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Namco Bandai has signed its world famous, pie-shaped mascot for a new animated show on Disney DX. Entitled “Pac-Man – The Adventure Begins”, the CGI action-comedy will broadcast in stereoscopic 3D and feature Pac-Man and his Pac-Friends/Pac-Enemies in family friendly Pac-Hijinx. The show will be executive produced by Avi Arad, …

Byzantium , the upcoming vampire saga from director Neil Jordan, has released a new image online as well as the first glimpse of an official synopsis. The new snap shows stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan huddling together in front of what looks like a seafront attraction, looking less than …

In a not-so-cryptic Facebook posting today, American McGee shared a piece of concept art that was labelled, “Jack and the Beanstalk” with the following message, “What’s that you say? You’d like to see more crazy fairy tale adaptations from Spicy Horse? Hmmm… what’s this? Oh, I dunno… perhaps concept art …

Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality have announced a March 21 drop date for their jointly-made Xbox Live Arcade title, Sine Mora. The self-described “dieselpunk shoot-em-up” will retail for 1200 ($15.00) Microsoft Points and, judging by the action in this new “From Dust to Dust”, throw in a few grey hairs …

The Avengers hype-machine continues to work itself into overdrive, with a new image of the Hulk cropping up online this morning. Well, we say new, because it actually looks as though it was taken from the film’s recent Super Bowl trailer. Still, it’s the clearest look we’ve had of Bruce …

Disney has recruited Shaun Of The Dead director Edgar Wright to helm a remake of The Night Stalker , a 1972 television horror, and Johnny Depp’s in position to star. It appears Depp and his producing partner Christi Dembrowski have had their hearts set on getting the remake developed for …

Hercules will be the next project for political correctness expert Brett Ratner, with the director in line to bring an adaptation of Steve Moore’s comic-book series Hercules: The Thracian Wars to the big screen. And the man in line to play the hulking Greek demigod? None other than musclebound man-mountain …

Frankenweenie , the new stop-motion animation from Tim Burton , has received a first official poster and it’s every bit as charmingly gothic as we had hoped. The poster shows a tombstone bearing the moniker “Sparky”, but wait a minute… isn’t that Sparky the dog peeking out from behind it? …

Spec Ops fans will have to wait a few more months for their next fix, as 2K Games announced Spec Ops: The Line will miss its spring launch window, and instead arrive in North America on June 26, and everywhere else on June 29. Mixing a little good with the …

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter recently released a first teaser trailer and now star Benjamin Walker and Timur Bekmembatov have fanned anticipation still further by dropping a few nuggets of info on what we can expect from the historical horror. “What’s great about it is we can re-examine Abraham Lincoln as …