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.

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.

I’m happy that the new Sacha Baron Cohen makes America feel bad for being stupid movie isn’t titled “Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt” like we first heard about this time last year. I am less enthused that there is an umlaut in it, mostly because I haven’t had to write any words with umlauts since I switched to a Mac, and I don’t know the hot key to make it happen.

So for a bit, you’re going to have to pretend that the umlaut isn’t there. Okay?

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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After Jessica’ Biels screencaps from Powder Blue jumped all over the internet, it seems like people are all psyched about the stripping, but not about the movie. Take the above shot, for instance.

That’s Jessica Biel and her fantastic butt and Cati Jean, her stripper trainer for Powder Blue. Why this picture surfaced AFTER the screencaps of Jessica Biel stripping is a mystery, and it seems to be causing confusion.

Take this story from Absolute Now:

Justin Timberlake must be the only man on the planet who has a problem with Jessica Biel’s body. The pop hunk is said to be concerned that his sexy girlfriend shows off too much of her natural assets in her role as a nymphomaniac stripper in Nailed. “Justin respects Jessica’s career choices just as she does his, but he is growing increasingly uncomfortable about the kind of attention Jessica is getting,” reports a source close to the couple. “He’s no prude but he is aware that Jessica is getting a lot of attention for reasons other than her acting talent. No man likes to have their woman ogled at and Justin is very protective of Jessica.”

That sounds like your basic non-story…except it mixes two Jessica Biel films. In Powder Blue she’s a stripper having a bad day. In Nailed, directed by David O Russell, she plays Sammy Joyce, a socially awkward small-town receptionist who has a nail accidentally shot into her head by a clumsy workman, eliciting wild sexual urges.

In Nailed, Biel will have a body double for the more sexy stuff where as in Powder Blue, it’s really her (hence the stripper training).

THIS is what happens when an A-lister shows their boobs in a bad movie. Careers get hurt, news gets manufactured and no one really knows nor wants to see Powder Blue.

This is how B-movies die. It’s kinda sad.

Saw this picture up with our brothers over at Film School Rejects. Neil’s description of the photo goes like this: Another shot of Megan Fox in leather from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which comes out of the latest issue of Maxim Magazine. Thanks to FSR reader Christopher M. for the tip.

Chris M? The /Film “reader?” Why is Chris M not e-mailing me? Chris! Chris! I love pictures, that’s like, all I do.

Anyway, yeah, Megan Fox pictures will always be welcome here without any real news. Ever since the pictures of her from Jennifer’s Body allowed me to come into y’all’s internet life, occasionally…well, you just have to pause and look at how hot she is.

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