LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Coming This Fall

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A new LEGO Batman game is on the way. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group have announced a third entry in the popular video game series. The upcoming new installment is titled, “LEGO Batman: Beyond Gotham.”

You can read the press release for the game and watch the announcement trailer below:

LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham will be available beginning Fall 2014 for the Xbox One all-in-one games and entertainment system and the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems, PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system, the Wii U™ system from Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS™ hand-held system, as well as for Windows PC.

LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is the next instalment to the blockbuster LEGO Batman™: The Videogame and LEGO Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes videogames. To-date, LEGO videogame sales have reached more than 100 million units worldwide.

“Building on the incredibly successful LEGO Batman franchise, we are working to make LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham the ultimate super hero videogame this year for all ages,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games.  “The TT Games team is bringing LEGO Batman and an astounding amount of characters from the DC Comics universe to the next frontier with a new epic story, more gadgets and unexpected challenges.”

In LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, the Caped Crusader joins forces with the super heroes of the DC Comics Universe and blasts off to outer space to stop the evil Brainiac from destroying Earth.  Using the power of the Lantern Rings, Brainiac shrinks worlds to add to his twisted collection of miniature cities from across the universe.  Now the greatest super heroes and the most cunning villains must unite and journey to different Lantern Worlds to collect the Lantern Rings and stop Brainiac before it’s too late.

Players will unlock more than 150 unique characters from the DC Comics universe, including members of the Justice League and LEGO big figures such as Killer Croc, Solomon Grundy and many more. Fans of all ages will be able to control their favorite heroes and villains with new gadgets and abilities. Brainiac’s mind controlling abilities and the power of the Lantern rings bring unexpected twists to the classic characters’ personalities.

LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham also will allow players to explore iconic locations such as the Hall of Justice, the Batcave and the Justice League Watchtower.  They will be able to access Batman’s training modules on the Bat Computer and take part in various challenges, battles and races.

LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is being developed by TT Games and will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Noomi Rapace to Star Opposite Will Smith in “Brilliance” Adaptation

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Noomi Rapace is reportedly in negotiations to join Will Smith in the film adaptation of the novel “Brilliance.” The film is based on the novel by Marcus Sakey and is being adapted by Legendary Entertainment.

The book takes place in a world where a minority set of people are born with extraordinary abilities and are called “brilliants.” A panic sets in among the human majority, bringing the world to a civil war, which is exactly what a nefarious faction wants.

Smith is playing a federal agent, a brilliant with great hunting gifts who is drafted to hunt down a terrorist, another such brilliant who intends to start the civil war.

Rapace will play a tattooed and pierced brilliant that is identified as a terrorist by the government.

Brilliance is being directed by Julius Onah with a script from David Koepp. The produces will be Joe Roth, Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni.

Universal will release the feature project, which is aiming for a summer start.

“Hemlock Grove” Season 2 Key Art Revealed

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Netflix has released the key art for the upcoming second season of Eli Roth’s “Hemlock Grove.” The show that doesn’t deserve a second season will premiere with ten new episodes on Friday, July 11. As a Netflix Original Series, it will have all ten episodes available at once.  You can see the new art above.

The show explores the strange happenings in the titular small Pennsylvania town, focusing on the unlikely friendship between the founding family’s young heir, Roman Godfrey (Skarsgård), and gypsy newcomer and outsider, Peter Rumancek (Liboiron). Each holds a monstrous secret that has been unleashed. Season two continues with the town coming to grips with the shocking massacre incurred by one of its deadliest creatures. Roman and Peter are now faced with new responsibilities and the realities that come with adulthood. Roman’s relationship with his mother (Janssen) is all but dead as he struggles with his unwanted Upir birthright and the disappearance of his sister, Shelley (Martin). Peter moves in with Destiny (Horn) and is forced to get a job after his mother is sent away. Meanwhile, in search of a new life, newcomer Miranda Cates (Brewer) embarks on Hemlock Grove with an unknowingly profound effect on Peter and Roman. And Norman (Scott), still reeling from the loss of his family, must face the harsh truths that are uncovered about those he still loves.

“Hemlock Grove” stars Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron and Dougray Scott, along with Madeline Brewer, Madeleine Martin, Joel de la Fuente and Tiio Horn.

Charles “Chic” Eglee has joined the series as showrunner and executive producer in season two.

“The Wolf Among Us” Episode 4 Releases Screenshot and Premiere Date

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The next chapter of “The Wolf Among Us” will release next week on May 27 for PC, Mac, and PlayStation Platforms. It will then hit Xbox 360 on May 28, and iOS devices on May 29. A new screenshot was released which you can see above though it doesn’t seem to reveal very much.

Episode 4 of the TellTale Games series is titled “In Sheep’s Clothing.”

“The Wolf Among Us” is set in the year 1986, decades before the events of the first issue of Fables (the comic book series the game is based on.) For years, many of the magical and mystical lands described in myth, legend, and folklore (known colloquially as “the homelands”) have been occupied by an enigmatic tyrant known only as the Adversary. To escape the Adversary’s marauding armies and totalitarian regime many creatures and characters known as “fables” fled to the mundane world and created an enclave known as Fabletown in colonial America, now located in modern-day Manhattan. To mask their presence from the native humans (referred to as “mundies”) all non-human fables have to purchase an enchantment known as a “glamour” which allows them to appear human, or be relocated to a rural community known as “The Farm”. The reformed Big Bad Wolf, Bigby Wolf (voiced by Adam Harrington), is the sheriff of Fabletown and is responsible for hiding the community from the wider world and enforcing its laws.

Remember, if you bought the season pass then you’ll get episode 4 for no extra charge. It will cost $4.99 to everyone else.

You can see the trailer for episode 4 below:

Warner Bros. Picks Up Supernatural YA Novel “Invisibility”

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The supernatural romance YA novel, “Invisibility,” is heading to the big screen. The novel by David Leviathan and Andrea Cremer was acquired for film by Warner Bros. The book was published in May 2013 by Philomel.

With “Invisibility,” the two team up to tell the tale of a 16-year-old boy who is literally invisible. He then meets and falls for his new neighbor, the one person who can actually see him. The two the set out to discover the truth behind his affliction, uncovering curses and spells along the way.

Leviathan is most known for being the author of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist while Cremer is the writer behind Nightshade, the popular YA witchcraft book series. 

There is no writer or producer attached. Niija Kuykendall and Cate Adams will oversee the project for the studio.

New Trailer for Adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “Radio Free Albemuth” Debuts

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The film adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel, “Radio Free Albemuth” has released a new trailer. The project was directed and adapted by John Alan Simon. The book was written in 1976 and posthumously published in 1985.

Radio Free Albemuth stars several well-known actors including Shea Whigham, who plays Eli on Showtime’s Boardwalk Empire, Katheryn Winnick, who stars on History’sVikings, musician/actress Alanis Morissette, Ashley Greene, Jon Tenney and Rich Sommer.

The film is set in an alternate reality in 1985. Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady (Jonathan Scarfe) begins to experience strange visions transmitted from an extraterrestrial source he calls VALIS. He moves with his family to L.A., where he becomes a successful music executive with a secret mission to overthrow the oppressive government led by U.S. President Fremont (Scott Wilson). With the help of his best friend, sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick (Whigham), and a beautiful, mysterious woman named Silvia (Morissette), Nick finds himself drawn into a conspiracy of mind-shattering proportions.

Radio Free Albemuth is a science fiction thriller that was initially filmed in 2007. It is finally getting a release via Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (FDM), which acquired all DVD/VOD rights.

The film was produced by Dale Rosenbloom, Stephen Nemeth and Elizabeth Karr along with Simon, the project will debut in limited theaters and on all digital platforms June 27.

You can watch the trailer below:

The Wire’s Seth Gilliam Joins The Walking Dead For Season 5

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“The Walking Dead” seems to becoming a post-apocalyptic version of “The Wire.” Seth Gilliam has been added to cast for season 5 joining fellow Wire actors Chad L. Coleman (who plays Tyreese) and Larry Gilliard Jr (who plays Bob).

You may remember Gilliam as Sgt. Ellis Carver on “The Wire” who often got into shenanigans with Herc. He also starred in Starship Troopers as Sugar Watkins.

Currently, we have no idea who Gilliam will be playing in the season but he will be a series regular. Michael Cudlitz (Abraham Ford), Josh McDermitt (Eugene Porter), Alanna Masterson (Tara Chambler), Christian Serratos (Rosita Espinosa) and Andrew J. West (Gareth) are promoted to series regulars for this season

Showrunner Scott M. Gimple has been confirmed to return for the fifth season of the top-rated zombie survival show.

Season five of The Walking Dead will premiere this fall on AMC.

Batman vs. Superman is Officially Titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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After MONTHS of news and updates for the upcoming Man of Steel sequel, we finally have an official name: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. We even have an official logo you can see above.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice stars Henry Cavill in the role of Clark Kent/Superman, Ben Affleck as BruceWayne/Batman, and Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, with Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane returning from Man of Steel, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons as Alfred, and Holly Hunter in a role newly created for the film.

The highly anticipated sequel is based on Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, Batman characters created by Bob Kane, and Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston, appearing in comic books published by DC Entertainment.

The film is written by Chris Terrio, from a screenplay by David S. Goyer. Charles Roven and Deborah Snyder are producing, with Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Wesley Coller, David S. Goyer and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice releases in theaters on May 6, 2016.

Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Debuts Five Character Posters

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Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has officially released five new character posters as we inch closer to the film’s release. The film is a sequel to 2005 film titled simply Sin City. The films are based on the comic book series from Miller.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Miller. The duo reunite to bring the graphic novel to the screen for a second time.

One of the smaller plots of the film is based on the short story “Just Another Saturday Night”, which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series. Two original stories written by Miller were also created exclusively for the film.

Powers Boothe, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Dennis Haysbert, Martin Csokas, Jamie Chung, Jamie King, Alexa Vega, Julia Garner, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta, Juno Temple, Christopher Lloyd, Stacy Keach and Jude Ciccolella also star in the August 22 release.

You can see the character posters below:

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New Stephen King Movies on the Horizon

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Stephen King will be able to add two more film adaptations to his body of work. “Gerald’s Game” and “Mr. Mercedes” are being planned for film projects alongside the recently optioned tale, “Bad Little Kid.”

According to a report from Deadline, Mike Flanagan is planning to helm Gerald’s Game. The screenplay was written by Flanagan along with writing partner Jeff Howard. The novel was published in 1992 and begins with a couple playing a bondage game, but the act turns deadly, leaving one of them handcuffed to the bed and alone.

The novel “Mr. Mercedes” releases on July 3 but the film rights have already been acquired by Temple Hill and Media Rights Capital. According to Shock Till You Drop, Jack Bender is attached to direct while producers are still looking for a writer for the screenplay. The upcoming book revolves around a driver who runs over a crowd of job searchers with a Mercedes, killing 8 and wounding 15 more — yet the wheelman gets away.