Jeremy Irvine in Now Is Good

The Woman In Black surprised many when it became the biggest horror-thriller ever at the UK box office and found success around the world too. Unsurprising a sequel was soon announced, with Susan Hill, who wrote the original Woman In Black novel, coming up with an idea for it.

Daniel Radcliffe won’t be back, so a new cast is needed. Now it’s been announced that Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Phoebe Fox (Switch) have signed up to star in The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.

The film will continue the story four decades after the first film. Seized by the government during World War II, the sudden arrival of a group of evacuated children at Eel Marsh House awakens its darkest inhabitant. There’s no news on exactly who Irvine and Fox will be, although we assume they’ll be busy getting haunted in the movie (although we reckon Jeremy Irvine is too pretty to haunt – ghosts leave him alone!).

Tom Harper will direct from a screenplay by Jon Croker wrote the screenplay. Harper commented, “Jeremy and Phoebe are fantastic actors to continue The Woman in Black’s chilling tale. I’m looking forward to working with them both on the film and can’t wait to start shooting with the pair.”

Interestingly the announcement refers to Angel Of Death as ‘the next installment’, suggesting they may want to make a few more after this one.

A couple of month ago, The Descendants star Shailene Woodley signed up to take the female lead in the adaptation of Veronica Roth’s novel Divergent, and now Variety reports that Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike), Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Lucas Till (X-Men: First Class) are at the top of the list to take the main male role.

The book, which is drawing comparisons to The Hunger Games, is about a 16-year-old girl named Beatrice Prior, who lives in a society divided into five factions, each based on a different virtue: honesty, selflessness, bravery, peacefulness, and intelligence. Beatrice must choose which faction whe wants to try and join, and starts training in order to enter.

Variety doesn’t specifically mention the male character Pettyfer, Irvin and Till are up for, but it’s presumed it’s Four, the man who helps train Beatrice.

Neil Burger will direct this first installment of what is being set up as a trilogy.

A few new posters have shown up online in the past few hours, including the rather pretty one above (via Empire) for Mike Newell’s new take on Dickens’ Great Expectations, which hits cinemas on November 30th and stars Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.

Take a look below for the first poster for Broken City, plus two for Robert Zemeckis’ Flight.

Broken City follow Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg), a former cop who is hired to tail the cheating wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) of the city’s corrupt mayor (Russell Crowe). Taggart successfully finds the man that the woman is sleeping with, but it’s not until after the man has been murdered.The movie is currently set for UK release on January 25th, 2013. (Image via IMDB)

In the action-packed mystery thriller Flight, Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault, and what really happened on that plane? It’s due out in the UK January 25th, 2013. Two posters have arrives, a UK one above via Empire and the US one below via Hitfix.

A few days ago it was announced that Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is set to open 56th BFI London Film Festival on October 10th, and now it’s been revealed that the closing movie will be the European Premiere of Mike Newell’s take on Great Expectations.

In the film, young orphan Pip is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Moving through London’s class-ridden world as a gentleman, Pip uses his new-found position to pursue the beautiful Estella, a spoilt heiress he’s loved since childhood. Yet the shocking truth behind this great fortune will have devastating consequences for everything he holds dear.

The movie stars Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irvine, Holliday Grainger, Robbie Coltrane, Ewen Bremner, Jason Flemyng, Sally Hawkins, David Walliams and Tamzin Outhwaite. It was adapted for the screen by David Nicholls, writer of the global best-seller One Day. The film will be released nationwide on 30th November 2012 in the UK.

Director Mike Newell comments: “It’s a great honour to be invited to be the BFI London Film Festival’s Closing Night film. I’m proud that our new version of Great Expectations should be presented this year, the bi-centenary of Dickens’ birth. I’ve tried to make a film that is true to the theatrical vividness, energetic characters and high colour that he is loved for, while mining the deep seams of emotional cruelty and madness that underlie one of Dickens’ darkest-shadowed stories. I’ve tried to make a film for a young modern audience in which Pip and Estella’s fated love affair is shown through feelings and stresses that are of today and in a city that was, then, full of brawling energy, was unimaginably wealthy and very bad.”

Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes and Mike Newell are expected to attend the Festival. The 56th BFI London Film Festival runs from Wednesday 10th October-Sunday 21st October.

Old and young are set to team up for A Night In Old Mexico, with 81-year-old Robert Duvall and 21-year-old War Horse actor Jeremy Irvine signing up to star in Emilio Aragon’s road movie, according to Variety.

There’s not too much info about Bill Witliff’s (The Perfect Storm) script, other than that it follows the growing relationship between an old man and his grandson (presumably Duvall and Irvine), combining action, tragedy and romance. Angie Cepeda, Luis Tosar and Javier Guttierez will also star.

Filming starts tomorrow in Texas, running through to August.