Kate Beckinsale brushes past Westminster Clock Tower like a gun-toting Godzilla.

FORBES: Connect

Rising Damp was also made into a feature film in 1980 starring Warrington and Rossiter, but without Beckinsale who had died the year before, aged 31.

BBC: Rising Damp to return on stage with UK tour

With Kate Beckinsale as a vampire-hater of noble birth and David Wenham as a sexually active friar, plus the usual supporting cast of werewolves, underdressed throat biters, growling rustics, and so on.

NEWYORKER: Van Helsing

Director Warrington, who appeared opposite Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale on TV, is known for his roles in the BBC detective series Death In Paradise and the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2008.

BBC: Rising Damp to return on stage with UK tour

She won an Academy Award for the performance and has since scored roles in the Sex and the City movie and Winged Creatures, an upcoming indie flick also starring Kate Beckinsale and Forest Whitaker.

FORBES: The Year's Top-Earning 'Idols'

Actors Cameron Diaz, Salma Hayek, John Krasinski, Forest Whitaker, Meg Ryan, Terrence Howard, Lucy Liu, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale and Selena Gomez were among the stars joining in CNN's tribute to the top 10.

CNN: Heroes honored in Hollywood

It tells a reliable story: Chris Farraday (Wahlberg), once the most adept smuggler in the world, bursts out of retirement in order to pay off a debt incurred by the stupid kid brother (Caleb Landry Jones) of his loving wife (Kate Beckinsale).

NEWYORKER: Flesh and Fantasy

Cate Blanchett does what's asked of her wonderfully well, but it's still a trick, just like Jude Law's fleeting turn as Errol Flynn, or Kate Beckinsale's game impersonation of Ava Gardner. (Game but pallid, beneath Ava's sensational clothes.) Leonardo DiCaprio brings an impressive set of skills to his role, but they're the wrong skills, because he's wrong for the part.

WSJ: A Flashy, Flawed 'Aviator'