About a Boy nerd and Skins bad boy Nicholas Hoult is set to star in the Mad Max sequel Fury Road, along side Hollywood heavy hitters Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.

Orlando Bloom has revealed that – in an alarmingly sensible move – he won’t be reprising his role as Will Turner in the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean film.

That’s right. This year’s Cannes Film Festival is going to be presided over by Tim Burton as jury president. And we have to admit, we can’t think of many other film-makers with his level of pedigree. The man just doesn’t put a foot wrong. Ever.

Joel Silver has announced to the LA Times that Guy Ritchie set to be back for the second Sherlock Holmes film. With Robert Downey Jr. having recently dropped out of John Favreau’s inelegantly-titled Cowboys And Aliens, it seems the Baker Street boys are having a sequel rushed through production. There’s already plot info in the works, and with Ritchie dropping his current project Lobo, we’d be highly surprised if we didn’t see Homles 2 sometime in the latter half of the year…

Soon we’re going to have to start dividing the modern film age into two eras- before and after Avatar. In a PA (post Avatar) world, it seems like if your film title doesn’t include the letters ‘3D’, you might as well not bother. At least that seems to be the reasoning of the Harry Potter production team, who’ve announced that the new film, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (Part One), will be given the 3D treatment in post production.

James Cameron has finally beaten his most worthy nemesis, his past self. Avatar, after weeks and weeks and endless bloomin weeks at the top of the UK and US box offices, has finally overtaken Titanic to become the highest grossing film ever, taking a staggering $1.85 billion worldwide.

Some 16 years after his cult classic Repo Man, Alex Cox returns with Repo Girl. Time will tell whether this was a smart move or just plain lunacy from the lad from Liverpool. One thing’s for the sure, the trailer is causing a storm online.

It was only a matter of time before we started to hear of the hot picks at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and it appears that Roderigo Cortez’s film Buried is amongst the first to cause a stir.

A bumbling slacker runs over the Easter Bunny and must nurse him to health and save Easter. No, we’re not kidding, it’s the plot of I Hop, a new zany family comedy that starts shooting this autumn. The only possible saving grace? The Easter Bunny is voiced by Russell Brand.

The stunning London born actress Jean Simmons died at her home in California on Saturday after a long battle with lung cancer. She was most fmaous for her role in Guys and Dolls (1955) alongside Marlon Brando.