The Dumb Are Mostly Intrigued By The Drum

Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Sony has locked in director Sam Raimi and Peter Parker himself Tobey Maguire (has dude done anything since Spider-Man 3?) for another sequel in the Spider-Man franchise. Not only that, the there is a possibility that they will try to shoot 2 movies back to back, which backs up a rumor that was floating around a couple of months ago. No word on any other actors returning to reprise roles and as far as the villain (or villains? God I hope not...) is concerned, the rumors are heavily leaning towards Dr. Curt Conners as The Lizard in this one. Finke's source goes on to mention that "once you find out who the villain is, you'll know who's playing it" so that means either Conners (played by Dylan Baker) or one of the previous villains will return. Man, I hope it's not Venom cause I don't think after Topher Grace's take on him in the last film that I can take that kinda of bullshit. What do you guys think? Should Raimi get all "Dark Knight" on the Spider-Man franchise and show us the dark side of Peter Parker?

Well, the end of Comic Con this past week has arrived and although we posted much of the major stuff coming out of there (some of it...actually, most of the vids were eventually pulled) there were some other morsels that slipped by us. So what does that mean? Time for an ÜberPost!

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will see it's first trailer drop tonight over at AOL at 9pm EST. We will post it here as soon as it's up but in the mean time, head on over to USA Today here to see some exclusive pictures from the film, including a young Voldemort.

•At Comic Con this weekend promoting Drag Me To Hell, director Sam Raimi revealed that he's is most definitely working with Bruce Campbell on another Evil Dead movie. AWESOMMEEE! Check out the details over here at SlashFilm.

•More Comic Con news, Robert Rodriguez confirmed that Machete, one of his "trailers" from Grindhouse starring the great Danny Trejo, will indeed be expanded upon and turned into a proper film...TRILOGY! Uh... yes, please! The Movie Blog blesses us with the news.