Unfortunately, Deadline says that he had to be relplaced due to family issues that conflicted with shooting.

It’s likely that they are simply announcing that he has always been part of the cast. I see TV shows and movies do this all the time when they ‘announce’ new cast members who have long since finished shooting their scenes.

We are indeed just saying “Forget it Jake, it’s Gotham”, however since you know nothing of the show past its pilot, I’ll take it upon myself to defend it in that it is something of a mash-up of all the most stylized and lurid styles of Batman stories with a little bit of the old Adam West show thrown in here and…

I don’t think there will be ay Disney/Marvel movement on Fox-owned licensed material until that deal is fully done and put to bed.. It’s going to be a least another year or two before they start preliminary planning on that, and Feige has indicated that they have a lot of deliberately unannounced, under wraps, non-Fox-…

Cautious optimism is a fair position to take. I always thought that Watchmen was better suited to an HBO-style series where it could explore the story without the time constraints of a feature film. Personally, I’m glad that they aren’t trying to slavishly follow the graphic novel like the movie did (yes, except for…

In fairness, SMG might have made a pretty good Catwoman, just not as a replacement for Michelle Pfeiffer.

This isn’t really news, but seeing the treatment for an early pitch is. This sounds more like the Catwoman movie we needed, but I have a feeling that Pfeiffer wouldn’tdo any Catwoman movie without Tim Burton, which is why we wound up, ultimately with the Halle Berry version.

What I find especially galling is that I have heard that people are complaining because Ruby Rose isn’t Jewish enough either. I mean, as a Jewish person I have to admit that I appreciate positive representation of Jews both in front of and behind the scenes —which in the greater scheme of history, hasn’t always been…

The Fantastic Four movies and Fant4stic were from Fox, dear.

So have you actually seen an episode?

Just to be clear, TV series and movies are two different animals. When you sign a contract for movie, you presumably have read the entire script and would, at the very least, have some idea of what would be required in terms of nudity so you can, if you have the clout, negotiate it.

I’m just taking her word for it. I do know that there is a lot of pressure on sets, particularly on TV sets, to get the shots done so you can move on to the next ones. Making a one hour episodic 22-episode TV series can be a grueling experience for everyone involved. Movies generally have slightly more time to explore…

There is already a “Supergirl” origin story in a Man of Steel prequel comic that brought Kara Zor-El to Earth generations before Kal-El gets there and then puts her in some kind of stasis. The story is by Zack Snyder, Geoff Johns and David S. Goyer, but nobody ever made it officially connected to the DCEU. I’m not…

They aren’t going to scrap GOTG 3. The franchise is now too intertwined in an ongoing story, but I don’t see that it will be a very happy production if the main stars are beginning to show such open belligerence toward Disney. It would be nice if that company’s leaders would have the self awareness and guts to say,…

You know what? I wasn’t there and neither were you. Prime Time shows like Lost often have scenes that suggest nudity without actually showing it which still puts actors in extremely revealing wardrobe and sometimes requires them to be nearly nude during filming. Lilly was not terribly experienced with prime time TV…

I haven’t read the tweeted script, but it’s worth noting that while Marvel may not object to edginess in movies like the Deadpool franchise, or even in Logan, its animated output is far from adventurous if we are going by the Avengers and Spider-Man series it has been producing for the DisneyXD channel. Perhaps they…

And who wins? Paramount. Rival WB’s already flawed movie gets marred further by distracting CGI, and Paramount’s movie gets valuable early publicity in the process. Unfortunately, it also ruined Cavill’s third turn as Superman, a franchise role, while the likelihood that he will return for more Mission: Impossible…

Are we sure that Peter Quill can’t wield an Infinity stone now that he has killed Ego? We don’t know that Quill hasn’t retained some of the celestial’s strength that he would have simply by being the child of such a being whether or not his father is alive or dead. After all, in GOTG, Quill had no idea of the powers…

I’m in full support of these CW Seed/WB/DC animated series, but the problem is that they ultimately amount to about one half-hour animated show per season. They launched The Ray when? Sometime last year? With a handful of episodes? Now, months later, the next “chapter” has been released and the story still leaves us…

The tie, collar and lapel width are all in correct proportion and reasonably appropriate for the period. Are they garish looking and flashy? Sure, but that’s obviously a character driven costume choice.