Faced with some story issues on the super sequel, there was only man who could save the day: Marvel guru and fanboy fave, Joss Whedon. “Joss came in to save our lives a couple of times,” Taylor told SFX (via Comic Book Movie). “We had a major scene that was not working on the page at all in London, and he basically got airlifted in, like a SWAT team or something. He came down, rewrote the scene, and before he got back to his plane I sort of grabbed him and said, ‘And this scene and this scene?’ And he rewrote two other scenes that I thought had problems. Then finally we let go of him, he…

Well, this is kind of a bummer, but she says she has not received the phone call about appearing in the second Avengers film. But you’ve gotta figure an ensemble film like that is pretty crowded and it’s hard to focus on the various characters. As it was, she barely had a bit part in the first film. As much as it pains me to say it, because I like Pepper Potts as a character, if the film works better without her due to the ensemble nature and needing to focus in on some other character as much as possible, then I guess that’s okay.

Lionsgate’s upcoming “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” is projected to gross $950 million in worldwide box office, according to a new Wall Street analyst’s report.

Alan Gould of Evercore predicted that the film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, will gross $375 million domestically and another $575 million internationally. Last year’s “The Hunger Games” grossed $408 million in the U.S. and another $283 million overseas.

I don’t know how they measure these sorts of things or predict them or whatever before hand, but if this does happen, I think it will be a good thing. I expect this film to be a…

This summer at the San Diego Comic-Con Scarlett, Johansson (a.k.a. Black Widow, a.k.a. the sexiest Avenger) said that she and Captain America (Chris Evans) will form “something of an intimate friendship” in next year’s sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

After revealing spy photos showed the two characters lip locking on set, we went back and reviewed 2012’s The Avengers to find any hints of this burgeoning relationship between two war vets. Turns out the characters do shoot a couple of admiring glances at each other, Black Widow during his first tour of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Helicarrier…

Lionsgate today confirmed an earlier rumor that four-time Academy Award® nominee Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights, The Hours, The End of the Affair, Far From Heaven) has joined the cast of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as President Alma Coin, the leader of the rebellion against the Capitol.

I’ve mentioned before that she was at least in the running to play the role of President Coin. While I’m not a huge fan or anything and think that occasionally she’s not such a great actress, I actually can’t think of anyone better for this particular role.…

Yesterday Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara told the suits at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference that Batman will be “tired and weary and seasoned and been doing it for awhile.”

It’s only a nugget of information, but it essentially confirms once more that WB, Snyder and writer David Goyer are taking elements of “The Dark Knight Returns” graphic novel and transposing it on to this modern story. In “The Dark Knight Returns,” which takes place in a future alternate universe (i.e. it’s not what will happen to Batman eventually) Batman comes out…

Fans have spent so much time focusing on what’s going to happen with J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode VII, we’ve all but ignored the 2016 Star Wars film. Not Episode VIII mind you — that’ll likely be in 2017. In 2016, we’ll get a Star Wars spinoff movie, written and produced by either Lawrence Kasdan or Simon Kinberg. Each writer is working on a film that’ll focus on a specific Star Wars character; we’ve known these spin-off movies are meant to be released between episodes of the new trilogy. Possible characters rumored for these films are Yoda, Han Solo or Boba Fett.

If that’s true though,…

Jay Rasulo said keeping costs lower will help with risk management

Walt Disney will be more judicious when it comes to greenlighting the next big-budget film that doesn’t feature a member of the Marvel Comics or Star Wars universe.

Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said the studio had learned a valuable lesson from the failure of “The Lone Ranger.” The Johnny Depp Western cost a reported $215 million to produce and tens of millions more to market, but only netted $243 million worldwide.

“There needs to be a cap on tentpole, non-franchise movies,” Rasulo said at the Bank of America…

There’s no mention of how, or what version of the script this is referring to, so don’t expect everything to be 100% on the mark once the film is released.

Here are the major bullet points revealed:

• There’s a new female lead and foil for Jack Sparrow. She’s suspected of witchcraft, but is actually a scientist.
• Witches are a big part of the movie.
• One of the film’s leads is a ghost, hence the title. He’s a “former member of the British military now sided with Barbossa on a revenge mission.”
• Two new, young, romantic leads – a boy and girl – both from farming families get caught up in…