Movie Minesweeper - The Wedding Day Edition

No, I'm not getting married today. But I am going to a wedding, and filming it too. So, I'm in a real rush - but I can't not update at all today, can I? No. So, here's a very rapid Movie Minesweeper to try and keep things relatively smoothly running.

- SuperHeroHype have the final Transformers one sheet. I was going to see the film today, but that wedding interfered. I'll survive.

- The first image of Harrison Ford in costume for the new Indiana Jones shows that his dress sense hasn't altered much.

- Morgan Freeman is to play Nelson Mandela. It was only a matter of time.

- Variety have published their 2007 list of hot screenwriters to watch. I spotted two that were, previously, actors on Buffy the Vampire Slayer but I wouldn't be surprised if you told me there were more.

- Sharon Morrill, the mastermind behind Disney's direct-to-DVD operations, has lost her job. Ostensibly, it's because of the delays and spiralling costs of Tinkerbell, but seeing as Tinkerbell seems to be the first of these projects to finally start going right, it's really because of everything else. She has done quite a bit of damage, if you ask me, and she really should have to carry the can.

- There's even more evidence that a Sex and the City movie is coming.

- A deliberately obscure and mysterious Saw IV still has turned up.

- Terence Stamp is now in Wanted too. I understand it's not a huge part (fans of the comic probably know which role I'm getting at).

- Only one witness to Cillian Murphy on the Dark Knight set? Hmmmm. I'm not saying the Scarecrow isn't in the film, just that this is no more proof of his appearance than all these dappy e-mails I've received are of Edward Nygma turning up. I'm shrugging at both, though, to be honest.

- Woody Allen and William Friedkin are to direct opera.

- Tonight, He Comes is being retitled John Hancock. Not sure about either of those. How about An Alan Smithee Movie 2?

- Apparently, James Marsters is to appear in the next series of Torchwood - presumably before knuckling down to write the script that will make him one of 2008's hot screenwriters.

- MTV have secured a much nicer version of the Where the Wild Things Are still.

- The Munchkins are getting a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. Just one star - to share. Is there some sort of height-to-star ratio that we don't know about? I'd get the man from the lollipop guild on the case, this simply can't be fair.

Mass Suicide As Marketing

AfterDark are to release the suicide fantasia Wristcutters: A Love Story through Lionsgate this August. Goran Dukic's film is inspired by The Wizard of Oz.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the marketing campaign could be rather controversial: "cardboard cutouts of characters jumping off a bridge, electrocuting and hanging themselves in keeping with the film's suicide theme" will be placed on telegraph poles and trees and spaced out around big cities in the 'major markets'. The more standard internet and college campus advertising will start as early as April.

Over The Rainbow

Variety sez: Zooey Deschanel will be playing 'DG' alongside Alan Cumming's raggedy man Glitch in the SciFi Channel's Tin Man.

The series is a riff on The Wizard of Oz, in case you haven't already been told or couldn't work it out, and this pair are stand-ins for, essentially, the Dorothy and Scarecow roles.

All they need to do now is cast Jon Heder as the Cowardly Lion (Or Liger?) and Alan Tudyk as the titular Tin fella...

Okay. Maybe that's just me and my typecasting ways.

The series will run to six hours, air at Christmastime and is being directed by Nick Willing - who recently resurrected Jackanory with the assistance of Ben Kingsley and John Sessions. As Willing also has versions of Jason and the Argonauts and Alice in Wonderland on his resume it's not hard to imagine how he ended up in the hot seat for Tin Man.