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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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? …

Back when Warner Bros were toing and froing over how best to bring Superman back to the big screen in the early noughties, there was a stage at which McG was poised to direct his take on the Man Of Steel. The director recently gave an interview to The Playlist …

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 …

A first teaser trailer has been released online for The Bourne Legacy , and mighty exciting it is too, as Jeremy Renner sets about kicking arse and taking names. The footage doesn’t give much away in terms of plot, asides from showing Renner’s character Kenneth Kitson committing to “the programme†…

The first few images have arrived for Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph , the arcade-set animation about an unloved character from a popular videogame. The film stars John C. Reilly as Ralph, the in-game villain who longs to be as popular as designated “good guy”, Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer). Sick and tired …

As far as hackneyed soap opera tropes go, the old “selective amnesia” chestnut takes some beating – boy meets girl, girl forgets boy, boy tries to jog girl’s memory – and the basedon- real-events tag can’t negate the schmaltz factor at the core of Michael Sucsy’s debut. “Are you trying …