Clark Gregg will return as Agent Phil Coul­son of S.H.I.E.L.D. Kate Mara’s role remains a mystery.

Sin City 2 movie rights are today being shopped around Hol­ly­wood, report THR. It appears that Dimen­sion Films (The Wein­stein Co./Dimension) may have even­tu­ally lost rights to the prop­erty; although they do still main­tain they have the rights on the sequel. This is coun­tered by pro­duc­ers that have ‘shopped for’ the rights to Sin City through rep­re­sen­ta­tives — they are actively seek­ing a new space to set up the Sin City sequel.

This may have come through inac­tiv­ity and ‘lan­guished development’.

The The Wein­stein Co. attor­ney maintains:

“TWC’s rights to pro­duce sequels to ‘Sin City’ remain intact as they always have been.”

Sony Entertainment’s co-chairmen Amy Pas­cal and Michael Lyn­ton, when inter­viewed by Forbes for “What’s next for movies?”, revealed the pos­si­bil­ity that Spider-man 4 could be in 3D. There’s a lot of buzz sur­round­ing this news, so I should point out that the 3D point came from a lead­ing ques­tion, it is mere rumor and pos­si­bil­ity at this stage. Nonethe­less it is an excit­ing proposition.

What about for live action movies?
Pas­cal: I think James Cameron’s new movie [Avatar] could change the world. I think every­one is in antic­i­pa­tion think­ing it’s going to be like Star Wars. It’s going to change the way you con­sume enter­tain­ment. I don’t know that it will ever be the way you see dra­mas, but I can’t say any­more that it won’t be.

Are you con­sid­er­ing doing any live action movies in 3-D? What about Spider-Man 4?
Pas­cal: Could be.
Lyn­ton: Peo­ple are pay­ing a pre­mium to see movies in 3-D and that’s a very big deal. It’s never been done before that some­one says you have to pay more to see Spider-Man than a roman­tic comedy.

Sam Raimi is talk­ing about Spider-man 4 again, this time with Scifi Wire, although again noth­ing too spe­cific. Raimi hopes that Kirsten Dunst will come on board for Spider-man 4. He goes on to explore the idea of a darker and more edgy Spider-man movie in light of The Dark Knight and Watch­men movies.

“I’m hop­ing that she is going to come aboard, and I’ve got a meet­ing com­ing up with her,” Raimi said in a group inter­view last week in Bev­erly Hills, Calif., where he was pro­mot­ing his upcom­ing hor­ror film Drag Me to Hell. “I think she would like to. But I don’t want to speak on behalf of her.”

With the advent of The Dark Knight and Watch­men, do you expect that Spider-Man 4 will be a lit­tle darker and edgier, too?

Raimi: What­ever it is, I think will be a direct result of the best style to bring about our writer’s screen­play. And as soon as I read that, I will know what that is. Edgy could be a direc­tion, but I don’t think it will be applied with­out really under­stand­ing the character’s jour­ney from the inside out first and then fig­ur­ing out the best way to bring that about.

And then, as far as the other influ­ences, mak­ing it dif­fer­ent from the other films, … I hope we don’t react to these very good and some­times bad super­hero movies around us. I hope that we just [look] ever deeper into the truth of who Peter Parker really is—as a human being and the unique char­ac­ter, and that we cel­e­brate that, which is a lot of the rea­son I want to make this next pic­ture. I still believe I have an under­stand­ing of Peter Parker as the char­ac­ter that I have not quite put onto the screen yet.

I’m not talk­ing about Tobey Maguire’s per­for­mance, which I very much love; I’m talk­ing about my under­stand­ing of the char­ac­ter. I feel like some­times a kid at the piano recital. And I know this piece really well. I know it by heart. And I some­times get it right, and some­times I don’t. But I want a chance to really play it the way I feel it. So I’m hop­ing it’s a really good screen­play and I can express the char­ac­ter through that. I’ve got a really good writer [David Lindsay-Abaire]. …

Ama­zon have listed the Trans­form­ers 2 movie nov­el­iza­tion for pre-order, it comes with a small excerpt:

“THE FALLEN SHALL RISE AGAIN.…”

This cryp­tic warn­ing is ignored by the national secu­rity adviser who feels the ruth­less Decep­ti­con threat is no more. The allies are vic­to­ri­ous, the enemy has been defeated, and the world is safe. Small attacks around the world have been con­tained, and the remain­ing pieces of the cov­eted Allspark are locked in an elec­tro­mag­netic vault on one of the most secure Naval bases in the world. But noth­ing is at it seems, and there is a shift in the shad­ows. Things can change in an instant–and frag­ile peace will become all-out war.

TF08 updated their post on Mix­mas­ter to give us shots of the instruc­tions leaflet which informs us of a vehi­cle mode, robot mode and third “bat­tle mode”.

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eBay user yayabee has posted an auc­tion for the new Revenge of the Fallen Wheelie toy, giv­ing our first look at the front-side packaging.

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MTV are really lap­ping up the Trans­form­ers Revenge of the Fallen buzz, giv­ing us a lot of great inter­view snip­pets and movie clues. This time around it’s the turn of Isabel Lucas and Ramon Rodriguez.

- Ramon Rodriguez plays “Leo Spitz”, Sam’s room­mate and owner of a para­noid con­spir­a­cies web­site about aliens and robots:

“I end up get­ting sucked into [Sam’s] crazy world with real robots and find­ing out he’s involved in the real thing,” Rodriguez said. “My com­plete world is flipped.”

- Isabel Lucas plays “Alice”,

“The char­ac­ter of Alice is more the seduc­tress,” Lucas said. “She’s got mys­te­ri­ous inten­tions that we don’t really know about.”

As for Bay’s film­ing techniques:

Bay brought a cou­ple of industrial-size fans to the Egypt­ian desert that blew 100-mile-per-hour, sand-filled winds at Rodriguez’s face. He ended up dis­lo­cat­ing his shoul­der and needed to have his eyes flushed out for 45 min­utes. Another time he had to sit per­fectly still as a huge metal spike pierced the roof of his car, per­ilously close to his head. In those moments, he was not so much act­ing as react­ing to a very real sense of fear.

Could that 100 MPH fan per­haps be sim­u­lat­ing Devastator’s mas­sive vor­tex? We’ve seen him being pulled about before: