G.I. Joe: Retaliation, director Jon M. Chu's surprisingly awesome-looking followup to the critically-panned G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, has been pushed back from June 29, 2012 to March 29, 2013.

Despite already launching a minor marketing blitz for Retaliation, Paramount has reportedly decided to delay it so it can be converted to 3D for better international box office numbers. The new date also offers little competition: the only movies opening on March 29, 2013 are Stephenie Meyer's The Host and a new Tyler Perry flick.

Oh well, I guess the studio will just have to drop some more money to get us excited about sweet-ass ninja fights again next year.

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The first TV spot for Len Wiseman's reboot of Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell, has arrived on the web.

We've seen some of this footage in previous trailers, but the scene between Farrell and Kate Beckinsale is new. And, apparently, we haven't even begun to see her try to kill him.

Total Recall opens wide August 3.

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The More I Arty presents a series of Avengers-themed cocktail recipes, because you're going to need something to drink with your shawarma.

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With the premiere of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises drawing closer, Warner Bros. has released a new poster for the film. This one actually features Batman (unlike the previous poster) and includes the tagline "A fire will rise."

Oh, and the crumbling Gotham cityscape from the previous poster is now also on fire. That doesn't exactly spoil anything, though, considering that we already know Bane will wreak plenty of havoc on the city before he's through.

A fire will rise July 20.

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The latest in Prometheus' series of character-based teasers -- see Michael Fassbender's David and Noomi Rapace's Dr. Elizabeth Shaw -- has hit the web, and it puts the spotlight on Weyland Corp. executive Meredith Vickers, played by Charlize Theron.

Thus far, Vickers is best known for the line, "If you're really going down there, you're going to die," and this featurette confirms that she's basically the foil to the rest of the Prometheus team as they attempt to make contact with an alien race.

Prometheus lands in theaters June 8.

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The Wolverine, the follow-up to 2009's critically-panned X-Men Origins: Wolverine is finally due to start shooting next week after several delays.

The film, directed by James Mangold (Knight and Day) and starring Hugh Jackman as Logan, will first shoot on location in Japan and then move to sound stage in Australia later this summer.

Word is that the film is based on the famous 1982 Wolverine limited series by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont, which took Wolvie to Japan for martial arts training and risky romance. Fox CEO Tim Rothman has promised that The Wolverine will take full advantage of local Japanese acting talent while on location.

The Wolverine slices into theaters July 26, 2013.

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Author Orson Scott Card has been to the set of Ender's Game, and some of the revelations from his detailed notes about the visit might surprise you.

Card writes that writer/director Gavin Hood's movie version of Ender's Game isn't just the book brought to life. In fact, the movie seems to be taking on a life of its own.

Of one scene, he wrote:

The scene does not come from the book – very few of the scenes in this movie do – so it was amusing when others asked me how it felt to have my book brought to life. My book was already alive in the mind of every reader. This is writer-director Gavin Hood's movie, so they were his words, and it was his scene.

That doesn't mean Card disapproves of the movie, though. On the contrary, he described both the sets and the actors (particularly Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford) in glowing terms.

This is Card's appraisal of the actor behind the movie version of Ender:

Butterfield is smart. That really helps when he's supposed to bring off a preternaturally intelligent character. Actors can easily play dumb, but I've never seen an actor bring off a character that is smarter than he is. He's convincing as Ender Wiggin, so if the movie doesn't work, it won't be Butterfield's fault.

When it was first announced that an Ender's Game film was finally going forward, fans were worried that it wouldn't do justice to the book. From what Card says, we can stop worrying out and start counting down to the movie's November 1, 2013 release date.

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