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Marvel has already cornered the market on interconnected superhero blockbusters, with franchises like Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America, as well as the company’s so-so ABC drama Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which marked the Marvel universe’s first tentative foray into television.

Ryan Gosling has been tipped to play Batman in the 'Man of Steel' sequel.

The Wolverine (12) might have Scott Frank and Christopher McQuarrie on script duties, who between them have written Get Shorty and The Usual Suspects, but when dealing with the likes of an established superhero, you have one job and that’s to give what the audience of 12-year-old boys want: the same as the last superhero movie, only different.

Bruce Willis is set to reprise his role as John Hartigan in 'Sin City: A Dame To Kill For', the sequel to 2005's dark thriller.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is rumoured to star in a 'Sin City' follow-up.

Questions are being raised over any connection between the deadly shooting inside a packed Colorado cinema showing 'The Dark Knight Rises' and the film's plot and the Batman character.

Jessica Alba and Mickey Rourke have signed up for the 'Sin City' sequel.

THE Irish Examiner has been chosen as Ireland’s Newspaper of the Year for 2009.

Investigators trying to identify the bodies of six women found in the Cleveland, Ohio home of a convicted rapist are focusing the inquiry on eight or nine missing women, the coroner said.

Police were working today to identify three of six bodies discovered at the home of a convicted rapist.

Hugh Jackman has revealed the sequel to 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' will be set in Japan.

MAY DAY protesters clashed with riot police in Germany, Turkey and Greece yesterday while thousands angry at the government’s response to the global financial crisis took to the streets in France.

Back-from-the-dead rookie cop Danny Colt (Macht) fights crime in the mean streets where arch-enemy the Octopus (Jackson) is bent on his evil all-conquering schemes.

Hollywood actor Colin Farrell will star in the latest epic from Oscar winning film maker Danis Tanovic, it was announced today.

Jodie Foster has ripped into Robert Rodriguez's 'Sin City' because she found the film offensive.

Hollywood star Samuel L Jackson is set to play an evil 'Octopus' in a big screen adaptation of comic book The Spirit.

War epic 300 is all conquering at the top of the US box office for a second successive week - and it has become the biggest film in the world too.

Batman is reportedly to turn his superpowers to crushing a new foe – Osama bin Laden’s henchmen.

A movie fan had his nose bitten off outside an Australian cinema in an argument over the quality of the violent new Bruce Willis movie Sin City.

Sin City

Actor Clive Owen was at Cannes today for the launch of his ultra-violent new film Sin City.

The Cannes Film Festival is back in the hands of comfy old friends with a line-up that includes such familiar filmmakers as Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Atom Egoyan.

A total of 20 movies from China to Iraq and Canada are to compete for top honour at the Cannes Film Festival in May, organisers announced today.