If there’s one thing Lionsgate/Summit have figured out, it’s how to milk YA franchises for all they’re worth. When it came time to say goodbye to “Twilight,” the studio decided to grab money from the fans twice, by extending “Twilight: Breaking Dawn” into two films.

That is a really unfair assessment. I know I’ve talked about this before, but the Twilight books actually have a decent plot mixed in with all the googly eyes lovey dovey gaggy romance. I have said before that the first three books could be condensed into two, maybe one by cutting out all the awful romancy description of…

To fuel your excitement (and mind), a new 1 minute clip from the upcoming Days of Future Past has been released and it’s full of mutants working together to fight Sentinels.

There’s obviously a lack of context for what’s going on in this clip — it is an out of context clip after all that’s just meant to be a teaser — but it looks solid to me.

Is was the battle of the sequels this weekend. With “Rio 2” arriving as the toughest competition to the behemoth that is “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” the question was whether or not the Marvel hero could off the family friendly newcomer. And it was a close battle, but Steve Rogers emerged victorious.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” landed in number one for the second weekend in a row despite falling 56% from the previous weekend, adding $41 million to its bank account, for an impressive $159 million so far at home that, when added to the bountiful overseas haul, gives the…

Such is the time we live in when franchises are no longer just about sequels or prequels. Spinoffs are the newest goldmine that studios are looking at, hoping to extend branding outward in a never-ending reach of blockbuster moviemaking. “Cars” has begotten “Planes,” Disney is already planning “Star Wars” standalone movies between the saga sequels, Sony is developing movies around the Spider-Man villains and now Fox are toying with the idea of individual X-Men movies. Because of course they are. But they’ve been here before.

In the lead up to “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” Fox was also working…

I litterally just got my How To Train Your Dragon Blu-ray from Netflix in the mail (yeah, yeah, I know, old school), so I’m about to get caught up in time to see this. I should have a little bit better opinion on this franchse after I see the first film.

But in the mean time, catch the second trailer for How To Train Your Dragon 2. I found the tone of the trailer to be just slightly off-putting. The bright and happy music all throughout, even when the evil wicked guy was doing evil wicked things was a little strange.

We’ll see if it’s any good on June 13.

Not actually a lot of new stuff in the theater this weekend, but there’s one possible new film you might want to check out, and one I’m certainly not interested in. You may or may not be.

New This Weekend

Rio 2 — G

I couldn’t imagine why anyone was interested in this film or why it was even being made. And then I actually took the time to watch the first one and now I get it. I liked Rio quite a lot. It was fun, funny, heartfelt, catchy, and generally just a lot of fun. Eisenberg and Hathaway nailed the vocal performances as well. I was duly impressed.

So I’m quite looking forward to…

Alright, so this film is not part of Marvel’s cinematic universe, but I’m looking forward to this next X-Men installment quite as much as I’ve been looking forward to any of Marvel’s films. Primarily because it will be good to have Bryan Singer back at the helm — he made the two best films in the franchise thus far. But also because everything I’ve seen up to this point indicates to me that it’s going to be a great film.

This featurette is short but focuses a bit on Bryan Singer and what’s been the best part of returning to the franchise.

While speaking with Collider, Markus and McFeely revealed that they were invited to work on Cap 3 late last year. Obviously, the project is still in “early days,” but the writers said they’re now in the process of outlining the story.

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McFeely also noted that they’ve read Joss Whedon’s script for Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, which will mark Cap’s next appearance on the big screen. “I’m very pleased with the way Joss handled Cap in [Avengers] 2.”

Lucky dogs.

As for the future of Bucky Barnes, aka The Winter Soldier, the writers said they’re still figuring out how big of a…

Yesterday came the official confirmation from Marvel Studios that they will open Captain America 3 on May 6, 2016, where it will face off against Warner Bros.‘Man of Steel follow-up, Batman vs. Superman. This sort of blockbuster clash of superheroes hasn’t been seen before, and has ultimately divided many portions of the community in support of one side. Many remain skeptical that Batman vs. Superman will actually arrive on that date, as the film was originally scheduled to debut on July 17, 2015, but Warner Bros., much like Marvel, says they’re not backing down.

“It doesn’t make a lot of…