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Superhero Bits: Fans And Stars Honor Stan Lee, New ‘Batman: Arkham’ Game Rumor Debunked & More When will the nextShazamtrailer arrive? Did you hear that newBatman: Arkhamgame rumor was debunked? Who almost hadJude Law’s role inCaptain Marvel? WillChris Evansdirect some episodes of Marvel’s shows for Disney+? What’s up with thatBatman Beyondanimated movie rumor? Who attended theStan Leetribute? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Get a sneak preview of the second half of the new season of DC Universe’s animatedYoung Justice: Outsiders....

Superhero Bits: Marvel Studios Skipping Comic-Con At Home, Kanye West Wants Presidency Like Wakanda & More Are you bummed thatMarvel Studioswon’t have a panel forSan Diego Comic-Con at Home? Did you hearKanye Westwants his presidential administration to be likeWakanda? WillAgents of SHIELDhaveCoulsonreunited withCaptain Americawhile they time travel? IsKeanu Reevesreturning for aConstantinemovie forJ.J. Abrams? WillCyborgget his ownKnightmaresequence inZack Snyder’sJustice League? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Sorry for bad news, butMarvel Studioswon’t have a panel atSan Diego Comic-Con at Homethis month....

Superhero Bits: Suicide Squad, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D, Hulkbuster, Rocket Raccoon, Age Of Ultron What wouldThe Avengerslook like in high school? Did you miss the tease ofJared Leto’sJokerhair fromSuicide Squad? WouldFreddie Highmorebe interested in playingSpider-Man? Want to seeJoss Whedontalking aboutAvengers: Age of Ultron? Are there new photos ofSifonAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits. If the@Avengerscast all went to school together, their yearbook page would look like thishttp://t....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, Dredd, Hellboy Want to watch a new featurette onGhost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance? How didTom Hardyfeel about wearing the Bane mask inThe Dark Knight Rises? DoesMarion Cotillardhave double duty inThe Dark Knight Risesafter all? Which actress has now revealed she auditioned forCatwomanand how can you get a replica ofThor’s hammer? Read about all of this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To Netflix In October 2017 Boo!Did I just send you to an early grave with fear? If so, I apologize. Now rise from your coffin and read the rest of this. September is winding down, which means it’s now time for October and with it, Halloween season. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. With a new month comes new titles on Netflix....

The Bodyguard Remake Is Back On At Warner Bros. With New Writer Attached A new iteration of “The Bodyguard” is back in development at Warner Bros. The studio, which originally planned to remake the successful 1992 Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston movie a decade ago but couldn’t get it to the starting line, has hired playwright Matthew López (“The Newsroom”) to write the screenplay for a “reimagining” of the story, which is said to be “inspired by” the first film....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Emma.’ Dares To Let Jane Austen’s Least Lovable Heroine Be A Brat (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:Emma.Where you may Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: In Regency-era England, the “handsome, clever, and rich” Emma Woodhouse fills her long, lazy hours by matchmaking her friends and family, but finds herself wildly out of her depth and humbled by her own missteps and mistakes....

Trailer: Steven Spielberg’s The Pacific Miniseries Executive produced bySteven Spielbergandfrom the creators of “Band of Brothers”,The Pacificis aa 10-part HBO mini-series which tells the intertwined stories of three Marines,Robert Leckie (played byJames Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda),during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. Produced on a budget of more $150 million, and shot on location in Australia, the seriesfollows (from an early press release) “The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day....

Tron 2 Viral Begins: Is Flynn’s Arcade In San Diego? I was awoken this early morning by the Fedex woman. I was supposed to be up anyways, getting ready for Comic-Con, went to bed later than planned last night. Needless to say, I was kinda grumpy. And the fact that I’ll be away from home for a week meant that if I didn’t answer the door, I would have to visit the Fedex warehouse downtown to get the package when I retuned home....

Watch The 2013 Movie Supercut That Argues “Life Without Movies Is Impossible” Celebration of 2013 as a year of movies is already in full swing, with critics groups handing out their awards, top-something lists starting to appear, and many a montage of 2013 footage competing for your time. The latest supercut ready to remind us of how some movies looked really good before we actually got to see them isFinal Cut 2013, an 8-minute assembly of trailer moments, beauty shots, and trailer gags....

Why The Empire Strikes Back Added Its Final Scene Four Months After Filming Wrapped It’s difficult to select the most iconic moment in"The Empire Strikes Back"considering just how big the film is. A cinematic juggernaut that forever changed the way Hollywood blockbusters told stories, “Empire” is lauded for its epic plot structure and turned what could have been a depressing and frustrating cliffhanger ending into an emotionally satisfying coda. But the final scene of the film, which lingers on Luke, Leia, R2-D2, and C-3PO as they watch Chewbacca and Lando fly off with the Millennium Falcon to search for Han, was added months after principal photography, proving that it’s never too late to add a cherry on the proverbial sundae....

Yellowjackets Originally Killed Off A Key Character In The Pilot Episode When thetrailer for “Yellowjackets"dropped last August, I remember writing up a post about it, thinking, “Wow, this show looks really good, but I’ll bet it gets lost in the streaming shuffle.” Thankfully, that’s hasn’t been the case. Like the wasp or hornet that gives the show and its wilderness-stranded, cannibalistic girls' soccer team their name, “Yellowjackets” has built up a lot of buzz around itself over the last 10 weeks....

‘Alien Covenant’ Trailer: Retro Computer ‘MUTHUR’ Knows Best In the 1980s, computers and A.I. were still a fairly new technology, and thus, weren’t to be trusted. This distrust manifested in various movies, but many forget that 1979’sAlienwas one of the first. The A.I. inAlien— Nostromo’s feminine-voiced computer known as “Mother,” spelled MUTHUR — wasn’t necessarily malicious per se, but it was a cold, impersonal machine that put the needs of the mission over the crew....