Filming on writer-director Menno Meyjes’ viking epic Last Battle Dreamer is set to commence later this year says the Hollywood Reporter.

The movie will star Ryan Phillippe as a seventh-century Viking warrior named Thorfinn who, along with his older brother, the battle-scarred Hakon (played by Sean Bean), invades Britain. Abbie Cornish, who plays oppostite Phillippe in the upcoming Stop Loss, will play the love interest.

The project is backed by Future Films, with Handmade Films International handling sales duties.

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Author Philip Pullman, who’s The Golden Compass has been adapted into a major motion picture that debuts this December, revealed in an interview with Cittagazze that he has completed a new short story set in the His Dark Materials world, due out next spring.

Titled Once Upon a Time in the North, the book centers on Lee Scoresby and his trusted ice bear friend Iorek Byrnison: ‘When we see them for the first time with Lyra, Lee is not that old: he’s fifty, sixty, something like that, so they’ve [he and Iorek] known each other for a long time. But I wanted to write a story when they first met as they were young, and I’ve just written it.’

Like his previous short story Lyra’s Oxford, the new book will also feature a few ”extra bits”. Pullman indicated that some sort of a “game board” could be included.

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According to a report on Cinema Blend, Heath Ledger will return as The Joker in the third Batman film and Catwoman will also be part of the line-up.

With the introduction of Harvey Dent - played by Aaron Eckhart - in next year’s The Dark Knight (the second installment in director Chris Nolan’s trilogy of Batman films), it seems likely that his alter ego Two-Face will be the third film’s main villain. According to this new report, the Joker will survive film 2 to make an appearance in 3, while a hint of Catwoman will be dropped in 2 for the character to take part in the action of 3.

Despite the fact that The Dark Knight is still months away, it has been established that screenwriter Jonathan Nolan has already begun preliminary work on the third script.

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Director Jon Favreau announced on his MySpace site that the first official teaser trailer for his Iron Man feature film adaptation will debut on television September 10 and online September 11:

For those of you who have been Jonesing to see the Comic Con footage, we now have an official teaser trailer that incorporates much of the same imagery. Paramount is debuting the piece in its entirety across the Viacom Network’s highest rated programs. The first appearance will be immediately before the Hills on MTV on 9/10. […] A hi-res version will appear on Apple.com/trailers on 9/11 for those of you who, for whatever reason, choose not to TiVo The Hills.

The other TV slots for the clip are as follows:

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