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.

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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“Camelot’s” Eva Green is nearing a deal to star in the Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures 300 prequel 300: Battle of Artemisia. The 31-year-old Paris-born actress will play Artemisia, the golden goddess who leads Persian king Xerxes into battle against Athenian general Themistokles.

Original 300 director Zach Snyder returns as producer and cowriter on a script based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel. Noam Murro (Smart People) will helm the project, which is set to shoot early next year.

Green, best known for playing Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royal and sorceress Morgan Le Fay on the Starz short-lived series “Camelot,” will next be seen as witch Angelique Bouchard in Tim Burton’s big-screen adaptation of the 1966 TV goth soap “Dark Shadows.”

Universal Pictures has released a trailer for the third installment in its Scorpion King franchise. Entitled Scorpion King: The Battle for Redemption, the film is produced by the folks behind The Mummy and stars genre-fav Billy Zane and Ron Pearlman of Hellboy and “Sons of Anarchy” fame.

But, the real draw here—as with any low-budget home-video release—is the exposure to up-and-coming talent it gives movie fans … and by up-and-coming talent I mean hot half-naked chicks (sorry, Victor Webster, whoever you are).

Peep the gorgeous Selina Lo (pictured above) and Krystal Vee:

Wow, even the trailer doesn’t credit Webster … and he’s the fucking Scorpion King.

Lo is a British-born Asian martial artist-turned-actress who made her feature film debut as one of the infected in the Juan Carlos Fresnadillo-directed sequel 28 Weeks Later. To learn more about Lo and stroke to see photos, visit her website.

Krystal Vee

Vee is a Bangkok-born model-turned-actress who made her American debut in the 2009 video game adaptation Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. She can also be seen in the Danny Trejo-led sci-fi actioner The Lazurus Papers.

The Scorpion King: The Battle for Redemption is directed by Roel Reine (Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives) and costars Boston Christopher (Otis), UFC fighter Kimbo Slice, wrestler Dave Bautista and the guy who played Bobba Fett’s father in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.

Look for it on Blu-ray and DVD in January.

Newly launched production house Gaumont International Television is cooking up an hour-long crime drama set around the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/serial killer first introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.”

Bryan Fuller, creator of ABC’s Emmy-winning series “Pushing Daisies” and—one of my personal favorites—Showtime’s “Dead Like Me,” is penning the “Hannibal” series, which will reportedly focus on the cat-and-mouse relationship between Lecter and FBI agent Will Graham.

Fuller has also written for “Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” and NBC’s “Heroes.” He also adapted Stephen King’s Carrie for the small screen in 2002.

A red-band trailer for Fox Home Entertainment’s gruesome slasher Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings has hit the web. The prequel stars Terra Vnesa (“Degrassi: The Next Generation’s”), Jennifer Pudavick (Wishmaster 4), Tenika Davis (Jumping the Broom) and 2009’s Miss CHIN International Bikini pageant winner Kaitlyn Wong (pictured above).

The footage kicks off with some kinky and very nude sex action, including a girl-on-girl romp between Davis and the insanely hot Wong, but soon morphs into a collage of carnage teasing some of the flick’s most brutal and sick kills, suggesting the film could be an emotional roller coaster for your penis. Don’t say I didn’t warn y’all.

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Oct. 25.

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Photo via Model Mayhem.

If it’s Halloween, it must be SAW … oh, wait, I mean Paranormal Activity.

Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for the third installment of its lucrative horror movie franchise Paranormal Activity. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the guys behind last year’s creepy social media suspense tale Catfish, the new film serves as a prequel set in 1988.

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Wow, after all these years, the Bloody Mary legend still freaks me the fuck out. I’m hooked. I look forward to seeing what else Joost and Schulman bring to the table. Catfish wasn’t a horror movie, but it was all white-knuckle up until the reveal.

Paranormal Activity 3 arrives in theaters on Oct. 21.

Universal Pictures has released the first official trailer for their prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi classic The Thing (both films share the same title). Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Kate Lloyd, a paleontologist assisting a team of Norwegian scientists who have found an alien ship in Antarctica.

The film is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and costars Joel Edgerton (Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones), Eric Christian Olsen (”Community”), and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (“LOST”), Kim Bubbs (Flesh Offering) and Ulrich Thomsen (Season of the Witch).

Mary Elizabeth Winstead made Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-fi Today.

The Thing arrives in theaters on Oct. 14.

Former “Mad Men” starlet Abigail Spencer is heading down the yellow brick road to partake in director Sam Raimi’s Wizard of Oz prequel Oz, the Great and Powerful. Joining her on that journey are James Franco and hotties Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis.

Oz, the Great and Powerful tells the tale of how a lost snake oil salesman and illusionist (Franco) defeats evil witches Theodora (Kunis) and Evanora (Weisz) with the help of  their sister Gilda (Williams) to rule the land of Oz.

Heat Vision exclusively reports that Spencer will play “a young woman who is a willing subject of Oz’s magic tricks which the erstwhile magician is performing in Kansas.” Filming is set to begin later this month in Michigan.

Spencer, best known for her portrayal of Don Draper cock-accessory Suzanne Farrell on AMC’s “Mad Men,” will be seen later this month in DreamWorks’ Cowboys & Aliens. The pretty 29-year-old will also star opposite Katee Sackoff in the Lionsgate sequel A Haunting in Georgia.