Not to have its thunder stolen by The Avengers’ runaway box office, Prometheus’ mysterious buzz, The Amazing Spider-Man’s inevitable Fourth of July weekend dominion, or The Dark Knight Rises’ guaranteed success (or crappy posters), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 has dropped a series of bland character posters on the world today.  Featuring a trio of the blank stares we’ve all come to know and moderately tolerate, the posters are below.

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Worried that the adaptation of Seth-Grahame Smith’s novel about our 16^th president’s lifelong quest for vengeance after his mother is murdered by vampires would be toned down for the big screen?  Well, worry no further, as Timur Bekmambetov’s cinematic take on the nutty Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is drenched with blood, vicious axe-play, and undead beheadings.  At least, according to the 17 and up red band trailer, which you can watch below.

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Summer 2012 is beginning to feel like a game of “release date musical chairs.”   After Paramount’s surprise move to push back action sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation from June 29th to 2013, Universal has decided to make hay while the proverbial sun shines by shuffling Seth McFarlane‘s R-rated comedy Ted as well.  Ted has now been moved ahead by two weeks and has been dropped into G.I. Joe’s just-vacated June 29th slot.

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A remake of the Paul Verhoeven 1980s classic RoboCop might strike some as sacrilege—the story of a good cop in the near future who’s killed by thugs, cybernetically revived by science, and forced to star in a series of increasingly bad sequels and a TV series, is cherished by many fans of 80s sci-fi.  However, the just-announced addition of Gary Oldman to the cast may just lend the remake a veneer of respectability—or as much respectability as an unnecessary remake of a film about robot cops can have, anyway.

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The TV spot—normally they’re just brutally edited ‘Greatest Hits’ versions of a film’s trailer, 30 seconds of explosions and one-liners… Unless, of course, it’s a Dark Knight Rises TV spot, in which case you get a bevy of all new footage.  That’s right: forgoing the usual route of offering up the best of their previous trailers, The Dark Knight Rises’ two new TV spots are replete with footage highlighting an aged and out of practice Bruce Wayne, his “wife” Catwoman, and a few more clips of the mysterious terrorist Bane.  Check them both out below.

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After 30 years of attempts, it’s hard to believe that John Kennedy Toole‘s comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces will ever get a film adaptation. But we can dream, can’t we? Vulture reports that Zach Galifianakis has been cast to play our dearest Working Boy, Ignatius J. Reilly, with Muppets director James Bobin at the helm.

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Surprising news today: Paramount has decided to push G.I. Joe: Retaliation‘s June 29th release date back a whole nine months. They’ve probably realized that in a summer filled with Avengers, bats and cats, and Ridley Scott’s aliens, their toy-based action film didn’t stand a chance. Or perhaps it was Battleship‘s box office failure that sent them into full panic mode. Either way, Retaliation will hit theaters in 2013 “for 3D conversion.”

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Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman is hitting theaters June 1, and as we wait, they’re trying something new with the marketing. We’ve seen commentaries for trailers before, but now we’ve got an interactive trailer that lets you comment, share, buy tickets, and also get snippets of factoids about the making of the film. Check it out below

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The Walking Dead spoilers ahoy—be warned!

Fans who were paying attention to the Season Two finale of The Walking Dead would have noted—amidst the zombified chaos—the appearance of a mysterious cloaked figure with two zombie slaves and a katana blade, who arrived from the woods to rescue Andrea from a zombie attack.  Readers of the original graphic novel recognized the character, and the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly now has details on the character’s development in the upcoming season three.

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