The Simian Flu Spreads in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Viral Video

At the tail end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a dangerous "simian flu" was released into the atmosphere, and we saw just the beginnings of its spread across the world. The events that took place after are what we'll get in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes this summer, but what happens in-between are the subject of a new viral video. In it we see what happens when the flu becomes a worldwide pandemic that begins to wipe out the human population over the course of seven years. There's also the brief suggestion (via Google search) that some humans may be immune to the flu, and maybe those are the humans portrayed by Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, and others.

Directed by Matt Reeves, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opens July 11th 2014.

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First Look at Julianne Moore in 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1'

The real victory Lionsgate can claim from The Hunger Games movies so far is that they are more than just blockbuster successes; they are critically acclaimed, as well. That's something Twilight was never able to crack, and Divergent was met with mixed reviews, but The Hunger Games has found a way to make the best of use of its phenomenal cast. Julianne Moore is the biggest name coming aboard for the two-part finale, Mockingjay, and now we've got the first look at her as President Alma Coin.

Lionsgate has released new images from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1, including an image of Moore alongside the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman completed many of his scenes for the film and CG will be used to recreate the rest. We also get a new poster, some images featuring Jeffrey Wright and Woody Harrelson, and a featurette introducing Alma Coin. Coin is the leader of District 13 and part of the rebellion against the Capitol, although she also has an intense disliking of Katniss.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 opens November 21st, directed by Francis Lawrence.

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Lucasfilm Thankfully Waves Good-Bye to Star Wars Expanded Universe

Star Wars Day is a little more than a week away, and that's when many fans are expecting Disney and Lucasfilm to start making some official announcements regarding Star Wars: Episode VII. But we're actually getting some concrete info from the studios a bit early as Lucasfilm has issued a statement whether they'll be tying in the expanded Star Wars universe of novels, comics, and video games.

Unsurprisingly, the decision boils down to the only official canon consisting of the original six films, J.J. Abrams' new trilogy, and the animated series Rebels and The Clone Wars. Any new content produced will be approved by Lucasfilm and part of the new cohesive canon, not really all that different from what Disney has done with Marvel's movies. But because the old expanded universe content remain big money makers with tons of followers, they will be housed under the new "Legends" banner. They won't be part of official continuity, but at least they will continue to see print and be made available to those who want to buy them.

A six-minute featurette honoring the Star Wars expanded universe has also been released, but to be honest it felt like one big brush-off, a "good bye" to all the stuff fans bought thinking it would have relevance forever. That no longer seems to the be the case. Honestly, it's for the best. There were waaaay too many Star Wars books out there confusing things and contradicting one another. This has been a long time coming. The full press release and featurette is below.



For over 35 years, the Expanded Universe has enriched the Star Wars experience for fans seeking to continue the adventure beyond what is seen on the screen. When he created "Star Wars," George Lucas built a universe that sparked the imagination, and inspired others to create. He opened up that universe to be a creative space for other people to tell their own tales. This became the Expanded Universe, or EU, of comics, novels, videogames, and more.

While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the EU consistent with our film and television content as well as internally consistent, Lucas always made it clear that he was not beholden to the EU. He set the films he created as the canon. This includes the six "Star Wars" episodes, and the many hours of content he developed and produced in "Star Wars: The Clone Wars". These stories are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align.

Now, with an exciting future filled with new cinematic installments of Star Wars, all aspects of "Star Wars" storytelling moving forward will be connected. Under Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy's direction, the company for the first time ever has formed a story group to oversee and coordinate all Star Wars creative development.

"We have an unprecedented slate of new Star Wars entertainment on the horizon," said Kennedy. "We're set to bring Star Wars back to the big screen, and continue the adventure through games, books, comics, and new formats that are just emerging. This future of interconnected storytelling will allow fans to explore this galaxy in deeper ways than ever before."

In order to give maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience, "Star Wars" Episodes VII-IX will not tell the same story told in the post-"Return of the Jedi" Expanded Universe. While the universe that readers knew is changing, it is not being discarded. Creators of new "Star Wars" entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe. For example, elements of the EU are included in "Star Wars Rebels". The Inquisitor, the Imperial Security Bureau, and Sienar Fleet Systems are story elements in the new animated series, and all these ideas find their origins in roleplaying game material published in the 1980s.

Demand for past tales of the Expanded Universe will keep them in print, presented under the new Legends banner.

On the screen, the first new canon to appear will be "Star Wars Rebels". In print, the first new books to come from this creative collaboration include novels from Del Rey Books. First to be announced, John Jackson Miller is writing a novel that precedes the events of Star Wars Rebels and offers insight into a key character's backstory, with input directly from executive producers Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg, and Greg Weisman.

And this is just the beginning of a creatively aligned program of "Star Wars" storytelling created by the collaboration of incredibly talented people united by their love of that galaxy far, far away....

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'Godzilla' Reveals New IMAX Poster and International Trailer

A super-sized monster like Godzilla deserves a super-sized IMAX poster, and that's exactly what he's got now. The striking new image features Godzilla stomping through the city with a nifty use of the Japanese flag in the background. Along with it come a new international trailer that offers up a little bit of new footage. Lastly, a new featurette on director Gareth Edwards has him talking about the first time he saw the monster in full. For a guy coming off his small-budgeted debut film, seeing something the scope of Godzilla was understandably quite a rush.

Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, and David Strathairn, Godzilla opens May 16th.




Godzilla Featurette - Meeting the Monster (2014) - Gareth Edwards Movie HD by MEGA-UP

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Japanese 'X-men: Days of Future Past' Teases a Mutant Showdown

While 20th Century Fox has promised we've seen the last domestic trailer for X-men: Days of Future Past, that hasn't stopped them from unleashing more featurettes, TV spots, and international trailers. The latest trailer comes from Japan, and their footage is cut somewhat differently than the version seen over here. There are snippets of new footage and more of a "good vs. evil" focus on the X-men facing Bolivar Trask's (Peter Dinklage) robot Sentinels. There's also a new TV spot and the announcement of the X-men X-Perience in which the cast will be appearing in person at premieres of the film around the world. Can we get Ellen Page here in DC, please?

X-men: Days of Future Past opens May 23rd, directed by Bryan Singer.






X-Men Days of Future Past Featurette - X-Perience (2014) - Marvel Movie Sequel HD by MEGA-UP

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Six 'X-men: Days of Future Past' Videos Offer New Footage

There's likely to be more mutant placement than product placement in Bryan Singer's X-men: Days of Future Past, but that won't stop the occasional product tie-in. Six behind-the-scenes featurettes have debuted over at the Pringles website, each with some new footage of what looks like one heck of a fun film to shoot. Hopefully this doesn't mean Wolverine will pop open a can of Pringles with his claws every five minutes.

Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, and many more, X-men: Days of Future Past opens May 23rd.

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Meet the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' in New Featurettes and Team Poster

Marvel has an uphill climb if they want Guardians of the Galaxy to be as huge as the rest of their franchises, but things got off to a hot start when the trailer dropped just a couple of days ago. And while comic book fans and those who wouldn't know a Star-Lord from a Starburst are hyped for the film, one thing they haven't had a chance to hear is Bradley Cooper as fan-favorite Rocket Raccoon. Well now that has been rectified.

Along with a cool new poster featuring whole team, Marvel has released a bunch of featurettes of Chris Pratt as Star-Lord, Dave Bautista as Drax, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Vin Diesel as Groot, and Bradley Cooper as the angry little furry alien, who is definitely NOT a raccoon despite his appearance.

Expect a lot more material on Guardians of the Galaxy in the coming weeks, building to its release on August 1st.


Meet the Guardians of the Galaxy - Drax by Team Lyricis


Meet the Guardians of the Galaxy - Gamora by Team Lyricis


Meet the Guardians of the Galaxy - Peter Quill by Team Lyricis


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Meet the Guardians of the Galaxy - Rocket [VO-HD] by Eklecty-City.fr

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The 'Veronica Mars' movie has a new featurette, same old love triangle

Here's the thing: Jason Dohring, a.k.a. Logan Echolls, does things to me that I CANNOT DISCUSS IN POLITE COMPANY. As in, he's the perfect bad boy, he and Veronica's love is epic, and this new featurette for the Veronica Mars movie doesn't want you to forget it.

By now, you know the story: The Veronica Mars fundraising campaign basically made Kickstarter its bitch, raising shocking amounts of money in a shockingly short time and creating all kinds of Internet backlash centered around the argument of, "Why are we paying money to Warner Bros. so they can make a movie we want to watch, and then we'll have to pay to see that movie, too?" And I get it; really, I do. I know that Warner Bros. is taking advantage of us here. I know that's why the show isn't on Netflix anymore, because they want to make money off of people buying the DVDs. I get all of those logical arguments. But then I watch this featurette, and I'm lost.

Because, as Rob Thomas promised, basically everyone is back! Man, does he know how to please demanding fanboys and fangirls, like yours truly, who wanted a true reunion. And we basically are getting one, since part of the movie takes place at their high school reunion. Meta genius!

Kristen Bell is back as Veronica, of course, and Jason Dohring as Logan, and that guy who plays Piz who actually grew up to be kind of hot, and Mac and Dick and Wallace. The featurette focuses on the love triangle between Veronica, Keith, and Piz, which was introduced in the third and final season and replaced the previous love triangle of Veronica, Duncan, and Logan. I don't think Duncan will be back - he was pretty effectively out of the show after the first season - but Keith Mars and Weevil will be, even though we don't see either of them in this trailer. But there's Deputy Leo! And Gia! And Principal Clemmons! And on and on and on. 

And guys, just watch this thing. If you're not grinning like a jerk afterward, you probably don't have a soul. Or you don't like Veronica Mars. And really, what's the difference? 

Veronica Mars comes out in spring 2014. Start your countdowns.

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'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Reveals New Images and Featurette

The marketing for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been going on since before the credits finished rolling on the first film, I think. Thankfully it comes out next month so Lionsgate only has a few more weeks to sell a film that has a fiercely loyal audience who may have already begun lining up to see it. A couple of days after the "final" poster (we'll see about that) hit the web, a handful of new images have been released courtesy of EW, featuring stars Jennifer Lawrence and Jena Malone.

Starring Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz and more, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opens November 22nd, Judging by the included featurette, Lionsgate really wants you to see it in IMAX. 

PLOT: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark.  Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a “Victor’s Tour” of the districts.  Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) – a competition that could change Panem forever.

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Set Photo, Featurette and Teaser Poster for Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'

From Memento to The Dark Knight Rises, Wally Pfister has been making Christopher Nolan's movies look incredible for a long time. The famed cinematographer's career has risen right alongside Nolan's, and after wrapping up the Batman trilogy he decided to follow in his footsteps by making his directorial debut, Transcendence. The story centers on a scientist who has his mind uploaded into a supercomputer after he is murdered by anti-technology radicals. Considering the veil of secrecy that has been draped over the production, it's clear he picked up a few of Nolan's tricks, but now that shooting is taking place we're finally starting to see some imagery and footage from the anticipated sci-fi flick.

An international featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of Transcendence, giving us a glimpse at the celebrity cast which includes Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman, Kate Mara, Clifton Collins, Paul Bettany, and Cole Hauser. Along with it comes a new set photo, and a Chinese promo poster. The film is being co-financed by Beijing's DMG Entertainment, and its founder Dan Mintz opened up a little about the plot...

Mintz: "Without giving away too much, Transcendence is about that moment when human consciousness and the insanely fast rise of computing power collide. It pulls from the idea of singularity to tell a truly meaningful story that is more ‘science reality’ than science fiction. This is something that is likely to happen in our lifetimes and that makes it a story everyone can get into."

The featurette is short, but is notable because of the presence of Hall, who already popular in China due to her presence in Iron Man 3. Unlike that film, there won't be any China-specific footage when Transcendence opens on April 18th 2014.

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Two new 'Man of Steel' posters featuring Kal-El and General Zod

As predicted, yesterday's Jor-El poster for Zack Snyder's Man of Steel was just the first in a series of character posters, and today sees the release of two more. The images feature Michael Shannon in cuffs as the evil General Zod, and Henry Cavill as Superman himself. The Zod image calls back to some of the earlier photos we've seen of Supes in military custody, suggesting that neither Kryptonian is going to get the nicest treatment here on Earth.

Hopefully there will be more posters to come, preferably one of Antje Traue as Faora.  Man of Steel opens on June 14th, but if you absolutely need to see more, Warner Bros. has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette. Check it out below.



PLOT: In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time. Clark Kent/Kal-El (Cavill) is a young twentysomething journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond anyone’s imagination. Transported to Earth years ago from Krypton, an advanced alien planet, Clark struggles with the ultimate question – Why am I here? Shaped by the values of his adoptive parents Martha (Lane) and Jonathan Kent (Costner), Clark soon discovers that having super abilities means making very difficult decisions. But when the world needs stability the most, it comes under attack. Will his abilities be used to maintain peace or ultimately used to divide and conquer? Clark must become the hero known as “Superman,” not only to shine as the world’s last beacon of hope but to protect the ones he loves.

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Tony Stark shows off his toys in new 'Iron Man 3' featurette and comic art posters

Like all of the Marvel films, Iron Man 3 is a cross-promotional powerhouse, and considering Tony Stark's love of flashy toys, it's no surprise that Audi has been one of the biggest sponsors since the beginning. With the superhero film right around the corner, Audi has revealed via Your Car News a featurette via  on their sleek new R8 e-tron, which will feature in the May 3rd release. Mostly it contains behind-the-scenes footage of the shoot, along with various folks talking about how Stark's stylish cars are as much a part of him as his many armors.

Because if there's anything fanboys love more than superheroes, it's pizza, Marvel has also teamed up with Red Baron to produce some cool posters drawn by some of comics' best artists.  You can enter to win one of these limited edition posters simply by going here. John Tyler Christopher drew the Mark XLII armor; the Iron Patriot armor is by Jorge Molina; the awesome "Hulkbuster" Igor Mark XXXVIII armor is by the legendary Ron Lim; the Heartbreaker Mark XVII armor by Andrea Di Vito; and the orbital Starboost armor by Mike Perkins. It's the last one that many expect Stark will be wearing if he heads into space to hang out with the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Iron Man 3 is directed by Shane Black and stars Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale, Wang Xueqi, Stephanie Szostak, and Jon Favreau.

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New 13-minute 'The Dark Knight Rises' featurette

I don't usually post featurettes because they rarely tell us anything new. It's usually just a movie's stars sitting around talking about how perfect everything was, even when we know darn well that wasn't the case. But this is The Dark Knight Rises, and 13-minutes of Christopher Nolan, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale, and the rest of the cast discussing the movie event of the year is always worth a look.

The footage is broken up so that practically every major character gets their moment, with new faces like Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt weighing in as well. The rest features some of the incredible lengths that Nolan and his crew went to in order to make this the epic finale we all expect it to be. The best bits are with his long-time cinematographer, Wally Pfister,and the people behind the scenes bringing Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy(as a producer dubs it) to life.

Word of mouth is starting to spread from the early screenings, and so far what I've heard has been extremely positive. We'll see whether it can meet all of our lofty expectations when The Dark Knight Rises opens on July 20th....

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