More Holmes to welcome in the week, and there’s the requsite fast paced fists and quick wits on show here in Guy Ritchie’s sequel which has own favourite literary detective duo coming face to face with Professor Moriarty in the titular shadowy game.

Stephen Fry and Noomi Rapace are two of the new faces in the film and there is a surprising amount to live up to as the first film was so well received that this follow up was fast tracked into production and we have only a few short weeks until the film flies into cinemas on the 16th of December.

The Movie Box (via ComingSoon) have a trio of tasty TV spots to tease and tantalise.

Our friends over at MSN have just launched the first Full Length trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows. We’ve had a teaser before but this one gives us a lot more footage and storyline.

Guy Ritchie returns to direct this movie after the success of the 2009 movie with a cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry, Gilles Lellouche. We can expect to see it in UK cinemas 16th December. Scroll down for the brand new trailer.

Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his formidable colleague, Dr. Watson, in “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.” Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room…until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large–Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)–and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder–a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty. Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen’s club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince’s murder makes her the killer’s next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him. The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction–all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history. Filmmaker Guy Ritchie returns to direct “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” the follow-up to the smash hit “Sherlock Holmes.” The sequel also reunites producers Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. Bruce Berman serves as executive producer, with Steve Clark-Hall co-producing. Jared Harris (TV’s “Mad Men,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) joins the cast as the notorious Professor Moriarty. Also joining the cast, in her first English-speaking role, is Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, who gained international attention in the Swedish film “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Stephen Fry (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”) plays Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older brother. Additional cast members returning from the first film include Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade; Kelly Reilly as Watson’s bride, Mary Morstan; and Geraldine James as Holmes’s long-suffering landlady, Mrs. Hudson. “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” is written by Michele Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were created by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and appear in stories and novels by him.

We’re getting closer to our next appointment with Messrs. Holmes and Watson on the 16th of December and what better way to celebrate the oncoming consultation than by allowing our eyes to feast on two new posters?

Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. return as the slueth and his sidekick with a host of new friends to play with. Not least we finally get to see Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty and Stephen Fry as the older Holmes brother but there’s a fine addition to the cast in Noomi Rapace who dashed through exploding forests with our two leads in the trailers and images we’ve seen so far.

As you can see in the posters Paris and London are represented, and unless those are two very large steam trains in the background we can assume a couple of parliamentary explosions as part of Guy Ritchie’s Game of Shadows.

Here are your posters, but first bow your heads in the direction of Yahoo, for twas they who bequeathed.

The fantastic news came just a few days ago that John Goodman, known for such brilliant roles as Sulley in Monsters, Inc. and of course Walter in The Big Lebowski, is set to join Robert Zemeckis’ return to live-action in Flight, starring as the best friend of the leading man, Denzel Washington.

More great casting additions have now surfaced over at THR, with Academy Award-winning Melissa Leo (The Fighter) and James Badge Dale (TV’s 24 and The Pacific) in talks to join the project.

Written by John Gatins (Coach Carter, the upcoming Real Steel), Flight,

“centers on an alcoholic and drug-addicted pilot (Washington) whose plane engine malfunctions, forcing him to rescue the aircraft and its passengers, becoming a hero in the process. When the FAA investigates and finds evidence of drug abuse, it tries to sweep the evidence to the side to help preserve the image of the captain, who is trying to change the course of his life.”

If talks go well, Dale would be playing a dying cancer patient and Leo an investigator determined to expose Washington’s character’s drug addiction and cast the blame upon him.

Leo’s talents were deservedly well recognised at the Oscars earlier this year, where she won Best Actress for her part as Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale’s mother in The Fighter. She’s currently starring in Kevin Smith’s Red State, out in cinemas now, having just been nominated for an Emmy for her role in Mildred Pierce.

After a terrific role in the third season of 24 as Kim Bauer’s boyfriend and Jack’s fellow CTU agent, Dale has mostly been picking up small roles here and there, but has seen some attention heading his way in the past year or so, with a lead role in HBO’s The Pacific, and upcoming roles in Steve McQueen’s highly anticipated Shame with Michael Fassbender, Joe Carnahan’s The Grey with Liam Neeson, and Marc Forster’s World War Z with Brad Pitt.

With Bruce Greenwood having just officially signed on for the project too, and Don Cheadle and Kelly Reilly in negotiations along with Goodman, and of course with Washington as the leading man, signing on to Flight can only be good news and further great recognition for both Leo and Dale, and hopefully we’ll soon be getting the news that their negotiations have been successful. This is definitely shaping up to be a project to look forward to.

Emmy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, John Goodman, one of my favourite people to have graced the big and small screen, is now in talks to join Denzel Washington on Robert Zemeckis’ next film, Flight, Deadline report.

The film will see Zemeckis’ first return to live-action since 2000’s Cast Away, having directed The Polar Express, Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol in the years since then, and will be written by the rising screenwriter, John Gatins (Coach Carter, the upcoming Real Steel).

Flight will see,

“Denzel Washington as an airline pilot who averts a plane crash, only to come under a cloud for possible substance abuse problems. Goodman will play a friend of the pilot who helps him come to terms with his problems.”

I think the pairing of Washington and Goodman on the screen will be absolutely brilliant, and I can’t wait to see it happen. Both men are now in their late fifties, and both have had such immense roles in all their years of acting, and seeing them come together for this project should be awesome.

Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda), Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes), and Bruce Greenwood (JJ Abrams’ Star Trek) are also in negotiations to star, and with Goodman now coming into talks to join too, the cast is really shaping up nicely.

Goodman is coming into our cinemas as of today with Kevin Smith’s Red State (which I cannot wait to see), and will soon be soon in the upcoming silent film, The Artist, which has some pretty big buzz surrounding it, and the Tom Hanks-starring Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and is currently at work filming Ben Affleck’s Argo, the highly anticipated follow-up to last year’s The Town. Essentially, Goodman is going to be in a number of ridiculously brilliant projects over the next few years (and we can add to that list Monsters University), and Flight will hopefully be yet another film of his to look forward to.

Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes) is in talks to play the female lead in Flight.

Reilly, who beat out Olivia Wilde (The Next Three Days) and Dominique McElligott (The Guard) for the role, will star opposite Denzel Washington (Training Day, Unstoppable) in the Robert Zemeckis-directed thriller.

An airline pilot (Washington) saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.

Flight is being sold to distributors at the currently underway 36th Toronto Film Festival, and will shoot at the end of the year.

Reilly will next be seen opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, due for release in the U.K. on December 16.

Source: Deadline

The recent marketing push for Guy Ritchie’s next sojourn to Baker Street has been leading up to this – our first proper look at Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

With the trademark quick witted banter and slow motion action scenes the second film has Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris and Stephen Fry joining the cast with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law doing their best to take on one of literature’s most famous double acts.

Certainly the first film was enjoyed by many people and this sequel takes place a year after the first and is partly based on Conan Doyle’s short The Final Problem, which as Holmes scholars will know, involves a trip to Switzerland and a visit to the Reichenbach Falls, giving a fairly obvious hint as to how this one will end.

Due out December 16th in the UK. Apple have just put up the trailer so get clicking…

Or head on over to Apple to watch it HD.

Yesterday we were privy to the first posters for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes sequel, subtitled A Game of Shadows, and in rampant expectation of the first trailer there are more images and a sneak peek at some footage from the film for us to pour over should the mood take us.

Yahoo Movies have a couple of new images from the film, and they obviously don’t give tons away and we’re still no nearer to seeing Stephen Fry in his role as Mycroft Homes, but I’m guessing he’ll be secreted in the trailer which is due out tonight.

It does look like more of the same from Messrs Ritchie, Downey Jr. and Law, but I think we’re all hoping newcomers Noomi Rapace and Jared Harris will bring something new to the series.

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes surprised a lot of people and did business enough to set the sequel train on its tracks with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law joined by a few new faces.

Notably one of these new posters shows off Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty, whose presence was partially glimpsed in the first film, while the second has the slightly odd figure of Noomi Rapace as Sim, looking a touch menacing behind the moustached Dr. Watson.

The first film was enjoyable and benefited from Mark Strong and Eddie Marsan, who will be returning as Inspector Lestrade along with Stephen Fry who is cast as Holmes’ brother Mycroft.

A decent cast with a neat and unusual double act taking on the famous pair should make for a fun film. Christmas 2011 is when the Game of Shadows will be afoot.

Give your thanks to Johnny Yahoo for these.

Now that we have a title for the second Sherlock Holmes film from Guy Ritchie it seems only polite to follow up with a couple of pics from the film, and they are corkers.

And before we go on there’s a Greta Gerwig-like absence of two of the new main draws to the film, namely Jared Harris and Stephen Fry as Moriarty and Mycroft Holmes respectively, but we’ll have to console ourselves with the double act of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as (not your father’s) Holmes and Watson.

The second image may contain a slight spoiler – depends how you feel about knowing a plot point which may be entirely inconsequential, it’s up to you.

We’ve nearly a whole year until the Game of Shadows is afoot, so expect to be caught under a marketing blitz in the autumn.

Hurrah to ShockYa for finding these.

Yesterday we found out the new title of the new Spider-Man movie and today it sounds like the sequel to Guy Ritchie, Sherlock Holmes has also been named. E! Online have unveiled the new and, as they put it, it’s pretty lame!

The title of the sequel will be: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. The sequel sees Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reunite as Sherlock Holmes and Watson and this time they are joined by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star, Noomi Rapace, as well as Stephen Fry and Jared Harris.

We can expect the movie to hit UK shores 16th December 2011.

Thanks to The Film Stage for the heads up on this one.

Warner Bros. Pictures have confirmed that Rachel McAdams will return for a cameo appearance in Sherlock Holmes 2.

McAdams will reprise her role as Irene Adler, Holmes’ love interest.

The sequel to the 2009 hit stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Kelly Reilly, Jared Harris, Geraldine James and William Houston.

Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.

Sherlock Holmes 2 is once again directed by Guy Ritchie, and will be released in the UK on December 16.

McAdams can currently be seen in the workplace comedy Morning Glory.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Warner Bros. have released a new trailer for Guy Ritchie’s latest movie, Sherlock Holmes. The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. , Jude Law and Rachel McAdams and is based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle.

This latest trailer was aired on US TV yesterday and as yet doesn’t seem to have hit the internet in high quality form. So, for the time being, here’s the footage courtesy of ComingSoon.net and we’ll replace it once it goes HD. As you’ll see, this isn’t your typical high-brow Sherlock Holmes story – but hey, it is directed by Guy Ritchie after all!

Sherlock Holmes also stars Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan, Kelly Reilly and is released 26th December.

Here’s a new poster for Zac Efron’s latest movie, Me and Orson Welles courtesy of Cinematical.

Richard Linklater (who has previously brought us A Scanner Darkly, Before Sunset and The School of Rock) directs a great cast which, as well as Efron includes Ben Chaplin, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan and the fabulous Claire Danes. I posted the trailer a few weeks ago and it actually looks like it might be a movie where we get to see Efron playing a good acting part which makes a change from his High School Musical days.

If you’ve not seen the trailer, head on over here. Me and Orson Welles is out for release 25th November in the US. I’ve not found a release date for the UK as yet.

Proof that Zac Efron can actually act has arisen in the form of the trailer for Me and Orson Welles! The movie is directed by Richard Linklater (The School of Rock and Before Sunset) and also stars Ben Chaplin, Christian McKay, Claire Danes, Kelly Reilly. It’s scheduled for release at the end of the year in the US (no UK release date as yet.

I’ve embedded the trailer below. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. I don’t think this is going to be anything High School Musical or 17 Again I’m afraid Efron lovers!

Synopsis: In a whirlwind week in 1937 in New York City, a young aspiring actor named Richard is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles historic staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. During this week he will find romance with a worldly older woman, becomes immersed in a creative experience few are afforded and learn the downside of crossing the imperious, brilliant Welles. Richard is about to grow up fast.