USA Today has released a batch of new photos from the next James Bond film Quantum of Solace. The new stills feature a bunch of action and give us our first look at one of the new Bond Girls - Olga Kurylenko who plays a half-Russian, half-Bolivian rogue agent named Camiille, and new nemesis Dominic Greene, played by Mathieu Almaric (Munich), a jet-setting CEO and member of the Quanrum organization (from Casino Royale) who plans to take over the world’s water supply. Check out the new photos below. The USA Today article is worth checking out, here are a few highlights:
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When applicable, IMDB should include an “Actress: Theatrical” entry for porn stars. Sony Pictures has enthusiastically announced that Jenna Jameson (Private Parts) will once again be sliding down America’s luxurious cineplex flagpole, this time in the grindhouse-y Zombie Strippers alongside Robert Englund. On April 18th, the direct-to-DVD flick will play in numerous select American cities and we have the [insert porn pun] listing below.
If you haven’t seen the trailer or the poster we have those too. You know what? Maybe it’s a case of expectations limbo, but the Zombie Strippers trailer is superior to the Lost Boys: The Tribe trailer. That is just depressing.
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Eleven new photos from Peter Berg’s superhero comedy Hancock have hit the web. Found on DVD-Forum (via: Rejects), these new photo show down and out superhero Hancock (played by Will Smith) in action. We also get a look at his love interest (played by Charlize Theron). The catch is that Theron plays the wife of the public relations professional (played by Jason Bateman) who’s trying to repair his image. As Always, click to enlarge. Ten more after the jump.

Right around when Adam Sandler’s hair goes from ‘fro to flaming in the latest trailer for his summer hairdresser bomb-edy You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, I started to cringe as if locked inside a salon/prison. When the sight of Sandler quietly handling guns makes you wax nostalgic for his flop Bulletproof for its entire duration, something is wrong. The parts here with the great Shelley Berman do the trick, but then I started remembering what funny is and funny is Mr. Berman on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lastly, is there really room in this mixed-up world for Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno (2008) and Sandler’s Zohan?
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Troy Duffy has a big announcement for St. Patrick’s Day: Boondock Saints 2 might be happening after all. According to Duffy, Sony Picture Studios has greenlit The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day, and the original cast (with the exception of Willem Dafoe) are excited to return. Duffy claims that the film will begin shooting Summer 2008. He made the announcement in a video posted on his YouTube account earlier today (thanks to /Film reader IronMonger for sending this in). The video was quickly removed from the video sharing site, but can be seen below.
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Judd Apatow’s directorial follow-up to Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin has announced its principal cast:
Adam Sandler
Seth Rogen
Leslie Mann
Apatow is the sole writer of this project, and details are being kept under wraps. Apatow might make an appearance at SXSW tomorrow for the premiere of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and if that happens, I would expect some details to be revealed. The yet-to-be-titled movie will begin production in late Summer or early Fall, and is a co-production of Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Discuss: Since we have no idea what this movie could be about, using the cast listing, what do you think the film’s plot may be about?

Yahoo UK has a ten minute preview of Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who.

Late breaking news from the floor of WonderCon in San Francisco. The convention program features an interesting tease that features the classic Ghostbusters logo and “something exciting is coming to the neighborhood!” “Look for the big announcement at Comic Con San Diego 2008″.
Could this be an announcement regarding the upcoming Ghostbusters video game? Probably not. The cat has already been let out of the bag regarding the franchise’s video game plans. Besides, on further inspection, you will notice a “Sony Pictures Home Entertainment” logo. The video game is being produced under an entirely different entity. So what could this be about?
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If true, this is a bad move. PR Insider reports that Sylvester Stallone is in negotiations with Sony Pictures to revise his character Cliffhanger, er, Gabe Walker, in a sequel to 1993’s Cliffhanger, which grossed $84 million domestically and $200 million plus worldwide. The sequel will be entitled The Dam, which automatically makes me think of the “surefire” pitch that became 1996’s megaflop Daylight: Stallone versus dam tunnel. And, I’m so sure, there are challenging cliffs to hang from on a dam.
“There’s only one man for this job.” - Guy in Hard Hat with Walkie Talkie
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AICN received a tip today claiming that Al Pacino has already been cast as one of the villains in the next James Bond opus, Quantum of Solace. Now this info is not confirmed and is strictly rumor, but if true, Pacino certainly gives the new school Bond an old school kick. Here’s what the tipster says…
“But the big news that he leaked was that Al Pacino would be taking part in filming. I was a little shocked as the cast has been revealed aready, but he said Pacino would play the head of the terrorist group introduced in CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE. Al is said to come [...]

007.com has converted the Quantum of Solace Teaser Poster into desktop  wallpaper. Bond fanatics, commence skinning of computer desktop… now.

A random news symbiote has infested the Nets today and, as Ned Ryerson would squeal, “it’s a doozy.” IESB reports that Marvel Studios is prepping a Venom spin-off and has already met with “several A-list writers.” Before you fire off the sirens to alert the strikers, you may recall that a bit ago Marvel cut a deal with the WGA. Apparently the superhero studio has retained the rights to the character, as he/it previously appeared last summer in Sony’s wobbly webbing cake that was Spider-Man 3, in the human form of Eddie Brock, played by actor Topher Grace. No word if Grace is still attached, and no word about Sam [...]

The first photos of Will Smith’s costume from this summer’s superhero-pastiche Hancock are here for your eyes. Personally, the trailer for Peter Berg’s film caught my attention in the first place because the character was shown duking it out in mid-air out against highway signs wearing his signature rumpled street clothes. The new garb resembles a futuristic-biker’s, especially with the majestic bird on the back. That’s not a criticism, though. You know, I can’t pin it down, but this costume reminds me of one in another film, possibly from the ’80s. Anyone care to fill in my memory on this happy Monday?

Last November’s trailer for director Stephen Chow’s $20 million extraterrestrial critter film CJ7 succeeded in drawing comparisons to E.T., and smartly kept its titularcritter tucked inside a UFO while a hyperactive kid acted a fool. Today, JoBlo got a hold of the first alien “pet” pics from the subtitled kids’ film set for release on March 8 in North America. My first impression is that it looks like a Maltese show dog bred with a fancy Chia Pet, but who knows, maybe that’s what was seen flying over Texas. Here’s the plot synopsis…
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From Iron Man to early man, Jon Favreau’s next directorial project is a fantastic leap in subject matter comparable to the 2001 bone toss. Fav tells MTV that he’s revving up to start on Neanderthals, an ambitious-sounding motion-capture animated film parked at Sony Pictures that will not borrow its visual cues from Robert Zemeckis’ lifelike mo-cap flicks Beowulf and The Polar Express.
“Mo-cap is a misleading term because the animation won’t resemble the animation of ‘Polar Express’ or ‘Monster House.’ That was very lifelike,” he asserted. “This will be comedic and stylized. The animation will appear more like a traditional animated [...]