There’s little doubt that Battleship has pretty much nothing to do with the classic game and everything with trying to ape Transformers to give Hasbro yet another enormous franchise they can sell toys on the back of (although with Universal making the movie this time, rather than Paramount/Dreamworks). The more we see, the more like Transformers-At-Sea it looks, although that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Now a new trailer has arrived, with Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard and Liam Neeson running around trying to deal with a mechanical alien threat at sea. The big budget movie hits cinemas April 11th.

As the Tim Burton & Johnny Depp collaboration Dark Shadows is due in cinemas on May 11th, you’d have thought we’d have seen more than a few images by now. However it appears Warner is planning on more of a blitz attack, hoping to penetrate the audience’s consciousness with a big campaign starting now and going on until the release. Now the first, very brief footage is online, which is part of a promo for Ellen, which we’ve embedded below. It’s incredibly short but still worth a look. It arrives ahead of the trailer, which STYD promises will be online tomorrow, March 15th. So watch out for that!

Here’s the lengthy synopsis: In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet–or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

There’s been a lot of talk about Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic On The Road, with many suggesting it shouldn’t be made into a film, others being wary about the cast, while many have been avidly looking forward to it. Now the first trailer has arrives, so we can get a hint at the tone of the film and it’s rather sepia colour palette. The film follows Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), an aspiring New York writer who meets Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a devastatingly charming ex-con, who’s married to the very liberated and seductive Marylou (Kristen Stewart). Sal and Dean bond instantly. Determined not to get locked in to a constricted life, the two friends cut their ties and take to the road with Marylou. Thirsting for liberty, the three young people head off in search of the world, of other encounters, and of themselves. It’s currently due out on the UK on September 21st.

Loosely based on the classic pregnancy helpbook (although God knows why they’re making movies now based on self help books), What To Expect When You’re Expecting is the sort of film that’s most likely to appeal to women, but they’re making a bid to get men interested with this latest trailers, which concentrates on the dads dealing with parenthood. The film follows several couples through the dubious joys of pregnancy. Elizabeth Banks, Cameron Diaz, Joennifer Lopez, Anna Kendrick, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock, Chace Crawford, Rodrigo Santoro and more star. The film is due out in May.

The 80s TV show 21 Jump Street shot Johnny Depp to fame, and now Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are bringing their take on the premise with a new movie version. The comedy sees Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) and join the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, where they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. However, they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier ­and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind. It’s due in UK cinemas March 16th.

The release of Cabin In The Woods got delayed due to MGM’s money problems, but it finally on its way (thanks to Lionsgate), which many are suggesting is a very good thing. From writer/producer Joss Whedon and director Drew Goddard (who wrote Cloverfield), the film sees a group of friends go to a remote place in the woods, where things quickly turn terrifiying, in a film that’s keen to turn the horror genre inside-out. Now a new trailer has popped up online, do take a look