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  • Disney Hopes You’re Ready For A Whole Lot More Star Wars

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    Photo courtesy loadpaper.com

    And by a lot of Star Wars, I mean a metric shit ton of Star Wars.

    Disney announced today at CinemaCon that they plan on releasing a Star Wars film every year beginning with Episode VII in 2015. They would alternate years with a movie in the new trilogy and one of the standalone films the next summer.

    J.J. Abrams is hard at work with pre-production of Episode VII which we will just call The Phantom Nerfherder for now and screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinburg are rumored to be working on one or more of the stand alone films which are shrouded in even more mystery than Episode VII.

    Now I love me some Star Wars, but damn Disney. Every year? No matter how big the property is there is going to be a saturation point and people will stop caring. The prequels did enough damage to the legacy of Star Wars so let’s pull back the reins a bit. Star Wars movies are an event. If we get one every year for at the very least next six years beginning in 2015, people (like me) could get very tired, very quickly.

    Honestly I would rather get to play 1313 and get a new trilogy.

  • True Grit Meets The Dead In R.I.P.D.

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    Easiest way to describe the first trailer for R.I.P.D.? Imagine if Ryan Reynolds and Rooster Cogburn were supernatural police officers keeping the dead out of the living world.

    I can easily see how some will roll their eyes and cringe at the almost Men In Black feel to it, but I got a kick out of it. Plus, Jeff Bridges doing an almost Rooster voice for two more hours is completely fine by me.

    R.I.P.D. releases on July 19th.

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  • New Man Of Steel Trailer Proves A Man Can Fly…And Punch Things

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    Here is the order of things you need to do:

    1. Sit down. Preferably on something firm and sturdy.

    2. Click to play the new Man of Steel trailer.

    3. Notice the goosebumps rising on your arm.

    4. Realize how absolutely perfect the score is for the character.

    5. When the trailer is done, sit back and give the holiest of shits you possibly can.

    (Optional)

    6. Repeat daily

  • Michael Rooker Joins Guardians Of The Galaxy, Raises Awesomeness By 200%

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    Photo courtesy screencrush.com

    Guardians of the Galaxy is shaping up to have one of the most unique casts for a Marvel film by far. Michael Rooker has joined the cast to go along with Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista and the (rumored) addition of Zoe Saldana. Rooker will play Yondu, one of the founding members of the Guardians.

    Yondu is from Centauri IV and possesses the ability to have empathic relationships with certain lifeforms and can sense when mystical beings and forces are near.

    Let’s just all agree that by adding Michael Rooker, Guardians of the Galaxy just got on a lot more radars, specifically fans of The Walking Dead who might not have heard of the Guardians movie. Although I’m sure Yondu won’t be as much fun as Merle and his stump-handed racism.

    Guardians of the Galaxy releases on August 1, 2014.

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  • First Look At Jamie Foxx As Electro

    All photos courtesy Daily Mail
    All photos courtesy Daily Mail

    The first pictures have leaked online of Jamie Foxx as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. For those of you worried about him having to wear a gold and yellow outfit with fake lighting bolts on his mask you can breathe a sigh of relief.

    I like the look especially when lit up by the lights on the hoodie and yet I feel we have now only seen the beginning of Jamie Foxx/blue balls jokes. I will not be the ones to start them. That is not to say I will not join in when they get started though.

    Check out the rest of the shots on Daily Mail.

    The Amazing Spider-Man 2 releases on May 2, 2014.

     

     

  • Zod Issues His First Statement To Earth In Man Of Steel Viral Video

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    So I made a joke last week about Michael Shannon looking awesome as Zod when this first photo was released, yet I did not think that he could match up to Terence Stamp’s iconic voice.

    Yeah, so I was wrong.

    This viral video was released last night featuring Shannon’s Zod telling Superman to hand himself over or Earth will face the consequences. It reminds me of the first viral marketing for The Dark Knight in 2007 when people got their first listen to Heath Ledger’s Joker.

    Rumors abound that we will get a new trailer for Man of Steel this week.

    Man of Steel releases on June 14th.

  • The First Trailer For The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Is Here

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    Photo courtesy huffingtonpost.com

    If you were watching the MTV Movie Awards last night I would first like to apologize for wasting your time on that. Second, at least you were treated with the first look at the trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Of course you could have just waited for it to go online and saved yourself the trouble of watching MTV for two hours and wondering who won the award for “Best Twilight Moment Ever”.

    Check out the trailer below. Katniss and Peeta embark on their victory tour as the President and Truman Capote plot to kill them both. Oh and Thor’s brother does his best Jim Caviezel impersonation.

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire releases on November 22nd.

  • Star Trek Into Darkness Poster Trifecta

    Photo courtesy buzzfeed.com
    Photo courtesy buzzfeed.com

    Here are three new posters for Star Trek Into Darkness. The first shows the Enterprise falling to Earth and the ones below have Spock praying to an almighty volcano god and Uhura wishing she didn’t have to contractually come back and do two more Avatar movies.

    A new trailer for the movie releases online Tuesday.

    Star Trek Into Darkness releases on May 17th.

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    Photo courtesy ign.com
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    Photo courtesy comingsoon.net

     

     

  • New Trailer For The Hangover Part III

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    Photo courtesy whatculture.com

    The new trailer for The Hangover Part III has surfaced and let’s just all breathe a sigh of relief because it looks like the finale of the trilogy will be taking a different path unlike the second chapter. We finally get an explanation of why Doug (once again) is missing from another Wolfpack adventure.

    It seems Chow has stolen a considerable amount of money from John Goodman and he believes Stu, Alan and Phil are the ones to track him down. Now we all know by now the last person you should piss off is Walter Sobchak.

    The Hangover Part III releases May 24th.

  • Wait…More Man Of Steel? Ummm Yeah?

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    Photo courtesy comingsoon.net

    I know we are still two months away from the release of Man of Steel, but we just need to accept that these articles are going to keep happening. If you are not a Superman fan I am sure we have plenty of other great articles on here for you such as:

    New developer diary from The Last of Us
    Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Retro Achievement List
    Win a Bioshock Infinite strategy guide

    Still here?

    Good.

    Now that we have determined you are a Superman fan (or at least a fan of large men in spandex) here are the photos from the Entertainment Weekly summer movie issue which Supes is the cover boy. We get what is probably the best (and most sinister) look at Michael Shannon’s Zod as well as looks at Jor-El, Lois Lane and Perry White, who, ironically, is African-American in this movie, so if you have a problem with that we can’t be friends anymore.

    Man of Steel releases on June 14th.

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