Cosmic Book News is claiming an exclusive that says director Zack Snyder wants British actor Mark Strong to play Luthor. Strong has prior comic book experience having played the villain in KICK-ASS as well as Sinestro in GREEN LANTERN. If Strong does get the part as Luthor, I would expect that to put the final nail in the coffin for Ryan Reynolds to play Hal Jordan in the JUSTICE LEAGUE movie.

Strong would make an excellent Luthor. While I have a childhood connection to Gene Hackman as Luthor, his take on the villain never felt like much of a threat to Superman. Strong is physically more…

Over the past few weeks, Brad Pitt has been cautiously optimistic about a potential sequel to his new zombie film, World War Z. He knows there’s more story to tell and more parts of Max Brooks’ novel to explore, but he was unsure about how the public would embrace the film.

Well, after a $112 million opening weekend ($66 million in the US and $46 million international), which is also the biggest of Pitt’s career, Paramount has decided to move forward on a sequel to World War Z.

Well, you know, I’m hearing good things about this first film and the big opening is surely a huge…

As much as I did not like the film, and by the same token didn’t care for the music as much as I wanted to, I still find this featurette fun and fascinating. It’s definitely an interesting concept to pull a bunch of drummers together with the same idea as putting a string section together to give it a big, full sound. Frankly in listening to the score you don’t really think about it having drums in any traditional sense. Using what amounts to a “drum section” really did work well.

There is a clear winner for this weeks Box Office “scare off” (yeah, I’m not proud of myself for that one but it had to be done). But the other big film release this weekend wasn’t too far behind, but is it enough to propel World War Z to success? We’ll have to wait a couple more weekends to see about that.

#1 - Monsters University

Budget: N/A
Totals: $82 Million Domestic Opening Weekend / $54.5 Foreign Total / $136.5 Million Worldwide Total
Week Number: 1

As expected Monsters University has already brought in quite a haul, and I expect it will still have a pretty good weekend…

Have I mentioned that I’m looking forward to this one a lot?

Obviously returning to the franchise are Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker and John Malkovich. Newcomers are Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, Brian Cox and Neal McDonough.

The first film was a lot of fun and I expect no different from this film. To speed us along in that way of thinking we have here six clips from the upcoming film.

RED 2 comes to theaters on July 19^th.

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR MAN OF STEEL FOLLOW!

To begin at the end; the final confrontation between Superman and General Zod in Man of Steel is a source of considerable controversy. The fight ends when Zod tries to kill innocents and promises to kill everyone if Superman doesn’t stop him, and Superman accepts Zod’s ultimatum by snapping his neck.

Some might look at that scene and ask, “What else could Superman have done?” Others might offer alternative endings to the scene. It’s not a useful conversation. It’s the usual, “Who would win in a fight?” The answer is always that the outcome is…

Following word this week of an official July 3, 2015 release date for 20th Century Fox’s Independence Day 2, director Roland Emmerich has dropped a few hints about what to expect from the much-anticipated sequel.

”Will Smith cannot come back because he’s too expensive,” Emmerich told NY Daily News while promoting his latest, White House Down, “but he’d also be too much of a marquee name. It would be too much.”

I smell a box office bomb in the making… why do they do this? WHY? If you can’t get the band back together, go make something new! Blurgh.

Well, I suppose there is…

Honestly, I don’t know how to style the text anymore. First it used to be jOBS, then it was JOBS, now I’m seeing it as Jobs. Well whatever, despite how messy the marketing is (and the capitols in the text styling), I’m looking forward to seeing this film, and this trailer has only made me want to see it that much more. Regardless of how you feel about Apple and/or Steve Jobs, there is no doubt that he changed the face of computers, smartphones, even electronics in general forever. And in many ways for the better (even I as a hardcore Apple fan would argue that in some smaller ways things…

What are you waiting for! Go watch it! I’ve owned it via iTunes since the first day it was available, but if you’ve been waiting for something like this, then now is your lucky chance! I named the film my favorite from 2012 and I wrote a review of it, and of course Joe and I talked about it on episode 11 of The MovieByte Podcast. For a trip back into the far reaching depths of 2012, check out those resources before (or after) you watch The Avengers on Netflix.

But surely you aren’t still reading this as you’ve already queued up The Avengers on Netflix and sat down to watch with your big…