Film News: Lost Peter Sellers film found in skip, Terminator reboot gets a title, and more

LOST PETER SELLERS FILMS FOUND IN SKIP, TO SCREEN AT SOUTHEND FILM FESTIVAL
Peter Sellers, the legendary comedian and actor, was one of Britain's best-loved entertainers. This week, news has surfaced of two 'lost' films Sellers made in 1957, while trying to break into the film industry. The two 30-minute films, Death of a Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You, were discovered in a skip outside a film company's offices in 1996, but were lost again, only resurfacing this year. 

The films will be screened at next year's Southend Film Festival, taking place in May. Sellers, who gained international acclaim for his performances as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films, and as multiple characters in Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, passed away in 1980. The 'lost' films will be digitally restored before being screened in May.

TERMINATOR REBOOT GETS A TITLE
Following a long and protracted series of legal maneuvres over the rights to the series' intellectual property and characters, the Terminator franchise picks itself up and dusts itself off from the largely critically-reviled TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Christian Bale-starring ego-fest Terminator: Salvation with a reboot in 2015. Today, rumours have surfaced about the film's possible title. TotalFilm reports that the new film will be called Terminator: Genesis, and reports rumours that Tom Hardy may be in line for the role of John Connor, with Arnold Schwarzenegger thought to be revisiting his iconic role as the killing machine from our dystopian future. 

BEN WHISHAW SIGNS UP TO PLAY FREDDIE MERCURY
Ben Whishaw, who starred as Q in the most recent Bond film Skyfall, and was the lead in the film adaptation of Patrick Süskind's Perfume, will play Freddie Mercury in a biopic currently in production. Whishaw takes over the role from Sacha Baron Cohen, who gave up the part in July this year after experiencing "creative differences" with the filmmakers. The film's director is Dexter Fletcher, making his third feature after this year's Sunshine on Leith.   

TRAILERS: JUPITER ASCENDING, BAD WORDS
The Wachowskis return to the widescreen science fiction of The Matrix and Cloud Atlas with their new film Jupiter Ascending. Starring Mila Kunis, Sean Bean and Channing Tatum, the movie explores themes of genetic engineering, with Tatum playing a galactic bounty hunter, and Kunis playing the part of the mysterious 'chosen one' whose genes could hold the key to saving humanity from epic, lazer-related doom. 

Bad Words is the new film starring sitcom actor Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) – he plays a 40 year-old, foul-mouthed man who cons his way into a series of 'spelling bee' competitions. However, when he befriends fellow competitor Chaitanya Chopra (played by Rohan Chand), a ten-year-old, hilarious hi-jinks ensue. Bateman, who stars, is also the film's director – it's his first outing behind the camera.