Samuel L. Jackson Won't Appear In Captain America: Civil War

But is looking to renew his Marvel deal

The roster for Captain America: Civil War may be more stuffed than Tony Stark’s quip drawer but one character who won’t be appearing is Nick Fury. Samuel L. Jackson revealed to Collider that his man is taking the movie off.

"I’m not in Captain America 3. I can’t figure that out, but I’m not,” he said. "I guess I’m still out there, trying to figure out what happened to S.H.I.E.L.D. and who these other people are.”

His surprise is understandable bearing in mind Fury was such a pivotal figure in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, although it’s possible there just wasn’t space on the call sheet for another player. So far the cast includes Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Mackie, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Frank Grillo, Chadwick Boseman, Jeremy Renner, William Hurt - aaaaand breathes – Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Martin Freeman and Don Cheadle, with Daniel Brühl on board as the nefarious Baron Zemo.

Jackson does have two MCU projects remaining on his nine-picture deal but is keen to add more to his slate. “Of course [I’m interested in returning],” he stressed. "I’m looking for a contract extension right now. I’m looking to re-up.”

Captain America: Civil War, which has Joe and Anthony Russo returning to their directors’ chairs, is currently shooting for a April 29, 2016 UK release. Jackson is next up reuniting with Quentin Tarantino for The Hateful Eight.

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New Mission: Impossible 5 Trailer Is A Go

“The Syndicate is real…”

The new trailer for Chris McQuarrie’s generously punctuated Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation was deployed (via covert operation) onto the internet this morning and you can watch it below.

Reuniting Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), Benji (Simon Pegg), Brandt (Jeremy Renner) and Luther (Ving Rhames) and introducing Rebecca Ferguson’s Isla to the line-up, Rogue Nation sees the IMF up against the shadowy Syndicate: essentially an evil IMF, hellbent on their destruction. From what we’ve seen of the film so far (including some extended sequences at this year’s CinemaCon), things are shaping up nicely, with the usual mix of playful humour, improbable stunts and Cruise reducing loss adjusters to tears by doing the insane stunts himself.

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is released in the UK on 30 July.

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Zoë Kravitz Starring In Black Belle

She'll play a gunslinging bounty hunter

She was fantastic as Toast, one of the Five Wives in Mad Max: Fury Road, but now Zoë Kravitz is ready to take centre stage as a gun-slinging hero. She’s signed up for the lead in Western drama Black Belle. 

The film, which is set just after the US Civil War, will find her as a lone bounty hunter who specialises in revenge killing, tracking down and shooting people she’s hired to find. But then a client brings her information about her mother’s murderer, and as she digs into the case, she realises, to her horror, that she knows exactly who is to blame. 

Free Ride director Shana Betz is on to call the shots, working from a script by Tasha Huo. The cameras should be cranking, and the bullets flying, this September. 

Kravitz, who also appears in the Divergent films, will next be seen in comedy drama Dope, which is out here on September 4. She’ll be back on Divergent duty for Allegiant: Part 1, which is scheduled to arrive next March.

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New Trailer For Michael Fassbender's Macbeth

Game of throne...

What trailer through yonder desktop window breaks? Tis Macbeth and... darn, we’ve quoted the wrong Shakespeare play. Not for the first time, Empire wishes it had paid more attention during English class, although Justin Kurzel’s new adaptation of the Scottish play should fill in some of the blanks. Its new trailer is here.

With Michael Fassbender as Macbeth and Marion Cotillard as his scheme wife, Lady Macbeth, there’s intrigue and politicking afoot from the get-go. In the aftermath of a battle between Scottish clan, Macbeth, a general in King Duncan’s (David Thewlis) army, has an encounter with three witches that sends his mind cogs whirling. Aided and abetted by Lady Mac, he sets about on a ruinous course in which his raw ambition leads to murder, misadventure and a lot of Game Of Thrones-style bloodletting.  

On the basis of the trailer, these two clips and Kurzel’s bleak debut feature Snowtown, it’s easy to see how the Aussie was deemed a good fit for the material. His research brief involved discovering what was that time like and how brutal it was. “It reminded me a lot of a Western,” he expands in the press notes, "and of a landscape and atmosphere that felt much more dangerous than I’d ever seen before from adaptations of Macbeth”.

Macbeth has had the big-screen treatment on a few occasions in the past, more notably from Orson Welles (1948), Akira Kurosawa (Throne Of Blood in 1957) and Roman Polanski (1971). Find out if Kurzel’s Macbeth will live in that company when it arrives in UK cinemas on October 2 with Paddy Considine, David Thewlis, Sean Harris, Jack Reynor and The Great Gatsby’s Elizabeth Debicki in tow.

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The Duggars Interview Backfires and Proves Why They Really Don't Belong on TV

The Duggar parents' big interview backfired if they had planned on defending their actions.

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Cameron Crowe Sort of Apologizes for Casting Emma Stone as Asian-American in Aloha

Cameron Crowe has finally weighed in on the Aloha backlash, particularly his casting of Emma Stone to play the one-quarter Hawaiian character, Allison Ng, who he says was based on a real-life redhead who was constantly explaining her heritage.

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Yahoo Will Live-Stream an NFL Game for Free -- But Will Anyone Care?

NFL fans, get ready! The first NFL game to be globally streamed live, free, over the Internet will be available online on Yahoo.com.

The Buffalo Bills-Jacksonville Jaguars game on Oct. 25 in London will be streamed live for anyone with an Internet connection on Yahoo. The game is set to begin

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