This past week has seen huge developments for the DC Cinematic Universe. We learned that Patty Jenkins will direct Wonder Woman and also that Zack Snyder would be releasing the first footage of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice on Thursday, with the trailer hitting the web on Monday, with 15 minutes of footage from the film at IMAX locations on the same night. It was originally reported that we would be seeing a small tease of the teaser during Star Wars Celebration, but if you are a fan of these DC films, Christmas has come early because Snyder has just revealed that early footage online tonight.

Check out the teaser video here below.

A new photo has surfaced of director Zack Snyder on the set of his highly anticipated Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice movie.

The Watchmen director posted the photo to his private Cruel Films Instagram account with the caption “This is a shot that @clayenos took of me on set I was looking through my pictures and saw it,” tagging long-time set photographer Clay Enos, who regrammed the photo publicly to his social media accounts, adding “Seems like a long long time ago. I miss my carny gang.”

Check out the photo here below.

Last week inside Disney In Depth I shared the first 10 reasons why The Lion King rules in every sense of the word. We continue our examination into Disney’s epic animated film as it celebrates its 20th anniversary with additional points on its importance and value in our lives.

Continue below now for part 2 of 20 Reasons Why The Lion King Rules.

Jesse Eisenberg will star as Lex Luthor with Jeremy Irons as Alfred in Zack Snyder’s untitled Man Of Steel sequel, according to Warner Bros. Pictures, who announced the news today.

Eisenberg and Irons join the cast of what’s been referred to as Batman vs. Superman, which will have Ben Affleck as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince, and Henry Cavill reprising his role as Superman/Clark Kent, with other returning stars Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, and Diane Lane.

Beautiful Creatures
Directed by Richard LaGravenese
Written by Richard LaGravenese
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson, Margo Martindale
Warner Bros. Pictures
Rated PG-13 | 123 Minutes
Release Date: February 14, 2013

Written and directed by Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You), Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural romance film based on the young adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

Young Adult Supernatural Romance is right up there with the Comic Book Superhero Origin Story as one of the most popular (and profitable) subgenres in the film industry right now.

With the success of Harry Potter, The Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games, studios are snatching up YA titles left and right in hopes of producing the next big blockbuster franchise. Beautiful Creatures is the latest ‘supernatural’ (code for watered-down, unscary horror) teenage romance movie, with a story that mixes elements of Star Wars and Harry Potter with the Spanish moss and Southern accents of True Blood.

LaGravenese’s film plays like Twilight with the sexes reversed. This time it’s the boy who’s mortal. Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) is a bookish, shy-but-sweet high school kid in the sleepy town of Gatlin, South Carolina. When he isn’t reading Charles Bukowski or Kurt Vonnegut, Wate dreams of escaping his boring, dead-end town and going to college in New York – until he meets newcomer Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert).