Mickey Rourke looks pissed off…
Jon Favreau promised it on Twitter all day and now it has arrived: the new Iron Man 2 character poster, featuring Mickey Rourke as Whiplash is online.
Mr Whippy - or Ivan Vanko as he likely prefers to be known - is, of course, the Russian nasty with a serious family grudge against Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). You can see he's just a little bit obsessed with the man thanks to that serial killer-style gallery lurking behind him.
Meanwhile, Iron Man 2 appears to be trying to get into a little viral marketing action, with Superhero Hype receiving an image clue that we just bet will combine with others to form a message...
And to get lots more on Iron Man 2, don't forget to check out the latest issue of Empire, featuring our exclusive first look crammed with pictures.
Abrams Says Let The Great World Spin
Developing a new book adaptation
You might think JJ Abrams had enough to do with the various producing projects he's taken on, not to mention overseeing development of the Star Trek sequel. But apparently sleep is something that happens to other people, since he's also busy buying the rights to adapt Colum McCann's novel Let The Great World Spin.
The book - which nabbed the National Book Award in the US - is a sprawling period piece about various characters struggling through '70s New York.
And it's built around Philippe Petit's real-life 1974 high wire act that saw him tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, as seen in ace documentary Man On Wire.
Abrams will produce any eventual film, with McCann drafted in to write the screenplay. He'll need to condense a load of storylines, including a young Irish monk living among prostitutes, a group of mothers mourning their sons who died in Vietnam, and a 38-year-old grandmother walking the streets with her teenage daughter.
It doesn't sound like the usual sort of geek-friendly material that Abrams has become known for, but then he's been spreading his net a little further these days...
Cats & Dogs 2 Trailer Online
The Revenge Of Kitty Galore. No, really
In the words of the venerable Dr Peter Venkman, "dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!" Well, maybe not - but the idea of canines and felines having to briefly put aside their ages-old conflict and work together is the crux of the sequel to 2001's Cats & Dogs, which has released its first full trailer.
Yes, it really has been eight years (and it'll be nine once the movie arrives next summer) since Warners released the first film and, unusually, the studio has not chosen to shove the sequel straight to DVD. We credit the incredible drawing power of human star Chris O'Donnell.
Fans of the original should be right at home with this new outing, promising more easy gags about dog and cat behaviour and a new villain - Kitty Galore - who unites the species when she sets about troubling them both.
There's no solid listing of the voice talents behind the critters this time, though the likes of O'Donnell and Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Jack McBrayer number among the biped
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