Legion (and to a lesser extent, Priest) actually made me feel sorry for Paul Bettany, which is saying a lot when you consider the bastard is married to Jennifer Connelly!! It’s a film so woefully inept and aimless it should be used in a Scared Straight for filmmakers! It’s sad considering that I’d actually love to see the man succeed as an action star! Anything to erase the memory of Wimbledon.

In any event, someone at SyFy has decided that the concept for Legion should be translated to episodic television, according to Deadline. Film director and co-writer Scott Stewart is already on board, as is Sons of Anarchy writer Vaun Wilmott. No word yet on what direction the series will take.

Oscar winner Denzel Washington (Unstoppable, The Book of Eli) and Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) star in the action-thriller Safe House.

Safe House follows rogue CIA agent Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he’s remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

Safe House also stars Robert Patrick (Walk The Line, Ladder 49), Vera Farmiga (Source Code) and Sebastian Roché (Supernatural, The Adventures of Tintin) and is directed by Daniel Espinosa.

For more information on Safe House, head to the movie’s website and become a fan on their Facebook page.

And I was thinking to myself last week, why Sony would pass up an opportunity to put out a Super Bowl Spot for The Amazing Spider-Man.

The new trailer gives a better idea of what the story will be, touching on Dr. Curt Connors’ character and his transformation into the Lizard, who we still only get a few brief glimpses of (if the toy photos released are any indication however, he’s gonna remind a few people of the goombas from the Bob Hoskins Super Mario Bros. movie).

Action-wise, it looks pretty good, I must admit. But dammit if that suit still doesn’t look like crap!! Well, I’m sure some fans will overlook that, after they see Spidey cracking-wise with a carjacker.

The upcoming action-thriller movie Safe House follows rogue CIA agent Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he’s remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

Safe House is in theaters Friday, February 10th but we have some cool stuff to give up to you before then!

The Safe House SWAG BAG features a draw string Safe House bag, a Safe House T-Shirt and a Safe House Digital Cleaner for LCD surfaces. How do you get in on this GIVE-A-WAY? It’s easy.

First off, check out the recent TV Spot below for Safe House. After that, head over to the movie’s website and learn more about it. When you’re finished, make sure you’re following us on Twitter (@popcultureshock) and then tweet the following phrase exactly: “Follow @popcultureshock + check out the Safe House trailer http://bit.ly/zmJbNU to WIN #SafeHouseSwag“.

That’s all you have to do. If you’re lazy (like we are at PCS), simply copy and paste the above text and your entry is in! The winner will be announced via Twitter by 11AM EST opening day for Safe House.

Safe House also stars Robert Patrick (Walk The Line, Ladder 49), Vera Farmiga (Source Code) and Sebastian Roché (Supernatural, The Adventures of Tintin) and is directed by Daniel Espinosa.

While it’s still hard to overlook director John Chu’s previous credits, which include two Step Up sequels, and a Justin Beiber documentary, I can’t help but get excited for G.I. Joe Retaliation, especially after seeing the below Superbowl Spot. I was psyched enough knowing Jinx was gonna be in the movie (as played by Future Ex-Wife alum, Elodie Yung, no less!), but now we’ve got a clear shot of Cobra Commander in the classic mirrored faceplate helmet (with a swagger that can only be described as “fuck a Joseph Gordon-Levitt!”), Roadblock rhyming (albeit quoting Jay-Z), and the goddamn Cobra H.I.S.S. Tank!!!! For someone like me, who as a kid, couldn’t let my mom leave K-Mart without getting me a G.I. Joe action figure, this movie looks to be hitting some major notes!

HD video available on iTunes Movie Trailers website.

Oscar winner Denzel Washington (Unstoppable, The Book of Eli) and Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) star in the action-thriller Safe House. Washington plays the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he’s remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative (Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

Also starring Robert Patrick (Walk The Line, Ladder 49) and Sebastian Roché (Supernatural, The Adventures of Tintin) and directed by Daniel Espinosa, Safe House is in theaters February 10, 2012. Check out the trailer below and for more information on Safe House, head to the movie’s website and become a fan on their Facebook page.

Hollywood Producer Joel Silver is looking to develop a live-action feature film based on the Cartoon Network series, Ben 10.

Created by Man of Action, (comprised of comic creators Joe Kelly, Joe Casey, Duncan Rouleau, and Steven T. Seagle) the popular franchise is about a boy who acquires a watch-like alien device called the Omnitrix (later the Ultimatrix) attached to his wrist that allows him to turn into alien creatures.

Two live-action made-for-television films were produced for Cartoon Network, but Silver’s potential film will most likely be completely recast.

Deadline is reporting that 20th Century Fox has just closed a deal to bring back Matthew Vaughn to direct the follow-up to the X-Men prequel/reboot, X-Men First Class. In addition to Vaughn, Bryan Singer will be back on to produce.

I can only hope the people behind these fragrances mean for those to be bought purely for novelty’s sake, ’cause I expect they put about as much effort into actually making these smell good as they do any given celebrity fragrance. Although, I will give them credit for giving Loki’s Mischief a distintive bottle, compared to the ones for the actual Avengers themselves. Either way, I’d probably sooner buy Sex Panther (and you actually can!!!!)

Katee Sackhoff will make her return to sci-fi with a role in the upcoming Riddick sequel, which has resumed production in Montreal. Sackhoff will play Dahl, a mercenary that will be hunting Riddick over the course of the film.

Everyone who wants to see a fist fight between Sackhoff and Vin Diesel, raise your hands!!!

In a move that I’m sure will have scores of anime/manga fans running to the nearest mountain top to shout “HALLELUJAH!!!!”, word has come down courtesy of Hollywood Reporter that Warner Bros. is stopping production on their live-action Akira film. The production office in Vancouver has been shut down, with all talent and crew told to stop working. The studio apparently wants to cut 20 million from budget (originally 90 million), as well as resolve casting issues. As it stands, the film is in danger of being shelved altogether.

I’m sure I’ll be tied to a post in the middle of town square and stoned for this, but count me as one of the very few dissenters that wasn’t up in arms about Warner Bros. wanting to make a live-action adaptation of Akira, where they conveniently forget that the whole story was one of the many that addressed how fucked up Japan became (or could become) after they got the shit bombed out of them . . . TWICE!!! I’d still love for it to happen, just to see if all of fandom really had the testicular fortitude to flat out refuse to see it, but also spread the word to the general public of why the film would be so offensive in the first place, and truly see to its commercial failure. But the odds of that happening are about as great as the odds of Scarlett Jonhannson seeking out my lap to sit on! The moral being, we should all be so lucky!

Keishi ?tomo is directing “Rurouni Kenshin” starring 22-year-old actor Takeru Satoh (Kamen Rider Den-O, Rookies, Beck, Ry?maden) as Kenshin. 17-year-old actress Emi Takei plays the heroine Kaoru Kamiya. Yuu Aoi (Hana and Alice, Honey and Clover) plays Megumi Takani, Munetaka Aoki (The Last Message Umizaru, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) is Sanosuke Sagara, and Taketo Tanaka plays Yahiko My?jin. Kouji Kikkawa (Let’s Dance With Papa) as Jine Ud?, Yosuke Eguchi (Shonan Bakusozoku, Tokyo Love Story) as Hajime Sait?, and Teruyuki Kagawa (From Up On Poppy Hill, 20th Century Boys) as Kanry? Takeda.

The film will open in Japan on August 25, 2012.

Fair to say, few fans were looking forward to a Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot without the involvement of Joss Whedon. Now word is breaking that Warner Bros. may be losing interest in the project altogether. While they’re apparently looking for a new writer, as they rejected a script from first-time screenwriter Whit Anderson (gee, I wonder why!!), there seems to be growing sentiment that fans loyal to Whedon may never come around to accepting the project (ya think?!).

The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is finally here! Set to be the tie-in for the Alien series that’ll stage the beginnings of a series, Prometheus will focus on a mythology within the Alien universe without being a concrete prequel.

The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.

If you are a fan of the original Alien then this trailer is for you. It sets the tone for a spine tingling adventure that a great director of only Ridley Scott’s potential can bring to life.

Here’s the synopsis for Prometheus:

Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Blade Runner, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

The upcoming science fiction film is scehduled to hit theaters June 8, 2012 and stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green and Charlize Theron.

The first trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been released. If you missed it, either you don’t care about one of the greatest stories in literary history or you were just shoved so far under a rock that the entire world passed you by.

Don’t fret, that’s what you got us for…

Returning to helm the project, Peter Jackson sets the stage to tell the story of Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit who is approached by the wizard Gandalf the Grey to join a crew of dwarves on a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the dragon Smaug. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first of a two-part movie adaptation of the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. The trailer has all the elements that’ll make the biggest of fanboys giddy.

The HD version of the trailer is available at Apple.

The official synopsis for The Hobbit:

The Hobbit follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.

Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever … Gollum.

Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum’s “precious” ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities … A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.

The official movie poster…

The first full-length trailer for The Dark Knight Rises has been released by Warner Bros. and you can now tune it (and download it) from iTunes.

Scheduled for release in theaters July 2012, The Dark Knight Rises has seen quite an extensive promotional campaign and anyone that went out and caught the IMAX version of Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol were treated to an eight-minute prologue to the film. [That prologue was part of a bigger digital campaign for Mission: Impossible and helped draw big healthy business over the weekend.]

If you’re one the masses that does not use iTunes, we got you covered with the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises below, courtesy of Apple.

This loose sequel is being directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and is rumored to have a cameo appearance by Danny Ketch who also puts some time in as Ghost Rider. With the flaming skull back into theaters on February 17, 2012, the film also stars, Fergus Riordan, Ciaran Hinds, Violante Placido, Idris Elba and Johnny Whitworth.

LaTwan Holland was a writer for a local under ground newspaper, The Spinner Rack that covered comics, video games, anime and related movies and is currently the Producer of the DIRECT EDITION. To find out the latest that’s happening with LaTwan and the Direct Edition check them out at the DIRECT EDITION podcast, blog and you tube site.

Say what you will about the first film, but this movies got my money ’cause it’s got the Rock, ninjas, and Cobra taking over the White House like it ain’t no thang!

The Dark Knight Rises also stars Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Josh Pence, Daniel Sunjata, Diego Klattenhoff, Burn Gorman, Nestor Carbonell, Alon Aboutboul, Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, Brett Cullen, Chris Ellis and Joey King.

LaTwan Holland was a writer for a local under ground newspaper, The Spinner Rack that covered comics, video games, anime and related movies and is currently the Producer of the DIRECT EDITION. To find out the latest that’s happening with LaTwan and the Direct Edition check them out at the DIRECT EDITION podcast, blog and you tube site.

Superherohype got to premier a new teaser poster for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man that showcases Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker perched up on a wall, casting an arachnophobia’s worst nightmare.

The tagline lets us believe this will be “The Untold Story” and we can only speculate as to what that entails, but excitement builds nonetheless.

The film is creeping out of dark corners and into theaters on July 3, 2012 and stars Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen and Sally Field.

LaTwan Holland was a writer for a local under ground newspaper, The Spinner Rack that covered comics, video games, anime and related movies and is currently the Producer of the DIRECT EDITION. To find out the latest that’s happening with LaTwan and the Direct Edition check them out at the DIRECT EDITION podcast, blog and you tube site.