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The much anticipated first trailer for the third "Twilight" feature 'Eclipse' has gone online in full. The usual staples are here - Jacob sounding like a dangerous stalker, Edward looking pined, Bella being indecisive - so much repressed sexual angst and no-one has even broken a hymen yet.

Better are the other elements. Director David Slade's visual touch is more eye-catching than the other two films - there's that slightly ethereal feel in the early shots missing from the all too plain-spoken "New Moon", but without the rather obvious blue-tint effect of the first film. Certainly there's a lot more beauty shots of the Pacific Northwest.

Bryce Dallas Howard's brief river jumping wire-trick shot as Victoria is really the closest thing this preview has to a payoff, aside from maybe Taylor Lautner's shirtless action (good news boy and girls, he's now legal). Anyway you can make up your own mind below or in HD over on Yahoo:

A great new billboard for "Tron Legacy" has been sent along by Disney Pictures and can be viewed here, while the monorail at Disney World in Florida will get a "Tron" makeover later this month, pics can be found here.

"Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has been tapped to voice Brainy Smurf in the 3D hybrid live-action/CG animation feature film adaptation of "The Smurfs"..." ( full details)

"Last March Summit's "Knowing" drew massive criticism for its ridiculous ending. A year on, critics have begun spoiling the 'surprise ending' of Summit's new Robert Pattinson movie "Remember Me" due out tomorrow and the reveal sounds it is going to get a similar skewering..." ( full details)

"Richard Jenkins and Bruce Thomas have recently joined the Farrelly brothers new comedy "Hall Pass" for New Line Cinema. Jenkins will play a man who never found the right woman, Thomas will play a baseball player..." ( full details)

"John Hodge ("Trainspotting") has been hired to pen the script for Guy Ritchie's King Arthur-take "Excalibur" at Atlas Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures. Thomas Mallory's 1485 compilation "Le Morte d'Arthur" will be used as the key source material..." ( full details)

"So why did Disney decided to re-title their animated "Rapunzel" feature to "Tangled"? Apparently to make the project more boy-friendly after young boys avoided "The Princess and the Frog"..." ( full details)

""Avatar" actor Stephen Lang has confirmed last week's report that he will play the villain Khalar Singh in director Marcus Nispel's "Conan"..." ( full details)

"Ja Rule has signed on to star in Steve Race's “I’m In Love With A Church Girl” for Reverence Gospel Media. The rapper plays a former dealer gone clean who continues to hang out with his old friends and associates. Meeting the girl of his dreams (Adrienne Bailon), he must decide whether to return to his criminal roots. Filming kicks off May 10th in San Joe..." ( full details)

"How much do people like Scorsese movies? A man who complained about a woman talking on her cellphone during a "Shutter Island" screening found himself stabbed in the throat with a meat thermometer by the woman's date..." ( full details)

"Quentin Tarantino is being sued for more than a million dollars by a man who claims the Oscar-winning film-maker's martial arts-themed double feature Kill Bill was partly based on his ideas..." ( full details)

"A contest is out allowing you to design a gruesome kill for the video game "Dead Space 2" and if you win, that kill goes in the game..." ( full details)

"Former 'Variety' writer Anne Thompson has penned an interesting piece on the letting go of Todd McCarthy as a full time critic and the main reason to read Variety..." ( full details)

In a surprising move, 20th Century Fox has pushed back Oliver Stone's anticipated sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" several months from its scheduled April 23rd bow to an early Fall opening on September 24th.

According to Screen Daily, the move gives Stone time to polish the film (he's expected to trim it a little more) and allows for a gala screening of the movie at the Cannes Film Festival in May and possibly a North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

One of the other big reasons though is one that we'll likely hear several other films use in coming weeks - avoidance of clashing with the FIFA World Cup in South Africa which runs from June 11th to July 11th.

The event means many international Summer release schedules have already been locked down tight. Thus, had the film begun its international rollout after Cannes, it would've likely hurt the box-office in territories where the football/soccer is expected to have a major negative impact on cinema ticket sales.

In the much quieter September slot, I'm guessing the film has more of a chance of getting a day-and-date release in many global markets.

Clint Eastwood has set "Hoover", the Dustin Lance Black-penned biopic about former FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, as his next project says The Hollywood Reporter.

Initially setup at Universal, the project is currently without a studio. With Eastwood coming onboard as director though, it'll likely go to Warner Bros. Pictures where his Malpaso production company is set up.

The story will follow the career of Hoover from his founding of the F.B.I. in 1935 where he remained as director until his death in 1972. It's expected to be a warts-and-all look at the man from his success efforts in the gangland wars of the 30's, his paranoid concern about "subversives", his links with the Mafia and Freemasons, rumors of him being a deeply repressed gay man, and the often dirty and illegal methods he sanctioned to bring down people and organisations he considered threats.

Brian Grazer is still attached to produce the film which best guess would follow Eastwood's regular pattern of shooting around the end of the year for a late next year release. Eastwood is currently in post-production on "Hereafter" which hits theatres in the Fall.

A couple of important date changes today announced via Box-Office Mojo and press releases.

Alvin and the Chipmunks 3D
20th Century Fox has announced that production has begun on another 'Alvin' film which has been scheduled for a December 16th 2011 release. The date puts the project in direct contention with Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" opening a week later on December 23rd.

Buried
Lionsgate has announced a September 24th release date for the buried alive drama about Ryan Reynolds trapped in a coffin which premiered at Sundance.

The Next Three Days
The Paul Haggis-directed drama about a man (Russell Crowe) seeking to clear his wife's name after she's arrested for murder was originally targeting an early 2011 release, but has now set an official November 19th 2010 release date.

Gary Oldman, Malin Akerman ("Watchmen," "Couples Retreat") and Milo Ventimiglia ("Pathology," TV's "Heroes") will star in the $9 million indie gangster feature "Criminal Empire for Dummys" for Cold Fusion, Sleeping Giant, Gremi Productions and Hollywood Studios International says Variety.

Ventimiglia plays a charismatic young guy who went from a tragic childhood living in the ghetto to his current position as the head of a large multi-national organised crime syndicate. In flashback throughout the film he relates the do's and don'ts of maintaining a criminal empire. Michael Clarke Duncan and Harvey Keitel also star.

Cliff Dorfman, a staff writer on "Entourage" who also penned the upcoming Tom Hardy film "Warrior", will make his feature directorial debut on the film from his own script.

Michael Roban, Dave Brown, Greg Hadjarowicz and Paul Schiff will produce. Shooting kicks off late March in New Orleans.

Steve Martin is in negotiations to join the comedy ensemble "The Big Year" for Fox 2000 says The Hollywood Reporter.

Howard Franklin will adapt Mark Obmascik's 1998 novel about three avid bird-watchers trying to one-up each other in a competition to find the rarest birds in North America while each faces their own personal challenge.

Owen Wilson and Jack Black are already set to play two of the three with Martin in talks for the third, a role Dustin Hoffman had previously been linked to.

David Frankel ("Marley & Me," "The Devil Wears Prada") will direct with shooting to kick off this May in Canada. Karen Rosenfelt, Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Curtis Hanson and Carol Fenelon will produce.

Walt Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have announced plans to release its epic action-adventure "Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time" in IMAX theatres across the globe to coincide with the film's day-and-date worldwide release on May 28th 2010.

The film's limited international IMAX release will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of the larger screen format. The project will be the sixth feature of the Summer season currently set to score a IMAX release in at least some territories. Others presently listed on the IMAX website include "Iron Man 2," "Shrek Forever After," "Toy Story 3," "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" and "Inception".

Finally, UGO has released the last domestic one-sheet for the project:

Gary Fleder ("Kiss the Girls," "Runaway Jury") is set to direct "Protection" for 20th Century Fox and Davis Entertainment reports Variety.

The story focuses on a college professor investigating the disappearance of his wife and daughter and "must confront authorities at the Witness Protection Program to find them."

Mark Bomback ("Unstoppable") is rewriting Allan Loeb's script. John Davis will produce.

Producer Adrian Askarieh has sold the Raiders-esque action-adventure treatment "Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever" to Warner Bros. Pictures says Reuters.

The story re-imagines the 15th century Italian genius as a member of a secret society caught up in a supernatural adventure that features Biblical demons, secret codes, lost civilizations, hidden fortresses and fallen angels.

Askarieh's treatment is now out to writers while he, Roy Lee and Doug Davison will produce.

Warner Bros. Pictures is looking into turning another fantasy novel series into a potential franchise - L. Frank Baum's "Oz" novels which inspired cinematic classic "The Wizard of Oz" says The LA Times.

At present the studio is considering two scripts, one from Darren Lemke ("Shrek Forever After") which Temple Hill ("Twilight") are behind, the other a darker take by Josh Olson ("A History of Violence") and Thunder Road Pictures ("Clash of the Titans") which "Spawn" creator Todd MacFarlane is producing.

Either version would likely follow Baum's books more closely than the classic 1939 film which took quite a few liberties such as the ruby slippers (in the books they are silver) and numerous character changes. While Baum's books are in the public domain, certain elements of the 1939 film are still copyright to MGM such as the ruby slippers and the title "The Wizard of Oz".

If it works, it could give the studio a major franchise to exploit as Baum wrote fourteen books set in Oz. There have been numerous other adaptations of the Oz works, most notably 1985's "Return to Oz", the 1986 anime TV series which adapted four books in the series, a rejected 2002 Mick Garris-directed TV pilot starring Melissa George, the 2007 "Tin Man" mini-series on the Sci-Fi Channel, and the musicals "The Wiz" and the more recent smash hit "Wicked".

The new version would be a tentpole feature that will be done in 3D.

In his first interview in quite some time, "The Dark Knight" director Chris Nolan has finally gone on the record about the state of the Superman and Batman franchises in a lengthy piece for The Los Angeles Times.

The full interview isn't even on the site, it's only available in the print edition. For those who don't have access or time though lets cut to the chase and get the important information:

Batman 3

Jonathan Nolan is working on the script at present - "My brother is writing a script for me and we’ll wait to see how it turns out...he’s struggling to put it together into the epic story that you want it to be.”

Though he won't confirm if he will direct, the main appeal for Nolan to return is to give his creation an ending, making his work unfold in the classic film trilogy mold: "Batman Begins" (re)introducing the characters, "The Dark Knight" taking our protagonist and Gotham City to the brink, and a third one essentially resolving everything.

"Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story and in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story” says Nolan who won't even hint at the villain beyond one possibility - "it won't be Mr. Freeze".

Don't expect Bruce Wayne to just continue on in Gotham either it seems, Nolan says he's "very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters... viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling and it hearkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories."

Superman

“It’s very exciting, we have a fantastic story and we feel we can do it right. We know the milieu, if you will, we know the genre and how to get it done right” says Nolan.

Unlike Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" which owed a lot to Richard Donner's vision of the character in the earlier movies, Nolan's plans will take their own approach.

That approach actually came from writer David Goyer who is penning the script. Goyer told his idea to Nolan who said "I immediately got it, loved it and thought: That is a way of approaching the story I’ve never seen before that makes it incredibly exciting."

Off-handedly he shoots down rumors of his involvement in a "Justice League" movie as he believes his Superman will exist in a different world to that of his Batman - "Each serves to the internal logic of the story. They have nothing to do with each other."

He also shoots down reports of his brother helming the film, saying he has no idea who will direct the project but his involvement will be akin to Peter Jackson's hands-on producing roles on Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" and Guillermo del Toro's "The Hobbit".

For the full interview, click here.

Actor Corey Haim ("The Lost Boys") has died at the age of 38 early Wednesday morning reports Towleroad.

The LAPD said Haim was taken from his mother's apartment in Oakwood to a Burbank hospital, where he was pronounced dead at about 3:30 a.m from an apparent accidental drug overdose. An autopsy is forthcoming to determine an official cause of death.

Haim shot to fame as a teen heartthrob in the late 80's with fellow star Corey Feldman in several hit films including "The Lost Boys," "License to Drive," "Dream a Little Dream" and "Lucas". The actor has struggled with drug addiction since his career sadly didn't continue its momentum in the 90's.

To his family, friends and fans - our sincerest condolences go out to you.

At a recent press conference, Liev Schreiber told io9 that Hugh Jackman has just finished reading a first draft of the script for the "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" sequel.

Jackman however wasn't forthcoming about how much Schreiber's character Victor 'Sabretooth' Creed is involved though. "It's still not clear whether or not Victor will be present in the Japan storyline. In the Japan storyline as I remember it from the Wolverine comics, Victor wasn't there. So I don't know" said the actor.

Speaking of sequels, Bloody Disgusting reports that Sacha Baron Cohen and Jemaine Clement ("Flight of the Conchords") are being tipped for the same role of 'Yaz' in a third "Men in Black" film.

Etan Cohen ("Idiocracy," "Tropic Thunder") is apparently penning the project for Sony Pictures and Josh Brolin is still being loosely talked about as a potential co-star, but the film's fate will depend almost entirely upon Will Smith's interest and schedule.

Finally in 'pseudo-sequel' news, the upcoming video game "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier" is getting a little help from this year's Oscar-winning short filmmakers Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy ("Logorama").

Heat Vision reports that the pair will direct a $10 million, 20-minute live-action short film penned by Tim Sexton ("Children of Men") that serves as a prequel to the game. No word on a release date as yet.

Some recent dates changes with thanks to EW and Box-Office Mojo.

Harry Brown
The Michael Caine-led vigilante movie about an old ex-officer teaching some British estate kids the true meaning of violent repercussions is getting a US limited release on April 30th.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead
The very low-budget indie comedy has been pushed back a month from April 16th to May 21st.

Holy Rollers
The Jesse Eisenberg-led Sundance drama has announced a May 21st limited release through First Independent Pictures.

Mars Needs Moms
Disney has set a March 11th 2011 release date for the Robert Zemeckis-produced 3D motion capture project that Simon Wells is directing.

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (in 3D)
Paramount has confirmed a December 23rd 2011 release date for Steven Spielberg's mo-cap adaptation of the Herge books. Paramount and Sony Pictures are expected to release the film internationally in October and November.

Lost
Nestor Carbonell says that the ninth and fifteenth episode of the currently airing final season will be the episodes that answer almost all the remaining mysteries of the series says Digital Spy.

Those episodes will air March 23rd and May 4th respectively.

Wilde Kingdom
"Felicity" star Keri Russell is returning to TV as she's in negotiations to join this comedy at Fox from the makers of "Arrested Development" says The Hollywood Reporter.

Will Arnett stars as a snobbish Beverly Hills prick who falls for a kind, charitable environmentalist (Russell) who hates men like him.

The Big C
"Precious" star Gabourey Sidibe has signed on as a recurring guest star in Showtime's dark comedy about a repressed suburban wife and mother (Laura Linney) who reclaims her life after a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Sidibe will play a smart-alecky student in her class says The TV Realist. Filming on the thirteen episode first season kicks off in May.

Futurama
At last its back in proper episodic form. The first twelve episodes from the all new season will begin airing on Comedy Central in June says the network.

Summit Entertainment will release the very first trailer for "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" online on Thursday morning the distributor said in a press release.

The 90-second trailer is being kept tightly under wraps and will debut at 6am US-PST, 9am US-EST, 2pm UK-GMT, and 1am on Friday Australian-EST.

A ten-second excerpt from the trailer has just hit online below and contains the two things "Twilight" fans love - Edward whispering sweet nothings, and Jacob shirtless.

The trailer itself can be seen in theaters in front of "Remember Me" opening on Friday.

Out doing press for "Repo Men", actor Jude Law tells Coming Soon that we can expect the "Sherlock Holmes" sequel with relative speed.

"I think we are probably going to make another one. I haven't been given the absolute... it's not like next week but I think it's sometime this year is what I get" said Law who seemingly had a ball doing the first one..

Law also talked about his role in Steven Soderbergh's pandemic thriller "Contagion". The actor says the film looks at a worldwide infection from the perspective of all sorts of different people, and he plays "someone online, a blogger, who is kind of a fearmonger".

He adds that his role in the ensemble only requires ten days of shooting, likely in San Francisco, which he'll do at the end of the year.

Following on from "A History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises", Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg will re-team for a third time on "The Talking Cure" says Deadline Hollywood.

Based on the play by Christopher Hampton, the story revolves around famed psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), his relationship with a young Russian girl (Keira Knightley) driven mad by her past, and Jung's esteemed mentor and father of modern psychology Sigmund Freud (Mortensen).

Mortensen will replace Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz who opted out to star in "Water for Elephants" instead. Filming on 'Cure' kicks off on May 17th.

Walter Salles ("Dark Water," "The Motorcycle Diaries") is in talks to direct the elephant orphanage drama "Our Wild Life" for Mandaly Pictures, New Line and Warner Bros. Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.

The project is based on the life and work of Daphne Sheldrick, who devoted her life to preventing elephant extinction by endeavoring to save baby elephants left orphaned by war, poaching and culling.

Jeff Stockwell wrote the script. The project made headlines last year under its original title "Peaceable Kingdom" when "The Notebook" director Nick Cassavetes departed the project and later began a lawsuit against New Line for after he did a rewrite of the script and claimed he was booted without being paid for the work.

Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman will produce.