'Thor: The Dark World': 'It's utterly brilliant'

Tom Hiddleston has dropped some hints about the upcoming sequel to Thor.

The actor will reprise his role as Loki for a third time in Thor: The Dark World, following his turns in 2011's Thor and this year's The Avengers.

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"I don't want to give too much away. But I can guarantee that you won't be disappointed," Hiddleston told Total Film. "[Director] Alan Taylor's vision of Thor 2 is utterly brilliant.

"The journey continues in the most epic dimension and proportion imaginable. It's very, very exciting."

Hiddleston went on to discuss what it is about Loki that he enjoys playing most, pinpointing the character's vulnerability and feelings of inferiority within his family.

"Underneath the steely cold veneer of his trickster charm is a certain vulnerability and sensitivity - the wounded fragility of an outcast brother and son.

"His mind is a box of cats though! But I love him."

Hiddleston recently admitted that he initially thought he had "been rubbish" in Thor.

Thor: The Dark World will be released on November 8, 2013.

The Expendables 2 new movie poster

A new poster for The Expendables 2 has been released.

The poster is hand-drawn and takes inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci's famous 'Last Supper' painting.

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It features Sylvester Stallone in the centre of The Expendables 2's cast, which includes some of Hollywood biggest action stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

The Expendables 2 is a follow-up to 2010's film about a team of mercenaries.

The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth along with Terry Crews, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Scott Adkins, Charisma Carpenter, Nikolette Noel and Yu Nan complete the cast.

The Expendables 2 will arrive in theatres on August 16 in the UK and August 17 in the US

'Rush Hour 4' moving ahead

Rush Hour 4 is reportedly in the works with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker likely to reprise their roles as mismatched cops Lee and James Carter.

Producer Arthur Sarkissian told Crave that he is hoping to bring in a pair of new characters to reinvigorate the franchise.

"I am working on Rush Hour 4 right now with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan," he said. "I'm trying to do it closer to how I did Rush Hour 1, more down to earth, more gritty, introduce two new characters and make it real the way the first one was.

"I personally was not happy with the third one. I thought 1 and 2 were very good. I think 3 got out of hand a little bit. It's not a matter of just bringing them back to do another segment of that or a sequel to it by putting them in another city and having them bicker. I don't want that. I want something new."

Sarkissian suggested that he is hoping to lure Oscar-winning The Help star Octavia Spencer to join the sequel's main cast.

"Maybe Chris is now married? Jackie is married to Octavia Spencer, I don't know," he said. "Married to Chris's cousin, they live in Shanghai, Chris goes out to visit them. I don't know, I want something energetic."

Sarkissian added that no screenwriter has been enlisted to pen the script and Rush Hour franchise director Brett Ratner is "more than welcome to do it but he's got to do it in the right way".

On whether Chan would be undertaking strenuous action scenes, Sarkissian said: "He's getting a little older. I think he can fit it. What was great about Rush Hour 1 and 2 mostly was the relationship of these two and it came out of nowhere.

"It was just very real. We didn't build it, we didn't write it. It just happened. I think the action will be there but it has to be moulded to fit him today and not forced into stuff that he won't do."

Chan said during May's Cannes Film Festival that he couldn't foresee ever returning to the action comedy series.

The previous three Rush Hour movies have grossed more than $800 million at the worldwide box office. The most recent instalment, Rush Hour 3, was released in 2007.