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Tim Burton has departed pre-production of Disney’s fairytale reimagining Maleficent . The re-telling of Sleeping Beauty was in very early stages, with Burton interested in helming the story of evil witch Maleficent, who casts a nasty spell on Princess Aurora. Burton’s departure from the film appears to be an amicable …

Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Mia Wasikowska have joined Jim Jarmusch’s latest – a ‘crypto-vampire love story’. The as-yet-untitled film will take pace against the desolation of Detroit and Tangier, and is set to film in Germany, Morocco and Detroit in early 2012. No plot details as yet, but Jarmusch …

Hot young things Jackson Rathbone and Erika Christensen have joined Paul Williams’ new film The Idiot . The Twilight actor and Flightplan actress will star as lovers in the feature adaptation of the Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The thriller follows a man returning to Russia from a Swiss hospital …

Hello fright fans, my name’s Sam Ashurst and I’m Total Film’s resident cult horror expert. I spend so much time banging on about ’70s giallo movies, ’80s VHS trash classics, ’90s serial killer flicks and ’00s foreign chillers that TF have finally decided to give me my own column. Possibly …

A Prophet made big waves when it premiered in Cannes two years ago, and Revolver Entertainment are hoping to take a slice of the same cake with British prison drama Feltham . The film is about a young man who gets himself incarcerated at the young offender’s institute in Feltham, …

Woody Allen has got Cannes ’11 off to a lightly likeable and aptly French-flavoured start with his latest, Midnight In Paris. Echoing Allen’s Manhattan, the movie opens with an extended montage of postcard views of the French capital. If you think this is the writer/director romanticising Paris out of all …

Just in case you’re wondering, yes, Rachel Weisz is back. Having kept a relatively low profile since her last big movie outing, The Lovely Bones in 2009, Weisz recently entered talks to play evil witch Theodora in Sam Raimi’s Oz, The Great And Powerful . Now the Brit actress has …

The first trailer for the fifth Final Destination movie has landed online. Basically championing more of the same, this latest entry in the never-ending kill-a-thon franchise sees the survivors of another massive disaster (this time a suspension bride collapsing) picked off one by one. New methods for mutilation include an …

A man of many talents, most of them to do with genius cinema violence, Takashi Miike (Audition) returns with a devoutly classical, if not exactly classic, remake of a 1963 period samurai film. After assembling his (not so) dirty (baker’s) dozen, Koji Yakusho ambushes an evil lord’s army, despite being …

From a galaxy far, far away – California to be exact – Lucasfilm have announced the long anticipated Star Wars Blu-ray boxset… …all 9 discs of it. The force is strong with this one. The set will contain digitally remastered versions of all 6 films, though not included is the …