An impressive but not wholly new trailer for Zack Snyder’s film adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 has gone online on Apple.com’s trailer page.

Compared with the first trailer, the new clip is longer and features many additional scenes of action and dialogue, aswell as a new voice-over. Overall, this is the most exciting preview of the strongly anticipated film yet! View it here in various sizes and resolutions, including HD quality.

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It has been widely reported that filmmaker Robert Rodriguez was eyeing actress Angelina Jolie for the part of Ava Lord in Sin City 2, the upcoming sequel to his adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel. Jolie herself has confirmed as much, but scheduling conflicts have so far prevented the project from taking off.

According to a rumour over at Cinema Blend, Rodriguez and his team are now considering other actresses for the part, and are currently in talks with Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Fountain) to star in the storyline that will be based on the Sin City comic substory ‘A Dame To Kill For’. The site is however adamant that the rumour is unconfirmed at this point.

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While the anything more detailed than the basic plot outline for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End are being tightly kept under wraps, a couple of concept art images leaked at Aint-it-cool-news indicate just where the film may go.

The artworks mainly show ships in action, but its where that action is taking place that could be considered quite spoilerish. So view the images at your own risk! The final part of the Pirates trilogy opens in cinemas May 25.

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Actress Sigourney Weaver (Alien, The Ice Storm) has hinted that she may possibly be involved in James Cameron’s upcoming epic undertaking Avatar.

Aint-it-cool-news received word from a reader who saw the actress on the French show “Le Grand Journal”, on which she was initially asked if she would do another Alien film. Apparently, Weaver said no, stating that everything has already been said about that creature forher. However, she claimed she would be making a big science-fiction movie with James Cameron that she couldn’t talk too much about. (There is of course the possibility that Weaver is refering to Cameron’s Battle Angel, and not Avatar.)

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David Koepp, who’s Indiana Jones IV script draft was the one that finally got approved by all relevant parties (i.e. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford), shared some thoughts on the project with FilmStew.com.

He confirms that Ford’s age is being taken into account, suggesting that if it were not already in the script, the actor would have requested for references to this being added himself. Koepp also insists that “you can’t write a fan script. You have to pretend that this movie exists without the other one. […] The worst thing to do would be to have him make reference to things he said in the first movie, like to pun on lines of dialogue.” The full interview can be read here.

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Danny Boyle’s (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) much delayed new film Sunshine will finally come to theaters this spring, and ComingSoon.net has exclusively unveiled the first trailer. While it unfortunately reuses Clint Mansell’s brilliant theme from the Requiem for a Dream score that was slaughtered to death the in the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ad campaigns, the clip gives off a very promising vibe.

Sunshine stars Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh. The plot: Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven years earlier. Soon the crew is fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.

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Iron Man director John Favreau gave a brief update on the status of production on his blog:

“Gwyneth Paltrow has been cast as Virginia Pepper Potts. I met her on an indie called Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle many years ago. We begin filming in eight weeks. […] Stan Winston is working on the suit. Sets are being built. Fergus and Ostby (Children of Men) are working on the script. Matty Libatique is shooting it. Everything is really coming together.”

Robert Downey Jr. will star as the Iron Man, with the film scheduled for release in May 2008.

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According to Variety, Topher Grace (who will next be seen in Spiderman 3 playing Venom) is attached to star in Universal’s newly picked up sci-fi thriller Source Code.

Not much is known about the project at this point except that Mark Gorden is producing from a Ben Ripley (Species III) screenplay that revolves around time travel.

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Variety confirmed earlier rumours that Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, The Girl Next Door) has been cast in the lead role of Xavier Gens’s Hitman, the film adaptation of the popular video game of the same name. Olyphant will play Agent 47, a genetically engineered assassin. Actor Vin Diesel had been previously attached to star in the role, but opted for an involvement in Fox’s Bablyon A.D. instead.

Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Arthur and the Invisibles) will produce the film at Twentieth Century Fox, and Fox execs see the start of a potential franchise in Hitman. Production will begin in March in Europe.

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