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Despite the fact that the details of superhero movies are more secretive than the most elite branches of the government these days, Joss Whedon has given ‘Avengers’ fans an early gift by putting an end to the speculation and confirming the identities of the villains in the sequel. Ladies and gentleman, your “Avengers 2” baddies are…Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.

The very busy writer/director had recently teased that two new characters, specifically a brother-sister act would be entering the “Avengers” fray, but Whedon did not reveal that said duo would be the troublemakers in the next movie until he spoke with IGN about the subject.

“You know, they had a rough beginning,” Whedon said of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. “They’re interesting to me because they sort of represent the part of the world that wouldn’t necessarily agree with The Avengers. So they’re not there to make things easier. I’m not putting any characters in the movie that will make things easier.”

So who exactly are these

Director Edgar Wright (Photo: Michael Buckner, Getty Images)

In under a decade, director Edgar Wright has established himself as a major director with a trio of funny, exciting, and visually inventive movies: "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." Now he's collaborating with his old pal and screenwriting partner Simon Pegg again for "The World's End," the third chapter of their "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy.

Also starring Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan, "The World's End" tells the story of a group of old friends attempting to recreate an epic pub crawl from their youth, only to find an even more epic event is going on around them.

We'll have the exclusive premiere of the new trailer for "The World's End" this coming Wednesday, and to get ready for it, we'll be taking questions from fans that Edgar Wright will answer. Leave your question in the comments, or tweet to @YahooMovies with the hashtag #TheWorldsEnd. We'll post Edgar's answers on Tuesday.

"The World's End" opens in the U.S. on

(Photo: Paramount)Burning Question: The new "Star Trek" movie has stirred up an old debate I have with my friends: are transporter beams ever going to be possible or not?
— M. Dunne

Let's not stop our nerd-out there. Let's go full-on dweeb for a second. And why not? "Star Trek: Into Darkness" debuted this week.

To answer your question — and discuss other "Star Trek" technologies ranging from tricorders to photon torpedoes — we wrangled David Saltzberg, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles — and an advisor for the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."

That's right. We're giving you yet another "Big Bang"-on-"Star-Trek" mashup. Bazinga me up, Scotty.

We asked Saltzberg about your particular hangup first — transporter beams.

"We've known since the 19th century that light has pressure," Saltzberg points out. "You can make tweezers out of light. People actually are using light to grab things."

In other words: A transporter sometime in the future? Not a completely crazy idea.
But

Will Tyrese survive this 'Fast & Furious 6' leap? All Ludacris cares about is his deodorant. (Universal)

During a recent television press day in London for the upcoming action-packed (and then some) "Fast & Furious 6," Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris got, well, pretty ludicrous.

Warning: Male anatomy humor ensues...

We don't really know whether both men actually use Secret brand deodorant– strong enough for a man but made for a woman–

A24/Mars/MementoCannes 2013 is well underway as the annual film festival showcases the latest in international cinema against the lush n' gorgeous backdrop of the French countryside. Perhaps the most notoriously elitist of film festivals (by a mile), it's all about the fashion and, well, bling 'round these parts ... which makes it only appropriate that one of the first movies out the gate this year was "The Bling Ring," Sofia Coppola's true-life crime comedy about a bunch of spoiled SoCal teenagers who fight off boredom by robbing rich celebrities.

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Too bad "Pieta" didn't come out last week for Mother's Day. Because South Korean director Kim Ki-duk's film, which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, manages to capture the terrible, elemental power of mom like few films before.