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Sigourney Weaver has revealed that she would still be interested in reprising her most famous role – alien-zapping heroine Ellen Ripley – for another Alien movie. The actress last played the character in 1997’s Alien Resurrection , a film that was not held in massively high regard by the critics. …

Actress Googie Withers, best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes , has died aged 94. Googie (born Georgette Lizette Withers) died in her home in Australia on Friday. She was born in British India in 1917, and she took up acting at 12 years old, when …

Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra is in negotiations to take on the live-action Akira . Being set up by Warner Bros as a $90m tentpole, Akira could end up being two movies – Warners have mentioned splitting the original six-volume Manga across two films. It’s unclear if Collet-Serra would be signing …

Pit Pony (1997) Born Ellen Philpotts-Page on February 21 1987, her acting debut began at the age of 10 in her native Canada when she took on the role of Maggie Maclean in CBC’s television movie Pit Pony . Set in 1904, the plot revolved around the small-town life of …

The UK trailer for Conan The Barbarian has been released online. Though it dumps the horrible rock soundtrack that plagued most of Conan ’s other trailers, it still looks like a cheesy romp in the same vein as the Mummy movies. Jason Momoa plays Conan, whose father was slain by …

Jamie Foxx is to play the titular hero in Quentin Tarantino’s hotly anticipated Western, Django Unchained . Tarantino reportedly met with Wild Wild West’ s Will Smith and Thor ‘s Idris Elba before settling on Jamie Foxx for the starring role. And while he was being offcially announced as the …

Mystery Men The Crimefighters: Half-arsed superheroes with similarly half-arsed powers. They’re called upon to save the day when a supervillain threatens to destroy the city. The Costumes: A vivid array of zany hackjobs. They’re ridiculous, but they’re meant to be, and we’re fine with that. Lamest Feature: Mr Furious (Ben …

Snow White And The Huntsman producer Joe Roth has revealed that the Kristen Stewart-starring fairytale revamp is being set up as a trilogy. “It’s meant to be the first in a series of films,” he says. “This story will end, but there will be questions remaining for these three characters.” …

Writer Damon Lindelof has spoken up about just how director Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi Prometheus fits into the Alien franchise. Originally pitched as a prequel to the first Alien movie, Prometheus changed when Lindelof was brought in to perform a rewrite on the script. “It started as an Alien prequel,” …

A second trailer for The Three Musketeers has hit the web. Paul WS Anderson’s The Three Musketeers stars Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen, Christoph Waltz and Orlando Bloom, to name a few. This new take on the classic Alexandre Dumas novel follows a young D’Artagnan (Lerman) who …