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More Ant-Man casting news: Mad Men ’s John Slattery, along with Judy Greer and rapper T.I., will be joining the movie, which started filming in San Francisco this Monday. The three round out a cast that also include Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly. Marvel has also released a first look at Paul Rudd as the movie’s lead, Scott Lang, who’s looking a little dreary and beaten-up as he stands in the rain by a misty Golden Gate Bridge..

The new Star Wars movie will feature more practical effects than CGI, says Rian Johnson, the Looper director who is set to pick up the franchise after JJ Abrams. Talking on the latest Girls In Hoodies podcast, Johnson said that the sweeping CGI sets of the prequel trilogy are being left behind in favour of more traditional effects: “They’re doing so much practical building for this one. It’s awesome.”

Arrow has cast comic villain Komodo, tapping Matt Ward to play the role . The TRON:Legacy actor will play the masked mercenary in the second week of the show, but his story will also tie in to the arc of the season more than villain-of-the-week episodes have in the past.

Theres a new Witcher 3: Wild Hunt gameplay video to sink our teeth into. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and CD Projekt RED published the 35 minutes of gameplay, which shows the world of Witcher 3 – what you can see, who you’ll meet, how your actions will affect everything around you.

The Strain is coming back for another season. With seven episodes remaining of season one, the vampire drama has been chosen to rise again next summer for a 13 episode renewal. “The blood hits the fan on this one, mankind becomes an endangered species,” promises co-producer Guillermo del Toro, excited for the new thrills the second season will deliver.

Marvel hero Mockingbird is coming to Agents Of SHIELD , with Adrianne Palicki set to star as SHIELD field agent Bobbi Morse, also known by the aliases Huntress and Mockingbird. She’ll be joining Kyle Maclachlan and Lucy Lawless as the third new SHIELD agent to be brought in for the upcoming second season, where the team will be working to rebuild SHIELD from the ground up.

Toby Kebbell adds his name to the upcoming movie A Monster Calls , /FILM reports . Kebbell is set to join the rapidly expanding cast, which includes Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson, and only yesterday gained Sigourney Weaver.

Upcoming supernatural horror movie Ouija has a new trailer . The Universal Pictures movie, set to release October 24th, follows a group of teens who accidentally invite evil into their home while misusing a Ouija board. The trailer shows glimpses of some of the horrors they will face along the way…

Daniel Radcliffe’s upcoming supernatural thriller Horns has released two new character posters. The images feature Radcliffe and Juno Temple, who plays doomed love interest Merrin Williams, facing off in black and white. “She was his beauty, now she’s his curse,” read’s Temple’s. “He’ll bring the Devil out in you,” adds Radcliffe’s darker counterpart.

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Marvel debating a standalone Hulk movie, Colin Trevorrow hints at Jurassic World ’s first dinosaur, Scooby-Doo reboot in the works and much more!

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We finally have a sneak peek of what the dinosaurs in Jurassic World will look like! Well, sort of. Director Colin Trevorrow posted a teasing image to Twitter (opens in new tab) , which features the shadow of a huge pair of jaws filled with very sharp teeth. Given last week’s pictures of Chris Pratt and the other human stars, we’re hoping it now won’t be long till we see what the dinosaurs really look like.

Mark Ruffalo says Marvel Studios is debating a Hulk standalone adventure (opens in new tab) . After the The Incredible Hulk didn’t live up to expectations, star Edward Norton was jettisoned and Ruffalo was brought in to play the green smasher in Avengers Assemble . But given Ruffalo’s popularity in the role, we’re cautiously optimistic that he might get a movie all to himself – even if there’s currently “not even a skeletal version of what it would be”.

It looks like Jared Leto is set to take over (opens in new tab) the Brilliance lead role that Will Smith recently vacated. The film is based on the Marcus Sakey novel, and set in a world where people with superpowers are called “brilliants”, focusing on a federal agent tasked with bringing down a brilliant terrorist. Noomi Rapace is slated to play the female lead, and Julius Onah will direct.

Seth Green ( Robot Chicken , Buffy The Vampire Slayer ) has joined the cast (opens in new tab) of Nickelodeon’s CGI Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. He’ll be taking over the voice of Leonardo from Jason Biggs from the third season, set to air this autumn in the US. The network has also renewed the series for a fourth season starting 2015.

Warner Bros are rebooting Scooby-Doo (opens in new tab) , starting again from scratch for a new live action film. Original producer Charles Roven is attached, and Randall Green is writing the new mystery, but that’s all we know. Presumably Scooby’s going to be recreated in CGI rather than played by a real Great Dane again, and it’ll be interesting to see how far special effects have come in the decade since the 2002 outing and its 2004 sequel.

The first trailer for Video Games: The Movie has been released. It’s a documentary that takes an inside look at the story of the video games industry, and how it developed from 8-bit arcade games into the franchise-dominated industry it is today. There’s interviews with everyone from video games designers to celebrity gamers, as well as considerations of what the future of gaming is going to look like. It’ll be out in the States in July, as well as being available via video-on-demand services.

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Wolverine Wants to join The Avengers, Big Hero 6 pics released and get a fresh look at Constantine in today’s news round-up

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• Disney has released some new stills from the Marvel adaptation Big Hero 6. The film will see genius inventor Hiro, his creation Baymax and more join up to protect their home San Fransokyo. Big Hero 6 will be released in the UK on 13 February 2015.

• While fans are waiting anxiously for X-Men: Days Of Future Past , Hugh Jackman is already looking into the future (opens in new tab) and it’s not the X-Men franchise he’s thinking of. “I would love to see him as part of The Avengers ,” Jackman admitted. “Because there’s a great dysfunction among that team, and I think Wolverine would fit right into that. He’d like that.” And why not? Who wouldn’t want to see a Hulk/Wolverine showdown? And as for the banter, Jackman says he wants to see Logan go toe-to-toe with Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark in a movie.

• The King of Horror, Stephen King, is back and set to have his novel Gerald’s Game adapted (opens in new tab) for the big screen. With the director of the much-anticipated Oculus on board, the movie will hopefully prove a superior King adaptation. Casting is set to begin in the fall this year.

• NBC has released a new clip from their upcoming Constantine show. Based on the Hellblazer comics, Constantine will feature Matt Ryan ( Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag ) as the occult detective alongside Lucy Griffths ( Robin Hood , True Blood ) and Harold Perrineau (The Matrix Reloaded, 28 Weeks Later).

• At first glance Jem And The Holograms might not seem like a movie for sci-fi fans but with Juliette Lewis ( Strange Days ) AND Molly Ringwald ( The Breakfast Club ) joining the cast it might just be worth a watch. GI Joe: Retaliation director Jon M Chu will helm the adaptation (opens in new tab) of the music-driven ’80s toon. Jem creator Christy Marx feels confident that Chu will succeed, “He is sincere, passionate, and filled with a desire to make the best Jem movie he can make. He wants to reinvent Jem for a current audience.”

Flash writer Mark Waid has been chatting about (opens in new tab) The Flash TV show: “I like the look of it. I like that he seems to be having fun as a superhero. Because, again, if your superpower is that you can run really fast and make time stop, it would be a blast… I admit I got chills when he said, ‘My name is Barry Allen, I’m the fastest man alive.’ That gave me chills.” He also comments on Ben Affleck playing the next Batman. “I think he’ll be fine. Look, I was around when — I was literally working in the DC Offices — when Michael Keaton was announced as Batman, and you would have thought that the world had ended at that point. Everyone was all like ‘This is the end of all comics.’ And it was fine.”

• The key art for Hemlock Grove season two has been revealed (opens in new tab) . After 13 episodes of the tension-packed supernatural drama, the fans have been anxiously waiting. The new season will deal with the town facing the aftermath of the massacre by one of its deadliest creatures and Peter and Roman’s new responsibilities.

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