Movie Minesweeper - The Not Many Mines About Edition

- ShockTillYouDrop have claimed Russel Mulcahy is to direct The Scorpion King 2. I'd take The Scorpion King over either of the other Mummy films, no question - it was cheaper, sure, but also more in tune with it's inner camp. I'll go ahead and speculate that this will be a direct-to-DVD title, synchronised with the release of Rob Cohen's Mummy 3. Which is cruel, because Mulcahy is definitely a better filmmaker than Cohen.

- The Box Collector is to star Margot Kidder and Cabin Fever 2's Michael Bowen.

- Kevin Spacey is done with acting.

- The NYTimes have the best article - I think - on the Academy's newly lax 'Producer' rules.

- Kevin Williamson's Hidden Palms is being rushed to an early conclusion. What happened to the midas touch that made Scream and Dawson's Creek so huge?

- The Virgin 1 chequebook and pen has been busy of late. They snapped up the entire Star Trek TV franchise and The Sarah Connor Chronicles for the UK, as well as commissioning the new series The Real Exorcist. Meanwhile, Channel 4 have plumped for Disney's Dirty Sexy Money.

- John Lithgow is joining the RSC. I love John Lithgow. He needs a really good, big part - on screen. Who's going to create it for him? Will he be an Inglorious Bastard?

Movie Minesweeper - The Distant Voices Edition

Sometimes, I truly hate Blogger. Hate it.

I just wrote a very long Movie Minesweeper post, complete with links, then posted it, and...

Nothing.

I looked back at the apparently oft-saved post in drafts and all that remained was:

"- Tavis Smiley's show on PBS has turned into a week-long preview for"

Here's a reprise of everything, in a nutshell. I can't find all of the links again - for technical reasons too tricky/embarrassing to go into. But here's the content I remember, and you can Google anything you are desperate to know more about.

Tavis Smiley is showcasing Jonathan Demme's New Orleans' documentary all week. The lead girl from the new Kevin Williamson show is to be in a film called Get Some. Evan Almighty is being marketed to Christians in particular, at least on one front. Empire claim they have an exclusive - Aronofsky is making a Noah film. But we've known that for weeks - some exclusive. I probably moaned a bit about the whole Batman/IMAX silliness (or maybe not, but here I go now anyway). On The Lot has quite poor ratings. Aaron Eckhart is going to be in a new film or something. Some films are coming out. Some films are being made. Oh - and some producers have optioned the Lew Griffin books, but I've never heard of them. There was loads more, but I don't remember it. If it crosses my path again, I'll mention it later.

And that's why I hate Blogger. Sometimes.