Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
It’s been confirmed that Daniel Radcliffe has decided to sign on for the last two Harry Potter films.
In semi-related news Daniel has asked his co-stars not to come see him in the play Equus, where he appears naked.
Never give your co-workers that kind of ammunition!
Spielberg reveals that production on Indy 4 begins June 18. (Scroll down to ‘Governors Ball.’)
Speaking of the Academy Awards, Check out Oscar pictures at Spielberg Films, including a great backstage shot of George giving Scorsese bunny ears.
And is LFL doing Indy making of books? Is the Pope Catholic? Do CJers drink at Jadecon? Of course there are going to be Indy books.
The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that JJ Abrams, best known for producing Lost and the upcoming Dark Tower series, will be directing the next Star Trek film.
The Official Star Trek website posted an article about it, but only sites The Hollywood Reporter article.
None of this should come as any surprise, given how much the man has been talking about it. But it’s an interesting direction for Paramount to go, if it is, indeed, official.
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall of ILM won the Visual Effects Oscar tonight for their work on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest! Long overdue!
Later: Best Director presenter babble with Lucas, Coppola and Spielberg about George’s lack of Oscars. Oh, George, we love you anyway. And Scorsese wins! Standing ovation!
Later still: The Departed takes Best Picture. (I swear, I didn’t mean to semi-live blog.) Here’s your list of the major winners. And did you notice Carrie Fisher in the writing credits?
Familiar faces are presenting and of course, there’s ILM to root for…
The nominations have come out for The Saturn Awards; basically sci-fi’s answer to The Oscars and The Emmy’s combined.
Superman Returns leads the pack with ten nominations in the film categories. But even if you weren’t a fan of that film, there are tons of nominations to make most fans’ hearts go pitter-pat in at least one category.
And the TV categories seem to be a wide-open battle between Lost, Heroes, Dexter and Battlestar Galactica.
The winners are announced in May.
Shia LaBeouf in Indy 4? So sayth the rumor mill. Just the latest in a short line (remember ‘Natalie Portman as Idaho Jones?’) of rumors.
Meanwhile, Robert Shaye told the New York Times he wants a 2009 release date for The Hobbit.
Still around. Has a poster. Might come out in May. And oh, the irony if it ends up being out at the same time as Fanboys.
Somebody’s 11 least intimidating movie villians. Beware, defensive prequel fans – Hayden Christensen’s Vader is #3! Of course, I’m not sure how seriously I can take this list, because The Nothing from The Neverending Story (#2) scared the hell out of me as a kid.
The dark knight gets a Two-Face
Trailer Park
Narnia sequel starts filming