It's here, in glorious Quicktime, and not a moment too soon for a June movie. Head over to Apple to watch it. This trailer is a vast improvement on the first, shades of the television show abounding everywhere. And this is definitely going to be much more action packed than Ang Lee's version. Erik Davis was right on the money in his NYCC report -- read his take on the trailer here.

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Cast Angelina Jolie in your movie, and everything post production becomes that much easier. No one photographs better than this woman -- and certainly no one looks more sexy with a gun.

This new teaser poster comes by way of Ain't It Cool News, where you can get a high-resolution version. I do love the way her tattoo blends into her customized gun. Not even Lara Croft has guns that fancy. The movie could be crap (though Erik Davis liked what he saw of it, AICN's Quint did too), but I do love a stylish action chick. Just because you're an assassin doesn't mean you can't accessorize!

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Bold Films is heading Into Hell. Dominic Morgan and Matthew Harvey have been hired to write the action thriller.

Into Hell revolves around a group of English soccer hooligans who travel to Istanbul for a match. The gang soon finds themselves in over their heads, however, when they get framed for a political assassination.

Producer Ian Carrington, who is producing with Bold's Miche Litvak and David Lancaster, helped develop the project with longtime friend and action star Jason Statham in mind.

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Bloody-Disgusting.com posted a full cast listing for Universal’s upcoming “The Wolfman,” due out April 3, 2009.

Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Art Malik, Rob Dixon, Hugo Weaving, Nicholas Day, Michael Cronin, David Schofield, David Sterne, Roger Frost, Clive Russell and Geraldine Chaplin are set to appear opposite Benicio Del Toro’s Wolfman in the Joe Johnston directed film.

The production is currently filming in London and will follow the same plot as the original.

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But now the big question still remains: Will he get to take his shirt off? According to Entertainment Weekly, Matthew McConaughey was offered the leading role of Thomas Magnum in Universal Pictures' adaptation of Magnum P.I. In fact, right this very second (and possibly shirtless) McConaughey is said to be reading over the script from writer-director Rawson Thurber (Dodgeball); trying to decide whether or not he'd be a good fit. For those youngsters in the crowd, Magnum P.I. was a boss '80s TV show about a Navy Seal-turned-detective who liked Hawaiian shirts and big, porn mustaches.

This isn't the first we've heard of McConaughey and Magnum P.I. All the way back in January of 2007, he was rumored to be up for the part -- a role that, at one point, was going to Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Vince Vaughn. And ... what about Tom Selleck? Will he get to play a part? Probably not. Back in 2006 (oh yes, this project has been lingering in the halls of Hollywood detention for quite some time), Selleck called the movie idea "stupid" and said he'd take no part in it. Heck yeah, Tom! Tell it like it is. But if they were to move ahead on this, I like McConaughey out of everyone. Keep in mind, they'll update it to a point where the only traces from the old TV show come in character names and cheesy Hawaiian shirts.

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Universal has picked up the nonfiction story First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong and will translate it into a film about the first person to set foot on the moon.

Variety reported that NASA historian James R. Hansen got rare direct access to Armstrong, a test pilot-turned-astronaut who was so driven to reach the moon and play the role of American hero that he became known as "the Ice Commander."

No production date has been set.

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Michelle Rodriguez is set to reprise her role of Letty in Universal Pictures' The Fast and the Furious 4. Also returning for the fourth film are first installment cast members Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster.

According to Universal Pictures, in the anticipated film The Fast and the Furious 4, Brian (Walker) and Dominic (Diesel) team up to help the feds stop a heroin importer known as Braga. Brian - and ultimately Dominic - wins a place on the criminal's team, where he and his flashy Nissan plan to catch the man red-handed.

Rodriguez's credits include Girlfight, Resident Evil, ABC's Lost, and James Cameron's upcoming Avatar.

The Fast and the Furious 4 hits theaters on June 5, 2009.

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Judd Apatow is ready to begin production on his latest comedy for Universal Pictures titled Five-Year Engagement. According to Variety, Nick Stoller has signed on to direct the comedy, which reunites him with Forgetting Sarah Marshall co-writer and actor Jason Segel.

Five-Year Engagement is a comedy that charts the five-year engagement of a man (Segel) and his fiancee, following the ups and downs of their relationship. "It's definitely an extension of our desire to explore the depth of human misery," Stoller said. "If Sarah Marshall (played by Kristen Bell) and Jason's character had stayed together, this might be the sequel."

Universal Pictures has not announced when production for Five-Year Engagement is scheduled to begin.

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Universal and Relativity Capital have partnered in a deal that will see Relativity co-finance a significant chunk of the studio's slate during the next four years.

Relativity will co-finance about 75% of Universal's releases during a term that runs until 2011, a deal that could encompass close to 45 films and involve a fund of about $500 million.

The deal includes all the studios' titles, including Working Title and Imagine Entertainment projects, and operates similarly to the one Relativity inked with Sony in January 2007. It excludes Focus Features titles.

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Universal has just sent us a big batch of new images from Neil Marshall’s pseudo-Road Warrior movie Doomsday, starring Rhona Mitra, the new fake Kate Beckinsale. Despite all of its similarities to better known things, the movie actually looks good. Here’s a quick plot synopsis, then click on the images below it to see them in high-res:

Plot: In Doomsday Authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades--until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare. Look for it in theaters March 14th.

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David Wenham and Stephen Graham have joined the cast of Universal's Public Enemies, Michael Mann's gangster film starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, says The Hollywood Reporter.

An adaptation of Brian Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43," the film centers on the government's attempt to stop John Dillinger and his gang. Depp is playing Dillinger to Bale's famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis.

Wenham is playing Pete Pierpont, a member of Dillinger's crew who has a violent hostility to all authority. British actor Graham will portray Baby Face Nelson.

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The cast of the Universal Pictures film Duplicity starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen has gotten bigger. Both Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson have joined the project. According to Variety, Duplicity was written and will be directed by Tony Gilroy.

The story is about rival pharmaceutical company CEO's (Thornton and Wilkinson) racing to corner the market on a clever idea that will earn enormous amounts of cash. Roberts and Owen will play the spies trying to get a win for their company.

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Universal has sent the first photo from the new comedy Baby Mama, which stars Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, and Sigourney Weaver. Writer turned director Michael McCullers’ (Austin Powers 2 and 3) feature film debut tells the story of “two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives...

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Universal Pictures just released their publicity kit for 2008 and included were the first two official stills from The Incredible Hulk, offering us our first look at Edward Norton as Bruce Banner...

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Edward Norton is exiting “State of Play,” and talks are under way for Ben Affleck to replace him in the Kevin Macdonald-directed drama for Universal Pictures and Working Title.

"State of Play" is expected to begin production in the first week of January...

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