Paramount have released the first trailer for Shrek 4 – Shrek Forever After which is (hopefully) the final instalment of the Ogre’s adventures.

Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse has been one of London’s most hyped about stage adaptations for the past few years. Dreamworks are currently considering a movie adaptation of the children’s novel, with Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) set to write the script.

The adaptation of the first book in the Philip Pullman trilogy, The Golden Compass (originally titled Northern Lights) grossed £230 million around the world in 2007. But since, nothing has been said since about filming the next two books in the series, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

After a mini-leak of footage from Iron Man 2 in a behind-the-scenes doc, Paramount (bless ’em) have decided to give us all an early Christmas present in the form of a new trailer. And we have to say, it’s looking pretty chuffin’ awesome.

Get ready for more blood, guts and digitally-enhanced abs, because the prequel to that most macho of ancient battle epics, 300, is now officially in the works. The film, titled Xerxes, will focus on the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, 10 years before the Sparta-Persia battle chronicled in 300 took place.

It might seem like an unlikely choice for the man behind Star Trek, Alias and the mind-bendingly odd Lost, but J.J. Abrams has set his sights on an award-winning dramatic novel (that contains no futuristic thrills) as his next film project.

Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millennium trilogy is inching closer to the big screen, with Sony in talks to develop American film versions of the three books, and the first of the Swedish versions due out early next year.

Having won four British Comedy Awards, two Baftas and a South Bank Show award, James Corden’s comedy drama Gavin and Stacey is one of the BBC’s most well-received comedies of..

The nominations for 2010’s Golden Globes award ceremony are in – and there are certainly some surprises.
Everyone’s favourite poor man’s Oscars will take place on January 17 next year, and to give us all adequate jeering and scoffing time, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced their illustrious potential award recipients.

The Princess And The Frog opened in the US this weekend and has so far made a whopping $24.2 million in 3,434 theaters across the country. The plot has been described as a ‘New Orleans Fairytale’ based on the old Grimm fable of the Frog Princess and showcases Disney’s first African American heroine.