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After years of development hell, Relativity Media's new version of The Crow seems, finally, to have coalesced into a going concern. As we already knew, F. Javier Gutierrez (Before The Fall) is the film's director. But now we also, at longest last, have an actor signed and sealed to play the unfortunate anti-hero Eric Draven . The man in the corpse paint will be (*goth metal drum roll*) Luke Evans . If that's a surprise to the world at large, it's apparently not a sudden decision on the part of the filmmakers, with Deadline claiming that Evans has been top of the wishlist for some time. He was believed to be out of the running due to his commitments to Dracula Year Zero (in which he plays Dracula) and the publicity treadmill for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (where he's Bard the Bowman) but the potential schedule clashes have been avoided by Relativity pushing The Crow's start date to accommodate him. This new Crow was kickstarted by Stephen Norri

If anyone can compete with Bryan Singer in terms of figuring out Twitter as a movie PR tool, it’s The Wolverine’s James Mangold. He’s been offering vids, Vines, pics and hints as to the movie’s theme and this weekend took to the social media site to premiere a rather excellent ink-styled poster for the movie’s big bad, Silver Samurai . Crafted in much the same way as the poster for Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine   it’s an image of Kenuichio Harada (Will Yun Lee) who becomes a major problem for Logan in Japan. The Wolverine finds the hirsute hero traveling to the country, where he clashes with the Yashida crime family on behalf of love interest Mariko (Tao Okamoto). It's based on the classic Frank Miller/Chris Claremont comic run, and also stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Rila Fukushima, Brian Tee and Svetlana Khodchenkova. It’ll stalk into cinemas on July 26. And from the sounds of it, we’ll be seeing more from Silver Samurai soon. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Emp

Does May finally bring moviegoers back to theaters? By: MattInRC With crowds still staying away from theaters in droves - April 2013 was down 21% from April 2012 - the movie season is about a huge shot in the arm, with no less than 4 potential $200 million domestic grossers slated for release - Iron Man 3 , Star Trek Into Darkness, Fast Six, and The Hangover Part III . That's an impressive lineup, and one that Hollywood desperately needs big numbers from in order to right their ship. Let's take a look at each of these by week: May 3 Iron Man 3 is already a monster at the box office, potentially to take in a mesmerizing $175 million in its opening weekend. And while that's exactly what Hollywood needed, it's actually lower than last year's The Avengers , which opened to a $207.4 million domestic weekend. Say what you want about the film's treatment of The Mandarin, it seems like the film has already set a pretty high bar for the Summer 2013 season.

Arthur Newman Roundtable Interviews By Courtney Vaudreuilfor Here is our entire interview with Colin Firth and Emily Blunt for their film Arthur Newman . I want to thank Courtney Vaudreuilfor covering the Press Junket for SandwichJohnFilms. Wallace Avery is suffering from a middle aged malaise. Despite having a steady job, nice apartment, beautiful girlfriend, and young son, Avery is unable to move past his unsuccessful attempt at a pro golfing career. Desperate to start over and abandon his past shortcomings, Avery leaves everything behind and becomes a new man, Arthur Newman. Directed by Dante Ariola and starring Oscar® winner Colin Firth and Emily Blunt , the eponymously titled film ARTHUR NEWMAN explores whether one can ever truly start over and, more importantly, the consequences of living a purely selfish life. Did you guys have the same vocal coach ? Emily: We did actually. Colin: She had a good one, I had a bad one. Emily: No, we had the same one. [Laughs] I

Here is the trailer that was shown at CinemaCon, containing new footage. THE WOLVERINE starring Hugh Jackman , will be directed by James Mangold who rewrote the script previously drafted by Christopher McQuarrie. Please Leave A Comment-

DISNEY TWENTY-THREE’S SUMMER MOVIE SPECTACULAR, STARRING THE LONE RANGER, RIDES INTO HOMES MAY 14 NOW AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY TO D23 MEMBERS Insider Glimpses of Monsters University, Iron Man 3, The Lone Ranger and Disney’s Planes Plus an Extensive Feature Saluting 60 Years of Walt Disney Imagineering BURBANK, Calif. – April 29, 2013 – The summer issue of Disney twenty-three, the flagship magazine of D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, features a mega summer movie preview of Disney’s upcoming theatrical releases. D23 gets readers back in the saddle with filmmakers Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski for Johnny Depp’s upcoming The Lone Ranger; Billy Crystal talks about scaring up big laughs for Monsters University; the masterminds behind Marvel’s newest film, Iron Man 3, offer an inside look at how they're bringing Iron Man back to basics; and John Lasseter shows us how the upcoming animated film Disney’s Planes will soar. Disney twenty-three also celebrates 60 years of Walt D

While the first Captain America was a World War II action-adventure, the new one is conceived as a 1970s-style conspiracy thriller—in tone, if not time period. “We weren’t going back to World War II,” says Feige, especially since Chris Evans’ hero was introduced to modern times in Avengers. “Cap cannot travel in time. So while Tony can go home to Malibu and Thor goes up to Asgard and Hulk can sort of ride the rails, Cap was stuck.” At the end of the 2011′s Captain America: The First Avenger , supersoldier Steve Rogers woke up to find he was a man out of time. Now he finds he’s also a man without a place. “So Cap does stay with S.H.I.E.L.D. because he has nowhere else to go,” Feige says. “But he’s not necessarily comfortable there. As you might imagine, somebody who’s spent 70 years in ice, frozen, wakes up and has to fight a bunch of aliens with a bunch of weirdos—he is trying to figure out what his life is.” Directors Anthony and Joe Russo are taking over the franchise from f

Here are images from the London premiere for STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS . In the wake of a shocking act of terror from within their own organization, the crew of The Enterprise is called back home to Earth. In defiance of regulations and with a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads his crew on a manhunt to capture an unstoppable force of destruction and bring those responsible to justice. As the heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew. “ STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS ” opens nationwide May 17th, 2013. See all the images after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-