Josh Brolin and Jason Clarke in new trailer for Everest and new poster for Bridge of Spies

An ensemble cast and phenomenal special effects are pulling the weight behind climbing adventure Everest. The impressive first trailer has just been released. The preview shows off some seriously epic mountainside action set pieces.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns, Contraband) commands the cast of Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men, Guardians of the Galaxy), Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Lawless), Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game, Pirates of the Caribbean), Robin Wright (Forrest Gump, The Congress), John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone, The Sessions), Emily Watson (War Horse, The Theory of Everything), Sam Worthington (Avatar, The Debt), Elizbeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby, The Man From UNCLE) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler, Zodiac, Donnie Darko).

The team behind Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal and Catch Me if You Can are reuniting for the Oscar tipped spy thriller Bridge of Spies. Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler’s List, Lincoln, Jurassic Park) and Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Captain Phillips, Philadelphia, The Green Mile) are teaming up again and the film’s first poster has been released. The key players include writers Matt Charman (Suite Francaise) and The Coen Brothers (Fargo) and the cast of Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Intimacy), Amy Ryan (Birdman, Gone Boaby Gone) and Alan Alda (The Aviator, The Blacklist).

Everest – September 25th

Bridge of Spies – October 9th

Fiennes, Tatum and Swinton join Coen’s Caesar, first clip from Mockingjay, Black to helm Predator and new trailer and poster for Fury

No release date has yet been set but the new Hollywood-set comedy Hail Caesar, from legendary writer/directors the Coen brothers (Fargo, Inside Llewyn Davis, True Grit, Miller’s Crossing, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, A Serious Man, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, No Country for Old Men), is quickly becoming one of the most hyped upcoming films. With George Clooney (The Descendants, Gravity, Oceans Eleven) and Josh Brolin (Guardians of the Galaxy, Milk, Gangster Squad, The Goonies) already confirmed to be reteaming with the writing maestros as private eyes Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling, a trio of excellent actors have joined them to make their Coen debuts.

Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Skyfall, The English Patient, The Grand Budapest Hotel, In Bruges) and Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Moonrise Kingdom, Snowpiercer, Michael Clayton) have been cast as fictional Hollywood stars Laurence Lorenz and Hedda Hopper while Channing Tatum (21 Jump Street, Foxcatcher, Haywire, The Vow, Side Effects, White House Down) has been cast in an undisclosed role. It sounds as if these additions will be portraying caricature versions of themselves on screen which could be immensely fun to watch.

You may remember back at SDCC (which returns this year) 2013 that a short trailer appeared to be teasing a new Predator film but turned out, to our disappointment, to be an anniversary rerelease of the original. Even if it is just an Arnie vehicle, Predator has hugely stood the test of time and is easily most glorious piece of ’80s awesomeness. Back in ’87, Shane Black portrayed the supporting character of Hawkins (the guy who points out that Phillips is bleeding) but has now become renowned as the writer of Lethal Weapon and The Monster Squad and the director of Iron Man 3 and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Since then, Predator has starred in an additional four films (1990’s Predator 2, 2004’s Alien vs. Predator, 2007’s Aliens vs. Predator and 2010’s Predators) and remains an icon of horror and of sci-fi, only Alien and The Thing could pose a challenge. Black is now confirmed to be writing and directing a new reboot of the franchise and he seems like a solid choice for the gig. Not only does he bring the original’s DNA but he can make his films fun, thrilling and really to the tone of John McTiernan’s forever quotable masterpiece of cheese and gore. Some die-hard fans are rooting for McTiernan (The Hunt for Red October, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard, With a Vengeance) to return now that he’s out of prison but Black’s take seems too promising to pass on.

It’s not irregular for modern blockbusters to take the path of promoting your film with a viral website. Days of Future Past had Trask Industires/The Bent Bullet and RoboCop had OmniCorp but no tie-in site has become as detailed or consumed as the propaganda of The Hunger Games’ benevolent massacrer the Capitol. President Snow’s (Donald Sutherland) chilling new address to Panem has an excellently crafted twist that may well prove spoilery for those who haven’t read the books or seen the most recent film, Catching Fire. Mockingjay Part 1 is directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) will star Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore, Sam Clafin, Jena Malone, Liam Hemsworth, Willow Shields, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Natalie Dormer, Toby Jones and Stanley Tucci as well as featuring one of the final performances of the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master, Synecdoche New York, Capote).

Finally today we’re excited to present the very first trailer for WWII thriller Fury which tells the loosely true story of its titular tank and its crew. The footage shown is oddly promising so we can safely name it as a major Oscar contender for next year, alongside The Judge, Foxcatcher, Interstellar and Gone Girl. David Ayer (writer of Training Day and director of Harsh Times/End of Watch) directs Brad Pitt, Michael Pena, Jon Beranthal, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Isaacs.

Fury – October 24th

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – November 21st

Predator – 2017?

Hail Caesar – 2015

Spielberg appoints the Coens for new thriller, trailer for Woody Allen’s latest and find out the title of Man of Steel 2

With American Sniper now in the hands of Clint Eastwood and Robopocalypse completely dropping off the radar, Oscar winner Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, AI, Minority Report, Jaws, Catch Me if You Can, Lincoln, War Horse, Munich, Amistad, The Terminal, Raiders of the Lost, Ark, Empire of the Sun, The Colour Purple, The Last Crusade, The Temple of Doom, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Schindler’s List) seemed to confirm his next project as an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s BFG. As well as this though he’s developing a new Cold War thriller with Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips, Road to Perdition, Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Cloud Atlas) which took a major leap today with the appointment of some of the finest writers around. The Coen Brothers (True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men) have been hired to scribe the film.

We’ve also delighted today to unveil the first trailer for Woody Allen’s latest work, a bizarre new comedy called Magic in the Moonlight. The man behind Annie Hall, Blue Jasmine and Manhattan directs the stellar cast of Colin Firth (The Kings’ Speech), Emma Stone (The Help) and Jackie Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook).

We’ve been after the official title of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel follow up for nearly a year and it’s finally been revealed. So everybody get ready for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Holly Hunter, Callan Mulvey, Tao Okamoto and Jeremy Irons.

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice – April 29th 2016

Untitled Spielberg Cold War Thriller – 2017?

Magic in the Moonlight – September 19th

Clarke and Hoult are the new Bonnie and Clyde, new Guardians poster and Coens announce Hail Caesar

With cult classics such as Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art Thou, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Big Lebowski, Fargo and Best Picture winner No Country For Old Men in their back catalogue, you’d understand why there’s a great deal of interest for the next writing/directing effort of Joel and Ethan Coen. The four time Oscar winners have now confirmed their next project as a dark comedy titled Hail Caesar. According to Deadline, the story will see ex-cop Eddie Mannix hired by various Hollywood studios as a private eye, spying and reporting his way to infamy. The duo rarely misfire so we wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up a classic alongside the Coen’s previous work.

Depression-time American bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are some of the most renowned names in crime, mainly down to the various glamourised film and television adaptations. The couple, who quickly became a nation’s celebrity outlaws until their deaths in 1934, seem to be due for another cinematic reworking with Golden Globe winning director Michael Sucsy (Grey Gardens, The Vow) making a pair of solid castings. British stars Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Dom Hemingway, Spike Island) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Warm Bodies, About a Boy) have been confirmed for the roles – appropriately young castings for a pair who died in their early 20s.

Finally today, we’ve got our hands on the brand new poster for Marvel’s space epic Guardians of the Galaxy. James Gunn (Super, Slither) directs the stellar cast of Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, Glenn Close, John C Reilly and Djimon Hounsou. This year’s riskiest production just keeps getting more awesome.

Guardians of the Galaxy – August 1st

Go Down Together – 2016?

Hail Caesar – 2015?

12 Years triumphs at People’s Choice Awards and new Amazing Spider-Man 2 posters

After director Steve McQueen and star Michael Fassbender were snubbed for both Hunger and Shame, they’re finally getting award recognition for 12 Years a Slave, which won Best Film at the Golden Globes and People’s Choice and shone out at the Academy Award nominations. Here’s the full list

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Saving Mr Banks

Best Actor

Matthew MacConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Robert Redford – All is Lost

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Judi Dench – Philomena

Brie Larson – Short Term 12

Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr Banks

Best Supporting Actor

Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Philllips

Daniel Bruhl – Rush

Bradley Cooper – American Hustle

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

James Gandolfini – Enough Said

Best Supporting Actress

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Scarlett Johansson – Her

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Julia Roberts – August: Osage County

June Squibb – Blue Jasmine

Oprah Winfrey – The Butler

Best Young Actor/Actress

Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue is the Warmest Colour

Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game

Liam James – The Way Way Back

Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief

Tye Sheridan – Mud

Best Acting Ensemble

American Hustle

August: Osage County

The Butler

Nebraska

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Spike Jonze – Her

Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave

David O’Russell – American Hustle

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay

Spike Jonze – Her

Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell – American Hustle

Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine

Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis

Bob Nelson – Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay

John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave

Tracy Letts – August: Osage County

Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight

Billy Ray – Captain Phillips

Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – Philomena

Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Cinematography

Emmannuel Lubezki – Gravity

Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis

Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska

Roger Deakins – Prisoners

Sean Bobbit – 12 Years a Slave

Best Art Direction

The Great Gatsby

Gravity

Her

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

12 Years a Slave

Best Editing

Gravity

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Rush

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Costume Design

The Great Gatsby

American Hustle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Saving Mr Banks

12 Years a Slave

Best Hair and Make-up

American Hustle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Butler

Rush

12 Years a Slave

Best Visual Effects

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Iron Man 3

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Animated Feature

Frozen

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Monsters University

The Wind Rises

Best Action Movie

Lone Survivor

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Iron Man 3

Rush

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Actor in an Action Movie

Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor

Henry Cavill – Man of Steel

Robert Downey Jr – Iron Man 3

Brad Pitt – World War Z

Best Comedy

American Hustle

Enough Said

The Heat

This is the End

The Way Way Back

The World’s End

Best Actor in a Comedy

Leonardo Di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Christian Bale – American Hustle

James Gandolfini – Enough Said

Simon Pegg – The World’s End

Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back

Best Actress in a Comedy

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Sandra Bullock – The Heat

Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha

Julia Louis Dreyfus – Enough Said

Melissa McCarthy – The Heat

Best Sci-fi Horror Movie

Gravity

The Conjuring

Star Trek Into Darkness

Iron Man 3

Best Foreign Language Film

Blue is the Warmest Colour

The Great Beauty

The Hunt

The Past

Best Documentary Feature

20 Feet From Stardom

The Act of Killing

Blackfish

Stories We Tell

Tim’s Vermeer

Best Song

Let it Go – Frozen

Atlas – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Happy – Despicable Me 2

Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Please Mr Kennedy – Inside Llewyn Davis

Young and Beautiful – The Great Gatsby

Best Score

Stephen Price – Gravity

William Butler, Owen Pallett – Her

Thomas Newman – Saving Mr Banks

Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave

Gravity has won the most awards with an impressive six wins but it’s 12 Years a Slave’s day as it picked up Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. American Hustle gained four wins while Frozen, The Great Gatsby, Blue is the Warmest Colour and Lone Survivor got two. I’m not going to do in depth analysis but I’m stilled surprised Her is being praised as an “original” and “fresh” premise as it has exactly the same plot as a Big Bang Theory episode where a lonely Raj (Kunal Nayyar) falls in love with his I-Phone’s Siri. I’m probably not the first to say it but I haven’t heard anyone else pick up on it.

The only other major piece of news is the stunning new poster for Marvel and Sony’s superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Marc Webb directs and Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, Dane DeHaan and Chris Cooper star but today’s focus is the hopefully terrifying new villain Electro, played by Ray, Collateral and Django Unchained’s Jamie Foxx.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – April 18th

Tuorhoth’s first predictions for the 2014 Academy Awards

October and November are seeing the releases of some of the huge contenders for the Oscars next year well before award season has begun. We’ve no idea how well any of these films are going to do critically seeing as none of them have actually been released to mainstream audiences. This isn’t an award by award breakdown but we’re giving you a brief guide as to what could be nominated in “the big six” awards at world’s biggest annual movie event. I’m also ranking the potential nominees by their likelihood of winning by colour: red means most likely to win, blue means second most likely and green means I’ve ranked them third.

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett – The Monuments Men

Cameron Diaz – The Counsellor

Julianne Moore – Carrie

Michelle Pfeiffer – The Family

Kristen Wiig – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Benedict Cumberbatch – 12 Years A Slave

Jean Dujardin – The Monuments Men

Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street

Tommy Lee Jones – The Family

Best Leading Actress

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Nicole Kidman – Grace of Monaco

Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Chloe Grace Moretz – Carrie

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

Best Leading Actor

George Clooney – Gravity

Steve Coogan – Philomena

Leonardo di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips or Saving Mr. Banks (undecided)

Ben Stiller – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Director

Alfonso Cauron – Gravity

George Clooney – The Monuments Men

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Ben Stiller – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Picture

12 Years A Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

The Counsellor

Gravity

The Monuments Men

Out of the Furnace

Saving Mr. Banks

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Wolf of Wall Street

So, these are my beginning of season suggestions for who will be nominated at this prestigious event. We’re now going to talk through those films and actors that I haven’t included but could be major contenders. There’s a huge cast for The Monuments Men which I haven’t fully gone over. I’ve put George Clooney, who I’ve already selected for Best Director for this film, in for Best Leading Actor for Gravity not The MM but he could easily win for both. Stars of The Monuments Men like Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville and Bob Balaban could squeeze into the supporting actor position that I placed Dujardin in. Dujardin is already popular with the academy after his Lead Actor win in 2012 for The Artist and as likely could get a nomination for The Wolf of Wall Street instead of The Monuments Men.

Wolf of Wall Street could do very well. Jonah Hill may seem like a surprise nominee but remember that he got similar recognition at the 2012 Oscars for Moneyball. I’ve only put Nicole Kidman forward for this film but Grace of Monaco is a noteworthy contender for a Best Pic nomination. American Hustle is only in one award on my list but the stellar cast of Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence (whose already in for Hunger Games 2), Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale. I think it will win Best Original Screenplay however.

Other potential nominees are the aforementioned Bale for Out of the Furnace, for which Casey Affleck and Zoe Saldana could also be in contention. Dame Judi Dench could get into the actress categories for Philomena. Robert De Niro stars in both American Hustle and The Family and could crack into the shortlists. Colin Farrel and Paul Giamatti came close to my lists for Saving Mr. Banks. 12 Years A Slave could through in Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul Dano and Quvenzhane Wallis back into the award scene while The Counsellor could do the same for Fassbender, Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem as well as it’s director Sir Ridley Scott. We can’t rule out other entries like All is Lost with Robert Redford, The Book Thief with Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson or Inside Llewyn Davis (the Coen brothers’ folk tale with Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan). Spike Lee’s mysterious action remake Oldboy could creep in with it’s stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen, Hannah Simone and Sharlto Copley.

It’s not too late to remove this year’s earlier hits like The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann directing Leonardo di Caprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton), Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen directing Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin), Prisoners (Hugh Jackman, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard and Jake Gyllenhaal in the directing of Denis Villeneuve) and Rush (Ron Howard’s biopic with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl). Blockbuster action films like the upcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Ender’s Game or 47 Ronin have been known to do well as the Oscars (see The Dark Knight, Inception and a few others) and there’s usually a surprise foreign language film in the mix (like Amour). There’s a whole variety of films that could be next year’s nominees but I think the leaders are: Gravity, Captain Phillips, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Monuments Men and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Find out more about these films at our Future Films pages for 2013 and 2014.

The 86th Academy Awards will be hosted by Ellen De Generes and will be on ABC on March 2nd 2014

Tell us in the comments who YOU think will win big at the 2014 Oscars.