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Hayley Atwell Gives Update On Her Marvel One Shot & News Footage From ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’

15 May 2013 7:30 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

Stunning British actress Hayley Atwell has confirmed she’ll feature in the next Marvel One Shot, which fans will first have a chance at viewing at this years San Diego Comic-Con. Her character Peggy Carter, in Joe Johnson’s action adventure The First Avenger, was the Nazi-stomping lost love to the Cap (Chris Evans). She’ll also return for the forthcoming sequel in a number of flashback sequences, while Rogers struggles to keep his hands of her niece, Sharon (aka S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 13).

Here’s an update on the project from the actress herself:

Fans of the first film really wanted to find out what happened to Peggy afterwards. So Marvel are also making a short film, which is basically ‘What Peggy Did Next’, which will be shown at Comic-Con and be on the DVD extras of the second film (Captain America: The Winter Soldier). So as well as doing a bit in the new film, »

- Craig Hunter

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Johnson To Direct Travolta For ‘Gotti’ Biopic

8 May 2013 11:30 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

Joe Johnson, the man behind Captain America: The First Avenger, is said to have signed on to direct biopic Gotti.

Focusing on the life of violent gangster John Gotti, the project has been in several states over the past year (at one point troubled star Lindsay Lohan was said to have joined the cast). However, what we do know is that John Travolta will definitely play Gotti, with him describing it as ‘a long time coming’:

“I’m looking forward to portraying John Gotti – it’s been a long time coming. And I think that Johnson is an exciting and fresh addition to the vision of the film. We are all looking forward to starting production.”

Johnson has said:

“I think we’ve always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, »

- Jazmine Sky Bradley

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Watch NBA Playoffs 2013 Game 7 Free Live Online Stream: Chicago Bulls at Brooklyn Nets

4 May 2013 8:26 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

What remains of the Chicago Bulls following a rash of injuries and illnesses will try to knock the Brooklyn Nets out of the 2013 NBA Playoffs in Game 7 tonight. The Nets, meanwhile, will try to tie the record for the biggest comeback in NBA Playoff history, down 3 games to 1, in the only Game 7 of the first round following four Game 6's that all wrapped up their series yesterday.

Tonight's game marks only the second appearance of the Nets in a Game 7 and first at home, dating all the way back to the creation of the team in New Jersey. They have won two of three from the Bulls in this series thus far and will be counting on the crowd to help carry them to the next round.

Game 6 was a huge win for the Nets at Chicago that saw all three stars, Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and Lopez, notch 17 points a piece. »

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NBA Star Joe Johnson -- I Can't Go to Court ... The Nets Need Me to Win!!!

20 April 2013 7:20 AM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »

Brooklyn Nets guard Joe Johnson made it clear to a judge in Georgia -- postpone his baby mama trial until After the NBA playoffs ... or risk angering the entire team's passionate fan base. As TMZ first reported, Joe filed a suit against baby mama Shannon Beckton to be legally recognized as the father of their kid and share custody. The case was set to be heard between April 15 and May 5. Like teammate Kris Humphries, that »

- TMZ Staff

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Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely talk Thor, Captain America and The Avengers sequels

13 April 2013 1:29 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »

With Iron Man 3 set to launch Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in just a few short weeks, we've been inundated lately with promotional material for Robert Downey Jr.'s third solo adventure, but of course Marvel Studios has plenty of other movies on its upcoming slate, including a trio of sequels in Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Avengers 2. Speaking to /Film, the screenwriting team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America: The First Avengers, Pain & Gain) have offered a little distraction from all things Iron Man by dropping a few details about the next outings for Thor and Captain America, as well as commenting on how the sequels fit into the scheme of things on the road to the second gathering of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

"Cap is much more about realism [than Thor]. They’re tonally quite different genres, almost, »

- Flickering Myth

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Film Review: Drinking ‘The Hangover’ Formula, ‘21 and Over’ is a Poor Man’s ‘Animal House’

3 March 2013 8:33 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – When Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (the writers of “The Hangover” and its sequel) decided to go back in time to college with the same drunk movie formula, their resulting “21 and Over” neglected two major ingredients: being consistently funny and making bold new choices.

Rating: 2.0/5.0

Since you’re willingly entering a movie like this to shut down your brain and feast your eyes on human stupidity, that’ll pay off for you in the first 30 minutes. With the remaining short 63 minutes, though, you’ll see that “21 and Over” already blew its load and front-loaded most of its funnies.

After the first third of the film, the rest drags, some of the punch lines flop and dramatic moments that attempt to diversify the film’s humor aren’t emotional. “21 and Over” would have been better served going for pure comedy the whole time – like “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Why Britons are looking to the skies as astronomy becomes our national hobby

5 January 2013 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Thousands of people are taking academic courses in the subject, there's been a huge interest in Curiosity's landing on Mars – and this week millions will watch the BBC's Stargazing Live. Tracy McVeigh reports on a science phenomenon

They have helped turn a nation on to stargazing, located an undiscovered planet, saved the astronomy Gcse from being scrapped and enabled local astronomy and science clubs to see great surges in membership and interest. Now they think they can find life on Mars.

Comic and cosmologist Dara Ó Briain, along with his co-presenter, the physicist Professor Brian Cox, are back on our television screens this month for a third year of the successful BBC2 project Stargazing Live.

Tapping into the swell of interest in the heavens, the three programmes are accompanied by live events, talks and exhibitions at towns, schools and cities all over the UK and, if past years are anything to go by, »

- Dara O Briain, Tracy McVeigh

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