If your Iron Man 2 lust has you hungry for a snack, here’s a Ritz: a French behind-the-scenes featurette with a little new footage. Savor it, but not too much; otherwise you’ll feel weird when you see a mostly-naked Mickey Rourke on a cot.

That seems off, doesn’t it? Yet possibly reality, says Deadline Hollywood : Marvel Studios and director Joe Johnston are testing candidates for The First Avenger: Captain America which Paramount will distribute on July 22, 2011. I’ve scooped their wish list: most but by no means all of the contenders are young hunks who come from both movies and television — Chace Crawford (CW’s Gossip Girl), John Krasinski (NBC’s The Office), Scott Porter (NBC’s Friday Night Lights), Mike Vogel (Cloverfield), Michael Cassidy (CW’s Privileged), Patrick Flueger (Brothers). They also wanted Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy), but he so far hasn’t made a test deal. You can’t see this, but my reaction is deadpanned exasperation at the camera.

This is a cartoon of Batman responding to the Bat Signal . Apparently he’s a soccer (football) fan. Who knew? I always pinned him as more of a yacht racing kind of superhero . Or is that Thomas Crown? Steal me a Picasso! Even The Dark Knight deserves an evening off [ramblingsofamadman] Thanks to Greg, who once hit Batman with a bottle rocket and burnt a hole in his cape. Oh you are so bad!

Time to reach total Kick-Ass super-saturation with yet another red-band trailer for the superhero film. If you don’t get what this movie is about at this point, you are Grandma.

Hey, here’s a brief behind-the-scenes featurette Empire made on the set of Kick-Ass . If you’ve always wanted to see McLovin faced with the crushing reality that he will always, forever be McLovin, here’s your chance:

This is a picture of four womens bodypainted (NSFW) as comic book characters . They are, from left to right: The Green Lanterness, Lightning Bug, your dad and Token Stripper. Haha, do I know my superheroines or what? I do. Also, how many fingers you’re holding up. Four. Don’t ask how I do it (internet magic, booooi!). Hit the jump for the uncensored version.

Ever since Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns didn’t create the kind of Superman-as-a-2006-Halloween-costume buzz they wanted it to, Warner Bros. has been sitting on their hands not knowing what to do with the franchise. Let Bryan Singer make a mediocre sequel? Start it over again? Just let it sit in the closet with your cargo pants and rock tumbler? At last, they’ve come to a decision: pass it off on someone else and ask, “Hey, can you maybe do something with this?” Deadline Hollywood is reporting Christopher Nolan, the man who rescued Batman from the Pee Wee’s Playhouse-level camp, has been asked to join the project in a “godfather” role. What does that mean, aside from Nolan probably doing at least one Brando impression? I have no idea. But at least now no one can claim Warner Bros. isn’t doing anything with one of their most valuable characters. They’re totally moving forward! Look, they just created a fictional “godfather” position and assigned someone to that! A finished film can’t be far behind.

1. This shirtless guy could maybe be Captain America. In a discussion with “Captain Awesome” from Chuck (Ryan McPartlin), Moviehole discovered that the actor has read for the part of the patriotic superhero. “Reading” for a part is basically just like getting an interview for a job, though, so McPartlin shouldn’t start figuring out how to use his Captain America employee discount just yet. 2. Red Skull will be the villain. You know that comic book character whose head is a red skull rather than a human head? Well, that’s Red Skull, and he’s going to be the guy Captain America fights. 3. The film takes place primarily around WWII. Captain America will remain a member of THE GREATEST GENERATION. Director Joe Johnston said : Virtually the entire story except the bookends are in World War II because we all recognize we have one chance to tell the origin story of how he became Captain America, you can’t tell a modern story and then go back and tell the origin story. So, presumably the film ends the same way the 1992 Mel Gibson film Forever Young begins. 4. The Invaders will have a large presence. The superhero group whose members have included Namor, Union Jack, a Human Torch who looks exactly like the Fantastic Four Human Torch but is an android, and other little-known characters will dominate much of the latter half of the film, and there will be six of them. Good thing comic book movies aren’t known for becoming clusterfucks of characters, or this could become a clusterfuck of characters! 5. Captain America has a really awesome shield. Seriously, it’s probably the best shield I can think of. (Thanks to: Kevin , our greatest examiner of comics .)

1. This shirtless guy could maybe be Captain America. In a discussion with “Captain Awesome” from Chuck (Ryan McPartlin), Moviehole discovered that the actor has read for the part of the patriotic superhero. “Reading” for a part is basically just like getting an interview for a job, though, so McPartlin shouldn’t start figuring out how to use his Captain America employee discount just yet. 2. Red Skull will be the villain. You know that comic book character whose head is a red skull rather than a human head? Well, that’s Red Skull, and he’s going to be the guy Captain America fights. 3. The film takes place primarily around WWII. Captain America will remain a member of THE GREATEST GENERATION. Director Joe Johnston said : Virtually the entire story except the bookends are in World War II because we all recognize we have one chance to tell the origin story of how he became Captain America, you can’t tell a modern story and then go back and tell the origin story. So, presumably the film ends the same way the 1992 Mel Gibson film Forever Young begins. 4. The Invaders will have a large presence. The superhero group whose members have included Namor, Union Jack, a Human Torch who looks exactly like the Fantastic Four Human Torch but is an android, and other little-known characters will dominate much of the latter half of the film, and there will be six of them. Good thing comic book movies aren’t known for becoming clusterfucks of characters, or this could become a clusterfuck of characters! 5. Captain America has a really awesome shield. Seriously, it’s probably the best shield I can think of. (Thanks to: Kevin , our greatest examiner of comics .)

1. This shirtless guy could maybe be Captain America. In a discussion with “Captain Awesome” from Chuck (Ryan McPartlin), Moviehole discovered that the actor has read for the part of the patriotic superhero. “Reading” for a part is basically just like getting an interview for a job, though, so McPartlin shouldn’t start figuring out how to use his Captain America employee discount just yet. 2. Red Skull will be the villain. You know that comic book character whose head is a red skull rather than a human head? Well, that’s Red Skull, and he’s going to be the guy Captain America fights. 3. The film takes place primarily around WWII. Captain America will remain a member of THE GREATEST GENERATION. Director Joe Johnston said : Virtually the entire story except the bookends are in World War II because we all recognize we have one chance to tell the origin story of how he became Captain America, you can’t tell a modern story and then go back and tell the origin story. So, presumably the film ends the same way the 1992 Mel Gibson film Forever Young begins. 4. The Invaders will have a large presence. The superhero group whose members have included Namor, Union Jack, a Human Torch who looks exactly like the Fantastic Four Human Torch but is an android, and other little-known characters will dominate much of the latter half of the film, and there will be six of them. Good thing comic book movies aren’t known for becoming clusterfucks of characters, or this could become a clusterfuck of characters! 5. Captain America has a really awesome shield. Seriously, it’s probably the best shield I can think of. (Thanks to: Kevin , our greatest examiner of comics .)