- Variety has reported that Shia LeBeouf ("Holes") has been cast as Indiana Jones' son in the upcoming sequel. (Indy has a son? Will he also be named after a dog?)
- Maggie Gyllenhal ("Stranger than Fiction") has taken over Katie Holmes' role in the upcoming "Batman Begins" sequel, "The Dark Knight." This is the latest in the previously announced cast additions of Heath Ledger as the Joker and Aaron Eckhart as Harvey "Two-Face."
- Disney formally announced this week that "Toy Story 3" is in production for release in 2010. Both Tom Hanks and Tim Allen are confirmed to be returning.
- Disney also announced its return to 2-D traditional animation for the upcoming "The Frog Princess," to be set in New Orleans. They also announced that the film's heroine is Disney's first African-American princess and will be added to the company's ever-lucrative group of princesses at its worldwide parks. The film will be released in 2009.
- Finally, M. Night Shyamalan has announced that his next film, "The Happening" (his first R-rated movie) will be "a paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity." What do you want to bet that the large-scale threat will be defeated by a few errant glasses of water?
Friday, March 09, 2007
Miscellaneous Movie News
Here are a couple of mildly interesting tidbits of information about some upcoming movies. I don't know how I feel about a few of them, but I'm interested to know what you think:
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With all of his foreign philandering it should not come as a big surprise that Indy has a son. Unfortunately with all of Indy's travels he did not ever have a dog, he had a fish named Winky so his son's name will naturally be Winky Jones. Needless to say there will be a spin off franchise with a name like Winky Jones.
Though I am not much of a Will Ferrell fan, I did enjoy stranger than fiction. It was a fun movie, no complaints (other than I never did understand why Spiderman's girlfriend ever fell for Mr. Crick) - and I know Maggie is not actually Spiderman's girlfriend but if two actors look exactly the same, then it is easier for me to remember them as one even though my wife gets upset when I do that.
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