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With the hiring of Bill Birch, should we be celebrating taking chances on new talent or still lamenting the loss of John August? Either way, Captain Marvel still has a long way to go.

Watchmen took another 62% drop in its third weekend. IESB reports that Warner Bros. is no longer interested in making superhero/tentpole movies with an R-rating anymore. Have we seen the end of the days when an R-rated movie could dominate the box office?

We know the director, the story, and how realistic they want to make it. Now to whom should Martin Cambell and company give their ring of power?

After reading Audrey Anton’s The Nietzschean Influence in The Incredibles and the Sidekick Revolt, it has become incredibly clear that being super in a Hollywood blockbuster certainly does not entail possessing super powers.

Normally, it would be pretty ridiculous to be excited about a film not due out until 2011, but since it’s still in the planning stage, we have some things we’d like to see make it into the script.

For those who are still mourning over the last couple of failed Marvel comic book adaptations (the disappointing Spider-man 3, the mediocre Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and the atrocious Ghost Rider), fear not.