New ‘Men in Black 3′ & ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Images

USA Today has unveiled these new stills for Sony Pictures’ ‘Men in Black 3′ and 20th Century Fox’s ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ as part of their 2012 preview feature.  Cast members for ‘Men In Black 3′ include Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones’s reprising their roles, the likes of Sacha Baron Cohen, Emma Thompson, Josh Brolin (portraying a younger version of Tommy Lee Jones’s character Agent Kay), Emma Thompson, Jermaine Clement, Sharlto Copley, Johnny Knoxville, Alice Eve, Betty White and Nicole Scherzinger co-star. For those confused why Brolin is playing a younger Agent K, part of the plot for ‘Men in Black 3’ involves Agent J (Will Smith) going back to the 1960s to save K and thus prevent a universe-ending catastrophe. ‘Men in Black’ and ‘Men in Black 2,’ which came out in 1997 and 2002 respectively, have combined to earn nearly 1.1 billion dollars worldwide – big chee$e. ‘Men in Black 3’ is set for release May 25th 2012.

Timur Bekmambetov’s upcoming film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith‘s best-selling horror mashup, ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ is a vampire-slaying re-imagining of the iconic sixteenth president of the United States. Benjamin Walker stars as the titular Abraham Lincoln, while Anthony Mackie will play the role of Will – Abe’s best friend. Dominic Cooper will play the president’s mentor and teacher in the story, a mythic, ageless figure named Henry Sturgess who turns Lincoln into an axe-throwing expert slayer of vampires. Mary Elizabeth Winstead will play Mary Todd Lincoln – Abe’s wife. ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ is scheduled for release June 22nd in the US, and August 2nd in the UK.