This is a movie that's been on our radar for some time now and I'm fucking psyched to finally get a look at some footage! Yup, it's the old story of Hansel and Gretel or, in this case, what happened to those two wee children after the gingerbread house/witch incident. Seems they had a hard time getting over almost being eaten and are venting on witches everywhere. I dig. Directed by Dead Snow's Tommy Wirkola, this is going to be an R-rated outing that mixes humour and over-the-top violence. Again, I dig. The preview below isn't going to be everyone's pint of ale, but I might drag my ass to the theatre to check this out on Jan. 11, 2013. Jeremy Renner, fresh of his stint in The Bourne Legacy, and former Bond girl Gemma Arterton, star.

Yup, there's a movie featuring classic children's characters who grow up to be witch hunters. And it stars The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner and Quantum of Solace's Gemma Arterton. And it's directed by the guy who made Basement fave Dead Snow. Pretty good pedigree, yes? Indeed. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters was actually due out March 2, a few scant months down the road with nary a trailer to judge the movie by in sight. But today Paramount Pictures announced it was pushing the action/horror/comedy back until Jan. 11, 2013. Usually a schedule shift means bad scoobies for the movie in question. But buzz on Hansel and Gretel has been quite good and Renner is a star in the making. One can speculate Paramount wants to take advantage of his upcoming turns in The Avengers and The Bourne Movie Without Matt Damon to increase his popularity. Tommy Wirkola's film takes place 15 years after the siblings' troubling gingerbread house encounter and finds them as b...