The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a great article about the Star Wars Episode VII casting news. In the article, “sources with direct information about the project who spoke on condition of anonymity” confirmed a bunch of behind the scenes tidbits we’d long since begun to take as fact. Primary among those is that Harrison Ford‘s Han Solo is considered a “co-lead” of the film, along with “three of the younger actors.” Which of the three? We still don’t know.

EW also confirmed casting is still ongoing, the main cast members have been attached for a while, re-writing Michael Arndt‘s…

I’m not sure what’s up with the first clip using the track Ron’s Victory from the soundtrack of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, but it’s a little bit strange. I guess that’s the problem with being so familar with certain various soundtracks. Other than that though, How to Train Your Dragon 2 looks fantastic and I can’t wait to see it.

Perhaps somewhat infamously to my readership, I have only recently watched How to Train Your Dragon and I thought it was fantastic. So I hope this one is just as good!

Take a peak at these two clips, and watch the featurette to get your appetite…

What is The Amazing Spider-Man 2 about?

It’s about a man gifted with extraordinary powers who, through hard work and perseverance, finally manages to get his girlfriend killed.

This is awesome and you should click through and read every. single. word!

A couple more samples:

Okay… but that’s good, right?

Well, yes and no. Yes because Harry has access to all his father’s crazy secret projects — which, by the way, is literally in a folder titled “Secret Projects” — and no because that neurogenetic disease that his father succumbed to at the age of 50-something decides this is the week to…

After an aggressive lobbying campaign, Roberto Orci has emerged as the clear frontrunner to replace JJ Abrams and direct Paramount‘s third installment of the Star Trek series. I’m hearing they’re in talks. This comes after Orci parted company with longtime partner Alex Kurtzman (though they continue on TV projects). This would amount to another first-time director taking on a massive project, which has been hit (Snow White And The Huntsman) and miss (Transcendence, John Carter, 47 Ronin).

(Yes, I said Star Trek 13, in the headline, because that’s what this is. Mike Flemming Jr. says Star…

In breaking news, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” has been renewed by ABC for a second season to begin in Fall 2014 while “Marvel’s Agent Carter” has been picked up to series to debut on ABC.

Yay! This of course makes me very happy. And I’ll certainly be interested to find out what Agent Carter will be about and if it will be any good.

Fun times in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

I can’t say I’m all that excited for this film. I finally got around to seeing Rise of the Planet of the Apes and it was fine. And I’m sure this one will be fine. But I am having a hard time seeing how I’m going to like this film as much without a couple of the characters that made the previous film what it was. Yes, Ceaser was a big part of that film, but so was Will Rodman. Why isn’t he in this film. It’s kind of annoying. I understand that this is about the “planet of the apes” but I wanted to follow the human characters too. But it looks like Ceaser is the only character that is… Read The Rest

Press screenings for X-Men: Days of Future Past took place this week in preparation for the upcoming junket, and now, the first reactions have emerged via Twitter, as they always do. As you’ll see below, there seems to be unanimous praise for the film, with every single Tweet exclaiming how incredible and amazing it is.

Like I said earlier today, a lot of people are saying good things about this film. Cant wait!

WARNING — SPOILERS for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 follow.

The phrase “woman in refrigerator”, coined by future comic book writer Gail Simone 1999, referred to the tendency of comic books to do harm upon the girlfriends, wives, or female siblings of a male hero for the sole purpose of making the hero feel bad and/or seek vengeance. It was named after an incident in a 1994 Green Lantern comic where Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend was murdered and stuffed in a refrigerator. It soon became the de-facto phrase for the pattern in comic books by which the female supporting character in a male-centric title…

We’re getting close now. Just a couple more weeks and we’ll finally get to see this film that looks like it’s going to be wonderful!

There’s also starting to be some buzz from critics and pre-screenings that it’s as great a film as it looks. And I couldn’t be more excited to see the franchise back in good hands under Bryan Singer.

To keep your hopes up, here’s the clip I promised in the headline.