Ridley Scott Talks The Future Of The Alien Movies

Alien: Covenant will be out on 12 May in the UK. For more from the interview, head to Fandango's site. Ridley Scott Says Two More Alien Movies Will Follow Covenant Ridley Scott Directing Kidnapping Drama All The Money In The World Latest Alien: Covenant Trailer Brings Fresh Fear

Talking with Fandango, Scott and Covenant star Katherine Waterston (who appeared to be try to keep her director in line, spoiler-wise), the filmmaker confirmed another outing and the basic timeline. "There will be another one before we kind of literally and logically, clockwise, back into the original Alien," he said, before, more interestingly mentioning the next film will actually fit between Prometheus and Covenant... "It will go Prometheus, Awakening, Covenant... Fairly integral where this colonization ship is on the way...." Let's see if that situation remains once the third film of this new set is confirmed. But Scott certainly appears to have plans for the future, something he's talked about in the past. "If this is successful, and then the next one, and then there will definitely be three more." Unfortunately for Blomkamp, they're all likely to be set pre-Alien, which means his plan for a movie to catch up with Sigourney Weaver's Ripley post-Aliens will have to keep on waiting.

Scott also cleared up that Noomi Rapace will definitely be appearing in the film, but not necessarily how we expect. "Yes, in a way," he says of Prometheus' main character. "Not fully, but in a way. She was integral to what David (Michael Fassbender) carried out later." We'll have to wait to find out what he means, but we doubt it was positive for poor Elizabeth Shaw.

Groot Stars On Empire’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Subscriber Cover

This month at Empire, we are Groot. With Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 just around the corner, everyone’s favourite anthropomorphic tree graces the limited edition subscriber-only cover of the latest Empire, seen here getting his twiggy paws into the tape of the Awesome Mix Vol. 2 cassette.

As ever, this cover will only be made available to lucky Empire subscribers, who should start having their issue plop on doormats in the next few days. The regular newsstand edition (cover yet to be revealed) will go on sale next Thursday.

The cover is just the papery tip of the movie iceberg – within its 146-page bounty, you’ll find your favourite movie magazine bursting with exclusives, including eight pages of coverage direct from the Atlanta set of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2. There’ll be something good, something bad...maybe a bit of both.

Issue #335 of Empire will be on sale in all good and evil newsagents from Thursday 23 March. Fancy getting exclusive limited edition covers like this one, delivered to your door days before everyone else, at a discount? Subscribe to Empire here.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, meanwhile, arrives in cinemas from 28 April.

Spider-Man Spin-Off Venom Now Scheduled For October 2018

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Venom – the alien symbiote that requires a human host to live and bestows great powers with little responsibility – has had mixed history in film. Relegated to a side threat in 2007's Spider-Man 3, the creature was supposed to come back after Sony decided to spin-off an entire Spider-Man cinematic universe. Alex Kurtzman was aboard to write and direct a new movie, but all of that was mothballed when The Amazing Spider-Man 2 failed to generate much interest (and suffered low box office returns).

Still, Sony has persisted, hiring Edge Of Tomorrow contributor Dante Harper to start working on a new script last year, with Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner re-writing that for producers Matt Tolmach and Avi Arad. Former Sony boss Amy Pascal is also aboard to produce and the plan is to have the movie in US cinemas for 19 October, 2018. No-one is saying what the plot is yet, or whether it will in any way tie into Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is out here on 7 July this year. Nor do we know what version of the character will appear; the original villainous form or the more recent heroic/anti-heroic continuity. And above all else, this one will have to get moving quickly to meet that deadline...

This new release date announcement is part of a set of shuffling superhero movies, as Warners has just moved Aquaman off that October slot to a new home of 18 December, taking advantage of Avatar 2 once again failing to lock down a release.

Meet Izzy In A New Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer

Though it has a story that stretches back in time and explores another legacy of the Transformers' long past on planet Earth, the latest trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight is more focused on one of the main characters, Isabela Moner's Izabella and lots of battle action, as befits a Michael Bay film. See the new footage below. Killer Robots Are On The Loose In A New Transformers: The Last Knight Clip First Trailer For Transformers: The Last Knight Transformers: The Last Knight Casts Liam Garrigan As King Arthur

Designed as a hybrid trailer and introduction to the young new character, the piece, which will be in cinemas in front of Beauty And The Beast, shows the war-weary but resilient and resourceful Izzy, who we met along with some of her friends in a clip put online a few days ago.

As with that footage, the new material focuses on the present day, a world where humans and the living robots are at war with each other. Izzy, who already has her own connection with the 'bots, meets Mark Wahlberg's Cade Yeager and the two have to help in the fight against the forces of evil. There are plenty of explosions and some flying machines that look for all the world like TIE Fighters.

Oh, and because you can never have too much of him, Grimlock shows up here, making a nuisance of himself. With Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock and Josh Duhamel also in the cast, Transformers: The Last Knight is out on 23 June.

First Teaser Poster For The Dark Tower Promises Other Worlds

Finally headed our way after several versions failed to ignite, the cinematic adaptation of Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower series is finally headed to screens. And the first teaser poster for the movie has landed. First Official Look At Idris Elba And Matthew McConaughey In The Dark Tower Ron Howard And Brian Grazer Talk The Dark Tower Matthew McConaughey And Idris Elba Confirmed For The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower promises a subtly different origin story for the conflict between Roland Deschain AKA The Gunslinger (Idris Elba) and warlock Walter, The Man In Black (Matthew McConaughey), who brought chaos and destruction to a realm known as Mid-World. Walter's current target is the Dark Tower, which maintains order in the various realms and multiverses, and Deschain's target is... Walter.

The first movie, with Nikolaj Arcel directing, finds Walter on the hunt for Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) who posses "The Shine" (you might recognise the power from another slightly well-known King story), which could help destroy the Tower's support and allow Walter to bring his particular brand of apocalypse to other realms.

It's a striking initial image for the movie, which has the burden of an awful lot of anticipation to carry, and it will out here on 28 July. You'd have to guess that the first trailer will be following quickly behind.

New Fargo Season 3 Teaser Has Unfathomable Pinheadery

A couple of weeks ago, we got our first look at some of the characters in the new season of Fargo. The new teaser brings almost the whole new cast to the screen for a quick introduction and – in the words of Mary Elizabeth Winstead's Nikki Swango – some "unfathomable pinheadery". Ewan McGregor Looks Different In The First Teaser For Fargo Season 3 Mary Elizabeth Winstead Joins Fargo Season 3 Ewan McGregor On For Fargo Season 3

The new season appears to hew even closer to the original Coen brothers film, while still remaining its own thing thanks to the creativity of show boss Noah Hawley and his team.

This year, the story partly focuses on Emmit and Ray Stussy, both played by Ewan McGregor. Emmit is handsome, confident and has conquered the real estate market in Minnesota. Younger brother Ray, on the other hand, is a flabby parole officer who blames his sibling for his bad luck. We see both of them in the new teaser, alongside Winstead's Nikki, a crafty and alluring recent parolee.

Carrie Coon, meanwhile, is Gloria Burgle, a practical woman who grabs the fire extinguisher when the bacon catches fire and everyone else panics. The chief of police in Edna Valley and a newly divorced mother, she struggles to understand this new world around her where people connect more intimately with their phones than the people directly in front of them.

Add to that the gloriously named likes of Michael Stuhlbarg‘s Sy Feltz and David Thewlis‘ V.M. Vargas, and you have quite the assortment. Fargo will be back on US screens on 19 April, with the show due to return to Channel 4 in the UK shortly after that.

Brian Cox Is Winston For The First Churchill Trailer

The first look at Brian Cox in costume and make-up as Winston Churchill arrived last year. We've had to wait a while to see how he moves and what he sounds like in the role, but here's the first trailer for Churchill. First Look At Brian Cox As Winston Churchill It's War! Brian Cox Starring In New Churchill Film

Kicking off in June 1944, Churchill finds the Allied forces perched on the brink as a million soldiers are secretly assembled on the south coast of England, poised to invade Europe and wrest it from the grip of the Nazi war machine. But one other thing stands in their way: Winston Churchill, who fears repeating the fallout of his disastrous previous command on the beaches of Gallipoli in 1915.

Exhausted by years of conflict and plagued by doubt and depression, Churchill is a shadow of the heroic man who helped his country resist the Blitz. He'll need the support of his unflappable wife Clementine (Miranda Richardson) to find the strength to support the battle plan. Will he do it? Well, er, spoiler alert: history, though as ever with this sort of thing, it's the journey and the emotional underpinnings that are more important than the outcome we know.

With John Slattery, James Purefoy and Ella Purnell also in the cast, Churchill will fight them on the beaches from 2 June in the States and 16 June in the UK.

Robert Downey Jr. Will Be Doctor Dolittle

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Stephen Gaghan is directing this one for Universal after re-writing a script that began life with Tom Shepherd. The new film will adapt the work of Hugh Lofting, who created the eccentric doctor who claims he can talk to animals for a series of children's books in the 1920s.

The character previously hit screens in 1967 for the musical Doctor Dolittle played by Rex Harrison. Despite some bad reviews, it went on to win Oscars for Best Original Song and its visual effects and made it as far as a Best Picture nomination. The concept was remade for the 1990s starring Eddie Murphy, who worked on both the first movie in 1998 and its initial, cinematic sequel in 2001.

Syriana and Gold director Gaghan seems like an unlikely choice to work on this, but it'll be fascinating to see what he does. And Downey Jr. will get the chance to play some slightly different tones from his usual snark-tastic Stark stuff. Talking of the genius, billionaire playboy philanthropist, he'll be back in Spider-Man: Homecoming, set to hit our screens on 7 July.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2: See Three Exclusive New Images

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 sits front-and-centre on the latest issue of Empire, with an instantly loveable Groot-heavy limited edition cover already on its way to subscribers. Inside, there's eight pages of coverage on the return of galaxy-saving gang, including a full set report from the Atlanta shoot, and several never-before-seen images – three of which we can share with you now. Take a look below – and click to embiggen.

The first shows Yondu (Michael Rooker) squaring off with Rocket (Bradley Cooper). You wouldn't bet against either of them in this fight.

This one shows the gang in action, including Karen Gillan's Nebula – is she with the good guys this time?

Finally, it's a venerable newcomer to the cast, Kurt Russell, as Ego The Living Planet, father of Chris Pratt's Star-Lord. As recounted in the new issue of Empire, it was Pratt who suggested Russell's casting during a casual chat with his director James Gunn, when Pratt made an offhand suggestion: “Hey, what about Kurt Russell?”

“I started writing for Kurt as I was finishing the screenplay,” Gunn recalls. “I would have been really disappointed if he’d said no.” Fortunately Russell said yes, after checking out the first movie, which he’d missed the first time around. “Fifteen minutes in, I said, ‘I think I see why they’re coming to me…’” the former Snake Plissken tells Empire. “The baggage I bring from some of the movies I’ve done is the right kind of baggage to bring into this one.”

Ego is, in a very real sense, his biggest-ever part. “That’s true!” Russell roars. “I’ve never played anybody bigger! I’ve never played a character with broader possibilities, I’ll say that.” Indeed, Ego proved the film’s largest technical challenge. Inspired by the elaborate fractal art of Hal Tenny, who Gunn hired to help design Ego’s environment, it’s pushed visual effects past the existing limit. “We have over a trillion polygons on Ego’s planet,” says Gunn proudly. “It’s the biggest visual effect of all time. There’s nothing even close to it. Which is cool.”

This is just a preview of our extensive Guardians 2 coverage – for the full planet-sized report, including more interviews with Gunn and all the key cast, be sure to pick up a copy of the new issue of Empire, on sale in all good and evil newsagents from Thursday. Empire subscribers should start to receive their limited edition covers already. Want to get your copy days before anyone else too? Subscribe to Empire here.

First Look At Claire Foy And Andrew Garfield In Andy Serkis' Breathe

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Based on the inspiring true story of producer (and Serkis' Imaginarium Studios partner) Jonathan Cavendish's parents, Breathe finds Garfield as Robin Cavendish, a polio-sufferer who not only survived the illness (and life on a respirator) but flourished thanks to his indomitable spirit and that of his wife, Diana Blacker (Foy).

Cavendish was initially diagnosed with polio at 28 and given only three months to live yet went on to raise money for charity, test out pioneering new equipment and champion the cause of the disabled. All while paralysed from the neck down.

Hugh Bonneville, Dean-Charles Chapman and Tom Hollander are also part of the cast, while Gladiator's William Nicholson wrote the script, and Breathe will be in UK cinemas from 27 October.

Kate McKinnon And Mila Kunis Up For Comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me

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Susanna Fogel co-wrote the script with David Iserson and will be calling the shots on the movie for Lionsgate. The new comedy should find McKinnon and Kunis as best friends who are always there for each other. When one of the women discovers that the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy, they become entangled in an international conspiracy.

No other details have been released, though Brian Grazer is aboard to produce via his Imagine Entertainment company and shooting should kick off this summer.

Kunis most recently appeared in hit comedy Bad Moms and has a few projects in development. McKinnon was part of the cast for Office Christmas Party and is back in new raucous comedy Rough Night, due 16 June.

Colin Farrell To Play Oliver North For A New Miniseries

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Still, the pair has signed deals to make a miniseries about the affair at Amazon, with Enzo Mileti and Scott Wilson providing the scripts and Ben Stiller and Nicky Weinstock on to produce via their Red Hour Films company.

The Iran-Contra scandal saw American officials secretly selling weapons to Iran in the 1980s (subject of an arms embargo at the time) and sending the money to the Contra militant groups in Nicaragua while also negotiating the release of hostages. Lieutenant Colonel North, a decorated marine with a seat on the National Security Council, was one of the people behind the plan, and destroyed evidence once it was rumbled. He was arrested, and ended up convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and ordering the destruction of documents through his secretary. In 1989, he was sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 21,000 hours of community service, though in 1990, his convictions were reversed. North went on run for the senate and hosted a show on Fox News.

"I’m really excited to be working with Colin again on something quite different to what we have done so far," Lanthimos tells Variety. "I look forward to joining forces with Ben and Nicky, who had an excellent casting idea and saw the potential of the material early on and Amazon, who has embraced the project with great enthusiasm. It makes me very confident and excited to be working on a script which, although based on relatively recent history, feels very fresh and relevant to our times." Oh, government officials caught lying? We can see that.

This one's still bubbling away, but expect all involved to get moving on it once their schedules align and the scripts are in. Farrell will next be seen in Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled (out 23 June) and is on board Dan Gilroy's Inner City, which should be shooting soon.

Chris Evans And Haley Bennett Join Red Sea Diving Resort

Resort, which was originally developed by Homeland's Gideon Raff from Alice LaPlante's book Turn Of Mind, has gone by several titles on its journey to the screen, as was once known as Operation Brothers and then Operation Resort. Raff is still aboard to direct his script, which will chronicle the evacuation of Jewish Ethiopian Civil War refugees from Sudan to Israel in the late 1970s and early '80s. On the orders of then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Mossad set up a secret base in a deserted Sudanese holiday camp, and orchestrated the mass extraction by sea and air. Evans is aboard to play Ari Kidron, a charming Israeli agent who assembles a team to help refugees on the ground, while Bennett's role has yet to be revealed, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Raff originally sold the idea to Fox Searchlight, but after development there crawled to a halt, he shopped it around and landed at Fences production company Bron Studios, with Alexandra Milchan still aboard to produce. All being well, Raff should have the cameras cranking this summer.

Evans had Gifted arriving here on 16 June and has been back at work as Captain America for the Avengers: Infinity War films, the first of which opens in the UK on 27 April next year. Bennett will next be seen in A Kind Of Murder and Thank You For Your Service.

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Rachel Weisz Is A Threat In The New Trailer For My Cousin Rachel

Following on from the first glimpse at the new Daphne Du Maurier adaptation My Cousin Rachel earlier this year, here comes the new trailer for the film, which stars Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin. First Trailer For Gothic Drama My Cousin Rachel Holliday Grainger Joins My Cousin Rachel Rachel Weisz Knows My Cousin Rachel

Du Maurier's work was previously adapted for the big screen in 1952 and by the BBC in 1983, but Roger Michell's film, which he also wrote, heads back to the book to dig up more details. The story follows Philip (CLaflin), an orphan who is used to living a happy life with his cousin and guardian, Ambrose. But during one of Ambrose's health-related holidays, he reports back that he has fallen for Rachel (Weisz), a distant relation. When the tone of his letters starts to change, Philip decides to go and investigate. Yet he underestimates the power the beautiful Rachel will have over him, as she tries to tell her side of the story. But who can he trust?

Iain Glen and Holliday Grainger feature in the cast, and My Cousin Rachel will be out on 9 June.

Henry Cavill And Nicholas Hoult Are At War In The Sand Castle Trailer

Netflix has already dropped eight promos for upcoming projects over the past few days, including Brad Pit’s War Machine, Alison Brie’s Glow and an Amy Schumer stand-up special. Next up is Sand Castle, the Netflix original film set in 2003 Iraq during the early days of the Second Gulf War.

Not, as the title might suggest, a light-hearted story about a sandy fortresses, Sand Castle is in fact based on screenwriter Chris Roessner’s own experience as a machine gunner in Iraq, and promises a grunt’s-eye-view of life and death on the front line.

The movie is centred on Matt Ocre (Nicholas Hoult), and as he and his troops attempt to protect farming village, Baqubah, in the crosshairs of some very dangerous enemies.

Also starring Henry Cavill, Glen Powell, Logan Marshall-Green, Tommy Flanagan and Parker Sawyers, Sand Castle premieres 21 April on Netflix worldwide.

Spotlight's Tom McCarthy Re-Writing Disney's Christopher Robin Movie

With an earlier draft by Alex Ross Perry, the movie is currently simply known as Christopher Robin. Sounding a little like Hook-meets-Paddington, the story follows a grown Christopher Robin who has left behind the imaginative adventures in Hundred Acre Wood and is focusing on his adult life. But when his job starts to overwhelm his family commitments, he is suddenly visited by Pooh, who needs help finding his friends. Christopher Robin has to figure out how to handle the two sides of his life colliding without losing both.

In case you're thinking this new hire means that McCarthy will also be taking over the director's job on the film, that's not the case: Marc Forster is still attached to call the shots.

McCarthy, who won a Best Original screenplay Oscar with co-writer Josh Singer for Spotlight in 2016 (he was nominated as its director and the film took Best Picture), has several other scripts in development but has been spending time as executive producer and director on new Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, which will hit the streaming service on 31 March. You can watch the trailer below.

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Big Bang Theory Spin-Off: Young Sheldon Has Been Cast

Deadline is reporting that HBO's Big Little Lies' Iain Armitage will take on the lead role, bringing to life Sheldon's growing up in Texas, and the interactions between he and the rest of his family. Parsons, who came up with the concept for the show, feels that it's a natural, largely due to The Big Bang Theory's writers providing such detail to the character over the past decade. "It just seems like a really wasted opportunity if you don't decide to explore the origin story with that," the actor related. "I mean, they've layered so many things in there that are ready to be drawn from."

Also cast is the part of Sheldon's born-again Christian mother, Mary, played on the regular series by Laurie Metcalf, but to be portrayed on the spin-off by the actress' daughter, Zoe Perry.

Still to be cast are the parts of Sheldon's twin sister, Missy; older brother George, Jr. (who we have not met yet), and his father, George, who had died prior to the events of BBT.

One of the reported reasons that the spin-off hasn't been announced yet is that negotiations for a two-year renewal of The Big Bang Theory are ongoing.

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Latest Red Band CHIPS Trailer Gets Ruder

The Jump Street movies proved you can take a cult classic TV show and somehow spin gold from it, so it's only natural that others are trying to repeat the trick. But while it's clearly not as easy as that, Dax Shepard is attempting it with '70s/'80s cop show CHIPS, and the new, Red Band trailer shows he's leaning into the rude gags... CHIPS Trailer Offers A Look At The Cops In Action Exclusive New Look At Dax Shepard And Michael Peña in CHIPS. Kristen Bell Recruited For The CHIPS Film

Shepard wrote, directed and stars here as Jon Baker, an injury-prone pro motorcyclist looking to fix his broken marriage (if not some of his broken bones) by joining up with the California Highway Patrol in Los Angeles. He's partnered with Frank "Ponch" Poncherello (Michael Peña), who has his own reasons for signing on: Ponch is actually an undercover Federal agent looking to take down a suspected gang of crooked cops are pulling off heists.

The first trailer showed the style and tone that Shepard is going for, and the new one just confirms it: expect lots of genital-focused gags layered on a basic action plot. CHIPS is out on 24 March.

The X-Men TV Pilot Casts Amy Acker

Acker will plays Kate, the "ordinary" mother of children who have turned out to be mutants, and who she takes off on the run with to avoid capture by the government. Ultimately the family, which includes Kate's estranged husband, Reed (Stephen Moyer), becomes a part of an underground mutant network. Playing Kate's kids are Emma Dumont as Lorna Dane, also known as Polaris, with the power of magnetism; and Percy Hynes as Andy.

Acker gained attention as Winifred "Fred" Burkle on Angel. While the character died during the fifth and final season of that show, the actress immediately took on a whole new persona, the demon goddess Illyria. Other genre roles have included Supernatural, Alias, Dollhouse, and Person Of Interest.

As to genre appeal, Acker details that she had been a dancer, doing a lot of ballet growing up until she was sidelined by knee surgery. Seeking an alternative, she turned to acting.

"I had always been super shy, but I found out that if I said words that other people wrote, and got to be characters other than myself, that it was sort of this amazing thing that I couldn’t imagine doing anything else after it started," she says. "I think that’s part of the reason I’m drawn to this genre. I mean, all of my favorite roles that I’ve gotten to do have been in genre TV. Those roles really allow you to transform, sometimes from a human to an alien, but it also gives you a journey as a character that a lot of other shows don’t always have."

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New Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge Trailer Explores the Villain

Given that the latest Pirates Of The Caribbean adventure is called Salazar's Revenge after Javier Bardem's antagonist in the UK, you might expect to learn more about the rage-filled supernatural sailor. And indeed you do in this new trailer for the movie. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge Super Bowl Spot First Teaser Trailer For The Latest Pirates Online Brenton Thwaites Set For The New Pirates Movie

Turns out Captain Salazar and Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow have a past, and it's not that Sparrow owes Salazar $3 million for a scarf or something like that. No, in life, Salazar was dedicated to wiping out pirates until a young Sparrow (Depp, given a quick coat of de-aging magic with the CGI brush) took him down and left him for dead. Now he's undead, bristling with fury and ready for vengeance.

Jack, down on his luck as usual, must find the legendary Trident of Poseidon and will need the help of headstrong young sailor Henry (Brenton Thwaites) and smart, daring astronomer Carina (Kaya Scodelario). We're promised the usual spectacle (zombie sharks!), this time wrangled by Kon-Tiki duo Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg.

No reason has yet been given for why the name was switched from the US title (Dead Men Tell No Tales), though perhaps in a mirror of the Zootopia/Zootropolis situation, there was a European theme park with the moniker already out there (Decomposing fun! Terrify the kids!). Whatever the reason, Salazar's Revenge will sail into UK cinemas on 26 May.

Arnie Gets Emotional In Our Exclusive New Aftermath Clip

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent career has been quite different from the sorts of roles we were used to, pre-Governator, drawn to tougher, meatier dramatic roles like Maggie and Sabotage. That trend continues with Aftermath, a gritty revenge thriller in which Arnie plays a grieving father looking track down the air traffic controller he holds responsible for a plane crash that killed his wife and children. We’ve got our hands on an exclusive clip – have a look below.

Grizzled with a face full of silvery face fuzz, Arnie is quite a different beast to how we’re used to seeing him in this film. It’s all based on a fairly extraordinary real-life tale, in which a Russian man tracked down and murdered an air traffic controller, apparently in revenge for the deaths of his family. Elliott Lester (Blitz) is behind the camera on this one, which also stars Scoot McNairy as the target in Arnie’s crosshairs, and Maggie Grace as his wife.

Essentially the anti-Sully, Aftermath is released in the UK from 7 April. Here’s the UK poster.

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Donnie Yen To Star In The Sleeping Dogs Film

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Franchise nurturer and Fast & Furious producer Neal Moritz is backing this one, which will follow an undercover cop (Yen) on a mission to take down one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organisations: the Triads. Well, if anyone can do it, it's Yen.

The star of the Ip Man films, Yen has most recently been seen in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and xXx: Return Of Xander Cage, and given his martial arts abilities, he'll bring something fresh to the genre, especially if whichever studio sets this one up surrounds him without the right director and other filmmakers.

Kubo Director Travis Knight Taking On Transformers Spin-Off Bumblebee

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The movie, which represents Paramount's first attempt to widen the Transformers universe, has been in development for a while, spawned from the writers' room set up by the studio to generate an expanded cinematic universe for the Autobots and Decepticons.

Christina Hodson has been at work on the script, with TF regulars Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Michael Bay acting as producers. The movie is intended to arrive in cinemas next year, so Knight will have to put the pedal to the metal. As for Bay's current robo-conflict effort as director, Transformers: The Last Knight crashes in on 23 June.

Keanu Reeves And Isla Fisher Head For The Starling

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Dome Karukoski is on to direct the film, and will work from a script by Matt Harris. The Starling will see a married couple losing a child. The wife goes to a recovery centre to work on her grief, leaving her husband alone at home. Throwing himself into a project he hopes will help them both, he decides to build a beautiful garden at their home, only to find his work interrupted by an aggressive starling. Instead of taking the Wick way and dishing out a swift kick up the beak, the man consults a vet to see if he can find some humane way to get rid of it, but the medical professional he visits turns out to be a former psychologist who helps the husband deal with the situation as much as he offers advice on the bird.

Reeves is still just circling this one, while Fisher has locked in a deal to co-star. With John Wick's sequel still doing great business at the box office, Reeves has To The Bone and Replicas headed our way. Fisher, most recently seen in Nocturnal Animals, has several projects in development.

New Fast & Furious 8 Poster Online

The cast giving the camera moody looks? Check. Tagline featuring something about family or speed? Check. Vehicular mayhem? Check and check! Yes, this is clearly a new Fast & Furious poster, in this case for Fast & Furious 8, which is headed our way at its usual breakneck pace. Super Bowl 2017: Fast & Furious 8 TV Spot Goes Rogue Fast & Furious 8: First Cast Photo Revealed Fast & Furious 8 Trailer

The Fate Of The Furious (as the movie is confusingly known in the States yet not here) promises the usual gang torn asunder as Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) appears to turn against everyone else and join forces with the mysterious, alluring Cipher (Charlize Theron).

So the regulars, especially Dwayne Johnson's Hobbs, will have to tool up and take him down. Which means working uneasily with a former antagonist in the bald shape of Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw. And from what we've seen so far, the attempt is being made to push the action chaos even further. What next, space shuttles sideswiping each other? Let's not give them ideas...

F. Gary Gray directed the movie, and it'll be out on 12 April.

Han Solo Movie Adds Michael K. Williams

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If you're expecting to learn what he's playing at this juncture... Well, you've clearly never read a Star Wars casting story before. Suffice to say that information is a strictly held secret. So far, all we know is that Alden Ehrenreich is playing the young Han, with Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, Joonas Suotamoas once more playing Chewbacca (after subbing for Peter Mayhew for most of The Force Awakens). Phoebe Waller-Bridge is an unknown CG character, while Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson are all in unspecified parts (though Harrelson is reportedly a mentor figure to Han).

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are calling the shots, and work is underway now at Pinewood. Seemingly breaking with the now traditional Star Wars December release pattern, the movie will land on 25 May next year.

Wade Is A Terrible Hero In The New Deadpool Short

If you've been to see Logan already (and the movie's box office results suggest a large swathe of you have, though we've bee hearing that several UK venues don't seem to have it attached, so this release is doubly welcome), then you'll have watched the Deadpool scene that played before Wolverine's latest film started. Wade Wilson (AKA Ryan Reynolds) has put it officially online for those who have yet to watch it... Logan Review Deadpool 2: Stranger Things' David Harbour Is The Frontrunner For Cable John Wick's David Leitch To Direct Deadpool 2

The footage – which the filmmakers have been quick to stress is not from the sequel now in development, though includes more than a few nods to potential elements, including Nathan Summers' (Cable) name scrawled on the phone booth – finds our less than responsible hero attempting a Superman-style quick change to help the victim of a street mugging. Suffice to say, he takes a little longer than Clark Kent usually does and things do not turn out well for the poor civilian. Still, at least Wade gets ice cream out of it.

With Reynolds suiting up once more, Deadpool 2 once again has Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese on script duty, with John Wick's David Leitch taking over the director's chair from Tim Miller. There is no release date set in stone (reassuring in a world where studios start scheduling sequels before the original has had a chance to open), but hopefully it won't be too long before we get more from the Merc With A Mouth. For now, enjoy the ability to freeze frame that text crawl at the end, look for all the potential clues dropped in and see a fun cameo from Marvel's usual one-line star.