Could the most famous siblings of the Marvel Universe be appearing in The Avengers 2?

While speaking with Yahoo on the red carpet of the Iron Man 3 premiere on Wednesday night, Joss Whedon was asked about the status to The Avengers 2 that he is currently writing the script for. He mentioned that he has finished the first draft and he’s excited about things like, “I’ve got these two characters, two of my favorite characters from the comic book, a brother-sister act. They’re in the movie.”

Geek meters immediately pinged because the mast famous brother and sister team to ever belong in the Avengers line up were Wanda Maximoff (AKA the Scarlet Witch) and her twin brother, Pietro Maximoff (AKA Quicksilver). Both characters have had long involvements with the team, and it would be a thrill to see the two of them hitting the big screen together.

There is, however, a catch to all of this as some fans may already be figuring out. Their father is none other than Magneto of X-Men fame, which means they are mutants, and as we all know, sadly all film rights to mutants currently reside at 20th Century Fox.

Well, it seems that the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver reside in a weird limbo of film rights, and somehow both 20th Century Fox and Marvel have the rights to them as they have been members of both teams.

Either way, this may be a hint to a much larger team in the second Avengers film, but we’ll have to wait and see. It’s worth watching the short interview as he also discusses the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV pilot and the fate of Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg). Some pretty interesting stuff is said without anything being given away completely.

Someone needs to keep X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer away from the social media for a bit so he can actually work on his movie.

Singer has once again gone post happy, but this time with a Vine video showing us all of the cast chairs for the film with their character names on them. Included in the video were two unannounced characters: Bishop and James “Warpath” Proudstar (pictured above in his latest costume).

This of course doesn’t give us much to go on, but may fill in some of the unknown cast. Booboo Stewart is a Native American who has not had his role announced, so it only makes sense he would play Warpath. And speculation had already run to Omar Sy playing Bishop, so that appears to be a reality.

Don’t feel bad if you’re never heard of either character. Warpath is a fairly unknown character outside of hardcore X-Men readers, and Bishop… well, Bishop is pretty much why I stopped reading X-Men books for a long stretch because I got so sick of him. He’s a time traveller, however, and it makes sense he would fit into this story. Can’t say I’m thrilled to see him show up, but it won’t kill the movie for me.

Now, if Singer would just put down his phone long enough to actually film this thing.

X-Men: Days of Future Past Cast

• James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier (young)
• Michael Fassbender as Magneto (young)
• Sir Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier (old)
• Sir Ian McKellen as Magneto (old)
• Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine
• Anna Paquin as Rogue
• Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe/Storm
• Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkholme/Mystique
• Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat
• Shawn Ashmore as Bobby Drake/Iceman
• Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy/Beast
• Omar Sy as Bishop (unconfirmed)
• Booboo Stewart as James Proudstar/Warpath (unconfirmed)
• Peter Dinklage as ?

The film rights to Daredevil have officially come home to roost at Marvel where they belong.

While rumors had circulated last Aug. that the film rights to the Daredevil character would be heading back to Marvel, nothing official had been said as of yet. Newsarama caught up with Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios president of production, at the Iron Man 3 press junket, where he confirmed that the rights had indeed reverted back to the company. The site pointedly asked him if the rumors had been true and the company once again held the rights, to which he replied, ”To Daredevil? Yes.”

After the critically panned 2003 film starring Ben Affleck, 20th Century Fox tried to hold on to the rights, but wasn’t able to put anything together. Under the old Marvel licensing model, any studio that optioned its characters had to keep them in active development and production every so many years or the rights would fall back to the company. After several failed attempts to reboot Daredevil, the clock simply ran out for Fox, and it had to hand them back.

This reversion of rights should also include characters such as Elektra, Bullseye and the Kingpin, so Marvel could relaunch the series if it chose to, but the big question is if it will. Just because the have the rights again doesn’t mean they have to do anything with them, and I’m not sure if they will to be honest.

The current Marvel cinematic universe is very family friendly, bright and cheerful, and Daredevil as a character is anything but that. He works out of New York’s Hells Kitchen district, and his stories have always tended towards darker and grittier story telling. It would be hard to lighten him up enough to fit in with the likes of the current franchises that Marvel has in production.

So we may see a new Daredevil movie from Marvel, or we might not, but at least we no longer have to live in fear of that awful leather suit.

Thor: The Dark World is the follow-up to the first film, and will be Marvel’s second film of 2013. Can the studio capture at least some of the excitement that made The Avengers the third highest grossing film of all time?

I’ve never been a huge fan of the Thor character, but I have to say that the first film entertained me, and I thought Chris Hemsworth did a stellar job in the title role. So much so that I’ve actually gone back and read some old issues of the series, which is saying a lot because I never thought the character could carry a series. I was proven wrong, I dig the comics more now, and I love the movies.

How will a second Thor film do? We’ll find out on Nov. 15, but until then try on this first trailer and see what you think. Jane (Natalie Portman) in Asgard? Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander) looking annoyed at this turn of events? Loki (Tom Hiddleston) being snarky? I’m in for the ride.

Apparently Bryan Singer is turning into a Twitter teasing addict on the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past.

There’s always something cool about when filmmakers use Twitter to tease audiences during the production of a film. While some just tweet cryptic images that make no sense, Bryan Singer is just firing off pictures left and right from the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past without hiding much. The latest tweet showed Halle Berry on set in the newest version of her Storm costume, and you have to hand it to the costume department, you’d never have a clue she’s pregnant in real life.

My guess is that is exactly why this particular picture was shared on Monday. There has been a lot of speculation about how they would work around her pregnancy, and the costume is definitely hiding the news. One would also imagine all of her scenes will be show fairly early in the production now to make sure she doesn’t get too much bigger by the time they’re done.

Kudos to Singer for a good use of Twitter… now just keep those images coming.

The box office was 19 percent down from the same time last year, but was still relatively strong.

Tom Cruise’s newest vehicle, Oblivion took the top spot this weekend with $38.1 million. While not a huge opening, it was strong and was his best opening since War of the Worlds in 2005. It has done $112 million so far overseas for a worldwide total of $150.1 million off of a $120 million dollar budget.

Coming in second was 42 with a very healthy drop of 34.4 percent from its opening weekend to bring in $18 million for a domestic total of $54 million off of a $40 million dollar budget.

The Croods is still going strong for DreamWorks Animation is still doing pretty well with another $9.5 million dollar weekend. This brings the domestic total to $154.8 million and the studio is already eyeing a sequel.

Scary Movie 5 fell from second to fourth place with a 55.5 percent slide from last weekend to bring in $6.2 million and a domestic total of $22.9 million off of a $20 million dollar budget.

Rounding out the top five was G.I. Joe: Retaliation with $5.7 million to up its total to $111.2 million domestically. Considering its $130 million dollar budget you would be right to think Paramount is crazy to have already announced a third film, but in another example of how important the foreign markets have become, the movie has taken in $211 million overseas so far.

Next week’s big releases are The Big Wedding and Pain & Gain.

Curious how I think these new films will do? Check out my second quarter films of 2013 predictions.

As of the third season finale of The Walking Dead, I’m done. I have turned in my crossbow and I’m walking out the door to let the roamers have at me.

When season 1 of The Walking Dead ended, I wrote a post about what I felt the show had gotten wrong. It wasn’t just the fact it was diverging from the comic book source material at every conceivable turn, it was the fact the show was just dumb. Dumb in the sense that it felt every little thing had to spelled out for the viewers. I went ahead and rode out season 2 although it was a trial. Just how much time could we spend on the farm? Apparently a whole season. And it just dragged and dragged.

While I was about to throw in the towel, the season ended with a lone image of the prison. Anyone who has read the comic can tell you that the prison story arc was simply phenomenal. It lasted for 48 issues, but it never once felt like it dragged. Each moment was tense and only got more so as the story went on. The prospect of seeing this story realized was amazing, and one I was very ready for.

I will state that many things were changed in this season from the comic. Honestly, it might be shorter to list what wasn’t changed, but the changes weren’t my issue with season 3. My issues were far more basic than that, and it’s just simply good writing and pacing.

Nothing about season 3 felt properly paced. We spent the majority of the season building the tension between the prison and the survivors in the town of Woodbury only to come to a screeching halt in the three episodes leading up to the finale. This was some of the most obvious and painful padding I have ever seen in a television series.

Episode 13, “Arrow on the Doorpost,” was the first example of how the writers clearly had not paced the story correctly. We spend an entire episode on a meeting between the Governor (David Morrissey) and Rick (Andrew Lincoln) trying to work out a compromise so the two settlements can live in peace. The result? Both sides knew that even though they had talked of peace, they would be going to war. Gee, thanks… we kind of all knew that going in.

And then we were treated to Episode 14, “Prey,” wherein we got to watch an entire episode of the Governor and Andrea (Laurie Holden) playing cat and mouse with one another. Why? Because Andrea was going to tell Rick and the crew that the Governor planned to double cross them. This episode hinged on both of these characters assuming that Rick had suddenly taken to being as dumb as a brick and not being able to figure this out for himself, so we get to spend the hour watching these two actually being the idiots. It was just a miserable time for all involved.

Sadly we weren’t done with padding yet, however. Episode 15, “This Sorrowful Life,” built off of the previous two episodes that were pointless, essentially making this one null and void from the moment it hit the air. The only thing to come out of this was we were finally rid of Merle (Michael Rooker) who, of course, had to go with a sterotype ending where he suddenly decides to try to redeem himself. Was there ever a moment in this series where this character was anything other than a sterotype? No, there wasn’t.

Finally, here we are, Episode 16, “Welcome to the Tombs,” where we will see the confrontation between the prison and Woodbury.

… that’s it?

The Woodbury folks blow out two towers and get scared off by some pyrotechnics? Then they face off against Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan), whom they clearly have outnumbered, and run off scared? Oh wait, they were going to use the .50 caliber machine gun, but it just happened to jam. That’s something I’ve never seen in a story ever before.

Don’t get me wrong, I am all for character development, and there was some in this episode, but when it is overall lackluster and an event you have spent building the entire season for constitutes maybe five minutes of the finale? It just feels like you have been slighted.

Yes, some other things happened in the episode such as the continued descent into darkness of Carl (Chandler Riggs), but the big, emotional moment, the one that was supposed to make our jaws drop, the death of Andrea, just fell completely and totally flat.

Why did the death of a major character feel so empty? Well, lets see, you had spent the entire season making her dumber by the minute, and you topped that off with the worst escape attempt in history. “Oh, hey guy who is about to turn into a zombie, let me stop working on getting out of these handcuffs so that I can have an extended conversation with you.” Oh no, no need to rush, just completely stop working on your handcuffs so you can have a heart-to-heart with the guy who is obviously about to turn into a zombie and attempt to eat you.

Yes, you can argue that she was trying to give Milton (Dallas Roberts) comfort in his final moments, but even he told her to work faster.

When you add it all up you are left with a show that is just bluntly not that good. From sophomoric writing to falling back on worn out horror story tropes, this series fails at every turn. And now that it has been announced that Morrissey has been signed on as a regular for season 4, we’re supposed to be scared of a guy with only two henchmen left? And we’re going to spend a whole season on this?

No thank you.

No one can say I didn’t give this series a chance. Honestly, I gave it far more of a chance than I normally would have because I love the comic book series. But there comes a point where you just have to cut your losses and move on. With that, The Walking Dead and I will be parting ways.

I wish I could say it had been a fun ride…

As the current season of Doctor Who wraps up, the BBC has released a teaser poster for each episode, but it kept the image for the final episode a secret until this week. Will we finally learn the name of the Doctor?

Through out the 50 year history of the Doctor Who franchise, one thing has always remained a mystery and that is what the Doctor’s Time Lord name is. One enemy of the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) claimed to know what it was, but you were never quite sure she actually did. The second person is River Song (Alex Kingston), the woman that has been revealed to have some form of marriage with the last of the Time Lords. Of course it makes sense she would know, but beyond that it has been a mystery for the entire 50 years.

When the poster was released this week, the Internet of course exploded with the idea that we would finally learn his name, but I hate to burst everyone’s bubble… I don’t think it’s actually happening.

What I do think is going to happen is the Doctor – currently played by Matt Smith – will reveal his name to River. Of course you can immediately go, “But you just said she knows it,” and you would be correct. What you need to remember, however, is the Doctor and River live their marriage out of order. While we know at some point River learns his name, we don’t know what that happened. We know River dies in front of the tenth Doctor (David Tennant), and we know she is involved with the eleventh, but we don’t know yet if she will have any interactions with the twelfth and thirteenth Doctors. So she has to learn his name at some point, and the audience has no clue when that moment is.

So, in short, I think River will learn his name in this episode, but I don’t think the audience is necessarily going to learn it with her.

Just how important is the foreign box office becoming to films? You don’t have to look any further than Iron Man 3 marketing to get a clue.

There was a time that all that really mattered in a movie’s results was how it did in the U.S., and the foreign box office take was just gravy. In the past few years there has been a radical shift in that thinking. Lets take The Avengers for example.

Of its global box office take of $1,511,757,910, $623,357,910 (or 41.2 percent) of that came from the U.S. leaving $888,400,000 to come in from foreign markets. Just under 10 percent of that, a staggering $84,100,000, came from China alone.

As Marvel preps to release Iron Man 3, it has ramped up its marketing in the communist country to levels no U.S. film has done before. How crazy is it? There will be added scenes in China with popular local actors such as Fan Bing Bing, the hottest actress in the country right now. If you’re adding scenes for one market, then you know it has become important.

Check out the TV spot currently running in China for the upcoming release and realize we are entering a brave new world of film releases where the U.S. isn’t quite as important as it once was.

R.I.P.D. has received its first trailer… or perhaps I should say Men in Black 4 has received its first trailer.

Well I normally don’t like to be overly biased about trailers, this first footage for R.I.P.D. couldn’t feel more like another entry in the Men in Black series except for if it actually was.

Lets see… an out of place rookie assigned to a law enforcement agency he didn’t know existed. Check.

Teamed up with a long time veteran of the force. Check.

Possibility of the world being taken over. Check.

In my opinion, about the only thing I found enticing in this trailer was Jeff Bridges as Roy Pulsipher, but I am so sick and tired of Ryan Reynolds at this point that I can’t even stand to look at him any more. And while Bridges looks highly amusing, I can’t imagine watching this just for him when it looks to be just a complete retread of so many other movies out there.

Oh, and it’s based on a comic book of the same name… as was Men in Black.

R.I.P.D. hits theaters on July 19.

Just how much Star Wars can you have in your life? Well, it appears we are about to find out when an assembly line starts kicking them out once a year starting in 2015.

Disney announced at CinemaCon – an annual convention of theater owners – that it plans to release a new Star Wars film every summer beginning in 2015. Essentially you will have two series going; the main Episode series and individual character movies. This is what the proposed schedule would look like:

• 2015 – Episode VII
• 2016 – Character Film
• 2017 – Episode VIII
• 2018 – Character Film
• 2019 – Episode IX
• 2020 – Character film

Obviously multiple films will be in production at any given time, and that will save the studio some money in the sense sets and props can be shared between the productions, but at what cost to the fans?

You would be hard pressed to find a bigger Star Wars fan than myself, and even I have to say, “Hold it!” There is a point where any property can hit a level of overkill, and I’m sorry, but a new film each year just sounds too much like an assembly line than anything even remotely resembling someone caring about quality. Even the first two trilogies had three years between each installment, so if you discount these standalone films we’re still talking about shaving a year off of the mainline films. How can anyone crank out films that fast and still have them be decent? (Though some would say three years still didn’t assure quality in the old series)

The sad thing? I’ll be there in the theater without question for the first few ones to see how this plays out. I saw the other six in the theater, and I don’t plan to change my ways any time soon, but I would be really surprised if by 2018 you would find a spare empty seat where I used to reside.

Man of Steel has received a third trailer, and once again your hopes may soar.

After some very disappointing photos came out for Man of Steel, nerves started to kick in for many on whether or not the trailers were fibbing to us. Now we have a third one that gives us a glimpse of Krypton, the acting, General Zod and… dangit, I’m excited again.

STOP PLAYING WITH MY EMOTIONS, MAN OF STEEL!

Man of Steel hits theaters on June 14.