Photos (here, here and here) from the period drama The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany, Thomas Kretschmann, Mark Strong, and Jim Broadbent. [imdb]

The finale Twilight poster.

Gregor Jordan, who directed that subversive black comedy about U.S. soldiers in West Berlin, Buffalo Soldiers, will helm the suspense thriller Unthinkable, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen, Carrie-Anne Moss, Brandon Routh, Gil Bellows, and Martin Donovan. (THR) [imdb]

Ridley Scott confirms that he is making a film based on Aldous Huxley's classic novel Brave New World with Leonardo DiCaprio. (io9)

Quantum of Solace spoilers in the Daily Mail! I have to say, I had my doubts about Gemma Arterton, who plays a Bond girl in the new film, at first. (Especially when she starting getting a reputation as a plot blabbermouth.) But after seeing Lost in Austen and the new Tess of the D'Urbervilles, she's really impressed me with her range.

Sons of Anarchy has been picked up for a second season. (THR)

Entourage has also been renewed. (THR)

Jace at Televisionary previews the new pilot for the American remake of Life on Mars.

A Catherine Weaver scene from a future episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Also, some spoilery pictures from 2x08 of Derek Reese and ( *spoiler* )

Gave myself blisters trying to find a way across George Street in the city - it was all fenced off for the St. Patrick's Day parade. And no: I didn't have any green Guinness. I was at the QVB there for something called "high tea" with Jordan. Talk about Irish-English rivalry. *g*

Skipping tutorials on Wednesday to see a matinee of Tim Supple's version of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Sydney Theatre. The multilingual production is performed in English, Tamil, Malayalan, Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Sanskrit, by a cast from across India and Sri Lanka. If anyone's in the vicinity, you'll see me at the upstairs bar nursing a chardonnay.

A new film adaptation of Huxley's dystopian classic Brave New World is in works, produced by George DiCaprio and starring his son, Leonardo, directed by Ridley Scott with a screenplay by Andrew Nicholls. (LA Times)

According to a recent interview with the Boston Globe, Charlize Theron is planning to produce and star in a remake of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, the final installment of a mondo-violent trilogy by Korean director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy). (via JoBlo)

Carla Gugino will star opposite Dwayne Johnson in Disney's Race to Witch Mountain. A remake of the 1975 film, the story concerns a brother and sister, each of whom possess paranormal powers, trying to elude capture by a group of men who want to exploit them. Alexander Ludwig (The Seeker: The Dark is Rising) and AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia) play the psychic siblings. Gugino will play a discredited astrophysicist and UFO expert who meets up with a Las Vegas cab driver (Johnson) helping the children. (Coming Soon) [imdb]

David Gittens reports from the Botswana set of HBO's new series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The film-length pilot will air in the UK on Easter Monday. [imdb]