Bullet To The Head Poster Crashes Online

Sly Stallone's Bullet To The Head looks to be a gleefully unreconstructed old-school actioner. So it seems appropriate that it's just received a barely constructed poster. Displaying a few bulletholes, a splash of blood, and a rather wonkily rotated and already widely distributed still of Stallone, it is, shall we say, a little slapdash. Hopefully that's not a reflection of the finished movie. Fear not though: we have high hopes for lowbrow awesomeness from Bullet To The Head, since it's directed by action maestro Walter Hill (48 Hours, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort). The film is set in New Orleans, and it's about a cop (Sung Kang) and a hitman (Stallone) who join forces to take down their common enemy Adewale Akkinuoye-Agbaje. It's based on the French comics series by Alex "Matz" Nolent and Colin Wilson, and it's Hill's first cinematic outing since Undisputed in 2002. Amazingly, he never worked with Stallone back in the day, but he racked up Sly's fellow Expendables Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis in, respectively, Red Heat and Last Man Standing. Christian Slater, Jason Momoa, Holt McCallany and Sarah Shahi are also on board, and it's out in the UK on February 1.

Amber Heard Gets Three Days To Kill

Though it boasts a high concept plot spawned by Luc Besson and co-writer Adi Hasak and McG seated in the director's chair, action thriller Three Days To Kill has already scored Kevin Costner and Hailee Steinfeld. Amber Heard is the latest to join their ranks. Kill will star Costner as Ethan Runner, a Secret Service agent who is shocked to discover he's dying. But then he's tempted with the offer of a possibly wondrous drug that might just extend his life and give him more time with his daughter (Steinfeld). There are just a couple of teeny, tiny complications, though: he has to go on one final mission as a condition of taking the treatment and, oh yes, the drug gives him incredibly weird hallucinations which will make carrying out the job that much more complicated. Heard is set to play the woman who dangles the offer of the miracle drug in front of our hero. Last seen in The Rum Diary, she'll next crop up in Robert Rodriguez action sequel Machete Kills (which should aptly prepare her for working from a Besson-penned script) and corporate thriller Paranoia alongside Liam Hemsworth.

Latest Zero Dark Thirty Trailer

Kathryn Bigelow's latest, Zero Dark Thirty, is scheduled to touch down across the pond next week, but is already scoring plenty of awards. The final trailer – at least that US audiences will see before it opens there – is now online and can be watched above. This one focuses mostly on Jessica Chastain as Maya, one of the CIA analysts at the heart of the search for Osama Bin Laden. The film itself is a multi-faceted look at the manhunt for the terrorist mastermind, a search, as one man seems to indicate in the trailer itself, that was increasingly feeling like a wild goose chase with no end in sight and a money pit waiting to happen. But after months of controversial and questionable interrogations came an intelligence break and… well, the rest is literally history. Based on the real events, albeit dramatized by Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, the movie features an impressive cast including Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, James Gandolfini, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt and Mark Duplass. Zero Dark Thirty lands in UK cinemas on January 25.

Garrett Hedlund Back For Tron Sequel

Given how quickly studios tend to sign their actors to sequel deals when there's a franchise in the offing (usually before the first movie is in the can), it's not really a surprise to learn that someone who starred in, and made it all the way through, the first film will return for a sequel. But Garrett Hedlund has announced that he'll do just that for the new Tron film. Frankly, it was more of a surprise to learn that Disney really was going for a sequel to 2010's Tron Legacy, given that it didn't quite hit at the box office. Still, it took in $400 million around the world and the studio is newly enthusiastic about its continuing prospects. Talking with Next Movie about On The Road, Hedlund admitted that he's in, and that both he and Disney are excited about the future. Disney has not yet confirmed any details beyond the film's development, but Legacy man Joseph Kosinski is attached to direct again. Jesse Wigutow was most recently hired to write the latest draft of the new sequel's script, which will most likely follow Hedlund's Sam Flynn and – assuming she's also locked in – Olivia Wilde's Quorra both on and off the grid. We definitely haven't seen the end of the threat from inside Kevin Flynn's virtual world.

Olivier Megaton Will Be Taking Gotham

With a surname like his, Olivier Megaton was all but destined to end up either A) directing action movies or B) becoming a cheesy super-terrorist. Thankfully (depending on how much you enjoyed Taken 2), he chose the former route. And Megaton will be back behind the camera for yet another high-octane thriller with Taking Gotham. Thomas Kelly wrote the movie, apparently based on actual events. In what sounds like a modern version of the team seen in the upcoming Gangster Squad is formed after a string of brutal robberies in New York. For a while, the secretive NYPD squad is effective at curbing the robbers, but then a deadly sting operation happens and police chiefs disavow the unit. Desperate to clear their name, the squad goes rogue, heading deep underground and acting without authorisation. Nicolai Fuglsig had been attached to call the shots, but now Emmett/Furla Films has Megaton in place to spend $60 million mostly on bullets and blood squibs. He's crank up the madness this coming March.

Dylan McDermott Finds Mercy

Paranormal Activity producer/found footage maven Jason Blum's Blumhouse productions is targeting Stephen King in a big way at the moment. One of the two big projects bubbling away at the company in Mercy, which Peter Cornwell is busy developing to direct. He's just hired Dylan McDermott to co-star. McDermott, who last tackled a creepy tale with the first season of American Horror Story on TV, is joining the film to star alongside Frances O'Connor, Chandler Riggs and Joel Courtney. Mercy, adapted from the short story Gramma that appeared in King's Skeleton Key collection, finds two lads discovering that their grandmother – the titular Mercy – is a witch. Naturally, that will cause some problems for the family. O'Connor will play their mother. Cornwell has Matt Greenberg- who last worked in the King realm with 1408 – on script duty and McG is also throwing his weight behind the project as a producer. There's no word on when it'll get shooting yet, but we'd expect cameras to be rolling within the next couple of months. McDermott was last seen in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. He'll crop up in White House-under-siege action thriller Olympus Has Fallen. But we hope the producers of Mercy don't think they've hired Dermot Mulroney. It's so hard to tell them apart…

New Look At Disney's Frozen

Disney has been working on Snow Queen-based-fairytale 'toon Frozen for so long now, we saw concept art back when we visited the company for The Princess And The Frog. It has been going through quite the development process, but now the Mouse House has released a new piece of art from the movie to EW and you can check it out above. Frozen, which hits our screens next year, stars Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel (or their voices, both spoken and singing) in a mythical tale of two sisters. Kind-hearted Anna (Bell) will have to go on a dangerous quest to track down frostier Elsa (Menzel), who is causing their land to suffer through a perpetual winter. Anna sets out with cliffhanging adventurer Kristoff (Jonathan Groff had been rumoured for his voice, but Disney has not confirmed that) on a dangerous mission in the chilly, Scandinavian-inspired landscape. "We wanted to push it to the extreme," says co-director (and Wreck-It Ralph screenwriter) Jennifer Lee. "The unnatural quality of the ice emphasizes this is not, you know, sky-made ice, but ice made by someone." And while it's tough to research he magical ability to create strange snow and ice, it was easier to get a bead on sibling issues, especially after hosting a "Sibling Summit" for the filmmaking team that brought in their families to talk relationships and issues. "We got a ton of information from that," says her colleague Chris Buck, "and it kind of grounds these characters in believability in magical and unbelievable world." For more from the Frozen duo, head to EW's site. The film arrives on December 20, 2013.