Superhero Movies

Cowboys fighting Aliens

How cool a concept is this: Cowboys versus Aliens! You could just slap this movie in cinemas without any promotion, and people (mainly guys, I guess) would flock to it in droves. This concept comes from a graphic novel that was published in 2006 by Platinum Studios, and which will be turned into a screenplay by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. The graphic novel starts with a skirmish between the cowboys and Apache, which is interrupted when aliens show up to enslave the inhabitants of the Ol' West. The cowboys and Apaches join together to then fight off the aliens. And when this movie is a success, we will no doubt see spin-offs like Romans versus Aliens, or WW2 soldiers versus Aliens, maybe even Prehostoric Men versus Aliens?

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Samuel L. Jackson appearing in Iron Man?

According to Aint It Cool News, Iron Man just became a whole lot cooler. The site has given us the news (which they report as news, and not just as a rumor) that Samuel L. Jackson will have a small role in the movie, as another superhero called Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD. Even cooler is that Marvel is using this to introduce the character for the upcoming Avengers movie. Whoa! So I guess that means Robert Downey's Iron Man will also be in the Avengers, or am I jumping to conclusions here? Anyway, cool that Jackson is adding another superhero role to his repertoire, as he is already involved with The Spirit, did the voice of animated hero Frozone in The Incredibles, and showed his bad side in Unbreakable. As you may recall, David Hasselhof once played the lead in a direct to video Nick Fury movie, but I guess they couldn't get him for this movie...

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Watch the new Hulk! Well, at least his silhouette

While you can't look at a movie site these days without stumbling over some new behind the scenes images of Batman, or some official images of the suit or the Bat-Pod, we're not seeing that much yet from The Incredible Hulk. I know that the Hulk movie still has to start shooting, but since the release dates of these two movies aren't that far apart, you'd think there would already be some images released. Well, here is the first teaser image, showing you, well practically nothing. It's The Hulk's silhouette, which might as well have been a picture from one of the comics based on the character. Well, as they say, at least it's something.

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Take a look at Batman's Bat-Cycle

There's so much Batman-news flying about that you'd think the movie is already coming out this summer. Of course, this is not the case, we will have to wait until next summer for The Dark Knight to hit theaters, and so all this information we are getting feels a little bit like Warner Bros teasing us. Then again, would I say no to these little nuggets of information, if I had the choice? Um, no of course not!
And so I present you with a link to two pictures of the new Bat-Cycle, or Batpod as it will be called. It looks pretty bad-ass, not the type of thing you expect to see driving around the streets of your neighbourhood, and it's not likely that we will ever see anything like this on the market. It has the same rugged look as the Batmobile, and I'm guessing that Batman will be doing a lot cruising around over rooftops with it. The production designers for Batman made six Batpods for the movie, just in case one of the stuntmen accidentally crashes one of these babies. Not that this is very likely to happen, since there is only one stuntman who is allowed to ride this thing, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Goy, who has been training for months to get to grips with the thing.
The batpod is so unbelievable that not even the designer of the thing can fully grasp the fact that they were allowed to build it. "I thought there was no chance we'd actually achieve it," Chris Corbould, the man who built the Batpod to a design by Nathan Crowley, told the LA Times. "[Director] Chris Nolan and Nathan went for the look of it rather than thinking about the mechanics. That was the biggest challenge: Get their vision, but make it work and perform."

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Batman in action on The Dark Knight set

Here are some pictures of Bats in action on the set of The Dark Knight. It's impossible to see if this is actually Christian Bale inside the suit, but who cares. It's Batman! Click the link to be taken to a page with a couple of pics.

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Jackie Earle Haley to play Rorschach in Watchmen?

According to actor Paddy Considine, who was attached to the Watchmen movie back when Paul Greengrass was still supposed to direct, filmstudio Warner Bros has asked Jackie Earle Haley to star as Rorschach. Rorschach is one of the most important characters in the graphic novel the book is based on, and it's interesting to see that the studio has decided to not go with too big a name, and instead opts for a more acclaimed actor. Haley recently bagged an Oscar nomination for his role in Little Children.

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Fantastic Four 2 opening even better than expected

As was expected, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver SUrfer was the number one movie in America over the past weekend. What wasn't expected however, was that it would open with even bigger numbers than the first Fantastic Four movie. And even though the increase wasn't that huge, $ 57.4 million to $ 56 million, it's still a sign that 20th Century Fox has done a good job promoting their new superhero movie. In a summer where people seemed to quickly grow bored with sequels, after several sequels disappointed, the fact that here is a sequel that improves on the original, wasn't lost on moviegoers. Now we will have to wait and see whether or not good word of mouth can give this movie a bit longer legs than all the other summer blockbusters. In second place, we find Ocean's 13. It dropped 47 percent, which is actually a pretty decent drop for a summer threequel. Most of the times, threequels lose about 55 percent or more, so Warner Bros can be pleased with the result. Knocked Up took third place this weekend, with a gross of $ 14.5 million, while Pirates fell to fourth place with $ 12 million. The Pirates total is now $ 273.8 million, which is up from the first movie, which had grossed 31 percent loss at this point in it's run, but 24 percent down from the second Pirates movie. Animated movie Surf's Up fell to fifth with $ 9.3 million. According to analysts, Surf' Up can consider itself lucky if it makes way with a final gross of about $ 60 million, which nowadays is not what you wish your animated blockbuster makes.

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So, is Patrick Wilson Nite Owl in Watchmen or not?

For his upcoming Watchmen adaptation, Zach Snyder has let it be known that he would like Patrick Wilson to play the role of Nite Owl. But when Coming Soon recently interviewed Wilson, he was trying his best to deny anything was going on. Not very successfully, by the way... When asked about the part, he had this to say: "I would blab my mouth cause I certainly haven't been told to keep quiet. It's just out of respect for them trying to get everybody else on board before I go ahead and blab my mouth, but it's pretty cool. It's exciting stuff."

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Silver Surfer ready for destruction

And so, after seven weeks of threequels on top of the American box office, this weekend they will be replaced by a sequel. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is ready to take on the previous weeks' box office champions, and it looks like it will be an easy victory. Box office analysts are predicting a high gross for the second Fantastic Four movie, though it probably won't break the amount of money the original movie made. Whilst that movie opened in 2005 with $ 56.1 million, analysts think the new movie will probably have it's peek at about $ 53 million. This is due to several factors, one being the fact that movie goers are a bit tired of follow up movies, and the other factor is the bad critical reception the first movie got. On the upside, Fantastic Four 2 is being regarded as being a better movie, and one critic complimented it on being a big, dumb and fun blockbuster, instead of the dark superhero movies we have seen in recent times, like Spider-Man 3 and Batman Begins. It's a good choice for people looking for some summer fun then.

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And so, after seven weeks of threequels on top of the American box office, this weekend they will be replaced by a sequel. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is ready to take on the previous weeks' box office champions, and it looks like it will be an easy victory. Box office analysts are predicting a high gross for the second Fantastic Four movie, though it probably won't break the amount of money the original movie made. Whilst that movie opened in 2005 with $ 56.1 million, analysts think the new movie will probably have it's peek at about $ 53 million. This is due to several factors, one being the fact that movie goers are a bit tired of follow up movies, and the other factor is the bad critical reception the first movie got. On the upside, Fantastic Four 2 is being regarded as being a better movie, and one critic complimented it on being a big, dumb and fun blockbuster, instead of the dark superhero movies we have seen in recent times, like Spider-Man 3 and Batman Begins. It's a good choice for people looking for some summer fun then.

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Take a look at the new Batsuit

For his second movie, Bruce Wayne will upgrade his batsuit, turning it into an outfit that is a bit sleeker and more powerful. Hopefully for Bale it's also a bit lighter than the earlier suit, since the actor was already complaining that he worries about wearing the suit in the expected Chicago heat. For a first look at the suit, click the link, which will take you to JoBlo, where they have a scan of a magazine with the first ever pic of the new suit.

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