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We haven’t seen a vast amount Natalie Portman in the last couple of years, as while she’s appeared in the Thor films and a couple of other movies, she’s largely devoted herself to being a mother. However now she’s got a new film and she’s going French, as she’s set to appear Planetarium, according to Variety.

Johny Depp’s daughter, Lily Rose Depp, is also set to star, with her and Partman playing spiritualist sisters, who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. There are few other plot details, although the 1930s French-set film has a plot with a political context that ‘will have a modern resonance with the current crisis and rise of extremism in Europe’, which suggests it will be set against the backdrop of the rise of Naziism.

Rebecca Zlotowski (Grand Central) will direct, from a script she co-wrote with Robin Campillo. The plan is to shoot in September with the movie ready for release by the middle of 2016.

The huge success of Lucy reminded everyone that Luc Besson can have huge success as a director after several years where he mainly seemed to be a purveyor of no brain action that he wrote and/or produced, such as The Transporter and Taken.

Now he’s heading back into the director’s chair for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, based on the Belgian science fiction comic book characters Valérian and Laureline, created by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres.

He’s already signed up his first cast members, with with Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne set to star in the central roles.

Valérian and Laureline are 28th Century agents working for the Galaxity organization, whose adventures take them across time and space. However after Galaxity and their home planet disappear, they are left to forge a future on their own.

With the ‘City of a Thousand Planets’ subtitle, it certainly sounds like this Besson is hoping to build this into a franchise. Production is set to begin at the end of this year with a global release slated for summer 2017.

Don’t worry, we’re not in any way being rude about her weight, as Anne Hathaway is only planning to be Colossal in a new movie, as THR reports that she’s attached to a film of that name from Timecrimes and Open Windows director Nacho Vigalondo.

It appears it’s going to be a somewhat unusual movie, as it’s described as being Godzilla meets Lost in Translation, quite how that’s going to work is anyone’s guess, as previously those two movie’s biggest connection is that they’re both set in Japan.

The film will see Hathaway as ‘Gloria, an ordinary woman who, after losing her job and her fiancé, decides to leave her life in New York to move back to her hometown. But when news reports surface that a giant lizard is destroying the city of Tokyo, Gloria gradually comes to realize that she is strangely connected to these far-off events via the power of her mind. In order to prevent further destruction, Gloria needs to determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.’

It appears that this will be arthouse kaiju, as it’s also compared to being like ‘Transformers versus Adaptation’.

Vigalondo comments, “Colossal is my most ambitious script so far, and probably also the most personal one. Having Anne and this terrific team around goes beyond my craziest expectations.”

Terminator Genisys is fighting against franchise fatigue, and while it’s done a decent job so far of suggesting to film fans that it might be worth a look, it’s still got a way to go show that it reboots things enough to make it feel fresh while not completely abandoning what people liked about it to start with.

To help with that a set of character posters have popped up online, which like the last trailer showcase the old and new, and also show that Jason Clarke’s John Connor is rather different to the character we’ve seen in previous instalments and that he may be the villain this time around.

You can see all the posters below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: To reset the future…’

The movie is due out July 3rd.

For those of us outside the US, a Jem And The Holograms movie seems an odd idea, as the cartoon and toy line never had the impact in many countries that it did in the US. However with those who grew up with the 80s show now in positions of power in Hollywood, a movie is on the way, and USA Today has debuted a set of pics from Jon M. Chu’s movie.

The movie is about an orphaned teenage girl who becomes an online recording sensation under her secret identity, Jem. She and her sisters embark on a music-driven scavenger hunt – one that sends them on an adventure across Los Angeles in an attempt to unlock a final message left by her father.

It certainly looks big, rock-driven and more than a little camp, at least from these photos anyway. The film is out this autumn.