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The first poster and red band trailer has been released for Paramount Pictures, ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’ a new special effects laden adaption of the classic fantasy ‘Brother’s Grimm’ story.

Directed and co-written by Tommy Wirkola and Dante Harper, the film stars: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Derek Mears and Thomas Mann.

“Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” takes place 15 years after the siblings’ incident at the gingerbread house. The two are now specialized bounty hunters looking to put down the cackling black-hat set.

The trailer from IGN shows a more grown-up and bloodier version of the classic tale as Hansel and Gretal hunt the witches…or so they think.

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D is released in cinemas on January 25, 2013 in the US and on March 15 in the UK.

Watch the trailer below… (Warning trailer contains violence and gore).