Batch o’ Hatch: The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Return of Hellboy and The Punisher, and Ant-Man

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Hot off the success of Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson has cast Johnny Depp in his new film The Grand Budapest Hotel, reports The Playlist. Title kinda reminds me of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel...

Grass is green. I’m excited to see this. I’m already getting a The Royal Tenenbaums vibe from it, probably because that Anderson film featured some hotels. Now that I think about it, a lot of Anderson's films feature hotels...

Do you like the idea of Johnny Depp in an Anderson movie?

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The Return of Hellboy and The Punisher

Ron Perlman recently solidified his status as an amazing guy by putting the Hellboy makeup on one more time to visit a young fan with leukemia.

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And word is now that Perlman and director Guillermo del Toro may make a Hellboy 3 after all. But then again, del Toro is now claiming he might make At the Mountains of Madness after all as well. That guy over-commits.

In other news, Thomas Jane made a pretty awesome short Punisher sequel. It’s got some oddities - you’ll notice one big disturbing thing plus some The Dark Knight soundtrack sampling. Oh and Ron Perlman’s in this as well. Check it out at JoBlo.com over here.

What do you guys think of these returning characters?

Ant-Man

Nobody seems to like Ant-Man. He was a founding member of The Avengers in the comics, but he’s nowhere to be found in the recent slew of movies. Nathan Fillion - a geek favorite for the role -  thinks he’s a joke.

Director Edgar Wright’s been trying to get an Ant-Man film made for years now, and I’ve held out hope that he’d be a great character. Now that Wright has screened some test footage at Comic Con, I gotta say, I’d love to see a full length movie. I adore everything Edgar Wright has ever committed to film and I’ve yet to see a bad Avengers film, so I'm all for it.

It’ll still be a while before we see this movie, since Mr. Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are gearing up to film the final entry in their “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy, The World’s End.

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Is anyone out there a fan of Ant-Man besides me?

p.s. Sorry for using the phrase "Hot off".