A brand new image from this summer’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has found its way online via ComingSoon.net.

Click here to take a look in our movie gallery (click through for the high-resolution version). The shot features Ray Winstone, Shia LaBeouf and Harrison Ford presumably within some sort of temple.

Set at the height of the Cold War in 1957, the fourth outing for Harrison Ford’s bullwhip-cracking archaeologist sees him racing for the Crystal Skull against operatives from the Soviet Union, including Oscar winner Cate Blanchett as the seductive Agent Spalko. The film is set for release May 22.

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New Line Cinema’s The Golden Compass may have tanked at the US Box Office, but thanks to an impressive international run the fantasy film now has a cumulative gross of $315 million at the worldwide box office.

The adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel Northern Lights has earned only $67 million in the United States to date, but its strong performance in various other territories (particularly the UK, Spain, South Korea and Australia) has seemingly come to the rescue of the big budget production (and possibly its potential sequels).

New Line Cinema’s Marketing Chief Rolf Mittweg said in a press statement: ‘The box office revenue has been nothing less than astonishing overseas. With the forthcoming premiere in Japan, we can expect a significant boost to our worldwide box office.’

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The Dark Knight director Chris Nolan made a startling admission speaking to the Los Angeles Times, saying that the Heath Ledger played The Joker ’sort of cuts through the film — he’s got no story arc, he’s just a force of nature tearing through. Heath has given an amazing performance in the role, it’s really extraordinary.’

Nolan instead pushed the role of Aaron Eckhart’s Harvey Dent into the forefront: ‘Harvey Dent is a tragic figure, and his story is the backbone of this film.’

Nolan added that audiences shouldn’t expect a lot of humour: ‘It’s a dark and complex story and the villains are dark and complex as well.’

The sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins opens in cinemas July 18.

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Rotten Tomatoes has some new quotes from James Bond star Daniel Craig on the plot of the latest 007 adventure:

‘It carries on from where the last one stopped. We set up in the last one that there’s this organisation that is destabilising the world’s economy because they want to take it over, and that’s his job now, to go out and stop them.’

Bond 22 (working title) is currently filming in London for a November 7 release.

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After being moved forward in the year to become a signpost for the Oscars, the BAFTAs now present one of the few opportunities actors will have to strut their stuff on the red carpet.

The nominations were announced in London last night. Atonement not surprisingly leads the pack with 14 nominations including Best British Film and Best Film. No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood each scored nine nominations apiece.

Keep reading below to see the full list of nominations. The BAFTAs will be held on the 10th February at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its shortlist for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The final list of nominations will be announced January 22, when the following nine will be whittled down to the definitive five:

Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director
Brazil, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Cao Hamburger, director
Canada, Days of Darkness, Denys Arcand, director
Israel, Beaufort, Joseph Cedar, director
Italy, The Unknown, Giuseppe Tornatore, director
Kazakhstan, Mongol, Sergei Bodrov, director
Poland, Katyn, Andrzej Wajda, director
Russia, 12, Nikita Mikhalkov, director
Serbia, The Trap, Srdan Golubovic, director

Never heard of most of these? Neither have we. While we can understand that Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly isn’t there (the film is sure to go into the Best Picture race instead), we’re rather shocked at the omissions of foreign masterpieces such as the Romanian 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes), Marjane Satrapi’s and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis (Best Animated Film maybe?), Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Marc Forster’s The Kite Runner, Olivier Dahan’s La Vie En Rose or even Juan Antonio Bayano’s The Orphanage.

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