Last month, MTV caught up with comics veteran Todd McFarlane during the premiere of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and received some details about his plans for a new "Spawn" movie. Comparing the film to everything from "Jaws" to "The Departed," the [...]
Read more‘Twilight’ Star ‘Cam Gigandet’ Playing A Half Vampire in ‘Priest’
Cam Gigandet will star opposite Paul Bettany in "Priest," a horror Western that Scott Stewart is directing for Screen Gems. Adapted by Cory Goodman from a TokyoPop comic book, "Priest" is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between [...]
Read more“Bite My Shiny Metal Ass” – ‘Futurama’ is Finally Coming Back!
In another case of an animated primetime series resurrected from the dead, 20th Century Fox TV plans to produce 26 new episodes of "Futurama." Comedy Central will begin airing the new episodes in mid-2010. Voice actors Billy West (who played Philip [...]
Read moreRobert Rodriguez..Stop This Crazy Thing!
Robert Rodriguez is prepping a pair of movies. First up is Nerverackers, now in pre-production and then, confirmed to MTV as his next project, is the long brewing live-action adaptation of The Jetsons. Robert Rodriguez has a lot on his plate these [...]
Read more‘Loki’ Not Just In the ‘Thor’ Movie?
Samuel L. Jackson may not be the only actor signing a long-term deal to appear in multiple Marvel Studios films. With actor crossovers already occurring between "Iron Man" and "Hulk" cast members, and Jackson's character Nick Fury set to show [...]
Read moreAnother Marvel Movie for 2012, Two Sides of Black Widow and Bucky In Capt. America
FirstShowing attended the Producers Guild of America's panel on Producing Marvel Movies where Marvel Entertainment producer Kevin Feige revealed a couple interesting bits about upcoming film projects: It's a "safe bet" that Steve Roger's sidekick Bucky is going to show up [...]
Read moreSpidey 4: Dunst Back and No Morbius
After Spider-Man director Sam Raimi said last month that he was unsure of Kirsten Dunst's plans to return to the franchise as the meek Mary Jane, producer Todd Black has untangled the web of rumors surrounding the film's fourth installment. When [...]
Read more‘As Seen On The Intertubes’ Volume II
The Coolest House in the Neighborhood (And Maybe the Galaxy) leads this weeks featured fun stuff, followed by Han Solo P.I., Star Wars: Good Old Boys and for the Grand Finale, an absolutely kick ass, geeky photo set we stumbled [...]
Read moreCameron Forges Into ‘Heavy Metal’
Cool News on the New ‘Heavy Metal' Animated Movie! While we already knew that David Fincher, Zack Snyder, and Gore Verbinski were involved with Heavy Metal, we have to say we were a bit shocked to hear James Cameron's name thrown [...]
Read more‘Avatar’ Heavy Equipment On Display At E3′ 2009
Straight from the floor of the E3 convention currently going on in Los Angeles we have pictures of one of those Powersuits also called "heavy equipment' from James Cameron's ‘Avatar'. Last week a photo was leaked out of the bottom [...]
Read moreThe Robot Chicken Crossed The Road To Remake ‘Short Circuit’
Hey, I have an idea! Let's not make ANY original movies any more... I mean we have how many decades worth of films now?, let's just remake EVERYTHING! (End sarcastic rant). Dimension Films has tapped to script "Short Circuit," the [...]
Read moreMichael Bay: Making Movies, Enemies and Money
At the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the sun can burn your skin in a quarter of an hour. The film crew of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, who have turned this unearthly landscape into a partially destroyed [...]
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