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Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro explains his upcoming horror project, which is set to feature his Pacific Rim star Charlie Hunnam and The Amazing Spider-Man's Emma Stone:

It's the turn of the century. So it's at the turn of the century and half of the movie takes place in America, and the other half takes place in a crumbling mansion in Cumbria. And basically it's a ghost story and gothic romance, trying to subvert the rules of the usual gothic romance…the first half is a love story, then that love story turns darker. And it's at the same time a ghost story. I'm working at this moment with Lucinda Clarkson who is a really great playwright from the UK. She has the proper degree of perversity and intelligence to turn it into something interesting to watch.

[Total Film via /Film]

Bond 24

Moneypenny actress Naomie Harris says she can't talk about whether she's signed on for multiple films, but she would like to see Sam Mendes to return to direct the Skyfall followup:

I'd definitely like to see him direct another one – I think most people would as well. He brought a breath of fresh air. He's a fan of the movies first and foremost. So he wanted to deconstruct it, but in an incredibly sensitive way. And he wanted to go back to the grass-roots of Bond, and make sure that he had those classical elements, and make more of a feature of them as well as putting a modern twist on them. I love the fact that he was respectful of Ian Fleming as well as respectful of the fact that Bond has to respect the times. And be modern. He was able to do that, which sounds easy but isn't. It's walking a very thin tightrope.

How about a hypothetical then – if the character returns for Bond 24, what would you like to see her doing?
Well, she's ended up behind a desk, so I think the natural thing is to explore that for a while. But then maybe get back out in the field and make amends because she messed up pretty badly. It would be nice to see her shown as capable, because she is a capable field agent. It was just very difficult circumstances taking that shot. Which everyone likes to bring up and take the mickey out of me about.

Spawn

Comics creator Todd MacFarlane is still talking up a new Spawn movie, or more accurately a franchise of ten new Spawn movies, likely heavily involving CGI. He also claims that an unnamed Oscar-winning actor desperately wants to play the title character:

"Every three weeks he's on the phone going, ‘Todd, where's the script? Todd, where's the script?' The pitch I gave was that we could do ten of these for the next ten years and he wouldn't have to be 22 for the rest of his life."

Since Spawn's alter ego Al Simmons is African-American, that theoretically cuts down the possible identities for this anonymous, Spawn-loving Oscar winner, especially if you assume Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, and Louis Gosset, Jr. are all too old to play the part, regardless of the amount of CGI involved, and Denzel Washington isn't going to do it because, well, he's Denzel Washington. That potentially leaves Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. as the only likely candidates, assuming MacFarlane isn't just making shit up, which probably isn't a safe assumption. All that said, I feel compelled to point out that Nicolas Cage is an Oscar winner, and if there's any Oscar winner I could see haranguing Todd MacFarlane for the title role in the new Spawn despite being completely wrong for the part, it's obviously Nicolas Cage. Well, him and Olivia de Havilland, but that's just to annoy noted Spawn super-fan Joan Fontaine. [MTV via Cinema Blend]

Person of Interest

Here's a promo for the next episode, "Relevance."

Touch

Being Human (US)

Here's a promo for next Monday's episode, "One Is Silver And The Other Pagan."

Warehouse 13

Star Eddie McClintock sent out this tweet revealing that the show returns for the second half of season four on April 22.

Additional reporting by Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders.