World War Z

Variety reports that Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster wil next direct horror thriller World War Z. The novel is pitched as an historical document telling of a zombie apocalypse, ten years after the fact.

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is on scripting duty for the Paramount film.

Forster says "the genre always fascinated me, and when they pitched it to me, it reminded me of the paranoid conspiracy films of the '70s like 'All the President's Men."

Source: Cinematical

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Brand new trailer available at moviefone

Source:Cinematical.com

Watchmen

New trailer, courtesy of Yahoo movies

Watchmen

One of a series of new character led posters for the forthcoming graphic novel adaptation.  The others can be found over at Empire Online

Star Trek

This Empire article has a detailed breakdown of the 20 minutes of footage of the new Star Trek film which was shown to journalists in London recently, including details of Leonard Nimoy's appearance.

The whole teenage / rebellious young Kirk idea doesnt sound overly appealing, but apparently the action sequences should win over a more mainstream audiences than previous trek films have been able to.

Source: Aint it Cool News

Oldboy

Please god no...

I'm just going to link to the original story as I don't know what to say about this, save that this is possibly the greatest mismatch between director and material I have heard in a long time.

Book of Blood

Trailer for the forthcoming horror film based on the Clive Barker short story. Apparently this is one of a number of films based on the 'Books of Blood' series that Barker has in the pipeline. The film is supposedly due out in 2008, but given that there is no firm release date expect to see this get pushed ack to next year.

Source: Cinematical

Pink Panther 2

I'm kind of surprised to see this, given that nobody particularly liked the first one, but here's a trailer for the sequel to Steve Martin's Pink Panther remake.

Valkyrie

New trailer for the supposedly troubled Tom Cruise / Bryan Singer WWII trailer.  

Spiderman 4

 David Lindsay-Abaire, who won a pulitzer prize for his 2007 Broadway play Rabbit Hole has signed to write the screenplay for Spider-Man 4.   Abaire was also responsible for the CGI atrocity that was Robots, but lets not hold that against him.

James Vanderbilt, writer of Zodiac was previously reported to be involved in the project, but no word on how far his script progressed.  

Raimi and Tobey Maguire have already signed up for the 2011 sequel, with Kirsten Dunst also expected to return.

Source: Cinematical

Slumdog Millionare

Yahoo movies has the trailer for Danny Boyle's latest, Slumdog Millionare telling the story of a winner of the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Batman 3

The LA Times has a three part interview with Christopher Nolan in which he talks at length about the reaction to the Dark Knight and his possible ambivalence about taking on a further sequel.

Angels and Demons

First shot of Ron Howard's Da Vinci Code prequel, showing a thankfully mulletless Tom Hanks alongside Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer.

More pictures and an accompanying article can be found at USA Today.

Iron Man 2 / The Avengers

Marvel studios have confirmed that Robert Downey jr is signed up not only for the forthcoming Iron Man sequel, but also for The Avengers team up movie, which is currently set for a July 2011 release. The press release states that "In a movie event, THE AVENGERS will bring together the super hero team of Marvel Comics characters for the first time ever, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk and more, as they are forced to band together to battle the biggest foe they've ever faced."

Jon Favreau, also confirmed as Iron Man 2 director will be a producer on The Avengers.

Source: Cinematical

American Pie 4

After a series of successful straight to DVD spin offs, Moviehole reports that plans are afoot to produce a theatrical sequel to the American Pie series. Few details are available as of yet, but it is presumed that at least some of the original cast will be returning
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Source: Moviehole

Watchmen

New teaser poster from Yahoo Movies. Early test screenings have now taken place and word of mouth is almost universally positive. Despite some rumoured changes to the ending, the film is apparenty extremely faithful to the original graphic novel.

Zack and Miri

Brief clip courtesy of cinemablend

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times is one of the longest serving and respected film critics around. Those who only know him from 'Siskel & Ebert at the Movies' should take time to read the archive of intelligent and funny reviews at www.rogerebert.com.

In addition to his regular website, Ebert has recently become a fervent blogger and his wide ranging thoughts on movies generally should be read by anyone with an interest in film. The blog can be found here

SmodCast 65

The new episode of Kevin smith and Scott Mosiers podcast is now available at www.quickstopentertainment.com

SModcast 65: Captain Kev and Mister Scott - In which our heroes race with the devil, question a non-singing moon-walker, and make contact with the most aloof alien in the galaxy.

Fear(s) of the Dark

Cinematical has a couple of clips from the French animated horror anthology, Fear(s) of the Dark, which is icking up positive reviews around t'internet.