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    • The final 'Twilight' film is leading the nominations for this year's Razzie awards, boasting a nomination in every single category.

      'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II' has, thanks to the inclusion of the 'worst screen couple' category, managed to score 11 nods in 10 categories.

      Twilight... receives the dubious honour of getting the most Razzie nominations (Copyright: Summit)

      Both Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson appear alongside co-stars Taylor Lautner and Mackenzie Foy in that particular category.

      Often game actors turn up to collect their awards at the alternative Oscars, which celebrate the worst films of the year, but it's not known whether any of the film's stars will pitching up.

      Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg's 'That's My Boy' also did well for nominations, scooping eight, while 'Battleship' hauled in a healthy seven.

      Meanwhile, Tyler Perry managed to get nominated in both the worst actor and worst actress categories for his cross-dressing role of Madea in 'Madea's Witness Protection'.

      The Golden Raspberry Awards take place on February 23, the day before the

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    • Yahoo! Movies has exclusively nabbed a rather lovely new poster for animation epic, umm, ‘Epic’ . Have a look.

      Click the image for the big version (Credit: 20th Century Fox)

      Based on the book ‘The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs’ by William Joyce, it sees Amanda Seyfried voice to Mary, a teenage girl transported to a secret forest kingdom and doing battle with the forces of evil. The barmy vocal cast also includes Christoph Waltz, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Steven Tyler, Beyoncé Knowles and Pitbull.

      It’s clear director Chris Wedge, who also helmed ‘Ice Age’ and ‘Robots’, has some high aspirations for the film. He said: "I hate to associate it with other movies [but] it is adventure on the scale of ‘Star Wars’. And it does immerse the audience completely in a world like ‘Avatar’. But it has its own personality.” No pressure then!

      ‘Epic’ is released in the UK on 24 May 2013. Watch the trailer below.

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    • And the Oscar for the best title of the year goes to… ‘Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters’.

      How could you not want be intrigued by high-octane action film that sees the titular fairy tale heroes, played by (obviously) Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, killing witches with crossbows? We are...

      Anyway, we’ve nabbed one of those newfangled motion posters for the film. Enjoy!

      ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’ is released in the UK on 22 February 2013.

    • You might not want to hear this, but the loveable critters that emerge from Disney’s dream factory are not made of magic and fairy dust, but are the products of a rigorous studio machine.

      During production of Disney and Pixar ‘toons, hundreds of concept artists, storyboarders, script editors and animation gurus work for years to hash out the look and feel of characters that, they hope, we’ll fall in love with.

      They don’t usually get it right first time.

      [Related story: Teaser artwork released for new Pixar projects]
      [Related story: Disney buys Star Wars studio and announces Episode 7]

      Take, for example, the foxy Robin Hood in the somewhat derided 1973 film of the same name. In these superb early sketches by animator Ken Anderson, Robin is much cuter and younger-looking than the finished product, thanks to a longer nose and differently-proportioned body.
      The creation of a character... Robin Hood's evolution (Credit: Disney)
      Fellow artist Mitt Kahl stepped in and totally changed the character into an older, more swashbuckling outlaw. The nose itself went

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    • A raft of new 'Star Trek Into Darkness' pictures have been unveiled.

      The new images show various members of the cast of director JJ Abrams' hotly-anticipated sequel in all manner of action poses, including a rather alarmed-looking Simon Pegg, who reprises his role of Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott.

      [Related story: JJ Abrams screens new Star Trek film for terminally ill fan]

      Pegg... unable to get his voicemail. Nightmare (Copyright: Paramount)

      There's also snaps of Chris Pine's Captain James T. Kirk, Alice Eve's Dr. Carol Marcus, Zoe Saldana's Nyota Uhuru and Zachary Quinto as Mr Spock.

      Pine... with Alice Eve's Dr. Carol Marcus (Copyright: Paramount)

      Phasers... at dawn (Copyright: Paramount)

      Spock.... 'Can you smell that? Like a burning kind of smell?' (Copyright: Paramount)

      Saldana... in action as Uhuru (Copyright: Paramount)

      Meanwhile, there are further shots of the film's new villain, Benedict Cumberbatch, who is playing the mysterious 'John Harrison'.

      Locked up... 'John Harrison' in space jail (Copyright: Paramount)

      Harrison... You know, there's a door right there (Copyright: Paramount)

      Cumberbatch... looks really quite cross (Copyright: Paramount)

      In addition, there's also a picture of what looks like a pow-wow between Pine's Kirk and Bruce Greenwood, who plays Admiral Christopher Pike.

      Pine... with veteran Bruce Greenwood as Admiral Christopher Pike (Copyright: Paramount)

      The pictures emerge after news that Abrams, who is notoriously secretive over his plots, gave a terminally ill 'Star Trek' fan a secret screening of the film despite it being unfinished.

      It doesn't

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