More Upcoming Films.

You can BOLO (Be On the LookOut) for many more superhero films in the conclusion of this decade. It seems a popular theme, no doubt because many of the top grossing films of all-time are rooted in this genre. And also, because there is a limitless pool from which to choose.

First, Thor, Nick Fury, and Captain America are all announced projects now. In pre-production: Iron Man, Ant-Man, and Hulk 2. Yup, but no more Ang Lee. Louis Letterier, Director of Transporter 2 will helm the sequel. I'm not sure how they concluded he'd be right, but I'm not planning on a "Marvel-ous" finished project.

Bryan Singer is reportedly already in agreement to make a fourth X-Men film, prolly for a 2009 release date. This could be a truly interesting experiment in finding a new "franchise film series," the likes of which we haven't seen in nearly half a century (other than James Bond). Just my own speculation, but worth a shot if it keeps generating big revenue for the studio.

As if you're wondering if the studios have any more original projects in the pipeline... A Ghostbusters 3 is getting even closer to realization, and Harold Ramis has gone on record saying he wants Ben Stiller to be a Ghostbuster. Indiana Jones 4 has already gone through a couple drafts. Wonder Woman is not going to follow the former tv-show but will begin pre-production shortly.

For the 30th Anniversary of the Star Wars release, Lucas Films plans two seperate tv shows beginning in 2008-ish. One is live-action to fall between Episode III and IV and the other is an animated series to be during the late Clone Wars.

All the above info was from RottenTomatoes.com.

We have a new record for box-office weekends, with Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest grossing $135 M in 3 days. Not a bad return on a production budget of $150 million.

I haven't seen a very compelling film this week, I wasn't thrilled with Triplets of Belleville (as I hoped). I think the colorizing was amazing but the story wasn't very substantial. I did watch Dummy starring Milla Jovovich and Adrien Brody. It did have some moments that made me laugh out loud. Mostly from how well she played her role. Lots of cursing, but funny nonetheless. But the story? Kinda deflated after about halfway through (I thought).

Still, one of the funniest films I saw this year has to be Dinner Game (Le Diner de Cons), a French film that is simply unreal. A bunch of friends have a game where each has to bring an "idiot" to dinner each week, and they all vote to see who has the biggest idiot. Well, at one such dinner, things start going awry... You'd just have to watch it to see what happens!