Iron Man 3 has added another new addition to its growing ensemble, with James Badge Dale the latest star to join the superhero sequel's increasingly starry cast.
The star of TV's The Pacific will play Eric Savin, a character Iron Man fans will remember well from the comics. A Lieutenant Colonel who takes charge of Project: Ultra in the original stories, Savin is perhaps best known for the landmine blast that took off one of his legs.
Resurrected as a cyborg via cybernetic surgery, Savin becomes the cyborg Coldblood, a skilled mercenary for hire. Whether or not that transformation will take place in Iron Man 3 remains to be seen. Perhaps Marvel are simply setting up the character for films further down the track…
What we do know is that the film's storyline will draw heavily upon Warren Ellis' Extremis series, in which Tony Stark finds his latest suit targeted by a virus designed to sabotage its new nanotechnology upgrades.
Directed by Shane Black and featuring a whole host of new cast members including Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall, Iron Man 3 will open in the UK on 3 May 2013. We can hardly wait...
While promotional material for Prometheus has come in waves over the last few months, it's all gone a bit quiet over Ridley Scott's other big sci-fi project, the potential sequel to Blade Runner.
However, new details have emerged today, chief of which is the news that original Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher is currently in talks to return for round two.
An official press release confirms that Fancher is in discussions to pen a sequel, with Scott already in place to fill the director's chair for a second time.
"The filmmakers are also revealing for the first time that the much-anticipated project is intended to be a sequel to the renowned original," says the blurb. "The filmmakers would reveal only that the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded."
Still more intriguing is the news that the sequel will boast a female lead. "We have a very good take on it," said Sir Ridley himself of the forthcoming sequel, "and we'll definitely be featuring a female protagonist."
Whether or not Harrison Ford will also return remains unclear, with Scott having played down rumours that the star had been in talks to take the lead. However, there's still plenty of time for that to change, with filming unlikely to begin until 2013. Never say never, eh Harrison?
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For has released a glut of new information, including an official release date, confirmation of Jessica Alba's return and the fact that the film will be presented in 3D.
First things first, and that all-important release date has been confirmed as 4 October 2013. That's when the film will open in the US, with the UK date likely to follow in short order.
Next, we have confirmation that Jessica Alba will join Mickey Rourke in the long-awaited sequel, with both stars named in an official press release. Rosario Dawson is also expected to reappear, although her name is conspicuous by its absence in the official blurb.
What is included is the news that the film will be presented in 3D, lending a new element to the distinctive look of the first film.
"The original Sin City broke new ground with its iconic stylish look and grossed over $160 million worldwide," explains the release. "Sin City: A Dame To Kill For will not only bring fans back to the world that Rodriguez and Miller created, but will also add a new dimension by bringing their unique visual style to life in 3D."
Top dimension-based pun there. More importantly however, the date is set, and things are moving forward. Let the stylised slaughter begin!
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has been chatting to Total Film about her debut as a leading lady – and her departure from the sci-fi series.
The Amy Pond actress is currently in Cannes to promote her upcoming role in Glasgow-set indie-com Not Another Happy Ending.
“I play a successful writer called Jane Lockhart,” Gillan told us. “Who writes best when she’s unhappy. She’s feeling good about her life and therefore can’t write her next novel, so her publisher Tom goes on a secret mission to make her unhappy to get the book written.”
Filming’s due to start in Glasgow in July, co-starring Emun Elliott (Game Of Thrones), with John McKay (who directed Gillan in recent Beeb drama We’ll Take Manhattan) taking the reins.
Gillan last week wrapped a three-year stint as The Doctor’s companion – and promised that her character’s exit will be “unexpected”, as well as emotional.
“I literally couldn’t read it without crying,” she confessed. “It was the most highly charged read-through I’ve ever experienced. But I couldn’t have asked for a better exit. I don’t think it’ll be what people expect.”
She also shared her thoughts on the prospect of a Doctor Who movie. “I think it would be great in a franchise-y sort of way. I’d look forward to sitting down and watching it.”
But would she get involved if made an offer? “Oh, who knows. I guess you can only cross that bridge when you come to it!"
Free Men, the latest film featuring the star of TF favorite A ProphetTahar Rahim, hits cinemas next weekend.
To celebrate, we've secured a world exclusive clip.
It features a bit of background about Rahim's character Younes, an Algerian immigrant who joins the French resistance against the German occupation of Paris after forming an unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.
We also get to see a bit of flirting, and a bit of hand-washing. It's not exactly The Avengers, but it is a well-acted, delicately scripted scene.
So, if you haven't managed to make it to Cannes this fortnight, grab yourself a croque-monsieur, take a look at the clip above and then go see the full film next weekend.
It's exactly the sort of intelligent cinema those lucky journos on the Croisette will be watching this week.
And for anyone who's clicked the link by accident, here's The Expendables 2 trailer again. It's awesome.
We were only saying yesterday that we're getting a bit fed up of seeing too much from Prometheus, but today we eat our words.
Because, as far as we're concerned, the Fox marketing team can release as many beautiful posters as they want.
The new one-sheet below manages the trick of taking a moment we've already seen in a trailer, and freezing it in time to make it look instantly iconic.
It also follows the 2012 trend of showing a star with his back to the audience (we assume that's Michael Fassbender engaging his curiosity circuits to gaze in awe at the massive explosion his colleagues are fleeing from) whilst still giving us forward-facing gawps at Noomi Rapace and Chalize Theron scrambling to safety.
Prometheus opens on 1 June. We absolutely cannot wait.
Total Recall, Len Wiseman's update of the well-loved Arnie-starring sci-fi, will debut a host of new footage at this weekend's Kapow! comic-book convention.
Sony plans to use the festival to drum up excitement for some of their forthcoming releases, with the studio using its showcase to debut new footage from both Total Recall and The Amazing Spider-Man.
The remake will star Colin Farrell as Douglas Quaid, a bored factory worker looking for excitement in the form of a memory modification process offered by shady organisation, Rekall. However, the procedure goes drastically wrong, and Quaid soon finds himself a hunted man.
The exclusive footage reveals are just part of a movie-centric lineup, including appearances from the likes of Nick Frost, Rufus Sewell, Noel Clarke and Gareth Evans.
To buy your tickets and check out the lineup in full, head over to the official website now. Hopefully, we'll see you down there!
The Possession has released a first official trailer, in which young Natasha Calis finds herself feeling a bit unusual after opening a mysterious box she buys at a local yard sale.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays her concerned father, who soon establishes that the box is marked by the symbol of a Hebrew spirit, said to steal the souls of children. He also learns that when such a box is opened, people tend to start dying.
Terrifyingly, it seems as though there's something malign inside the poor girl, and we mean that in a very physical sense…
Take a look at the new trailer, below…
Yes, you did see that correctly, that was indeed a hand inching its way up the inside of Calis' throat. In terms of creepy imagery alone, this one already looks to be scoring high, and with Sam Raimi on production duties, we'd anticipate plenty more chills to come.
Directed by Danish helmer Ole Bornedal, The Possession will open in the UK on 31 August 2012. In the meantime, check out the ickily "hands-on" poster for the film below. Seems like that scene actually happens...
Maniac has released a first official teaser trailer to coincide with its forthcoming screening at Cannes, and it's a lot more disturbing than we were expecting.
Directed by Franck Kalfoun, the film is an update of an '80s slasher, in which Elijah Wood's mannequin store owner sets about decorating some of his more out-there creations with the bloodied hair of women he's scalped.
Despite that grisly synopsis, we were kind of expecting a daft, knockabout trashfest (bear in mind the script was written by Piranha 3D's Alexandre Aja), but from the looks of this first trailer, it seems that Maniac will be a far grittier proposition.
Check out the new teaser below, bearing in mind that with nudity and graphic violence involved, it's not safe for work...
Pretty gruesome stuff, eh? Elijah Wood might have seemed an odd choice on the face of it, but having already created one memorable psychopath in the form of Sin City's Kevin, it seems as though he's on similarly monstrous form here.
Maniac opens in the UK later in the year, with a specific release date yet to be confirmed.
Anchorman 2 has filmed a new teaser trailer that will air ahead ofThe Dictator, a process director Adam McKay has described as extremely helpful in coming up with ideas for the new script.
"Paramount came to us with the idea of the teaser," explains McKay, "and since we’re writing the script it was a good chance to see the characters and hang out with the actors to inspire writing."
"All of the actors slipped right into character and they all looked amazing," he continues. "Paul [Rudd] has a beard and we’re thinking of keeping it. Kind of an Eddie Rabbit meets Serpico look."
As for what exactly we can expect from the second film, McKay is playing his cards fairly close to his chest.
"Nothing’s set," he says. "Right now I can say for sure there is no Ghost Rider cameo or a scene where Ron fights a wolverine on a nose-diving helicopter. We’re either going to shoot the movie in 3D or 1/2 D. "
Meanwhile, Ron Burgundy took to Twitter to talk up the new teaser trailer. "Dont get Twirter," begins the message. "Anchorman2 teaser w Dictator tom night. Dont know what a teaser is. World is crazy? Having a scotch." Anchorman 2 will open at some point in 2013.
UPDATE: And a new poster has been released (handily spotted by the guys at The Lebanese Cinema Movie Guide, via Collider). It's a tease, serving only to increase anticipation... which it does exceptionally well. It also reveals a subtitle that suggests the legend of Ron Burgundy is still going strong...
