Across The Atlantic: Eleventh Edition, 30th March 2012

I don’t know about the rest of the world, but the next thing for UK/European Cinema’s will be the release of The Avengers the 26th of April. Well, I really should be calling it Avengers Assemble as that is its official title here in the UK. Apparently, they were worried about Brits confusing the superheros with a 1960s spy-fi television series which consisted on the man characters wearing bowler hats and being, well, typically British all of the time. I can definitely see the potential confusion there…

If you’re a Harry Potter fan, you’ll love the fact that the Harry Potter Studio tour opens to the public tomorrow. Based in Hertfordshire the tour includes various sets including Dumbledore’s office and the Great Hall. [BBC]

The trailer for Neighborhood Watch has been pulled in the US after the recent death of Trayvon Martin in Florida last month. [BBC]

After picking up the Best Actor gong at the Empire Awards, Gary Oldman suggested that the Golden Globes  voting is skewed by politics. [Guardian]

James Howson, the actor who starred as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, has failed to attened court for the sentencing of the abuse of his former partner. [Guardian]

NetFlix’s Chief Executive Reed Hastings has surprisingly admitted that he believes that BSkyB’s movie channels shouldn’t be regulated by the authorities. [Guardian]

The Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano has claimed that the Italian equivalent of the Academy Awards, the David di Donatello Awards, are riddled with corruption. [Guardian]

Animation firms have said that the UK Government’s tax breaks from the recent Budget, could give creative industries a boost of nearly £700m a year. [Independent]

The big winners at the Empire Awards, which took place last Sunday, were Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two. Tinker Tailor took home the Best British Film and the Best Actor gong for Gary Oldman. While Harry Potter, surprisingly, took away the Best Film and Best Director (right) gongs. [Empire]

Actor Colin Firth and director Paul Feig are in talks for Untouchable, which will be an English-language remake of Eric Toledano and Oliver Nakache’s The Intouchables. [Empire]

Mark Millar has revealed that Kick-Ass 2 will be about what a supervillain would be like, as a group of young criminals run riot committing robberies and rapes across the city. [TotalFilm]

The first trailer for series seven of Doctor Who has been released. [BleedingCool]

David Yates has reiterated that a Doctor Who film will still be coming, however, we will still have to wait around five or six years until the potential release of the motion picture. [BleedingCool]

The Dark Knight Rises will reportedly run for just over two hours, according to Variety’s Stuart Oldham. [Metro]

Ron Howard wants to give Lewis Hamilton a role in his upcoming film Rush. [TheSun]