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Harrison Ford Talks Indiana Jones 5

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has made $783 million worldwide, and is expected to add more $$$ when it is released on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 14th. In today’s Hollywood climate, any movie that makes those kinds of numbers will almost certainly get a sequel, so will that be the case for the Indiana Jones franchise?

Harrison Ford spoke to The Los Angeles Times and told the world that George Lucas is currently dreaming up a fifth installment.

“It’s crazy but great. … George is in think mode right now” about Indy V.

Ford continued, “It’s automatic, really, we did well with the last one and with that having done well and been a positive experience, it’s not surprising that some people want to do it again.”

The 66 year-old star said there was no one party — himself, Lucas or director Steven Spielberg — in particular who was pushing for another sequel. “Really, it comes from the ethos, from the ether. It’s natural. It’s a way of nature, of course, success breed opportunities,” Ford said, adding, “also we don’t stay as closely in contact as have in the last year, that’s part of it.”

Would you be interested in seeing a fifth Indiana Jones movie? I think if they are going to do it they need to do it rather soon, as Harrison isn’t getting any younger!

A Bunch Of New Posters For The Wolfman

Shocktillyoudrop.com were at the Halloween Horror Nights event and managed to get a few snaps of some new posters and banners from Universal’s The Wolfman. You can see all of them by clicking the image below!

The Wolfman stars Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, and will be released in April next year.

Angels & Demons Poster

Below is a teaser poster for Ron Howard’s upcoming movie Angels & Demons. Tom Hanks will be back playing Robert Langdon (who was first seen in The Da Vinci Code). This time round Hanks will be joined by Ewan McGregor who is playing a dude called Carlo Ventresca.

Angels and Demons was the reclusive authors third novel after he gave up his job as an English teacher. It tells the story of Langdons brush with a shadowy secret society, the Illuminati, and his frantic quest for the worlds most powerful energy source, in the company of a beautiful Italian physicist whose father, a brilliant physicist, has been murdered.

Dragonball Teaser Trailer!

Yesterday we got the bootleg version and today we have the full version (with sound!). People have been waiting to get a glimpse of James Wong’s Dragonball for a while now. The film stars Justin Chatwin as Goku, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, James Marsters as Lord Piccolo, and you can watch the teaser below!

The story begins with a young humanoid boy named Goku, who discovers that he was sent to Earth to blend in and destroy our population but instead elects to protect it from an oncoming alien onslaught bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects. He seeks out upon his adoptive grandfather Grandpa Gohan’s dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls. Of which he has one, in order to prevent the evil Lord Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world. And Goku’s quest is to obtain the mystical Dragonballs before Piccolo does.

Conceptual Artist Gives Magneto Update

You know things are a little quiet on a movie when the first update in months comes from someone who draws for a living. Anyhow, character designer Aaron Sims spoke to Splash Page about the current status of X-Men Origins: Magneto.

“Unfortunately, because of the writers strike, it got pushed off,” Sims said. “But they’re now back to the rewrites.”

Since “X Men Origins: Magneto” is still in conceptual form, it’s too soon to say much about it, except that obviously, like Wolverine , it will be an origin story — “where he started, where he got his powers, the very beginning.”

“Remember the scene [from 'X-Men'] in the concentration camp where you see Magneto as a young boy? It just continues from there,” Sims said. “Some people thought that might be too dark, but I really like that. It’s a lot of death and mayhem.”

Magneto won’t be the only mutant — just like in “Wolverine”, there will be new mutants aplenty to keep Sims busy coming up with something to please and yet surprise the fans. “The fan base has a vision of what they should look like, and that’s always the challenge,” Sims said. “It was the same with ‘The Hulk.’”

But since director David Goyer is still finishing “The Unborn” and also has several other movies on his plate (from “The Invisible Man” to “Super Max” to “Baltimore”), Sims doesn’t have to realize his character designs too quickly.

“David’s like me,” Sims laughed. “He works nonstop. He’s not one of those kinds of writers or directors who ever stops. I’m surprised he has any time at all. But I’m fortunate to work with directors like him who I admire. I can’t say no to him.”

I’m not too sure what Fox are thinking regarding Magneto. If X-Men Origins: Wolverine is successful does that mean they will focus entirely on a new Wolverine trilogy? Or will they green light Magneto as Wolverine has proved single character movies can work?

(Note to Fox: If David Goyer is busy directing other movies why not get someone else onboard? It’s not as though he is the best man for the job anyway!)

Kung Fu Panda 2 In 2011

Because Kung Fu Panda made $626 million worldwide, which is DreamWorks most successful non-sequel ever, they have decided to churn out another one. THR say that Jack Black and Angelina Jolie will be reuniting, along with the other cast members, to voice their animated animals, however the only difference this time round is that they will be voicing 3D animated animals!

Kung Fu Panda 2 will be sharing the summer with Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2, which Disney moved from a 2012 release to summer 2011 last week.

300 Prequel/Sequel Details

It is well known know that a prequel/sequel to 300 will be happening, however, we haven’t heard what they plan to make it about. Well IESB spoke to Zack Snyder at a Watchmen preview today, and he revealed some interesting details on the possible story.

In short, Snyder says he’s spoken with Frank Miller who will be writing and drawing the graphic novel that the second film will be based on. Upon Miller’s completion of the book, then, and only then, will they delve into writing a script for the movie.

Snyder continued and said he would not have any input into the novel and wants it to be a creation of Miller’s 100%.

Snyder also said it will take place between the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Plataea, the battle that narrator Dilios is at while re-telling the story of King Leonidas and the mighty Spartans to a new group of warriors at the end of 300.

Snyder also told IESB that would definitely direct this sequel/prequel and is looking forward to Miller’s completion of the book.

Blind People Protesting Against Blindness

The National Federation of the Blind will be protesting at 75 theaters across America on Friday, carrying signs that read: “I’m not an actor. But I play a blind person in real life.” The reason? Julianne Moore has a movie coming out called Blindness, and some blind people aren’t happy about it.

Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who’s blind, such a scenario as shown in the movie “Blindness” is not a clever allegory for a breakdown in society.

Instead, it’s an offensive and chilling depiction that Maurer fears could undermine efforts to integrate blind people into the mainstream.

“The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie,” said Maurer, president of the Baltimore-based National Federation of the Blind. “Blindness doesn’t turn decent people into monsters.”

Blindness imagines a mysterious epidemic that causes people to see nothing but fuzzy white light resulting in a collapse of the social order in an unnamed city. Julianne Moore stars as the wife of an eye doctor who loses his sight; she feigns blindness to stay with her husband and eventually leads a revolt of the quarantined patients.

I’m going to have to be very careful with my wording here because I don’t want to offend anyone…

Can’t they see that it is just a movie? When I saw the trailer I thought it looked quite interesting. I mean, you can tell by the look of the film that it won’t be a huge blockbuster, so lots of people won’t be flocking to see it. I would expect the movie to draw the more mature audience, who have more insight to know that not all blind people trade sex for food.

What is your view on this?

Final Bolt Poster

Cinematical got their hands on a final poster for Disney’s Bolt, which stars John Travolta and that Miley Cyrus person.

Bolt tells the story a dog who plays a heroic dog in a hit TV show and has some trouble recognizing that he doesn’t even have superpowers. This becomes something of a hindrance when he is accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New York City. From there he has to make his way home with the help of a manky old cat and an overweight hamster in a plastic ball.

Prince Of Persia Is A Cross Between Pirates of the Caribbean And Gladiator

…According to screenwriter Jordon Mechner, who spoke to MTV about what we can expect from the upcoming Prince of Persia movie staring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Sir Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina.

“Prince of Persia” isn’t just going to be like “Pirates” in terms of scope and tone, the newest Disney/Bruckheimer tag-team is actually going to “do for Arabian Nights movies what ‘Pirates’ did for pirate movies,”

“Tonally, I’d say it’s basically ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ with maybe a half-step towards ‘Gladiator.’”

“There’ll certainly be a lot of stunts, a lot of special effects. I mean it’s Jerry Bruckheimer!” Mechner insisted. “They’re shooting in the deserts of Morocco. The scope of this is going to be massive. It’s really spectacular.”

“Well the movie’s packed with action, so there’ll be swords and horses and all the things that wouldn’t be ‘Prince of Persia’ without. But because it’s a movie, it’s about the characters and character relationships. There’s no fighting for fighting’s sake. In a game, you have a lot of fighting because you’re doing it and it’s fun,” he said. “But in a movie, fighting’s a part of the story but it’s not a movie about swordfighting.”

Unfortunately we have a long time to wait for this as it won’t be released until May 2010!

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