Jamie Foxx blue himself.  Set photos of Foxx as The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s villainous Electro have leaked online, and they are somewhat surprising.  Foxx commented on the look of his character back in December saying that the costume would be black, and the filmmakers wanted “to try new things, like a liquid rubber and things like that, and there are all these bolts and stuff in my arms when they are hanging me upside down and trying to figure out what happened.”  That still didn’t prepare us for the look of his clearly mutated character.  The scene appears to take place before Electro gets his full costume, but the hoodie looks like it has tracking dots to add special effects in post production.

Hit the jump to check out the images.  The film also stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Dane DeHaan, Shailene Woodley, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, and Sally Field.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014.

Some new behind-the-scenes images from two highly anticipated summer movies (one in 2013 and one in 2014) have made their way online.  First up, director James Mangold has shared some fascinating behind-the-scenes look at his sequel The Wolverine.  The images give us a look at the big-budget production, specifically unveiling a peek at how Mangold crafted that nifty-looking bullet train action sequence and a couple other interesting scenes.

Additionally, director Marc Webb has shared a rather tantalizing image from the set of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which is currently in production in New York City.  Webb prefaced the photo by noting that it’s a look at some destruction from Jamie Foxx’s Electro, and it appears that the villain will be very skilled at causing fires.  Hit the jump to take a look at the images.  The Wolverine opens in 3D on July 26th and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hits theaters in 3D on May 2, 2014.

Now playing in limited release and expanding nationwide this weekend is one of the best films you’re going to see this year: director Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines.  The pic centers on a professional motorcycle rider turned bank robber (Ryan Gosling) and a rookie police officer (Bradley Cooper).  Saying more would be detrimental to your enjoyment of the film, and I would encourage you to be very careful when reading about it.  Pines also stars Eva Mendes, Bruce Greenwood, Dane DeHaan, Ray Liotta, Ben Mendelsohn, and Rose Byrne.   For more on the film, here are images, clips, and everything we’ve previously posted on the film.

At the New York City press day, I got to speak with Dehaan.  We talked about how he prepared to make sure his character looked real and authentic on screen, what the last year has been like for him having landed such high profile roles, the 3D Metallica movie (Metallica Through the Never), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and his reaction to Chris Cooper playing his father, and a lot more.

During the development process, director Marc Webb made the decision to shoot the entirety of his sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in New York.  While Webb and company will certainly be using the city to their advantage, there’s one place that they can’t exactly close down in order to film for a few weeks: Times Square.  As a result, a giant Times Square set has been constructed for what we can only assume is one of the film’s action set-pieces, and now some photos have surfaced online that give us a peek into the location.

Hit the jump to take a look at the set images.  The film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Shailene Woodley, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, and Sally Field.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014.

Filming is currently underway in New York City on director Marc Webb’s sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Webb has been keeping fans up to date on the production with regular photo teases on his Twitter account.  Though most of them are either of crew members or innocuous pieces of the set, today he shared a picture from Oscorp that reveals that The Office star BJ Novak has a role in the follow-up.  Novak has a knack for popping up in unexpected features as he previously nabbed a role in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of character he plays in the Spider-Man follow-up.

Hit the jump to take a look at the image of Novak in character.  The film also stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Shailene Woodley, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, and Sally Field.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014.

With the slow leak of images from such highly-anticipated blockbusters as Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, we thought we’d group the latest releases together for you in one place.  One features a skeleton of a giant monster while the other reveals a uniform from the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane.  I’ll let you guess which one belongs with which movie.

Starring Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Ron Perlman, Pacific Rim opens in 3D on July 12th. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone,Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Shailene Woodley, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, Sally Field and Colm Feore,  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014.  Hit the jump to check out the new images.

Director Marc Webb has revealed the first official image of a character from his in-production sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  The filmmaker took to Twitter earlier today to share an image of actor Colm Feore (The Chronicles of Riddick) on set.  We don’t know whom Feore plays, but he looks fairly ominous in this photo with a rather official-looking symbol gracing the wall behind him.

Hit the jump to take a look at the image.  The film also stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Shailene Woodley, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, and Sally Field.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014.

We’ve been getting flooded with set photos from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but the latest one is from the director himself, Marc Webb.  Webb has been taking to Twitter to provide snapshots from the production, and today he sent out a photo of the directory for the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane (i.e. Marvel’s version of Arkham Asylum).  This image is a treasure trove of information.  First off, “Weapon Pickup” and the interrogation room are right next door to each other, so that’s just convenient for everybody.  Secondly, the “Voltage Cells” and the “Medical Inspection Lock-Up” are in the same room?  Is this a vital plot point?  Does Electro (Jamie Foxx) have a close tie to Medical Inspection?  Probably not, but it’s more than likely that Webb knows fans will spot “Voltage Cells” and immediately think of the film’s villain.

Hit the jump to check out the image along with a couple photos of Oscorp, home of leaving doomsday devices out in the open with almost no security whatsoever.  The film also stars Emma Stone, Sally Field, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper and Martin Sheen.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 open in 3D on May 2, 2014.

The first pictures of Emma Stone and Shailene Woodley filming a scene together for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have surfaced online. Stone portrayed Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker’s main love interest in the first The Amazing Spider-Man, and Woodley was recently added to play Parker’s iconic longtime love, Mary Jane Watson. While it has been said that Woodley’s role will not be as prominent in this film, if the film follows accurately with Spider-Man mythology, Woodley could become Parker’s romantic frontrunner in the planned third film. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 also stars Andrew Garfield, Sally Field, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Dane DeHaan, Felicity Jones, and Paul Giamatti, with Marc Webb returning as director.

Hit the jump for some speculation about the possible Gwen-MJ dynamic as well as photos of Stone and Woodley on set.

With director Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 currently filming on the streets of New York City, over the past week we’ve posted a ton of set photos.  However, if you’ve been wondering why most of the set photos only feature Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, it’s because a lot of the cast hasn’t started filming.  But according to Dane Dehaan, who I spoke to earlier today for Derek Cianfrance’s fantastic movie The Place Beyond the Pines, that’s about to change because he starts filming “super soon.”  As most of you know, in the Spider-Man sequel, Dehaan plays Harry Osborn and Chris Cooper will be playing his father, Norman Osborn.  As a big fan of both actors, I think they’re going to nail the roles.  In addition to revealing his first day on set is coming up, I was also able to ask Dehaan what he thought about the script.  He told me:

“It’s awesome.  It really is.  It’s human and it’s deep and it’s also epic and still a huge superhero movie.  But it all makes sense and it all comes from very human elements and I think people are really going to love it.”

Hit the jump to see Dehaan talk about Spider-Man 2.

Another batch of pics, plus a brief video of a car stunt, have leaked from the NYC set of Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This is the fifth (yes, fifth!) batch  of set photos to have surfaced online in the past week. This morning, we got a glimpse of Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker and Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy taking a stroll in Chinatown, and now we have Shailene Woodley popping up as Mary Jane, who in this version of the Spidey-verse is a waitress — a mighty concerned waitress if these pics have anything to show.

Also starring Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, Sally Field, and Martin Sheen,  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014.  Hit the jump to check out the pics and the vid.

New photos have leaked from the set of Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  This is the fourth batch of set photos to hit the Internet in less than a week, and I’m sure we can expect plenty more as the production continues its outdoor filming in the weeks and months ahead.  These new photos show Peter (Andrew Garfield) and Gwen (Emma Stone) strolling around Chinatown, and that’s about all you’re going to get from these images.  We’ll let you know if Gwen Stacy is spotted on top of a bridge.

Hit the jump to check out the set photos.  The film also stars Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Shaileen Woodley, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, Sally Field, and Martin Sheen.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014.

Every once in a while I use this space to tout a recently released Blu-ray/DVD that I missed in theaters but, via the magic of home video, was finally able to check out from the comfort of my couch (click here to see me gush about The Perks of Being a Wallflower). Today I’ll do the same by encouraging you to check out co-writer/director Scott Derrickson‘s horror pic Sinister. There’s nothing spectacular going on here, it’s just an effective movie with several scenes that I found genuinely frightening/disturbing. Moreover, it’s probably the last widely-released horror entry since Insidious that left me turning some of the lights on in the house shortly after it ended.

With my “Super Cool Blu-ray Pick of the Week” out of the way, this week’s Top 5 includes interviews from the set of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, some drama-inducing first set images from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, a set visit recap and interviews for Park Chan-wook‘s Stoker, Jack the Giant Slayer interviews, and the first trailer and poster for director James Wan‘s The Conjuring. As you may expect, a brief recap and link to each of these can be found completely free of charge after the jump.

Director Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 continues production apparently unconcerned about the number of set photos making their way around the web.  We recently brought you the first set images to crop up, followed shortly the first look at Shailene Woodley, presumably before her make-up transformation.  Today brings more set images of Sally Field as Aunt May and Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man/Peter Parker.

Also starring Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper and Martin Sheen.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014.  Hit the jump to see the new images.

Though production is already underway in New York City, a last-minute casting addition is being made to director Marc Webb’s upcoming sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Word comes that Chris Cooper has signed on to join the impressive ensemble cast for the pic, and he’s set to play the shady Norman Osborn.  The character was famously inhabited by Willem Dafoe in Sam Raimi’s Spidey trilogy, and in comics lore he becomes the villain Green Goblin.  Will Cooper be tackling the villain role as well?  Hit the jump to find out.