A statement released on Thursday revealed that Scott will be re-teaming with Hampton Fancher, who penned the original ‘Blade Runner’ script with David Peoples back in 1982 but failed to make much of a mark of the film world thereafter.

It has also been revealed that the story for Scott’s follow-up will take place “some years after the first film concluded,” so we’re definitely expecting a full-on sequel, rather than a reboot or, god forbid, a remake.

In case you’ve somehow managed to miss one of the greatest science fiction films ever made: ‘Blade Runner’ was based on Phillip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ and starred Harrison Ford as replicant hunter (otherwise known as a blade runner) Deckard who is dragged into action to find and terminate four dangerous replicant fugitives.

No further details have been released about what will happen next though…

At the moment, all the Seth MacFarlane talk is relating to his live action comedy ‘Ted’, which stars Mark Wahlberg and an animated teddy bear brought to life, but ‘Family Guy’ star Alex Borstein (the voice of Lois Griffin) says he hasn’t forgotten the Griffin family.

Talking to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, Borstein says:

“He [MacFarlane] has a story idea and we have one of the writers, a guy named Ricky Blitt who is supposedly going to be writing it, the problem is time,” adding, “Seth is so unwilling to have quality suffer for the sake of quantity.”

But what would be the mega-wacky subject matter for the notoriously madcap cartoon?

“Seth and I talked about writing a ‘Family Guy’ musical because him and I do these ‘Family Guy’ live shows.”

She offered a tasty hint for UK ‘Family Guy’ fans too: they’re hoping to bring their musical live shows here soon.

Hopefully that’ll tide us over until busy Mr. MacFarlane finds time for the film.

‘Men In Black 3′ star and general Hollywood royalty Will Smith had forbidden his son from asking US President Barack Obama about the existence of aliens during a tour of the White House, the star revealed to BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles:

“The night before Jaden had said to me, ‘Dad, I gotta ask the president about the aliens,’ and I’m like, ‘Dude, no, it’s not cool. It’s embarrassing. Do not ask the president!’ So we get into the situation room and Jaden gets the look in his eyes and he leans over to me and asks, ‘Dad, What’s my punishment?’”

But in a near-paranormal moment of his own, Smith claims the President predicted the feisty 13-year-old’s query, by saying:

“The aliens, right? OK, I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of extra-terrestrials but I can tell you if there had been a top secret meeting and if there would have been a discussion about it, it would have taken place in this room.”
Big Willie was reportedly left red-faced at the incident, but there has been no news on exactly how he’s punished his son. Nor has anyone explained Obama’s creepy mind-reading trick…

17-year-old Alex Cooper had been reluctant to make a fuss about symptoms she thought simply marked her out as another lazy teenager, until she watched the Cameron Diaz film ‘My Sister’s Keeper’.

The film tells the story of an American family whose daughter falls ill with acute promyelocytic (corr) leukaemia, prompting the parents to make the unorthodox decision to have a child in the hope it will be able to donate bone marrow to its ailing older sister.

Until Alex saw the film she had not been aware that her symptoms, which included fatigue, headaches, unexplained bruises and a swollen stomach, were an early sign of the disease – but once she realised she quickly sought help.

Talking to The Telegraph, Alex said:

“It was one of those surreal moments in life. I was watching the film and all of a sudden I realised I had the same symptoms.

“I suppose if it wasn’t for the film I may not have got my diagnosis in time… However, I can’t bring myself to see it again it is too upsetting – I have hidden it under my bed.”

After two years of chemotherapy, Alex has now been informed she is in remission and the illness is manageable. She is currently studying for her A-levels and fundraising for the Royal Marsden Hospital.

It seems like only yesterday that the first pictures of Ashton Kutcher playing the young Steve Jobs emerged, now a rival biography of the business icon is moving into full swing – with Aaron Sorkin finally confirmed as the man writing in the script.

Sorkin was always first choice to pen Sony’s stab at the life of Jobs, which will be based on the bestselling biography ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson, and we can see why. He’s already proved himself a master of bringing business to life, first in ‘The Social Network‘, then in number-crunching baseball flick ‘Moneyball‘.

Sony paid $1m (£625,000) for the rights to adapt the book, and we can only imagine the fee commanded by Hollywood hot property Sorkin, so they must be expecting big things from this business bio.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, they’re in no rush though – suggesting that they expect quality to shine through.

Ashton must be quaking in his black turtle neck.

Isabelle Fuhrman, who played evil teen Clove and chased Katniss up a tree in ‘The Hunger Games’, has been cast in the lead role of David Gordon Green’s (‘Your Highness’, ‘The Sitter’) ‘Suspiria’ remake.

Dario Argento’s bloody 1977 original tells the tale of Suzy Bannion, who wins a place at a world-renowned ballet academy – but on her arrival discovers it’s just a front for a coven of witches.

Frankly we’re terrified at the prospect of a David Gordon Green remake, not because of the film’s frightening premise but because this is a director who specialises in lazy stoner comedies. Quite how he’ll transition to intense, and very visual, European horror is beyond us.

But the casting of Fuhrman suggests that he’s looking to her previous teen film for pointers on success, after all ‘The Hunger Games’ won a 12A certificate with a gory-sounding premise and it took the box office by storm.

So perhaps we should prepare for ‘Suspiria-lite’, and listen for the distant rumble of thousands of discontented horror fans.

Oscar-winning septuagenarian Sir Michael Caine had been shooting a scene for forthcoming heist movie ‘Now You See Me’ in a disused theatre in New Orleans when he got a little sleepy (he is 79 you know) and decided to take a nap in the attic, which was being used as a dressing room.

Unfortunately he slept for quite a while, so long that the shoot wrapped, the attic was locked and everybody went home.

The forgotten actor awoke and found himself locked in the pitch black attic, without his mobile phone to call for help.

A source from the production told The Mirror:

“It was only when an on-set carpenter who had left his tools in the theatre went to do some maintenance work the following morning that he was discovered.

“It’s fair to say Michael wasn’t in the best of moods – although he was grateful to have been found.”

You know what he should’ve done? He was only supposed to… no, we can’t bring ourselves to say it.

One of the weirdest legal cases we’ve encountered recently has just come to a close as Aaron Greenspan failed in his attempt to win damages from Columbia Pictures for “defamation by omission”, after being left out of Oscar-winning film ‘The Social Network’.

Aaron Greenspan also claimed that the story infringed on details in his own autobiography, which includes his version of how the name ‘Face Book’ came into use – a matter he settled out of court with Zuckerberg back in 2009.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the claim was rebuffed because, among other reasons, the judge didn’t buy Greenspan’s idea that his omission implied he was irrelevant in the story of Facebook’s foundation.

U.S. magistrate Judge Robert Collings ruled:

“Essentially, Greenspan contends that the harm resulting from the omissions was that he was robbed of his proper recognition for his role in the origins of Facebook; that is not a claim of defamation.”

Greenspan isn’t giving up completely though, he will now appeal to the First Circuit.

‘Twilight’ star Taylor Lautner is reportedly heading right back into action, utterly ignoring the fact that his first post-’Twilight’ foray into the genre, ‘Abduction’, bombed at the box office.

Deadline are reporting that Lautner has signed up for ‘Tracers’: a thriller focussed on the still-kind-of-popular phenomenon of parkour, aka free running, aka jumping on stuff in urban environments.

Lautner will play a delivery boy/messenger in New York who has debts to the mob, but finds an escape when he bumps into a girl with a love of parkour.

Producers will no doubt be touting the film around Cannes, so we’re expecting to hear more in the near future.

What do you think, will the switch from wild wolf to urban fox rejuvenate his popularity? It’s got to be better than his scheduled appearance in ‘Grown Ups 2′, right?

Moonrise Kingdom is the new movie directed by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore).

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff, Captain Sharp. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader, Scout Master Ward. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Bob Balaban; and introduces Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as Sam and Suzy, the boy and girl.

‘Moonrise Kingdom’ is released in the UK on May 25th.