MTV – Loki will not appear in the sequel to The Avengers, director Joss Whedon has revealed.

The filmmaker – who is currently in the process of writing Avengers 2 – let slip in an Empire podcast that the villain (played by Tom Hiddlestone) would not be back for the follow-up.

He said: “Everyone is going to be looking for the Loki-Hulk smash moment and you’ll be looking for ‘quim’.

“First of all, imitating what I did before is the surest way to do it not as well. Second of all, Loki’s not there to say those terrible things. Although I do think we should bring the word back, not as an insult, it’s just a nice word.”

Hiddlestone’s Loki previously featured in Thor and The Avengers – and will also be seen again in Thor: The Dark World.

Whedon recently insisted that Robert Downey Jr. was a non-negotiable ingredient of Avengers 2.

Pictures from Tom’s recent appearance at the Much Ado About Nothing Gala have been added to our gallery.

On May 25th Tom and Tilda Swinton attended at photocall and premiere for Only Lovers Left Alive during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival. Our gallery has been updated with lots of new high quality pictures.

New stills and a new poster from Only Lovers Left Alive have recently been released and can now be viewed in our gallery.

BBC News – Tom Hiddleston is to play the title role in Coriolanus as part of the autumn season at the Donmar Warehouse.

The Avengers star last appeared on stage at the tiny London venue in 2008.

Directed by Josie Rourke, the Shakespearean drama opens in December with Mark Gatiss also in the cast.

August sees the premiere of Nick Payne’s drama The Same Deep Water As Me, about “cash for crash” lawyers.

Following in October, Call the Midwife star Jessica Raine and Linda Bassett are to star in Arnold Wesker’s Roots.

“At the centre of all these plays is a sense of young people trying to find their place in the world,” said Rourke, the Donmar’s artistic director, announcing the season on Monday.

Describing Hiddleston “one of our leading young classical actors”, Rourke said she envisaged Coriolanus would be a “contemporary” production.
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Two clips from Tom’s upcoming Vampire flick, Only Lovers Left Alive have been released by IndiWire. Check them out below.

The Evening Standard – The only British producer with a film in the official competition at Cannes said he wanted to shoot it in the UK but could not secure the financial backing here.

Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as a vampire couple, was made in America, Morocco and Germany, with funding from elsewhere in Europe.

Jeremy Thomas, who produced The Last Emperor, Sexy Beast and Crash, said he still considered the movie to be “flying the flag for Britain”.

The production was developed in London by Thomas’s Recorded Picture Company, and the strong British cast includes John Hurt. The director is American Jim Jarmusch.
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UNICEF have recently posted Tom’s experience of living on £1 per day in support of Live Below The Line.

I took on the challenge of living on £1 a day out of compassion and a desire to understand the constraints and conditions of those less fortunate, who don’t have a choice. For me it was about voluntarily experiencing even the smallest fraction of the hunger, as well as the discipline required, to subsist on such a small amount. The world’s poorest families, all over the world, face such malnutrition that their growth and development is held back.

Here’s the thing. I haven’t really ever lived below the line – not below the poverty line. I still live in a nice house in London, with running water and a roof over my head, with gas and electricity. Clean drinking water comes rushing out of the kitchen tap. My surroundings are still comfortable. But the children who live below the poverty line have none of these things.
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Tom attended last night the ‘Iron Man 3‘ premiere in Los Angeles and you can find the first batch of pictures in the gallery. More pictures will come soon, so keep checking.

Scans from Tom’s recent feature in Flaunt Magazine have been added to the gallery, you can also check out the video interview below.