George Lucas out promoting his new Star Wars The Clone Wars movieTV series detailed in the new TV Guide dismisses speculation that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull effectively set up Shia LaBeoufs Mutt Williams to inherit the franchise[Harrison Ford] is Indiana Jones Lucas tells the AP If Indiana Jones wasnt in it youd have to call it Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis Yeah its Mutt Williams and the Search for ElvisThough Crystal Skull the series fourth installment and one that was many years in the making suffered considerable whip-lash from critics Lucas wont rule out another sequel [It] really depends on me coming up with a good idea he says So were doing research now to see if we cant come up with another object for [Indiana Jones] to chase Perhaps a late Medicare payment Matt Mitovich
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A stupefying loose-lipped extra who worked on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has incurred the wrath of no less than George Lucas and Steven Spielberg by blabbing plot points to a hometown paper. Despite having inked a nondisclosure agreement with the production, Tyler "You'll Never Hear About Me Again" Nelson — who played "a dancing Russian soldier" in a reportedly since-snipped scene — revealed to Oklahoma's Edmond Sun (Non-spoiler alert) the nature of Indy's latest quest, how Karen Allen's Marion plays into it, and the context of a pivotal scene between Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett. A rep for Spielberg would not confirm for the New York Post the veracity of the apparent spoilers, but literally mwa-ha-haed, "Who knows whether that particular person will ever work in this town again?" And I'm assuming he didn't mean Edmond, Oklahoma.
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American Idol alumna Jennifer Hudson will play Carrie Bradshaw's assistant in Sex and the City: The Movie.... Also per the Reporter, the new Indiana Jones film is officially subtitled The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.... Kate Bosworth has the title role in Veronika Decides to Die, an adaptation of the best-selling novel.... Desperate Housewives' Jesse Metcalfe and Prison Break's Peter Stormare are on board for the horror thriller Insanitarium.... Mischa Barton, who apparently is an actress when she's not posing for the glossies, will costar with Deborah Kara Unger in the thriller Walled In, says Variety.... Having recently wrapped an update of Prom Night, Nelson McCormick will next direct a redo of 1987's The Stepfather.
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Forget my crack about the slashed Metamucil budget. Per Variety, Jim Broadbent will play a Yale professor in the fourth Indiana Jones film, which Steven Spielberg began lensing Monday in New Mexico, but will also shoot in, among other global sites, New Haven, Connecticut.... Kate Hudson will star opposite Dane Cook in Bachelor No. 2, a rom-com about a man hired to take other men's exes out on horrific dates, thus sending them back to their former fellas.... HBO Films is adapting the British play My Zinc Bed, with Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce and Paddy Considine all on board.... DreamWorks and Universal are turning the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens into a live-action feature.
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The fourth (and final, whispers Harrison Ford's back) Indiana Jones film, scheduled to start shooting this month, will not revisit the father-son relationship introduced in Last Crusade, if only because Sean Connery simply isn't up to it. "I thought long and hard about it, and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film," the 76-year-old actor says in a statement. "I love working with Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas], and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison as my son. But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun."And just like that, craft services' Metamucil budget gets reduced by half.
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