Roland Emmerich is getting back into the alien-invasion game.

According to Deadline, Emmerich and his production company have acquired the rights to a spec script called Emergence, which is supposedly a new take on the alien-invasion genre. Emmerich is attached to direct.

Emmerich is no stranger to having aliens invading Earth, having directed the Will Smith-starring Independence Day back in 1996. That is still the best film he’s ever been a part of, much better than The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 and 10,000 BC.

When Emmerich will get to Emergence is probably the biggest question right now as he currently has two sequels to Independence Day on the docket, and I would assume one or both of those of those would come first since they’re a well-known property.

Emmerich’s newest disaster film, White House Down, opens on June 28.

The Expendables 3 just became a must-see film.

According to Showbiz 411, Mel Gibson will be joining the cast of Sylvester Stallone’s third installment of the series. And, in even better news, he will reportedly be playing the villain.

Gibson joins a cast that already includes Stallone, Jason Statham, Terry Crews and Mickey Rourke, along with a group of actors (Nic Cage, Wesley Snipes, Jackie Chan and Milla Jovovich) who were close to being a done deal last week.

The cast for The Expendables 3 is already the best of the series. Say what you will about Gibson, but the guy is a great actor and never phones in a performance. And I can’t wait to see him play the villain (if that is in fact the role he’s playing). The first two films were good fun, but the third one is shaping up to be something special.

The Expendables 3 is expected to hit theaters on August 15, 2014.

So if you know anything about me, you know that I love the Transformers franchise. I know Michael Bay gets a lot of crap for it, but I love them and it’s a lot of fun for me. One of the reasons is because Bay uses a lot of awesome cars and magically makes them transform into fun-to-watch robot warriors on screen (which is what it’s all about). Well we’ve seen some modifications to Optimus Prime and a few other Autobots, and now we get two more beauties to feast our eyes on.

Via Bay’s Website, we get a first look at Lamborghini Aventador which is the 2013 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 Coupe and it looks pretty amazing if you ask me. The name isn’t very creative for this Autobot but it’s what they have listed. I get the feeling he could be like Jazz from the first film.

Next up we have Hound, one of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles from Oshkosh Defense. He’s a “rugged and reliable” Autobot, much like the vehicle. Again, could of had a better name but it does look pretty amazing.

And finally we have what is perhaps one of my favorite Transformers photos yet, especially for this film, and we have all of the new updated Autobots lined up and ready to do battle. I may be the only one, but I’m always excited for a new Transformers film.

Transformers 4 comes out next summer.

The lists of movies opening this week aren’t quite as big as the last few weeks but we do have a few potential good ones including Joss Whedon’s new film, Much Ado About Nothing.

The Internship
The Purge
Much Ado About Nothing
Violet & Daisy
Dirty Wars
Wish You Were Here
Syrup
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie

Earlier today Bryan Singer tweeted again from the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past. He’s one of the more exciting directors to follow on Twitter as he tweets quite often about his sets, actors and fun things going on during his projects. This time around, we get a fun picture of Michael Fassbender aka Young Magneto in a cool coat and it looks like something serious is going on. Either way, check out this cool tweet from Mr. Singer.

The dark knight rises. #MichaelFassbender #Xmen #DaysOfFuturePast twitter.com/BryanSinger/st…

— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) June 5, 2013

When we first started talking about Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, we learned that Warner Bros. and Paramount tag-teamed the project which was very new for rival studios. We’ve learned now what Warner Bros. paid in exchange for half of the project.

In a report by The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. gave up the rights to Friday the 13th and South Park to be apart of the project. Warner Bros. released Nolan’s amazing Dark Knight movies which did really well and is why they wanted in on Interstellar so badly. They wanted it so bad, they gave up a popular horror series as well as one of the more popular animated series out there. Also on the list, Warner Bros. agreed to let Paramount co-finance a to-be-determined A-list property in the future. Basically, Warners Bros. just gave up an arm and leg to be a part of Interstellar.

The rights to South Park and Friday the 13th have gone back and forth a little bit but Warner Bros. and Paramount both had shares in each of them. Warner Bros. decided to sacrifice all of it to be apart of anything Nolan has his hands on to continue their relationship with the filmmaker. If you’re Paramount, you have to love this as you still have hands in this and now you have your hands on franchises that should (unless the universe ends) make them a lot of money.

So far, however, neither studio has made any comments. What do you guys think? Good idea for Warner Bros.?

Filming has begun for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice and we have our first photos. If you don’t know, the story takes places in 1969 Los Angeles and centers arounnd a private detective in Larry “Doc” Sportello, who is helping a former lover with an interesting case to say the least.

Joaquin Phoenix is rocking the muttonchops and we also get a very pregnant Maya Rudolph, who has a part in the film. She joins a cast that also includes Katherine Waterston, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Martin Short, Jena Malone, Kevin J. O’Connor, and possibly Sean Penn.

Check out these cool set photos!

The first glimpse of Evangeline Lilly in the sequel to the upcoming sequel to The Hobbit looks pretty cool.

Today Entertainment Weekly released the first photo of Lilly (below), who will be playing a brand-new character to the world in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Lilly, best known for her role as Kate on Lost, will be playing Tauriel, who is an Elven warrior and head of the Elven Guard. She was created by director Peter Jackson and Co. just for the story.

While Lilly’s character looks really cool (a female Legolas), it’s not enough to get me excited for a sequel to a film I really disliked. And the fact that she’s a new character doesn’t help as well and just proves that Jackson and Co. needed to add certain things just to make this into three films.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will hit theaters on December 13.

Guillermo del Toro is getting me more and more excited for Pacific Rim. Everything I’ve seen so far is amazing to me and what he explains here is even more badass. In a new featurette, del Toro explains how he shot the pilots in the Jaegers and how he will bring realism to the cockpit of these giant robots. Warning, this is awesome!

So this is one of the more exciting pieces of news to me personally. Hans Zimmer has been known to score a lot of great films over the last 20 years but he seems to be getting better and better. If you don’t know, his score for Man of Steel looks to be amazing and I’m very excited for it.

That being said, it’s been confirmed that Zimmer will be doing the score for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.

In an interview, Zimmer said, “I wrote something..and I’m writing that. So, yes, we have started.”

This isn’t very surprising considering that Zimmer has scored everything Nolan has done over the last decade, including some great scores for The Dark Knight trilogy. So yes, consider me on board for this.

Benicio Del Toro has joined the impressive cast of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.

According to Deadline, the Oscar-winning actor will play a lead role in the James Gunn-directed film. His specific role isn’t known at the moment, but it will be part of future Marvel films.

Del Toro is a fantastic actor, having been nominated for two Oscars, and is a great addition to a cast that also features Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Michael Rooker, Lee Pace, John C. Reilly and Glenn Close. And since most of the lead roles have already been filled, speculation is that Del Toro could be playing Thanos (which would be incredible).

Guardians of the Galaxy, which is so far shaping up quite nicely, hits theaters on August 1, 2014.

Want to get your first glimpse of The Winter Soldier from the upcoming sequel to Captain America? Check out the set photos below then.

Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier is currently being shot in Cleveland, Ohio (where directors Anthony and Joe Russo are from), and The Plain Dealer got a couple of shots of the villain, The Winter Soldier. For those of you who don’t know, The Winter Solider is actually Bucky, Steve Rogers/Captain America’s best friend who “dies” in the first film. He actually survives and has been turned into a brainwashed assassin – something that should make for an interesting dynamic in the  film.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier returns Chris Evans as the title character, Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier along with a few others and adds Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Redford, Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theaters on April 4, 2014.