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After much speculation, Peter Jackson has confirmed that Lord Of The Rings star Orlando Bloom will return for The Hobbit . Bloom had previously hinted at ‘talks’ and expressed an interest in returning to Middle Earth, but now his involvement is 100% official. Thankfully the time difference between Lord Of …

Mark Wahlberg and David O Russell won’t be teaming up for videogame adaptation Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune . Instead, the pair has decided to make a different adaptation together – this one a movie version of the novel The Silver Livings Playbook . Wahlberg will play a delusional ex-teacher who has …

The Kids Are Alright gets a real-life spin in this documentary following a beach-bum sperm donor and his many, many children as they prepare to meet for the first time. If your tolerance for that weird American language of self-actualisation is at even average levels, chunks of this will drive …

Jeff Bridges has officially signed on to star opposite Ryan Reynolds in undead comic adaptation R.I.P.D. He’ll play the role of Roy Powell, which was originally landed by Zach Galifianakis before his schedule forced him to depart the project. Powell is described as a gunslinger who’s been dead for hundreds …

Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson are bearers of bad tidings in this Oscar-nominated drama, an Iraq story that counts the cost of the conflict on the home front. Putting a face on the “angels of death” whose grim duty it is to notify the loved ones of soldiers lost in …

Kingpin (1996) The Haircut: Somewhere between a comb-over and an overgrown mess. All the better for bowling with? Weirdest Detail: Just look at it all floaty and whispy, like mouldy candyfloss blowing in the wind. Even the hair seems to want to escape that scalp. Does It Work? Ernie should …

Sean Bean and Danny Dyer are outlaws of a different kind in this corny World War II actioner about ‘30 Commando’, an “elite smash and grab unit” set up by Ian Fleming (who he?) for search-and-destroy missions behind enemy lines. Whether the real regiment would have recruited an insubordinate lout …

In 1976, a film examining the redemptive power of violence won Oscars for Best Film and Director, albeit not for its committed star. Shame the winner was Rocky, not Scorsese’s masterpiece of urban alienation, which turns 35 this month. Though its iconic elements – De Niro’s unstable cabbie, Jodie Foster’s …

The Flintstones is the latest property up for the reboot treatment, and animation guru Seth MacFarlane is exec-producing. Produced by 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers, MacFarlane’s 21st century take on the classic 60s animation will focus on “the lives of the Flintstones and the Rubbles, two hard-working middle-class families …

The first poster for Jason Segel’s new The Muppets movie has been unveiled online. A dodgy, low quality snap of the one sheet was revealed over the weekend, but now the official hi-res image has been released. Featuring Gonzo, Fozzie, Kermit, Miss Piggy and Animal, it’s a slightly bizarre affair …