Awesome!

According to Variety - via CBM - Sebastian Stan will be back as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in Captain America: The Winter Soldier! Apparently he signed a 6 movie deal!

How awesome is that? I mean, we could be pretty sure that he would be back, there was no reason for the actor NOT to be back but after Marvel recast the part of Rhodey/War Machine in Iron Man 2 - and BTW, I liked Don Cheadle in that part much better than Terence Howard! - we couldn't be ABSOLUTELY certain so it's great to have it confirmed, right? :)

Are they for real...?

Digitalspy.co.uk revealed - link (beware of SPOILERS for S5) - that the execs and writers of Merlin plan to focus on movies, hopefully a trilogy, once S5 is done. Well, I prefer a series but as Sherlock proved, sometimes less is more, so not a big shock there. The real shock though, was this:

"One idea we've been playing around with is to reboot the whole series [for the films]. We would go back in time and start the story again and show different parts that you didn't see in the series. The other idea is to do a continuation, but we haven't decided yet."

Are they, like, for REAL?! They are actually considering scraping everything that happened and going back to zero and starting over again instead of giving us further adventures of this bunch? What the...?!

ETA: What WOULD be a great project? If they rebooted the series as a What-If trilogy. One movie = what if Arthur knew about Merlin's magic from the get-go? Second movie = what if Gwen and Lancelot became a couple and she never married Arthur? Third movie = what if Merlin went bad and he and Morgana took on Camelot together? Or something like that. THAT would be awesome. Something like "choose your own adventure."

Falcon?

According to various sources - like this one - Anthony Mackie...



... is in negotiations to play Sam Wilson AKA Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I think it's awesome! Though I hope they won't make his costume quite as... bright, you know, red and white. I read somewhere that in the Ultimates, his costume is black. Now THAT would be awesome, all sleek and sexy ;)

Also, a funny thing: Anthony Mackie (Falcon) was with Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) in The Hurt Locker. And now they will be both Marvel superheroes :)