Yesterday brought word that ANCHORMAN’s Adam McKay was in advanced talks with Marvel Studios to take over from Edgar Wright on the ANT-MAN directing gig. So advanced were said talks, it was claimed that the studio had actually offered the director the job.

Today brings word from The Hollywood Reporter that McKay was indeed offered the job but he has actually turned it down. To add further to this, McKay himself took to Twitter to say, “And yes, met w/Marvel. Kirby & Lee r my Lennon Mccartney so it was awesome. But I have other projects I’m committed to. Not sure it can work.”

With McKay now seemingly ruled out, that still leaves a void to fill. Marvel and Disney’s other contenders for the job were said to be DODGEBALL’s Rawson Marshall Thurber and ZOMBIELAND’s Ruben Fleischer. Will they now be back in the frame? We guess we’ll have to wait and see what develops over the next few days.

Regardless of who directs, the cast of ANT-MAN currently comprises of Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, and unknown roles for Evangeline Lilly, Patrick Wilson and Corey Stoll. Set to kick-off Marvel’s Phase Three of films, ANT-MAN is currently set for a 17th July, 2015 release.

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With Duncan Jones’ WARCRAFT now in production, plot details have been kept relatively secret. Speaking to IGN, Ben Foster has revealed some story details and just who he’ll be playing.

The actor, likely best known to genre fans for playing Angel in X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, revealed that he’ll be playing the sorcerer Medivh, who uses his powers to fight the agents of the Burning Legion. He said, “Medivh came up in a time protecting an area, and the way he protected this area was through magic. As peace returned to this land he took a break. We meet him as his friends are returning asking for his help in a battle. What’s exciting about Duncan Jones’ take on this video game is that is shows both sides of the war. It’s not just a video game turned into a movie. It’s asking, hopefully, an important question of where do we limit our compassion for what we consider to be the bad guys?”

As well as Foster, Jones’ film will also feature Colin Farrell, Paula Patton, Paul Dano, Travis Fimmel, Anton Yelchin, and Toby Kebbell. At present, WARCRAFT is set for an 11th March, 2016 release.

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With Ivan Reitman recently revealing that he won’t be directing GHOSTBUSTERS 3, the hunt is on for somebody to direct this long-discussed threequel. Now The Wrap is reporting that ZOMBIELAND’s Ruben Fleischer is Sony’s prime target.

As reported over the last few days, Fleischer has also been linked to Marvel’s ANT-MAN. Whilst Marvel Studios and Disney are said to still be in talks with Fleischer, the feeling is that GHOSBUSTERS 3 is a more realistic fit for the director. Having just had a child, it’s suggested that he’s not too keen on leaving his family to go and work on ANT-MAN, which would require a near-immediate start. On the flip side of this, GHOSTBUSTERS 3 wouldn’t be ready to start shooting for a little while, plus he worked with Sony on both ZOMBIELAND and 30 MINUTES OR LESS.

Expect to hear more on GHOSTBUSTERS 3 and ANT-MAN as we get it.

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With the cinematic rights for Daredevil having now reverted back to Marvel Studios, the company also attempted to get the Fantastic Four rights back from 20th Century Fox. Clearly that failed, with Fox now in production on Josh Trank’s THE FANTASTIC FOUR. As a result, it appears that Marvel are doing their best to take any shine off of Trank’s FF reboot.

BleedingCool is reporting that Marvel have actually made plans to put all FANTASTIC FOUR comic titles on hold, in the hope that fans will have minimal interest in the superhero family come Fox’s release. The characters will still appear in other comic book titles, just their own books are to take a sabbatical. And in the stories that they do appear in, they’ll be far from the focus of the stories. In some other related news, it’s also claimed that all Fantastic Four artwork has been removed from the Marvel offices.

This isn’t the first time that Marvel have done something like this, with them refusing to do any form of promotion for Fox’s X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. With the X-Men, though, they still ran their comic book titles. Either way, DAYS OF FUTURE PAST managed to become the highest grossing of all the X-MEN movies to date.

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From innovative sci-fi filmmaker to over-funded has-been, James Cameron has had an interesting life in films. Whether you liked it or not, it’s near impossible to deny the success of 2009s AVATAR (it is the highest grossing film of all time, after all). While the plot was painfully cliché, the characters little better than cut-outs and the dialogue was just downright bad, the visual spectacle was quite breathtaking and, GRAVITY aside, remains the highpoint for 3D films.

Whether he’s making engaging and thoughtful action films or the overly sentimental TITANIC, Cameron’s worth ethic is never to be ridiculed. He’s been writing 1,500 pages worth of notes which will then be used by a four strong team of writers to pen the AVATAR sequels.

Cameron revealed during the LA Times’ Hero Complex Film Festival that he’d hired four writers, comprised of Josh Friedman (of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES), Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (of DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES) and Shane Salerno (of ARMAGEDDON) to head up 3 more additions to the franchise. If nothing else the writing should be a cut above the predecessor. Maybe AVATAR’s problems stemmed from it being such a bull-headed affair on Cameron’s part. The future’s looking blue.

The second AVATAR film is expected for a December 2016 release, with December 2017 and 2018 thereafter.

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Following on from J.J. Abrams’ wonderful charity video a few weeks back, we now have a second look at the Abu Dhabi set standing in for Tatooine. TMZ has the scoopage, so we won’t re-post them here, but you can see all 40 (yes, 40!) images by visiting their site. Look out for Tatooine locals, new vehicles, buildings, a mysterious pillar of black smoke that invokes memories of the Lars homestead massacre (that or it’s just a chip pan fire in one of the catering vans) and an awesome five-man operated practical creature effect!

STAR WARS: EPISODE VII opens December 15th 2015, and the untitled STAR WARS spin-off movie hits the following year on December 16th. Exciting times!

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As heavily rumoured ever since the first round of casting hit, two more female actors have indeed joined the EPISODE VII cast, and have now been officially announced over at www.StarWars.com! Read on for more details…

From the Press Release:

Lupita Nyong’o joins the recently announced cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. This year, her breakthrough performance in 12 Years a Slave earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Gwendoline Christie, currently starring in the hit television series Game of Thrones as Brienne of Tarth, has also been cast in the production. She can next be seen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.

“I could not be more excited about Lupita and Gwendoline joining the cast of Episode VII,” says Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. “It’s thrilling to see this extraordinarily talented ensemble taking shape.”

Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the Saga Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.

Star Wars: Episode VII is being directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer.

STAR WARS: EPISODE VII opens December 15th 2015, and the untitled STAR WARS spin-off movie hits the following year on December 16th.

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Starring Dwayne Johnson, STARBUST favourites John Hurt and Ian McShane and directed by Brett Ratner, the new trailer for HERCULES has the son of Zeus doing what he does best (fighting the Erymanthian Boar/Nemean Lion/et al) until his wife is killed by the original dog from hell, Cerberus. Check out the brand new trailer (and poster!) below…

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[Note: Not to be confused with earlier this year’s abysmal The Legend of Hercules.]

Official Synopsis:

Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ film HERCULES, starring Dwayne Johnson, bows on July 25. Based on Radical Comics’ ‘Hercules,’ this ensemble-action film, featuring an international cast, is a revisionist take on the classic myth set in a grounded world where the supernatural does not exist. HERCULES also stars Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Peter Mullan and John Hurt.

HERCULES hits UK cinemas July 25th.

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Yesterday they lifted the lid on the recent Abu Dhabi shoot, and today the TMZ gang have scored yet another giant STAR WARS: EPISODE VII exclusive in the form of images depicting the construction of the Millennium Falcon, an X-Wing and a closer look at that huge practical creature effect glimpsed in the last set of leaks. Sure, it’s no big surprise that these iconic vehicles would appear in the movie since Solo and Luke have long been known to feature, but it still makes us giddy to see nonetheless! 

As with before, we can’t post the pictures on our site due to copyright issues, but you can see them all by just CLICKING HERE. Enjoy!

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