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Despite my jovial manner, I'm not a kid, nor did I attend the screening of MegaMind with one. While you would've thought I would be out of place and looking a little creepy, the movie surprisingly made me feel right at home, making me realize I was seeing an adult movie cleverly disguised, much like one of MegaMinds disguises, as a child's movie.

The movie takes many very familiar elements from movies like Superman and adds in a lot of pop culture elements, the voices of Will Farrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and David Cross and creates a fun story, albeit a slightly complicated one for the younger audience.

The idea is that Farrell's MegaMind and Pitt's MetroMan are sent to earth from a dieing world into separate places. Megamind lands in a jail and takes the part of villain to MetroMan's hero. Once MetroMan is gone, in a slightly disturbing death scene, Megamind realizes he no longer has a challenge, so he creates a new hero, from a lonely camera guy, played by Jonah Hill, only to realize his creation is a terrible villain. Now, the once great super villain must put on the cape and be a hero, with the help of a journalist and love interest, voiced by Tina Fey.

I saw the movie in 3-D and was blown away by how good it looked. Sure, there were some gimmicky shots like spiders and popcorn being dangled in front of the audience, but the movie did a really good job of keeping the effects subtle and beautiful. The little things like the hair on MetroMan's head, or the water surrounding MetroCity, or the building landscapes all looked crisp and clear and stood out with the 3-D glasses.

The soundtrack was the best part, however, with an extremely lively selection of songs by the likes of AC/DC and Michael Jackson to name a few. The songs really added to the story, and every time MegaMind made a flashy entrance, the music only added to the enjoyment.

The characters were extremely cliched, but it was part of the slightly different take on the genre the movie used. In the movie, we weren't cheering for the perfect, Superman-esque hero, or the lonley, pathetic dork-turned Superman, we were cheering for the evil super-genuise who only wanted to win one battle, and be the one to get the girl. The eventual role reversals were really interesting and quite different as we see the villain reluctantly be forced into the role of hero.

While I truly enjoyed the movie, I was left wondering if some of the more complex plot points were wasted on my tiny friends watching the movie with me. While I couldn't seem to tell if they got it, I can say the audience was completely silent for the entire hour and a half of the movie, which probably says something right there. Megamind is a very entertaining movie for the whole family, and one you shouldn't feel uncomfortable going to, no matter your age.

JJ Abrams' Super 8 - Official Release Date Confirmed as June 10th, 2011

Including the title being revealed here are some more details surfacing across the internet about the Batman 3 sequel by Christopher Nolan.

1) No 3D, but yes HD and IMAX
2) No return of Harvey Dent and Riddler is not the villain
3) From Nolan: "We'll use many of the same characters as we have all along, and we'll be introducing some new ones"
4) Apparently Hugo Strange and Catwoman move to the top of the list
5) Also as expected there are reports that The Joker will NOT return

There you go. What do you all think? Like the direction so far? I was hoping we would get to see the Riddler.

Today we got an official confirmation that James Cameron was signed on as director for Avatar 2 and 3. Apparently Cameron agreed to direct both films after FOX made a big donation to an environmental fund.

More at Greenwala and here is a little synopsis of what to expect:

"In the second and third films, which will be self contained stories that also fulfill a greater story arc, we will not back off the throttle of AVATAR's visual and emotional horsepower, and will continue to explore its themes and characters, which touched the hearts of audiences in all cultures around the world," said Cameron in a statement. "I'm looking forward to returning to Pandora, a world where our imaginations can run wild."

USA Today is reporting that Danny DeVito will be the voice of the Lorax in the new 3D animated movie called The Lorax based on the Dr. Seuss book.

The Lorax is the character that defends the trees from Once-ler a businessman who uses the trees to make everything.

Thanks to our friends at FirstShowing for the description of the characters and book:

The Lorax is a remorseful and saddened narrator speaks of the industrial, entrepreneurial endeavors of the Once-ler, who uses the tufts of the Truffula Trees to make the versatile product Thneeds (a thing everyone needs). But in his efforts to mass-market his best-selling product, the businessman begins to destroy the world around him, exhausting all the natural resources and polluting the environment. Suddenly, The Lorax speaks for the trees in an attempt to make him stop production and the destruction of the land and its animals. However, his efforts are ignored, thus ruining the once beautiful landscape and leaving the Once-ler with regret.

Source: Greenwala

Liam Neeson has stepped in to replace Mel Gibson in Warner Bros.' "The Hangover Part II," following a revolt by the cast and crew against Gibson's involvement in the movie.

Neeson says he was invited to take the cameo role via his "A-Team" co-star Bradley Cooper, who stars in "The Hangover Part II" along with Zack Galifianakis.

"I just got a call to do a one day shoot on 'Hangover 2' as a tattooist in Thailand, and that's all I know about it," Neeson told Daily Variety. "I just laughed my leg off when I saw 'The Hangover, I was shooting in Berlin earlier this year and rented it on the hotel TV."

Neeson flew out to the set Thursday from his home in New York.

In a statement released Thursday, director Todd Phillips said, "I thought Mel would have been great in the movie and I had the full backing of Jeff Robinov and his team. But I realize filmmaking is a collaborative effort, and this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew."

The studio has scheduled "The Hangover 2" for release on May 26.

Source: Variety

Tony Scott confirmed this weekend that he will direct Top Gun 2 and here are his first thoughts for the sequel:

"This world fascinated me, because it's so different from what it was originally," Scott says. "But, I don't want to do a remake. I don't want to do a reinvention. I want to do a new movie."

Source: HitFix

Just one day after his fiftieth birthday reports are surfacing that Belgian action hero Jean Claude Van Damme has had a heart attack on the set of his latest film, Weapon.

The film moved from its Romanian production base last week to do three days of shooting in New Orleans, where production was stalled due to unexplained 'complications'. And word has now gotten out that those complications involved Van Damme having what appears to be a minor heart attack before shooting any of his scenes. He was admitted to hospital in New Orleans briefly before being released and returning to Belgium. His wife and mother of two of his children, Gladys Portugues, joined him in New Orleans following the event and it now appears that he will make a full recovery.

Source: TwitchFilm

Mel Gibson is taking a stab at saving his movie career with a comedy role as a tattoo artist in "The Hangover 2."

The troubled star, who was dropped by the William Morris Endeavor agency in July and has also faced allegations that he assaulted and made threats against his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, has signed to play a Bangkok tattooist in the highly anticipated comedy.

A source told Page Six, "It's a done deal. Mel will make a cameo as a tattoo artist. Filming is taking place on the Warner Bros. lot, where a Bangkok set has been built, and Mel is expected to film his role in two weeks. Then the production moves to Thailand at the end of October."

Source: NY Post

Tron: Legacy - Official Theatrical Promo Poster

Interesting timing for the studio to release this specific promotional picture for the movie featuring the recently separated couple Courteney Cox and David Arquette.

Oh yeah by the way Neve Campbell is also in the background.

Recalling the happenings on ABC's "Lost" from creator J.J. Abrams, it's not entirely surprising that a film titled Infinitely Polar Bear has fallen in his lap. However, it's a bit surprising that the story of this new producing gig for Abrams doesn't have some mystery behind it. Instead, Pajiba reports the film is a drama about a bipolar man who attempts to hold onto his stability in order to take care of his two daughters while their mother does her best to start a career.

Source: First Showing

Source: First Showing

Thanks to our friends at Collider for confirming the news tha Disney has confirmed that the first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will be ahead of Tron: Legacy this Winter.

Source: SlashFilm

Though we'd heard over the summer that Joseph Gordon-Levitt had been listed on a studio casting grid for the role of The Riddler in the next Batman film from Christopher Nolan (which he's finally confirmed to be directing), it seems another Inception star might step into the role. Deadline reports Nolan has set Tom Hardy (Bronson) for a lead role in the next installment of the Batman franchise at Warner Bros. However, as with everything surrounding Nolan's projects, Hardy's role is being kept secret and sources won't even confirm whether or not it's a villain role.

Source: First Showing

LOST and Oscar winning composer and one of my favorites, Michael Giacchino has just landed a deal to compose Cars 2, Super 8 and Mission Impossible 4.

I am super geeked for Giacchino and can't wait to hear his work in all 3 movies!

Our friends at SlashFilm are also confirming that Giacchino's sounds will also be heard in John Carter of Mars, Monte Carlo, I'm With Cancer and the new Star Tours attraction at Disneyland.

Some people don't seem to be all that thrilled about the prospect of Men in Black 3D, but the impressive cast should give them a run for their money. Aside from Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reprising their roles, Jemaine Clement, Josh Brolin and Emma Thompson are all jumping on board the sequel. Now Pajiba has word that Alec Baldwin, Sharlto Copley (District 9, The A-Team) and Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia) are joining the cast as well. So far we know the story deals with Agent Jay (Smith) time traveling to the year 1969, but we're not exactly sure why. Details on new cast member's characters are below.

Arterton will be playing a secretary at MiB headquarters in 1969 while Baldwin will be playing the boss at the time. I'm wondering if Baldwin will be playing a younger version of Rip Torn's character Zed, but since Emma Thompson is playing the new head of MiB, I'm not sure his character or Torn himself will appear in the film at all. Meanwhile, Copley will be playing "a fast-talking Yoda type alien," which should be all sorts of fun. It would be really cool if one of the prawns from District 9 made a cameo at MiB headquarters, but that's probably just a flight of fancy on my part. in addition, Pajiba also points out the recording artist Nicole Sherzinger (the front-woman for the Pussycat Dolls) has been offered a role as Clement's character's girlfriend.

Source: First Showing

Rhys Ifans will play Dr. Curt Connors, better known as The Lizard, in Marc Webb's "Spider-Man," TheWrap has learned.

There had been rumors across the blogosphere that Sony was thinking of bringing back Venom for the franchise reboot, but that character will not be featured in the movie, two individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.

Andrew Garfield stars as Peter Parker, while Emma Stone will play Gwen Stacy, who rivals Mary Jane Watson for Spidey's affection.

Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin are producing the movie, which begins production in December.

Dylan Baker played Connors in Sam Raimi's two "Spider-Man" sequels.

"Spider-Man" will hit theaters in 3D on July 3, 2012.

Source: The Wrap

Mike Myers used to joke that donning the 80 pounds of faux-latex blubber to play Fat Bastard in Austin Powers caused him to sweat so much that "by the end of the day, I was Pepé Le Pew." Vulture has learned that Warner Bros. Pictures is now developing a live-action/CGI movie on the lovelorn French skunk and Myers is attached to voice the lead role.

The decision to reinvigorate the Looney Tunes cast of characters — which includes fading American icons like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig — is a high priority for Warner Bros., for while they still throw off a billion dollars in licensing revenue annually, that’s barely a fifth of what Disney makes every year from licensing better-known characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

Source: Vulture

With filming for the next installment of the Mission Impossible franchise already underway, we now have word of a couple more additions to the cast making sure there's plenty of dastardly plans to be thwarted by Ethan Hunt and the rest of the Impossible Mission Force. We've already heard Michael Nyqvist will play one of the lead villains in the sequel and now two more names have cropped up. THR reports that the very lovely Lea Seydoux (Robin Hood, Inglourious Basterds) will play the lead female villain, while Deadline reports the charismatic Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire) has also taken some sort of antagonistic role as well.

Source: First Showing

Thanks to Coming Soon for these cool set pics

The title for the new Transformers sequel has been confirmed as Transformers: The Dark of the Moon

Apparently it has something to do with the lunar cycle.

What do you all think?

The Tourist - New Short Trailer with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp

Well I had almost had given up on The Rock aka Dwayne Johnson, but I have always been a fan of his and I am really happy to see a the badass Rock return.

Enjoy!

FYI, LOST fans will see a couple of familiar faces as well.

Not that this is really shocking because most people expected this deal to finally happen, but according to Deadline the deal is now final and Peter Jackson is set to direct both parts of The Hobbit.

It will be in 3D an interesting side note is that the original trilogy will most likely find it's way to theaters in 3D as well.

BREAKING NEWS: SPIDER-MAN GETS HIS GIRL: EMMA STONE TO PLAY FEMALE LEAD. Stone to Play Gwen Stacy Opposite Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker

Source: Sony via Twitter

Columbia just sent out a press release announcing Emma Stone joining the Spider-Man movie.

The move was expected since the Internet was abuzz with her on the list of female finalists, then about to get an offer, then having an actual offer.

But despite the speculation that the red-headed star of "Easy A" and "Zombieland" would be playing red-headed Spider-Man love interest Mary Jane Watson, she is playing the blonde-haired tragic love interest Gwen Stacy.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Deadline Hollywood is confirming that Tony Gilroy will direct Bourne Identity 4, which is currently titled The Bourne Legacy.

There is still no official word if Matt Damon will return because the last we heard from him, he said he would only do the movie if Paul Greengrass would return.

What do you all think?

Here is a new set video and a few more pics of X-Men: First Class that have been making the rounds across the internet. Nothing too revealing but these pics are a bit more clearer than the previous ones.

Todd Phillips, helmer of the winning comedy "The Hangover," as well as the upcoming road trip comedy "Due Date," is prepping you for another dose of laughs for "The Hangover 2." According to Empire, the sequel, which is schedded to start filming this month, will take the friends from Bangkok to Los Angeles.

"There's gonna be some f#cked-up surprises," Phillips told Empire.
Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms will reprise their roles as well as Ken Jeong who played the uproariously mad Mr. Chow.

"I know what I'm up against. I saw Meet The Fockers. But we're aiming high. It's called The Hangover Part Two, you know," said Phillips.

Source: Movie Jungle

Thanks to FirstShowing