As everyone surmised, The Avengers 2 will now officially open May 1, 2015. Written and directed by Joss Whedon, the film will likely return the current members of the team (Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner) and incorporate characters and storylines from Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and maybe even Ant-Man. Mark it on your calendars, it’s gonna be massive. Read the official statement, with a title tease, after the jump.

It’s going to be a long three years…

Plutarch is new Head Gamemaker at the Capitol, replacing the seemingly executed Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley) from The Hunger Games. A far savvier political animal than his predecessor, Plutarch is charged with overseeing the 75th annual Hunger Games, also called the Quarter Quell. As the name suggests, the event occurs every 25 years, tweaking the rules of the Hunger Games in a new, significantly brutal way. For the first Quarter Quell, citizens in each district voted on who would compete in that year’s Hunger Games. For the second Quarter Quell, each district provided four tributes to the…

It’s the kind of revelation that would melt the face of any die-hard Indiana Jones fan (this time, with joy): “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the 1981 adventure film that introduced that globe-trotting archaeologist, will receive a one-week Imax release next month, Lucasfilm said on Tuesday.

Prepare to be shocked and horrified… I’ve never been a big fan of the Indiana Jones trilogy. It’s a shocking revelation, I know, but it just never worked for me. However, this is kind of a big deal. And I particularly love this (emphasis mine):

Mr. Spielberg, who with the sound designer Ben Burtt…

Even before Snow White and the Huntsman opened, the studio was lining up plans for a sequel. And as of today, that follow-up is still moving forward — only it’s being reconfigured to focus on Chris Hemsworth’s Huntsman, cutting Kristen Stewart’s Snow White out completely.

Look, I know there’s a lot of people who don’t like Stewart (I’m not one but I get it), and I know all about the scandle of her cheating on Pattinson with the director, but this just seems like a disaster in the making right here. This seems like a far worse problem than doing Bourne without Bourne. Snow White without…

The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s long-awaited return to the director’s chair, has released a brand new poster featuring a recurring image of the film’s three leads, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.

Whereas the first poster took the form of a chilled wine bottle, this new sheet employs a kind of kaleidoscope design. If that original image alluded to Phoenix’s character’s alcohol problems, perhaps this new one is a reflection of his fragmented state of mind?

Set in the ’50s, the film will focus upon Phoenix’s heavy-drinking drifter, a former military man with a…

As such, “The Bourne Legacy” opened just over $40m, easily taking the crown away from “The Dark Knight Rises.” and besting alternative newcomer “The Campaign” as well. Still, “The Bourne Legacy” couldn’t match 2007′s “Bourne Ultimatum,” though it did open at a higher dollar amount than “The Bourne Identity” which means the reboot transplant operation has worked, and we’re a go for sequels. Could a second or third film feature a Damon / Renner mash-up? If Universal has the budget and a decent screenplay, I’m sure the gents would at least take the meeting.

I wonder how well it will do…

The emotional stakes have been muted, the romance feels half-hearted and the thematic relevance of the original trilogy has been lowered from a righteous drive to a dull roar. Talented actors like Oscar Isaac, Corey Stoll and the returning Joan Allen and David Strathairn go to waste, and the main plot to take out every assassin seems handily undone when it’s time to introduce an antagonist (Louis Ozawa Changchien), whose capacity for empathy has been dialed down as the rest of his skills have been amped up.

I agree with almost everything in this review. The one thing I disagree with is,…

Keira Knightley is in early negotiations to star opposite Chris Pine in Paramount’s franchise hopeful Jack Ryan, sources close to the film tell The Hollywood Reporter.

I’m not sure why since I don’t have a lot of information about his film, but I am excited and hopeful. Perhaps it is because I love all the other films in this franchise. Though I hate that they are scattered about with different actors and philosophies. Perhaps this will be a grand unification and the start of a sucessful.

Mel Stuart, the director of the beloved childhood classic Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, died in Los Angeles on Thursday of cancer. He was 83.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is one of my favoriate childhood films and it’s sad to hear of the director of such a classic movie passing on.