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Mr. Jones and me staring at the video…

Professor Jones, actually.

Spielberg and Ford grow close on the set of Indy IV? So sayeth Digital Spy! Well, sometimes it takes a long time to become friends with a co-worker.

MBC will be airing the original three Indiana Jones films in May, as a lead-up to the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Yup. MBC – check your local Middle Eastern satellite service provider for showtimes.

IndianaJonesShop.com has some new art for sale, in a variety of styles – art-deco, toon, etc. Check it out at the online shop, opened this week! and look.. the Indiana Jones Handbook ships tomorrow!

The StarWars.com tour of Volume 3 of the DVD set for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (release date 4/29/08) brings Indy back to the States:

  • Disc 4 – Winds of Change –  Indy translates at the Versailles Peace Conference and witnesses the creation of a new world order, that might just collapse into global warfare in the future. Then he returns home to Princeton, and deals with his dad – and ends up separated.
  • Disc 5 – Companion Documentaries for Winds of Change covers The Treaty of Versailles, Woodrow Wilson, Gertrude Bell, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Robeson, and Robert Goddard
  • Disc 6 – The Mystery of the Blues – In 1920, Indy learns how to play jazz under Sidney Bechet while working at Jim Colosimo’s restaurant and witnesses speakeasies and racial segregation in Chicago. When his boss is murdered, Indy teams up with his roommate Eliot Ness and Ernie Hemingway to solve the case – was it Al Capone? Will Indy be left singing the blues? Harrison Ford provides the bookend material in this episode.

Want to win a copy of Volume 3? There’s a contest at dailygame.net – and you can enter it once per day!

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News from around the Indyworld…

Dispatches from around the world of Indiana Jones:

Initial scriptwriter Frank Darabont tells the MTV blog that he’ll work with Spielberg again, but not Lucas, after his not-to-be-credited experience with Indy IV.

In the UK, Titan Books will be releasing the official Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull graphic novel on May 23.

Xboxic reports that the LEGO Indiana Jones video game will be released on June 3 in the US, and June 6 in Europe. Meanwhile Game Informer gets some questions answered about LEGO Indy – How will LEGO Willie Scott break glass, and why must LEGO Marcus get beat up?

And the adventures of baby Indiana Jones? Some Jones’ up in Alaska decided to name the dog their baby son Indiana.

and remember:

It’s a world of bullwhips, a world of snakes,
a world of idols, and German tanks.
There’s so much Indy finds,
That it’s time to rewind,
and watch an Indy world after all.

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No time for Facebook, Dr. Jones! (and other Indy news)

…Or perhaps more appropriately :”It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading Facebook instead of banning them.” Paramount is planning to release thousands of short video clips from its many films for use on Facebook, using the VooZoo application, according to The Press Association. While many films will be released soon (this week), clips of the man with the whip and fedora will wait. Terms for releasing clips of Indiana Jones films will have to wait for the moment while they hash out the marketing plan related to the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

In other Indy news, you can now play some of the new LEGO Indiana Jones video game next weekend, even though the game doesn’t come out in June. The only catch – you’ll need to be in the UK, at the Play.com live event at Wembley Stadium.

Want to have an Indiana Jones themed birthday party? Better pre-order those Indy supplies. 4 hats for $3.35!

And in random news, filmmaker Uwe Boll, (director of Bloodrayne), has intentionally decided to release his new film, Postal, on the same opening weekend as Indiana Jones, saying, ”On the Indiana Jones weekend – May 23 – we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up – would Michael Moore say! Spielberg gets sloppy. We saw that with War of the Worlds (why the —- the older brother survived?) and also in parts of Jaws, E.T., Munich etc.! My performance in Postal as ‘Nazi Theme Park Owner’ outperforms easily Ben Kingsley in Schindler’s List!” (CinemaBlend.com’s first tag on this news article is “Stupidity” – says it all)

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Indy IV, Young Indy, LEGO Indy, and the real Lost Ark found?

It’s all Indiana Jones all the time here…
/Film posts about a visit to a set in Pasadena where some pick-up photography was being shot.

Is it possible that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will not be shown digitally? Joblo.com seems to think so.

StarWars.com started off the tour of third volume of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones with a tour of Disc One: Tales of Innocence. Indy competes for the love of an Italian nurse with American ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway, and then Indy travels on a spy mission to North Africa as Edith Wharton’s companion. Companion documentaries cover Ernest Hemingway, the French Foreign Legion, Edith Wharton, and Lowell Thomas.

Also on StarWars.com, news of an exclusive Indiana Jones LEGO set for members of the LEGO Brickmaster program. LEGO fans should check it out.

Continuing to showcase some of the sketch artists contributing premium cards for the Indiana Jones Heritage Trading Card Set from Topps, StarWars.com uncovers a few Marion and Elsa sketches by Jessica Hickman.

Has the real lost ark been found? A Welsh scholar believes he’s found the Ark of the Covenant, in a shabby museum in Zimbabwe.

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Kenner + Hasbro = Art?

Photographers Andrea Robbins and Max Becher have a gallery show at the University of Maryland Baltimore County of photographs including their “Figures” series, which pairs a Kenner SW figure with a corresponding Hasbro figure. A Washington Post reviewer thinks that “recent figures boast six-packs, bulging biceps and narrower waists. Both their femininity and masculinity have ballooned.” I’m not sure that we can blame the 90’s for this; after all, the 70’s brought us the Brothers Hildebrandt.

So are action figures modern art? Decide for yourself at the artists’ site ; scroll down to the Figures link on the left.