You know that little video game where you shoot the birds and try to blow up the pigs? That little video game with no dialogue or plot? That little video game where you do the same thing for 100 different levels? Yeah, they’re turning that into a feature-length film.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony has secured to rights to make a 3D animated film about Angry Birds, the time-wasting video game that has been downloaded over 1.7 billion times. It will hit theaters on July 1, 2016.

John Cohen, producer of Despicable Me, and David Maisel, executive producer of Iron Man, have both signed on to produce.

Like a billion other people, I have wasted many minutes of my life playing Angry Birds. It’s a great little video game. But I don’t want to see it turned into a full-length film. It’s not the craziest thing Hollywood has ever done but it has to be up there.

The new poster for Riddick is, well, dark.

Riddick is a sequel to Pitch Black, the 2000 film starring Vin Diesel about a group of marooned space travelers who get stuck on a very dark planet. Like that film, Riddick is directed by David Twohy and stars Diesel.

Riddick opens on September 6.

Earlier this month it was confirmed that Tom Cruise is coming back for Mission: Impossible 5. Now, that film has a writer.

According to Deadline, Drew Pearce will be writing the script for the fifth installment in the franchise. No director has yet to be found. Pearce recently co-wrote the very successful Iron Man 3 and also co-write Pacific Rim, which comes out later this summer. Those are his only film writing credits.

Pearce has a lot to live up to as the last two Mission: Impossibles (Mission: Impossible III and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) really raised the bar of the franchise as both were very good films. The script for Iron Man 3 was very solid but I wonder if that was because of him or director Shane Black, who helped write it. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Time to go crazy: A new poster has arrived for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

And I have to say, I didn’t care much for the trailer but this poster is very sharp. I love the colors and I love the artsy nature and simplicity of it with Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss standing about the world with her mockingjay image in the clouds. A very well-done poster and not the generic photoshopped crap we usually get.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire comes out on November 22.

The cast for Draft Day just keeps growing.

According to Deadline, the latest actor to join this football flick is none other than Sam Elliott. Elliott, best known for his amazingly awesome voice, will play a “college coach whose quarterback is the top NFL draft pick.”

Elliott joins the cast one day after Tom Welling signed on. They will be joined by Kevin Costner, Denis Leary, Jennifer Garner, Chadwick Boseman and Frank Langella in an Ivan Reitman-directed film about the Cleveland Browns general manager who tries to garner the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft to help his team.

Well if you’re a Marvel fan, you may be able to breathe a little bit easier. We’ve discussed on a couple of occasions that Robert Downey Jr. may be done with Iron Man, but that may not be the case.

Mark Ruffalo has come out to reassure fans that he hasn’t heard of any recasting plans, which hopefully means that Downey Jr. will be back. He also says he has every intention of reprising his role as Dr. Bruce Banner.

“I haven’t caught wind of any of that,” says Ruffalo of the recasting rumours. “I was surprised to hear it, because I don’t even think anyone’s really started negotiating yet.”

“I’d be really sad if they did,” continues Ruffalo. “I can’t imagine that. That would be bad. ‘That would not be good,’ as Joss Whedon would say… I’d love to come back as The Hulk. I don’t foresee not coming back as The Hulk.”

Ruffalo also discussed some other Phase 2 appearances he may or may not be in. If you aren’t up to date or haven’t seen Iron Man 3, this may be a spoiler.

However Ruffalo’s appearance in Iron Man 3, was a little surprise, yet pretty entertaining. Here’s a little of what he had to say about it.

“We were doing the Academy Awards and Robert [Downey Jr.] said, ‘Hey, what do you think about coming and doing a cameo in Iron Man?’” says Ruffalo. “So he pitched the idea of the theme and I said, ‘I would love to do that.’

“So, ten days later, I’m on a plane to L.A. and we’re shooting that scene. It was a lot of fun. It was written, but we improvised a little bit and Shane [Black] gave us some adjustments. I haven’t seen it yet, though. Robert thought it would be a good cap to all of the rest of the Iron Man story.”

It’s always a little fun to hear how things come together and hopefully Ruffalo is right about the recasting. It wouldn’t be the same without any of them.

Michael Pena is the latest to join David Ayer’s latest project, Fury. After Pena’s Fox pilot, The List, didn’t work out, he was picked up quickly to join the film that will star Brad Pitt. Shia LaBeouf and Logan Lerman are also set to star.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Pena will play a member of the crew. The story is set in World War II and centers around the commander of a Sherman tank with it’s five-man crew behind enemy lines in April 1945.

This is a great pickup as Ayer worked with Pena on last year’s amazingly underrated cop movie, End of Watch. According to sources, Ayer apparently wrote the part specifically for Pena, but had to wait until the pilot pickups were announced. If that is true, Pena will fit it amazing well in the film, unlike LaBeouf. I’m not sure how he will fit?

In just a few short weeks, the amazing relationship between Jessie and Celine will be back in Before Midnight. These movies are incredible and some of the most graceful and articulate scene’s you’ll see in film. Well a new clip was just released and Celine asks Jessie a dangerous question.

Jesse is played by Ethan Hawke and Celine is played by Julie Delpy. Before Midnight comes to us May 24, 2013.

Prepare yourself: A remake of Gremlins is on its way.

According to Bloody Disgusting, Warner Bros. is officially moving ahead with a remake to the 1984 classic produced by Steven Spielberg, directed by Joe Dante and written by Chris Columbus. Gremlins is the film about a boy who breaks three important rules when it comes to his new pet Mogwai (the awesome Gizmo) and unleashes some nasty creatures upon his little town.

A director and writer have yet to be found but Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg will produce. Grahame-Smith also has writing experience with Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, so it’s likely that he may write the screenplay.

This is already shaping up to be a disaster. The original is a classic and something that shouldn’t be messed with as it still holds up. But everybody’s into the remake business nowadays so let’s prepare ourselves for a bunch of CGI gremlins causing mayhem (in 3D).

Tom Welling is the newest member of Draft Day.

According to Deadline, Welling has landed a role in Draft Day, an Ivan Reitman-directed film about a Cleveland Browns general manager (played by Kevin Costner) who attempts to trade up for the first pick in the NFL draft. Welling will play Brian Drew, a “veteran quarterback in the crossroads of his career.”

Welling, who is best know for playing Clark Kent/Superman on the CW’s Smallville, joins an already solid cast. Along with Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Chadwick Boseman, Terry Crews and Frank Langella will also star.

Since Reitman (Ghostbusters, Junior, Kindergarten Cop) and the story involves the Cleveland Browns becoming an actual decent football team, I’m just going to go ahead and assume Draft Day is going to be a comedy. That’s the only plausible explanation, right?

Draft Day already started shooting, getting real footage from last month’s NFL draft. The film is expected to open sometime next year.

If there is anything that Steve Jablonsky is really great at, it’s scoring sci-fi movies. Well it’s being reported that Jablonsky is going to get the nod to score Gavin Hood’s new film, Ender’s Game, which will end up being a great choice. Jablonsky’s score for the Transformsers films are absolutely incredible and is the best superhoero/comic book movie score of all-time in my opinion.

Jablonsky has written some really great scores for reality-based films such as Pain & Gain, Gangster Squad, Desperate Housewives and other documentaries. On Episode 10, we discussed his score Pain & Pain quite a bit as it was one of the better parts of that film (I would also say the same thing for Gangster Squad as well).

However, Jablonsky shines more in the fantasy/sci-fi world, which is where he’s really great. As I mentioned, his Transformers score is absolutely amazing, but he’s also written great scores for Battleship (the only good thing in that film), Gears of War (video game), Command & Conquer (video game), The Island and the animated film, Steamboy.

Personally, I think this is a really great choice. He’s done a great variety of work, which will give Hood many options as far as the direction he wants to go with the score.

Ender’s Game stars Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Viola Davis, Nonso Anozie, Stevie Ray Dillmore, Andrea Powell, Moises Arias, Conor Carroll, Aramis Knight, Brandon Soo hoo, Jimmy “Jax” Pinchak, Suraj Parthasarathy and Khylin Rhambo.

In the near future, a hostile alien race called the Formics have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training only the best young minds to find the future Mazer.

Ender’s Game opens in theaters November 1, 2013.

Want to know what Paul Giamatti’s The Rhino will look like in next summer’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Well, here you go.

Director Marc Webb recently tweeted a photo of Giamatti as Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich AKA The Rhino (top photo). He’s obviously mad about something, probably has something to do with Spider-Man (bottom photo, courtesy of SuperHeroHype).

Giamatti is a great actor and he usually plays a pretty good villain, so it will be interesting to see his take on The Rhino. I’m also curious if he will get any screentime with the other villain, Jamie Foxx’s Electro. Spider-Man is going to have his hands full.

The Amazing Spider-Man opens in theaters on May 2, 2014.