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Eight epic new images for ‘Pacific Rim’ have been unveiled, cranking up the hype for Guillermo del Toro’s giant monsters vs. robots clash.

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Described by the ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ and ‘Hellboy’ director as ‘a beautiful poem to giant monsters’, ‘Pacific Rim’ see’s colossal creatures called Kuiju rise from the Pacific Ocean and bring about a near apocalypse. Mankind sensibly resorts to building equally massive robots, called Jaegers, to take on the monsters. But, when even the mechanical monstrosities prove ineffective, the fate of humanity is left to two unlikely heroes who drive a legendary but obsolete titan.

Think ‘Godzilla’ vs. ‘Transformers’. With del Toro.

We still have to wait until July to see ‘Pacific Rim’, but that’s no reason not get a little excited now. Check out the new rest of the new images below:

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‘Pacific Rim’, starring Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi and Idris

New Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Turner has lifted the lid on Daniel Day-Lewis's work on the set of 'Lincoln', which she produced with Steven Spielberg.

Day-Lewis, known for his full immersion into character while on set, had an intimidating command of the material, despite the size of his role in the film, in which he plays the revered US president.

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Day-Lewis... as 'the president' Abraham Lincoln (Copyright: Rex)

“Certainly the minute you heard on the radio, ‘The president is coming to the set,’ which is what we would hear, and Daniel would walk onto the set, you could hear a pin drop,” she told the New York Times.

“And that was really the way every single day went.”

She then went on to talk about the effect his work had on the other members of the cast.

“He had 45 pages of dialogue in the first two weeks of shooting, and he never missed a word,” she continued.

“I mean, it was the other actors that were interesting to watch because once he came in and did a four-minute dialogue scene

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Rafe Spall has spoken about his much-discussed 'alien snake-petting' scene in Ridley Scott's 'Alien' prequel.

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Spall... as alien snake lover Millburn (Copyright: Rex)

Spall plays scientist Millburn in the film, who [spoiler alert!] is dispatched by the terrifying alien snake after inexplicably going in to stroke it.

It is among many issues fans and critics had about the film, and has been much discussed as one of the failures of the plot.

“I'm going to clear this up once and for all,” he told Digital Spy.

“My character is a biologist, and there was a big scene that was cut, which was me discovering life [on the planet] for the first time. I find one of the baby snakes. The big snake is quite scary, but I find his little brother.

“And I'm like 'this is extraordinary, this is me as a biologist finding life in space for the first time', and I'm really excited.

“You know how David