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1.<\/a> The first five pages of Star Trek: Countdown<\/a><\/i>, the comic-book prequel to the upcoming Star Trek<\/a><\/i> movie, have been posted online. Interestingly, the given stardate<\/a> is 64333.4, which would seem to place this prequel eight years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis<\/a><\/i> (2002). \u2014 TrekMovie.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> The Chronicles of Narnia<\/a><\/i> producer Mark Johnson says it may have been a mistake to make Prince Caspian<\/a><\/i> \u201cthe second one\u201d in the movie series: \u201c\u2018Prince Caspian\u2019 is one of the lesser-liked books. We also made a slightly more adult, darker story, and we shouldn\u2019t have.\u201d Anonymous \u201csources\u201d are also claiming now that Disney pushed the film\u2019s release date into the summer against Walden\u2019s wishes, but at the time<\/a>, Disney said it was moving the film to avoid a clash with Walden\u2019s other<\/i> Christmas movie, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep<\/a><\/i> (2007). \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Danny Elfman<\/a> is writing the music for Terminator: Salvation<\/a><\/i>. \u2014 MTV Movies Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Sam Raimi is apparently toying with making Morbius the vampire one of the villains in his next Spider-Man<\/a><\/i> film: \u201cI like that combination of superhero plus supernatural.\u201d That\u2019s interesting, because all of Spidey\u2019s big-screen villains to date have basically been science experiments gone awry, with the possible exception of Venom, who at least came from outer space and thus had a sort of sci-fi feel. So would a vampire feel like he \u201cbelonged\u201d in the same world as all these other characters? Then again, Wikipedia<\/a> indicates that Morbius himself got his powers through scientific means \u2014 because at the time he was created, supernatural vampires were forbidden by the Comics Code Authority. Hmmm. Anyway, I am reminded of Jon Favreau\u2019s concern<\/a> about mixing \u201ctech-based\u201d heroes like Iron Man<\/a> and Captain America<\/a> with supernatural characters like Thor<\/a> in The Avengers<\/a><\/i>. \u2014 MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

5.<\/a> Sienna Miller is no longer playing Maid Marian in Ridley Scott\u2019s Nottingham<\/a><\/i>, starring Russell Crowe. Numerous silly, gossipy theories abound as to why this is so. \u2014 New York Post<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"