Bleeding Cool is reporting that Mary Elizabeth Winstead will indeed return to reprise her role as Lucy McClane in the next Die Hard sequel A Good Day to Die Hard
Variety is reporting Joss Whedon has signed a three-year contract to direct the sequel to The Avengers as well as develop a yet to be named live-action series for Marvel Television and “contribute creatively to the next phase of Marvel’s cinematic universe”
Entertainment Weekly has released the first photo of Daniel Day-Lewis as Abaraham Lincoln in director Steven Spielberg‘s upcoming Lincoln
/Film is reporting Marvel Studios may be willing to give 20th Century Fox more time on the rights to a Daredevil reboot if Fox is willing to give back some Marvel properties which are part of the Fantastic Four universe – namely Galactus
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting Stanley Kubrick‘s first film Fear and Desire, which hasn’t been seen by the public in almost 60 years, will be released on home video for the first time on a Blu-ray from Kino Classics and the Library of Congress
Deadline is reporting Paramount is about to hire Christopher McQuarrie to adapt Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse for the big screen
Deadline is reporting that Christopher Eccleston has signed-on to play Malekith The Accursed is the upcoming Thor sequel, Thor: The Dark World
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting Fanboys director Kyle Newman is preparing to go forward with Chewie, a film based on actor Peter Mayhew‘s life while making Star Wars
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the sequel to X-Men: First Class will indeed be based on the Days of Future Past storyline set in a dystopian future and centered around Kitty Pryde
Following up the recent cameo and TV commercial at the Olympics Sony Pictures has released the first full trailer for the 23rd Bond film Skyfall. In the new film Daniel Craig returns as 007 whose death is faked to allow Bond to investigate the the theft of the identities of every single undercover operative of MI6 from the from the madman who is apparently Max Zorin‘s creepier younger brother (Javier Bardem). Ralph Fiennes, Helen McCrory, Naomie Harris, Albert Finney, Bérénice Marlohe, and Ola Rapace star. The film returns Judi Dench as M and introduces Ben Whishaw as the rebooted Bond’s first Q. Skyfall blasts into theaters on November 9th.
Warner Bros. released an initial teaser trailer for Man of Steel, DC’s new Superman reboot starring Henry Cavill as Superman. Directed by Zack Snyder, the initial trailer gives us lots of slow moving montage, little story, and Clark Kent who apparently is working with Forest Gump and Bubba as a shrimp fisherman. I’m so confused. Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, and Tahmoh Penikett also star. Man of Steel opens in theaters next June.
