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Sam Worthington has admitted that Clash Of The Titans was not as good as it could have been.

Speaking to Moviefone, the actor conceded that there was room for improvement in the film’s sequel and promised to work hard on his own performance.

“I just think we can improve on it. I think the first one, we kind of let down some people. And yeah, I totally agree,” he said.

“The only point of doing a sequel is either the audience demands it or you believe you can better the first one. What we’re setting out to do with this one – the writers and the director and myself – is improve. I think I can act f**king better, to be honest… This one I want to kind of try to satisfy a lot more people.”

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Syfy has reportedly decided not to renew Stargate Universe for a third season.

The decision comes after the show’s second run struggled in the ratings, according to Deadline.

Recent episodes of the spinoff have attracted around 1m viewers, down on the 2.3m that watched the pilot episode in 2009.

Syfy’s decision will mark the end for the Stargate television franchise, which began with Stargate SG-1 in 1997.

The remaining ten episodes of SGU‘s second season will air in the spring.

Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi previously revealed that the show’s production team had planned out a five-year story arc.

Filmmaker Blake Edwards has died at the age of 88.

The writer-director passed away on Thursday morning with wife Julie Andrews and his children at his bedside, reports Variety.

Edwards was best known for the success of his Pink Panther film series starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau.

His other classic films include Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Days of Wine and Roses and the 1979 box office hit 10, starring Dudley Moore, Andrews and Bo Derek.

Edwards received an Academy Honorary Award in 2004 in recognition of his work as a writer, producer and director.

Nicolas Cage has signed to star in upcoming action adventure film Medallion.

The Oscar winner will portray a former thief looking for his missing daughter, who was kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi cab in New York City, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Con Air director Simon West is helming the project from a script by David Guggenheim.

Terminator Salvation director McG is co-producing the film, which is scheduled for a 2012 release.

Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon has called the new Buffy reboot movie a “mistake”.

Speaking to E!, the actor, who played Xander Harris on Joss Whedon’s genre series, said that the film would probably have a hard time finding a fanbase.

“I think it’s a mistake. They have to reach a whole completely new fanbase, and we already have that fanbase. So it’s going to really be hard to do that. But you know everyone – they remade The Flintstones. Twice, I think,” Brendon explained.

He added about the remake: “I hope their vampires don’t glitter.”

The A-Team director Joe Carnahan has claimed that his big screen revamp of the ’80s TV series “blew it” with cinema audiences.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Carnahan suggested that the blockbuster – which made just $77 million at the US box office – wasn’t marketed well enough by 20th Century Fox.

“We kind of fell victim to a marketing misstep in that there wasn’t necessarily an understanding of what the show was,” he said. “We didn’t do an adequate enough job of telling people what the movie was, if you know what I mean.”

Carnahan claimed that, despite a lack of clarity in the ad campaigns, he received positive feedback from people who went to see Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson and Sharlto Copley in the action film.

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Fox’s third entry in the Chronicles Of Narnia franchise has topped the US box office in its opening weekend.

Voyage Of The Dawn Treader took a relatively disappointing $24.5 million, as opposed to the $55 million that Prince Caspian opened with in May 2008.

Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp’s latest thriller The Tourist lands in second place taking $17 million, followed by last week’s box-office topper Tangled with $14.5 million.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 falls to fourth place taking $8.5 million, while Denzel Washington thriller Unstoppable rounds out the top five at $3.7 million.

Aronofsky’s Black Swan has surged into the top ten, taking $3.3 million in the process despite its limited release.

Also notable is Christian Bale’s new film The Fighter, which, according to Collider, took $80,000 from each of its four locations this weekend.

The US box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader – $24,500,000
2. (-) The Tourist – $17,000,000
3. (1) Tangled – $14,559,000
4. (2) Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – $8,500,000
5. (4) Unstoppable – $3,750,000
6. (-) Black Swan – $3,300,000
7. (3) Burlesque – $3,200,000
8. (5) Love & Other Drugs – $3,000,000
9. (7) Due Date – $2,545,000
10. (6) Megamind – $2,510,000

Liam Neeson has admitted that he had to avoid thinking about Disney film The Lion King while working on his character’s voice in the Chronicles Of Narnia film series.

Neeson voices the great lion Aslan in the franchise, and reprises his role in the third film The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, which was released this weekend.

“I tried not to think of James Earl Jones!” Neeson joked with MTV News, referring to the actor’s acclaimed role as Mufasa in the 1994 animation The Lion King. “That would be a little too intimidating.”

Neeson also revealed that he had travelled to Africa in preparation for his role as Aslan in order to give his acting an added sense of authenticity.