First up: “Face it, this isn’t the worst thing you’ve caught me doing… I’m just making a shield for a guy you won’t see until 2011.”

Is Captain America’s shield in Iron Man? /Film readers say yes, even though no screen-cap has yet been found. But, viewers swear the shield is there on Tony Stark’s work-table when Pepper finds him getting out of the banged up Iron Man suit.

New Indy IV Trailer: suspiciously similar to the last Indy Trailer, but if we didn’t report on it, we might be flogged.

A new behind-the-scenes snippet from Quantum of Solace (can we just keep calling it Bond 22?) is up over at Coming Soon.

Ok, there is a lot of stuff going around the net about this one, since the first thing anyone thinks when they hear that Sopranos producer Brad Grey got Sopranos creator David Chase a directing gig is: Sopranos movie.

Well, that isn’t the case. Only because it has been announced as “not The Sopranos movie.” On a side note, The Sopranos movie does NOT have to go to Warners/HBO, so this could have been The Sopranos movie, but isn’t.

How do we know? Official press-release, bitches (after the jump)!

Willa Ford starred in an ultra-C-List, absolutely budget-less, got most of their press form a Variety article, bio pic of Anna Nicole Smith. How she roped a group of what appears to be soft-core porn producers with (once again, we’re guessing) a Lifetime movie reject crew is a mystery to us, but after the films announcement and a few TMZ-in-poor-taste behind the scenes looks, the film dropped off the radar.

Now, the flick has leaked on the internet in torrent fashion, though it appears that the film was not ripped from a DVD. Who knows why the movie showed up this way, instead of at least a bare-bones DVD release.

Is it really that bad? Yes.

And we have a 7-minute video full of clips about just how bad it is, after the jump.

A UK-based company called Velvet Octopus is ready to begin production on a sequel to 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko, of Jake Gyllenhaal fame. Jake will not be returning, but Daviegh Chase, who played Donnie’s younger sister Samantha in the film, will be returning to star in the “sequel.”

The second film picks up seven years after the first film (and the ill-fated jet engine incident), with Samantha Darko and her friend Corey on a road trip to Los Angeles when they start having weird visions.

This seems like a really bad idea. Velvet Octopus would like to make it known that they have “spoken” to Richard Kelly, the director of the first film, but that he is not involved in any official way. That makes us thing: bring on the suck.

Cast, details and when this shit-storm starts to go down, after the jump.

It was a black list screenplay. Every year, agents and Hollywood insiders compile a list of the most talked about screenplays currently making the round in LaLaLand. The list has included films like Juno and Lars and the Real Girl, films that always turn into good indies if not Juno-sized indies.

At the top of last year’s list, Recount has been made with an all star cast including Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern and Tom Wilkinson and Dennis Leary. It covers the 2000 election recount in Florida, and will air on HBO Mary 25th.

Cut inside to see the trailer!

Want to see the first seven minutes of Speed Racer?

After the cut, we’ll embed the flash and link you towards where you can watch it in fantastic seizure-starting HD.

Once again, we could report on this story so much easier if we actually owned an Xbox 360, but – since that’s not happening in the next month or so – we usually get by on the kindness of Xbox-owning strangers. That’s why we know about BioShock, one of the best reviewed games lat year, pre-Halo 3 and GTA IV.

BioShock takes place in an underwater art deco civilization where your hero must kill little girls to suck the “Adam” out of them. There’s also a gene splicing plot, some mutants and giant guys in diving suits with drills for hands.

And now it’s got a director.

As if eating New Line alive wasn’t enough to feed the beast, Warner Brothers has announced today that they will also be shuttering up Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures.

What’s worse is the official statement seems to blame the folding on New Line’s addition, subtly hinting that the New Line banner will be taking over the production budgets and schedules of both Picturehouse and WIP.

Get the statement and more inside.

This isn’t our first set of pictures from the various New York sets of Duplicity, the new Tony Gilroy movie where they play corporate spies who have had an affair in the past and decide to join forces to pull off a long con job.

But the Julia Roberts scene filmed in Columbus Circle at night was lit so well that even the telephoto paparazzi lens picks up Julia’s light halo. And Clive Owen’s Central Park bench sitting got some golden hour light that also looks good just as-is.

In a world of color correction, these images go to show just how much a good light design can do, even for leaked pictures of your stars.

As for how the movie is going, we’ve had friends become extras in Mid-Town restaurants, acquaintances run into Clive down at Grand Central Station, and still no reports of action in any sense of the word.

A bit talky, probably. But well-lit.

Last time we checked in with When In Rome, starring Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Will Arnett, Jon Heder, Anjelica Huston, Dax Shepard, Danny DeVito, and Alexis Dziena, we learned that when Bell’s character throws coins into an Italian fountain wishing for love a lot of different dudes fall in love with her.

We know a bit about romantic comedies and casting, so our money is on Josh Duhamel showing her the “true meaning of love.”

On thing is for damn sure, it isn’t going to be Dax Shepard. At least not in that Abercrombie model getup.

UPDATE!:

So, there are also these pictures of Kristen Bell running through Edward’s restaurant on West Broadway, these pictures of Kristen in a yellow outfit, a picture of Kristen with a dog, Josh Duhamel laughing and Dax Shepard entertianing a resting Kristen Bell. Enough for ya?

The Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull press package has finally been distributed! Get ready for a steady stream of promotional shots, though none of them show anything we haven’t known about before.

UPDATE: Yes, it is weird of us to debate skull mythology rather than show you all the pictures. Luckily, you have Coming Soon for that.

One of the curious additions was a very detailed history of The Crystal Skulls. 13 Skulls? Two of them have names? Continued tests? Atlantis? The crazy backstory begins here and continues below the jump…

n 1924, the famed British banker-turned-adventurer F.A. Mitchell-Hedges led an expedition deep into the Central American jungles of British Honduras (now Belize). His mission: to find evidence of the lost continent of Atlantis. But it was Mitchell-Hedges’ adopted daughter, Anna, who made a find for which this quest was to become famous. On Anna’s 17th birthday, as Mitchell-Hedges and his crew were excavating the ancient ruins of a Mayan temple at Lubaantun, Anna spied an object glinting in the soil under a collapsed altar: a beautiful sculpted human skull carved with uncanny craftsmanship out of a single block of translucent quartz crystal.

Entertainment Weekly scored the first look at Josh Brolin as George W Bush and Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, the roles they were given for Oliver Stone’s Bush II movie: W.

We were a little skeptical when Brolin was announced as W, because he was alos being looked at for a role in Terminator 4 (which we never really heard about again) and he had just come off No Country For Old Men, American Gangster and In The Valley of Elah – all movies where he appears to look nothing like President George W Bush.

This EW cover shut us up rightly. If they can make Banks and Brolin look this good, then James Cromwell as HW Bush and Ellen Burstyn as Barbara are going to look amazing, because those actors already kind of look the part already.

There have been some recently released pictures of GI Joe characters floating around the nets, piquing the interest of the always rabid Wednesday entertainment blogger crowd.

Latino Review has the first look at Byung-hun Lee popular henchman Storm Shadow, Collider has a nice hi-quality look at Dennis Quaid as General Hawke, and IGN has another look at Sienna Miller as Baroness, for those that missed the earlier leaked photos.

ALSO! Not to be outdone, IESB has chimed in with the first pic of Chris Eccleston as James McCullen Destro XXIV aka DESTRO and Dark Horizons scored a picture of Saïd Taghmaoui as Breaker, the Joe communications expert.

Good day to look at people in leather costumes, we’d say.

UPDATE: Man! We are stupid! We forgot that Coming Soon also has the first look at Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Heavy Duty!