Here's a bunch of images from The Amazing Spider-Man!

The newest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a whole load of images from Marc Webb's upcoming take on Spidey, and it's overall an article worth reading (though it does shamelessly claim to exclusively confirm the villain, despite everyone knowing already for months). For those without the magazine, here are those images after the jump. Enjoy!

Thoughts?

Are you ready for a War Games reboot?

Of course you aren't, but Deadline says it's coming anyway:

MGM will reboot the 1983 thriller War Games, and the studio has set Seth Gordon to develop the film to direct. Gordon, who made his breakthrough with the gaming documentary The King of Kong, most recently directed the New Line comedy Horrible Bosses, with Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Jamie Foxx. The reconstituted MGM has been going to town with remakes -- landing Jose Padilha to direct Robocop and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to script Carrie -- but the John Badham-directed War Games is one that seems particularly reboot-able.

The original starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy as computer prodigies who finds a back door into a military computer program. They think they are playing games with the computer only to find they could trigger WWIII if the computer launches nuclear missiles at the Russians. In terms of computer games, kids were playing Pong back then; the level of sophistication with vidgames and the Internet in the digital age opens a wealth of possibilities, and Gordon will be given a wide berth to create a new take on the tale. The deal also reunites him with MGM toppers Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jon Glickman, who were at Spyglass when Gordon directed Four Christmases there. Gordon's repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

-Joey's Two Cents: I love the original film, but understand how dated it is, so perhaps this could be a good idea...thoughts?

Wait...Jurassic Park 4 hasn't gone extinct yet?

Apparently not (and sorry for the pun), as you can see via Heat Vision:

Steven Spielberg has dinosaurs back on the brain lately. In addition to the impending launch of the television series Terra Nova on Fox in the fall, Spielberg has been meeting with screenwriter Mark Protosevich to kick around ideas for how to re-boot the Jurassic Park franchise.

Several years ago, the Oscar-winning director worked with Protosevich on a potential remake of Chan-wook Park's Oldboy that was to star Will Smith. That film ran into rights problems and didn't come to fruition, but Spielberg, who directed the first two Jurassic Park films and was an executive producer on the third, has since met twice with Protosevich to fashion a story for a potential fourth film in the franchise.

Both Universal, which released the trilogy, and Spielberg's camp stress that no one has been engaged to write a script and that the discussions have been purely exploratory. But the idea is kind of a no-brainer.

The franchise, born of the late Michael Crichton's 1990 novel, has been in stuck in amber since 2001, when Joe Johnston directed Jurassic Park III from a script by Peter Buchman, Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne. That last entry signaled the series' fading fortunes, as it grossed just $369 million worldwide -- Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park grossed $915 million and $619 million, respectively.

Spielberg's original 1993 film adaptation, which came on the heels of James Cameron's groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day, greatly advanced CGI technology (courtesy of ILM) in its depiction of colossal dinosaurs re-animated in the modern day. With the recent rebirth of 3D and soaring improvements in digital design marshaled by everyone from Cameron to Pixar, Jurassic Park is ripe for evolution into a 21st century phenomenon.

And Universal could use the revived sci-fi tentpole.The Fast and the Furious franchise remains healthy, but The Mummy has lost momentum, the Bourne series lost star Matt Damon (a reboot with Jeremy Renner is in the works) and Van Helsing, The Wolfman and Land of the Lost never caught fire. Battleship remains a gamble for summer 2012 but could spark a new alien-related franchise.

Stampeding dinosaurs endangering humans, fighting each other and smashing things never gets old, and Cameron showed how far an ambitious filmmaker can push an integrated, immersive 3D world with Avatar. A new Spielberg-produced Jurassic Park that takes full advantage of those tools could be (pre)historic.

The CAA-repped Protosevich recently had a story credit on Marvel Studios' Thor, and he is working on an adaptation of the Ape Entertainment comic Freakshow that he would also direct. He co-wrote the screenplay for I Am Legend and wrote both The Cell and Poseidon.

The CAA-repped Spielberg is finishing up The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn for Paramount and War Horse for DreamWorks/Disney, both scheduled for holiday releases. He next plans to direct Lincoln for DreamWorks/Touchstone.

-Joey's Two Cents: If handled with care, it could be a fun reboot...thoughts?

Universal is looking to reboot The Wolfman already?

The Playlist says yes:

Remember “The Wolfman”? If you don’t, it’s probably best you don’t try and summon the memory and if you do, you probably want those two hours purged from your brain. Released in early 2010, Universal‘s first attempt to bring back their movie monster franchise was a disaster pretty much from the start. We won’t rehash every nitty gritty detail, but the long and short of it is, the movie started promisingly with Mark Romanek at the helm but feeling the budgetary squeeze and pressure from the suits he bailed at the last minute only to be replaced by Joe Johnston who tried to salvage a production that was going in about five directions all at the same time. The result? The hilariously terrible “The Wolfman”: a toneless, unscary thriller that didn’t know if it was a monster movie or a period drama and wound up failing at trying to be both.

So if you fail once, try again? That seems to be the thinking. Moviehole is reporting that Universal is apparently trying to reboot with a new movie that could go in front of cameras as early as this fall.

Michael Tabb has reportedly written a script that is currently being rewritten that will “share a link” to George Waggner‘s 1941 film “The Wolf Man.” A tentative title being knocked around right now is “Werewolf” and the studio will apparently be meeting with directors in the next couple of weeks, with casting to follow.

It’s not exactly out of the question that Universal would want to give it another whirl so soon after the previous film. With two more “Twilight” movies on the way, werewolves are still very much going to be in the public consciousness, not to mention that MTV is pimping their new series “Teen Wolf” very hard as well. The studio will have to work hard to distance the new film from Joe Johnston’s preceding film but with the right director and lead, they could get audiences on their side. And from a larger perspective, the studio was going to use “The Wolfman” to get the rest of their iconic lineup of monsters (Frankenstein, etc) rebooted and it’s likely they still want to go down that road, so they take another swing. But, strike it up as a rumor for now, but one to keep an eye out for.

-Joey's Two Cents: I hated the flick (especially since I had high hopes for it at the start), so I'm weary to approach it again, but this is Hollywood after all...thoughts?

Get ready for more Tomb Raider...

Well, let's hope you're ready at least, since The Hollywood Reporter tells us that the reboot has some notable writers on board:

Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby have been tapped to write the new Tomb Raider movie project being produced by Graham King and Tim Headington.

King's GK Films acquired feature film rights to the classic video game featuring adventure-loving heroine Lara Croft from Square Enix about two months ago, with the goal of rebooting the action-adventure franchise for a planned 2013 release of the first film.

The hiring of writers shows GK is serious about meeting that goal.

The company is today issuing a statement setting bold aspirations for the franchise, with the writers saying they want to create an "origin story for Lara Croft that solidifies her place alongside Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor in the pantheon of great female action heroes."

No actors have cast in the film. Angelina Jolie memorably played the character in 2001 an 2003 big-screen iterations made by Paramount.

Fergus and Ostby worked on Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, earning an Oscar nomination in the best adapted screenplay category. They are credited on 2008's Iron Man and worked on Akira, the adaptation of the landmark Japanese animated movie in very active development at Warner Bros. They also were among several writers on this summer's Cowboys & Aliens, starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.

Fergus and Ostby are repped by CAA.

-Joey's Two Cents: They are pretty decent writers, but this project can only have so much done with it, I feel like...thoughts?