Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has been speaking to IGN about his upcoming projects. In addition to Them, which has been described as ‘a conspiracy comedy about one woman’s journey to unmask the secret rulers of the world’, Wright is also set to lens adaptations of comic book properties Ant Man and Scott Pilgrim.

‘Ant Man is in a bit of a holding pattern.‘ said Wright, ‘We’re figuring things out with the script and we haven’t initiated casting. We still have quite a bit to do. I expect I’ll have more to say about it in a few months. I’m also going to be working with Sean O’Malley on Scott Pilgrim. It’s incredibly exciting because I’m such an admirer of his work. We haven’t really started on this yet. We’ve traded some ideas, so again it’s very much all in an early formative stage.‘

Wright also confirmed that he and Simon Pegg will be reteaming for an as yet undecided new feature.

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The hype machine for the first Star Wars next-gen video game is now at work: first came the release of teasing and uncommented concept images in StarWars.com’s members-only area (ongoing since May 2006), then followed the first exclusive game details in tge magazine Game Informer a couple of days ago - and now the game has gotten its own official website.

There you can now read up on official information from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which will see video gamers turning into an apprentice of Darth Vader in order to help him overthrow the Emperor in between the events of Episodes III and IV. In addition to these details which expand upon what was revealed in Game Informer, the site also features production diaries and a gallery featuring (currently) sixteen amazing concept artworks (and some early renderings) for the game. The site also promises upcoming webdocs.

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In an interview with BBC Radio Two, John Barrowman has revealed that he expects season two of Torchwood to premier early in 2008.

The Scots born actor who plays 51st Century time traveller Jack Harkness told listeners that he will be recording Torchwood until November and that the series will be shown in the New Year. He also confirmed that he is at present filming Doctor Who and that the new series is ‘fantastic and full of surprises with a spectacular season finale‘.

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Anthony Daniel, known to all the world (or at least our entire readership) as the golden protocol droid C-3PO from the Star Wars movies, updated his official website with news on Clone Wars 3D - the animated new Star Wars series slated for 2008: ‘Just finished another top secret recording session on Clone Wars - Thrilling stuff!’

What’s interesting is that the text has been altered. According to StarWars-Union, it originally read ‘…top secret recording session on Clone Wars - Chapter 11 - Destroy Malevolance.’ Looks like somebody got into trouble for slipping out information early and was forced to remove it! 

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Back in November we covered a story about SCI FI Channel greenlighting a six hour miniseries reimagining of The Wizard of Oz called Tin Man. In January, Alan Cumming joined the cast as the Scarecrow-like character Glitch.

Variety now reports that Hollywood’s prettiest eyes Zooey Deschanel (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Bridge to Terebitha) will star opposite Cumming. Her eyes and the rest of the actress’s gorgeous self have been cast in the lead role as DG (a Dorothy surrogate), a young woman who finds herself transported into the O.Z. (the Outer Zone), a world full of wonder and dark magic. Filming begins next month in Vancouver with the mini-series scheduled to hit TV screens by winter.

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Zack Snyder’s highly anticipated new film 300 celebrated its world premiere at the Berlin film festival this week. The film is an adaptation of Frank Miller’s epic graphic novel about the battle between 300 Spartans against tens of thousands of Persian soldiers in 480 B.C.

A press release sent out by Warner Bros. claims that the screening was followed by cheers and a standing ovation. Snyder, who together with the film’s principal actors Gerard Butler and Rodrigo Santoro attended the showing, is quoted as saying: ‘It was great being at the world premiere and witnessing the the audience’s excitement.’ Meanwhile, Cineman reports that various attendees wrote on their film blogs that 300 was met with just as much boo-ing, and that many found the movie overestimated, boring and even despicable in its reactonary plea for war.

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The full theatrical trailer for Grindhouse has been released.

Grindhouse consists of two individual films, Planet Terror, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and Deathproof, directed by Quentin Tarantino, and is scheduled for release 6 April 2007. Inspired by late 70s and early 80s slasher films, Deathproof is about a serial killer who uses his car to mutilate his victims. Planet Terror is a zombie movie with ‘infected people menacing’ a town. The features are set to be conjoined by grind house style trailers by Eli Roth, Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie.

Click here to watch the trailer.

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It’s official: Aaron Eckhart (Thank You For Smoking) has joined the cast of Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight, reports Variety. Eckhart will feature in the role of district attorney Harvey Dent, a.k.a. Two-Face. Actor Tommy Lee Jones previously played the part in 1995’s Batman Forever.

There had been rumours that Edward Norton and Jamie Foxx were also in consideration, but Latino Review (correctly, as it now turns out) predicted that Eckhart was the leading contender to play Dent in the Batman Begins sequel. The Golden Globe nominated American actor was last seen in The Wicker Man remake and as Sgt. Lee Blanchard in The Black Dahlia.

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Variety reports that Kiwi stunt performer Shane Rangi, who played the White Witch’s minotaur General Otmin in the first Narnia adaptation will be back as the good minotaur Asterius who aids Caspian and the Pevensies in an attempt to overthrow King Miraz in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Prince Caspian is actually the fourth Narnia book going by the sequence in which author C.S. Lewis wrote them. Principal photography on director Andrew Adamson’s film adaptation began last month.

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