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The Wolverine Gets a 20-Second Teaser and some Motion Posters

Just yesterday, the first bit of footage from tomorrow’s first trailer for The Wolverine was revealed by director James Mangold on the 6-second video service called Vine. But now the bigger tease is here with a 20-second sneak preview of the full trailer coming tomorrow, which will be nearly two minutes long. Keen eyes noticed interesting bits in the Vine video, including an appearance from Famke Janssen that may or may not just be footage from X-Men: The Last Stand. In addition, two rather boring motion posters have been revealed. One is quite familiar, while the other is all new and kind of cool to see, but still lackluster.

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Peter Jackson Wants To Direct An Upcoming DOCTOR WHO Episode EW has a brief interview with Peter Jackson in which he makes explicit his desire to someday direct an episode of Doctor Who. You might assume the BBC doesn’t have enough cash to pay a crazy popular guy like Jackson for the job, but he claims he’ll do it for the price of one Dalek. That’s kind of cute until the article later reveals that he already owns two of the iconic Doctor Who villains, and he suddenly just looks greedy. Like most people who make the show but few who actually watch the show, Jackson is a massive Who fan who has been watching from nearly the beginning of the show’s 50 years of scaring the shit out of children and blind dates alike. He has apparently spoken with Doctor Who head honcho Steven Moffat about bringing this idea to fruition, so he’s really not kidding around. When asked what he thought of Peter Jackson directing an episode of Doctor Who, Moffat just held up a sign that said “piss off.” This isn’t really news or anything, but it’s fun to speculate on what a Peter Jackson episode of Doctor Who might look like. I think he’d do a good job, and the show’s tone would bring out Jackson’s long dormant goofy side. Also: Brevity. It might be like visiting an old friend. Jackson’s a busy guy, but it seems like his Hobbit and Tintin duties can be done on a laptop at this point. Maybe he does have the time to slip off for a brief Doctor Who shoot. Moffat better not let him direct a Neil Giaman script though, as the resulting fangasm would send a sizable percentage of Doctor Who’s viewing audience into early (and some not so early) graves.

Peter Jackson Wants To Direct An Upcoming DOCTOR WHO Episode

EW has a brief interview with Peter Jackson in which he makes explicit his desire to someday direct an episode of Doctor Who. You might assume the BBC doesn’t have enough cash to pay a crazy popular guy like Jackson for the job, but he claims he’ll do it for the price of one Dalek. That’s kind of cute until the article later reveals that he already owns two of the iconic Doctor Who villains, and he suddenly just looks greedy.

Like most people who make the show but few who actually watch the show, Jackson is a massive Who fan who has been watching from nearly the beginning of the show’s 50 years of scaring the shit out of children and blind dates alike. He has apparently spoken with Doctor Who head honcho Steven Moffat about bringing this idea to fruition, so he’s really not kidding around. When asked what he thought of Peter Jackson directing an episode of Doctor Who, Moffat just held up a sign that said “piss off.”

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Doctor Who: BBC responds to Matt Smith quitting rumours The last time showrunner Steven Moffat was asked how long incumbent Doctor Matt Smith would remain in the role, he snapped back with a cheerily brisk “Forever. For the rest of time”. There’s the slightest chance, you know, that he wasn’t telling the truth… Of course he wasn’t. If there’s one thing more certain than death, taxes, and repetition of the phrase “Doctor Who?” in the new episodes, it’s that Matt Smith won’t be the Doctor forever. The Sun, amongst others, is keen for us to think that his departure will come sooner rather than later, namely, after the 2013 Christmas special. The newspaper ran a story suggesting that “Insiders say the festive special will be Matt’s last outing as The Doctor”, citing Smith’s ambition to break into Hollywood as his reason for bowing out after a four year stint. The BBC was quick to respond to the story, and had this to say: Sorry folks but even we don’t know what’s going to happen at Christmas. It’s not been written yet! But Matt loves the show and is to start filming the unmissable 50th anniversary, and the new series starting on Easter Saturday. It’s not exactly a denial, and neither was Smith’s answer to the question posed by Jonathan Ross last week, “I am very happy doing it. I do the anniversary special, then the Christmas special. At the moment it’s 2013 and we will see what 2014 holds.”

Doctor Who: BBC responds to Matt Smith quitting rumours

The last time showrunner Steven Moffat was asked how long incumbent Doctor Matt Smith would remain in the role, he snapped back with a cheerily brisk “Forever. For the rest of time”. There’s the slightest chance, you know, that he wasn’t telling the truth…

Of course he wasn’t. If there’s one thing more certain than death, taxes, and repetition of the phrase “Doctor Who?” in the new episodes, it’s that Matt Smith won’t be the Doctor forever. The Sun, amongst others, is keen for us to think that his departure will come sooner rather than later, namely, after the 2013 Christmas special. The newspaper ran a story suggesting that “Insiders say the festive special will be Matt’s last outing as The Doctor”, citing Smith’s ambition to break into Hollywood as his reason for bowing out after a four year stint.

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DOCTOR WHO SERIES 7 PART 2 Trailer Raises Excitement For New Half Season

You guys! It’s only two weeks until Doctor Who returns with the first of eight episodes. BBC America has posted the newest trailer for Series 7B, and it looks like it’ll be a doozy. Lots of creepy monsters, including Cybermen, which actually look threatening, are included, as well as quick glimpses of guest stars Dougray Scott and David Warner. The focal point is, of course, the mystery surrounding Clara Oswin Oswald, the girl who has already [REDACTED] twice. So, Amy was the girl who didn’t make sense and Clara is the impossible girl… I think it’s all just a metaphor for the Doctor not being able to understand women.

The BBC has also released synopses for the first four episodes. Avoid if you don’t like spoilers.

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David S Goyer and Henry Cavill talk Man Of Steel David S Goyer has been chatting a little more about the forthcoming Man Of Steel, this time with Total Film, and he’s divulged some intriguing hints at what we can expect from the upcoming Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot. Firstly, here’s what he had to say about the secrecy surrounding the movie - something we’ve typically associated with producer Christopher Nolan: It’s something Chris tried hard to do with the Batman films. I’m genuinely pleased with how much secrecy we’ve been able to maintain. There’s so much of the movie that people don’t know, that hasn’t been touched upon. The trailer’s just the tiniest, tiniest tip of the iceberg. As for the film’s serious tone - another Nolanism, you might say - Goyer was keen to separate Man Of Steel from the Dark Knight trilogy. “Relatable and realistic doesn’t necessarily mean dark,” he insisted. “I think it would be inappropriate for us to approach a Superman film as if we were doing The Dark Knight. Batman films are a lot more nihilistic; Superman has always been a story about hope.” In a separate interview with the same publication, Superman himself, Henry Cavill, also addressed the tone of the film, toeing the same line that realism and darkness aren’t necessarily one and the same thing. “It’s not betraying anything that Superman is,” Cavill argued, “but it is grounding everything in reality. It’s the story of this incredible being who can do incredible things, but whom we can associate with.” They’re certainly promising noises, and thanks in part to the production’s admirable dedication to secrecy, we’re positively champing at the bit to see what this new incarnation of Superman will look like. Man Of Steel will be released on the 14th June 2013.

David S Goyer and Henry Cavill talk Man Of Steel

David S Goyer has been chatting a little more about the forthcoming Man Of Steel, this time with Total Film, and he’s divulged some intriguing hints at what we can expect from the upcoming Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot.

Firstly, here’s what he had to say about the secrecy surrounding the movie - something we’ve typically associated with producer Christopher Nolan:

It’s something Chris tried hard to do with the Batman films. I’m genuinely pleased with how much secrecy we’ve been able to maintain. There’s so much of the movie that people don’t know, that hasn’t been touched upon. The trailer’s just the tiniest, tiniest tip of the iceberg.

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Tom Cruise and Guy Ritchie for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. As his next film, the incoming sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion, gets ready to land next month, Tom Cruise has continued to keep himself busy (he’s already done the bulk of work on the film after that, All You Need Is Kill). It seems as though he’s already found his next project, with reports this morning that the actor is circling the long-mooted big screen take on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The film version has been bubbling away for some time, with Steven Soderbergh linked with directing the movie a little while back. But Soderbergh dropped out of the project, and the man who has signed up instead is apparently Guy Ritchie. Tom Cruise would take on the role played by Robert Vaughn in the television series, and Scott Z Burns has penned a screenplay for the movie. Assuming all of this goes ahead as planned, it may also open up a vacancy for a director on Sherlock Holmes 3, which Warner Bros continues to develop. Ritchie directed the first two movies, but may just find himself otherwise engaged for the next one, if The Man From U.N.C.L.E. presses ahead.

Tom Cruise and Guy Ritchie for The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

As his next film, the incoming sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion, gets ready to land next month, Tom Cruise has continued to keep himself busy (he’s already done the bulk of work on the film after that, All You Need Is Kill). It seems as though he’s already found his next project, with reports this morning that the actor is circling the long-mooted big screen take on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

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Kevin Feige on Pepper Potts’ role in Iron Man 3 Gwyneth Paltrow has been a solid element in the Iron Man movies, and even with the focus clearly not being focussed on her for the majority of the time, her chemistry with Downey Jr is great and she brings a lot to the role of Pepper Potts. With the release of Iron Man 3 drawing ever closer Kevin Feige has been chatting about what we can expect from Pepper Potts in the upcoming film: The love triangle in this movie is really between Tony, Pepper and the suits. Tony, Pepper and his obsession with the suits, and the obsession with technology. And it’s sort of unique for a big super hero summer blockbuster franchise to have that kind of layers. He continued: Yes, there’s a bad guy. Yes, the stakes are very, very, high – the President of the United States is in danger. Air Force One is attacked. There are big stakes to this movie. But the real stakes are, is Tony going to be able to set aside the obsession to spend all day, every day, in that workshop, tinkering with the suits in order to focus on, as he says in the trailer, the one thing that matters most – Pepper. And actually that’s what the movie is about. Feige also added that “I will tell you this. In this movie we play with the convention of the damsel in distress. We are bored by the damsel in distress. But, sometimes we need our hero to be desperate enough in fighting for something other than just his own life. So, there is fun to be had with ‘is Pepper in danger or is Pepper the saviour?’ over the course of this movie”. Finally, he teased that “In terms of where we go with future movies, we’ll see. In the comic books she does get a taste for the suit and becomes her own hero named Rescue, who doesn’t necessarily battle other people, but is on missions to help people and to save people. Will we do that down the line with Gwyneth Paltrow? Who knows…”. Well, I suspect you do, Kevin…

Kevin Feige on Pepper Potts’ role in Iron Man 3

Gwyneth Paltrow has been a solid element in the Iron Man movies, and even with the focus clearly not being focussed on her for the majority of the time, her chemistry with Downey Jr is great and she brings a lot to the role of Pepper Potts. With the release of Iron Man 3 drawing ever closer Kevin Feige has been chatting about what we can expect from Pepper Potts in the upcoming film:

The love triangle in this movie is really between Tony, Pepper and the suits. Tony, Pepper and his obsession with the suits, and the obsession with technology. And it’s sort of unique for a big super hero summer blockbuster franchise to have that kind of layers.

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You Want A VERONICA MARS Movie? Well, It’s Up To You I’m usually not the person rallying for a reunion movie after my favorite shows have ended. I don’t think the format makes sense for most stories, and I never want to spoil my memories of great writing with a subpar, obligatory reunion special. But I’ve always felt that Veronica Mars would make a great movie. The undisputed best first season has a very cinematic arc, and what makes the show so interesting is that noir mysteries are usually told as films, not TV shows. And yeah, I miss Veronica Mars. I miss the blade-sharp writing and the offbeat tone and that distinctive palette of Neptune. And I miss the characters, all of them, but I most miss Veronica herself. She’s fearless and brilliant, unapologetically flawed and like no other heroine on TV or in film. What I love about Veronica Mars is that she’s not a marshmallow. She’s an anvil, all jagged points and steel, and I like that. I like that she isn’t sweet, and we still love her. I’m burying the lede here. This morning, Veronica Mars (and, not for nothing, Party Down) creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Veronica Mars movie. Warner Bros. have given their blessing, as they’ve always shown interest in the film but feared lackluster fan response. Considering that the Kickstarter page has already exceeded its $2 million goal by $500,000, I think we can put that worry to bed. Because of tight schedule conflicts between the principal players, they only had 30 days to reach this goal, but that’s not going to be a problem now. Any more money they make on top of the goal will just go toward making it a bigger movie. Like any Kickstarter campaign, rewards are attached to donations, all the way up to getting a speaking role in the film and attending the premiere. They’ve apparently been working on this campaign secretly for over a year, as they filmed the below video in February 2012: Goofy, sure, but I like it. I didn’t cringe. Obviously a movie is nothing without a good script, but Thomas has been working on his in earnest, and I like the sound of this: Life has taken Veronica away from Neptune. In the years since spoiling Keith’s chances to be reelected sheriff, Veronica hasn’t taken a case. But something big is about to bring her back home and back to her calling. My goal is to include as many of your favorite characters as possible. It is, after all, time for Veronica’s 10-year high school reunion. So, this is the biggest Kickstarter film campaign in history, and there are a couple of different ways to feel about that. Maybe it’s greedy. This is a big movie with big names attached to it, and that doesn’t seem to be in the intended spirit of Kickstarter. On the other hand, I like fan-funded projects. I like the idea of skipping the bullshit and getting the people what they want directly, much like Louis C.K. has done with his comedy specials and Amanda Palmer and Ginger Wildheart have done with their recent albums. And man, these are some legitimately cool rewards. Far be it from me to tell you what to do with your money. I can only tell you what I did with my money: I pledged $50 to get a DVD, a shooting script PDF, a digital copy and a t-shirt, but mostly I pledged because I want to see the Veronica Mars movie. Here’s the Kickstarter page.

You Want A VERONICA MARS Movie? Well, It’s Up To You

I’m usually not the person rallying for a reunion movie after my favorite shows have ended. I don’t think the format makes sense for most stories, and I never want to spoil my memories of great writing with a subpar, obligatory reunion special. But I’ve always felt that Veronica Mars would make a great movie. The undisputed best first season has a very cinematic arc, and what makes the show so interesting is that noir mysteries are usually told as films, not TV shows.

And yeah, I miss Veronica Mars. I miss the blade-sharp writing and the offbeat tone and that distinctive palette of Neptune. And I miss the characters, all of them, but I most miss Veronica herself. She’s fearless and brilliant, unapologetically flawed and like no other heroine on TV or in film. What I love about Veronica Mars is that she’s not a marshmallow. She’s an anvil, all jagged points and steel, and I like that. I like that she isn’t sweet, and we still love her.

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