Here’s the biggest news of the day.
The Spider-Man reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man, doesn’t open till July, 2012, but we’re getting a flood of behind-the-scenes photos and video. So, far not bad. Mania
Thor had a huge opening weekend bringing in $66 million dollar.
Although the opening for “Thor” wasn’t as enormous as those of other superhero movies, it still exceeded studio expectations, which were around $55 million. It was the third-highest opening for a Marvel franchise launch, behind “Spider-Man,” which made $115 million in 2002, and “Iron Man,” which made $98.6 million in 2008.
A new theatrical trailer for Green Lantern has been released giving us a look at the rest of the Green Lantern Corp and more plot details about the movie. Plus, we get to see a sword fight between Ryan Reynolds and Sinestro. Empire
With X-Men First Class opening this summer we get short video spotlights of teenage Havok, Banshee and Beast. – MTV
J.J. Abrams says that since work on the sci-fi film Super-8 is winding down he can finally focus on the Star Trek sequel.
“The truth is that my focus has been so much on finishing ‘Super 8’ that it’s been something I’m looking forward to getting to, but with an incredibly compressed post schedule, there hasn’t been a whole lot of time for me to be working with the writers. Now that ‘Super 8’ is drawing to a close in terms of this post schedule, I’m looking forward to jumping in and hopefully getting that ready as soon as possible.”
Rumors are swirling that Keanu Reeves is in talks to star in the live action adaptation of Akira. Whoa. This is a big departure from the film which starred a teenager. – Mania
