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Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Carnage Possibly Confirmed For Venom, Justice League Digital Release & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 16, 2018 5:30 pm EST Here’s the quick promo that aired after the first season finale of The Gifted this past week, teasing season two. Todd MacFarlane (jokingly) said that he was going to make a cameo in Spawn just to one-up Stan Lee’s cameos....

Superhero Bits: Groot’s Favorite Movies, Thor: Ragnarok Reshoots, Tom Holland’s Lip Sync Battle & More By Ethan Anderton/May 9, 2017 5:00 pm EST Want to see Tom Holland’s amazing Lip Sync Battle performance from the special Spider-Man: Homecoming face-off episode? Who could Sigourney Weaver be playing in The Defenders? What are Groot’s favorite movies? Could Dave Bautista end up getting his own spin-off as Drax the Destroyer? Want to see Mark Ruffalo getting ready for Thor: Ragnarok reshoots?...

The CW Adds ‘Black Lightning’ To Its DC Comics Superhero Show Line-Up By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 11, 2017 9:30 am EST DC Comics fans are getting inundated from all sides — the DC Extended Universe is going full-steam ahead with the upcoming Wonder Woman and Justice League movies this year, and The CW superhero universe (or the Arrowverse or the Berlanti-verse, whatever you like to call it) just keeps getting bigger....

Tom Cruise Wanted For Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Movie By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 15, 2017 7:00 am EST Tom Cruise in Quentin Tarantino’s Charles Manson movie? It might happen! As the bidding war for Tarantino’s ninth film (which is set in Los Angeles in 1969 with the Manson family murders as a backdrop) heats up, a new potential cast member has surfaced: Tom Cruise. While the prospect of adding Cruise to the cast might be a long shot, the vision of Cruise and Tarantino working together is certainly intriguing....

VOTD: First Cut 2018 Previews The Upcoming Year In Cinema By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2018 6:00 am EST Now that we’ve closed the book on the year 2017, it’s time we start looking forward to what the year 2018 has in store for us on the big screen. Just before the end of last year, we featured Final Cut 2017 with one final look back at the dozens of movies that held out attention (or at least tried to) throughout the year....

VOTD: The Sleepy Skunk 2016 Movie Trailer Mash-Up Remembers A Year Of Great Movies By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 14, 2016 10:30 am EST The end of 2016 is nearly upon us, and over the next couple weeks, we’ll be looking back at the year in cinema with some retrospective lists of our own, including our favorite movies of the year. But before we get to that, one of those retrospective movie trailer mash-ups has just arrived from one of our favorite editors....

There’s No Guarantee It Will Happen So it sounds like Miyamoto and the executives at Nintendo feel comfortable that Meledandri has the right vision and mind to bring Mario to life on the big screen in the right way. However, just because they’ve announced the project doesn’t mean it will definitely go forward. Miyamoto also noted: “We’ve talked together and share the feeling that if we can’t make something interesting we’ll just call it quits....

‘Blood Drive’ Trailer: Syfy’s New Exploitation Series Looks Like An Assault On The Senses By Ben Pearson/April 30, 2017 11:00 am EST This month marked the tenth anniversary of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, an experiment the directors intended to replicate the experience of visiting a 1970s-style grindhouse theater. Although three spin-off movies have been made based on the fake trailers included in the presentation (Machete, Machete Kills, and Hobo with a Shotgun), Grindhouse flopped at the box office....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Directors Considered Including Red Hulk And Iron Spider By Angie Han/Aug. 25, 2016 2:00 pm EST Captain America: Civil War had plenty going on as it is, with over a dozen superheroes including a couple of big new ones. But it could’ve been even more crowded. At one point there was speculation that Red Hulk and/or Iron Spider could make an appearance in Civil War, and directors Joe and Anthony Russo have now confirmed that both were under consideration early on — and that they may yet crop up in future Marvel movies....

‘China Salesman’ Clip Offers The Steven Seagal Vs Mike Tyson Showdown The ’90s Demanded By Chris Evangelista/June 8, 2018 4:00 am EST What is China Salesman? If you have to ask, you’ll never know. But I’ll tell you anyway: China Salesman is a movie starring Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal. I don’t know why it exists, but it does. And you can see a China Salesman clip, in which Tyson and Seagal fight each other in slow motion, below....

‘Christopher Robin’ Trailer: Get Tickets Now To See The Silly Old Bear Return To The Big Screen By Ethan Anderton/July 10, 2018 7:30 am EST While blockbuster summer will start coming to an end later this month, there are still some gems waiting for audiences to wrap up the season in August. One of those will undoubtedly be the return of Winnie the Pooh. Christopher Robin finds the childhood friend of Winnie the Pooh (and the rest of his pals from the Hundred Acre Wood) all grown up and stressed out by the responsibilities of everyday life....

‘Ghost In The Shell’ Anime Director Visits The Live-Action Adaptation’s Set In A New Featurette By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2016 11:30 am EST If the recent video from the set of Ghost in the Shell featuring one of the numbskulls from Entertainment Tonight asking Scarlett Johansson stupid questions didn’t give you the behind the scenes glimpse of the movie you were hoping for, we have something better today. A new Ghost in the Shell featurette has been released that features the director of the original anime, Mamoru Oshii, paying a visit to the set in New Zealand....

‘Lost’ And ‘The Leftovers’ Creator Damon Lindelof Is Making A Blumhouse Movie By Ben Pearson/March 28, 2018 12:13 pm EST Damon Lindelof is heading back to the big screen. The creator of Lost and The Leftovers has largely worked in TV over the past few years, but now he’s co-written a new action thriller called The Hunt that will be produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, a company known for giving filmmakers low budgets but tons of control over their work....

‘Lost In London’ Trailer: Woody Harrelson’s Live Movie Is Here By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 18, 2017 2:00 pm EST Woody Harrelson has long proven himself to be a multi-talented actor with a decades-spanning career — first achieving fame with the massively popular sitcom Cheers, and going on to do everything from radical violent fare like Natural Born Killers, to comedies like White Men Can’t Jump. He’s known today as an established actor who brings gravitas to blockbusters like The Hunger Games or stretches his chops in prestige television like True Detective....

‘Mission: Impossible 6’ Gets Summer 2018 Release Date, Alexander Payne’s ‘Downsizing’ Arrives In 2017 By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2016 9:00 am EST The Mission: Impossible franchise will return in 2018 to try and kill Tom Cruise yet again. Paramount has just set a release date for the sixth installment of their action blockbuster franchise, which is being directed by returning Rogue Nation helmer Chris McQuarrie. More details, plus a new date for Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, below....

‘Only The Brave’ Trailer: Josh Brolin Battles A Wildfire In This Harrowing True Story By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 14, 2017 2:30 pm EST Right now, wildfires are tearing through the Western half of the United States, torching hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Montana, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California and Utah. There have been more than 24,000 firefighters battling 137 blazes. These men and women are the best of the best, and the story of some of them from Arizona will be told on the big screen this fall....

‘Pacific Rim: Maelstrom’ Recruits Zhang Jin To Help Re-Cancel The Apocalypse By Jacob Hall/Nov. 22, 2016 8:00 am EST Pacific Rim: Maelstrom began shooting earlier this month, but the cast has only grown larger since cameras started to roll. Nick Tarabay joined the cast just a few days ago and now Chinese actor and martial artist Zhang Jin has been added to the international ensemble. The news of his casting comes our way courtesy of Variety, but like so much of director Steven S....

‘Powerless’ Promo: NBC’s New Superhero Show Isn’t Exactly A Superhero Show By Jack Giroux/Jan. 6, 2017 7:30 am EST Below, watch the Powerless promo. The Ben Queen-created series revolves around a group of Wayne Security employees. Emily was written as a claims adjuster who finds great satisfaction in helping those harmed or impacted by “super-related” destruction, but the character and show might’ve recently gone in a different direction. Originally, Vanessa and the group worked at an insurance company, but last month it was announced the show follows employees of Wayne Security, a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises....

‘Ready Player One’ TV Spot: Welcome To The Rebellion By Ben Pearson/Jan. 26, 2018 11:00 am EST Are you ready for Steven Spielberg’s return to science fiction? Not counting the alien subplot of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, this year’s Ready Player One will mark the first time The Beard will step back in sci-fi waters since 2005’s War of the Worlds. And as you can see in this newly-released TV spot for the movie, it seems like there’s a whole new war of the worlds brewing inside a virtual reality platform called the Oasis....

‘Shazam!’ Trailer: Zachary Levi Is A Kid In A Big Superhero Body [Comic-Con 2018] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 21, 2018 11:59 am EST Warner Bros. has been struggling with the direction of its DC film universe lately, but with the oncoming release of Shazam!,the future looks bright. The studio released the first Shazam trailer during the San Diego Comic-Con panel for the superhero movie starring Zachary Levi, and it suggests we could get a thoroughly entertaining (and funny) DCEU movie....