In the upcoming ensemble comedy Butter, the titular substance isn't just for clogging your arteries and being generally delicious.  No, instead it's used as the medium in a competitive sculpting contest that consumes a small Iowa town.  The film is meant to be a satirical look at human vanity and the strange obsessions lying just beneath the surface in a seemingly ordinary American suburb.  With butter-carving.  A batch of eight new images from Butter show off the film's remarkably robust ensemble, including peeks at characters played by Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Ty Burrell, Olivia Wilde, Yara Shahidi, Rob Corddry, and Ashley Greene.  See them all right here.

Ever since Walt Disney Studios acquired Marvel Comics in 2009 fans have been wondering just what the studio has planned for “The House of Ideas” vast catalog of characters and material. We know that they plan to continue what Marvel Studios began doing on the big screen in 2008 with Iron Man, which will culminate with next summer’s highly anticipated superhero team-up movie The Avengers, but what about on the small screen? Disney does own ABC after all and there has not been a live-action TV series based on a Marvel property on network television since The Incredible Hulk starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno in the late ‘70s. But that could all change soon as it was announced last year that Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg would write and executive produce a pilot for ABC based on the extremely popular Marvel comic book series "Alias" by Brian Michael Bendis.

"Alias," which will be re-titled AKA Jessica Jones for TV, tells the story of Jessica Jones (“Jewel”), a former superhero who gave up costumed crime fighting to become a private detective. While Rosenberg’s biggest success has come from penning the entire Twilight film series, she’s no stranger to writing for television as she’s a former writer and executive producer of Dexter. She is even familiar with writing comic book adapted material having penned several episodes of the Batgirl inspired series Birds of Prey. I recently had a chance to speak with screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg about the status of AKA Jessica Jones while she was out promoting The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, which will be in theaters on November 18^th.

Imagine that you and your equally attractive significant other are a wholesome, small-town couple who've been trying to conceive a child for years, but in order to finally come to terms with the fact that you'll never have that child, the two of you write down and bury your hopes for your child and bury them in the backyard.  Now imagine that you wake up one day to find a kid who is exactly the child for whom you'd been wishing covered in dirt like an inexplicable little golem.  That's what happens in Disney's The Odd Life of Timothy Green, starring Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton.  The first trailer for the film has appeared online, along with an official one-sheet, and while the premise might sound like a horror movie, both indicate that the film is definitely more of a whimsical, uplifting drama.

How do you make mystery novelist Agatha Christie's elderly British spinster and part time sleuth Miss Marple appealing to today's modern audiences?  For Miss Marple, Disney and Vandalia Films, eliminate the whole "elderly British spinster" thing.  Deadline reports that Jennifer Garner is set to play a younger, hotter Jane Marple in a revival of the venerable character.

After Bradley Cooper played the romantic comedy archetype of the douchebag boyfriend to perfection in Wedding Crashers, he could have ended up stranded on Typecast Island, doomed to forever play the sleazy boyfriend who doesn't – and shouldn't – get the girl.  The actor managed to avoid typcasting, however, and with the success of Limitless, his first solo starring role, Bradley Cooper is now breathing that rarefied, flower-scented air available only to bankable leading men. 

To be Rogue of the Week, it's not enough to simply be successful, though.  It takes someone who does the unexpected, and makes unconventional choices.

Confident that enough time has passed since Ben Affleck awkwardly sported a costume of red leather in 2003, 20th century Fox is moving ahead with a new cinematic interpretation of Daredevil, Marvel's foremost blind vigilante.  Variety broke the news that the studio has settled on a director: David Slade, who burst onto the scene with Hard Candy and followed it up with the vampiric double whammy of 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. 

So far, the trailers for the remake of Arthur, with Russell Brand in the Dudley Moore role, have been plagued by a distressing lack of alcoholism.  A flask makes a brief appearance in this second trailer, but it looks like the infantile alcoholism of Moore's Arthur's been replaced by a more generalized immaturity.  This new trailer also features a lot more of the adorable Greta Gerwig as Arthur's true love, while still giving plenty of Jennifer Garner and, of course, Helen Mirren as the billionaire bon vivant's nanny, Hobson.  Watch away, my darlings.

If you've ever heard the song theme song 'Best That You Can Do', from the orginal Arthur, starring Dudley Moore, then you're aware that it's a musical abomination from which your ear drums and your sense of decency will never recover. That song was the product of an unholy alliance between Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen. With the Arthur remake starring Russell Brand as the title character, who could possibly create a hopefully-improved theme for the billionaire misanthrope with a heart of gold?  MTV News made inquiries with co-star Greta Gerwig on the Independent Spirit Awards red carpet, and though she was far from certain, she said that none other than Cee Lo Green might be working on a tune for the film.

Last week saw the first trailer for the new Russell Brand-starring remake of Arthur, and today you can take a good look at a poster for the re-imagining of the tale about a billionaire learning what it means to love.  The poster features Brand, flanked by Helen Mirren and Jennifer Garner, who play his nanny and a love interest, respectively.  Arthur's primary love interest, Greta Gerwig, is omitted.  Like the trailer, this poster indicates that the alcoholism of Dudley Moore's original Arthur has been replaced with a more infantile, playful immaturity.  Take a good look.

The Russell Brand-starring re-imagining of the Dudley Moore comedy Arthur has a whole lot going for it.  For one, the title character, an immature, irrepressible heir is tailor made for Brand's outsized personality.  For another, it has Helen Mirren as Arthur's committed nanny Hobson.  Not only that, but Greta Gerwig and Jennifer Garner are Arthur's dueling love interests.  Finally, any movie that stuffs Luis Guzman into an undersized Robin costume will be worth watching for that alone.  The trailer arrived today, courtesy of Yahoo!  Give it a gander right here, folks.