Since making the first Die Hard in the ’80s, Bruce Willis has built himself a fine career as an action star. While he occasionally forays into other types of roles from time to time (like in last year’s Moonrise Kingdom), there’s no question that he’s best known for his ass-kicking turns. Heck, this year saw him appearing in three different action sequels — A Good Day to Die Hard, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and Red 2.

But Willis claims he’s now growing weary of the same-old same-old. In a recent interview, he declared that he was “a bit bored” of action movies these days. Though to be clear, he…

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TJ is joined by by Mike Fissel to discuss the latest trailers, including ‘Thor: The Dark World’ U.K. trailer, ‘The Mortal Instruments’ Five Minute Clip, ‘Her’ Staring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, ‘Captain Phillips’ Trailer 2, ‘The Counselor’, The Hollow Crown’, ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ International Trailer, and ‘How I Live Now’. This week a few items of interest include a comparison of the ‘Back to the Future’ actors age make-up, and what they actually look like now 30 years later, whether Mark Strong or Bryan Cranston should play Lex Luthor (or maybe someone else altogether), ‘Now You See Me’ is getting a sequel, Was Christian Bale offered $50 Million to play Batman again?, a rumor that Ian McDiarmid will be reprising his role as Palpatine in Episode VII, Natalie Portman has a *possible* ‘Thor’ spoiler, and do ‘Trek’ fans hate ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’? And the main review this week is ‘Elysium’ which TJ didn’t like and desperately wanted to be better. Fizz liked it better but he also had his complaints about it.

In a new interview, Mark Wahlberg says he’d like to take over the Iron Man franchise from Robert Downey Jr. He’s mostly kidding. The line is delivered in a semi-joking tone and he goes on to say he’s never really been asked to play a superhero. He prefers to play someone real and relatable.

No. Just, no.

The Wolverine screenwriter Mark Bomback has revealed that an early draft of the film’s screenplay featured X-Men team member Rogue.

The scribe said that he wanted to include the mutant - played by Anna Paquin in the original X-Men trilogy - in the story, but scrapped the idea when her involvement became problematic.

“I was trying to do something with Rogue in the script. I even had a set of ideas that the old man [Yashida] possessed a version of Rogue’s power and that was going to be indicated by a white stripe in his hair,” he told CreativeScreenwriting.com.

“Eventually it became very…

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According to Faraci, “Star Trek Into Darkness was met with boos when it was mentioned, and one guy took the mic to say these reboots shouldn’t even be considered for a list of Star Trek movies.” Into Darkness was met with hardcore fan apathy when released in May—although both fans and mainstream audiences seemed to enjoy it —but that it’s unpopular to the point of booing (or being named the least popular movie in the series, for that matter) may be something that Paramount and executive producers/writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman might want to take into account before planning the third…

Stephenie Meyer believes her step into the sci-fi world in The Host was crushed by critics eager to stomp on the film after Twilight.

The Host took in a disappointing $26 million total after opening in March and scored a 35 out of 100 from combined critic scores on Metacritic.com.

That may be true, but I’m not sure that completely explains the lack-luster reception to the film by the general audience, who really don’t give a care about what critics say, as is evidenced by the often seen disparity of the audience and critics sides of the Tomatometer.

But since the first vampire love…

The actress, who returns as Jane Foster in the upcoming Marvel sequel Thor: The Dark World, gave a strong hint about the series’ future.

Asked about co-star Anthony Hopkins’s comments that he wants Thor to continue, Portman told E! Online: “Yeah, well I think they are going to make a Thor 3, so I think Anthony will be pleased.

The emphasis on the word “they” is mine but I think it’s indicative of where they may have taken the character of Jane Foster for Thor 2. But if that is so, I still say they have been way to open with it in the trailers. I still think there may be more there than…