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Really enjoyed Red2. Thought the characters really grew and it was a lot of fun. Three-quel please?
 
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Review: 'R.I.P.D.' Starring Ryan Reynolds & Jeff Bridges | The Playlist

“R.I.P.D.” is directed by Robert Schwentke, the vision-less helmer who previously banked on familiar stars to make hits out of the dimwitted “Flightplan” and moribund actioner “Red.” His approach here is alternately breathless and low-energy, over-edited to use action to obscure the fact that these are sequences we’ve seen before. Through a number of chase scenes (none of these characters seem like very good cops, alive or dead), deados seem to have fluctuating power abilities, but they can often fling from rooftop to rooftop with ease. The 3D seems like it would benefit from this, but instead, it’s used for scatological effect, most prominently in scenes where characters drop food and vomit onto the screen, right into your 3D eyeline. It’s an appropriate metaphor. [F]
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Hearing almost nothing but bad things about this. Currently sitting at 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch.
 
David Goyer Says MAN OF STEEL Sequel Could Be Titled SUPERMAN VS. BATMAN or BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN | Collider
Superman/Batman Movie Easter Eggs Have Appeared in Warner Bros. Properties for Years | Collider

I know the news apparently leaked earlier in the day, but since I was in line @ 2:30 am I missed it. The awkward announcement by Snyder capped by the reading of the infamous 'I want you to remember my hands around your throat...' followed by the logo reveal...well, not gonna lie ladies and gents,

 
Review: ‘The Wolverine’ Starring Hugh Jackman

Ultimately, “The Wolverine" wants to have it both ways: a dark character story and an action-packed superhero film. But it never reconciles the two notes, and thus becomes more and more atonal as it wobbles towards its symphonically jarring ending (don’t even get us started on Viper). Suffused with elements fit to explore dark, gritty, emotional texture, full of intriguing ideas and weighty motifs, the strained movie can never quite capitalize on its substantive, existential themes and is ultimately a maddeningly frustrating effort that is undone at almost every turn. “The Wolverine” ultimately sells itself out with its impossibly stupid conclusion that even betrays the honorable emotional catalyst for the film in the first place simply because the film needs a villain cherry on top of everything else. Perhaps there’s a good movie within “The Wolverine” (maybe McQuarrie's draft?), but eventually, its exasperating disloyalty to itself may leave you in a Logan-like berserker fury of disappointment. [C-]
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Wes Bentley Joins INTERSTELLAR; SECRET SERVICE Eyes Michael Caine, Emma Watson, and Taron Egerton | Collider

Hit the jump for plenty of casting news for X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn’s next film The Secret Service, including which actresses are being eyed for the female lead and which A-listers have already passed on the villain role.

the-secret-service-comic-book-coverAdditionally, there’s quite a bit of casting news concerning Matthew Vaughn’s graphic novel adaptation The Secret Service to get to. The story is about a veteran secret agent who takes his ruffian nephew from the streets of London and into a British spy school that molds its students into suave 007-types. Colin Firth is already onboard as the older lead, and after an exhaustive search, Vaughn has settled on newcomer Taron Egerton for the younger lead. Egerton has only one credit to date, a TV appearance on Inspector Lewis, but apparently Vaughn was rather impressed with his screen test.

The filmmaker now turns his attention to casting the female lead, and Variety adds that Vaughn has been showing interest in Emma Watson and Bella Heathcote (Dark Shadows), though it doesn’t sound like any formal negotiations have taken place. Vaughn also wants to land a high-profile star for the film’s villain, and has already extended offers to Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio. Both actors subsequently passed, but it definitely looks like Vaughn is aiming high.

Finally, comics creator Mark Millar claims (via /Film) that Michael Caine is set to play the head of the spy organization in The Secret Service, but he also said that “all the cast is done,” which is clearly not true. As such, don’t hold your breath for Caine to appear just yet. The actor might also run into a scheduling conflict, as Interstellar begins production soon and The Secret Service starts filming in September ahead of a November 14, 2014 release date.
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