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Great Odin's Raven! San Diego's top rated news man Ron Burgundy is back in the sequel to 2004 classic 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bergundy'.

It's been in development hell for a few years, but Will Ferrell - in character - finally announced the long-awaited news on Conan O'Brien's chat show back in March.

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The poster followed last week, before the teaser trailer showed up in front of 'The Dictator'.

Now the footage (which is slightly rude) has appeared online. Watch it below! It's kind of a big deal…

Director Adam McKay said on Twitter back in March that they're writing the script now and shooting would begin in February.

'Anchorman 2' will be produced by Judd Apatow and Will Ferrell and McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions. Ferrell and McKay will be on scripting duty as well.

Here's the first trailer for 'Skyfall', the 23rd James Bond adventure. It's all rather exciting...

Watch the trailer below.

This is the first footage proper from the film — so far we've only seen behind-the-scenes production videos — and it gives an indication of the film's moody visual style.

We open with Bond being interrogated while M, played by Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes' mysterious Gareth Mallory look on.

[Related link: First Skyfall poster]
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When the still-mysterious 'Skyfall' of the title is mentioned, we cut to a series of rather exciting action shots, including a shoot-out in Hong Kong and a spectacular tube crash.

The official synopsis for 'Skyfall': "Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost."

'Skyfall' is released in the UK on 26 October 2012. The 'Bond 50' Blu-ray collection, which sees all

Will Smith and Josh Brolin popped into the Yahoo! UK offices to have a chat with our Movies Editor and, more importantly, meet a room full of massive 'Men In Black 3' fans.

It's chat O'clock below...

[Related pics: Men in Black 3 gallery]

During our event, the duo also spilled the beans on several extremely important topics, such as:

- Is it EVER okay to wear sunglasses indoors? "Not unless you're a certain movie star," said Will Smith.
- What Josh Brolin would like to do with George Bush...
- Whether Tommy Lee Jones approved of Brolin playing him as a younger man.
- What a REAL alien looks like.
- And whether Will Smith is SO funny that he actually laughs at his own jokes.

Umm, turns out he really does. "I find myself hilarious!" he chortled. "Sometimes I watch my movies and go 'yo, that dude is funny!'".

We don't think he was joking…

'Men in Black 3' is released on 25 May.

Every Tim Burton project is described as 'dark', 'quirky' and 'oddball', but the man himself is boringly conventional, according to the cast of his latest film 'Dark Shadows'.

Michelle Pfeiffer, who starred as Catwoman in Tim Burton's 'Batman Returns' back in 1992 claimed that "the most surprising thing about him is how normal he is".

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[Related story: Dark Shadows review]

"He is completely accessible and normal and, in fact, what I love most about him as a director is how clear he is."

Bella Heathcote and Evan Green who star as love rivals Victoria Winters and Angelique Bouchard in 'Dark Shadows', reveal that Burton is in fact "very normal".

Eva Green went on to say that "maybe you can call him eccentric, but he's a very beautiful man. It's more his physicality — he's very visual".

Bella Heathcote agreed explaining that "he'll start talking and finish the sentence with his hand".

See for yourself how quirky Burton is in

Yahoo! Movies was granted an exclusive interview with The Dictator Admiral General Aladeen, President-for-life of the beleaguered North African republic of Wadiya.

Watch our chat below.

As befits an audience with an international statesman, we grilled him on the serious political issues of the day, such as the Debt Crisis and the future direction of the European Union.

"I'd wipe Greece of the face of the map", he told us.

[Related story: The Dictator review]
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But the leader, a pariah in the international community for his friendship with the late Kim Jong-Il, also showed a lighter side in our chat.

He gave us his dating tips, revealed how he names his kids (all boys so far) and even his ideas for future Olympic events.

General Aladeen's new film 'The Dictator', which follows his near-disastrous recent visit to the United Nations HQ in New York, is in cinemas now.

A boffin has counted how many bullets were fired at James Bond during his movie career, and calculated the secret agent's odds of survival.

Suspension of disbelief is an important thing in the movie world, but an avid New Scientist reader has watched all the flicks, and told the magazine exactly how many bullets the British super-spy has evaded.

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You missed... none of Robert Carlyle's bullets hit Bond (Credit: Rex Features)

Gordon Stanger estimates that over the 22 Hollywood films made to date, James Bond has dodged a whopping 4,662 bullets. And according to his calculations, the odds of survival are almost none. Or, to put it more scientifically:

"A static well-aimed shot would almost certainly have proved lethal, but assuming all 4662 were 'on the run', the probability of a single fatal shot is about 5 per cent.

"That is, the chance of a single shot missing is 0.95, and hence the probability of all shots missing is 0.954662 or 1.4 × 10-104, which is

Ever fancied seeing how you'd look frozen in carbonite? Well, Walt Disney World will soon let you follow in Han Solo's misty footsteps from 'Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back'.

The annual Star Wars weekends held at the Florida park are coming up this month, and this year they're using 3D printer technology to create visitors' very own carbonite replicas.

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Wrist-band included... carbonite kit (Credit: Walt Disney World)

They're not life size, in fact they're only 8 inches tall, and they do cost £62 ($100) - we're fairly certain Han Solo didn't pay cash - but they do look pretty cool.

Visitors will have to book ahead, and here's how they're selling the experience:

"Guests will step into a 'carbon freezing chamber', where multiple cameras will be used to scan the guest's face in 3D. That scan will be used to create an 8-inch figurine of the famous carbon freeze pose, with the guest's face instead of Han's (which will be

New sci-fi epic 'Prometheus' is inspired by the real-life search for extraterrestrials, according to director Ridley Scott.

Speaking in Yahoo! Movies' exclusive video featurette for the 'Alien' prequel, Scott said: "This story walks around the truth of what there may be out there."

[Related story: Five things we learnt from the Prometheus trailer]

"The catholic church, NASA and various scientists say that without question there is biology out there in this galaxy… This stuff is all fundamentally based on feasibility."

Watch the video below.

Writer Jon Spaihts added that the movie drew upon theories which suggested Egyptian and Inca pyramids and Greek philosophers were assisted "by powers beyond the stars".

The movie stars Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green as scientists who find evidence - a star map - that suggests mankind was created by an alien species. They embark on a scientific mission onboard space ship Prometheus to find the planet on the map, and are joined by mysterious