The first trailer gave us “Roswell, New Mexico, 1947”. The second trailer gave us a glimpse of the crystal skull, which doesn’t exactly look all that humanoid. And now, the third trailer gives us this aerial shot, which seems to depict the Nazca Lines in Peru. These images are believed to have been created between 200 BC and AD 700, and are said to be visible only from the sky — which has led Chariots of the Gods author Erich... Read more

My review of Unsettled is now up at CT Movies. Read more

Two years ago, before anyone had heard of crystal skulls, George Lucas hinted at the reluctance with which Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford had come to accept the concept behind what would turn out to be the newest Indiana Jones movie: “I discovered a McGuffin,” continues Lucas, still reluctant to name said McGuffin. “I told the guys about it and they were a little dubious about it, but it’s the best one we’ve ever found… Unfortunately, it was a little... Read more

A couple new items about Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic W surfaced today. The main one, of course, is the Entertainment Weekly cover story, which notes that the film starts shooting next week, no one has been cast as Dick Cheney yet, and the script has been rewritten at least twice since an earlier version was leaked to the press around April Fool’s Day; for more on that, see the reactions to that version of the script that were... Read more

Matt Page links to this page at Ain’t It Cool News, which has some “spy shots” from the set of The Year One, the “biblical comedy” being produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Harold Ramis. A sampling: Read more

There’s been a lot of talk lately about The Dark Knight and Harvey Dent‘s transformation into Two-Face. On Sunday, Jeffrey Wells posted an image from the new trailer, copied above, that hints — just barely barely hints — at the nature of the transformation. Then, on Monday, Comic Book Resources posted a seriously grotesque image taken from the other side of Harvey Dent’s face; the website eventually took the image down at the request of the studio, but you can... Read more

Just a few quick items this time. 1. Variety and the Hollywood Reporter say Universal has picked up a spec script for a horror film called The Knights Templar: Plot puts a horror spin on the famed organization of fighters from the Middle Ages, with the Knights Templar, fresh from the Crusades, forced to fend off an invading vampire army set on destroying the Holy Grail. One of the producers attached to the project is Timur Bekmambetov, who directed the... Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Dans une galaxie près de chez vous 2 — CDN $902,450 — N.AM $902,450 — 100%Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay — CDN $4,660,000 — N.AM $25,270,000 — 18.4%21 — CDN $8,780,000 — N.AM $79,057,000 — 11.1%88 Minutes — CDN $1,630,000 — N.AM $15,424,000 — 10.6%The Forbidden Kingdom —... Read more

Here are a few new tidbits to start the week. 1. Variety reports that Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins — which starts shooting today — is going to be rated PG-13. The previous three films in the Terminator franchise were all rated R. One of the producers says the more family-friendly — and merchandising-friendly — rating won’t compromise the grittiness of the franchise because “the ratings have changed . . . The PG-13 has increased in intensity.” Well, maybe. But... Read more

The Los Angeles Times had a brand-new item last week on Jesus, the Spirit of God, the Iranian film that depicts the life of Jesus from a Muslim point of view — including the belief that it was someone else, possibly Judas, who was crucified and not Jesus himself. The Times story is accompanied by the video below: http://video.latimes.com/global/video/flash/widgets/WNVideoCanvas.swf Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. Some of the more interesting details to emerge in this story... Read more