Q Who? James Bond gets his Q back, first pic...

It’s strange o think that there’s a whole generation of people who will be looking forward to the return of Daniel Craig a James Bond this winter, who will have no idea who, or what, a Q is. The iconic, and oft copied, lampooned and paid ‘homage’, Q makes his first appearance in the “Bond Begins” series of films, in Skyfall. Here is our first look at the character as played by Ben Whishaw (Layer Cake).

Bond...

“SKYFALL, from Albert R Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, is directed by Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes and stars Daniel Craig, who returns for his third film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007.

Joining Daniel Craig the cast includes Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Bérénice Marlohe, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw with Albert Finney and Judi Dench as M. The screenplay is written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and John Logan. SKYFALL will begin its worldwide roll-out later this year in the UK and Ireland on October 26th and in North America on November 9th.”

Skyfall trailer...

Fantastic 4 (finally) confirms Josh ‘Chronicle’ Trank to direct, whilst Daredevil is running out of time before Marvel get the movie rights back...

Way back when, just before Chronicle was released, director Josh Trank was thought to be the number one choice to direct Fox’s restart of the Fantastic 4 film series. 

New Fantastic Four film’s director is all but confirmed.

Well it seems that he is finally able to put that one down as a definite. Deadline is reporting that Trank is definitely the man to bring the first family of super heroes back to the big screen. As much money as Fox made from the first two films, they were neither as successful as they should have been, nor particularly liked by fans (or the wider audience). The confirmation of Trank will give some cheer to Marvel fans, who will hope that if the characters are not to return to Marvel (whose successful run  at making their own movies resulted in the 3^rd highest grossing film of all time, ‘The Avengers’) then at least this film may be given a proper treatment and skew close to X-Men: First Class, than Ghost Rider, in the “We need to rush out a new film before we lose the rights to Marvel” stakes.

Speaking of losing the rights; according to Deadline Fox are in a bit of trouble after their planned restart of Daredevil lost its director, David Slade, to TV show ‘Hannibal’. It seems that the film has to be in production by autumn or the movie rights could go back to Marvel; pacing the way for a much better adaptation by Marvel studios and either a Daredevil who is part of the MCU, and hence who could work with any of The Avengers. Perhaps more interestingly there could be an offshoot ‘MKCU’ (Marvel Knights Cinematic Universe); A place where some of Marvel’s, darker, even super natural, heroes could exist. A 'lower budget' series of films, in the Blade / Hellboy range, that could see the grittier and / or super natural side of Marvel, without having to conform to the PG-13 rules of the MCU. With The Punisher and Blade already back at Marvel, that’s an exciting prospect indeed.

Rise Of The Guardians: New trailer for the very impressive Dreamworks animation, from the creators of 'How To Train Your Dragon'...

A tongue –in-cheek descriptor of this film had it down as “The Avengers of legendary creatures”. With Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Sandman, Jack Frost & Tooth Fairy all banding together to save the world from evil, it does kind of fit.

Synopsis...

“RISE OF THE GUARDIANS is an epic and magical adventure that tells the story of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost - legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children everywhere.”

I am very much looking forward to this one, no I’m not a big kid...so there! Come on, that's a bad arse Santa and Hugh Jackman Easter Bunny...

Trailer 2...

Release dates...

North America
United States	21/11/2012
Canada - English	21-Nov-12
Canada - French	21-Nov-12
Latin America
Argentina	06-Dec-12
Brazil	07-Dec-12
Chile	06-Dec-12
Colombia	07-Dec-12
Mexico	07-Dec-12
Panama	07-Dec-12
Peru	06-Dec-12
Venezuela	07-Dec-12
Middle East / Africa
Egypt	05-Dec-12
Israel	06-Dec-12
Lebanon	06-Dec-12
South Africa	07-Dec-12
United Arab Emirates	06-Dec-12
Asia Pacific
Australia	26-Dec-12
Hong Kong	20-Dec-12
India	30-Nov-12
Indonesia	28-Nov-12
Japan	16-Mar-13
Korea	13-Dec-12
Singapore	22-Nov-12
Malaysia	22-Nov-12
New Zealand	26-Dec-12
Philippines	28-Nov-12
Taiwan	08-Feb-13
Thailand	05-Dec-12
Europe
Austria	21-Dec-12
Belgium	19-Dec-12
Croatia	27-Dec-12
Cyprus	21-Dec-12
Czech Republic / Slovakia	20-Dec-12
Denmark	20-Dec-12
Finland	25-Dec-12
France	19-Dec-12
Germany	20-Dec-12
Greece	20-Dec-12
Hungary	20-Dec-12
Iceland	07-Dec-12
Ireland	07-Dec-12
Italy	21-Dec-12
Netherlands	20-Dec-12
Norway	25-Dec-12
Poland	04-Jan-13
Portugal	06-Dec-12
Romania	11-Jan-13
Russia	20-Nov-12
Serbia & Montenegro	17-Jan-13
Slovenia	31-Jan-13
Spain	05-Dec-12
Sweden	25-Dec-12
Switzerland-French	19-Dec-12
Switzerland-German	20-Dec-12
Switzerland-Italian	21-Dec-12
Turkey	18-Jan-13
Ukraine	20-Nov-12
United Kingdom	07-Dec-12

Jack Reacher: (UPDATED) trailer for the Tom Cruise adaptation of Lee Child’s One Shot’...

As is always the case when you cast a character from a popular work, there has been much debate and complaining about Tom Cruise being picked to play the tall bruiser that is Jack Reacher. I always look at these things on the outcome. Hugh Jackman has played Wolverine excellently, when the script allows, despite being a clear foot taller than the character is meant to be. We shall see if Cruise manages to carry this off for the majority of moviegoers who have never heard of the character, and for the large number of people who have. The film has been written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie (writer of The Usual Suspects) and is now due out around Christmas 2012.

Jack Reacher...