Andy Serkis is going to go from playing CG animals to directing them. The acclaimed mo-cap actor is set to helm Warner Bros.’ live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, based onRudyard Kipling‘s classic tales about an orphan boy raised in the jungle.

Although Serkis has served as a second unit director on Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy,The Jungle Book marks his feature directorial debut.

Dang. Now I just got interested in both of these Jungle Book Films on their way to us. Blast!

So what was the real reason Pixar canceled Newt? Well, the animation company’s president Ed Catmull revealed in a recent article just why director Gary Rydstrom’s long-gestating animated feature never saw the light of day.

As part of a series of conversations with Fast Company to promote his new book Creativity Inc., Catmull said of the failed project, “Newt was another unlikely idea that wasn’t working. When we gave it to somebody new [Pete Docter, director of Up], he said, ‘I’ll do it, but I have another idea altogether, which I think is better.’ And we thought it was better too. That was…

Brian Tyler has officially signed on to score Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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Alan Silvestri scored the first installment in the series. Tyler had been rumored to score the sequel for several months after he was hired for both Marvel features in 2013, Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World. The composer also composed the music for the TV special Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe, which premiered on ABC last night. Avengers: Age of Ultron is currently in production and will be released on May 1, 2015 by Walt Disney Pictures.

Brian Tyler is a fine composer, but it makes me…

IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), today announced an agreement to release several of Disney’s upcoming films in IMAX® theatres under an extension of the companies’ long-running relationship.

Under the agreement, IMAX will be part of Disney’s release strategy for its most highly-anticipated live-action tentpole films, including Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier (April 2014), Maleficent (May 2014), Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy(August 2014), and Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (May…

I’m still concerned about this film from a Biblical perspective as a Christian, but I really like what I’m seeing in this featurette. Sure they’re going to be inserting drama and reading things into the story that may or may not have happened, but what can you expect. And to a certain extent, some of that is fine.

However, I am concerned also on the level that the makers of this film are pretty much all atheists as far as I know. Why should I trust atheists to make a film about a Biblical story? But time will tell. In the meantime, check out this cool featurette about the ark itself.

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is currently in limbo, thanks to Disney CEO Bob Iger. Iger did a conference call on Tuesday and made it rain with news. He mentioned The Incredibles 2, Star Wars Episode VII, and also mentioned that, despite directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg  being attached, the studio has yet to green light the long-in-development fifth film in the mega-blockbuster franchise starring Johnny Depp.

And some people say there is no God.

As we might have mentioned before, our favorite office game is to sort characters into Hogwarts Houses. We are not unique in this of course—a good portion of fandom has Sorting Disease—but we like bringing the party to you, as it were.

And with Muppets Most Wanted coming out, it seemed only natural to get the crew sorted! Join us while we play the music and light the lights!

This is a lot of fun!

As I have discussed before at length, I am simply the wrong audience for this film. And this trailer did not help me get excited about it. But if the last film was your thing, and you’ve been enjoying the trailers up until this point, you’re surely going to love this. For my part, it just feels like they put all the Spider-Man elements from the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films into a bag, shook it up, and pulled a few out for this film.

Eh, whatever. It’s a trailer, and you might want to watch it.

You’ll be able to see the film in theaters on May 2^nd.

I’ve never seen any incarnation of Godzilla, but from what I can tell, they have previously all been cheesy, at the very least in the looks and visual effects department. If this trailer is to be believed that is about to change. I think the technology has advanced sufficiently to let us make a good Godzilla film.

Look forward to this film on May 16.