Iron Man II filmed this week at LA landmark Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood. It was the first scene between Nick Fury and Tony Stark, though by reading almost all the reports on the subject, Samuel L Jackson (Fury) and Robert Downy Jr (Stark) weren’t really on location at the same time.

That being said, they sat Downey in his Iron Man costume in the donut hole, then flipped the setup and had black-trenchcoat-clad Nick Fury get out of a car and yell up at him.

Vic at Screenrant made these here observations:

“The gauntlets are much beefier on top of his hands, there are some gold highlights in the rib cage area and the chest piece looks redesigned as well. Looks like the tricep area is beefed up along with the shoulders, too, giving the impression (to me, anyway) of a more powerful armor.”

I’ve been trying to compare this suit to the blurry ones in the background of the previous Iron Man II photo, but I’m still undecided as to if we’re seeing the original Iron Man armor here or the new, sleeker version. Like Vic says, this suit looks a little more bulk, where the two red and gold suits in the background of photo one seem to be getting progressively smaller.

And what’s up with that shit on his hands? Boo-urns.

Not that this has any bearing on the movie whatsoever, nor really tells us anything about the red lycra parts of Downey’s costume with black and white references for CG later.

It’s too early to tell, but I’m guessing - if photos like this are already making the rounds - that we’ll see an official look at the Iron Man costume soon.

Jason Reitman is really stepping out of his father’s shadow. Of course, when I write it like that, it sounds like I just re-watched Juno, Reitman’s most recent film. But, I’m talking about his newest, called Up In The Air. It features George Clooney as a corporate downsizer who is obsessed with collecting frequent flier miles.

Reitman’s pre-Juno film, Thank You For Smoking starring a single-faced Aaron Eeckhart was a humorous musing on PR lackeys for Big Tobacco. Juno was about teen pregnancy, and Clooney’s involvement in a film about a corporate lackey shot in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the great depression has me psyched for more quirky looks at socially relevant topics.

Yeah, these pictures are of George Clooney in a suit. So, if no one else, my Mom will click ‘em.

Amidst the e-mails I received this weekend about how Wolverine sucked and how fanboys have unrealistic expectations for blockbuster films, there was one that essentially called me out for not posting the first Iron Man II image, above, from USA Today.

I think it’s a pretty bad ass first image, though some internet folks seem to be bitching and moaning. Here’s why those people are wrong: it’s the first image, there are four suits and new screen tech.

First image: what were you guys expecting, Iron Man in full costume with Scarlett Johansson hanging all over him? The flick is right in the middle of principal photography. If director Jon Faverau didn’t know from the last Iron Man that taking care of the internet fanboys is important, we still wouldn’t have seen sh*t from this film. And the shots that would have leaked would have been of cast moving in and out of sound stages, not an actual production still.

Four suits - From left to right, the re-built Mach I, the all-silver Mach II, the beat-up Mach III from the Iron Monger battle at the end of the first flick and a fourth suit that looks to be modeled off the classic Avengers Iron Man with a tad more gold.

Screen Tech - those amazing screens either had rough VFX added to them as a production still or are actually semi-transparent. The fact that I’m thinking about the latter makes me excited as a tech geek.

Oh, yeah, and what’s in the box?

Also evidence of me sucking at the end of last week, I completely missed the first Inglorious Basterds character poster with Nazi-killing Brad Pitt.

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I was having a discussion with someone about corsets this weekend. My arguement was that they aren’t that difficult to pull off. That being said, Megan Fox’s waist has dropped my jaw.

Megan Fox is on the set of Jonah Hex with Josh Brolin and John Malkovich. Malkovich is using vodoo to raise an undead army of confederate soldiers and Brolin - as Jonah Hex - will try to stop him. Fox will play Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and love interest for Jonah.

But who cares what the movie is about with that corset. Damn.

Kiera Knightley is in Clevedon, UK shooting outdoor scenes for Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go. The film is adapted from the the novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in the nineties, it follows a woman who looks back at her school days and is described as a sci-fi thriller with a cloning theme.

Which is interesting, because this particular book doesn’t come right out and say what’s going on, so I’m tempted to not really clarify on this “cloning theme” or why Kiera’s character, Kathy H. is in a school girl outfit.
Really, if you want to know the plot, check out the book.

The Clevedon Pier is the only “Grade I-listed” pier in the country, whatever that means. But that’s your random factoid to replace the sentence I was going to use to spoil the movie for you.

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I know that this picture is selling homoeroticism, but let me tell you why the four dudes above, Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Bronson Pelletier, have gotta have it tough on the set of the Twilight sequel New Moon, where they play the “Wolf Pack.” Who, obviously, are werewolves.

1) They are all of Native American descent, which means we probably killed off all their ancestors.

2) They are joining the cast and Taylor Lautner, 17, who played secret werewolf Jacob Black in Twilight.

3) Casting had to be humiliating.

4) They are filming in Vancouver right now, which means these shirtless dudes are running around outside for hours on end, probably in the middle of the freezing night, flexing their abs and acting like crazy people.

5) Yeah, they all look good, but since Robert Pattinson is like the new sliced-bread, they’re just “set dressing” for the tweens coming to the big-muscle-man show.

Either way, these guys have it tough. This is our first look at them via USA Today.

God damn, that is badass.

I haven’t written about Kick-Ass since December, so here’s the down low for those that are just joining us. Mark Millar wrote a comic book about an everyday kid that decides to become a superhero and the real-life consequences that would transpire. Millar managed to get this movie funded privately before the comic even hit the shelves, and when the indie comic was uber-successful in its first few issues, the film started shooting.

The flick stars Aaron Johnson as Kick-Ass/Dave Lizewski, an everyday teenager who decides to become a superhero. But unlike Spider-Man and other film heroes, an hyper-violent world of crime is waiting for Kick-Ass. Including an 11 year old murderess named Hit Girl who runs around killing those she considers to be villains.

And that’s what you’re looking at above.

And I’m in love with the idea of watching little Chloe Moretz becoming a stone-cold killer in an R-rated superhero-deconstruction flick. In love with it.

See the whole photo and get some more info at EMPIRE by CLICKING HERE.