UK newspaper, The Daily Mail has, via their website, unveiled a big secret stash of images from Tomas Alfredson’s breathlessly anticipated new spy thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy!

At the height of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to ferret out a Soviet agent, or mole, within MI6. He could be any one of five men at the top of ‘The Circus’ (see below).

Below you will find first looks at Benedict Cumberbatch (Peter Guillam), Toby Jones (Percy Alleline), and Mark Strong (Jim Prideaux) and Sveltana Khodchenkova (Irina) as well as new views of John Hurt (Control), Gary Oldman, Colin Firth (Bill Haydon) and David Dencik (Toby Esterhase).  No Tom Hardy (Ricki Tarr) *sad face* and we still haven’t seen Ciaran Hinds (Roy Bland).

The paper also shared some of author John LeCarre’s descriptions of characters and key terms (which might make it easier for those who haven’t read the intelligent and complicated novel to follow along):

The Circus: Le Carré’s name for MI6. The author says, ‘There was a building opposite Moss Bros at Cambridge Circus which had a lot of rather mysterious curved windows to it, and two or three doors. And I thought, “That would make rather a good HQ.”‘ In the film, the disused Inglis Barracks in Mill Hill, north London, were used for the Circus offices.

Control: The head of the Circus and Smiley’s old mentor (John Hurt). Suspecting that someone in the service is a Russian mole, he devises the code names Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Poorman and Beggarman for the possible suspects – Beggarman being Smiley. Percy Alleline (Toby Jones) swiftly succeeds John Hurt’s character after a disastrous mission in Czechoslovakia.

Tinker: The code name for Percy Alleline. The head of the group in the Circus with access to Witchcraft (see below).

Tailor: Bill Haydon (Colin Firth). One of Alleline’s deputies, he runs ‘London Station’ and is having an affair with Smiley’s wife.

Soldier: Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds). Another high-ranking Circus officer, and Haydon’s No 2, he was originally recruited by Smiley.

Poorman: Toby Esterhase (David Dencik). Another of Smiley’s recruits, he is head of the ‘lamplighters’ – a section that provides surveillance and couriers.

Scalphunters, babysitters, honeytraps and moles: Le Carré explained some of his technical terms in an interview after the book’s publication: ‘A scalphunter was a strong-arm man who did the really hard-nose, mail-fist operation… babysitters were the bodyguards who covered the clandestine meetings.’ A honeytrap, of course, was ‘a sexual enticement operation’. ‘All of those (words), I think, are made up,’ he said, ‘although I’m pleased to see that one or two have gone into the language… A “mole” is, I think, a genuine KGB term for somebody of the Philby sort who is recruited at a very tender age.’

Witchcraft: The code name for the intelligence produced by the Russian source Merlin. The group in the Circus with access to Witchcraft is seen as the elite.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy opens in the US & Canada on November 18 while the UK  gets it two months earlier, on 16 September (bastards!)

What’s Your Number, a new romantic comedy by director Mark Mylod, best known for having directed a lot of episodes of “Entourage” as well as three episodes of the US version of “Shameless”, stars Anna Faris as Ally, a single 30-something who reads in a magazine that a woman who sleeps with more than twenty men will never get married. Realizing that she has bedded exactly that number, she then revisits her conquests to see if any of them are the marrying kind or might have been her one true love, all while pining away for Colin (Chris Evans) who lives in her building.

We get the suddenly very hot Evans as one of her suiters, Zachary Quinto and Faris’ real life hubby, Chris Pratt from the hilarious “Parks & Recreation” as two more. The cast also includes Joel McHale, Thomas Lennon, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Dave Anable, Ed Begley, Jr. Ivana Milecivic, Ari Graynor and the voice of Aziz Ansari.

What’s Your Number filmed in Boston last Spring and after some haggling behind the scenes with regard to just how raunchy they could go and still make Faris ‘likeable’, the film went through a lot of tweaking in post production, including the addition of Ansari’s voice work. Fox is hoping to capitalize on this summer’s “female-driven comedy” trend that started with Bridesmaids and Bad Teacher as well as the hot but foul mouthed female as portrayed by Jennifer Aniston in Horrible Bosses.

Below is the UK version of the trailer:

Find out if What’s Your Number is worth a call back on September 30 in the US, Canada and the UK.

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Tonight at 6 pm ET/3 pm PT you can watch the cast of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Extravaganza  as MTV News: Comic Con Takeover” Kicks Off.

The cast that is expected includes: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Reaser, Julia Jones and Jackson Rathbone.

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Comic Con has barely begun, but it’s already yielding a bounty of new stuff for us plebes who can’t get there! Relativity Media has gifted us with a boatload of new images from Tarsem Singh’s Immortals!

Starring your brand new Superman: Man of Steel, Henry Cavill, Immortals is the story of Theseus  (Cavill) and his quest to free some imprisoned Titans.

The official synopsis: “Eons after the Gods won their mythic struggle against the Titans, a new evil threatens the land. Mad with power, King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) has declared war against humanity. Amassing a bloodthirsty army of soldiers disfigured by his own hand, Hyperion has scorched Greece in search of the legendary Epirus Bow, a weapon of unimaginable power forged in the heavens by Ares. Only he who possesses this bow can unleash the Titans, who have been imprisoned deep within the walls of Mount Tartaros since the dawn of time and thirst for revenge. In the king’s hands, the bow would rain destruction upon mankind and annihilate the Gods. But ancient law dictates the Gods must not intervene in man’s conflict. They remain powerless to stop Hyperion…until a peasant named Theseus (Henry Cavill) comes forth as their only hope. Secretly chosen by Zeus, Theseus must save his people from Hyperion and his hordes.”

Alongside Cavill and Rourke, the film stars Kellan Lutz, Frieda Pinto, Luke Evans, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Stephen Dorff and Stephen McHattie. Director Singh is currently at work on one of the Snow White projects (the one with Julia Roberts and Sean Bean, the one without a name).Immortals is produced by the same people that brought us 300, so I expect it will at least look unbelievably cool, with or without the 3D.

The Gods get their hero on November 11 when Immortals opens in the US, Canada & the UK.

And that may be the point!  Steven Soderbergh’s other new film, Contagion has spread out a new poster. On it are listed a number of cities, presumably where the ‘contagious’ disease at the center of the film hits first. Is it completely irrational that I was relieved not to find Boston on that list?

The films synopsis: Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

Due to be infected are Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle, John Hawkes, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Sanaa Lathan, Elliot Gould and of course, Gwyneth Paltrow, who we know from last week’s trailer, does not fare well.

First Trailer (and Poster) For Contagion

This is my kind of horror movie! Personally, I loved 1995′s Outbreak, which Contagion seems to resemble, without the cute monkey. Of course, I’ll watch a dog food commercial if it includes Kevin Spacey.

Contagion begins spreading the love on September 9 in the US & Canada and then crosses the pond to the UK (I’m picturing a giant cloud of germs hovering over the Atlantic) on 21 October.