New Superman revealed

This is Henry Cavill, the 28 year old British actor who has just been announced as the later actor to don Superman's robe.




Cavill, who's recent roles include The Cold Light of Day and Tarsem Sing's forthcoming The Immortals had previously been considered for the role in what eventually became Superman Returns.

The as yet untitled next Superman film, directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Christopher Nolan, is currently pencilled in for a December 2012 release.

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Scream 4 Official Trailer

Here's the full length trailer for the somewhat belated fourth film in the Scream series. Most of the surviving characters return, together with the original writer and director.

The tone of the film looks to be (perhaps too) similar to the first film with repeated references to the changing rules of the horror genre mixed in with jump scares. It also looks to be going down the self referential route of the earlier sequels, with a copycat killer inspired by a movie based on the events of the first film.

Scream 4 hits theatres on April 15th.



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First Look at Captain America

Entertainment Weekly has the first high resolution shot of Chris Evans in his Captain America costume. The Joe Johnston directed film is scheduled to open in July this summer, with Evans also appearing as the character in next years Avengers movie.

The costume is true to the comic books, but it ha to be said looks somewhat goofy in this still.

Although the character has his fans, it is fair to say he ranks considerably below the likes of Spiderman and The Hulk both in popularity and recognition amongst none comic fans. With both this and Thor due for release this year, it will be interesting to see how mainstream audiences take to the 'second string' characters of the Marvel universe.




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First image of new Spiderman

Sony Pictures have released this first promotional image of Andrew Garfield as the new Spiderman. The reboot, which also stars Emma Stone as love interest Gwen Stacey and Rhys Ifans as The Lizard, hits cinemas in Summer 2012.



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The Resident Trailer released - Christopher Lee's Hammer return

Let Me In may not have set the world alight, but the rejuvenated Hammer Films already has it's next release in place, the Hilary Swank starring thriller The Resident.

The trailer is now available over at Apple and frankly doesn't look that exciting. The main point of interest to horror aficionados is the appearance of Christopher Lee in a Hammer production for the first time in almost forty years. Lee, along with Peter Cushing, was a staple of Hammer's output throughout the 1960's and his appearance in the new production is, depending on your point of view, either a nice throw back to the companies history or a shameless marketing ploy.





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James Bond returns?

The new Bond film has been delayed numerous time as a result of MGM Studio's financial problems (which also caused considerable delays to the forthcoming Hobbit films). Empire Online now reports that the film is officially back in production, with a November 12 2012 release date in place. Daniel Craig will return for his third stint as Bond, with respected director Sam Mendes taking the reins.

Little is known about the plot of the film, other than it is expected to tie up some of the loose ends from Craig's previous Bond Outings Casino Royale and the frankly incomprehensible Quantum of Solace.
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Tetsuo 3 trailer

Fans of Shinya Tsukamoto will be pleased to note that the latest film in his dark Cyberpunk series will be released on demand in America on 19 January, with a limited cinema release following two days later. Tetsuo 3 premiered at the Venice film festival to positive reviews. The film is also Tsukamoto's English language debut. Unfortunately we are still waiting on details of a UK release, In the meantime, heres the trailer :






The official synopsis states:

The third installment in the series, TETSUO III: THE BULLET MAN, and Tsukamoto’s first English-language film, stars Eric Bossick as Anthony, a young man who was born and raised in Tokyo and is now raising a family there. What should be a happy time in Anthony’s life is not: his wife is crippled by anxiety and unable to leave the house. She also has recurring nightmares about a horrible fate awaiting the pair’s young son, Tom. Those nightmares turn out to be prophetic when Tom is cruelly run down in the street. Losing their boy pushes Yuriko over the edge and triggers violent emotions in Anthony, whose body begins to transform. Anthony flies into a terrible rage, and soon discovers that the power of his emotion transforms him into a strange, metallic monster. When the driver who killed Tom reappears and Anthony learns the truth about his father’s past experiments on human guinea pigs and about his mother’s death, Anthony mutates into a mass of metal – a human weapon fueled by an uncontrollable rage. This delights the mysterious man who ran down Anthony’s son, a man who now continually taunts Anthony from a distance.

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Behind the scenes of Tron Legacy

Digital Domain, the special effects wizards behind Tron Legacy have just released this video short detailing the work that went into producing the film's numerous special effects.

Regardless of what you thought of the film overall, there's no denying that the movie was visually spectacular and, with the creation of the Clu character, attempted to push the envelope with what is possible with CGI.

The video gives an insight into just how much effort was necessary to bring the filmmakers vision to screen and is definitely worth a watch. A word of warning though, this is pretty spoiler-heavy for those who have yet to catch the film.




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Trailer for John Carpenter,s The Ward

Seventies and eighties horror legend John Carpenter hasn't troubled the inside of a cinema since 2001's Ghost's of Mars. Since then Carpenter's work has amounted to a couple of mediocre episodes of the cable TV series Masters of Horror and a producers role on the ill-fated Fog remake.

Now Carpenter is back with 'psychological horror movie' The Ward, which stars Amber Heard as a woman who is committed to an asylum following an arson attempt. Once there she is haunted by the ghost of a former patient. The plot sounds beyond cliched, and early reviews have been unkind to say the least.

The film hits cinemas in the UK on 21st January, and the distributors have just released a full length trailer, which is embedded below.





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'Paul' American trailer now online

The American trailer for Greg Mottola's new sic-fi comedy Paul is now online here.

The comedy, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, tells the tale of two sic-fi geeks who, on a cross-country road trip, encounter a real life alien (voiced by Seth Rogen). Jason Bateman co-stars as an FBI agent on the creatures tail.

Early word on the film has been promising, but it remains to be seen if the Pegg/Frost pairing can cross over from cult to mainstream appeal in the States.

Paul opens on February 18th in the UK, with it's USA release following a month later.


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First cast shot from Red Dawn re-make

Fans of cheesy eighties action reacted to news of a remake of Red Dawn with some consternation. The tale of Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen as brothers fighting off a small town communist invasion, whilst not high art, holds a place in the heart of cinemagoers of a certain age.

The sequel, which replaces the Russian baddies with Chinese invaders, was actually completed months ago and was originally planned for a Summer 2010 release. However MGM's ongoing financial troubles have led to the film being temporarily shelved (because y'know spending millions on a film and NOT releasing it is great business sense).

At least we now have pictures of the films cast, thanks to the Daily Blam, which has obtained this image, which appears to be a promotional or test shot rather than a scene from the movie itself:-





Eagle eyed readers will notice the presence of Chris Hemsworth, who has a leading role in the movie. It may be that this leads to the film seeing release next summer to capitalise on Hemsworth's high profile title role in the Marvel Comics adaptation Thor.

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Gareth Edwards to helm new Godzilla movie

The Hollywood Reporter reports that British writer / director Gareth Edwards is close to signing a deal with Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures to helm their new take on the Godzilla franchise, which is pencilled in for a Summer 2012 release.

Edwards recently caused a splash with his low budget indie hit Monsters, which he wrote, directed and created the special effects for.

Warners acquired the American rights to Godzilla from Japan's Toho Studios in 2010. They will be hoping their take on the material fares better than the last attempt to bring the creature to American shores with Roland Emmerich's ill-fated 1998 blockbuster. In the meantime, we recommend checking out the restored version of the 1954 original, available on DVD from BFI video.


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David Fincher interview

Long but interesting interview with David Fincher at Collider.com.

The interview mainly concentrates on the making of The Social Network (which hits DVD and Blu-Ray next week) but also talks about his working practices generally and his upcoming projects, including the American language remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

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RIP Peter Graves

The actor Peter Graves, best known for his roles in Airplane and as Jim Phelps in the Mission Impossible TV series, has died aged 83.  Here's the Airplane trailer, including some of his finest moments

Predators Poster

In our third poster of the day, here#s the teaser for this summer's Predator sequel.  Good to see they are keeping close to the original design of the creature(s), which Robert Rodriguez has also confirmed will be mainly practical as opposed to CGI creations.

Four Lions Poster

Following the earlier release of the trailer, here's the poster for Four Lions

Four Lions Trailer released

A trailer has finally been released for Chris Morris's forthcoming 'Jihad Comedy' Four Lions, which tells the tale of a group on inept suicide bombers.

Co-written by Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, the picture opens in the UK on 6 May but does not yet have a US distributor

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Here's the teaser poster for Edgar Wright's forthcoming comic book adaptation Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

Anticipation is fever high for the comedy-action film, stoked by some recent test screenings that met with a universally positive response.

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Planet of the Apes Prequel

20th Century Fox have hired director Rupert Wyatt (the escapist) to direct it's planned Planet of the Apes prequel 'Caesar'.

The story, by Relic and Hand That Rocked The Cradle screenwriters, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, centres on scientists creating a hyper-intelligent race of chimps, including the titular Caeser.  Whist the film has a contemporary setting and won't feature talking apes, or indeed end with them taking over the world, the film is intended to explain the events which set in motion the history leading up to the first movie.

The film is a prequel to the 1968 original rather than the best forgotten Tim Burton Remake, although it will have to ignore the sequels, which did of course explain the origin of the apes and by the last film brought the story fairly neatly full circle.

Predators Sneak Peek

Following on from a special event at the SXSW film festival, Fox have placed a sneek peek of behind the scenes footage from the new Predator sequel on the films official website .  They have also announced the release of a full trailer on 18 March.

Robert Rodriguez is producing the film, which is intended as a sequel to the first Predator and will ignore the  previous sequels / spin-offs.  Laurence Fishburme stars and the amusingly titled Nimrod Antal directs.  The film is due for release July 9th.