WB claims the forthcoming Justice League movie may very well depend upon the critical and commercial success of this summer’s Superman epic, “Man of Steel”.

JJ Abrams is directing Star Wars Episode VII! …and some other news as well this week in the News Shotgun.

Tons of news this week including sequel announcements, remakes in development, shows getting cancelled and the latest video game from Disney.

Tons of directing news his week including what’s next for Christopher Nolan and who’s directing Y: The Last Man along with Sin City 2 and Godzilla casting news and Jurassic Park IV is on the way.

The 2013 Oscar Nominations are out and Lincoln and Life of Pi are the front runners.

The first News Shotgun of 2013 has news about casting for Guardians of the Galaxy, movies getting picked up and pushed back, the most pirated movie of 2012 and a Lord of the Rings theme park?

The return of Arnold and the first Statham movie of the year have us pretty excited for this month’s new movies.

News was a little slow this week as we get closer to the holidays but we found out there is a new Expendable in Jackie Chan, a new Twilight Zone coming from Bryan Singer and a new Lego set based on Back to the Future.

This week in the News Shotgun we have some casting news, AMC reairing The Walking Dead in black & white, Top Gun coming back in 3D, The Asylum finally gets sued and much more.

Tons of news this week including Disney going forward with Tron 3 and also signing an exclusive deal with Netflix, Rise of the Guardians most likely going to be a disaster for Dreamworks, tons of casting news including the new Harry Osborn.