Yesterday, CBM posted what they thought was leaked concept art for Kenneth Branagh’s live-action Thor movie. Though the image itself was labeled “Thor Movie Concept Design Art,” CBM couldn’t find its source. But, they did put a warning on the post that the image “could very well cause fits of anger amongst comic book purists,” mostly referring to the revamping of Thor’s mighty hammer Mjolnir.

Eventually it was discovered that the concept art was done by Dan Panosian, who’s previously done illustrations for Captain America and Green Lantern, as well as Superhero Movie. Via his Twitter account, Panosian cleared up the confusion. This was not the concept art for Branagh’s live-action Thor movie, although he thought it was when he accepted the commission from an Art Director who referred to the project as a “design for the Thor movie that Marvel is doing.”

Turns out that the Thor movie was actually the animated Thor movie. Panosian only found this out after he had submitted his work.

Panosian explains the mix-up as well as his ideas for the design on his Deviant Art page Urban Barbarian. Read the entire message here below.

Legends: The Enchanted #0
Written and illustrated by Nick Percival
Letters by Richard Starking & Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancourt
Radical Publishing
28 pages; full-color
Price $1; Release date: February 3, 2010

When giants lay siege on the town of Krakenfield, the townsfolk need a hero and the drifter Jack is just their man. Jack knows a thing or two about killing giants, even though the gigs are getting tiresome for him. On the edge of the Bionic Woods, a bound and imprisoned Pinocchio suffers at the hands of a hag threatening to kill the puppet at the behest of a squire. Days later in those same woods, a mysterious young women caped and hooded all in red carrying a basket, collecting something important is attacked by a pack of wolves.

Something about this tale sounds familiar, yes? That’s because the characters are made up of classic fairy tale legends. But before you dismiss this as a child’s bedtime story, let me stress that Legends: The Enchanted is graphically violent with art that looks like Todd McFarlane’s Twisted Fairy Tales figures meets H.R. Giger in a Clive Barker horror story.

Shutter Island
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Starring Ben Kingsley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams
Rated R
Release date: February 19, 2010

What makes a movie great? Is it meeting the expectation of greatness? Can a movie be viewed solely on its own merit anymore without comparing it to something else you saw that you liked better or worse, or is that what watching and understanding movies is all about? I thought about that a lot after seeing Shutter Island.

It is in our nature to view a movie not only on its own merit but comparatively against like sources. Martin Scorsese has made a lot of brilliant movies but is it fair to always compare each new one to the classics he has already made? His latest film will make you rethink that process. It is the type of film that will make you forget his stable of gangster movies that most people would try to define him by. If you have ever wondered what a Scorsese horror film would look like, Shutter Island is the answer.

The movie opens as two U.S. Marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), arrive on Shutter Island. They have been invited to Ashecliffe Hospital to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), a patient at the facility. Their arrival doesn’t seem to be met with much enthusiasm. The staff is less than cooperative, the hospital’s chief psychiatrist Dr. John Crawley (Sir Ben Kingsley) offers feigned assistance and right away the case seems steeped in impossibility. She was locked in her room, no one saw her leave, and there are no signs of exit. Not to mention they are on an island in the middle of a hurricane.

Yes, you read that headline correctly, there is now a movie trailer online for Showgirls 2: The Return.

Watch the trailer now at www.showgirls2.com and thank me later. But be forewarned, this is totally NSFW from the get-go AND there’s no way to pause the video, so you gotta get all that Showgirls sequel goodness in one shot (no pun intended).

Yes, this is the upcoming sequel to the 1995 bomb Showgirls, which starred Saved By The Bell‘s Elizabeth Berkley in her most controversial role as a dancer who claws — and shoves — her way to the top of the Las Vegas showgirls scene. And who’s bright idea was it to make this sequel? Some bloke named Marc Vorlander, who managed to get $25 million in financing.

The trailer — which has I think only one spoken word in it and I couldn’t even tell you what that word was and I had to watch this thing three times – wait, make that four, I just missed the spelling of the director’s name! — brings back all that softcore lesbian action from the first movie, set against what sounds like a rip off of the recognizable Halloween score. We go from naked women, to naked dancing women, to naked women having sex with each other in what looks like a Red Shoe Diaries moment. Just when you think you understand what this movie’s about (naked women), it turns into Scarface meets David Lynch in Mulholland Drive 2 and fuck if I know what the hell is going on. And if it’s “the return” why does it look like a poorly lit low-budget movie from the 1970s with Tron title credits?

Do I even care? Umm… no. Whatever this movie is, its trailer makes the original Showgirls look like Chicago.

All has been quiet since the exciting and infuriating drama that unfolded from the time that it was announced that Futurama was coming back to TV, to when we were told that Fox was ready to re-cast all of the voice actors, and then the relief of being informed that all was remedied and the regular cast would return.

With hopes of seeing the first of the new 26-episode season order by this Summer, it’s getting around the time when we begin itching for some kind of teaser trailer or anything like that, but nothing has been released yet.

To hold us over, Newsarama was able to have a little chat with Futurama‘s own Phil LaMarr, who spoke about how things are going and when we might see the new episodes. LaMarr voices accounting guru Hermes Conrad on the show, among others, and has a multitude of other voice acting jobs under his belt. He’s also known from his work on Mad TV and as Marvin in Pulp Fiction!