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By: Nick Eskey “Back to the Future” has been marked in movie history as one of the greatest. Try to look at a DeLorean and...

In which we ponder some of the exciting developments surrounding the upcoming Miller opus

Your April Fools' Day round-up of Entertainment headlines

With movies and TV shows based on comics unavoidable no matter where you turn, I've often wondered why there aren't more indie movies based on indie comics. Part of the reason is that it's just so darned hard to fund any indie movie any more. But it does happen. And if you had reminded me that Officer Downe, the one shot comic by Joe Casey and Chris Burnham was being actually made, with Slipnot's main clown Shawn Crahan directing, I would have said "oh yeah, April Fools." Not because it isn't good source material but it sounds so darned unlikely. <

Are superhero movies the only thing keeping young men going to the movies? Or are they doomed to soon crash and burn out? That and more are covered in this NYT piece on on how female fare is dominating 2015's box office. Insurgent (above), Cinderella and Fifty Shades of Grey have all been hits this year, while male focused films have mostly flopped. (One exception, The Kingsmen based on a you-know-what by Mark Millar, one of Hollywood's most reliable creators.) But other factors are at play including the numbing prevalence of endless special effects and male distraction by video games:

Your Monday morning dose of Entertainment news

Even though filming seemingly just began about a month and a half ago, MGM and Sony have started to rev up the marketing machine for Spectre full blast

Get your first look at Reynolds in costume

While Jesse Eisenberg's shaved head is grabbing most of the attention today, here's a few other headlines of note in the Entertainment world

The newest live action incarnation of Lex Luthor will indeed be lacking hair

Your post Hotelpocalypse round-up of Entertainment headlines

Marvel may have closed a deal on the directors of their Phase 3 capping event