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“Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” fans rejoice! The 2nd and presumably final draft of “The World’s End”, the last entry in Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright’s “Ice Cream Trilogy” is done!

Pegg himself just tweeted the picture of the script with this little nugget: “I know we took our sweet time but as soon as I get back from outer space, we can finish this thing once and for all”. Presumably he’s talking about wrapping up “Star Trek 2” before starting production on “The World’s End”.

It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen a full-fledged offering from the trio, though the break gave us some excellent flicks such as “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”, “Star Trek” and “Attack The Block”. Wright has comic book adaptation in the works, hoping to bring Ant-Man to the big screen, but depending on how eager the folks at Marvel are to get that one up and running we could see production for “The World’s End” by late 2012.

Sweet! The official production blog for the film adaptation of “Ender’s Game” just launched today I’m a big fan of the series. I grew up reading Orson Scott Card’s books and have some fond memories of them. The series still holds up well even today. Now, after years of starts and stops, the movie is finally on its way.

Let’s start off with the bad news. It’s directed by Gavin Hood, who helmed the godawful “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”. Ok, now that we have that out of the way, we can focus on the good. It has an awesomely impressive cast, starring “Hugo’s” Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, “True Grit’s” Hailee Steinfield, Abigail Breslin and Sir Ben Kingsley. It’s also produced by Roberto Orci, who was instrumental in the reboot of the last “Star Trek” movie. With “Ender’s Game”, “Prometheus” and “Looper” on the horizon, and “The Hunger Games” getting rave reviews, it’s looking like a good year for Sci-Fi.

More insanely sweet movie posters by the good people over at Mondo. They just opened their first gallery in Austin TX for SXSW. Check out the awesome “Wrath of Khan” one. My personal fav has to be “The War of the Worlds” joint. Hit the jump for the full article over at Collider and the accompanying press release by Mondo.

Good news for all you “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” fans:

It’s just been announced that the tremendous trio of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright are going to start shooting the final installment of their “Blood & Ice Cream” Trilogy, titled “The World’s End”, next year!

The trilogy, named for the repeated motif of Cornetto ice cream and copious amounts of gore has developed a cult following over the years, so there’s definitely pressure for the finale to go out with a bang.

On another interesting note, the use of the three flavours/colours of Cornetto is a reference to Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Three Colours” film trilogy, which are all very good and definitely worth checking out.

Currently there’s very little known about the plot of “The World’s End”. I can only assume by the title that it’ll have something to do with the apocalypse. The only solid bit of info released thus far about the film is that the featured flavor of ice cream will be mint chocolate chip (“Shaun of the Dead” had strawberry and “Hot Fuzz” contained the blue classic flavor of Cornetto).