Two films did better than expected this weekend: Life of Pi and Red Dawn.

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Oscar-winning Skyfall, Cloud Atlas and the remake of Red Dawn, have all recently made changes to appease the regulators.

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Well, like Red Dawn, there was a lot of pre-release buzz and excitement.

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So how on earth did the producers get this incredible rising star for a remake of the 1984 film Red Dawn?

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Other films the studio has teed up: Cabin in the Woods, which is a 3-D thriller from Joss Whedon, a remake of Red Dawn and Zookeeper staring Kevin James.

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The Eighties action flick Red Dawn has been redone.

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Unfortunately, once the cinematic trailers gave way to actual gameplay footage, the buzz around the game began to turn, as it seemed like yet another lackluster clone of Call of Duty, with a Red Dawn-ish plot to match.

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Following his death, the Jon Egging Trust was set up by his widow, Dr Emma Egging, his mother Dawn, childhood friend James Godley and Red Arrows' pilot Ben Plank.

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The only light there was the red one on the top of one of the cameras that filmed the residents' comings and goings from before dawn until long after dusk.

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