How do the Brits consume their online video? I have no idea, but esteemed 5by5 host Myke Hurley does, which is why he joins me this week for a discussion about online media from across the pond. We discuss Freeview, BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Vdio and more. Thanks again to Myke for coming on the show; TJ should be back next with with regularly scheduled episodes.

Normally I co-host this show with Alex Arena, but given my crazy week last week I was unable to record episode 12 so Alex enlisted the help of fellow podcaster and media consumer / cable cutter Myke Hurley straight from the U.K. You…

This video tells us almost nothing except that it’s going to be a computer animated extravaganza. Looking at the cast list on IMDb, it looks like Val Kilmer and John Cleese are the two big names that I recognize so there’s that.

John Lasseter is a producer and I love his work so I’m willing to give this thing a chance I suppose. After all, Disney did turn out Wreck-it Ralph which was some very spectactular animated filmmaking, and John Lasseter was behind the scenes on that one too. Still, I’m going to take some convincing that this will be any good.

Planes makes its debut on August 9…

The Challenge

We often see images that are of such good quality we don’t consider whether the picture is reality or if it was computer generated. Click on images to vote.

Man, I have to tell you I only got 50% on this, and I’m in the business. It’s getting really hard to tell. A friend of mine that does 3D for a living only scored 75%. It’s a crazy world we’re living in. Some of those CGs look so real.

And while Nolan has played cagey about it (as he has been with “Man Of Steel,” refusing as usual to reveal too much about the movie he’s producing for Zack Sndyer), Warner Bros. has now dashed fanboy wet dreams. 

“No, no it’s not,” WB president Jeff Robinov told EW when asked if it was true that Nolan would produce “Justice League,” or if Christian Bale would once again wear the cowl.  Nolan’s reps also confirmed he wasn’t involved with “Justice League,” and it’s clear he’s moved on, focused on his sci-fi “Interstellar.” But perhaps the biggest question of all facing Warner Bros. is how…

So there’s a chance that David Zucker doesn’t really want to reboot the Naked Gun franchise. There’s a chance that he looked at his new film Scary Movie 5 – with its opportunistic stunt casting and soul-draining pastiches of trailers he saw halfway through production – realised that it was a pale imitation of his best work and just decided to invoke the name of The Naked Gun to scare up a few headlines.

But invoke it he did. Talking to Hollywood.com this week, Zucker said: “You could do another Naked Gun, with a reboot. Like Star Trek … I think Paramount has an international brand in…

BE WARNED OF SPOILERS. There are SPOILERS for the Man of Steel below.

No Really! You’ve been warned.

This week’s cover story reveals how the new film (out June 14) attempts to humanize the superhuman by finding new flaws and vulnerabilities. The most common one, however, was off the table: “I’ll be honest with you, there’s no Kryptonite in the movie,” says director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) Those glowing green space rocks – Superman’s only crippling weakness – have turned up so often as a plot point in movies, the only fresh option was not to use it. Anyway, if you want to make an…

Coming this summer from director Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) comes a film that looks fairly interesting. I’m not really sure where this is going. Is there really magic going on here, is this a completely fanciful world? It’s sure looking that way from here. But I do love the look of this movie and I like this trailer as well as the previous trailer.

The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Melanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Common, Michael Kelly, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman, and releases on May 31.

Synopsis:

Now You…

Does anyone else have a bad feeling about this film? Maybe it’s just me, and I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it looks like they are making this film simply for the Jonny Depp humor and weirdness factor. And yeah, it will probably be a little bit funny and fun, but I don’t expect there to be a significant amount of plot. Probably just action and funny scenarios for Depp. I hope I’m wrong.

In any event, catch the second TV trailer:

The secrecy surrounding “Man of Steel,” due June 14, is pretty extraordinary, but composer Hans Zimmer was able to give CNN a glimpse of what to expect when we caught up with him this week regarding the score he did for “The Bible.”

Asked if the two projects had anything in common, since both involve a savior figure (Jesus, Kal-el) sent by his father to Earth, Zimmer laughed and said, “Yes. Yes is the answer. Once you see Superman, you’ll see how close you are with your question.”

Interesting. I’m still waiting to see how this is going to work out. How can you watch anything with…