Ewan McGregor has said a sequel would be a "terrible shame." A sequel to Danny Boyle's dark but hugely iconic Trainspotting, that is. However, Robert Carlyle, who brilliantly played psychopath Begbie, has told the BBC that Danny Boyle is "edging closer" to making Porno, based on Irvine Welsh's 2002 novel. Furthermore, Carlyle claimed he would "jump through hoops of fire backwards" for the film-maker and would "do Porno tomorrow for nothing."

"I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."

The Michael Jackson tribute concert scheduled to take place in Austria later this month has been cancelled because "numerous stars" were unavailable, according to a report at guardian.co.uk . The event, organised by Jackson's brother Jermaine, had been planned for 26 September, but will now take place in London in 2010.

"Numerous stars were just not able to change their schedules to make a live appearance at the Vienna event possible," Jackson said. His announcement comes shortly after representatives for Mary J Blige, Natalie Cole and Chris Brown reportedly denied that the stars would be performing at the event. Details of the concert were announced on Tuesday (8 September).

The overnight news-ripple in the ocean of geekdom was the release of the new 2-minute trailer for swords'n'sorcery action film Solomon Kane. Modestly budgeted at a mere $40 million, and directed by Brit Michael J Bassett, it looks like it could be a lot of fun.

Bassett's directing debut was 2002's Deathwatch - a ghost story set in the bunkers of the Great War, which was highly acclaimed at the time, and also helped Jamie Bell breakaway from typecast Billy Elliot roles. Anyway, the big selling point on Solomon Kane appears to be that the characters and story were written in 1928 by Robert E Howard: a name that will mean little to most, and a lot to some, but might be better described as "The Guy Who Created Conan The Barbarian". Conan was of course a creation from a more naive time, and somewhat lacking in self-reference, irony, or any deference to the absurdity of his fantastic situations. Well, if the Kane trailer is anything to go by, we can expect more of the same, albeit this time with the eponymous hero a Puritan Swordsman, returned to England after fighting in Africa for Queen Elizabeth I.

Captain Jack back in 2011
Johnny Depp made a public appearance at Disney conference D23 to give away some details of the fourth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Dressed at Capt. Jack Sparrow, Depp told the crowd that the new film would be called On Stranger Tides and would be released for the summer of 2011. For more information on this story and the D23 conference, see Variety.com

Nurse, the screens! We have a Casualty on our hands. Yes, the hospital soap returns to BBC1 tonight at 8.15pm, but it looks less like it's had a facelift and more like a complete organ transplant. I have a soft spot for Casualty - if I'm home alone on a Saturday, I will always watch it as the acting quality is generally very good although the scriptwriting can waver and be sometimes downright unnecessarily cheesy. However, I fear the faithful may struggle with not two but eight new F2s in this two-part opener. And the departure of David French, an actor who makes even the crappiest drama look amazingly sparkly, may well make the arrival of the mega-batch of trainee doctors look like a bad plotting decision. The good news is that Curtis the ex-gangster turned paramedic is dead, which thankfully means no more of what was one of the worst-ever, ridiculous and unbelievable storylines ever to grace the resusc room of Holby.