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The Avengers will be assembling in the Big Apple next month for New York Comic-Con 2011. The convention announced a panel set for Saturday, October 15 at 6:30 PM ET at the IGN Theater, where never-before-seen footage will be unveiled. Take a look at the official description of the event below. The Avengers recently wrapped production and is slated for release on May 4, 2012. We’ll keep you posted on any further details regarding this New York Comic-Con The Avengers event!...

In 2012, Daniel Day-Lewis played former President Abraham Lincoln in the box-office hit Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg, and features an incredibly stacked cast. Sally Field, James Spader, Tommy Lee Jones, and more stood alongside Day-Lewis as they delivered a historical dramatization of Abraham Lincoln struggling to get the 13th Amendment passed. MSN states that Daniel Day-Lewis went deep into method acting to tap into the role of such an important historical figure such as Abraham Lincoln, sending text messages to Sally Field in character....

From heartwarming to disheartening, John Carpenter has brought a realism to the darkness in our lives through his films. He was a prophet of the unpleasant, toying with emotions wrapped up in fears. During the seventies and eighties, Carpenter had the action, science fiction, and horror genres nailed down. Most of his films failed commercially, but became cult classics, like Dark Star, his spoof of 2001: A Space Odyssey. For his disciples of dread, it was more of an anticipation than an expectation....

Some things never change, and Hollywood is one of them. There’s always been the glamour, wealth, and unlimited stardom to the people who are lucky enough to make it in the cutthroat industry. While the movies it produces have evolved from silent films to the ability to use CGI to create imaginative characters and backgrounds, they always result in one thing: larger than life movie stars. Movie stars have been around for more than a century, being adored by the public and awarded for their performances....

Writer-director Tony Gilroy has met with several actors in his searching for the new lead character in Universal’s The Bourne Legacy, which will be a new assassin with a similar background to Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon. Variety is reporting that Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, Garrett Hedlund, Taylor Kitsch, and Kellan Lutz met with the writer-director. Univeral and Tony Gilroy are looking at actors in their mid-20s to early 30s....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Supes have been committing atrocities, which keep getting swept under the rug because they are revered by the adoring public. Billy Butcher recruits The Boys who have all been wronged by The Seven, the world’s most notorious superheroes, to bring them down and stop the corruption. Based on the best-selling comics by Garth Ennis, The Boys is a revenge story where the nobodies take on the somebodies....

So what is Herogasm? Well, just like the rest of The Boys comics skewer popular tropes from superhero comics, “Herogasm” takes square aim at one of the most time-honored comic cliches, that of several popular superheroes teaming up together to stop some greater evil, akin to Avengers: Infinity War. “From day one, everyone dared me to make this episode. CHALLENGE MET MOTHERF*CKERS” MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Only thing is, in The Boys comics, it is revealed that the team up between superheroes occurs not to defeat some alien threat that proves too much for any single hero, but rather to give the heroes a luxury vacation unlike any other....

There were very few Americans who went to the theater this weekend, but those who did made The Covenant number one at the box office with $9 million. The teen thriller made history as well, bringing in the lowest amount for a number one weekend total in three years. Steven Strait stars in the movie that has a supernatural feel. Coming in second place, Ben Affleck, Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins, and Robin Tunney in Hollywoodland; the drama debuted with $6 million....

Robert Luketic has signed on to to direct the casino-set thriller, 21 for Columbia Pictures. The film is based on the Ben Mezrich best-selling nonfiction book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions; it revolves around a group of young men who become experts in the art of card counting. According to Production Weekly, Kevin Spacey optioned the book in 2002 after reading an excerpt of it in Playboy; he’ll also star in the film....

Fans of Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer rejoice! Director Savage Steve Holland is finally returning to the big screen after eighteen years. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Holland is planning on directing the film The Big One 3. The film is said to compliment Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer, making it a trilogy of sorts. Hmm, where does that leave How I Got into College? That was the original follow up to the trilogy....

Guillermo del Toro hosts a screening and Q&A of the fan-favorite film, featuring special guests Edgar Wright and Michael Cera One of the best-reviewed films of the summer, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, unfortunately was also one of the least successful at the box office. But now, audiences will have a whole new opportunity to discover what so many fans fell in love with last summer when director Edgar Wright’s film, which is based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s popular comic book, becomes available on Blu-ray and DVD November 9th....

Apple has released the second trailer for the highly-anticipated action-fantasy Sucker Punch, which will be released in theaters nationwide on March 25, 2011. Click on the video below for a glimpse at director Zack Snyder’s latest thriller: Close your eyes. Open your mind. You will be unprepared. Sucker Punch is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality....

Samuel L. Jackson is reprising his long-time role as Nick Fury in Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series, Secret Invasion. The trailer was released Saturday at the D23 Expo, giving fans a glimpse of what to expect. The teaser follows Fury as he fights the Skrulls, the species of aliens introduced in Captain Marvel. The race, which can shape-shift to resemble nearly anything, has been infiltrating Earth for years, leading Fury and his team to second guess anyone they work with....

While Marvel Studios may have released a full trailer for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, there is still not a great deal known about the upcoming Disney+ series. For that reason, rumors are still abound as to what may or may not happen in the series. In a new report by Cosmic Circus, it has been suggested that an obscure character called Porcupine could feature somewhere in the series. The character, a mad scientist who wears a special suit made of quills, was originally featured in a 1963 issue of Tales to Astonish and was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck....

Two figures running in the cold streets of London during the night, trying to solve an impossible crime, is a recurrent image in detective stories, which owes quite a bit to Sherlock. One of the most beloved characters in literature of all time, Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective, and his assistant, John Watson, have surpassed the four novels and 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The detective’s first literary appearance happened in 1887, and he remains present in numerous adaptations to the big screen and television....

Sherwood Church, home of the hit independent movies Flywheel (DVD only), Facing the Giants, and Fireproof, at its Sunday evening service tonight, announced the theme and title for Sherwood Pictures’ fourth movie. Senior Pastor Michael Catt, Executive Pastor Jim McBride, and ministers Stephen and Alex Kendrick–collectively the leadership team of Sherwood Pictures–made the announcement. “The movie is about fatherhood and the title is one word: Courageous,” Alex Kendrick said, briefly outlining the plot....

On the heels of the State of the Union address, Showtime will premiere its new animated series Our Cartoon President. Executive produced by multiple Emmy winner Stephen Colbert and his Late Show executive producer, Chris Licht, this new 10-episode parody will follow the tru-ish misadventures of the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and his merry band of advisors and family members. R.J. Fried will serve as executive producer and showrunner....

B. Alan checks out the latest from those Shaun of the Dead guys Movieweb didn’t send me to the Hot Fuzztival. I went on my own volition. Because, just like you, I loved Shaun of the Dead. It hit big with the self-appointed “above you” film sods that suck in geekbait like oxygen and cling to it for life. We’re all zombie fans, aren’t we? And these Shaun guys nailed every perfect beat of the genre....

Sony Pictures Imageworks, the award-winning digital production studio and innovator, is in development on three new projects to use its patented proprietary Imagemotion performance capture technologies, it was announced by Yair Landau, President of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment. They include two projects from Sony Pictures Animation, Neanderthals and an untitled feature from Jerome Chen, the Academy Award-nominated visual effects supervisor on The Polar Express and Beowulf. Additionally, Imageworks is presently in discussion with Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Seaside Productions with Steven Paul to participate in the production of a movie based on the bestselling author James Patterson’s Maximum Ride....

Annie Wersching, a regular on such shows as 24, Timeless, Star Trek, and Bosch, has passed away at 45. According to Deadline, the actress passed away from cancer. She was initially diagnosed in 2020. Stephen Full, husband of Wersching, says the following in a statement. Wersching was born in 1977 in St. Louis, Missouri, and had a love for the stage since childhood. Starting with Irish dance and continuing on until she required a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater from Millikin University in 1999....