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Continue Reading →Justin Lin & Cast Talk James Wan, Future of “Fast & Furious” Franchise
In an interview with Digital Spy, director Justin Lin — along with stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster — talked up the future of the franchise.
Lin confirms that an end credit scene at the end of of Fast 6 sets up the villain and story for the franchise’s 7th film, which is set to kick off a new trilogy of films.
Diesel, for his part, revealed two locations for the next film, hinting at a return to Tokyo and a trip to the Middle-East when production begins this September.
Brewster and Walker spend most of their time talking about director James Wan, who will be taking over the franchise following Lin’s depature, but will still have input on the series.
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A recent study from the University of Connecticut has shown that gamers are more likely to experience aggressive thoughts and words against human-looking characters instead of monster or nonhuman characters.
Whoa, chill out for a bit, then look for more info after the break.
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Disney and LucasFilm Animation are now moving forward with the next Star Wars animated film following their decision to nix Star Wars The Clone Wars.
Hit the break for full details.
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Serious question: Who is best for Kyosuke?
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“One Piece” Gains Toonami A Lot Of Views
It looks like the U.S. was definitely ready to sail again with Luffy and the gang. One Piece, which returned to Toonami last weekend, had 995,000 views.
And actually, it appears that Toonami’s six-hour block pulled in some strong numbers all around:
12:00- Bleach 977,000
12:30- Naruto 961,000
01:00- One Piece 995,000
01:30- Soul Eater 981,000
02:00- IGPX 597,000
02:30- Eureka 7 634,000
03:00- Thundercats 634,000
03:30- Sym-biotic Train 558,000
04:00- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 563,000
04:30- Cowboy Bebop 493,000
05:00- InuYasha 546,000
05:30- InuYasha 560,000
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Deadline reports that Chinese actress Li Bingbing is set to join the cast of Michael Bay’s Transformers 4 as part of Paramount’s partnership with China Movie Channel and Jiaflix.
Hit the break for full details and for what else is going on with the fourth installment.
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First Look At Jennifer Lawrence In “X-Men: Days of Future Past”
Once again Bryan Singer has teased fans with a first look at one of the film’s characters.
This time around it is Jennifer Lawrence’s Raven Darkholme, a.k.a. Mystique. From the make-up job we can see that the film is going for the Mystique-look from Singer’s trilogy rather than Matthew Vaughn’s look from First Class.
X-Men: Days of Future Past also stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Patrick Stewart, Peter Dinklage, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Halle Berry, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore, Booboo Stewart and Fan Bingbing with a summer 2014 release.
[Bryan Singer via Twitter]
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Latest Trailer For “The Wolverine”
A new trailer for James Mangold’s The Wolverine has made its way online via 20th Century Fox.
This latest trailer offers a ton of new footage, emphasizing more on the character of Wolverine and the burden of his immortality. There’s a ton of action in this trailer and a little more footage of the film’s villain in Silver Samurai.
The Wolverine stars Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Will Yun Lee, Brian Tee, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Hal Hamanouchi with a release date of July 26th.
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Marvel’s “Avengers Assemble” Trailer
Disney has put out the first full trailer for Marvel’s upcoming animated series Avengers Assemble.
The series features the same roster of heroes from Joss Whedon’s film — Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye — with one new addition in the form of Falcon.
Avengers Assemble features a voice cast that includes Adrian Pasdar (Iron Man), Roger Craig Smith (Captain America), Travis Willingham (Thor), Fred Tatasciore (Hulk), Laura Bailey (Black Widow), Troy Baker (Hawkeye) and Bumper Robinson (Falcon).
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Three New Character Posters For “Man of Steel”
Warner Bros. Pictures has pumped out three new character banners for their upcoming summer blockbuster, Man of Steel.
Featured above are the characters of Jor-el, Superman, and General Zod, played by Russell Crowe, Henry Cavill and Michael Shannon, respectively.
Man of Steel also stars Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Keaton, Kevin Kostner and Christopher Meloni with a release date set for June 14th.
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Writer: Jason Aaron
Artist: Ramon Perez
Colourist: Laura Martin
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna
Previously, in Wolverine and the X-Men: The Jean Grey School has now been open for a few months, and has seen students graduate, such as Angel, and new students join, such as the time displaced original X-Men. Faculty members have also changed, with Husk leaving the school, and Kitty Pryde stepping down as headmistress in place of Storm. One thing remains constant despite the changes that the school has endured – this is the school where students and faculty will be the best there is at what they do.
However, the school has faced its share of threats as well. The Hellfire Club has targeted the school numerous times, going so far as to brainwash certain members of the student body, and attempt to recruit others to their own cause. They have also been assembling their own villainous faculty including Sauron, and have welcomed Glob Herman from the Jean Grey School into their new Hellfire Academy.

The recent positive hype over Microsoft’s Xbox One has met its first downer with the announcement that the Xbox One is not backwards compatible. This means that owners of previous games from Xbox Live will not be able to transfer them over to the new console.
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If you thought that Microsoft’s press conference for the Xbox One was light on games, you’re not alone. Gamers still have to wait until E3 in a couple weeks to soak in some Xbox One games with apparently Microsoft having 15 exclusive games in development, 8 of which are new franchises.
However, that hasn’t stopped several already announced games from letting gamers know that they’ll be on Microsoft’s next-gen console.
A complete list of games is after the break and will be updated throughout the day.
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Well it’s not exactly surprising, Microsoft’s next-gen offering, the Xbox One, will be released before the end of the year.
There were no pricing details or exact dates set, but gamers should be in for one helluva holiday season with the PS4 and Xbox One this winter.
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