but no doubt this will be a hit on American screens!

Live-Action News

[News by Scott Green of AICN.com]

 Shohei Manabe’s Smuggler, released in North America by Tokyopop, is getting an adaptation.

Ryosuke Kinuta is a failed actor with serious debt problems. His loan shark arranges a job for him as part of a corpse disposal team, transporting the bodies of victims of gang hits out of the city and seeing to it that they're never seen again. But with the team accepting work from both sides in an escalating mob war and a pair of deadly Chinese assassins on the loose, life for Kinuta and his colleagues is about to get increasingly dangerous. [Source: AnimeNewsNetwork]

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Gamera is getting a 40 minute, 3D movie, scheduled for 2012.

Full Length Green Lantern Trailer

In brightest day, in blackest night

No evil shall escape my sight.

Let those who worship evil's might

Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!

Chris Evans as Captain America!

[Source: ComicBookMovie.com] Here is the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly featuring Chris Evans as Captain America - in costume. Update: More pics added.

 

New Video Clip from Tron Legacy

Voltron - Concept Art for Live-Action Film

[Source: JoBlo.com] This art is actually part of the pitch process aimed at getting the full-blown movie up and running. Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (SAHARA, the forthcoming CONAN movie) are said to be scripters on the project for the moment. 

Remember when some folks thought CLOVERFIELD was actually a VOLTRON film in disguise?

Doug Liman to Direct Adaptation of Japanese Sci-Fi Novel "All You Need is Kill" [Source: aicn.com]

It might actually by oldish news, but Variety reports/confirms that Bourne Identity's Doug Liman will be directing the Warner Bros. adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's Forever War compared sci-fi novel "All You Need Is Kill."
According to Variety, The studio's been developing "All You Need Is Kill" since April when it bought Dante Harper's adaptation. Producers are Erwin Stoff, Tom Lassally and Jason Hoffs with Hidemi Fukuhara exec producing.
An English translation of the novel is available in North America via anime/manga publisher Viz Media's Haikasoru sci-fi prose line. ("Haikasoru" being Philip K. Dick reference.)


When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death?

An excerpt of the novel can be read here.

City Under Siege!

Robbers with super powers go on a crime spree. Who is strong enough to stop them?

Ryan Reynolds As Green Lantern!

[Written by Mike Ryan] Green Lantern's alter ego, Hal Jordan, was known as the man who knew no fear. Ryan Reynolds, who is the star of the movie of the same name, is living up to that reputation. In new a new photo showing Reynolds in his "Green" getup, which hugs his every muscular ripple, little is left to the imagination.

The buzz for next summer's blockbuster-in-the-making reached a fever pitch this week when photos of Reynolds as Green Lantern emerged -- particularly the one that graces the cover of the July 23 issue of Entertainment Weekly. At first glance, even a casual fan might notice that Reynolds's costume has a painted-on look. That's because it is digitally "painted" onto the actor's body.

For filming, Reynolds' actual costume that he wears on set is full of sensors, much like the suits that athletes wear when lending their on-field moves to video games. After the scenes are shot, the sensors allow for the costume to be added via post-production technology. The reveal of Reynolds' computer-created costume has garnered reactions that range from praise to saying the thing makes Reynolds look a little "silly."

Soon after the EW cover emerged, a second set of photos were released, featuring Reynolds with his co-star and on-screen love interest, Blake Lively. Lively -- who, to the chagrin of her admirers, appears fully clothed in the photos -- plays Carol Ferris, the daughter of an aerospace tycoon who hires Hal Jordan as a test pilot. The photos also depict co-stars Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Robbins, and Angela Bassett as their "Green Lantern" characters.

This version of "Green Lantern" is, thankfully, a far cry from what was almost unleashed upon the world around five years ago. Jack Black, not a man known for his physical prowess, was originally cast as Green Lantern in what was to be a spoof described as a "zany comedy version a la 'The Mask.'" Black and Warner Bros. (also the studio behind 2011's "Green Lantern") eventually scrapped the idea because of pressure from DC Comics (the creators of "Green Lantern") and the backlash over Black's casting.

For those not in the know: Green Lanterns (yes, plural) are basically an intergalactic police squad that divided the universe into 3,800 sectors. Hal Jordan, an Earth-based test pilot, is selected by the Green Lantern Corp. to patrol sector 2814. Every Green Lantern is given a power ring that is capable of creating a quasi- energy-beam version of whatever the user desires. If Hal Jordan wants to fight crime with a giant corkscrew, the power ring will create a giant corkscrew.

"Green Lantern" is due for a June 2011 release. On July 24, at Comic Con in San Diego, the cast (Reynolds, along with co-stars Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong and director Martin Campbell) will be making their first public appearances associated with the film. It's unclear if Ryan will be looking like the lean, green fighting machine he is on the EW cover: according to Us Weekly, Reynolds separated his shoulder earlier this week during a mishap on the film's New Orleans set.

Space Battleship Yamato!!!

 Live-Action Movie Trailer

 A Ton of New Photos from The Last Airbender

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan