Watchmen

This Japanese trailer contains quite a bit of new footage.

The Expendables

Mickey Rourke has signed on as the latest member of Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. 

Rourke will join Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, Forest Whitaker and Ben Kingsley in a story about an “expendable” team, hired to do jobs that no one else can or will.  Sounds like as cross between the Dirty Dozen and the A Team.

The team is sent to infiltrate a South American country to overthrow the ruthless dictator and liberate the country and is set to begin filming in Brazil and Louisiana in March.

Source - Variety

Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun Li

Official American trailer, courtesy of IGN.com

A Christmas Carol

First pic of Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis' performance captured Christmas Carol.

Source - Slashfilm.com

Valkyrie

Slashfilm has the first five minutes of Tom Cruise's Nazi flick Valkyrie, in which he plots to assassinate Hitler.

The Slammin' Salmon

The Broken Lizard comedy troupe can be hit or miss to say the least, but this trailer for their latest effort 'The Slammin' Salmon', indicates at least a partial return to form after the execrable 'Beerfest'

Source - Collider.com

Transformers 2

Teaser poster for the giant robot sequel, which pissed off fans of eighties cartoons everywhere.

Source - Aint It Cool News

Last House on The Left

As the original finally gets an uncut release in the UK, Apple have the trailer for the forthcoming remake of Wes Craven's 1974 horror film.  The film looks reasonably close to the original (with one major exception), and the trailer pretty much gives away the entire plot, so those who don't want their viewing spoiled should exercise caution before clicking on the play button.

Follow this link for a HD version

Watchmen

Fox and Warner may be getting closer to settling the legal dispute which threatened to delay the March release of Zack Snyder's superhero movie.

A court had previously ruled that Fox owned distribution rights to the movie as a result of a previous development deal.  Now  Variety report that -

"Attorneys for the studios agreed Friday to delay a federal court hearing until Monday in order to continue settlement talks.

The hearing had been set to take place Friday before the US District Court to rule on Warner's request for an expedited hearing on the key issue -- whether to grant Fox's demand to block Warner's plans to release "Watchmen" on March 6."

We're back!

Following an extended christmas break, we are back and raring to go with all the latest film news for 2009.

As always, if anyone has any stories to contribute, please do so using our usual contact details.

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Judge Dredd

DNA films hope to erase memories of the Sylvester Stallone flop with a new film version of 2000 AD's Judge Dredd. The official press release is below:

Rebellion and 2000 AD are proud to announce that Judge Dredd is coming to a cinema near you soon!

Together with DNA Films, the movie production company behind such great sci-fi movies such as Sunshine and 28 Weeks Later, Judge Dredd will go into production in 2009.

Jason Kingsley, CEO and Creative Director said, ‘We can’t give away too many details at this point, but we’re looking forward to working with DNA Films to bring Judge Dredd back to the big screen.’

We’ll keep you up to date with breaking news as it happens!

Golden Globe Nominations

Little love for The Dark Knight, with only one nomination for Heath Ledger. Entertaining as Tom Cruise's brief Tropic Thunder cameo was, I would also question whether it was award worthy. Anyhow, here's the full list


Best Motion Picture (Drama)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Burn After Reading
In Bruges
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mamma Mia
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Supporting Actor
Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Ralph Fiennes - The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Best Director

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Steven Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes - Revolutionary Road

Best Actor (Drama)

Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best Actress (Drama)

Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road

Best Original Song

"Down to Earth" -- WALL-E
"Gran Torino" - Gran Torino
"I Thought I Lost You" -- Bolt
"Once in a Lifetime" -- Cadillac Records
"The Wrestler" -- The Wrestler

Best Original Score

Defiance
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
Changeling

Best Animated Film

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Foreign Language Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex
Gomorrah
I've Loved You So Long
Waltz with Bashir


Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Javier Bardem -- Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Colin Farrell - In Bruges
James Franco -- Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman - Last Chance Harvey

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Rebecca Hall - Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia
Emma Thompson - Last Chance Harvey

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Screenplay

Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare - The Reader
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

Watchmen

Un francois traileur pur le Watchmen

or something like that. Here's the international Watchmen trailer, currently turning up on French screens and offering new footage not found in previous versions.

Inglourious basterds

New image of Brad Pitt in Tarantino's next.

Source: Cinematical

Terminator Salvation

New image from McG's Terminator sequel, which slowly appears to be winning people around.

Readers in the UK can also pick up this months Total Film, which features articles on both this film and the original Terminator, together with a special 'flashing eyes' Terminator cover, which scared my cat.

Source: Cinematical

The Unborn

International poster for David Goyer's supernatural thriller.

Source : Empire

Watchmen

The three minutes of footage that aired at ComicCon way back in June is now avaiable for download via Itunes.

This is the footage that first got fans excited about the film, and seems to reveal a bit more of the fims design and tone than the previously released trailers.

Source: Chud.com

RIP Forrest J Ackerman

Although his active contribution to cinema was limited to a numerous cameos and the very occasional screenplay, Forrest J Ackerman, who has died aged 92 was one of sci-fi and horrors most revered individuals.

Credited with inviting the term 'sci-fi', Ackerman is best known for his long running magazine 'Famous Monsters of Film Land' which provided inspiration to numerous directors, writers and special effects experts. In his later years Ackerman was famous for giving tours of his 'Ackermansion', his large Hollywood home which housed an almost unparallelled collection of genre movie props and memoraiablia.

Aint it Cool News has a lengthy article on Ackerman's passing, including contributions from those he inspired, including Peter Jackson, Rick Baker and others.

Arthur

The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Russell Brand is setting up a potential remake of 'Arthur' with Warner Brothers. The oscar winning 1981 original saw Dudley Moore play a alcoholic millionaire who must choose between his money and the working class girl he falls in love with.

The role seems a perfect fit for Brand, who currently has a number of other Hollywood projects on the go following his scene stealing appearance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'.