Details for the Ridley Scott-directed, Damon Lindelof-scripted Prometheus have been scarce. Up until now, all that’s known about the project, which serves as a stand-alone companion piece to Scott’s 1979 classic Alien, is that it involves a team of scientists stranded on a planet with hostile inhabitants.

But, now, Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron is shedding a little light on the movie. She tells Total Film:

I actually don’t play the heroine in it; that’s Noomi Rapace. I play somewhat of a villain in it. She’s not a believer, she’s not a scientist, she is the red tape that everyone has to go through.

She’s working with the company that’s sponsoring this whole thing, and you can feel she definitely has an agenda, which we pick up in the third act. She’s more quiet thunder.

Actually … she’s Paul Reiser.

Prometheus is Scott’s first work of horror since 2001’s Hannibal. The film costars Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class), Idris Elba (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) and Guy Pearce (Lockout).

Prometheus will be in theaters on June 8, 2012.

Emma Stone portrays Peter Parker’s love interest Gwen Stacy in director Marc Webb’s (500 Days of Summer) upcoming Spiderman reboot for Sony Pictures. Images featuring the 23-year-old stunner in character have hit the … umm … web.

The Amazing Spiderman is an origins film based on Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, which finds our friendly neighborhood crime-fighter back in high school.

The film stars Andrew Garfield as Spidey, Denis Leary as Gwen’s father Capt. George Stacy, Rhys Ifans as super-villain The Lizard, Chris Zylka as Flash Thompson, Sally Field and Martin Sheen as Peter Parker’s aunt and uncle, and C. Thomas Howell as Soul Man.

The Amazing Spiderman swings into theaters on July 3, 2012.

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The folks at Screen Gems want to remind you why you need to see Underworld: Awakening, the fourth installment in the popular vampires-vs-werewolves franchise that sees the return of Kate Beckinsale as death-dealer Selene … and, it has little to do with supernatural creatures.

Sure, the new trailer provides better looks at Eve, Selene’s half-vamp/half-lycan teen daughter, and the film’s bigger, meaner, and hairier mega-lycan, but the hard sell comes near the end of the clip when it states “Kate Beckinsale In 3-D” and with a low angle shot of her crotch.

Well played, Screen Gems, well played. Underworld: Awakening opens Jan. 20, 2012.

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Twentieth Century Fox has released the first official trailer to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a stand-alone sci-fi actioner that will reveal origins to Scott’s 1979 classic frightener Alien. Co-written by Damon Lindelof (“LOST”), the film follows a team of scientists and explorers stranded in a distant world where no one will surely hear them scream.

Prometheus stars Charlize Theron (Snow White and the Huntsman), Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class), Idris Elba (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) and Guy Pearce (Lockout). The film, which marks Scott’s return to sci-fi/horror,  arrives in theaters on June 8, 2012.

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The first trailer for Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has premiered online. I’m guessing you’ve moved on the trailer by now so I’ll just fill the rest of this post up with my grocery list for tonight: Level Vodka.

The Hobbit will be split into two movies: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (release date: Dec. 14, 2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (release date: Dec. 13, 2013).

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David Fincher’s remake of the Swedish thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, an adaptation of late author Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel, is set to arrive in theaters tomorrow. Rooney Mara, who plays Lisbeth Salander, spoke to Allure about going nude for the part and getting her nipple pierced.

She says:

Nudity is such a huge part of the character in the book, so I never thought twice about it. I’m naked quite a lot in the movie, and I thought, she has it in the book, and she should have it [in the movie].

Because of all the tattoos and the makeup and the piercings, and the physical transformations my body has to go through, it would always feel sort of like I was in costume, even if I was naked.

This would be exciting if Mara didn’t look fuglier than Noomi Rapace did in the 2009 Niels Arden Oplev version. Isn’t the point to a remake to improve on the original? I’m sure Megan Fox would have pierced her nipple for the role too.

Sonya Walger (“LOST”) and Jennifer Carpenter (“Dexter”) star opposite John Cusack (The Raven) in the Morgan O’Neill-directed serial killer drama The Factory. The Warner Bros. film started its limited theatrical run today.

The film’s synopsis reads:

Detective Mike Fletcher (Cusack), a rugged and obsessive police officer, and his partner, Kelsey Walker (Carpenter), are on the trial of a serial killer who prowls the streets targeting young streetwalkers.

When his teenage daughter disappears, Fletcher discovers that the killer has kidnapped her after mistaking her for a prostitute. Fletcher’s obsession goes into overdrive when he drops all professional restraint to get the killer and save his daughter.

So his teenage daughter is mistaken for a prostitute? How skanky is that ho dressing? I dunno. If your daughter is dressing up like a hooker every night, maybe it ain’t so bad that she get taken by a serial killer. A funeral is probably cheaper than raising her bastard kid for 18-years.

The Factory costars Mae Whitman (“Arrested Development”), Michael Trevino (“The Vampire Diaries”), Katherine Waterson (The Stare), Cas Anvar (Source Code), Dallas Roberts (The Grey) and stunners Ksenia Solo (Black Swan) and Cindy Sampson (“The Supernatural”).

Jennifer Carpenter

Jennifer Carpenter is best known for her role as Lt. Debra Morgan on the Showtime series “Dexter.” Her previous creds include star turns in 2008’s Quarantine and 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose. She’ll next be seen in the Amanda Seyfried serial killer vehicle Gone.

Sonya Walger played Penelope Widmore, future wife and constant of Desmond Hume, on ABC’s “LOST” and Dr. Olivia Benford on the network’s post “LOST” offering “FlashForward.” The pretty 37-year-old Brit also starred on Fox’s “The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”

The demigods over at Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have unleashed a Wrath of the Titans trailer guaranteed to blow up your skirt. A sequel to the 2010 blockbuster remake Clash of the Titans, the fantasy-actioner finds Perseus battling Titans freed from their underworld prisons.

Wrath of the Titans is directed by Jonathan Liebesman and stars Sam Worthington as Perseus, Liam Neeson as Zeus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades, and Danny Huston as Poseidon. New faces include Edgar Ramirez as Ares, Toby Kebbell as Argenor, and Rosamund Pike as warrior queen Andromeda.

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Warner Bros. has released a new 2-minute-plus trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, the final chapter in his Batman saga. The new footage provides a first look at Cat Woman (Anne Hathaway) and hints at villain Bane’s (Tom Hardy) disdain for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Dark Knight also stars Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Juno Temple, Josh Pence, Nestor Carbonell and, of course, Christian Bale as the Batman. It arrives in theaters on July 20, 2012.

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The Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer (ALCC) in Mozambique, Africa is coming under-fire for using Ad agency DDB’s provocative artist renderings of DC and Marvel superheroes in their breast cancer awareness print campaign.

The ads, which DDB did not license from DC and Marvel (hence the omission of their faces), feature Wonder Woman, Cat Woman, Storm (pictured above), and She-Hulk examining their large perfect animated breasts for abnormalities.

The ads are being called sexist and juvenile, and the ALCC criticized for not using real Mozambican women in their campaign. But, supporters of the ads state that doing so would be like asking people to care about saving the tuna or any other ugly animal (or, so I imagine them stating).

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