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Cool Stuff: The Grandmaster And The Collector Are Together At Last In Marvel Legends SDCC Exclusive Two-Pack San Diego Comic-Con is inching closer and closer, and every week, plenty of new exclusives are being revealed that fans will only be able to get their hands on at the convention. Hasbro consistently brings great stuff to Comic-Con, and fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be very happy with an exclusiveMarvel Legendstwo-pack featuring the two cosmic siblings known as The Grandmaster and The Collector, as portrayed byJeff GoldblumandBenicio del ToroinThor: RagnarokandGuardians of the Galaxyrespectively....

Diane Lane Cast As Martha Kent In ‘Superman’ Not too long ago, we heard thatKevin Costnerwas in talks to play Jonathan “Pa” Kent in Zack Snyder’sSupermanfilm. Today, we learn thatDiane Lanehas been cast as the other half of the parental dyad; she is officially on board the film as Martha “Ma” Kent. Read the full press release after the jump. Lane is an actress of considerable talents. Most people probably remember her from her recent performance inSecretariat, but in 2008, she played Mary Rice in Doug Liman’sJumper, another role in which she was the mother to a child who had super powers....

Director Gore Verbinski Narrates A Scene From The Overlooked ‘A Cure For Wellness’ A Cure For Wellnesshails from a remarkable craftsman. DirectorGore Verbinski’s latest has more to offer than beautiful and grotesque imagery. He’s continually heightening, in big and small ways, the film’s unholy atmosphere, as the camera moves smoothly from one creepy room to the next. One of those menacing rooms is the steam bath, whereDaneDeHaan’s characterfirst begins to experience what he can’t explain....

Exclusive: ‘The Suicide Squad’ Score To Be Composed By John Murphy Update: A report has been making the rounds claiming that Tyler Bates, writer/directorJames Gunn’s longtime composer, would be reuniting with Gunn to compose the score for the upcoming Warner Bros. and DC superhero sequelThe Suicide Squad. While that report came from a normally-reliable source, people close to the production have informed us that it was incorrect. We’ve learned thatJohn Murphy(Kick-Ass,Sunshine) will actually be providing the new score....

First Look: The Other Guys Unofficial photos have evidently leaked from the Big Apple set ofAdam McKay’sThe Other Guys.AsFirst Showingnotes, these might as well be premature studio-approved stills from the action comedy, which just began filming and is due late summer 2010. Missing from the pics arenew recruitsSam JacksonandDwayne “Tooth Fairy” Johnsonas the badass cops toWill FerrellandMark Wahlberg’s desk-assigned officers. I expected the latter duo to look goofier and less kempt—no vintage Panama City t-shirts?...

FX’s ‘Mrs. America’ Will Bring Cate Blanchett To TV Cate Blanchettis coming to American TV for the first time ever. The acclaimed actress will star in the FX limited seriesMrs. America, about the true story to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Blanchett will play 1970s constitutional lawyer and conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly in the series, which is set to begin production in 2019. There was a time when respected film actors cringed at the idea of appearing on television....

Interactive Spider-Man Attraction Teased At Disney Parks, New Spider-Man Suit Revealed Disney has announced that a new Marvel-themed experience is coming to California Adventure and Disneyland Paris that includes a new attraction “where guests of all ages can join the heroes in action.” The news is relatively vague, but based on some existing patents, we have a good idea of what the attraction is going to be like. In addition to some more story details about this overall expansion of their universe, the company also unveiled concept art for a brand-new Spider-Man suit that was designed by Marvel Studios and the parks' Imagineers....

Interview: Corey Haim Talks Crank 2: High Voltage, Corey-Isms, Lost Boys 3, Twitter, And Directing Dramedy! The clock is ticking. In minutes, I am scheduled to interviewCorey Haim. But I need more time to: find my good sunglasses, make a margarita, and hook up my interview shit poolside at a friend’s house. The publicist agrees to push the interview back half-an-hour. The power of /Film. By-and-by, it all works out and the publicist fulfills a dream....

Interview: Ryan Hansen On Party Down, Lame L.A. Bands, Kristen Bell, Gossip Girl, And Crystal Lake With each new episode,Party Downdistinguishes itself as one of the funniest and lewdest shows on TV, and one of the coolest that many viewers have not yet seen. Last week, we had agreat chatwithMartin Starr, and this week we have an interview withRyan Hansen(Veronica Mars). AsKyle Bradway—an aspiring model, actor, rockstar, and server of cocktail weenies—Hansen plays the kind of pink and stoned specimen that is hyper-thriving in Hollywood circa 2009....

Jimmy Kimmel Is The 2020 Emmy Awards Host, But He Has No Idea How The Ceremony Will Happen Perennial awards season host and late night talk show presenceJimmy Kimmelwill serve as the 2020 Emmy Awards host, although he’s uncertain exactly how the ceremony will work amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I don’t know where we will do this or how we will do this or even why we are doing this, but we are doing it and I am hosting it,” he said in a statement....

John Stamos Leading ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’ In Concert, With Weird Al And Finn Wolfhard Co-Starring Almost a year ago, we heard that Warner Bros. wasdeveloping a new movie based on the early adventures of Willy Wonka, the enigmatic chocolatier immortalized in the pages of Roald Dahl’s novelCharlie and the Chocolate Factoryand memorably brought to life by the late Gene Wilder in a 1971 movie adaptation. But while movement on that project has been quiet, there’s another new Willy Wonka coming to town....

Josh Gad Has Met With DC – Is He Playing The Penguin After All? Almost exactly one month ago,Beauty and the BeaststarJosh Gadtweeted a photo of The Penguin, the classic villain from Batman’s Rogues Gallery.Speculation ramped upabout the actor potentially playing that character opposite Ben Affleck’s Dark Knight in Matt Reeves' upcoming movieThe Batman, but Gad threw some water on his own fire by saying that he was “just having some fun” when he posted the picture and there was nothing to it....

Kevin Feige Teases Doctor Strange’s “Unique” Powers And The Eye Of Agamotto Marvel can take big swings these days. This year, they turnedAnt-Man– a character most people are hardly familiar with – into a box-office hit, following the massively successful and equally obscureGuardians of the Galaxy. When Marvel’s name is on a film, people will show up, which is why it’s the perfect time to introduceDoctor Strange. DirectorScott Derrickson(Sinister) can get weird with this comic book adaptation, and from the sound of it, that’s what he’s doing....