Brian Singer's adventure, based on the fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk, also stars Nicholas Hoult and Ewan McGregor.

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Take Jack himself (Nicholas Hoult, who I loved in the much better film, Warm Bodies) the titular giant slayer.

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Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon, Nicholas Hoult and January Jones also starred.

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The zombie romantic-comedy stars Skins actor Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer.

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With Nicholas Hoult as a precocious flirt.

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They get adults interested in the film, give it a degree of respectability, and offer the ability to promote a given film across a variety of media outlets (magazine covers, talk show interviews, etc.) that the likes of the admittedly talented Nicholas Hoult from Jack the Giant Slayer does not.

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