Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news - so you don’t have to get your paws dirty…

The trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes is out, looking promising:

Gossip Girl star (and Zac Efron look-alike) Chace Crawford is to star in the remake of 80s musical Footloose.

BBC Films has announced that it is planning to make a sequel to the 1999 comedy hit East is East.

Woody Allen has received over £3 million pounds in damages from American Apparel, who used the director’s image without permission in an advertising campaign last year.

DreamWorks is set to make a biopic on Martin Luther King, fulfilling a longtime dream of Steven Spielberg, who will be producing.

George Clooney is to star as an assassin hiding out in a quaint Italian town. The movie, A Very Private Gentleman, is an adaptation of a Martin Booth novel.

And last but not least…

Robert Pattinson has agreed to do the fourth installment in the Twilight series - Breaking Dawn. An exclusive clip from the second movie - New Moon, due out this winter - will be shown at the MTV Movie Awards on 31 May.