It was just a few days before Christmas that Screen Gems gifted Underworld fans with a bounty of new material for Underworld Awakening starring Kate Beckinsale, the next installment in the Lycans vs Vampires saga opening on January 20. The gift basket included a clip called Underworld Legacy, designed to catch up anyone unfamiliar with the series, the first tv spots and a brand new trailer (which is now showing in theaters in front of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), with more footage from the film, including a better look at the monstrous mega super Lycan and Eve, (India Eisley, The Secret Life of the American Teenager) the Lycan/Vampire Hybrid at the center of the film. Well, today, as a little pre-New Year’s present, they’ve released a few more hi-res stills.

Beckinsale returns as Selene in all her leather and latex glory. She’s a bad ass vampire or ‘death dealer’ and in Underworld Awakening, she escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, and a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrioress leads the battle against humankind.

Underworld Awakening, directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (The director of the first two, Len Wiseman returns as a producer. He’s also one of four credited writers) also stars Michael Ealy, Theo James, Stephen Rae, Charles Dance and Sandrine Holt. It opens January 20 in IMAX, 3D and 2D, everywhere.