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Caliburn24 here with news on the the latest Star Wars animated series. Star Wars.com noted that the show, Star Wars: Rebels, will premiere in fall 2014 as a one-hour special airing on the Disney Channel.  It is being produced by Lucasfilm Animation.  Clone Wars was cancelled at the end of the fifth season.  Pablo Hidalgo, writer for many Star Wars reference books and the...

Columbia Pictures and Nuke The Fridge are giving you a chance to win advance screening passes for M. Night Shyamalan’s AFTER EARTH starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. The screening will be on May 29th inside the Pico Rivera Village Walk 15 at 7:30. HERE’S HOW TO WIN! ...

After the massive success of Marvel’s The Avengers, fans of comic book and superhero movies have been salivating at the idea that one day DC Comics could get their act together and bring iconic characters such as Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, and Wonder Woman (to name a few) to the big screen in their own live action Justice League movie. The consensus...

Marvel Studios has been exploring and releasing films about its comic book characters for some time now.  The studio has dubbed these block of releases as phases. ...

Kudos to director Gareth Edwards for filming this shot for Legendary Pictures’ “Godzilla.” The green screen special effects scene is of a subway car presumably wrecked by the giant lizard.  In the original 1954 “Godzilla,” the monster rampages his way through Tokyo destroying a subway train in the process. This is a subtle homage to the first...

Join Regency Theatres, the Azusa Film Society, the Merchants & Management of Citrus Crossing, and Nuke the Fridge for Flashback Tuesday Night at the Foothill Cinema in Azusa, California for the 1971 hit film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.” The event begins at 7:30 p.m., and admission is only $6.00 per person. Also, there will be prizes for costumes...

From director Paul Middleditch (“Separation City”) and screenwriter Chris Matheson (“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”) comes the end of days comedy “Rapture-Palooza.” The film tells the story about the apocalypse, and what occurs after a billion people are raptured up to heaven. Lindsey (Anna Kendrick) and her boyfriend Ben (John...

Caliburn24 here with Michael B. Jordan’s casting as the Human Torch in the new Fantastic Four film.  ...

Caliburn24 here with Marvel movie news. Senator Stern, played by comedian Garry Shandling, in Iron Man 2 (2010) is returning to the Marvel films with Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). He was the senator who requested that Tony Stark turn in his armor to the government. Senator Stern had some back story told in the comic book limited series, Iron Man 2: Public Identity...

Caliburn24 here with the news on the next James Bond director. The Daily Mail reported today that Christopher Nolan, the director of Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), has had talks with the producers of the James Bond films, Barabara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.  They were the producers of the last Bond film, Skyfall (2012).  The director of that...

Caliburn24 here with Avengers 2 news. Joss Whedon has confirmed the appearances of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in the upcoming Avengers sequel. Whedon hinted at their inclusion while speaking to Yahoo! Movies at the Iron Man 3 premiere; “I’ve got these two characters, two of my favorite characters from the comic book, a brother-sister act. They’re in the movie.”...

Caliburn24 here with the Hero Complex screening of two films by Guillermo del Toro was held on Saturday, May 11. The previous article dealt with the screening and focused on del Toro’s comments on Devil’s Backbone. The host, Gina McIntyre, asked Guillermo del Toro about Pacific Rim: “The thing with Pacific Rim was all of my childhood, in the 60’s and 70’s in Mexico,...

Caliburn24 here in the darkness of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness. The film, of course, is a sequel to Abrams’ reboot of the Trek verse with the 2009 movie. It opens with the planet Nibiru, identified as a Class M planet which is a Federation designation of a planet that can sustain humanoid life. In Trek lore, M stands for Minshara, used by Vulcans to designate...

Used as the location of Storybrooke for the hit ABC fantasy television series “Once Upon a Time,” the village in Steveston, British Columbia is standing in for part of San Francisco. In the film, the big, green guy is going to rampage through the city by the bay. ...

Today, CW’s network president Mark Pedowitz spoke to reporters after an upfront presentation with advertisers in New York. He noted that original “Amazon” writer Allan Heinberg (“Grey’s Anatomy”) was no longer working on the rewrite. Although the project is still a priority, Heinberg has been replaced by Aron Eli Coleite (“Heroes,”...

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Synopsis for Riddick: The latest chapter of the groundbreaking saga that began with 2000′s hit sci-fi film Pitch Black and 2004′s The Chronicles of Riddick reunites writer/director David Twohy (A Perfect Getaway, The Fugitive) and star Vin Diesel (the Fast and Furious franchise, xXx). Diesel reprises his role as the antihero Riddick, a dangerous, escaped convict wanted...

Caliburn24 here with the Hero Complex screening of Devil’s Backbone (El espinazo del Diablo) and Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) at the Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood on May 11. The night begun with the screening of Devil’s Backbone which had some unusual sub-titles, “The Ghost that Sights.” Next, a new trailer for Pacific Rim showed the first kaiju (giant...

Guillermo Del Toro‘s Pacific Rim has unleashed another cool trailer. You can check it out below! ...