Variety is reporting that Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment is eyeing Ryan Reynolds to star in the Highlander reboot. “Ryan Reynolds has emerged as the front-runner to topline Lionsgate-Summit’s franchise reboot, and though it’s unclear whether an actual offer has been made, sources tell Variety that both sides are in talks and are very interested in working [...]

Dimension Films announced today that the sequel Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For will open nationwide on October 4, 2013. Casting is underway, with original cast members returning to work with directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, from their script co-written by Academy Award winner William Monahan . Academy Award nominee Mickey [...]

The juggernaut that is the Avengers movie (as opposed to the Juggernaut in the X-Men films) is still rolling.  How did it do this weekend?  The weekend box office estimatesfor the U.S. are for $103M.  That brings the global total to $1,002,082,000.  Marvel has to be feeling pretty good. In the global market, Box Office [...]

In a move that could have been predicted weeks ago—and only reinforced by the outrageous box office numbers from the past week—Disney announced today that “Avengers 2″ is indeed already in development. Shocking, we know. Deadline has the scant report, which includes a quote from Disney CEO Bob Iger, who explained that the film’s success [...]

Most early reviews of The Avengers are celebrating the Marvel crossover film as a triumph, and everyone seems to be in agreement that Mark Ruffalo’s take on The Hulk has finally nailed down the gamma-radiated favorite. Naturally in the wake of Ruffalo’s success, talk went straight to a new standalone Hulk movie, but when the [...]

The Walt Disney Studio has acquired the screen rights to Neil Gaiman’s Newbery Medal-winning The Graveyard Book. Back in 2009 Gaiman’s book, which had just won the ALA’s top children’s book award, was optioned by the U.K. special effects house Framestone with Neil Jordan (The Borgias, Interview With a Vampire) directing (see “Neil Jordan to [...]

It’s been known for some time that the plot for the upcoming 20th Century Fox Century sequel The Wolverine will take Hugh Jackman’s Logan to Japan. What has been uncertain, however, is whether any of the production would actually happen there. Today, Fox CEO Tom Rothman tells MTV News that, in fact, it will. “We’re [...]

Deadline reports that Twentieth Century Fox has set David James Kelly to rewrite the script for the Daredevil reboot to be directed by David Slade (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 30 Days of Night). The film will adapt Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s “Born Again” storyline, which ran in Daredevil #227-233 in 1986. The story involves [...]

You know your film is doing well when, before it is even released, you’re discussing who might be in a sequel! Avengers Assemble (so named to keep moviegoers from mixing up this film with the Steed and Peel Avengers) premiered in the UK recently in London. Ben Mortimer of HeyUGuys was there to ask producer [...]