The World’s End is the long-awaited final chapter in the strangely-titled Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, and as the first official trailer revealed, this installment involves five childhood friends who reunite in their hometown to once again try to accomplish the famed “Golden Mile”. Basically, it’s a 12-pub crawl from one end of the town to the other, and it concludes at a pub conveniently called The World’s End.

Except this reunion goes awry when the townsfolk start acting suspicious, and by that I mean that they start shooting light out of every hole on their faces like they’re a bunch of British David Lo Pans. Yahoo! revealed the new, full trailer earlier today and it doesn’t really tell us much more than the first trailer did, but there is one very important difference between this one and the last – much more Rosamund Pike.

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I’ve been a big fan of Edgar Wright’s movies for a few years now, and even despite this and the fact that I write about movies for a living, it wasn’t until I posted The World’s End trailer last week that I heard anything about “fence gags” or “the blood and ice cream trilogy.” I wouldn’t normally quote Wikipedia, but I have to believe it’s pretty accurate in this case:

The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy (also known as the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy) is a series of films directed by Edgar Wright, written by Simon Pegg and Wright, produced by Nira Park, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The films are Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End.

Each film in the trilogy is connected to a Cornetto ice cream flavour – both of the films released to date feature scenes in which one of the main characters purchases a Cornetto of the appropriate flavour. Shaun of the Dead features a red strawberry flavoured Cornetto, which signifies the film’s bloody and gory elements, Hot Fuzz includes the blue original Cornetto, to signify the police element to the film, and The World’s End will feature the green mint choc-chip flavour. The use of the three flavours/colours of Cornetto is a reference to Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours film trilogy.

The films are fast-paced and parodies mainstream film genres. A recurring joke in the films is the “shortcut”, where a character unsuccessfully jumps over a fence.

Our friends at TheShiznit have helpfully giffed all three fence gags:

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After the jump, I’ve got the trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything, co-directed by music video director Chris Hopewell and Crispian Mills, who, in addition to being the lead singer of obscure late-90s pop band Kula Shaker (remember “Hush?”), is also the son of original Parent Trap actress Hayley Mills. Basically, he’s obscure trivia personified. Aaaaaaanyway.

Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.

The trailer is basically a “whimsy” mix-tape, and I still have no idea what it’s about, but I admit the mysterious pipe-smoking hedgehog as a recurring theme has me intrigued.

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A few days ago, Redditor Golden_Dalek posted on the Internet’s favorite forum that he sent a few items to Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek star Simon Pegg three months with the hopes of having them signed. Sure enough, when he checked the mail this week, his items had returned, fresh with Pegg’s King John I on everything. And that includes a personalized letter that Pegg added to the stash.

Alex,

Congratulations on being the person who has taken the most piss in terms of amount of things to sign. If any of this turns up on eBay, I have your address and I still have the cricket bat.

Simon

Pegg added a little smiley face, too, so that we knew he was joking, but he shouldn’t have because now everyone is going to send him stuff to autograph. I just shipped a crate to Pegg, filled with expired condoms. I need to do something with those damn things, so he better have a few pens ready.

Image of the actual letter after the jump.

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Paramount released this new publicity still from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, starring Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner, from director Brad Bird (Ratatouille), opening December 21st. Here we see Cruise’s Ethan Hunt grilling Renner’s Brandt on whether there are indeed gays in there.

This Christmas… Justice wears white pants.