‘Agents of SHIELD’ Venturing Into Two-Parters (with Trailer!)

‘Agents of SHIELD’ Venturing Into Two-Parters (with Trailer!)
Brendon Connelly - BleedingCool

Set to air on December 10th will be The Bridge, listed as the first in a two part story. Looking at the roster of returning actors you’ll see that J. August Richards, Ajani Wrighster, Cullen Douglas and Ruth Negga are all scheduled to return.

I’ve never been unhappy with the show yet. Indeed, it’s one of the highlights of my week. But even as I’m happy with it, I see room to grow and more potential for the show so I’m excited to seem the start to pull an wider story arc together and to bring back some characters we’ve already met and almost forgotten about.

In a shocking cliffhanger…

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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Runs 3 Hours?

‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Runs 3 Hours?
Kevin Jagernauth — The Playlist

There has been a lot of talk surrounding Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf Of Wall Street”—whether or not it would be finished in time, rumors of NC-17 material and of course, the overall length of the movie, etc. Last we heard, it was going clock in at 2 hours 45 minutes, but word from abroad suggests that the runtime has been padded further.

The folks over at Allocine are reporting that according to France distributor Metropolitan Filmexport, “The Wolf Of Wall Street” now clocks in at 2 hour and 59 minutes (which we can only surmise was done to get under a 3 hour-limit). This would make the…

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen Officially in ‘Avengers 2’

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen Officially in ‘Avengers 2’
Marvel.com

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen have officially joined the Avengers family as the brother-sister duo of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the highly-anticipated sequel to 2012’s smash-hit “Marvel’s The Avengers”! “Avengers: Age of Ultron” arrives in theaters May 1, 2015.

These characters, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, probably mean something more to those of you who are more of the comic book geek types than me. While I am a huge fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I know literally nothing else about The Marvel world. But I’m sure that they’re…

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‘The Wolverine’ Sequel Based on Existing Plotline

‘The Wolverine’ Sequel Based on Existing Plotline
Angie Han - /Film

James Mangold and Hugh Jackman have been pretty vague so far about the “really cool ideas” they’re considering for the upcoming sequel to The Wolverine, especially because they haven’t settled on any one concept just yet. But one thing we now know for certain is that it’ll be based on an existing comic book storyline.

Mangold let the fact slip in a recent interview, during which he also discussed when, exactly, the movie might take place.

Asked by I Am Rogue whether the sequel would be based on a comic book arc, Mangold answered:

Absolutely. I can tell you that in determining where we…

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Blazing White Hot — ‘Catching Fire’ Exceeds Expectations

Blazing White Hot — ‘Catching Fire’ Exceeds Expectations
Diana Drumm - The Playlist

Exceeding already great expectations as the highly-anticipated sequel to “The Hunger Games” (which opened with $152.5 million), “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” made a jaw-dropping, predecessor-surpassing $161.1 million (already making back its reported $130 million budget domestically) and averaged $38,704 per theater. This opening weekend marks not only the top opening for star Jennifer Lawrence (beating out her previous bests “The Hunger Games” and “X-Men: First Class” with $55.1 million) and Lionsgate (beating out “The Hunger Games” and “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2” with…

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Sony to Make ‘Spider-Man’ Spinoff Movies. Because of Reasons

Sony to Make ‘Spider-Man’ Spinoff Movies. Because of Reasons
Kevin Jagernauth — The Playlist

“We do very much have the ambition about creating a bigger universe around Spider-Man. There are a number of scripts in the works,” Sony Pictures Entertainment chief Michael Lynton said. And again, this isn’t exactly Earth-shaking news. There is already a “Venom” movie in the works with Josh Trank attached (though obviously, his first priority is “Fantastic Four” over at Fox), and with Sinister Six already teased pretty heavily and countless other Spidey characters from the canon to tackle, it’s clear the studio is looking at the Marvel model…

I just… I don’t even… sigh…

It’s like, “Oh…

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Paramount Will Fight ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Sequel

Paramount Will Fight ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Sequel
Entertainment Weekly

A studio spokeswoman said Wednesday that Paramount would fight the proposed follow-up to the 1946 holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart as George Baily, a desperate family man who imagines what his town would be like if he’d never been born. Star Partners and Hummingbird Productions announced plans Monday to create a sequel titled It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story.

Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tenn.-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey’s daughter…

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Looks Like ‘Die Hard’ is going to… well, Die Hard…

Looks Like ‘Die Hard’ is going to… well, Die Hard…
Edward Davis - The Playlist

Why, why, why? Quick, can you name a franchise that has been driven into the ground worse than the “Die Hard”/John McClane series? You can’t say “Alien” because a mediocre as “Prometheus” was, it’s still a zillion times better than any of the “AVP” series movies. Jack Ryan sure wasn’t looking healthy last time anyone checked, but that’s why there’s a reboot (scheduled for dumping ground season in January). The “Indiana Jones” series only has one outright disaster (‘Kingdom of Crystal Skulls’) and while there was two terrible “Terminator” films in a row, there were two great ones and a reboot…

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Samuel L. Jackson: Hamill & McGregor Not Contacted For ‘Star Wars 7’

Samuel L. Jackson: Hamill & McGregor Not Contacted For ‘Star Wars 7’

Who knows how much he really knows or if Hamill is telling the truth. Perhaps he’s been sworn to secrecy and it wouldn’t be the first time that an actor invovled with a JJ Abrams production was contractually obligated to lie about something.

Quite frankly, in a Star Wars galaxy set a few years after the death of good old Palpatine, one where Luke Skywallker is still alive, it will be odd for him to not at least have some small roll. But it’s also odd that he hasn’t been contacted (if true). I find it far less odd that Jackson and McGregor haven’t been contacted. Obi-Wan is dead, and even if…

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New Worst Idea: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Sequel

New Worst Idea: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Sequel
Germain Lussier - /Film

That rumbling you feel is the rising tempers of film fans all over the globe. But the holidays are approaching, and maybe we should learn to forgive. That’s the only way to process the wild news that a sequel to Frank Capra‘s 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life is now in the works.

The tentatively titled It’s A Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story, written by Bob Farnsworth and Martha Bolton, follows the angel of George Bailey’s daughter Zuzu (Karolyn Grimes, who’ll reprise the role) as she teaches Bailey’s evil grandson (also named George Bailey) how different the world would have been if…

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