With less than four months to go until its release, it’s a testament to the promotion of Ridley Scott’s upcoming sci-fi actioner that we’ve still not got a clear hold on what the film’s about. Though we’ve been teased by quite a bit in recent months, we’re still pretty much in the dark, which is a great place to be in my books.

The first trailer that landed just before Christmas was brilliant, without giving anything away, and I’m hoping that things stay that way up until its release this summer.

In keeping with the lack of reveal and increase of intrigue, a new image has surfaced of two of the leads in their now-familiar space suits, and judging from the direction of their gaze (i.e. up), it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to imagine that they might be looking at the giant head that we’ve been seeing over the past few months.

“Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.”

The new image shows us Logan Marshall-Green and Noomi Rapace futuristically kitted out, and we can also look forward to a great cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Rafe Spall, and Patrick Wilson.

Prometheus will be with us here in the UK on 1^st June, and whatever it is, I can’t wait. For now, the great new image of Marshall-Green and Rapace. As usual, you can click to enlarge.

Source: ComingSoon.net.

In this age of super-saturation with film marketing, Prometheus has admirably bucked the trend. Of all of the teaser trailers launched lately, it has kept its cards closest to its chest, saved more surprises for us the humble viewers and succeeded in generating much more interest as a helpful by-product.

Much of the response to what we have seen of Prometheus so far (and we have helpfully gathered it all together for you here) has been more questions – what is that statue? Why is that person screaming? Who is the vaguely humanoid creature jumping down? How does this fit into the rest of the Alien Universe? It is perhaps a sign of the times that some are annoyed or disgruntled by the teasing drip-feed we are getting, when we should instead be applauding the slow-burn approach being taken by Ridley Scott and his team.

All we have that is new for now (though in due course we are sure to get a more fleshed out trailer) is a still, showing the human head statue that we have seen before, but better lit and more clearly on show. Not much admittedly, but impressive looking nonetheless and with great surrounding detail of what is likely to be the interior of the doughnut ship from Alien and the Prometheus teaser trailer.

More as we get it, with thanks to ComicBookMovie.com for this.

Also known as MS One: Maximum Security and Lock-Out, this Luc Besson-produced and -co-written sci-fi action film looks pretty damn impressive. We’ve seen two trailers for the film already last year, and they look very promising. Fans of Besson’s increasingly diverse work shouldn’t be disappointed.

We’ve now got an awesome new trailer to share with you, courtesy of IGN Movies, ahead of its release this spring. The film marks the feature directorial debut of James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, who share screenwriting duties with Besson, produced under Besson’s EuropaCorp banner.

“A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.”

The cast is led by Guy Pearce, with Maggie Grace returning to work with Besson for the first of two films this year (the other being Taken 2, reprising her role from the first film), and a supporting cast that includes Peter Stormare and Joseph Gilgun, who looks absolutely brilliant playing a total psychopath (fans of Misfits or Shane Meadows’ This Is England will recognise him as Rudy Wade or Woody, respectively).

Odd though it may sound, it’s a little unclear what it might be called here in the UK. The source of the new trailer is the UK edition of IGN, referring to it as the ‘domestic trailer’ for Lockout (note, no hyphen, which it’s previously had). IMDb, on the other hand, refers to it as MS One: Maximum Security. So keep your eyes peeled for both names; hopefully we’ll have a better idea for sure in the coming weeks. Either way, this is going to be a lot of fun.

This new trailer brings in some ridiculously impressive new visuals and scope of the film, giving us an even better look at the action and the special effects that we can expect from it. The concept certainly seems both a little crazy and intriguing, so I’m really looking forward to its 13^th April release here in the UK. For now, here’s the great new trailer for your viewing pleasure. Besson is always a safe bet to rely on to bring us something awesome, and this looks to be no different. A great way to start the week.

While the recent look at the Space Jockey mask gave further hints at the links between Alien and Prometheus there’s something a little more tangible on offer today with this new image from Ridley Soctt’s film from the L.A. Times (via Coming Soon).

Lining up behind Noomi Rapace are a couple of space jockey suits and there’s a far bet that Nooms has just caught a glimpse of what goes inside one of them. Man, this is a tease-a-thon isn’t it? Only a few months to go until we get the chance to see Scott’s film, easily one of the most anticipated of the year.

Here’s the pic, click to make everything big,

And check out this high-res version from Noomi Rapace Tumblr in which you can make out the Weyland patch on the sleeve of her left arm. You know, because that’s cool and stuff.

There are pictures doing the rounds today which appear to offer further proof that Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Prometheus shares more than a little DNA with his Alien film.

Cinemart claim these pictures come from a trustworthy source deep in the design department of the production and show a mask resembling that of the sad old Space Jockey from Scott’s 1979 film.

The source told the site that this mask was for ‘the alien’ from the film, and that it would feature in the film with ‘very little CGI’ enhancement. For a bit of context the filmmaker spoke to MTV  about the place of the Space Jockey in his new film,

I have to design — or redesign — earlier versions of what these elements are that led to the thing you finally see in “Alien,” which is the thing that catapults out of the egg, the face-hugger… I don’t want to repeat it. The alien in a sense, as a shape, is worn out… maybe we’ll come up with something completely different.

Scott then expanded on the central role of the Space Jockey,

What we’re going to try to do is squeeze in two prequels. . . if you explain who he was and where did he come from. . . then you may want to find out where they came from, you might want to go to him and go to the place where his people come from.

Here’s one of the pics, there’s another angle over at the site,

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Lots of new images out tonight courtesy of USA Today, including this new look at Noomi Rapace in Ridley Scott’s Alienverse bound tale of the search for the origins of mankind in the eagerly awaited Prometheus.

There’s not a lot to go on here, although the glowing paper bag looks…intriguing and I love the design that we’ve seen so far from the production.   If you haven’t seen the trailer which came out just before Christmas then click here to take a look.

Rapace stars alongside Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron. Personally I can’t wait.

Here’s your picture,

And it’s about time…

Teased beyond the point of parody we now have the chance to see what Ridley Scott and screenwriter Damon Lindelof have been working on for what seems like an age. The highly anticipated film has gone from being a full on Space Jockey-centred prequel to Alien to a far grander sci-fi tale, telling us the story of a discovery of the origin of life in the universe.

The trailer hints at the links, not least the slowly revealing font, Gigeresque corridor and it looks like we’ll see what happened to the ship where it all started in Alien. Oh, and the flash at 00:26 is very interesting…

Ridley Scott has a very interesting cast in the form of Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green and Charlize Theron but it is the return of the director to the sci-fi genre that is the real draw here.

Here’s your trailer, which we hope to have in HD soon. The film is out in the UK on the 1st of June.

Tis the season to pump out new trailers for some of the biggest films of 2012 clearly and the curious question of how to keep the flames of anticipation for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus stoked while competing trailers pop up around it has given rise to a daily tease for the unveiling of the first look of Scott’s return to the world of Space Jockeys and acid blooded xenomorphs.

This new look is in keeping with teases one and two in that the director talks briefly about the project while new footage flickers on-screen for seconds at a time. Thank goodness the trailer hits tomorrow…

There’s also a new pic from the all-singing Empire which is below, featuring Michael Fassbender who once described his character as a ’10-pound rent boy’, though it has long been rumoured that he is an android cut from the same circuit boards as Ash and Bishop.

Here’s the IN 1 DAY… trailer,

If you’re not already adrift in the seemingly endless torrent of trailers we’ve seen today there’s a little more for you.

Earlier this evening we posted a short teaser for the imminent trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a film which commands huge expectation and which has, so far, been relatively shrouded in secrecy. Now there’s a second teaser which has a little more footage from the film.

I’m happily posting this here because I know there are people out there who will want to see anything from Prometheus as soon as possible, so while the concept of a trailer for a trailer boggles my mind there’s some brief glimpses to pour over until the trailer arrives on Thursday (or so we’re led to believe).

Here’s your trailer for the trailer part two,

Merci to Alien Prequel News (via Bleeding Cool)

Tonight has gone completely nuts! Not only do we have the theatrical trailer for The Dark Knight Rises (which if you haven’t seen you MUST!) but now Fox have also released a trailer for the trailer (sort of a mini featurette) for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus three days before it’s set to hit!

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron and is set for release Summer 2012.

Enjoy it below!

Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Source: Apple

Lock-Out is the first of the two films co-written and produced by Luc Besson that we can look forward to next year – the other being the sequel to the immense Taken – which will mark the feature directorial debut of its other two co-writers, James Mather and Stephen St. Leger.

The film is led by Guy Pearce, who’s set to have a brilliant year next year starring in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and John Hillcoat’s Wettest County opposite Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf, and will also star Peter Stormare, along with reuniting Besson with his Taken star, Maggie Grace.

“A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.”

We’ve now got a great new trailer to share with you, courtesy of the French film site, AlloCiné. As such, the trailer has French subtitles, and is called MS One – Maximum Security, which is presumably the film’s title in France.

If you’re a fan of Besson’s sci-fi work, this looks to be another brilliant film from him, and should be a fantastic debut for Mather and St. Leger. This new trailer makes it look absolutely awesome, especially for a film with a budget of $30m., and I can’t wait for it to hit cinemas here on 13^th April next year. I have a feeling it’s going to be so damn good, and here’s the trailer to prove it. (You may have to wait for an ad to finish first, but it’s completely worth the wait.)

Not the greatest quality I’m afraid but the first stills nonetheless from the brand new Ridley Scott movie, Prometheus. The images come from Entertainment Weekly via Firstshowing (via Bloody Disgusting and Dread Central). In the images, we get our first look at Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Idris Elba as well as the huge giant head which looks to me like Marlon Brando?!

Also starring in the movie are Guy Pearce and Ben Foster. We can expect the movie 1st June 2012.

“Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.”

Check out the images below which you can click to enlarge. Am I wrong about the Brando image?!

We’ve been sent a rather intense clip from Justice, the new film starring Nicolas Cage and Guy Pearce. Lisa’s review of the film was posted an hour ago and judging from her words and this clip it appears to be superior Cage on offer this time around.

Cage and Pearce are joined by January Jones and this, is the synopsis,

Popular high school teacher Will Gerard (NICOLAS CAGE) lives a life of content domesticity with his beautiful musician wife Laura (JANUARY JONES). Until one night’s horrific events, turns their world upside down.

After Laura is violently attacked and left traumatised in hospital, Will is approached by a well-dressed stranger (GUY PEARCE) offering to dispense immediate justice to the attacker and save the couple from an emotionally traumatic trial. Distraught, Will accepts the proposal but soon learns justice comes at a price.

Yikes. Not one for the family then. But Cage and Pearce can pull out a decent performance when inspired and Jones, who has had a rough ride critically for her recent film appeareances will hopefully shine in this role.

Here’s the clip friends,

No stranger to staging well-paced crime thrillers, like The Bank Job, The Recruit and No Way Out, director Roger Donaldson is about as qualified as any to bring this gritty story of crime and revenge to the screen – all set in one of the most exciting cities in the US, New Orleans. But although most films cannot resist the seedy allure of the French Quarter – and this film is no exception in parts, Justice does try to delve into a more realistically captured but darker depiction.

Nic Cage stars as Will Gerard, a husband who enlists the services of a vigilante group, headed by its curious leader Simon (Guy Pearce), to help him settle the score after his wife, Laura (January Jones), is brutalised. However, Will gets involved way over his head and tries to get out of the deadly pact he has made. The trouble is whom can you trust?

While the film is a half-decent enough thriller with so many twists and turns it trips itself up at times, the basic thriller ingredients have been tried and tested a lot better before, so a good proportion of the film feels like a carbon-copy of others we’ve seen. Granted, the thrill for Cage fans is seeing their hero in a rather physical role, dodging traffic and hanging from underpasses that even leaves him rubbing his head (more than once, and usually in the car) in exasperation.

What is most intriguing is the film’s main idea of disenchantment in a wounded city still hurting from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, leading to self-served justice, and this gives the whole affair an empathetic but equally menacing edge. Cage is the ideal star to tap into this darker aspect.

Like Will, Cage has a crazed, risk-taking side that the New Orleans setting flatters and seems to nurture, and an increasingly erratic Cage is more than capable and watchable in this type of action role as he makes it his eccentric own. The issues come not from his portrayal, but from the complex – and sometimes irrelevant – labyrinth of subplots that Donaldson and writers feel are necessary to throw at him. With too much at play, other things naturally go unexplained.

Sadly, we only get to see a one-dimensional and frustratingly under-developed performance from Pearce, for example, with no explanation as to where his loyalties stem from – even though we understand that his character and others are designed to be as enigmatic as possible throughout to add to the intrigue. On the plus side, Jones, who normally adds the cutesy glamour to any scene, does some of her best work yet as the victim in the first half of the film, only to be sidelined in the rest as a pawn in the increasingly paranoid Cage dance with death. Still, it’s a vast improvement on her usual film roles, and one we’d quite like seeing her tackle again.

Justice is well staged at the start and has the presence to go far. It’s just the sum of its parts – like the random journalist murder subplot – don’t add up at times and make it feel somewhat disjointed. Cage fans are guaranteed a thrill at seeing him in action, with Ghost Rider elements of a mortal Blaze out to serve and protect the ‘ordinary man’ – and Cage is always satisfying in this type of ‘moral crusader’ role. It’s just a shame Donaldson’s film doesn’t fully realise that immense talent, having him running from pillar to post throughout – and making us rub our heads in anguish at times, too.

**½~~ (2.5/5)

The Guillermo Del Toro produced Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark seems to be being moderately but not exuberantly received by the critical fraternity, with perhaps its increasingly well-worn tropes of gothic buildings, creaks and bumps in the night, alert and aware children and aloof and unseeing parents turning many off.

What it can’t be accused of though is a lack of style, especially with its advertising campaign, which has given us a thoroughly inventive and therefore altogether welcome new poster, making up the title from an assortment of materials and household items.

The US and most of continental Europe have already had the film, with us humble folks in the UK having to wait until this coming Friday. Spare a thought for the Netherlands and Italy though, who won’t get it until late November and early January respectively. Poor things.

Source: IMP.

Ridley Scott’s return to the world of science fiction with Prometheus is something that is immensely anticipated next year, and that anticipation is even further heightened by the fact that we know so little about the project.

If you’ve missed our coverage of the film so far, you can catch up on it all here, including the first two images from the film that both looked pretty damn awesome, but didn’t really help our understanding of what it would be about.

That understanding has now slightly been improved with the release of an updated plot synopsis courtesy of the film’s Facebook page, via CinemaBlend.com, that lets us in on a little more detail of what we can expect. The synopsis as we have known it up until know has read,

“Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.”

And the new updated version now gives is a little more to go on,

“Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.”

A third of the description is still dedicated to Scott and his well-established credits, with a nod to his earlier sci-fi films, but we do get the interesting notion of the film exploring the origins of mankind on Earth, and a battle for the future of the human race.

Prometheus has been co-written by Jon Spaihts (the upcoming The Darkest Hour) and Damon Lindelof (co-creator of TV’s Lost, and co-writer on the forthcoming Star Trek sequel), and will have an all-star cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, and Patrick Wilson.

This was a film that was always going to be immense – Scott no doubt wouldn’t (potentially) return to the world of his Alien films if it wasn’t worth revisiting – but reading that synopsis makes me look forward to its release even more. Prometheus is set to come out on 8th June next year, and will almost definitely be one of the biggest films of 2012, and quite possibly Scott’s career.

Last week, we saw the first trailer for Nicolas Cage & Guy Pearce’s new movie, Justice and now Momentum Pictures / Alliance have released the first UK poster for the movie. The movie also stars January Jones of Mad Men fame and hits UK cinemas 18th November.

Popular high school teacher Will Gerard (NICOLAS CAGE) lives a life of content domesticity with his beautiful musician wife Laura (JANUARY JONES). Until one night’s horrific events, turns their world upside down.

After Laura is violently attacked and left traumatised in hospital, Will is approached by a well-dressed stranger (GUY PEARCE) offering to dispense immediate justice to the attacker and save the couple from an emotionally traumatic trial. Distraught, Will accepts the proposal but soon learns justice comes at a price.

Click the poster below to enlarge.

Momentum Pictures / Alliance have released the first trailer for Nicolas Cage Guy Pearce and January Jones’ new movie, Justice which according to IMDb is / was called Seeking Justice in the US. This may be the title in the US or it’s an old title but I’ve confirmed that the title is simply ‘Justice’. It’s directed by Roger Donaldson and is set for release in the UK November 18th and after seeing this trailer, I’m looking forward to it.

Popular high school teacher Will Gerard (NICOLAS CAGE) lives a life of content domesticity with his beautiful musician wife Laura (JANUARY JONES). Until one night’s horrific events, turns their world upside down.

After Laura is violently attacked and left traumatised in hospital, Will is approached by a well-dressed stranger (GUY PEARCE) offering to dispense immediate justice to the attacker and save the couple from an emotionally traumatic trial. Distraught, Will accepts the proposal but soon learns justice comes at a price.

Optimum Releasing have debuted the superb official U.K. poster for the Guillermo Del Toro-produced Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.

Directed by Troy Nixey, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark stars Guy Pearce (Memento), Katie Holmes (Batman Begins), Bailee Madison (Just Go with It), Alan Dale (Priest), Jack Thompson (The Good German) and Nicholas Bell (Mission: Impossible II).

After moving into her new home with her father Alex (Pearce) and his girlfriend, Kim (Holmes), Sally (Madison) is pursued by ruthless creatures who want to claim her as one of their own…

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark will premiere at Film4 Frightfest this weekend before receiving a nationwide release on October 7. Keep your eyes peeled for for our review.

Check out the U.K. poster below:

Source: Yahoo!

This Thursday sees the first UK screening of the new Guillermo del Toro produced movie, Don’t be Afraid of the Dark. We’ll hope to get our review posted as soon as possible after we see it but in the meantime, here’s a few new images and a couple of new clips from the movie which is released in the UK 7th October.

Don’t be Afraid of the Dark is directed by Troy Nixey, written by Matthew Robbins and Guillermo del Toro & stars Guy Pierce and Katie Holmes.

After moving into her new home with her father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes), Sally (Bailee Madison) is pursued by ruthless creatures who want to claim her as one of their own.

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