From the people behind The Sequels That Bombed comes a new graphic highlighting the superhero genre through the years. I originally found it on Firstshowing.net via Koldcast TV and you can view a smaller version below, but you will definitely want to click it to check out the full thing. Read the full story

20th Century Fox has now officially announced that they will be moving ahead with a Deadpool movie. Ryan Reynolds is set to reprise the role, producer Lauren Shuler Donner will be producing with Marvel Entertainment. The studio is currently looking out for writers.

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IESB is reporting now a rumor that Chris Pine, the new James T. Kirk in in the upcoming Star Trek is up for the role of Hal Jordan, aka The Green Lantern. Warner Brothers is currently getting ready to start shooting in September, and they already have a set release date for December 17th, 2010. Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) is attached to direct.

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By Jordan Raup

I’ll admit it. I’ve never heard of Watchmen until Zack Snyder was attached to direct during the summer of 2006. Since I hadn’t read the graphic novel the hype started when I saw the trailer before The Dark Knight. I knew it was something special and after reading the graphic novel during the past couple months my hype increased tenfold. After the lawsuit fiasco got resolved it finally sunk in, I would actually be seeing this very soon. Only watching the trailers and select TV spots, the day finally arrived. From the first frame of Watchmen, as lush yellow completely engulfs the screen while the company logos pop in, eventually fading into that iconic pin, we just hope Snyder doesn’t screw this up. Don’t worry, he doesn’t.

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Not sure what is coming out this month? Here is a run-down of my eleven most anticipated films:

11. The Great Buck Howard (March 20th) (limited)

Plot: A law school dropout (Colin Hanks), much to the chagrin of his father (Tom Hanks), becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline (Malkovich). Can the fledgling partnership lead to the comeback of a lifetime?

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Why You Should See It: Pretty impressive cast and a somewhat interesting premise, this is should be a decent indie comedy/drama.

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Variety reports Michel Gondry, director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind is in talks to direct The Green Hornet. Seth Rogen is starring, producing, and co-writing with Evan Goldberg (Pineapple Express, Superbad). Although Stephen Chow dropped out of the directing role he is still on to co-star as Kato.

Plot: By night, debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato.

After rumors of The Green Hornet being scrapped at Sundance, then it coming back with Gondry attached I couldn’t be more excited. Altough Be Kind Rewind was the most disappointing film I saw last year I loved Science of Sleep and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a masterpiece in my eyes. Bring on June 25th, 2010.

What do you think of Gondry directing The Green Hornet?

We reported a couple of days ago that according to a  certain Sundancer Seth Rogen’s superhero film The Green Hornet was DEAD. Well, it turns out that is not true. Firstshowing reports that Seth Rogen contacted Hitflix (who first rumored that the film was off) and had this to say:

[The studio heads] have every intention on making it, and assuming we’re able to hire a new director in the upcoming weeks, which seems like a distinct possibility, it should still hit the release date.

Seth Rogen is starring, co-writing and even producing so I trust what he has to say. The screenplay also written by Evan Goldberg (Pineapple Express, Superbad) follows a newspaper publisher Britt Reid (Rogen) who fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato (Chow). Stephen Chow recently dropped out of the directing role, but is still in the movie, according to AICN. The release of June 25th,2010 is backon!

After these problems do you think The Green Hornet production will go smoothly?

/Film reports that Drew McWeeny over at Hitfix says the buzz at Sundance is that Seth Rogen’s superhero movie The Green Hornet is basically on life support over at Sony, and that there’s “a good chance the studio’s going to kick the plug out any moment now.” Drew reports:

[A]t Sundance, I heard several people say that the film was off completely. I spoke this afternoon with a source close to the film, and while they didn’t call it completely dead, they did say it is “highly unlikely” that the film will shoot in 2009 at all.

The screenplay written by Evan Goldberg (Pineapple Express, Superbad) follows a newspaper publisher Britt Reid (Rogen) who fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato (Chow). Stephen Chow recently dropped out of the directing role, but is supposedly still in the movie. The release of June 25th, 2010 is not looking too likely now.

Would you be upset if we never get to see The Green Hornet?

In my young life, I have seen far greater snubs. As I sit here now, at my computer, only one question comes to my mind: how many people did Harvey Weinstein have to pay off so his one, and only, Oscar-contending film, The Reader, would rake in 5, count em 5, MAJOR Oscar nominations, despite only receiving a mediocre 60 percent on Rotten Tomatoes?

Meanwhile, The Dark Knight sits with only one major Oscar nom, that being the late great Mr. Ledger for Best Supporting Actor of course. Director Chris Nolan got no love, the Nolan bros got no love for their screenplay (although I already spoke my mind about the undeserving sloppy screenplay). By the way, The Dark Knight, which was both the best superhero film of all time and the best crime film of this year, got 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. I guess ALL of those critics were wrong.

The Weinstein Company is half of what once was the all-powerful Miramax (which also still exists, under new ownership, and is still rather powerful, if not far less savvy), after the split that occurred a couple of years ago. And while rumors of fledgling business and continuous lay-offs have been circulating around The Weinstein Company, it appears that Harv still has a whole lotta power in Cali. After all, how does one convince enough Academy voters to choose a film that was described by more than a few critics as the definition of “Oscar bait?”

The answer, apparently, is money and intimidation. The guy is a bully with a big pocketbook and a whole lotta friends. When I say friends, of course, I mean people he pays who are REQUIRED to like him.

I’ve always been a defender of the Oscars, admitting the politics involved but admiring the importance associated with it and the star power of the whole thing. And the fact that, every once in a while, there’s a nice little surprise nomination (In Bruges got a Best original Screenplay nod this time around). All of that being said, I’m beginning to give up on the whole Oscar thing. Because of The Reader. And the lack of The Dark Knight. My guarantee is that ten years from now no one will know what The Reader was about, only remembering that Kate Winslet won the Oscar for it, finally being recognized for an increible body of work, not actually The Reader. People will remember The Dark Knight, for Ledger’s performance and so much more.

It’s also because of Weinstein. This is the same guy that got The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love the Best Picture Oscar over far superior films, most notably Saving Private Ryan, arguably the greatest war film ever made.

This guy is destroying something that looked to be on the right track, with a No Country for Old Men win last year AND love for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly director Julian Schanabel. It appears that all of this was a lie and the Academy is as corrupt and fickle as ever.

They are also stupid. Why wouldn’t you vote The Dark Knight in? In today’s viral age, how many viewers did you just lose because there’s no chance that Nolan’s masterpiece can win come Oscar night. After the wise hiring of Hugh Jackman to host, they go and do something like this. Congratulations Academy, you just dug your own ratings grave…again. Christopher Nolan gave you a chance at rejuvenation on a silver platter, and you shit all over it. For The Reader. And Harvey Weinstein.

Variety reports that Warner Bros. and Fox have made a deal in order to release the much anticipated Watchmen in time.

Warner Bros. gets the right to open its superhero pic on March 6 as planned, and Fox’s logo will not be on the film, sources said.

Fox, on the other hand, will emerge with an upfront cash payment that sources pegged between $5 million and $10 million, covering reimbursement of $1.4 million the studio invested in development fees, and also millions of dollars in legal fees incurred during the case.

More importantly, Fox will get a gross participation in “Watchmen” that scales between 5% and 8.5%, depending on the film’s worldwide revenues. Fox also participates as a gross player in any sequels and spinoffs, sources said.

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess will meet with attorneys on Friday morning in Los Angeles to finalize the settlement.

I literally finished reading the last page of the Watchmen graphic novel the second this news broke, so I was just in time. I don’t read many graphic novels but I was blown away by this one. I can’t wait to see how it transfers to the big screen and I really hope they get that ending right.

Will you be at the theater at midnight on March 6th for the Watchmen?