There was a time before Daniel Craig was super-famous. It was British gangster film Layer Cake that pushed him into the spotlight, and led him on the path to becoming Bond, and now Jason Statham is in line to play the same role in a sequel to the film.

Author JJ Connolly has written a follow-up to his Layer Cake novel, called Viva La Madness. As with the first book, he is adapting it into a screenplay. The Stath has bought the rights to the sequel, and is looking to produce the film as well as star as the lead.

Yes, it seemed an awful lot like the lead died at the end of Layer Cake. But as Crank 2 proved, if anyone can bring the nameless protagonist to life, it’s Jason Statham.

There is no director signed up yet, but filming is unlikely to start until Statham has finished work on The Expendables 3, Fast & Furious 7 and a remake of Heat (the Burt Reynolds one, not the Pacino/DeNiro one).

Please, cinema gods, let Statham follow Daniel Craig’s path further and end up playing 007. “The name’s Bond, James Bond, you muppet.” Roundhouse kick to the face, car explodes, small Chinese woman is rescued.

The Heat was Sandra Bullock’s second-best film of 2013, so news of a sequel should be a good thing. But it’s not. Director Paul Feig has decided not to focus on Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy’s cops, opting instead for Beth and Gina, two characters who barely appeared in the original.

Played by Jamie Denbo and Jessica Chaffin, Beth and Gina were members of McCarthy’s Boston-based family who made brief appearances. An exact storyline is still being worked out, but the spin-off means Feig and Fox can make something billed as a sequel to the film that made $200m, despite Bullock’s reluctance.

After talking about having sympathy for Hitler, planning to kill a donkey live on film and revealing personal secrets about his cast members, is Lars Von Trier finally learning how to be reasonable?

His latest film, Nymphomaniac, is looking like it’s going to be just as shocking as his previous work, thanks to the peppering of hardcore sex scenes, but the director has stunned the studio by allowing someone else to edit the final version.

Producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen has revealed that although the director originally intended a five-and-a-half hour edit of the film, the final version will be in two two-hour portions. Or, at least it will in Denmark.

“The short version is against Lars’ own will, but he accepts it because he understands market mechanisms,” says Jensen.

According to Jensen, von Trier hasn’t even seen the cut-down version, but has refused to comprise on one element – the sex. The films shown in Danish cinemas will be the full hardcore versions, instead of the original plan to release both soft and hard varieties.

Different distributors around the world will decide for themselves which elements to cut or blur.

Nymphomaniac will hit Danish cinemas on December 25, but has no set UK date yet, so you’ll have to wait to see just how much the likes of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard and Shia LaBeouf will be laid bare.

The 2003 Daredevil movie was notoriously rubbish, but hopefully the new TV series will be better.

Marvel and Disney have teamed up with Netflix to bring the blind superhero (who is a lawyer by day) to the small screen. Or big screen, if you have a massive TV.

Netflix has had huge success lately with its exclusive series like Arrested Development and House of Cards, which have had as good (if not better) production values as any other TV network.

This new series will have 13 episodes featuring Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Iron Fist, and will be written by Cabin In The Woods co-writer/director Drew Goddard, who also worked on Buffy, Lost and Cloverfield.

Seriously, if you haven’t checked out any of the Netflix original shows, get on it. Start with House of Cards, Kevin Spacey is phenomenal in it.