We must have missed the moving of the release date for this one, because we always thought that Warner Bros’ Jonah Hex movie was pencilled in for release around next August-time, out of the main firing line of the big 2010 summer blockbusters. In fact, let’s go and check that right now…

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Yep, we missed that, alright. It was announced back in July that the movie was being brought forward from August 6th to June 18th in the US, a fairly hefty vote of confidence for the film from where we're sitting.

Anyway, back to business. Based on the DC comicbooks, Jonah Hex could be the last R-rated comic-based movie we see in some time. Most encouragingly, it's given the title role of the Wild West bounty hunter to the wonderful Josh Brolin. Furthermore, the film's box office chances aren't going to have been hurt by the casting of Megan Fox either (who when she isn't the lead in a film very much has the capability of putting bums on seats). And we're particularly encouraged that Michael Fassbender and John Malkovich are on board too. The whole enterprise looks really quite promising.

And it now seems that the publicity machine has kicked into life. A first official image from the film has just been released. As you might expect, it features Brolin as the title character. And he doesn't look in a very good mood.

We'll bring you more on Jonah Hex as we get it. And we won't be missing, er, ‘small details' such as a release date move next time either...

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