Well, crikey. At the start of the year, when District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp posted some Alien sequel concept art via his social media channels, the general assumption was that this was a dead project. That he was sharing materials for something he developed, that never happened.

Who would have thought that, less than two months later, we'd be talking about a new, official Alien sequel?

But that's what's happening. Blomkamp took to his Instagram account to post a picture of the xenomorph (which is the image you can see above), with the sentence "Um... So I think it's officially my next film #alien".

As the internet began to melt, it didn't take long for 20th Century Fox to clarify this.

It has since confirmed that Blomkamp's project is an official sequel (not prequel) in the Alien series. What's unconfirmed thus far is whether - as the director had been hinting - Sigourney Weaver would return to play Ripley. But it's no secret that she's aware of the idea, and had been working with Blomkamp on Chappie, which arrives in cinemas next month.

There's still more rumour than fact when it comes to the next Indiana Jones film, but those rumours are certainly getting more interesting. The one thing we know for certain is that Disney went to the trouble of acquiring the Indy rights it didn't get when it bought Lucasfilm, snapping them up in a deal with Paramount Pictures a year or so back. So it's presumably keen to make new Indiana Jones films.

Right: Oscars and awards done with for another year. It's nearly blockbuster season now. And few are bigger or enjoying more anticipation than Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age Of Ultron, the sequel to the third highest grossing film of all time.