Eddie Murphy has been cast as the voice of Hong Kong Phooey in a big screen version of Hanna-Barbera’s animated TV series. Directed by Alex Zamm ( Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts ), the film will mix live action with animation. Already well known as the voice of Donkey in …

The final chapter of the Harry Potter franchise has earned a total of $1.137 billion globally, bringing it in at third place on the list of highest grossing films of all time. The figure should make the movie 2011’s most successful film by a comfortable margin. Harry Potter And The …

The Humble Indie Bundle 3 has set a new record for the pay-what-you-want video game charity. This week, the team behind the two-week promotion revealed its latest package of indie games collected over $2.16 million dollars in donations, greatly surpassing the $900,000 earned by its Humble Frozenbyte Bundle predecessor from …

Anne Hathaway has spoken out about the criticism levelled at her Catwoman costume in the film The Dark Knight Rises . The first official image of her riding the Bat-pod was released last week (see above) and fans showed disappointment – to put it mildly – at her character’s look. …

By now you’ve probably heard that Freddy Kreuger is the new downloadable character in the latest Mortal Kombat. If you haven’t, it’s probably because have some kind of weird 80’s nostalgia filter in your brain, which you should really get in check immediately. Yeah, we’re Nightmare on Elm Street nerds, …

When you first saw thenow-famous video (opens in new tab)of a baby monkey riding backwards on a pig, doubtless a lot of things went through your head: perplexed delight, envy, the desire to own your very own baby monkey riding on a pig. While this option is available to almost …

The classic Irish sitcom Father Ted had a great conceit: its characters just happened to be priests, but first, foremost and with extreme fallibility they were, simply, humans. We’ve seen this trick before in cop films, but John Michael McDonagh’s melancholic comedy displays much of Ted’s cock-eyed charm. Without overstating …

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s 18th feature – his first with one-time muse Antonio Banderas since 1990’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! – explores the director’s oft-worked themes of sexual identity and desire while exhibiting his fondness for vivid colours, vibrant melodrama and zesty living spaces. Yet in adapting Thierry …

Xbox 360 ownerswillneed to securea sizeable chunk ofhard drive spaceto experience the full extent of id Software’s Rage. This weekend, studio head John Carmack told Quakecon 2011 attendees that acomplete installation ofthe upcoming post-apocalyptic shooter will require upwards of 22GB of HDD room, and there will be no partial fixes. …

NOW WITH ANSWERS Can you identify 12 characters played by somebody other than who made them more famous?