Christopher McQuarrie is currently at work directing Mission: Impossible 5, with Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, and Simon Pegg all returning to the cast. We know there will be some new additions to the cast, including Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, and Sean Harris as the bad guy. The director has given fans a first Mission: Impossible 5 cast photo, and it highlights just that returning crew, however.

McQuarrie tweeted the image:

The team is back. @Renner4Real @TomCruise @simonpegg #VingRhames #MI5Diary pic.twitter.com/ai3J6dYMaC

— ChristopherMcQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie)

THE WHAT?:  It’s a column on Star Wars news and rumors and therefore contains SPOILERS and SPECULATION. This time, more spoilers than speculation.

THIS WEEK: APPLE WATCH AIN’T GOT NOTHING ON ME. Exclusive photos of the badassest X-Wing to get the movie treatment, plus some details about X-Wings in Episode VII.

Yeah, so, obvious spoilers ahead.

And now for the main event! NEWS! (Or Rumors, depending on your personal categorization and general mistrust of a guy who acts the way I do).

We live in an age where airplane pilots and drones are getting our set photos for us,…

“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” —the second entry into the Andrew Garfield-starring reboot of the early 2000s franchise— didn’t swing to great heights this summer. Reviews were generally lukewarm and box office returns were far lower than what Sony brass had hoped for. The film opened with $91.6M and managed to cobble together close to $203M domestic (of a $708M global total), which might not seem so bad until you put it in perspective. Of recent superhero films, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” clocks in at 25th lifetime domestic gross —and that includes the 1989Michael Keaton “Batman” at 17th. That…

Wrestling news site PW Mania reports that Bautista (a pro wrestler, in case you’ve forgotten) is currently “restructuring” his deal with Marvel Studios following the runaway success of Guardians of the Galaxy. The updated contract includes an appearance in 2017′s Guardians of the Galaxy 2, naturally, but also a “significant” part in The Avengers 3.

Although this summer’s Guardians of the Galaxy had virtually no crossover with any of the other MCU films, fans have long assumed that the Guardians and the Avengers would meet at some point down the line. Director James Gunn has even confirmed…

For Jon Stewart, last night’s screening of his directorial debut, Rosewater, was a glorious homecoming of sorts. After all, he filmed Death to Smoochy in Toronto. But last night’s standing-room-only showing at the Toronto Film Festival was a true celebration, and before the screening, Stewart joked that Canada’s earnest warm reception felt like sarcasm to a cynical New Yorker like himself. Afterwards, the audience responded with a standing ovation, as much for the real Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was imprisoned and accused of being a spy by Iranian authorities, as the cast and…

I feel the need, the need to open my copy of Final Draft: a potential sequel to “Top Gun” has been gestating for awhile, with the project officially going into development a few years ago, with Peter Craig (“The Town”) penning a script, and original director Tony Scott and star Tom Cruise said to be returning. But the project ground to a halt two years ago when Scott passed away, and little’s been heard since.

But it looks like something’s happening: The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimerhave hired a new writer for the project, one Justin Marks. The scribe…

The studio’s only billion-dollar grossers to date have both featured megastar Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark—“The Avengers” and “Iron Man 3”—and given how well both have done (and, unless the film is made up entirely of Thor throwing kittens into a combine harvester, next year’s “Avengers: Age Of Ultron” is likely to be even bigger), you would think that Marvel would be prioritizing another ‘Iron Man’ movie.

But not so much, according to the film’s star. In Toronto for the premiere of his new film “The Judge,” Downey Jr. told Variety, when asked about a possible fourth solo movie for…

There are exactly 298 days until Terminator: Genisys. That means you have 298 days to accept the fact that it’s spelled Genisys. 

The first film in Paramount’s rebooted franchise will get a July 1, 2015, release, with the final two films hitting theaters beginning in the summer of 2017, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The second film will be released on May 19, 2017, with the final film hitting theaters on June 29, 2018.

Oh yay, I’m so excited. See this face, this is my, “I’m so excited face”.

Labor Day weekend tends to be slow at the box office, and accordingly, no new film managed to break through to the top of the list of biggest earning films this weekend. Mostly everyone is doing something other than going to the movies, but those that did go to the theatre chose one of the biggest movies of the year.

Disney and Marvel closed off the summer on a high note, with “Guardians Of The Galaxy” returning to number one and earning the title of highest grossing film of 2014 domestically. The superhero flick took $17 million at home, and continues to make serious coin, with the…