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• Series: Watchmen, The Dark Knight, Iron Man 2

Rockwell confirms IRON MAN 2 role

Sam Rockwell is Justin Hammer in IRON MAN 2 (slideshow)
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Sam Rockwell says he's Justin Hammer in 'Iron Man 2'. 'Dark Knight' returns...to IMAX. 'Wolverine' buzz, good and troublesome. This is your Comics2Film 9.1.16

Sam Rockwell confirms IRON MAN 2 role

Actor Sam Rockwell confirmed for MTV Splash Page that he is, in fact, set to play Justin Hammer in the 'Iron Man 2' movie.

Director Jon Favreau approached him for the lead in the original movie, which of course end up going to Robert Downey Jr. Favreau rang Rockwell up again, when development on the second movie began, and described the Justin Hammer character for him, absent a script.

"Yeah, he’s a rival [to Tony Stark]," Rockwell told MTV. "He takes over all the weapons stuff after Tony’s left. I don’t know if he takes over Stark Industries. I’m not really sure yet. He’s a money dude. That’s about all I can say."

Thanks to Antonello Blueberry for the submission.

DARK KNIGHT Returns...to IMAX

From a press release

Warner Bros. Pictures is bringing 'The Dark Knight' back for a return engagement in IMAX and theatres on January 23, 2009, giving audiences one more chance to see the film on the big screen. The film will re-open nationwide, it was announced by Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution.

In making the announcement, Fellman stated, “‘The Dark Knight’ is a crowning achievement in every sense of the word. We wanted to provide one more opportunity for moviegoers to experience it on the big screen as it was meant to be seen.”

One of the most celebrated and successful films of this or any year, “The Dark Knight” has been hailed by both critics and audiences since its original release last July. The film garnered widespread acclaim for its artistic and technical achievements, culminating with the film being named on more than 150 critics’ lists of the year’s top-ten films.

Schreiber enthuses about WOLVERINE while "extensive reshoots" are rumored debunked

Actor Liev Schreiber told MTV Splash Page that the teenage boy in him is what drove him to persue the role of Sabretooth in the upcoming 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' movie and would loved to continue revisitng the role.

"[Superhero movies are] as close to Shakespeare as you can get in the movie business," Schreiber said. "The size of characters, the size of the emotion, the fantasy element — all of that stuff is… bigger than life. Movies are so naturalistic, and I don’t know how to describe it, but the day you put on wires and they fling you around a studio into a giant green pillow, you’ll know how much fun it is to make comic book movies."

The next report makes us wonder if Fox shares Scrheiber's enthusiasm for the movie.

Citing unnamed sources Collider.com claims that Fox is conducting "extensive re-shoots"of the film up in Vancouver. They claim that this is not the customary pick-up shots that often happen after the main production closes down.

Late last summer reports emerged of some major clashes between director Gavin Hood and the studio. Rumor of the day was that Hood was nearly fired and producer Richard Donner had to spend time on the set. The official line is that he was smoothing things over, but some speculate that he may have been sitting in the director's chair part of that time.

UPDATE: A spokesperson for 20th Century Fox tells Mania.com the Vancouver filming is neither pick-up work, nor re-shooting, but rather part of the planned principal photography for the film. The Vancouver leg of the production was planned for in order to capture winter weather and work around the schedules of talent like Ryan Reynolds.

Thanks to Antonello Blueberry for the submission.