It’s time for another Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up.

In this week’s installment:

There’s half the blood in The Half Blooded Prince; The Mutant Chronicles finally sees the darkened theater; Mangold gets romantic with Juliet; Ender’s Game comes to the end of the road; nobody does it better than Quantum of Solace.

Well this is different… the teaser trailer for a movie has premiered on the personal website of the star of the film. Thomas Jane (from the last Punisher movie) is starring in what looks to be a pretty cool sci-fi movie: The Mutant Chronicles. Click on the image above to see the trailer.

Until I read the synopsis, I thought it took place during WWII, but it actually takes place in the future. Of course the poster below is a giveaway: It takes place in the 23rd century… and it looks a bit different from Gene Roddenberry’s vision of that era via Star Trek.

I haven’t heard much about The Mutant Chronicles, which is surprising considering that the cast includes Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, John Malkovich and Sean Pertwee.

Last night I was watching Deep Blue Sea which stars Thomas Jane. On a side note: Man, I love that movie. It’s junk, but it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a dumb, fun shark movie. It got me thinking about what upcoming movies he might be appearing in, and I had a few free minutes at work (it’s rare, but it happens), so I decided to check out Thomas Jane’s upcoming films.

This ended up leading me to The Mutant Chronicles official website. Now I’m not sure how long this site has been up, but there are some interesting goodies.

First up, here’s an abridged version of the films synopsis: