Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment announced today at SDCC that pre-production has begun on a new superhero movie that will bring DC icons Superman and Batman together onscreen for the first time. Man of Steel director Zack Snyder is attached to helm the project from a script by David S. Goyer.

DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson said:

Superman and Batman together on the big screen is a dream come true for DC fans everywhere. All of us at DC Entertainment could not be more excited for Zack’s continuing vision for the DC Universe.

The new film will have Man of Steel actors Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane reprising their roles. Batman will be played by Ben Affleck, steps in for Christian Bale, who played the Caped Crusader in Warner Bros. recent Dark Knight trilogy, but opted out of playing the role in future projects.

Zack Snyder said:

I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in this next chapter. Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world.

Production on the Superman/Batman film is slated to begin in 2014 for a summer 2015 release.

Picturehouse is set to release Metallica Through the Never in IMAX 3D on Sept. 27 and expand it into theaters everywhere on Oct. 4. A full-length trailer for the Nimród Antal-directed film—a mix of concert film and narrative feature—was debuted at SDCC .

Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) toplines the film as a Metallica roadie sent to recover a mysterious item for the band in the midst of a sold-out show. An automobile accident strands him on the city streets where a violent and massive riot has broken out. Making matters worse: a horseman is out to kill him.

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Universal Pictures premiered today at Comic-Con a new extended red band trailer for Kick Ass 2, the Jeff Wadlow-directed sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s 2010 original about misfit costumed crime fighters with no special powers.

Reprising their Kick Ass roles in the sequel are Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit Girl, Clark Duke as Marty/Battle Guy, Christopher Mintz-Plasse s Red Mist/Mother Fucker and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Kick Ass.

New faces include Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes, John Leguizamo (The Happening) as Javier, Donald Faison (“Scrubs”) as Dr. Gravity, Morris Chestnut (The Call) as Sergeant Marcus Williams, Russian bodybuilder Olga Kurkulina as Mother Russia and sexy redhead Lindy Booth (Wrong Turn) as Night Bitch.

I’m rooting for this sequel, but the extended trailer makes Vaughn’s absence behind the camera pretty notable.

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AMC has set an Oct. 13 premiere date for season four of its zombie drama “The Walking Dead.” A four-minute-plus trailer played Comic-Con this afternoon during the show’s panel which included “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman, showrunner Scott Gimple and cast members Andrew Lincoln (Rick), Norman Reedus (Daryl), Danai Gurrira (Michonne), Steven Yeun (Glenn), Lauren Cohan (Maggie) and more.

Kirkman described the new season:

The world is getting worse, the people are getting more ragged and it’s gonna keep progressing if you can believe it.

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Universal Pictures premiered today at Comic-Con the red band trailer for Vin Diesel’s Riddick, the third entry in the David Twohy directed sci-fi franchise that includes 2000’s Pitch Black and 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick.

In theaters Sept. 6, the new sequel finds Riddick teaming up with the mercenaries hunting him down on a desert planet to fight against its alien creatures. “Battlestar Galactica’s” Katee Sackhoff plays one of the Nordic mercs eager to catch Riddick.

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Action star and former MMA fighter Gina Carano is teaming up with “Avengelyne” creator Rob Liefeld to produce a film adaptation of the 1995 comic for Carano to topline as the fallen angel cast to battle demons on earth as punishment for questioning God’s love of humans and because he’s kind of a stinker that way.

According to THR, the project will be in the vein of Sony Screen Gems’ Underworld franchise, starring Kate Beckinsale. Carano and Liefeld are set to look for a writer or a writer-director next week.

Carano made her acting debut in Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded 2011 action-drama Haywire. She co-stars alongside Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez in this year’s Fast & Furious 6 and will next be seen in Turistas director John Stockwell’s island-terror thriller In the Blood.

Anchor Bay and Cinetel Films’ have released a trailer for I Spit On Your Grave 2, a sequel to Steven R. Monroe’s 2010 remake of the controversial 1978 Meir Zarchi rape-revenge thriller. Monroe returns to helm the project, scripted by Chain Letter scribe Thomas Fenton.

Newcomer Jemma Dallender (“Hollyoaks”) toplines the film as an aspiring model lured to a photo shoot in New York only to be raped, tortured and taken to a foreign country where she endures more horrors before being buried alive and left to die.

I Spit On Your Grave 2 will play Los Angeles on Sept. 20 and hit DVD, Blu-ray and VOD on Sept. 24.

Monroe’s I Spit On Your Grave starred newcomer Sarah Butler as Jennifer Hill, a young novelist on a mission to maim, dismember, and murder the men who brutally and repeatedly raped her while on holiday in the woods. The film grossed just under $100,000 in its limited theatrical run, but was a hit on home video.

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Anchor Bay Films premiered on Fandango today the first trailer for Nothing Left to Fear, a demonic thriller directed by Anthony Leonardi III for Slasher Films, the start-up genre studio founded by Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash.

Nothing Left to Fear (previously titled Nothing to Fear) is the story of a pastor who moves his family to Stull, Kansas, one of the seven known gateways to hell.  The film is based on actual town folklore that claims the devil rises once every year from the local graveyard to walk the earth and demand sacrifice.

The film stars Anne Heche (The Occult), James Tupper (“Revenge”), Willa Holland (Straw Dogs), Jennifer Stone (”Wizards of Waverly Place”), Rebekah Brandes (Bellflower), Ethan Peck (Mine Games) and Clancy Brown (“LOST”).

Nothing Left to Fear will play selected theaters on Oct. 4 and be released on home video and VOD on Oct. 8.

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Jack Reacher babe Alexia Fast stars in Grace, a supernatural thriller about an 18-year-old girl tormented by evil forces. The Automatik, Oddfellows Entertainment and Colony Pictures’ film has been picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.

Currently shooting in Vancouver, the film marks Jeff Chan’s feature film debut and co-stars Alan Dale (“LOST”), Lin Shaye (Insidious), Alexis Knapp (“Project X”), Joel David Moore (Hatchet III) and Clarke Peters (“Treme”).

Fast made her horror debut in 2006 with the zombie horror-comedy Fido. She has since starred in the sci-fi thriller Repeaters and done guest spots on the TV shows “Masters of Horrors” and “The Secret Circle.” She is best known for playing small town seductress Sandy in the Tom Cruise actioner Jack Reacher.

The 2013 Emmy nominations were announced this morning and surprisingly did not completely suck donkey dicks for horror. While “The Walking Dead” was inexplicably snubbed, Ryan Murphy’s FX series “American Horror Story: Asylum” and HBO’s “Game of Thrones” got some proper recognition.

AMC’s “Bates Motel” also scored a very much deserved nom for Vera Farmiga in the Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Norma Bates, mom to serial killer in-the-making Norman Bates, played by Freddie Highmore, who also should have been up for an award.

Anyhow, the nominees (and their competition) are:

Drama Series: Breaking Bad, Downtown Abby, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Homeland, Mad Men.

Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Connie Britton (Nashville), Claire Danes (Homeland), Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), Kerry Washington (Scandal), Robin Wright (House of Cards).

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire), Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Jim Carter (Downton Abbey), Peter Dinklage (Game Of Thrones), Mandy Patinkin (Homeland).

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad), Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey), Emilia Clarke (Game Of Thrones), Christine Baranski (The Good Wife), Morena Baccarin (Homeland), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men).

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Margo Martindale (The Americans), Diana Rigg (Game Of Thrones), Carrie Preston (The Good Wife), Linda Cardellini (Mad Men), Jane Fonda (The Newsroom), Joan Cusack (Shameless).

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: Breaking Bad (Dead Freight), Breaking Bad (Say My Name), Downtown Abby (Episode 4), Game of Thrones (The Rains of Castamere), Homeland (Q&A).

Miniseries or Movie: American Horror Story: Asylum, Behind the Candelabra, The Bible, Phil Spector, Political Animals, Top of the Lake.

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie: Benedict Cumberbatch (Parade’s End), Michael Douglas (Behind The Candelabra), Matt Damon (Behind The Candelabra), Toby Jones (The Girl), Al Pacino (Phil Spector).

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Asylum), Laura Linney (The Big C: Hereafter), Helen Mirren (Phil Spector), Elisabeth Moss (Top of the Lake), Sigourney Weaver (Political Animals).

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie: James Cromwell (American Horror Story: Asylum), Zachary Quinto (American Horror Story: Asylum), Scott Bakula (Behind The Candelabra), John Benjamin (The Big C: Hereafter), Peter Mullan (Top Of The Lake).

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story: Asylum), Imelda Staunton (The Girl), Ellen Burstyn (Political Animals), Charlotte Rampling (Restless), Alfre Woodard (Steel Magnolias).

Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie: Steven Soderbergh (Behind The Candelabra), Julian Jarrold (The Girl), David Mamet (Phil Spector), Allison Anders (Ring Of Fire), Garth Davis and Jane Campion (Top Of The Lake • Part 5).

Why do I get the nasty feeling that “Downtown Abby” is going to win all?