KICK ASS 2 (Poster + Trailer)

• KICK ASS 2

A new character poster for KICK-ASS 2 has been released and it's features none other than Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes! You can also check out a new trailer for the film below:

Written and directed by Jeff Wadlow, the August 16 release stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Morris Chestnut, John Leguizamo, Donald Faison and Jim Carrey.

After Kick-Ass' (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)—reborn as The Mother F%&*^r—only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) can prevent their annihilation.

THE WOLVERINE (Trailer)

• THE WOLVERINE

Throughout the week, we have been getting all sorts of teasers for the upcoming Wolverine film. Now Twentieth Century Fox has finally released the full domestic and international trailers for director James Mangold's The Wolverine.

Check out the trailers below:

Im really looking forward to this film, it has a certain aurora that screams of a hint of an anime influence. Hopefully if this film turns out to be good and very successful at the boc office, maybe some Hollywood exec would try an emulate the Wolverine’s success with some anime property.  We need more anime to live film adaptions!

Anyway The Wolverine, Based on the celebrated comic book arc, the July 26 release takes Wolverine (Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world, he will face a host of unexpected and deadly opponents in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality.

Starring Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima and Brian Tee.

PLACES BEYOND THE PINE (Images)

• PLACES BEYOND THE PINE

Ryan Gosling always seems to get his hands on great roles, which is why im really excited to see this film!

Focus Features has released a new poster and images for Derek Cianfrance‘s The Place Beyond the Pines.  The film centers on a generational conflict involving two fathers: one a pro-motorcycle rider and bank robber (Ryan Gosling) and a rookie cop on the rise (Bradley Cooper).

The film also stars Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Ben Mendelsohn, Rose Byrne, Emory Cohen, and Dane DeHaan. 

THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG (Lilly Pics)

• THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is the second part of The Hobbit’s tale. In a recent online Q&A Jackson revealed images of Evangeline Lilly as the Elf Tauriel, a new character.

This character was created just for the movie by Jackson and his co-writers Guillermo del Toro, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens and is not based on any of J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. We don’t know much about the character expect for the fact that Tauriel is related to Legolas.

Jackson was quoted as saying:

“We’re quite excited about the storyline we have created for Tauriel. As you can see, she’s not an Elf Guard to be messed with.”

In a previous interview with Lilly she discussed the character saying,

“Yeah! I am very concerned to this day that people will watch the film and I’ll be the black mark on the film. I know how adamant the purists are and I’m one of them! That said, upon reading The Hobbit again, as an adult, I can see why additional characters were needed to round out the story as an adaptation – especially female characters! The Hobbit didn’t include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really. What Peter, Fran (Walsh) and Philippa (Boyens) have done is all in perfect keeping with Tolkien’s world, while adding a third dimension to an otherwise very two-dimensional story.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens up in theaters on December 13th, 2013.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (Cast News)

• CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

The guys over at Latino Review are reporting that Georges St-Pierre, a Canadian mixed martial artist and UFC Welterweight Champion, has been cast in the role of Batroc the Leaper in Captain America: The Winter Sold

Georges St-Pierre as Batroc the Leaper

ier.  He will ne joining an ensemble cast which includes, Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Frank Grillo and potentially Robert Redford who is in talks to join the cast as well. 

Here’s a little info about the character that GSP will be playing:

“Batroc has no superhuman powers, but he is one of the most formidable unarmed combatants in the world. He has mastered numerous martial arts and is perhaps the world’s leading master of savate, the French art of foot-fighting. He is an accomplished thief and smuggler with extensive military training. He currently carries a pair of whip-canes, which he uses with great skill.”

Batroc posses’ immense leg strength that allows him to leap great distances (hence the name) and is also an Olympic weightlifter.

Production on Captain America: The Winter Soldier is poised to get underway in May in anticipation of the film’s April 4, 2014 release date.