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President Snow may look chilled out in this brand new (and exclusive) poster for ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’, but his relaxed demeanour hides a seriously evil mind.

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Check it out below...

(Credit: Lionsgate)

The image of Donald Sutherland in his finery is the latest character poster featured on Panem’s ‘propaganda fashion site’ Capitol Couture.

Snow was certainly a bit miffed about Katniss’ antics at the end of the first movie, when she broke the rules of the games, and helped inspired a rebellion.

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ sees winners of the 74th Games Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark (Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson) paraded around the country as the media sensation they’ve become. Along the way Katniss senses a rebellion is coming, but the Capitol is still in control. That is until President Snow devises a plan for the 75th Hunger Games that could change the nation of Panem forever.

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’

Steven Spielberg will always be a legend... that's a given.

But the director has shown that despite being one of the world's best – and likely busiest – directors, he's still got time to encourage the next generation.

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Spielberg... sends note of encouragement to young filmmaker (Copyright: Rex)

19-year-old amateur filmmaker and design student Krishna Bala Shenoi of Bangalore, India, made a 75-second animated tribute to his idol and posted it online.

Through the singular power of the internet, it then ended up on Spielberg's very own screen.

The clip came to his attention after Shenoi posted it in a blog on the Chicago Sun Times website, where he is a special correspondent for film critic Roger Ebert.

The blog was in turn spotted by Spielberg's long-standing make-up designer Lois Burwell, who has worked with the director on films including 'Saving Private Ryan', 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'Lincoln', who made Spielberg aware of it.

So impressed was the director with Shenoi's work, he penned him

The new poster for 'The Hangover Part III' appears to have been inspired by a certain boy wizard.

It shows Zach Galifianakis's loose canon Alan facing off against Ken Jeong's Mr Chow, over a backdrop which teases a return to the first film's location of Las Vegas.

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Hangover III... eerily similar to another poster (Copyright: Warner Bros)

Using the slogan 'It All Ends', its not entirely dissimilar – or perhaps at all dissimilar – to the poster for 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2', which featured the same face-off, but between Harry Potter and his noseless adversary Voldemort.

Potter... Face-off with Voldemort (Copyright: Warner Bros)

The seeming destruction of Las Vegas is among the only information available about the plot of the film thus far.

Director Todd Philips has said that there will a death of a character, which the film may centre on.

It's also thought there won't be a bachelor party on this occasion, nor a wedding to jeopardise.

Galifianakis returns, as do Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha as the 'wolf pack' of the first

‘Psycho’. ‘Mommy Dearest’. ‘East of Eden’. It’s clear that many of Hollywood’s top screenwriters have a few mother issues. To put it mildly.

Barbra Streisand’s ‘Guilt Trip’ character is just the latest in a long line of oedipal nightmares to emerge onto our cinema, but why has Hollywood got a thing about mothers?

Why are they all so barmy?

Our Joe investigates…

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Episode 1: why Zombie movies are not like they used to be…

Episode 2: our tribute to Die Hard

Episode 3: is Hollywood cashing in on fairy tales?

Well, someone likes Harry Potter...

Boy-wizard fan Alice Finch took 12 months and around 400,000 Lego bricks to construct this astonishingly detailed replica of Harry Potter's school Hogwarts.

Hogwarts... created by Harry Potter fan Alice Finch (Copyright: Flickr)

Several scenes from the films and books have been lovingly recreated too, and the whole thing also lights up.

Detail... scenes re-created inside (Copyright: Flickr)

“It is designed to be architecturally accurate and completely playable. It breaks into sections that pack into 35 large flat boxes or shelves,” said Finch.

Time on your hands... took 12 months to construct (Copyright: Flickr)

She is also planning to post a time-lapse video of the school's construction next month.

Lights up... must have cost her a fair few quid(ditch) (Copyright: Flickr)

More pictures of the frankly stunning achievement can be seen on Finch's Flickr page.

Finch... in her very own Hogwarts (Copyright: Flickr)

'Skyfall's two awards at yesterday's Oscars ceremony mark the first acknowledgments from the Academy for a Bond film since 'Thunderball' in 1966.

Sam Mendes' celebrated 23rd Bond film won for Best Original Song, for Adele and Paul Epworth's theme, and Best Sound Editing, a joint award with 'Zero Dark Thirty' after votes were tied for only the sixth time in Oscar history.

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Skyfall... breaks 47 year Oscar drought for 007 (Copyright: Rex)

The series has been nominated several times since 'Thunderball's win, which was scored for John Stears' visual effects ('Goldfinger' also won a gong the previous year for Best Sound Effects), but largely Bond has largely found itself snubbed for much of the franchise's 50 year history.

'Diamonds Are Forever' was nominated in 1972 for Best Sound, 'Live and Let Die' in 1974 for Best Music, 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was nominated three times in 1978 for Best Art Direction, Best Song and Best

Peeta and Katniss are centre stage for these rather awesome new posters for ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’.

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Check ‘em out below.

(Credit: Lionsgate)

The posters show the star-crossed lovers™ (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson) decked out in white for the ‘Victory Tour’ - in aid of jointly winning the Games at the end of the first movie.

(Credit: Lionsgate)

As you’d except, President Snow (Donald Sutherland) isn’t too happy about their rule breaking shenanigans, and the massive rebellion it caused. There may be trouble ahead for the duo...

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ is released in the UK on 22 November 2013.

In the run-up to this year’s Oscars nominations, the hype-machine was all about one man, Ben Affleck, and his guaranteed gong for Best Director.

The actor-turned-director was on his way to pulling off the most successful career make-over in recent Hollywood history. From cinematic joke to talented filmmaker, Affleck was about to silence ten years of critics with ‘Argo’. Then the red carpet was pulled from under his feet when he was omitted from the list of Best Director nominees.

Game over Affleck... or is it?

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Actor/Director.... Affleck on the set of Argo (Credit: Rex)
Soon after the 10 January nominee announcement, rumours started appearing online that a nod wasn’t all that important to winning. There was a loophole in the voting system. A glitch in the Matrix.

The Hollywood Reporter uncovered a 1935 precedent from when Bette Davis failed to land a nomination for ‘Of Human Bondage’. Industry outcry led Academy voters