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IESB.net spoke with producer Lauren Shuler Donner about her various upcoming projects, including Wolverine, Constantine, X-Men, Cirque Du Freak and Magneto. Here is an excerpt: IESB: Whats the superhero update? LSD: Well, we’re going to do Wolverine, I hope in the fall and we’re out to a director, now, we have a good script. And I think we’re going to do Young Magneto, we have a really great script, we have a director that is interested and he’ll do a rewrite on the script....

There is something visually stimulating about watching a tattooed, mussel-bound, angel cutting his giant wings and strapping on heavy artillery to fight an army of the undead in a blaze of bullets and smoke. That’s exactly what Legion delivers, a retro, almost ’70s type of action/horror film that also takes time to develop the characters so you care about what happens to them in the end. Visually, the film is groundbreaking and the style and tone go along way in creating something new and interesting on the screen....

Yesterday, ABC debuted a new trailer offering another glimpse at Ghost Rider in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4, which debuts Tuesday, September 20 at 10 PM ET. Today we have our first look at Gabriel Luna’s Robbie Reyes with his flaming Ghost Rider head in a new photo. We also have new details about this upcoming season from executive producer Jeff Bell and actress Chloe Bennet. This season marks the first time the show has moved to the 10 PM time slot, which is typically reserved for darker fare....

E! Online recently caught up with Dan Aykroyd in Toronto, where he was promoting his own award winning wines and shuffling for Patron Tequila. In the midst of the madness, they asked him about a potential Ghostbusters 3. The comedic legend stated that the third film is indeed moving ahead, and that he wants the Apatow gang involved. Dan stated," Two sharp young writers in Hollywood are purported to be writing the sequel....

During tonight’s Season 4 premiere event for Girls in New York City, HBO’s president of programming, Michael Lombardo, announced that the series has already been renewed for Season 5. It isn’t known how many Season 5 episodes were ordered at this time, but series creator/star Lena Dunham revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the first two scripts for Season 5 have already been written. Here’s what the actress/writer/producer had to say about the first two Season 5 scripts at tonight’s premiere....

Gwen Stefani, Ludacris, The Fray and Mary J. Blige will join previously announced performers Janet Jackson, Fergie and The Killers at The 2006 Billboard Music Awards, airing live from Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena Monday, Dec. 4 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. Bowling For Soup, Carrie Underwood, Carmen Electra, Dave Navarro, Flavor Flav, Three 6 Mafia, Vanessa Minnillo and the cast of “High School Musical” will also make special appearances, joining previously announced participants Celine Dion, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Katharine McPhee and Chris Daughtry....

Joyce Brabner has launched a project to honor her late husband Harvey Pekar with a statue at the Cleveland Heights Public Library, which he loved. Created by sculptor Justin Coulter, the bronze statue will be mounted on a desk, with Harvey Pekar emerging from a comic book panel, while the reverse side will have panels on which participants can draw their own comics. The desk will always be supplied with writing materials and art supplies....

Get ready for an office thriller on DVD. He Was a Quiet Man is coming to DVD on January 15. This indie film stars Christian Slate, William H. Macy and Elisha Cuthbert. No pricing details were made available. A man at the end of his emotional rope finally explodes, but not in a way anyone would have expected in this offbeat independent drama. Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) is a middle-aged nebbish working in an office building where few people know who he is and fewer still care....

Harshavardhan Kulkarni’s Badhaai Do (Felicitations Due) brings the multifaceted reality of being queer in India to mainstream Bollywood by taking a formula and turning it on its head. Charted in another “small town” set-up, with more than one familiar face (Seema Pahwa, Sheeba Chaddha) occupying a predetermined space, Badhaai Do sets out to question the confines of heteronormativity in a land where regressive rules and laws often strangle freedom of choice and expression....

Hollywood can be a fickle place, especially for A-listers. One minute you’re on top, your face on the posters of back-to-back hit movies, and the next you have been replaced by a new generation of up-and-coming actors. The transition from top talent to a has-been is an unfortunate one. But in some rare cases, the cycle can indeed be reversed. Something like that seems to be happening with Brendan Fraser. After years of being out of the public spotlight, leaving fans wondering where he had been, Fraser is having a golden moment in Hollywood once again (a Brendanaissance, if you will)....

How I Met Your Mother is one of the few series that divides fans and critics as intensely. Those who’ve seen it remember the outcry, those who haven’t still remember reading about the reactions, and a few were actually pleased with the outcome. Still, wherever the pool lies, How I Met Your Father is the type of spin-off worth watching, no matter which category you fall into. For starters, while there’s no such thing as too many sitcoms, it helps that the series presents itself as something new while bringing in Easter eggs that HIMYM fans could catch....

Cameos are meant to be fun and entertaining, adding even more value for audiences who consistently flock to see their favorite franchises in theaters. A lot of the times, these cameos are of other famous actors and actresses portraying themselves, on other occasions, sometimes, they are of different characters whose arrival signifies the advent of a crossover and thus, sparking the viewers’ mind about the relation of characters to others and sometimes even the relativity of the characters within each other’s movie universes....

Netflix recently unveiled some first looks at a new holiday movie in the works, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. There isn’t a confirmed date for the film’s release yet, but viewers are anticipating it being available to stream in the winter during the holiday season. It is a classic Christmas story beloved by many, and there are already over a hundred adaptations of Charles Dickens’ tale out there for people to enjoy....

The Fox Animation Lineup is getting some new residents! The cast of Bloom County will be joining the lineup in their own animated series. Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed confirmed today on his social media that an animated show is in the works based on his ongoing comic strip. Bloom County has a pretty long history in Breathed’s life. It started when Breathed began producing a comic strip for The Daily Texan, a school newspaper for the University of Texas....

The contemporary story revolves decisively around the character arc and hero’s journey: the hero is no hero at the start, but rather a troubled figure seemingly incapable of growth, who finds purpose via an unexpected journey. Looking back, stories that influenced Western literature like Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Hebrew, and Norse mythologies (among many), protagonists were here and there flawed, but often unaffected by their calls to change themselves. They were gods, demigods, or functionally identical surrogates, and to claim they were in need of growth was to claim they weren’t at their tallest yet, a general heresy against hierarchical models and real world monarchs who were equally painted to be omniscient....

Although we are fast approaching the release of Insidious 5, it was in 2010 that the creepy creative work of Leigh Whannell first made its way to the silver screen. Under James Wan’s direction, Whannell’s possession story unfolded before an enthralled audience. Many accounts of possession and exorcisms have been told. However, none were as insidious as Leigh’s. The first installment was so terrifying that some considered Insidious one of the scariest movies made....

Screen Rant has posted photos from the set of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges. The site introduces the images as follows: CLICK HERE to check out the set photos. Here are the first batch of photos from one of the shooting sets of Iron Man provided by a visitor to Screen Rant. There are a great bunch of set shots here shot out in the desert, although no actors are present....

It seems that director Joe Carnahan might have found a familiar face to pity the fool. IESB.net has just revealed that actor Common is close to winning the role of B.A. Baracus for Carnahan’s The A-Team remake. The actor, who previously worked with Carnahan on Smokin’ Aces, also added that he’d like to bring something brand new to the character. IESB: Your name keeps popping up, I was at a premiere the other day and was talking to some industry friends and they are like, “[we] would love Common as a certain character in a certain Joe Carnahan movie....

In a story from MTV.com, it turns out that J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof (two of the minds behind Lost) are not going to be adapting Stephen King’s The Dark Tower into a major motion picture. Here is what Abrams had to say on the matter. In an in interview with USA Today in October Abrams forewarned, “You’ll be hard-pressed to find a huger fan of The Dark Tower than me, but that’s probably the reason that I shouldn’t be the one to adapt it....

The Aussie actress talks about working with Wolfgang Peterson and getting peed on by Jimmy Bennett Jacinda Barrett made a name for herself starting her career on The Real World: London. From there, she went on to star in a few different smaller movies and tv. Then, Jacinda got a big break in 2004’s Ladder 49, playing the wife of Joaquin Phoenix’s wife. Her career is getting a major upgrade with the new film, Poseidon; she plays one of the people who survives when the cruise ship capsizes....