When The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hits movie theaters on December 21st, it will be the second major female-led franchise movie released in just over a month. The first, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part I, has already earned over $640 million dollars worldwide since its November 18th release and has become the third-highest grossing movie of 2011 (after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon -- and on a lower budget than those films). The remarkable success of the Twilight film series, with over $2 billion in worldwide ticket sales to date, proves that audiences will show up to see tentpole movies built around women. Now with the upcoming release ofThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the spring/summer 2012 openings of Mirror Mirror, The Hunger Games, and Snow White and the Huntsman, audiences are being offered a run of female-oriented big-budget films unlike anything they've seen in recent years. After decades of lavishing resources on male-led action and comic book movies, Hollywood is finally making an effort to give women and their stories the blockbuster treatment. 
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In the upcoming Snow White adaptations Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman, the heroines are forced to confront the deadly jealousy and vanity of a wicked queen. Although there is action in all these films, it is the emotional journeys of the women involved that will likely be the main draw. 

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Okay, I’m in full-fledged fantasy-dork mode now after watching the really excellent first trailer for the upcoming film Snow White & the Huntsman. The film has a bunch of big names including Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame as Snow White, Charlize Theron as the Queen, and Chris Hemsworth (Thor) as the Huntsman. Others in the cast include Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones and Ray Winstone.

Oh, and it’s got big, scary looking monsters in it, too.

The trailer is epic and lovely and exciting and Theron is already looking deliciously wicked as the evil witch-Queen. I admit I didn’t watch Thor and have never watched the Twilight films so both Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth, while familiar faces, are essentially new to me.

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If the "Snow White and the Huntsman" banner that was released earlier today was meant to make us amped for the teaser trailer being released tomorrow, then it definitely did a good job. The Rupert Sanders-directed action adventure film has plenty of exciting things going for it -- Kristen Stewart in a suit of armor, for one -- yet there has only been a small amount of low-key promotion going for it so far.

Sure, the film is still more than six months away from hitting theaters, but the movie is likely to be boosted to popularity thanks to the fact its trailer will probably be tacked on before every showing of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1," which comes out next Friday.

The banner got us thinking about all the aspects of "Snow White and the Huntsman" we're most looking forward to, and that we hope we will see teased in tomorrow's trailer. Read on after the jump to see what you have to look forward to (hopefully) in the teaser's release.

Read more of what they're anticipating (and what I'm sure we're anticipating too!) on MTV.com!

Snow White is a wanted woman. Lily Collins and Kristen Stewart will both play the beloved character in two separate films: Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman. Which version of the fabled princess will audiences choose?

Move over Kristen Stewart, there's a new Snow White in town. Relativity Media has just announced the official title and cast of their upcoming fairy tale: Mirror Mirror. It's their live-action adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs led by breakout actress Lily Collins.

Mirror Mirror will center on "an exiled princess who enlists the help of seven resourceful rebels to win back her birthright." It's directed by Tarsem Singh and is described as an adventure comedy with elements of romance, jealousy and betrayal.

Unlike Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman will be darker, more action-oriented and concentrate on the relationship between the two title characters.

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The man with the red cape happens to look a lot like Snow White's father, actor Noah Huntley. 

What do you think? He does look very king like ;)

Thanks to @krisfairy77 for pointing this out!

Filming is about to begin and I have to say I'm a little curious as to what Snow White's costume will be like in the beginning of the film. My friend, Elle, drew this a week ago and as a person who loves fan art and fan interpretations, I have to say I love it! The simplicity is perfect! What do you think the costume will look like in the film? from what we've seen already, I know the costume designer is going to do an amazing job!

Thanks to the ever so talented, Elle (@fortheloveofRK), for drawing this and allowing me to post it! :)