Thursday Link-A-Mania

• The Brian Singer-directed Jack The Giant Killer has had a slight name change to Jack The Giant Slayer (is that more PC or something?) and now will be released in the States on 1 March 2013 instead of the previously-announced 22 March. Right, we’re off to update all the Giant Killer tags on the site… [via ComingSoon]

• Stephan Zlotescu’s acclaimed short film, True Skin (below) was clearly always intended as an audition tape for its creator, and it looks like the stunt has worked. According to The Hollywood Reporter Warner Bros has picked up the movie rights and attached Zlotescu to direct. True Skin is set in the not-too-distant future where augmentation is the way of life. For Kaye, still a natural, augmenting will help him keep pace in this now hyper-paced world. However, after acquiring an off-market prototype, Kaye quickly finds himself fighting not only for his own humanity, but something much larger…

• Coming Soon has a bunch of new images from Silent Hill: Revelation 3D – click on the image to see more.

• According to Deadline, author Dean Koontz’s radical reinterpretation of the Frankenstein story in his “Prodigal Son” book series is set to make the transition to TV. US cable channel TNT is currently developing the project.

• The Iron Man 3 Facebook page is promising to unveil a sneak preview of the film if it gets enough Likes. So go on. Do your bit. We did. (Incidentally, a similar site promising a trailer for Star Trek 2 went on line yesterday, promising a trailer in return for Likes, but that turned out to be fake; this one appears to be the real deal.)

• Vulture has compiled a list of the individuals, shows and movie franchises with the most devoted fanbases (based primarily on Facebook and Twitter followers it seems), and guess what? Sci-fi and fantasy has a strong showing with Game Of Thrones topping the list.

1 Game Of Thrones
2 Star Wars
3 Twilight
4 Harry Potter
5 Justin Bieber
6 Lord Of The Rings
7 Hunger Games
8 Lady Gaga
9 Doctor Who
10 Arrested Development
11 Tyler Perry
12 Joss Whedon
13 Community
14 Star Trek
15 Oprah
16 True Blood
17 Bruce Springsteen
18 Neil Gaiman
19 Insane Clown Posse
20 Kevin Smith
21 Phish
22 Stephen Colbert
23 Lil B
24 Real Housewives
25 Mad Men