At this point it’s no secret that Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) will be making an appearance in this summer’s Hugh Jackman reboot “The Wolverine.” What remains less clear is what role, exactly, the seemingly-deceased mutant will be playing in the story.

Director James Mangold sort of answers that question in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly (via the Playlist), in which he tells the magazine that Grey will be a “shadow presence” who “pops up to mock, comfort and advise Logan much as Number 6 tortured Gaius Baltar on ‘Battlestar Galactica.’”

Yeah, I already figured as much. Whether…

The company has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by a man who claims that he came up with numerous elements of the hugely successful “Pirates” film series, including characters, supernatural elements, storylines, plots, themes, sequence structures and screenplay elements, according to court documents obtained by TheWrap.

In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Florida on Tuesday, Florida resident Royce Mathew claims that Disney infringed on a story that Mathew had written, and fraudulently procured a settlement from him when a previous lawsuit was filed.

In addition…

We’re not far away now, but the studio and producers keep dropping little bits of new scenes from the film. I wonder how much of the film we could cut together from everything that’s been released so far?

Well in any event, you’re going to want to have a look at this if you looking forward to this film as I am. Lots of goodies here, as usually lots of glimpses at the film footage that we have already seen, and some that we have not.

The chase for more info about a film before it’s release, and yet trying to keep from being spoiled by the big reveals is always lots of fun!

“I am Iron Man”

“So Is Jarvis”

Man this is SOOO good. I loved Iron Man 3, but it was definitely full of annoying logical inconsistencies, which the guys behind HISHE thrive on. And I love how Batman and Superman are always showing up in these now.

Of course, I imagine it wouldn’t matter what film it was, if it was the 5th most successful movie of all time, as Iron Man 3 now is, people would be making fun of it. Some people have a problem with videos like this but I love them. I have more of a problem with the Cinema Sins videos, but these HISHE videos have always been great thus…

The directors of the Oscar-nominated Kon-Tiki are directing the next Pirates of the Caribbean film. Norwegian directing team Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg will soon sign to helm Pirates of the Caribbean 5, starring Johnny Depp, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Jeff Nathanson.

Sigh. Well, I guess we’re going to do this. I guess this is really happening. I guess the pencil pushers think they can squeeze a few jillion more dollars out of Johnny Depp.

Franchise fatigue anyone?

Yeah, I know I never published the first trailer. I actually thought I did, but I searched through the archives and couldn’t find it.

This is following up on the first film installment based on the book series. Though I am not particularly negative about the film(s) or anything, it failed to sufficiently capture my interest such that I would bother to see the film. And at the time the first film came out, I did not have a movie website or a big enough movie going budget, so I therefore did not see the first film. I probably need to play a little bit of catch up so I’ll be ready to see…

Saschka Unseld, the writer and director of Pixar Animation Studio’s latest short, The Blue Umbrella, was walking down a rainy San Francisco street when he found a broken umbrella on the side of the road. “I stopped because it looked like such a sad thing, and rain was pouring on it,” he recalled. “I was feeling sad for an umbrella; I think that stuck with me.”

This random moment inspired a short that follows an emotive umbrella, which makes its theatrical debut on June 21, preceding Pixar’s Monsters University. “Rain is a magical place,” the director said. “I wanted the soul of the film…

It won’t be long now before we get to see Superman back in action on the big screen in Zack Snyder’s and Christopher Nolan’s grand super-hero vision. In fact we’re only two weeks away from the June 14 premiere. And of course the promotional campaign is working overtime now. I have several TV spots to share with you, and the fun thing is that each of them have something new to offer that we have not seen yet. Obviously it’s mixed in and around things we have already seen before.

So, will Superman defeat General Zod? Will he save the world? Well I mean, come on, you never know, they may mix…

Alright, one more thing for The Wolverine today:

On November 1st 2012, I visited the set of The Wolverine in Sydney, Australia. To give you an idea of the timeline of my visit, Hurricane Sandy had just wreaked havoc in New York, and I woke up early one morning from the constant noises coming from my computer because I was getting so many notices of the breaking news that Disney had purchased LucasFilm and was making more Star Wars movies.

It is five in the morning and I’m standing in a street lined with Japanese houses covered with snow. The elaborate set was  built in a huge parking…