Thursday Link-A-Mania

• Entertainment Weekly has posted a new image from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. It’s crying out for a caption competition if you ask us…

• Actor Paddy Considine (Red Riding, Hot Fuzz) is teaming up with Pegg, Frost and Wright again in The World’s End. Variety reports that he will play a former charmer who is now a divorced architect.

• Sneak peek of the new The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 trailer which is released on Friday. It’s still looking like Mills & Boon meets The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.

• David Slade (30 Days Of Night, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), who we all thought had a future ahead of him as a horror director, seems to be carving a niche as a genre romance specialist instead. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’s signed up to helm Disney’s Matched, based on the young adult novel (the first in a trilogy) by Ally Condie. It’s a sci-fi tale set in a world where the government decides who you should marry based on algorithms. Here’s the trailer for the second book in the series, Crossed.

• Push and Lucky Number Slevin director Paul McGuigan is in talks to shoot 20th Century Fox’s untitled Frankenstein project (replacing Real Steel’s Shawn Levy), from a script by Max Landis (Chronicle), reports Variety. Landis has previously told shocktillyoudrop.com that the film is a period piece, told from the point of view of Dr Frankenstein’s servant, Igor.

• Another actor from American Horror Story season one has been confirmed for a new role in season two, subtitled Asylum. Frances Conroy, who previously played a housekeeper, will appear as “the ultimate angel” reckons creator and showrunner Ryan Murphy. [via TVLine]

• In an interview with a Brazilian (translated by Latino Review) RoboCop remake director Jose Padilha has denied rumours that he’s unhappy working on the film.