Luckily for all the already-lucky folks hanging out on the Croisette, Lawless is screening at the at the Cannes Film Festival and has been received positively.  Those of us not at Cannes have to wait until late August to see John Hillcoat's adaptation of The Wettest Country in the World.  To tide us over, though, there are two new clips from the film online now, both featuring a rather intimidating Tom Hardy.

Lawless, the Prohibition-Era Southern drama from director John Hillcoat, is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which is currently monopolizing the Croisette.  With the film finally getting ready for its debutante ball, The Weinstein Company has unveiled seven character posters from movie formerly titled The Wettest Country in the World and the more concise Wettest Country.

These character posters answer a few questions.  First is the question, "How do we let audiences know that our movie stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce, Jason Clarke, and Mia Wasikowska?"  Answer: character posters.  The second question is, "How do we let audiences know it's a period movie with action?"  Answer: Give most of the cast revolvers and make sure there's a tommy gun in there too.  The third question is, "How awkwardly can we insert Gary Oldman's face onto a poster?"  Answer: Photoshop.

Now that Tony Stark has saved Manhattan and made probably the biggest superhero endorsement in shawarma's history as part of The Avengers, he's going back to the solo adventures that so suit his outsized personality.  Iron Man 3 is starting principal photography any minute now, so Marvel Studios and Disney are locking down the supporting cast, including the latest addition, James Badge Dale.

Enough with all this superhero business, let's get down with some science-fiction horror.  A new video featurette for Prometheus is now available, along with yet another thirty-second TV spot for Ridley Scott's return to the fictitious universe of 1979's Alien.

Okay, The Avengers is out now and broke the all-time opening weekend record, earning over $200 million in its domestic debut.  So now let's look to Iron Man 3, Marvel and Disney's first post-The Avengers release, which will find Tony Stark once again sliding on his supersuit and pew-pew-pewing with aplomb.  The film is currently casting up, and despite earlier reports to the contrary, Jessica Chastain won't be playing a role in the sequel.

In the impending The Avengers, the sole lady on that superteam should get ample opportunity to kick all manner of alien ass, but it might be a while before we get to see Natasha Romanoff throwing down in her leather Black Widow gear.  Last month, we had a headline reading, "Will the Black Widow Return in Iron Man 3?"  At the time, it seemed likely, but according to Scarlett Johansson, the answer is an unequivocal nope.

It would appear that both Pepper Potts and Natasha Romanoff will soon have some competition in the department of beautiful women who can put up with Tony Stark's egocentric nonsense.  Iron Man 3 is rapidly assembling an eclectic cast before production begins next month in North Carolina, and luminous redhead Jessica Chastain is reportedly in talks to play the sequel's new female lead.

As Disney and Marvel Studios prepare to unleash The Avengers on the world shortly, we're hearing a lot more about Iron Man 3, the first post-Avengers Marvel-Disney joint.  Earlier this week, we learned that the film will be co-financed by Chinese company DMG, and will be partially filmed in China, where it'll also see a wide release.  Before that, word was that Ben Kinglsey was in negotiations to play a mysterious role.  Now, there's more casting news, as the always-outstanding Guy Pearce is hopping aboard Iron Man 3.

Remember that Prometheus viral video from a month ago?  The one that was an ad for fictitious Weyland Corporation's newest innovation in the field of robotics, the eighth iteration in the David android series?  Remember how it was slick and insanely well-made like an effective commercial then got crazy-creepy at the end?  Well now there's a new Prometheus viral video for David 8 that features Michael Fassbender as the android, taking the stylistic and thematic content way, way further to great effect.

Most of the imagery we've seen from Prometheus has focused on the extraterrestrial setting, showing a lot of dark, foreboding, H.R. Giger-style chambers and weirdness.  Today, though, we've got no fewer than eight shiny new images devoted exclusively to the Prometheus itself, the eponymous interstellar craft that takes our intrepid heroes to the planet LV-426, where they're introduced to the horrors that kinda sorta set up Ridley Scott's classic Alien.