The teaser poster for Conan has appeared online. The movie is based on Robert E. Howard’s mythical conqueror Conan the Barbarian and will be more faithful to the source material than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films.

Here is the poster for upcoming Tekken. The movie is based on the well known fighting game which has made millions worldwide and has spawned 6 sequels.

Tekken is due for release in 2009.

I have come to realise that most films with Peter Jackson involved have problems of some sort. There is the ‘will Jackson sort things out with New Line and direct The Hobbit’ and more recently ‘Ryan Reynolds is replaced by Mark Wahlberg days before filming of The Loverly Bones‘ and something that has been around throughout all of them was whether Halo would ever be brought onto the big screen.

A ‘n00b’ director was hired, who goes by the name of Neill Blomkamp, Jackson’s WETA started work on the project and everything was good to go…until Universal and FOX pulled out last minute. The main reason was money. If Halo was going to be as good as it deserved the budget needed to be rather high, and they were not willing to risk that amount of money on a fairly new director, even if he had Peter Jackson’s backing. So time passed, Halo 3 was released to the gaming world and made $300 million in one week. However, Neill Blomkamp recently declared the project ‘dead’ and said it had been for some time.

However, according to Peter Jackson’s representative Ken Kamins, Microsoft is currently in talks with other studio’s, and WETA are still working on the pre-production. He also commented on how the creative team will stay the same.

“Everybody is supremely confident in Neal,” Kamins said. “Part of what excited Peter and Fran was Neal’s vision. We’re very confident this film will move forward with the creative partners intact, who will take the film to production.”

I have every confidence that Peter Jackson, along with Walsh and Blomkamp, can make a great movie. They just need a movie studio that has confidence, or a bit of common sense.

With writers expected to be striking as early as Thursday, studios are frantically trying to get scripts complete before they start filming. If they do strike then there will be nobody to do re-writes during filming. It is well known that most scripts change daily while filming is in progress, whether its because things don’t seem right when the actors perform, or they may get a new idea for the ending such as Jean Grey’s sacrifice in X-Men 2.

Last week Paul Haggis delivered his script in to Columbia for Bond 22, hopefully he has given that script a title so we can stop calling it ‘Bond 22′.

Meanwhile The Hollywood Reporter has published an article with information regarding the script for X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which is being penned by James Vanderbilt (”Zodiac”), and “The Fast and the Furious 4″ by Chris Morgan are among dozens of scripts that are being flipped, a process that actually is uniting execs and scribes in one goal: to get a script that is filmable.

I’ve lost count how many writers Wolverine has had, but no doubt they are changing things for the better.

We finally get a glimpse of upcoming movie, Wanted. The images look rather cool, nothing that gives away the plot, but we get a look at some of the characters. The film stars Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman.

For more head over to Empire

The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency have announced that Harry Gregson-Williams will compose the score for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The Hugh Jackman film will begin filming within the next new months in Australia.

Harry Gregson-Williams has composed movies such as Gone Baby Gone, Shrek the Third and will also be scoring The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, as well as G-Force, which is expected to be released the same date as Wolverine on May 1, 2009.

Even though she won a Razzie for Worst Actress, the critics hated it and not that many people liked it, Halle is still considering another whip at Catwoman. While at the premier for her latest film, Things We Lost in the Fire, she spoke about the discussions she had been having with director Susanne Bier.

‘She’d do a lot better job of it than the last time round,’

I probably agree with that statement, I mean Pitof hasn’t done anything to prove he is a good director. The fact that 15+ writers all had their input on the script didn’t improve things either. Susanne Bier also had a say.

‘It’s true we would like to work together again and I did suggest Catwoman to her. It would be very different, more feminist, but I think we could pull it off, so don’t count it out.’

I don’t really know what to make of this because on one hand people are saying Halle Berry is finally returning to ‘real acting’ after winning her Oscar in 2002. After the win she has been doing highly paid ‘popcorn’ movies like X-Men, Die Another Day and Catwoman. Shouldn’t she be looking forward to bigger and better projects, rather than going back to one of her worst movies? Maybe she doesn’t like mistakes and wants to go back and try to amend things? Who knows? But Bier is a great director, award winning in fact, so if things were to work out the movie might not be so bad. Well in all honesty it wouldn’t take much to improve on the 2002 effort.

If Christopher Nolan isn’t planning on having Catwoman in the Batman Trilogy then Berry having a second attempt probably wont do any harm, if things were done properly. However, I do think Nolan would do the character justice she deserves.

According to The Hollywood Reporter and Obsessed With Film, Daniel Craig is contracted for four more Bond films. MGM chairman and CEO Harry Sloan added that franchises are “the base of any studio”. Which in other terms means they make them the most money. Adding more films to the Bond franchise is a good move, especially with Daniel Craig playing the lead.

Casino Royal gave the franchise a much needed jolt, I mean Die Another Day wasn’t bad, it was just that they thought they needed to top the previous film in terms of gadgets, action and effects, but it just made things a lot more unbelievable. Invisible car? Surfing a huge wave of ice?

If Daniel does complete all the films in his contract he will be one behind Sean Connery and two behind Roger Moore, and will probably make him ‘the’ James Bond for a whole new generation. No doubt the franchise will need another jolt in 7 years time, maybe we will get a 3D view of that iconic gun barrel, but until then we can just wait and hopefully, enjoy.

According to SHH the trailer for Angelina Jolie’s Wanted will debut next week, attached to American Gangster.

Wanted stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Common, Kristen Hager, Konstantin Khabensky and Terence Stamp and is based on Mark Millar’s graphic novel series. The film evolves around a young man (James McAvoy) who finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (Morgan Freeman) to follow in his dad’s footsteps.