IGN.com had this exclusive after it debuted at SDCC. Looks pretty crazy.

Here we have the movie teaser poster for The Amazing Spider-Man. The Amazing Spider-Man will be starring Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy. The movie opens July 3rd, 2012.

When you hear “John Carter of Mars” do you think of Noah Wyle’s character from ER getting his ass to Mars? Me neither, but here’s a picture that will make sure you will…

Until a few days ago I had not heard of this character, but after Captain Genius brought this to my attention at our forums, this sounds like a great premise for this upcoming movie. Here’s the trailer for Disney’s John Carter which is due to be released in March of next year:

The film is written and directed by Andrew Stanton who wrote and directed many Pixar movies, including Wall-E, so it looks like it’s in good hands.

John Carter fiction dates back to 1911 with A Princess of Mars which has John Carter, an immortal man, traveling to Mars to have great adventures. Here’s hoping someone, anyone, says “2 weeks” in this movie…

You remember like a decade ago when Leonardo DiCaprio was going to be in a live action Akira movie?

Well that never really happened, and a few days ago it was reported that the movie was officially shelved. But wait! Turns out that was premature! The movie lives on! Hollywood Reporter reveals that the movie now has a director and writer!

The movie’s director will be Jaume Collet-Serra. Is he any good? No idea. Haven’t seen any of his movies… but you have if you’ve seen Unknown, Orphan or House of Wax!

The script will be adapted by Steve Kloves, who is best known for adapting the Harry Potter books into a number of movies of varying quality. Lots of bitching going on about what people hear about changes that may take place. I love the Akira manga and movie myself, but both are … kind of nonsense. Let’s just wait and see how it turns out before saying it would be better as a mess of scenes with a confusing incomplete story. You can’t very well call yourself a fan of the Akira anime movie and say you wouldn’t want to see a movie that deviates too much from the source material.

Leo will not likely be starring in the film, but he will be producing. The movie is said to take place in New York instead of Neo Tokyo, and casting rumours throughout the years have included Joseph Gordon Levitt, Justin Timberlake, Robert Pattinson, James Franco and Keanu Reeves. If I had more time to kill, I’d photoshop photos of all of them too…

Stay tuned for more on this movie as it will no doubt go through 3 more directors and get shelved for another 5 years only to be released some time after James Cameron’s Gunnm adaptation…

Check out a trailer for the American Akira below…
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After telling us for years that there would be no Evil Dead 4, Bruce Campbell has finally changed his tune! Many movie news sites reported rumours of another Evil Dead movie, which most fans are used to ignoring, but now Bruce Campbell has confirmed the news on Twitter.

Not a ton of details are known at this time. Will this be a remake or a sequel? Will Bruce Campbell actually star or appear in the film? More importantly, will Ted Raimi have a role?

Bloody Disgusting reports that the director is Fede Alvarez, who is best known for making the following short film:

Fede Alvarez has also written the script which is also being worked on by Juno’s Diablo Cody. Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert will all have a hand in producing the film.

Follow the ongoing conversation on this topic in our forums.

Here’s a picture of Bumblebee holding a sign that says “Transformers 3 wishes China’s Communist Party longevity” in Chinese.

Why is this happening? This all ties in to the film Beginning of the Great Revival, which retells the story of the founding of China’s Communist Party. The Chinese Government obviously wants people to see this, and they achieve this goal by eliminating the competition! Transformers 3’s release was postponed in China in order to allow people to experience this wonderful piece of propaganda without having to be distracted by something they might actually want to do.

Despite this effort to separate people from their freedom of choice in movies, some still wish to see entertaining films. Some theatres have gone so far as to just sell people tickets to this movie regardless of what they actually attend, to ensure the bookkeeping shows it to be a great success.

Freedom, it would seem, is not the right of all sentient beings…

Source: Penn Olson