“I’m available,” said Topher Grace to everything.

Since The Amazing Spider-Man 2 started filming in New York City earlier this week, director Marc “Charlotte’s” Webb has been treating his Twitter followers to one photo from the set each day. So far he’s Tweeted pictures of the set and green screen, crew members and one prop that featured the word “OSCORP”.

On Wednesday, though, Webb spiked the nerd punch with a Tweet that featured a very obvious reference, at least to serious Spidey fanatics. Basically, he told us that Venom will have something to do with the sequel without actually telling us that Venom will have something to do with it. So sneaky, that Marc Webb.

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According to people who do ridiculous things like “read”, the Iron Man films, as well as Marvel’s The Avengers, have featured bits and pieces of a popular story arc known as “Extremis”. The six-issue story followed Tony Stark as he tried to stop a villain known as Mallen, who had been injected with a knockoff super-soldier serum like Captain America, only to turn into a super strong freak show hellbent on murderous revenge. This is important because the Extremis serum/virus may play a role in Iron Man 3, and we know this now thanks to… LEGO?

The company responsible for the greatest toys ever made has released the box design images for the new Iron Man 3 LEGOs, and right there on the box is the word Extremis, which leads us to believe that the virus is for real. But is there more? Bleeding Cool says, “Maybe.”

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David Letterman interviewing Anne Hathaway's brother.

Anne Hathaway was on The Tonight Show Late Night with David Letterman last night to promote The Dark Knight Rises, and Letterman told her that he saw the film already and complimented her work as Catwoman. That should have been it. There shouldn’t have been anything else. But there was. There might have been a really terrible, unforgivable spoiler. And it may have been a joke, or it may have been a genuine slip. But damn it, Dave, we don’t joke about spoiling the third and final installment of Christopher Nolan’s magnificent Batman series.

I’ve included the video after the jump, and I believe the spoiler is right around the 9:20 mark, or just don’t watch it if you want to bury your head in the sand. People seem to think the slip-up was genuine. I mean, I love Letterman – he’s one of my favorite comedians of all-time – so I know that he’s one of the greatest when it comes to playing head games about something like this. But I just don’t know.

I won’t tell you the spoiler, but feel free to discuss it in the comments while I try to bleach my brain stem.

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Kevin Smith’s transition from cult filmmaker to one-man media empire continues this week as Hulu has announced that Smith’s “anti-movie review” show, Spoilers, will premiere on Hulu starting June 4th. SPOILER ALERT: He wears his hockey sweater in the promos. Will he bring his calf-length shorts and stinky trenchcoat? Only time will tell, friends, only time will tell.

Smith calls it an ”anti-movie review show” where the filmmaker will take a bunch of fans to see ten summer blockbusters on opening day, forgoing the early critic screenings he abhors so much, and then have an in-depth discussion about its merits. “We don’t review movies, we revere movies,” he says.

Oh go f*ck yourself.

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After the credits it's an after party!

Because we can’t simply enjoy new movies anymore, the Internet is abuzz with not one, but two spoilers of Marvel’s The Avengers and the after-credits scenes that have become a trademark of the individual films leading up to this weekend’s glory. As for the first-after credit scene, I’m pissed that I read it, but I’m not brave enough to take on movie theaters this weekend, so I know it will be ruined for me within the next few days anyway. But since I am a man of the people, I will not ruin it for you. You can Google it and ruin it yourself, but I feel like I’m falling into a well of perverted innuendo.

However, there is also a second after-credits scene that has very little to do with actual plot, so we are obligated by film blogger code to at least say SPOILER ALERT!!! and link you to the picture that is blazing through the Interwebs right now. So if you’re against even having an inconsequential after-after-credits scene ever so slightly spoiled, then don’t look. But you’re going to….

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