Hailee Steinfeld isn’t going anywhere – but up, that is. Fresh from her True Grit Oscar nomination, she’s up for the lead role in a new Sleeping Beauty movie. While it seems to be a trend in Hollywood at the moment to update fairytales (we have Tim Burton’s phenomenally successful …

Dead in the water? Not quite. Last-minute negotiations to reanimate an adaptation of Max Brooks’s zombie novel are proving quite fruitful, according to sources. With Paramount threatening to cut the rope without a financing partner, all hope on a World War Z film had seemingly been quashed. But today word …

Jennifer Garner has signed on to play legendary detective Miss Marple in a new movie inspired by Agatha Christie’s novels. Which either means the 38-year-old actress is going to receive a very wrinkly, very expensive Benjamin Button -style make-over, or the producers are looking to sex Miss Marple up. A …

Two-plus weeks into its life, MLB 11 The Show’s online component is a train wreck. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but even when things are at their best, The Show is a frustrating mess of strange design, poor decisions, and stuttering gameplay. For many gamers, this is a non-issue; …

A teaser trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers has arrived online. Unlike the recent Conan trailer, this one manages to give a decent flavour of the movie in under 90 seconds. Given that it’s from the director behind the Resident Evil and Death Race franchises, it’s no surprise …

Call of Duty: Black Ops mayhold the crown forbestselling videogame in US history, but a more recent study by retail analyst firm NPD has pegged Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock as the highest grossing US title of all time. What’s the difference? Cash money, yo. But like any study …

While it rules the console fighting game scene with an iron fist (sorry Tekken), Street Fighter’s handheld offerings have almost always had to make some kind of sacrifice. Early conversions to the Game Boy family had to deal with fewer buttons and hardware limitations, which meant console-level play was impossible. …

Droid gets new job, lightsaber badminton, flying pigs and loads more nonsense

A blockbuster Hollywood adaptation of Halo (opens in new tab) is almost definitely heading to theaters, and the game’s music composer wants in on the action. However, he feels the chances of being invited to work on the project are slim. Marty O’Donnell, the man behind Halo’s musical score, said …

Rumours that Viggo Mortensen was readying himself to get villainous in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot may have been quashed, but new reports on the film’s villain have jumped up in their place. Deadline and Latino Review both reveal that Michael Shannon and Edgar Ramirez are possible actors to play the …