Well, this just hit the internet today, and while we’re not normally a movie “news” site as such any more, this was just too damn awesome not to bring it to you. Ladies and Gentlemen – the first teaser poster for The Dark Knight Rises. Bask in its glory!

Click here to unleash the Dark Knight Rises poster!!

Since the official site keeps crashing out, here’s the details I managed to score from the few seconds I was able to get on!

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This man will helm both upcoming Hobbit films...

In what is surely great news for Hobbits, Dwarves and Wizards everywhere, news broke yesterday that The Hobbit, the much (much much) anticipated prequel film series to The Lord Of The Rings, has been greenlit by Warner Bros and MGM Studios, and will commence filming in February. This report at the LA Times also indicates that the greenlight on The Hobbit will hopefully speed up the union issues which have plagued the production being done in New Zealand. The fine folks over at Time are also stating this morning that Peter Jackson is a lock to direct, which is even better news!!!

The first Hobbit film is scheduled for release in 3D in December 2012 (hopefully the world won’t have ended by then) and the second film the following year.

In a real life drama, a police officer responding to a call out has driven through a closed set on a street in Washington DC, and collided with Bumblebee, as a scene for Transformers 3 was being filmed. The officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries (most likely embarrassment) and the entire front end of Bumblebee was written off. Thankfully for us all, it was caught on tape. Note the amazing dodge around the oncoming Optimus Prime before things get ugly….

Superman - The Reboot is coming....

It looks like the long-in-coming Superman reboot is finally getting off the ground – Warner Bros. today announced that acclaimed and visionary director Zack Snyder has signed on to direct the new film featuring the Man of Steel. While we didn’t mind Superman Returns under Bryan Singer, it failed to live up to the repeated viewings and fanboy sniping at some of the creative choices Singer took with the character: mainly directed at the “super kid” angle.

So now, with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan producing, as well as co-scripting with Hollywood legend (and comic book scribe) David Goyer, 300/Watchmen/SuckerPunch director Zack Snyder has been given the handshake to bring Superman back to being cool again.

This excites us: with Nolan overseeing the project, and Goyer (one of my favourite writers in film and in comics) scripting this thing out, Snyder is sure to bring his unique and spectacular visuals to Metropolis and give us a Superman to remember. According to numerous (unconfirmed) sources, a likely villain for the film is to be General Zod, last played by Terrence Stamp in the first two Christopher Reeve Superman films. With two Kyrptonian dudes duking it out, expect cities to be laid waste on this one!!

As with our Hobbit and Transformers 3 pages, we’ll be setting up a special page to follow production on this film as news and casting starts to take place.

Okay, the other day we posted the trailer for unheard-of sci-fi flick Skyline… and it looked pretty amazing considering it used a sound sample from Transformers and what looked to be off-cuts from Independence Day. Now, we present the glorious theatrical poster…. which is all manner of awesome!!! Now, I am really jazzed to see this film!!!

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Harry Potter looking annoyed in The Deathly Hallows...

I can’t say I’m super jazzed to see the next Harry Potter instalment, Parts 1 & 2 of The Deathly Hallows, but these pics will hopefully whet the appetite of the die-hards who’re struggling to come to terms with the fact the series is about to wrap up. I scabbed these images from Aintitcoolnews, and am reprinting them here. Click on an image to transform into supersized version!!!

Coming to BluRay in 2011...

In what will no doubt become internet discussion for the next 12 months, George Lucas came out recently and officially announced the release of the Star Wars saga on high definition BluRay next year. All six films, as well as various behind-the-scenes footage and a previously unseen scene (from Return of The Jedi) are due to be released in the US in October of 2011, and we can only assume a same day release schedule will occur here in Australia.

Confirmed details:

• The versions of the Original Trilogy (A New Hope, Empire and Jedi) will be the Special Editions from 1997/2006, not the original theatrically released versions.
• That’s it so far.

More to come.

Saved from the scrapheap??

It seems a resolution to the ongoing MGM Studio buyout problem, and the consequent troubles getting the Hobbit movies off the ground, is soon to be announced. Spyglass Studios, who produced recent films such as Star Trek, GI Joe, Seabiscuit and others, is currently trying to do a deal which would see it purchase the ailing studio. Whilst not set in concrete at the time we go to print, it seems the deal is all but done according to numerous online sources.

This is great news, if it comes to pass. For one, it’ll salvage the fortunes of MGM, one of the original Big Five studios that dominated Hollywood for decades in the early days of the industry. Secondly, it’ll stop the Hobbit films, as well as the James Bond franchise, from disappearing into development hell. There’s plenty of money being bandied about at the moment with this deal, but no doubt they’ll recoup plenty from both Hobbit films and put themselves back into the black.

More to come.