DreamWorks has released the first full-length trailer for producer/director Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The footage previewed features plenty of impressive Autobot/Decepticon action, but disappoints in its lack of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley bent over a vehicle shots.

The film’s synopsis reads:

When a mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.

Transformers 3 stars Shia LaBeouf, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Ken Jeong (the naked Asian guy from The Hangover), Patrick Dempsey, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, and “Firefly’s” Alan Tudyk. The film arrives in theaters on July 1.

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Stunt-woman-turned-actress Tara Macken is the latest to join Lionsgate’s big screen adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ young-adult series “Hunger Games.” The exotic 27-year-old newcomer will portray a District 4 tribute.

Hunger Games finds child survivors of an economically and socially collapsed America competing in televised games of death in a new country named Panem. Two kids from each of Panem’s 12 districts are chosen by lottery each year to participate.

The much buzzed-about film is directed by Gary Ross and stars Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), Josh Hutcherson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Liam Hemsworth (Knowing), Leven Rambin (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and Elizabeth Banks (The Uninvited).

The Hunger Games will be in theaters on March 23, 2012.

German actress Antje Traue has landed the role of villainess Faora in director Zach Snyder’s Man of Steel. She joins a cast that includes Henry Cavill as Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as General Zod,  Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Martha and Jonathan Kent.

According to a mouth-breathing virgin at Variety:

[Traue will play] the version of Faora that debuted in Action Comics #779 as a Pokolistanian aide of General Zod. That character was an orphan metahuman with the ability to disrupt molecular bonds, which allowed her to create a mutagenic virus that served as the linchpin of Zod’s plan.

Genre fans may recognize Traue from her role as genetic engineer Nadia in 2009’s criminally underrated sci-fi survival frightener Pandorum. The film marked the 30-year-old looker’s American feature debut.

Relativity Media has released the first official trailer for director Tarsem Singh’s highly stylized swords-and-sandals epic The Immortals, arriving in theaters on Nov. 11. The film stars Henry Cavill (Man of Steel), Mickey Rourke (Passion Play), and the gorgeous Freida Pinto (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).

Directed by Tarsem Singh, The Immortals tells the story of Theseus (Cavill), a mortal man chosen by Zeus (Luke Evans) to take down King Hyperion (Rourke) and his bloodthirsty army before they find a deadly weapon that could destroy all of humanity.

Filling out the cast are Twilight’s Kellan Lutz as Poseidon, Stephen Dorf as master thief Stavros, Daniel Sharman as Ares, and Isabel Lucas as the Goddess Athena. To see images from the film, go here.

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Brooding star Kristen Stewart was photographed wearing a bright green bikini on the set of Summit Entertainment’s final Twilight chapter Breaking Dawn. The pretty 21-year-old looks great, but what good is the promise of seeing her in a two-piece when the sappy flick makes you want to gouge your eyes out?

But, hey, if it gets you into the theater on Nov. 18, you might as well be up on the plot. The official synopsis reads:

After their wedding, Bella and Edward travel to Rio de Janeiro for their honeymoon, where they finally give in to their passions. Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth, Edward finally fulfills her wish to become immortal.

But the arrival of their remarkable daughter, Renesmee, sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens and their allies against the Volturi, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all-out battle.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn is directed by Bill Condon and costars Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Billy Burke and Saga new comer Maggie Grace.

Part Two of Breaking Dawn will hit theaters on Nov. 16, 2012.

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Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men) is officially set to star as gunslinger Roland Deschain in producer/director Ron Howard’s big and small screen adaptations of Stephen King’s beloved “Dark Tower” book series.

As Deschain, Bardem will face off against a rabid dog while trapped in a car. No, wait. He will submit to cabin fever while manning a deserted hotel in Maine. No? OK … he plays a fat man cursed by the gypsy whose daughter he killed with his car while getting a blown by his wife.

All right, ya got me. I haven’t read the “Dark Tower” novels. But, from what Amazon tells me, the seven-book series is a sci-fi/western that follows Deschain, the last member of a knightly order of gunfighters, on a mission to save civilization.

The Dark Tower story will be told over the course of three theatrically released films and two limited-run TV series, slated to air in between movies. Universal Pictures will back the film trilogy, while NBC/Universal Television Entertainment handles the TV show.

Now that he’s said hasta la vista to politics, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is back to claim his place as Hollywood action hero. The now 63-year-old actor has officially attached himself to star in a new Terminator film, to be directed by flavor-of-the-moment Justin Lin (Fast Five).

Deadline broke the news and reports that a rights package rumored to be priced at $25 million is being shopped around to studios. According to the site, Universal, CBS Films, Sony and Lionsgate are all very interested in the project.

Somewhere, Edward Furlong just called his agent and heroin dealer … not necessarily in that order.

The Terminator franchise has earned over $1.3 billion in worldwide coin.

TV star Mireille Enos is set to make her feature film debut opposite Brad Pitt in Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of author Max Brooks’ zombie novel “World War Z.” According to the Hollywood Reporter, Enos has been cast as  Pitt’s wife.

World War Z is set ten years after a zombie apocalypse and details individual survival stories from around the world. The Plan B produced thriller, directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace), begins shooting in June.

Enos currently stars as Detective Sarah Linden on AMC’s new critically acclaimed crime series “The Killing.” The 35-year-old Houston-born starlet also played twin sisters Kathy and Jodeen Marquart on HBO’s “Big Love” from 2007-to-2010.

Director Steven R. Monroe is following up his superb 2010 remake of Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave with yet another white-knuckle, femme-fatale revenge thriller. Set to shoot in June, Hole in the Desert stars genre babe Cerina Vincent as a vengeful spirit who enlists the help of a downtrodden man to bring death to her murderers.

Vincent says:

I am just thrilled to be a part of this. It’s truly an honor to work with director Steven R. Monroe again. His script is incredible – it’s got wit, edge, and depth… His vision for this will make for an edgy, sexy, suspenseful ride with moments of tenderness and some intense violence.

Horror fans may recognize Vincent from her roles in Eli Roth’s viral-frightener Cabin Fever, Nick Palumbo’s nasty little indie-slasher Murder-Set-Pieces, and Victor Garcia’s fun supernatural thriller Return to the House on Haunted Hill. The 32-year-old stunner’s most memorable turn, however, remains that of all-nude foreign exchange student Areola in the Columbia Pictures spoof Not Another Teen Movie.

Vincent also played Yellow Power Ranger Maya on Fox TV’s 1999 kid’s show “Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy.”

Production on Dimension Films Piranha 3-DD, the unexpected sequel to Alexandre Aja’s well-reviewed-but-dead-in-the-water Piranha 3-D, got started today in Wilmington, NC. Directed by 2005’s “Project Greenlight” winner John Gulager (Feast 1-3), the film is headlined by 23-year-old horror fav Danielle Panabaker (The Crazies).

The film’s plot crunch reads:

There’s something in the water… again. And this time no one is safe from the flesh eating fish as they sink their razor sharp teeth into the visitors of the best summer attraction, The Big Wet Water Park.

Costarring with Panabaker are former Miss California Meagan Tandy (Unstoppable), Matt Bush (Halloween 2), Chris Zylka (Shark Night 3-D), David Koechner (Final Destination 5), Jean-Luc Bilodeau (“Kyle XY”), Hector Jimenez (Nacho Libre), and a bevy of nameless, top-heavy starlets.

Piranha 3-D opened in August of 2010 to rave reviews from both critics and horror fans. Despite starring such stroke-worthy babes as Kelly Brook, Riley Steele, and Jessica Szohr, the film tanked at the North American box office. Fortunately, it grossed over $63 million worldwide, making it profitable enough to merit a sequel.

Panabaker’s creds include Platinum Dunes’ Friday the 13th reboot, John Carpenter’s The Ward, and the Kevin Costner serial killer drama Mr. Brooks. The pretty 23-year-old is part of Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-fi Today.