-The Marvel-verse is about to explode with the release of The Avengers less than a month away, but the hero-packed summer kick-starter is not all fans of men in spandex have to look forward to. Marvel announced that the follow-up to Captain America: The First Avenger, is set to release April 4, 2014, a bit early by Marvel standards, which usually launch at the beginning of May. The sequel focuses on the Cap's relationship with Nick Fury and will take place in the present day.
-In other Marvel news, the sequel to X-Men: First Class will start shooting in January, a bit later than planned due to Jennifer Lawrence's Catching Fire schedule. Presumably, the all-star cast will reassemble. Any excuse to watch Michael Fassbender is fine by me, and as proven in the first film, he makes a compellingly human Magneto.
-Meanwhile, DC is starting to feed the fanboy flames for Man of Steel, the new Superman reboot which releases June 14, 2013. They recently released this sinewy logo of the signature symbol:
-This trailer for Simon Pegg's forthcoming A Fantastic Fear of Everything is most certainly The Good:
-The MPAA has changed its mind regarding the Weinstein Company's buzzy documentary Bully. After the film was slapped with an R rating, the Weinsteins decided to release the film unrated, allowing theaters to make their own decisions how to treat the film (some opted to treat it as an R while others went for a permission slip system). Now, the MPAA has given the film, which was slightly edited, a more palatable PG-13, meaning that the film will be able to be shown for school groups. The movie looks tremendously powerful, and it's unarguably an important issue in today's world. Bully is now playing in limited release and will expand in the weeks to come.
-Nicole Kidman may play Grace Kelly in La Vie en Rose helmer Oliver Dehan's forthcoming film, Grace of Monaco. Kidman is one of those super talented actresses who seems to have a knack for appearing in bad movies, so I'm excited for her to have a role that could potentially stand alongside her work in films like Rabbit Hole, The Hours, and Moulin Rouge!
The Bad
-Joseph Gordon-Levitt is no longer a part of Quentin Tarantino's all-star "southern" Django Unchained. JGL recently announced that he is making his writing/directing debut with Don Jon's Addiction, and the scheduling sadly conflicts. On the upside, the actor can be seen in four other movies this year: The Dark Knight Rises, Premium Rush, Looper, and Lincoln, for which he's receiving totally baseless Oscar buzz from those who like to get started early.
-Producer Jon Landau says that Avatar 2 may not be ready by the proposed Christmas 2014 release date. The crew is already hard at work, but with such a massive project (and James Cameron at the helm), it's anybody's guess when we'll get to return to Pandora.
-Ashton Kutcher has been tapped to play Apple founder Steve Jobs in a forthcoming biopic, seemingly on the sole criterion that he looks quite like a young Jobs. While I don't have faith in Kutcher's acting talent, at least there's another Jobs biopic based on his autobiography that's also in the works.
The Ugly
-I never saw Grown-Ups, and I hope I never will, but the sequel just managed to get even less appealing than its predecessor with the addition of talking six-pack Taylor Lautner to the cast.
-This one could actually turn out to be pretty great, but I'm not sure how the filmmakers will handle it. Bob Dylan's 1975 album Blood on the Tracks is being brought to the big screen. Details on the project are scarce, but the goal is to craft a film that can conjure the themes and emotions embodied by the album, which includes such classics as "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Shelter from the Storm." Hopefully it will attain that heightened magical realism that permeated Todd Haynes' beautiful, strange Dylan biopic, I'm Not There.(Sources: EW and ComingSoon)
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