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The cast of Primeval have finished filming the upcoming fourth series.

The show was originally cancelled by ITV but was later revived when the channel teamed up with UKTV, BBC America and German broadcaster ProSieben.

Hannah Spearritt, Andrew Lee-Potts, Ben Miller, Jason Flemyng, Lucy Brown and Ben Mansfield have all returned to the show, while new cast members include Alexander Siddig, Ciarán McMenamin, Ruth Bradley, Jonathan Byrne, Anton Lesser and Ruth Kearney.

The programme’s executive producer Tim Haines said: “The cast and crew have been brilliant and they have put in a huge effort over the past four months to deliver some amazing work. We have also been very lucky in that Dublin has afforded us some fantastic new locations and the fact that we’ve filmed in HD for the first time means that the production values are higher than ever.

“The rough cuts I’ve seen are very exciting and I think we are going to deliver a show that will really please and delight the fans.”

The fourth series of Primeval will premiere on ITV1 next year before being broadcast on Watch. The cast are currently filming the fifth series.

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20th Century Fox has unveiled quite a nifty internet trailer for its upcoming Predators revamp. The action-packed blockbuster, produced by Robert Rodriguez and starring Adrien Brody, Topher Grace and Laurence Fishburne, opens on July 8.

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Toy Story 3 has debuted at the top of the US box office over the weekend.

The animated sequel claimed more than $109 million during its first week in release.

The Karate Kid, starring Jaden Smith, slipped to number two with $29 million, followed by The A-Team in third and Get Him To The Greek in fourth place.

Action film Jonah Hex, starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox, earned a mere $5 million to reach number eight, while Iron Man 2 and Marmaduke landed in the number nine and ten spots respectively.

The US box office top ten in full:

1. (-) Toy Story 3 – $109,000,000
2. (1) The Karate Kid – $29,000,000
3. (2) The A-Team – $13,775,000
4. (4) Get Him To The Greek – $6,117,000
5. (3) Shrek Forever After – $5,520,000
6. (6) Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time – $5,273,000
7. (5) Killers – $5,100,000
8. (-) Jonah Hex – $5,085,000
9. (9) Iron Man 2 – $2,675,000
10. (7) Marmaduke – $2,650,000

Please click here to watch the trailer for Dawn Treader, due out in cinemas on December 10.

Smaller-sized 3D glasses for children will be available in US cinemas for the first time for the opening of Toy Story 3.

Speaking to Coming Soon, RealD president Joseph Peixoto said that the new glasses are made to fit children aged 8 and younger.

The glasses will reportedly be available nationwide when the film opens this weekend.

“The little ones will be able to comfortably enjoy the great summer movies coming out in RealD 3D wearing glasses designed just for them,” Peixoto said.

He added: “Kid-sized RealD 3D glasses are made to the same high-quality standards as adult size RealD glasses, with each individually packaged in sealed bags, ensuring they are clean and fresh for every moviegoer.”

Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3, featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, opens this Friday in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D.

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Christopher Eccleston has revealed that he left Doctor Who because he was unhappy with the working environment.

Eccleston joined the show when it was rebooted in 2005 but left after one series.

In an interview with the Radio Times, the actor explained that he “wasn’t comfortable” on the programme and added: “I think it’s more important to be your own man than be successful, so I left.”

He continued: “I was open-minded but I decided after my experience on the first series that I didn’t want to do any more. I didn’t enjoy the environment and the culture that we, the cast and crew, had to work in. I thought if I stay in this job, I’m going to have to blind myself to certain things that I thought were wrong.”

However, Eccleston explained that he is proud of his time on the show and claimed that “the most important thing” is that he was able to play The Doctor.

“I really feel that because it kind of broke the mould and it helped to reinvent it,” he said. “I’m very proud of it.”

Eccleston will appear as John Lennon in BBC Four drama Lennon Naked later this month.

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The Karate Kid has debuted at the top of the US box office over the weekend.

The action drama, starring Jaden Smith, grossed $56 million, beating fellow ’80s remake The A-Team at number two with $26 million.

Shrek Forever After slips to third place with $15.8 million, followed by the comedy Get Him To The Greek and Killers, while sequels Sex And The City 2 and Iron Man 2 claim numbers eight and nine respectively.

Finally, the sci-fi horror Splice claims the tenth spot with $2.8 million.

The US box office top ten in full:

1. (-) The Karate Kid – $56,000,000
2. (-) The A-Team – $26,000,000
3. (1) Shrek Forever After – $15,800,000
4. (2) Get Him To The Greek – $10,100,000
5. (3) Killers – $8,170,000
6. (4) Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time – $6,600,000
7. (6) Marmaduke – $6,000,000
8. (5) Sex And The City 2 – $5,525,000
9. (7) Iron Man 2 – $4,550,000
10. (8) Splice – $2,860,000

Guillermo del Toro will supervise a new Van Helsing movie, reports Pajiba.

Universal has enlisted the former Hobbit director to write a treatment for and develop an “action horror story” blockbuster about the vampire hunter.

Abraham Van Helsing first appeared as the protagonist in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and has featured in various film, TV, comic and book incarnations. Del Toro’s version will not be related to 2004’s Van Helsing, which starred Hugh Jackman in the title role.

Del Toro previously directed the second Blade vampire movie and used the creatures as the basis for his novel The Strain.

Russell T. Davies has promised that the new series of Torchwood will have an overriding storyline.

A fourth season of the programme was confirmed earlier this week after the BBC teamed up with US network Starz.

“It’s very much the next step,” Davies told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s not a new version, it’s not a reboot. We’re simply moving countries.”

Davies added: “The show was previously a format show – monster of the week. The breakthrough was Children of Earth and that it became one long story. It’s not going to be Lost and take 20 years to find out what’s going on. It’s going to have a most remarkable conclusion after ten episodes.”

Torchwood is expected to air on Starz in the US and on the BBC in the UK next summer.