The latest news on the casting situation for X-Men: First Class is that Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson has been cast as Cyclops. /Film says that this was a rumor started a few months ago and it looks like it will turn out to be true. Apparently Johnson was seen taking meetings with director Matthew Vaughan earlier this year. That’s when the speculation began. Read the full story

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Sony has viewed screen tests of all the serious contenders in the frame to replace Tobey Maguire in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot, with a decision on who will finally don the web-slinger’s red-and-blue lyrca expected shortly. [Deadline] Read the full story

Bryan Singer never seems to have big luck getting his next film off the ground. His latest is no exception. Heat Vision reports that his big-budget, effects-heavy Jack The Giant Killer has delayed its start date from this summer in England to February 2011. Read the full story

You may know Aaron Johnson from Matthew Vaughn‘s Kick-Ass. The star also leads Nowhere Boy, a biopic of sorts that focuses on John Lennon‘s childhood. It is directed by Sam Taylor Wood, who is now Johnson’s wife. The cast also features Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Sangster and David Threlfall. Check out the trailer below via Apple. Read the full story

Kick-Ass is insane, hilarious and downright impressive. Similar to last year’s Watchmen, it takes the tropes and conventions of the superhero genre and turns it on its ear. And though the film is never quite as sharp or refined as Watchmen, it does its predecessor justice, surpassing nearly every film it pokes fun at it. Read the full story

The Greatest, the directorial debut of screenwriter Shana Feste, does the incredible feat of being heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, drawing the audience into this deeply moving film. Read the full story

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Creating a new comic book is no easy task. Creating one which can compete in a market populated by the omnipresent staples of the big houses, DC and Marvel, is near impossible. You have to do something different, especially if you’re planning on entering the superhero genre. Even still, that’s exactly what Mark Millar set about doing when creating Kick-Ass, the story of an average guy’s attempts at becoming a superhero. The big-screen adaptation, written by Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn (the same team that adapted Neil Gaiman’s novel Stardust in 2007) and directed by Vaughn, shared a symbiotic relationship with the comic book rarely seen, as both were developed at the same time. The result being that the film is also not your usual superhero fare. Read the full story

A new red-band trailer has been released for Matthew Vaughn’s highly anticipated Kick-Ass starring Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson, and Nicolas Cage. Check it out below via Myspace. Read the full story

A new international trailer has been released for Matthew Vaughn’s highly anticipated Kick-Ass starring Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson, and Nicolas Cage. Check it out below. Read the full story

New set pictures have popped up over at Coming Soon for David Fincher‘s “Facebook movie” The Social Network. The pictures show Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckenberg and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook. The pictures aren’t official releases, being snapped on set. Click the image below to see the full-res versions over at Coming Soon. Read the full story