A little less than a year ago, news arrived that Amelie / Micmacs filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet was ready to jump into his next job, and, even more excitingly, back to English for his first film since that one we don’t really talk about. You know, the one set in the Alien universe… But all eyes are now on The Young And Prodigious Spivet, which has just added Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates to its cast.

Jeunet adapted the script from Rief Larson’s novel The Selected Works Of TS Spivet, working with regular collaborator Guillaume Laurent.

Spivet revolves around the titular youngster (Kyle Catlett) a boy boasting extraordinary navigation and other skills who leaves his father (Callum Keith Rennie) and the rest of his family behind in Montana to head out on a cross-country quest to the Smithsonian in Washington to receive a prize.

While Jeunet has said that this will be more realistic than his other movies, it’ll still be full of his trademark visual delights and, for the first time, sees him taking a stab at 3D. But don’t worry about him sacrificing his style for shonky, post-converted dimensionality – he’s hiring Hugo stereographer Demetri Portelli to help with that aspect. And he’ll reunite with several of his usual behind-the-scenes team. They’re all set to start filming next month in Canada. 

When he’s putting together films to shoot in his native Australia, Joel Edgerton always seems drawn to darker topics such as crime and death. He’s set to keep that track record going, having scribbled the script for Felony.

Edgerton is also planning to star in the film, which tracks the fallout after a decorated police officer accidentally runs a young cyclist off the road. Turns out the cop had been drinking while celebrating a successful drug bust with his colleagues. But when he decides to lie about the incident, he changes more than his own life.

Matthew Saville is calling the shots on this one, with producers touting the film at the Cannes Film Market, looking to interest foreign buyers. The current plan is to get the cameras cranking this October.

Last seen fighting an alien creature in The Thing, Edgerton is currently at work on Kathryn Bigelow’s Bin Laden pic Zero Dark Thirty. He’ll next take a break from villains and evil for The Odd Life Of Timothy Green and will then be seen in Baz Lurhmann’s new, 3D take on The Great Gatsby.

Jude Law will be brushing up on his safecracking skills soon. No, we’re not trying to insinuate that he’s turning to a life of crime – he’s going to be playing a personable thief in Dom Hemingway, the latest film from The Matador’s Richard Shepard.

Announced as part of the latest wave of movies looking to drum up either financing or buzz at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Dom Hemingway will follow the titular character, a man describe as “a larger than life safecracker with a loose fuse who is also funny, profane and dangerous.”

The plot finds him freshly released from prison, and looking to collect on what he’s owed thanks to him keeping schtum about what he knew on his last job. Richard E Grant is also among the cast, though we don’t yet know what his role will be.

Producer Jeremy Thomas is working with Hanway Films and BBC Films to get the movie made, and Shepard is pencilling in an autumn shoot in the capital.

Law, who last brought Dr Watson back to our screens for Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, already has Joe Wright's Anna Karenina and voice work on DreamWorks’ Rise Of The Guardians under his belt, and is currently filming Steven Soderbergh’s The Bitter Pill.

Following on from April's really rather disturbing David video virals comes team Prometheus' latest online offering in the form of this Noomi Rapace-starring clip we've got for you below.

Showing Dr. Elizabeth Shaw begging Weyland Corp. to take her on her voyage of discovery via a video message, it's not quite as chilling as David's birthday celebrations, but still disturbing in its own flickery way.

Aside from the garbled sound and the general forboding tone, what's really piqued our interest in this clip is the inclusion of the name 'Yutani' in the software used to analyse Shaw's face - as in, the Weyland Yutani.

And yet, at this point in the Alien story, it's just Weyland Corp., so how do Yunati get involved? Only time, and watching Prometheus itself when it comes out in the UK on June 1, will tell.

P.S. Did you notice the nice sight gag when the screen says 'Lisbet' in reference to her starring role in the original Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy? That's right, they're doing meta-jokes now, the clever bastards. 

Following on from April's really rather disturbing David video virals comes team Prometheus' latest online offering in the form of this Noomi Rapace-starring clip we've got for you below.

Showing Dr. Elizabeth Shaw begging Weyland Corp. to take her on her voyage of discovery via a video message, it's not quite as chilling as David's birthday celebrations, but still disturbing in its own flickery way.

Aside from the garbled sound and the general forboding tone, what's really piqued our interest in this clip is the inclusion of the name 'Yutani' in the software used to analyse Shaw's face - as in, the Weyland Yutani.

And yet, at this point in the Alien story, it's just Weyland Corp., so how do Yunati get involved? Only time, and watching Prometheus itself when it comes out in the UK on June 1, will tell.

P.S. Did you notice the nice sight gag when the screen says 'Lisbet' in reference to her starring role in the original Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy? That's right, they're doing meta-jokes now, the clever bastards. 

Following on from April's really rather disturbing David video virals comes team Prometheus' latest online offering in the form of this Noomi Rapace-starring clip we've got for you below.

Showing Dr. Elizabeth Shaw begging Weyland Corp. to take her on her voyage of discovery via a video message, it's not quite as chilling as David's birthday celebrations, but still disturbing in its own flickery way.

Aside from the garbled sound and the general forboding tone, what's really piqued our interest in this clip is the inclusion of the name 'Yutani' in the software used to analyse Shaw's face - as in, the Weyland Yutani.

And yet, at this point in the Alien story, it's just Weyland Corp., so how do Yunati get involved? Only time, and watching Prometheus itself when it comes out in the UK on June 1, will tell.

P.S. Did you notice the nice sight gag when the screen says 'Lisbet' in reference to her starring role in the original Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy? That's right, they're doing meta-jokes now, the clever bastards. 

In the US, some lucky audiences will get the chance to see special Anchorman 2 teaser footage before their screenings of The Dictator – footage already in the can to wet our whistles like three fingers of Glenlivet – while the rest of us will have to wait until it comes online. Still, we can console ourselves with this new poster of the Channel 4 news team.

Sure, it's just Brick, Brian, Champion and Ronald, lined up in a row, shoes staring into the distance, but there's something about it. Something... newsworthy. You know, aside from the fact that a couple of the guys appear on only have one leg.

Ah, that's it – it's the name. It seems that McKay and Ferrell are forgoing the Anchorman 2 tag that the sequel's been dubbed so far, instead calling it Anchorman: The Legend Continues. Something that makes sense, as the original film's full name was, of course, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. 
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And just in case you missed it – not likely, admittedly – here's Mr. Burgundy's announcement on Conan from a few months ago.

For more on Anchorman: The Legend Continues, check out our exclusive interview with director Adam McKay in the current issue.

You are Sony Pictures. You’re planning a film about a legend in the technology industry, a man who was a benevolent god to some and a bête noire to others. You already have Scott Rudin aboard to produce. So what’s the missing piece of the puzzle? Why, Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin, of course!

Since he was first approached in November, Sorkin has spent the time umming, ahhing and being slightly busy crafting new HBO drama The Newsroom. But now he's finally given in to the studio’s romantic overtures and will adapt Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs for the big screen. Sony apparently splashed out $1 million for the rights to the bestseller about Jobs, which is based on interviews with the man himself and others and covers most of his life. There’s no word on what particular chunk Sorkin will focus on, but more importantly, we wonder what this will mean for Joshua Michael Stern’s Jobs. Stern already has Ashton Kutcher attached to star as the young Steve and a good head start on Sony’s project. But you’ve got to think he’ll be looking over his shoulder at the behemoth headed his way.

“Steve Jobs’ story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time,” Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal said in a statement picked up by The Hollywood Reporter. “There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining and polarizing." Now we wonder who will be hired to direct the thing…. And whom do you think will Sony hire as Jobs? Guesses below and on the tweet-stream, folks!