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Joss Whedon Confirms He’s Directing ‘The Avengers’

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Filed under: Movie News, Comic-Con

During today’s Visionaries panel at San Diego Comic-Con Joss Whedon confirmed that he will be directing the highly anticipated ‘Avengers‘ movie.

Unfortunately Whedon didn’t reveal any additional information about the film, due out in 2012. It’s assumed that during the Marvel panel on Saturday Whedon and Marvel will announce the cast of The Avengers — hopefully with a Bruce Banner cast (maybe Adrien Brody? Maybe not.) and … an Ant-Man, perhaps? During today’s Masters of the Web panel, Edgar Wright (the assumed director) shot down all Ant-Man questions, saying no one is cast and that he hasn’t really worked on the script at all this year.

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Second ‘Tron: Legacy’ Trailer Is Out of This World

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

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As Comic-Con gets underway in San Diego, today Disney released the second theatrical trailer for the highly anticipated ‘Tron: Legacy,’ which features Jeff Bridges looking exactly like he did in the original 1982 classic.

The new trailer repeats a few visuals and plot points from the first trailer, confirming what we already know: ‘Tron: Legacy’ focuses on Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the 27-year old son of programmer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), who mysteriously disappeared more than two decades ago. Flynn’s old friend and business partner, Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner), an ENCOM senior executive/consultant, contacts Sam about a message he’s received via pager, supposedly from Sam’s father. Sam enters Flynn’s old arcade and, like his father 28 years earlier, he’s digitized and enters Tron’s virtual world of perpetual combat games.

Head over to Cinematical for full Comic-Con coverage.

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Guillermo del Toro to Direct ‘Haunted Mansion’ Reboot

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

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Talk about saving the best for last: At the end of today’s ‘Tron: Legacy’ panel at Comic-Con, Guillermo del Toro announced that his next project will be a reboot of ‘The Haunted Mansion,’ based on the Disney amusement park ride.

Del Toro added that the reboot will be a much scarier version than the Eddie Murphy vehicle released in 2003. “We are not returning Eddie Murphy’s call,” he told the crowd.

According to reports, the film will be in 3-D.

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Moviefone Minute: Comic Con Geek Out

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

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Comic Con and 'Transformers 3' Scoop I’m here in San Diego getting my geek on. Never been? Did the tickets sell out before you could snag one? No worries, my friends. I’m about to give you a taste of some of the biggest films we’re going to get a look at here. And maybe a few shots of terrifying people in costume. Last year I saw no less than 7 Slave Leias!

I’m reporting from the floor of the show. Take a look and email me at jenna@moviefone.com and let me know what movies you’re looking forward to. And follow me on Twitter by clicking the link below. I’ll be updating you from all the red carpets all weekend. Don’t forget to check out Monday’s show to see what we heard from the stars! We’ve also got a bit of ‘Transformers 3′ scoop for you. Check out the video after the jump.

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Oil spill work on hold as Bonnie approaches (AP)

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

AP – Work to permanently choke off the oil well that had been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was at a standstill Friday after ships around the site were ordered to evacuate ahead of the approaching Tropical Storm Bonnie.

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House pressured to pass stripped-down war measure (AP)

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

AP – After a take-it-or-leave-it vote by the Senate, House Democrats face little choice but to drop more than billion in domestic spending from a must-pass bill funding President Barack Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan.

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Rangel says he’s ready to fight ethics charges (AP)

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

AP – Rep. Charles Rangel, who has spent half of his 80 years as a member of Congress, says he looks forward to fighting ethics charges. Other Democrats won’t be so pleased.

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Ford posts another quarterly profit as sales climb (AP)

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

AP – Ford Motor Co. posted a strong second-quarter profit Friday but trimmed its U.S. sales forecast and predicted weaker results in the second half as the economy slowly recovers.

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NKorea tensions spike at Asian security forum (AP)

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

AP – North Korea on Friday threatened the United States and South Korea with a “physical response” to planned weekend naval exercises as tensions with the communist nation rose in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the North.