James Franco

Although this trailer isn't named "Trailer 2" officially, like they do now, it's a different edit to the longer trailer you might have seen on accessreel.com.  It's more menacing with more shots of apes and chimps running amok. If this is all news to you, then the upcoming movie is a reboot of the famous 1970s film franchise and is the work of Rupert Wyatt who directed the 2008 crime drama THE ESCAPIST. More after the jump.

We have a couple of trailers that hit the net today, first up is RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES starring James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Tom Felton and Andy Serkis. The special effects are done by Weta Digital the guys also behind Avatar and Lord of the Rings. The trailer looks good its sort of like an 'origins' story so a bit different to what we have seen before... Looks awesome but also kinda creepy.

In interesting news today The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced via Press release the hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards on the 27th February 2011. In previous years we usually see comedians and in the past 15 years or so hosts are usually comprising between Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin, Jon Stewart and even Hugh Jackman was thrown in there for the 2009 awards.

I'm pretty excited about this so here you go! Here are the hosts for the Academy Awards 2011.

Fox Searchlight releases the first teaser to Danny Boyle's new project 127 HOURS. Boyle coming off the great success of "Slumdog Millionaire" and previous classics such as "28 days Later", "The Beach" and "Trainspotting" brings the true story of Aron Ralson, the mountain climber you may remember a couple of years ago who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a massive boulder for nearly 5 days.