Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican director who will shortly be premiering his acclaimed fantasy horror Pan’s Labyrinth has been talking to Sci-Fi wire about Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, the sequel to the 2004 movie Hellboy.

Hellboy 2 will feature killer robots and a new character called Johann Kraus, a spectral B.P.R.D. (United States’ Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) agent. Del Toro told  Sci-Fi Wire that the movie will be like Pan’s Labyrinth, and elaborated saying “The idea is, in a strange way, not very different from Pan’s Labyrinth, It’s a clash between the real world and the fantasy world, you know? And how the world of humans is destroying, eroding, imagination.”

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StarsInMyEyes, the web based resource for auditions and opportunities in the entertainment industry has published another casting call for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, confirming that the movie will be shot in both New Zealand and Europe. It reads as follows-

“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will reunite most of the principal cast from The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Prince Caspian finds the Pevensie siblings pulled back into the land of Narnia, where a thousand years have passed since they left.

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Aint it Cool News is reporting that Robert Downey Jr. will play the role of Tony Stark, the man behind Iron Man.

Iron Man, directed by Jon Favreau (Elf, Zathura), is a billionaire weapons-manufacturer who builds a high-tech suit of armor to save his life and the world.

Iron Man is slated for a May 2, 2008 release. 

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Microsoft made a splash on the first day of X06, their annual Xbox event in Barcelona, Spain.

By far the biggest announcement of the day, Academy Award-winning writer, director and producer Peter Jackson, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Fran Walsh, and Microsoft Game Studios will combine forces to create two new interative entertainment series available exclusively for the Xbox 360.

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Cort and Fatboy, the ‘Professional Smartasses’ from Portland’s 101.1 KUFO-FM, have been speaking to Katee Sackhoff who plays Starbuck in the new Battlestar Galactica television series.

Sackhoff, who was born and raised in and around Portland starred opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden in the CBS series The Education of Max Bickford, and on the big screen played opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in Dimension Films’ Halloween: Resurrection. She has also appeared in such feature films as Christine Lahti’s My First Mister.

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Splash News has published the first pictures of Will Smith from the location shoot of the upcoming I Am Legend. The images show Smith as Robert Neville, the main character from the movie adapatation of Richard Mathesons apocalyptic novel, due for release next year. Recent reports and images now suggest that this new adaptation will take place in a contaminated New York, with the immune Doctor Neville attempting to find a cure for the disease that has turned the city into a no-go zone. In this sense it will be much closer in theme to the 1976 version, The Omega Man, which depicted Neville as a biological weapons researcher trying to produce a serum to cure the last few survivors of the plague.

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Dimension Films has purchased the rights to O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce, the supernatural crime comic from 12-Gauge Comics (Image Comics) reports Variety.

O.C.T. is co-created by actress Rosario Dawson and will be developed by the studio as a star vehicle for her. The premise of the story is that the lower base of Manhattan is a vortex of magical energy, sold by the native Indians to the Pilgrims as retribution. Dawson will play a New York City police detective who is enlisted by the Occult Crimes Taskforce to fight the forces of darkness with magical weaponry and the black arts.

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Comingsoon have published two more high resolution stills from next year’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Both photographs are courtesy of Warner Bros and taken by Murray Close. The first depicts Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in contemplative mood while the second shows Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood.

The 14 year old Irish actress from Drogheda in Ireland won the role of Lovegood at an open casting session attended by 15,000 hopefuls earlier this year.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is released at conventional cinemas and IMAX July 13 2007

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According the the World Entertainment News Network, Russell Crowe has confirmed that the long rumored Gladiator sequel may yet go into production.

“We talk about it every now and then [with Ridley Scott],” said the Australian star. “We did kind of make it tricky for ourselves, considering we killed the character at the end of the first one. But that’s not necessarily going to stop us. There have been stranger things happen out of Hollywood… There’s a sort of ‘What happens in the after-life?’ question.”

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In response to recent rumors that Russel Crowe may be playing the role of Steve Irwin in a biopic about his life, Crowe is making very clear that he has not been pursuing such a role. Crowe, a close friend of The Crocodile Hunter (who died in a marine accident several weeks ago), spoke on the rumors, saying, “There’s no truth to that whatsoever. That’s one of those appalling pieces of shit that come out of the press. While my friend’s body is still warm, I’m being accused of doing commerce over his grave, and it absolutely disgusts me.” Crowe did say, however, that he would be in favor of a movie about Irwin eventually being made (albeit not necessarily starring Crowe himself.) “Should there be a movie made about Steve? For sure, what an incredible and unique life he led.”

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