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Terrence Malick‘s new film Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, and Antonio Banderas, premiered last night in Berlin, and as you might expect from a new Malick movie, reactions are fairly divided.

That didn’t stop distributors from showing interest, however, and Broad Green Pictures — the relatively new outfit backed by hedge fund manager Gabriel Hammond and his younger brother Daniel Hammond — picked up US rights to both Knight of Cups and the currently untitled Austin-set film which will be Malick’s next release. Along with that news comes a lovely new international poster for Knight of Cups and a bevy of reviews covering the spectrum of opinion on the movie. Check it all out after the break.

First up, here’s the poster. Click to enlarge.

Reviews seem very much split along the already well established lines between the “if you like Malick you’ll be on solid ground here” camp and those who don’t care for his current output at all.

The THR review starts out with a suspect line that makes me question the whole thing (“Having swung so far out of orbit on To the Wonder to have been sucked into a creative black hole”) but does say,

A resolutely poetic and impressionist film about creative paralysis, indecision, father and sons, female muses and life slipping away as surely as water down a river, the seventh feature from this takes-his-time writer-director is far more partial to free association and stream-of-consciousness notations than to conventional storytelling. The upshot is a certain tedium and repetitiveness along with the rhythmic niceties and imaginative riffs. But whereas his last work of real weight, The Tree of Life, achieved rarified moments of emotional and lyrical expressiveness, this one mostly operates on a more dramatically mundane, private and even narcissistic level.

The Playlist gets into questions of interpretation, saying,

There will be arguments about “Knight of Cups” similar to those there were over “To The Wonder,” and probably even more pointless. Because in this brimful film, provided you haven’t rejected it outright as overly pretentious and self-indulgent, you can find an image, or a line of voiceover to suit any thesis you care to make. In fact, a kind of referential mania overcomes you when you try to figure out the symbolism of clear water vs cloudy water, open doors and closed doors, mother and father, pilgrim and pearl. But there is no decoder ring provided, no single key to unlocking any single meaning. In fact, the Tarot reference may be more appropriate than we know, and “Knight of Cups”may be designed to be a deck of cards from which everyone makes their own hand. For me, I took this line from the palimpsestic voiceover, “You think when you reach a certain age, things will start making sense, but that’s what damnation is, all these pieces of your life just splashed about.”

The Guardian, in a review that professes admiration for To the Wonder, really takes Malick’s latest to task,

With his latest film Knight of Cups, however, Malick has frankly declined. There are moments of visual brilliance here, moments of reverence and even grandeur. He is always distinctive, and anything he does must be of interest. But his style is stagnating into mannerism, cliche and self-parody. Where once he used his transcendant visual language to evoke heartland America, these tropes are now exposed in being applied to tiresome tinseltown LA, where a screenwriter played by Christian Bale undergoes what has to be the least interesting spiritual crisis in history.

And IndieWire wrestles with the disparate elements,

There’s a sense of freshness to watching Malick’s dreamlike storytelling take root in a fully modern setting for the first time: Strip clubs, drab highways and even the Warner Bros. backlot take on a poetic quality that reflects Rick’s sense of dislocation. As always with Malick, individual moments hold substantial intrigue: An early sequence finds Rick feeling the ground outside his apartment in the aftermath of an earthquake as he seeks to become one with the natural world beyond the grasp of his superficial surroundings. But Malick’s free-wheeling approach means that the movie never lingers on its compelling images or philosophical conceits too long. A tone poem on the vapidity of fame, “Knight of Cups” rarely sits still, and its restlessness eventually grow tedious.

While Time Out London sums things up nicely,

This new film feels very much like part of the same project as ‘The Tree of Life’ and ‘To the Wonder’. All three films strive to make sense of a dislocated man reaching into his past. All three reach for the stars (there’s even a shot of Earth from space in ‘Knight of Cups’) and grasp for answers out of our everyday reach. All of them, too, feel like waking dreams that only their maker could truly explain or maybe even appreciate, meaning they’re as infuriating and impenetrable as they’re magical and open.

Twitter was the home of many positive reactions.

KNIGHT OF CUPS: Flirtations w/ narrative, fragments of a life, and a portrait of Los Angeles that outdoes all others. A masterwork.

— Filmbrain (Andrew G) (@Filmbrain) February 8, 2015

KNIGHT OF CUPS: Well, at least I know what film we’ll be arguing about for the rest of 2015. #teamkoc

— Filmbrain (Andrew G) (@Filmbrain) February 8, 2015

Malick continues to circle around Tree of Life’s huge themes (death, longing, faith) with KNIGHT OF CUPS. Glad to say it works. #berlinale

— Jutta Sarhimaa (@JuttaSarhimaa) February 8, 2015

KNIGHT OF CUPS feels like another branch off of TREE OF LIFE, just as TO THE WONDER did. And it’s spectacular.

— David Cox (@david_t_cox_) February 8, 2015

Knight of Cups: Terrence Malick’s latest is a captivating critique of Hollywood hedonism. America’s response to The Great Beauty #Berlinale

— Peter Yeung (@peteryeung_) February 8, 2015

KNIGHT OF CUPS is Malick at his most explorative—TTW was an awkward step toward what he’s arrived at here…Great? Maybe. Astonishing? Yes.

— Adam Cook (@AdamCook) February 8, 2015

Still a bit shaken after KNIGHT OF CUPS – Malick’s best since THIN RED LINE, surely. TO THE WONDER essentially an elaborate sketch for this.

— Neil Young (@JigsawLounge) February 8, 2015

Knight of Cups – Malick is BACK & better than ever! Stunning. Mesmerizing trip thru life of an actor, pretending to be anyone but himself.

— Alex Billington (@firstshowing) February 8, 2015

Finally, for a good laugh, here’s footage of two “journalists” addressing questions to Terrence Malick at the Knight of Cups press conference… despite the fact that he wasn’t there.

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Aspiring actors, disillusioned suburbanites, and little plastic men figure in today’s edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump:

• The Fight Club comic book sequel launches in May
• China and France will get to see Taken 3 in 3D
• Pirates of the Caribbean 5 adds a few more mates
• Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has a new poster
• Martin Starr says a Party Down movie is “unlikely”
• The Lego Movie 2 will introduce Emmet’s sister

Mark your calendars for Chuck Palahniuk‘s return to Fight Club. Dark Horse Comics has announced that the comic book sequel Fight Club 2 will launch this summer, with the first of ten issues hitting May 27.

If that’s not soon enough for you, there’ll be a couple of other offerings between now and then to tide you over. May 26 sees the publication of Palahniuk’s Make Something Up. The anthology features, among other things, a brand new short story about Tyler Durden.

And if you’re still feeling impatient, swing by your local store on Free Comic Book Day (May 2). Dark Horse will be offering a comic book that revisits the ending of Palahniuk’s Fight Club (which differs a bit from the ending of David Fincher’s Fight Club). Check out the cover below:

[Bleeding Cool]

Bryan Mills is badass enough in two dimensions, but Chinese and French audiences will get to see him in three. EuropaCorp has announced that Taken 3 will open in IMAX 3D in China. It’ll also play in 3D in France, after its 2D debut last month.

The company made the decision after Luc Besson’s Lucy hit IMAX and 3D in China and became the most successful Chinese debut ever for a French film. “We are very careful with 3D,” said EuropaCorp CEO Christophe Lambert. “Lucy‘s 3D version was praised by industry professionals and the audience wherever it was screened. And so will Taken 3.” [THR]

Three more have boarded Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Adam Brown (Ori from The Hobbit), Danny Kirrane (Autómata), and Delroy Atkinson, are set to star in the Disney sequel, alongside Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Kaya Scodelario, and Brenton Thwaites. Character details have not been given.

Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki) are directing, with pre-production already underway in Australia. Pirates of the Caribbean 5 sails into theaters July 7, 2017. [Variety]

Maybe The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel isn’t the most unlikely franchise-starter of all time, but it’s probably up there. Like most good franchises, though, it’s bringing some fresh faces for the sequel — specifically Richard Gere, David Strathairn, and Tamsin Grieg. Based on the new poster, Maggie Smith does not approve of these developments.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opens its doors on March 6. Director John Madden returns, along with Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Dev Patel, Ronald Pickup, and Celia Imrie. [EW]

At various points over the past few years, a Party Down movie sequel has looked somewhat plausible; at various other points, it’s sounded more akin to a pipe dream. Sadly, to hear Martin Starr tell it, the pendulum may have swung back to the latter side. On the bright side, though, it could return in a different form.

Said Starr:

I wish, man. […] I’m always in hopes of that. But it does seem rather unlikely. I mean, I think it would take a lot to get everyone’s schedules aligned. But it all starts with the writing, which I still think has yet to be figured out between those guys. So if ever a script gets finished, hopefully it’ll be easier.

But I know they’ve also talked about other avenues, one being to kind of reboot the series and do five episodes or something, or find a home for it if it’s not on Starz. If it is, cool, but if it’s not, then finding another home for it and putting it out. But whether it’s five new episodes or two extra-long episodes or some way to reignite that flame, we’d all love to do it.

Hey, a return to TV worked for Arrested Development. Kind of. Actually, that fourth season was kind of meh. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if we just let sleeping cater-waiters lie. [AV Club]

It sounds like everything will decidedly not be awesome for Emmet in his next big screen appearance. The Lego Movie directors and The Lego Movie 2 writer/producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller have revealed that the upcoming sequel will unfold in a “weird, dystopian version of Bricksburg.” As previously reported, the story will pick up four years after the events of the first film.

Fortunately, it sounds like Emmet will also have some new friends to help deal with his problems. The Lego Movie 2 will introduce Emmet’s sister. No word yet on whether she’ll hail from the Planet Duplo.

The Lego Movie 2 will probably land sometime after the Lego Batman spinoff, which is expected out in 2017. The other Lego Movie spinoff, Ninjago, premieres September 23, 2016. [AICN]

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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we get fancy, drink wine until our teeth turn red, shine a light on the redemption of prostitutes, go surfing on a rocket, get giddy as we revisit an already comprehensive look at Wes Anderson, and battle robots in Northern Ireland.

Fight for Space Trailer

Interstellar was one of the best movies I saw last year.

Point a finger, giggle a bit, drag out your digs and derision, there is just something about the exploration of the vast enormity of space, and the postulations of possibilities inherent in that, which sinks its theoretical hooks into my psyche. To that end, director Paul Hildebrandt just ran a successful campaign on Kickstarter that raised over a $100,000 for a documentary that explores this notion of how we’re going to get from where we are to where we want to go. This trailer manages to cut through the noise of SpaceX, rocket launches, and the general bickering occurring around our current situation as it pertains to the exploration of the solar system. This feels like a step back, with regard to perspective, and we’re able to take it from the top in going over how this all began and why we’re in our current predicament of wondering what’s really next. Where should be go, what should we do, these are all inherently interesting questions that deserve answers and a great trailer should tease and stir you, emotionally, as it makes those connections. This one, without question, connects and now I’d like to hear the rest of the story.

Dior and I Trailer

I can barely dress myself and my only cultural reverence for anything coming close to fashion couture is this Kids in the Hall sketch which sums it up pretty well.

This is a fact: I get prior approval before leaving for the day from my house. It’s not that I need to but it’s because I’m terrified of having put the wrong things together and being exposed as a 9 year-old who should know you can’t mix stripes and solids. (At least I think that’s how it goes?) See, I’m a mess. Director Frédéric Tcheng, though, is taking that 9 year-old who doesn’t understand squat about couture and, if the trailer is any indication, is trying to put some context around it. Much like The September Issue or Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s I’m transfixed by the loveliness that comes out of people who put way too much into ephemera that are exorbitant in cost, resources, and, like any fashion trend, sloughed off and tossed in 12 weeks when a new season brings with it another rodeo with these larger-than-life nabobs of narcissism. The trailer gins up that excitement around a guy who has to make his mark in a very tight time frame. Coupled with the fact that people are producing physical objects that somehow are supposed to be representative of his vision, coupled with the impending insanity when everything goes south, there is no way I am not going to watch this. It’s a shiny spoon and I’m but a single brain-celled goofball who barely is able to tie my shoes to these people. That said, I’m still waiting for the flats made from boxes of glass that the Kids in the Hall all but assured me would be a hit on the runways of Paris one of these seasons.

SOMM: Into the Bottle Trailer

I don’t know what my obsession is with these kinds of documentaries.

From wondering why one of the Koch brothers are on a crusade against counterfeit wines, to watching endless programs devoted to figuring out how to pair the best wine with whatever is on my Grillmaster 5000, director Jason Wise is back for another crack at a documentary that just came out a little more than a year and a half ago. Of course the subject is wine, and all the minutiae that goes along with it, so it stands to reason that as a winemaker stands before us, and declares how much B.S. goes into the development of wine, it has my full attention. We simply zip through this thing and it’s a delight. There isn’t anything in here that will make anyone’s Top 10 list but what it lacks in technical finesse it more than makes up for it in the manner in which we meet our film’s subjects. The language is down to earth, the worst suppositions we all have about it are put on the proverbial table and when we take a moment to ingest its message there is nothing to do but delight that this could be one of those moments where we’re going to have a peek behind the pomposity and get at the reason why so many seemed consumed with this singular delight.

Robot Overlords Trailer

Look, I wouldn’t have thought it up, either.

When you come up with an idea for a movie and it’s about aliens who attack a small hamlet in Ireland and the only defense is to be absolutely schwasted it’s just a matter of time before the populace decide whether it’s a good idea or not. Turns out, people dug it. A lot. Director Jon Wright is back for some more sci-fi adventure in a movie that doesn’t seem to have that same edge but looks like it could be a movie that could blend family entertainment and big robots quite well. In an interesting turn of perspective, I’m actually less interested in knowing whether this is just another paycheck for Sir Ben Kingsley and more interested in trying to see if this could be a 21st century homage to films like Monster Squad or other films of that era when it was about adventure. Distilled adventure without any pretense that it has to be any deeper than a genuinely fun ride. What I like about the trailer is how

Dreamcatcher Trailer

Should deeply resonate with anyone possessing a soul.

One of the things you notice about filmmaker Kim Longinotto’s examination into the underworld of sex workers in Chicago is how the trailer manages to capture its message without it ever being overpowering or too much of an emotional powder keg. It eases you into this life of a bustling city where millions live their lives while a segment of this society subsists on its perimeters. Much like those who help put water stations in the desert for migrants crossing the border, we’re introduced to the subject of this narrative. She is inserted into these moments as someone who is trying to help women who are working in the oldest profession known to man by giving them the kind of emotional support they lack in their own lives. There is no braggadocio present, the touting of this movie as an affirmation of the human condition by some pull-quoting reviewer, that is absent. What we are left with are moments with women as they try and elevate themselves from a life not worth living into a life led out loud, on their own terms. Powerful.

The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel Trailer

Out of all the making-of books I bought when growing up, Empire Strikes Back, for one, springs to mind as was the behind-the-scenes tome for Krull which I esteemed far too much, Matt Zoller Seitz‘ book The Wes Anderson Collection is one of the best collections of photos, interviews and perspectives on Anderson that you can currently get your hands on. It seems, though, that Seitz’ comprehensive guide was a smidge too late to squeeze in The Grand Budapest Hotel but he’s rectifying that with another addition to this collection and it could not look more inviting. If ever there was a quintessential way in asking you to invest in the continuation of what was started with the first book, this would be it. It’s honest, tells you straight up what’s going to be inside, is absolutely cheeky, and before the trailer was done I was already klick-klacking away on my keyboard to give him more of my money.

Nota bene: If you have any suggestions of trailers to possibly be included in this column, even have a trailer of your own to pitch, please let me know by sending me a note at Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com or look me up via Twitter at @Stipp

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What is David Ayer‘s dilemma about Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad? Want to see the Suicide Squad from the new episodes of Arrow? Should Hulk get his own movie? How does American Sniper and The Punisher tie together? Is the former Head of Sony remaining on the Spider-Man franchise? Where did Mr. Incredible and Batgirl get into a fight? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.

The case of Harley Quinn: Her madness defines her. Is she mad because of WHO she loves or because she loves him so much? #skwad

— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) February 5, 2015

David Ayer‘s Twitter feed has been awesome for dropping little nuggets about Suicide Squad.

There might be some kind of Ms. Marvel related news on The View Friday morning.

Coming. #tfx

A photo posted by David Ramsey (@davidpaulramsey) on Feb 4, 2015 at 9:27pm PST

David Paul Ramsey posted this photo of the Suicide Squad in Arrow, via Superhero Hype.

Marvel announced Secret Wars 2099 as part of their new initiative.

Marvel posted some images of the beautiful Kotobukiya statue of the Hulkbuster vs. Hulk fight from Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Io9 has nine reasons why Hulk shouldn’t get another solo movie.

USA Today posted images of new pop culture Madame Alexander dolls.

John Gholson & Moisés Chiullan talk Marvel Comics and do some trivia on the latest episode of the Giant Size podcast.

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Last year when Marvel announced an Inhumans movie for 2018, not many people outside comics fandom knew what an Inhuman was. So Marvel has been using various channels to introduce the concept of the mutant-like characters to broad audiences. We’ll probably see a couple in Avengers: Age of Ultron when that film opens in May, but for now the bulk of the Inhumans outreach is being done by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Luke Mitchell, of The CW’s show The Tomorrow People, has just been cast as an Inhuman named Lincoln. 

(Some potential spoilers follow for those not caught up with the show’s current run.)

Marvel.com announced that Mitchell is now “a charismatic Inhuman named Lincoln, who has an important role to play in Skye understanding the true extent of her transformation.” We don’t know precisely when he’ll show up, but it’ll be sometime after the show’s March return. (Obviously.)

That “transformation” for the S.H.I.E.L.D. character Skye (Chloe Bennett) started to manifest at the end of the show’s mid-season finale. The nature of her storyline for the rest of the season is open to question at this point, but Marvel’s open announcement about the nature of Mitchell’s character lets us know they are prioritizing the Inhumans as a plot point.

In addition to his role on The CW’s The Tomorrow People, Mitchell appeared on Australian soap opera Neighbours. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns to the air 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 3 on ABC.

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Beyond the Reach gives Michael Douglas a high-powered rifle and an insane sense of entitlement — not a good combination. Douglas plays a rich guy who hires a desert local (Jeremy Irvine) to lead him on a hunting expedition. But when Douglas shoots the wrong target, things go bad really quick. Soon Douglas is hunting Irvine, but the local kid has some pretty good tricks up  his sleeve. See how the two battle in the Beyond the Reach trailer.

This looks like great b-movie material, especially with an old, mean Michael Douglas in the lead. It’s been a while since we’ve seen him play this sort of shark, and the construction of this trailer suggests that the movie really has little on its mind beyond the cat and mouse game between the two men. And that’s great; why make things more complicated? We’ll watch this in a heartbeat.

Yahoo has the trailer. Written by Stephen Susco and directed by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti, Beyond the Reach will be in theaters and on VOD on April 17.

A high-rolling corporate shark (Michael Douglas) and his impoverished young guide (Jeremy Irvine) play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert in this lean, mean cat-and-mouse thriller.

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J.J. Abrams has heard your complaints about Kylo Ren’s lightsaber. He’s heard that it’s terrible, and that it is great, and he thinks it’s all hilarious. That’s just one of the facts uncovered Wednesday when the director was given an award by the Visual Effects Society. Abrams, the co-writer and director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, did some interviews before the event and our friends at Collider got five minutes to talk to Abrams about the franchise.

He talks about Kylo Ren’s lightsaber, the IMAX sequence, CG effects in the film, his role on the forthcoming Episodes VIII and IX, and gives some brief non-answers about the next trailer and Comic-Con. Watch the latest JJ Abrams Star Wars interview below.

Thanks to Collider for the JJ Abrams Star Wars interview.

Some of the stuff here we already knew. The one IMAX sequence for example. But it’s awesome to hear Abrams talk about the controversial lightsaber. He talks about using CG in this film more to remove things then to add them, which is pretty interesting, and then also suggests they’ll be at Comic Con and are “working” on a new trailer.

There’s also the fact they’re still editing so they haven’t watched the film as a whole. That’s new. And we also learn that he’s exec producing Episodes VIII and IX, which is the same role he’s currently serving on Star Trek 3.

Here’s the transcribed quote about the lightsaber. Watch the J.J. Abrams Star Wars interview for everything else:

It was a number of conversations [that led to the design].  It was a sketch that became a whole thing and, you know, this was not done without a lot of conversation and it’s fun to see people have the conversation that we had, but in reverse.

I will say that what’s been funny is, since the lightsaber’s come out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphics…I’ve gotten things that are nuts, and I’ve gotten people who’ve shown how it’ll kill you and how it doesn’t make any sense.  It’s been the funniest thing to see the arguments that have developed over this thing.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens December 18.

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The line between fact and fiction is blurred in Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, which is based on the story of a young Japanese woman found dead in the US in 2001. Supposedly she had traveled to the States in search of treasure, using the film Fargo as a map. The film dives into the dreams of a character inspired by that story, following her surprising trip to the US. Guided by Fargo and a homemade map, Kumiko struggles to find the pot of gold at the end of her own personal rainbow. Her journey is coldly beautiful, comic, and surprising. See the new Kumiko trailer below.

Kumiko the Treasure Hunter opens March 18 in NY, then hits LA on March 20. Trailer via IMDB. Other theatrical runs and VOD will follow.

In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, Pacific Rim) stars as Kumiko, a frustrated Office Lady whose imagination transcends the confines of her mundane life. Kumiko becomes obsessed with a mysterious, battered VHS tape of a popular film she’s mistaken for a documentary, fixating on a scene where a suitcase of stolen cash is buried in the desolate, frozen landscape of North Dakota. Believing this treasure to be real, she leaves behind Tokyo and her beloved rabbit Bunzo to recover it – and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she’s seen in the movies.

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Want to see a new image from behind the scenes of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Has Andy Serkis‘ Avengers: Age of Ultron identity been revealed? Which movies did the producers of The Flash compare their time travel episode too? Did Jeff Bridges want to come back after Iron Man? What did the showrunner of Daredevil have to say about the new trailer? Why did Ryan Reynolds hint that Green Lantern didn’t work? Who does Superman hang out with in a new edition of his comic book? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.

Seems like a long long time ago. I miss my carny gang. ????This is a shot that @clayenos took of me on set I was looking through my pictures and saw it

A photo posted by Clay Enos (@clayenos) on Feb 3, 2015 at 10:46am PST

Cool behind the scenes photo of Zack Snyder on the set of Batman v Superman. Why are they in the sewer?

Latino Review has some good dissection of some recent Marvel rumors that appeared on Reddit.

Once Disney released the non-watermarked versions of the new Avengers: Age of Ultron photos, it was confirmed Andy Serkis is playing is playing Ulysses Klaw.

Gamma Squad thinks it’s time for a new Batman TV show.

James Gunn wrote about the game the Guardians of the Galaxy bet on in the film and its design on his Facebook. Concept art by Anthony Francisco.

The producers of The Flash compare an upcoming time travel episode with Groundhog Day, The Terminator and Back to the Future.

Michael Keaton recently spoke about the outrage of his casting as Batman in the late Eighties.

Jeff Bridges told IO9 he wanted his character to survive the first Iron Man to appear in more movies.

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This weekend is a big one for Breaking Bad fans as the spin-off, Better Call Saul, airs its first episode. The show stars Bob Odenkirk as the man who eventually becomes sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman, as seen on Breaking Bad. How and why did Saul become who he is? That’s the question Vince Gilligan and his team will try to answer with Better Call Saul, which airs on February 8.

If you can’t wait until then, or just want a hint of the show’s tone, AMC has released a prequel comic book for the series. This is cool for multiple reasons. One, the story takes place during an episode of Breaking Bad. And two, you don’t even have to download it, you can read the entire thing online, right now. See the Better Call Saul comic book below.

Written by Jenn Carol and Gordon Smith and drawn by Steve Ellis, the full comic is available on the AMC Website.

Click the cover below to check it out.

Better Call Saul Comic Book

 Better Call Saul premiere on AMC February 8. Here’s the official description:

The series is set six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. When we meet him, the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut, a beloved character introduced in ‘Breaking Bad.’ The series will track Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “Criminal lawyer.” The series’ tone is dramatic, woven with dark humor.

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