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Jan 15, 2008 06:41 PM ET
- by Ken Fox
Ray Winstone, Shia LaBeouf, and Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by David James/© Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved.
For Indiana Jones fans who can't wait another second for the smallest scrap of news about 2008's most eagerly awaited flick, you're in luck. The folks over at Lucas Films are graciously whettting our collective appetite for their top-secret sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with this production still featuring Shia LaBeouf, who reportedly plays Indy's son, alongside a decidedly older, and a bit more grizzled, fortune-hunting Harrison Ford. The dude in the background is none other than Ray Winstone, looking at lot more like his real-life portly self than the hunky, nearly naked motion-capture avatar he played in the computer animated Beowulf. Need more? You'll have to wait: Paramount isn't planning on releasing what promises to be the summer's biggest blockbuster until May 22, 2008, just in time to break a few Memorial Day records.Frankly, it all looks an awful lot like the previous three installments of the franchise; if LaBeouf were a small Vietnamese boy, ...
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Beowulf courtesy Paramount Pictures
Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf (there, wolf!) topped the weekend box office with a $28.1 million opening — some 18 percent of which came from 3-D IMAX showings. Bee Movie came in second with $14.3 mil.Rounding out the top five were American Gangster ($13.2 mil), Fred Claus ($12 mil) and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (debuting with $10 mil).
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