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Gemma Arterton has signed on to Neil LaBute’s big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery Crooked House . The plot sees three generations of family living in the same mansion. When the millionaire patriarch is murdered, suspicion is spread amongst his eccentric family, all of whom have motive. The …

As Thor continues to rake in the cash at the box office, star Chris Hemsworth has landed the role of the Huntsman in Universal’s Snow White And The Huntsman . Hemsworth has been rumoured to be in the running for the role ever since Viggo Mortensen backed out, and he’s …

Terrence Malick’s long-awaited The Tree Of Life has finally screened in Cannes – to a mixed reaction. We’d say the cheers/catcalls ratio at the film’s end was roughly 70/30. Both sides will agree that it’s the US auteur’s most abstract meditation to date on life, the universe and everything. While …

Irish actor Cillian Murphy is in talks to join Wayfaring Strangers , a WWII-set thriller. An Irish-French co-production, the film sees a group of elite British paratroopers captured by German soldiers and held in a remote farmhouse, where a young Jewish couple have also taken refuge. Acting legend Sir Michael …

The Wackness director Jonathan Levine has signed on to helm book adaptation Legend . Backed by CBS Films and Twilight producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, Legend is a proposed trilogy of books by Marie Lu. Though the first book in the series doesn’t hit shelves until November, Bowen and …

Oscar-winner Colin Firth is set to team up with Emily Blunt for an as-yet untitled comedy. The film will tell the story of ‘the story of two damaged souls fleeing their pasts who meet and break into empty homes to assume the identities of the absent owners. Over the course …

The Killer Elite has been picked up for US distribution by newly-minted Open Road, who are staking their worth on the action thriller, which stars Jason Statham, Robert DeNiro and Clive Owen. Seems like a pretty safe bet to us. The Killer Elite follows Statham’s highly-trained special-ops soldier as he …

Woody Harrelson has officially been confirmed as Haymitch Abernathy in Gary Ross’ adaptation of The Hunger Games . Written by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is the first in a best-selling young adult trilogy. Set in an alternate post-apocalyptic world, one boy and one girl are picked at random from …

Darren Aronofsky may not be making The Wolverine , but he could have found his next project in sci-fi Human Nature . A spec script by Jeff Welch that’s been hovering around Hollywood for 15 years, Nature follows a man who wakes up after being cryogenically frozen and discovers that …

Return of the Jedi (1983) The Moment: Admiral Ackbar realises what most of us already suspected. “It’s a trap!” Only In The ’80s: …would a prawn get the film’s best line. If It Was Made Today: Ackbar would speak in dodgy, borderline-racist patois. Three Amigos (1985) The Moment: Steve Martin, …