After its debut during Dancing with the Stars on ABC last night, Disney has now unveiled the trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End online in high-definition quality. Click here to view it now.

The film sees Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann attempting to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davey Jones’ Locker and facing a new adversary in the form of Captain Sao Feng (Chun Yow Fat), pirate captain of the Chinese ship The Empress.  Meanwhile the nine pirate lords known as the Brethren of the Coast plan to meet at World’s End where a titanic battle is about to take place.

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According to Variety, Universal Pictures has set Angelina Jolie to star alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in Wanted. Timur Bekmambetov’s graphic novel adaptation is scheduled to start shooting in Eastern Europe in May.

McAvoy will play a young man who discovers his father is an assassin, only to learn shortly thereafter that his dad has been murdered. The youth is drafted to follow in his father’s footsteps. Jolie will play an assassin who teaches the ropes to the wannabe killer. Jolie accepted the role after the script was rewritten by Tomb Raider scribe Dean Georgaris to tailor the character for her.

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Brad Pitt will star in Universal Pictures’ big screen adaptation of the acclaimed British miniseries State of Play, reports Variety. Directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and written by Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom), the film is set to start production in November.

In the story, a congressman’s mistress is killed, and a team of investigative reporters secretly work with a police detective to solve the murder. Pitt will play a reporter who was once close to the congressman but now heads an investigation that leads to the highest levels of government and industry.

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