Update Apr 2, 15:13 GMT: A high-resolution version of the poster is now available in our movie gallery.

A first teaser poster for the upcoming The X-Files feature film has appeared online.

The poster shows Mulder and Scully seen from above, with their long shadows crossing to form a big ‘X’. Unfortunately, no high-resolution version of the image is available yet, but ComingSoon.net has a decent photo of it and it’s featured as the background image on the film’s official website (which launched this weekend and promises the imminent arrival of a trailer).

The untitled film, directed by series creator Chris Carter, debuts in cinemas July 25.

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Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick told SCI FI Wire that he’s currently working on a pilot script for a potential TV series based on P.D. James’ novel Children of Men, which deals with a society in which the human race can no longer reproduce.

Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) adapted the same novel for the big screen (starring Clive Owen and Julianne Moore) in 2006 to great critical acclaim. But while Cuaron’s version only used the frame of the book’s story as a starting point, the new TV show is expected to follow James’ text very closely.

Eick comments that the show will question how society defines responsibility and freedom when in a time when it is highly doubtful that the human species will survive for much longer. “So it’s a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively. It’s not really a war show like the movie was. It’s more an exploration of that issue.”

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The full trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars will play in US cinemas in front of Speed Racer, which debuts May 9th, ComingSoon.net has learned.

The animated new Star Wars film, which is set between the events of Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, hits theaters on August 15 and will serve as a pilot to the television series that goes on air in the fall.

The television show will premier on Cartoon Network, followed by airings on TNT.

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There’s a new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull TV spot up at IndianaJones.com.

The video features a lot of the same footage we’ve seen, but also some new snippets. You can watch the TV spot here.

The much anticipated movie debuts in cinemas May 22.

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Entertainment Weekly is running a stunning set of exclusive images from this summer’s Speed Racer.

The new effects-heavy shots showcase the film’s reliance on a rainbowy colour palette - a nod to the original 1960s Japanese cartoon series the film is based on. You can start EW’s slide show of the images at this link.

Directed by The Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski, Speed Racer follows the adventures of the youthful Speed (Emile Hirsch) as he tries to obtain victory in his tricked-out racecar, built by his father. Speed is often bailed out of danger by Racer X (Matthew Fox), a rival with a mysterious connection to Speed.

The film debuts in conventional and IMAX cinemas May 9.

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Two brand new stills from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have appeared online.

The first, showing Shia LaBeouf’s character Mutt, was published in the latest issue of the UK’s Total Film and scanned and brought online by TheRaider.net. The second offers a new glimpse at Cate Blanchett as Agent Spalko and comes courtesy of Dark Horizons.

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Dr. Jones will crack his whip for a fourth time this summer when the film opens in cinemas May 22.

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Oscar winner Forest Whitaker spoke with MTV about the controversial reports that suggest Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are might be reshot due to its subvertive nature:

“[The dark scenes] are the point of the movie, and I hope that they maintain that point, because I think children can identify with a character who is upset. …[Max] rolls by himself, no father figure; this is a single family home. His mother ends up having a boyfriend that becomes like a monster to him…people have to build trust with the people their parent starts to date…These are real issues that the character deals with, and I hope that [the filmmakers] continue to explore them, because kids need to see that; they need to see that other kids are dealing with it.”

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Back in January it was revealed that the producers on Fanboys had initiated a significant reshoot of the film.

The movie starring Seth Rogen and Kristen Bell was originally about a group of die-hard Star Wars fans who try to break in to Skywalker Ranch so that their dying friend can see The Phantom Menace on the eve of its release. The reshoots saw any mention of that entire cancer plotline scrapped, with the Weinsteins wanting to reinforce the “teenage comedy” aspect of the film (as opposed to it being a “comedy with heart”).

But according to The Hollywood Reporter, fan protests (and the fact that test screenings of the new version yielded only minuscule wins) have led the Weinsteins to partially give in: both the new and the original version of the film will appear on the DVD release, and the idea of “two theatrical versions” is currently being explored.

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From The Hollywood Reporter: Battlestar Galactica co-star Tahmoh Penikett, Fran Kranz, Australian Dichen Lachman and Enver Gjokaj have moved into Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. The four join Eliza Dushku on the 20th Century Fox TV-produced drama, which received a seven-episode order shortly before the strike.Dollhouse revolves around a group of young men and women, aka “Dolls,” who are imprinted with different personalities for different assignments. They have no memories of their previous lives, until Echo (Dushku) begins to try to find out who she was.

io9.com also has some casting “sides” that were leaked.

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In a panel at the William S. Paley Television Festival in Hollywood on March 26, Chris Carter told fans that they will learn bit about what happened to William, the baby of Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson), who was given up for adoption in the show’s ninth and final season. “It will not go unconsidered in the movie,” Carter said.

Intrigued? You can read the rest of the story at SciFi Wire.

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