Follow Breadcrumbs To The First Trailer For 'Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters'

Christopher Rosen
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Fairytale movies: So hot right now.

On the heels of two Snow White movies comes "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," which -- as you can guess -- is about the adventures of Hansel and Gretel, scared children-turned-witch hunters.

Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the title siblings, who became hunters after what the IMDb plot summary calls a "traumatic gingerbread-house incident." Armed with an artillery of guns, the two track fight monsters and track down evil witch (Famke Janssen) who is kidnapping children.

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"Hansel and Gretel" was initially set for release on March 2 of this year, but Paramount moved the film to Jan. 11, 2013 to reportedly take advantage of Renner's growing star power.

"This should really set up the international," a studio executive told Nikki Finke at Deadline.com at the time of the switch. "Jeremy Renner's international profile should be in great shape after being in 'Mission: Impossible 4' now, then 'The Avengers' in May, then 'The Bourne Legacy' in August."

To that end, "The Avengers" grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide, while "The Bourne Legacy" is closing in on $160 million in global sales.

Watch the trailer for "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" above.

[via JoBlo.com]

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