So here it is, the final trailer for Harley Quinn’s Revenge and does she look good or what? Looks like Batman takes a back seat for this one which is interesting:

Uncover what Harley Quinn has in store for players in the upcoming Rocksteady Studios developed Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition with the latest trailer for the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment published video game.

Newcomers to last year’s Dark Knight adventure will be able to pick up Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition on the 7th September in the UK, which includes all previous downloadable content (Catwoman Pack, Nightwing Bundle Pack, Robin Bundle Pack, Challenge Map Pack and Arkham City Skins Pack) plus Harley Quinn’s Revenge Pack. Fans who already own the original edition of Batman: Arkham City will be able to download Harley Quinn’s Revenge Pack beginning May 29 on PlayStation®Network (£6.49) and the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for Xbox 360 (800 Microsoft Points).

Following the partnership on Ron Howard’s RUSH, also to be released through Cross Creek’s distribution deal with Universal Pictures, the first film being produced and financed under this new far reaching arrangement is the thriller A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES starring Liam Neeson (TAKEN). Written and to be directed by Scott Frank (THE LOOKOUT), the film is one of the popular ‘Matt Scudder’ book series written by Lawrence Block.

Double Feature Films partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are producing with Danny DeVito and his company, Jersey Films. Principal photography is set to start in February 2013 on location in New York City.

“We feel like we won the trifecta by getting the one star who is perfect for Scott’s great script that he was born to direct,” said Shamberg and Sher.

Formerly a cop with the NYPD, now an unlicensed private eye and a recovering alcoholic haunted by past mistakes, Matt Scudder (NEESON) is hired to find the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. He operates just outside the law where the police don’t go to track down the kidnappers, who he discovers have been involved in multiple kidnappings and brutal murders.

“We have long enjoyed a fulfilling business partnership with Brian and his team at Cross Creek, creating success with THE IDES OF MARCH, THE WOMAN IN BLACK and now RUSH, among others. We feel very confident to formalise and strengthen our development, financing and production arrangement with Brian and we are thrilled to start this new chapter with such a commercial project,” commented Nigel Sinclair and Guy East

Exclusive Media’s COO Marc Schipper negotiated the development and production deal with Cross Creek’s Brian Oliver. Tobin Armbrust, Exclusive Media’s President of Worldwide Production and Acquisitions will be overseeing the new relationship.

The arrangement also gives both companies the first opportunity right to co-finance and co-produce pictures outside those set for the Universal pipeline.

In addition to the picture by picture financing responsibilities, both companies are jointly creating a six figure revolving development fund to source additional properties.

Below is the new trailer for the Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Blu-ray & DVD release in the UK (June 25th). I should have a review up closer to the release date for this. Also included is a nice image of the cover art including the 3D effect for you to enjoy.

In this thrilling 3D adventure where good and evil face-off in a spectacular showdown, Nicolas Cage (Kick Ass, Drive Angry) reprises the role of the legendary comic book hero and supernatural vigilante, Johnny Blaze/The Rider.

Struggling to live with his flame-headed alter-ego, Blaze is sought out by the mysterious Moreau (Idris Elba – Prometheus, Luther) who offers him the chance to find redemption and rid himself of his curse forever – but to do so he must take on and defeat The Devil (Ciaran Hinds – John Carter, The Woman in Black) in a terrifying fight for survival.

For all the people who love the show and want to play the game:

Game of Thrones, the hugely anticipated video game based on the George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series of novels, is set for release in the UK on 8th June 2012, announced distributor Koch Media today. The release of the official videogame is timed to celebrate the season two finale of the critically-acclaimed HBO® TV show on Sky Atlantic on Sunday 3rd June.

Offering a brand new story developed with creative input from George R.R, Martin himself, Game of Thrones is a stunning action role-playing game that throws fans into a rich, fantasy environment as they engage in a heart-pounding quest for the famous Iron Throne. Playing as Mors, Sworn Brother of the Night’s Watch, and Alester, a Red Priest in search of redemption, players can expect to visit familiar locations from Westeros, such as The Wall and the famous King’s Landing, while well-known faces you’ll encounter include Queen Cersei, Varys the Spider and Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.

In Game of Thrones, players have full control of their character’s development; choose your character’s class, find your fighting style, develop a balance between your strengths and weaknesses, and take part in epic battles. Find, buy or loot new equipment and weapons to fit your fighting style, and gain experience to improve your abilities. Likewise, political skills can be every bit as lethal as a sharpened sword, so never underestimate the power of a silver tongue when it comes to solving a critical situation!

● An epic Action/RPG offering an original story based on the best-selling novels, “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R.R. Martin
● Lush, fantasy visuals powered by Unreal Engine 3.
● Visit familiar places and meet well-known characters, faithfully reproduced from the TV series
● Play the game from the viewpoint of two different charismatic characters, each with their own background and skills
● Progress the way you choose: get involved in epic fights, or try to solve explosive situations through dialogue!

Developed by French studio Cyanide and published by Focus Home Interactive, Koch Media is scheduled to distribute Game of Thrones on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Windows PC, and Sony PlayStation®3.

The boys of South Park are back and as rude and crude as ever with the release of SOUTH PARK: THE COMPLETE FIFTEENTH SEASON on DVD on 2 July from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Welcoming back creators and writers Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the landmark 15th Season joins the South Park boys for fourteen new episodes of controversial humour and hilarity.

Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Cartman have returned once again, to find themselves in an endless number of uncomfortably hilarious circumstances. From becoming one with the HumancentiPad and taking on the evil, email-hacking WikiLeaks, to bro downs on Broadway, served with a side of royal Canadian wedding pudding, the boys are as busy as ever in this South Park series that is bound to leave your wormhole tingling – AWKWAAARRDD!

The SOUTH PARK: THE COMPLETE FIFTEENTH SEASON DVD set includes every one of the fourteen side-splitting episodes as well as a number of special features, including the monumental documentary 6 Days to Air: the making of South Park. The DVD set will be available for the suggested retail price of £24.99.

The SOUTH PARK: THE COMPLETE FIFTEENTH SEASON DVD is presented in Widescreen with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, German Stereo. Total running time is approximately 308 minutes. Episodes and special features are as follows:

Episodes:

• Humancentipad
• Funny Bot
• Royal Pudding
• T.M.I
• Crack Baby Athletic Association
• City Sushi
• You’re Getting Old
• Ass Burgers
• The Last of the Meecans
• Bass to Mouth
• Broadway Bro Down
• 1%
• A History Channel Thanksgiving
• The Poor Kid

Special Features:

• 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park
• 6 Days to Air: Behind the Scenes of “City Sushi”
• Mini-Commentaries by the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, on all episodes
• Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes

The price will be around £24.99

Davies recently enjoyed critical and commercial success with THE DEEP BLUE SEA. Prior to that he had directed his homage to Liverpool, OF TIME IN THE CITY, and THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. Deyn, earlier this year received acclaim for her West End performance in THE LEISURE SOCIETY and Peter Mullan was most recently seen in Steven Spielberg’s box office hit WAR HORSE.

Bob Last’s Holdings Ecosse Ltd, developed the project together with Davies. SUNSET SONG is set to go into production towards the end of the year and will be produced by Sol Papadopoulos & Roy Boulter of Hurricane Films with Bob Last executive producing.

Set in the early 20th century, against the backdrop of the poverty of North-East Scotland, and the looming war, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), the eldest daughter of poor farmers barely making it, struggles for love amid hardship and family misfortune. After her mother, broken by a life of poverty and repeated child-birth poisons herself and her new baby twins, the ever resilient young Chris must manage the farm. Subsequently she is forced to deal with father who has a stroke yet is eager to have an incestuous relationship with his daughter, compelling her to use all her wits to hold the family together and not lose the farm. Finally she finds love, only soon to see her new husband depart for the Great War. While all this goes on, she remains wedded to the farm, connected to a land about to be changed forever by the onset of technology and war.

Actress Agyness Deyn said, “When I read the script I fell completely in love with the character and the story, I’m so honoured and excited to be working with Terence, he’s such an incredible director. I can’t wait to get started and just hope that I can do Chris Guthrie justice!”

The deal for the film was negotiated between the Producers and Fortissimo Films’ London based VP of Acquisitions Courtney Noble who said: “Terence Davies is a true visionary and Fortissimo has admired and wanted to work with him for almost twenty years. We are delighted and honoured to be involved with him and his production partners on SUNSET SONG.”

Executive producer Bob Last said, “After THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, I was determined to make another film with Terence. He is such a cinematic master, with a vision that is at one and the same time richly beautiful and austere. Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s intimate epic seemed perfectly suited; a powerful story of love and loss set against the onset of modernisation, a theme that continues to resonate in today’s rapidly changing world. The opportunity to bring Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn together with Terence and to work with the team that produced his OF TIME AND THE CITY could not be missed.”

Sol Papadopoulos & Roy Boulter of Hurricane Films said “We feel Fortissimo are the perfect fit for this project and we look forward to working with their incredible team to bring Terence Davies’ vision to screens around the world.”

When his brother is murdered Joe (Martin Compston – The Disappearance of Alice Creed, The Damned United) finds solace in an old family friend, Piggy (Paul Anderson – Sherlock Holmes, The Firm, The Sweeney). Piggy helps Joe to cope with his grief, intent on saving him and helping him get justice for his brother’s killing.

But as their friendship grows Joe finds himself in an increasingly dangerous world of violence and revenge. Soon Joe’s life begins to collapse around him as he starts to question who Piggy really is, culminating in a brutal, disastrous climax that will stay with you forever.

“Hello, Juan of the Dead…We kill your loved ones…!”

Juan of the Dead is to be released by Metrodome in the UK on June 4th. As you can see by my review personally I love it and see it as a must buy. If you like films like Shaun of the Dead you’ll love this.

JUAN OF THE DEAD tells the blood-drenched tale of a slacker who decides to save Cuba from an invasion of cannibalistic zombies. As the zombies turn Havana into a gory circus of flying limbs and severed heads, the nightly news anchors continue to calmly assert the government line, that the attacks are not the work of the undead but dissidents in the pay of the United States.

When Rebecca and Thomas meet as children they become instant friendship and love soon blossoms. This is dealt a blow though when Rebecca moves away. Years later she returns and now as adults they rekindle their relationship as the love is still there. Disaster strikes once more as Thomas is killed but Rebecca refuses to let her love go, cloning Thomas as her own child so she can have him once more. As he grows older her love still exists with him totally oblivious of the truth of his birth, only having little knowledge of his father. As the years go by though and he reaches the adulthood and looks exactly like his father (person he was cloned from) it becomes harder for Rebecca to cope.

From the very start this is not a film that proclaims cloning as evil and an act against humanity, it’s more of a look at the effects of losing somebody you love. There is prejudice of the “fake” people who are known to be clones and this provides a nice examination into how society deals with anything different to what they see as normal, the main theme here though is love. The fact is you can’t bring back the dead, even if you clone a person that person will not be the one that you lost. It’s a nice examination into the devastating and selfish effect love can have when you lose it and try to get it back which is why I prefer the name Womb instead of Clone, it relates more to what this film is actually about.

So to the question that most want answered, what was Matt Smith like outside of the Doctor Who setting? The answer is quite similar to the Doctor really. I remember seeing him in The Ruby in the Smoke before he became The Doctor and he was very similar in that, his characters are full of energy and vigour which is probably what makes him so good in Doctor Who. When David Tennant left they needed to continue the energetic personality of the Doctor, moving him away from the older versions where he was slower with a little less action. One thing he does manage to do in Clone though is convey emotions. His character Thomas, especially the cloned version is a character confused with the world he has been born into and Matt Smith sure knows how to do the confused look. Oh and don’t let any younger Doctor Who fans watch this unless you want them to see the Doctors bare butt. This is an adult film.

Now we are past the Doctor issue it has to be said that the film is very much on Eva Green’s shoulders and she does do a very good job in this film. Clone is a film where more is said through facial expressions and body language than in actual words as Eva’s character Rebecca has to hide the truth from everybody around her. You can see the anguish in her face though and through her body language the true loneliness she feels as Thomas grows up into a man who she hoped was to be hers but was never meant to be. She plays her role perfectly, the woman broken by losing the man she loved and trying to live that life once again through her child. A life destined to end in tragedy and of course we have to witness the result.

This film will not be to everybody’s taste, it’s a subtle and slow placed examination into the lives of both Rebecca and Thomas, and people will argue not much happens but in truth that is the point. This is a film where we are given a fly on the wall view of a woman’s almost selfish need to cling onto the man she loves even when he is taken from her, a move that not only consumes her life but that of the clone she creates and people around them. Thoughtful, uncomfortable and harrowing I won’t say it’s entertaining but it definitely makes you think about the decisions that are made and what you would do in the same position.

Clone was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Arrow on Monday May 7th.

This film was originally reviewed on Blogomatic3000.