What with Battle: Los Angeles and Skyline, you might have had enough of alien invasions and other such extra-terrestrial threats. But on the opposite scale of things comes an intriguing new viral site launched for a completely unknown film: They're Here.

With pretty much nothing else on the site apart from a giant red clock counting down and some ominous phrases, there's not much to go on. Just a promise to reveal all on 10-10-10. Whatever there is to reveal. Until then, there's some Twitter action going on from a (presumably fictional) user called Paul Geist. And a very short bit of teaser video on YouTube. Which was shot near Falkirk, Scotland.

That location plus the UK URL of the site suggests a low budget feature, which promises to have a trailer arriving later this month before the big reveal. Will this end up linked to a bigger Hollywood project? Given the activity (both promotional and legal) going on with invasion flicks Battle: Los Angeles and Skyline, it seems unlikely. We'll be keeping a tab on this potentially interesting and most likely indie bit of sci-fi.

The website is over here, and you can read on for their video of a UFO sighting.

It's been a while since we heard about the carefully assembled cast for the remake of Fright Night, but finally here's a look at one of them - none other than David Tennant. And he couldn't look less like Dr Who if he tried.

Sporting a Jack Sparrow-like mix of eyeliner, facial hair and a massive wig, Tennant plays Peter Vincent, the part originally played by Roddy McDowall. Shifting things a bit from the 1985 cult comedy-horror, Craig Gillespie's update relocates the action from boring suburbia to the bright lights of Las Vegas - a setting which suits Tennant's Vincent, originally an ageing host for the titular TV show, now re-imagined as a stageshow magician.

Incorporating horror movies into his act, Vincent is approached for help by scared youngster Charley (Anton Yelchin), who believes that his neighbour (Colin Farrell) is a vampire. That promising trio are supported by a cast that includes Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Toni Collette, Dave Franco, and Imogen Poots.

While the basic plot has stayed the same, Marti Noxon's script is clearly aiming for something other than the dry humour of McDowall's Vincent. Expect some crazy effects, over-the-top showmanship and a chance for David Tennant to really let rip outside of the TARDIS.

The image appeared online thanks to Shock Till You Drop, who snapped the banners at a Hard Rock Cafe where filming took place. Read on for a big sexy version.

Stalkers of Diablo Cody will recall how last year she was down to produce an adaptation of SG Browne's novel Breathers: A Zombie's Lamenth. Well, she's still doing that, but she's now got a script to look at, along with some possible stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson.

The actors are nothing more than "loosely attached" to the project, according to Pajiba, but it's a sign that another zombie movie is gathering momentum. This one will introduce the world to Andy, a dead guy who gets reanimated as a zombie, and then has to deal with living in a society that ignores his undead rights. Whoah. Deep.

Cody, meanwhile, is still moving her other project, Young Man, forwards, with Charlize Theron and Jason Reitman still attached to star and direct. But the writer of Juno and Jennifer's Body has declared herself thrilled with the Breathers screenplay.

In the face of further undead adventures, the most reassuring thing seems to be the fact that it's scribbled by Going the Distance's Geoff LaTulippe - a guy who certainly gets both emotion and humour. If Gordon-Levitt climbs onboard, then Breathers will have two good things going for it.

I'm still not sure that the world needs another zombie film, though. Even if the zombies are especially sexy ones. 

John Woo is currently focussing on Flying Tigers, his 1940 aerial epic about fighter pilot Claire Le Chennault, who taught the Chinese to fly before they took on the Japanese in WWII. But while he targets Liam Neeson for the lead role in his $90m IMAX blockbuster, the director is also looking at doing something even more dramatic: remaking his own movie The Killer, and Le Samourai.

Talking to Variety, Woo detailed his plans to rework his 1989 action movie The Killer, which sees Chow Yun-Fat as an assassin who accidentally damages a female singer's eyes. Having a sudden pang of conscience, he decides to take one last job to help fund the expensive operation to save her eyesight. As the couple begin to fall in love, a police detective starts chasing down the assassin - and the two soon become friends.

Cementing Woo's status outside of his own country, The Killer not only helped the helmer make the jump to Hollywood (and, eventually, Face/Off) but influenced later action directors like Tarantino and Johnnie To. It also featured fun nicknames like "Mickey Mouse" and "Dumbo" for those of the subtitled persuasion. With its over-the-top action, use of white pigeons and wonderfully bloody violence, The Killer is pretty much perfect the way it is. Remaking it is kind of pointless.

But even worse than that is to plan a remake of Le Samourai. Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 classic (nay, masterpiece) is a work that should never be touched by anyone, Face/Off or otherwise. The tale of solitary hitman Jef Costello has such style and beauty that to even think of remaking it is a crime against cinema. A blend of samurai, gangster and noir traditions, Melville's philosophical thriller is one of the most influential movies in the genre. The Killer was actually Woo's tribute to it in many ways. Although Le Samourai has something Woo's movie never did: Alain Delon wearing the sexiest hat in the world.

Woo also spoke to Variety about his desire to make a musical (he almost directed Phantom of the Opera), his thoughts about a Kurosawa homage, and his aim to not retire anytime soon. Given the mojo he got back from making Red Cliff, that's no bad thing.

It honestly is great that a legend such as The Woo is still making new movies. But if he goes near Le Samourai, I'll blast the guy through a wall with his own shotgun. In slow-motion. And then throw a pigeon at him.