Harrisonfordweb.com reports that Mexican Film commissioner Próspero Rebolledo has said in an interview in Coatzacoalcos that Indiana Jones 4 starts filming in Veracruz as of the second week of July.

The site says that they ‘have reason to believe that Mr Rebolledo refers to Veracruz the state and not just the state capital and port’. Veracruz is home to two major sites of historical importance, namely Cempoala, known as Place of the Twenty Waters, an ancient Totonac site situated just 8kms from Veracruz and El Tajín known as Place of Thunder which is located in the north of the state.

The source also suggests that there is a possibility that the abandoned airstrip in Deming, New Mexico could be passed off as one of three USAF air bases in Morocco that existed in the time frame occupied by Indy IV: Sidi Slimane, Noasseur and Ben Guerir.  This is of course at odds with the notion that the Deming location is supposed to be a recreation of Nellis Air Force Base close to Area 51.

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As many fans had feared, Live Free or Die Hard has been officially given a PG-13 rating.

As confirmed by the notice on the official film site, Bruce Willis aka John McClane will be hitting theatres in a toned-down fourth outing for the Die Hard franchise. The previous three movies:  Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990) and Die Hard 3: Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995) all bore an R rating.

The original 1988 movie is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was previously made into a 1968 movie starring Frank Sinatra.  Live Free or Die Hard (titled Die Hard 4.0 internationally) is the fourth installment in the Die Hard film series. It takes place some 18 years after the first film, with McClane coming out of retirement to face a gang of Internet terrorists. The film is scheduled for release June 27th 2007.

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Samuel L Jackson has told SCI FI Wire that he’s almost finished work on the movie Jumper.

Wrapping up filming in Toronto, Jackson said ‘Jumper is going to be really cool, it’s a film about kids who can teleport. I play a government agent that’s sort of chasing them and killing them and kind of hates kids that can do that because they leave these interesting rips in the atmosphere when they do it.’
 
Jumper reunites Jackson with Star Wars co-star Hayden Christensen and is adapted from a novel by Steven Gould with Batman Begins screenwriter David S. Goyer penning the script.  Jumper is scheduled for a February 15th, 2008, release and is being directed by Mr. & Mrs. Smith helmer Doug Liman.

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A Cinema Blend insider claims that the commercial failure of Grindhouse has put Sin City 2 under threat.

Apparently Harvey Weinstein’s investors are getting nervous after the The Weinstein Company has failed to set the box office alight with its recent run of productions. The scooper claims that the money guys ‘want assurance that they would get back a profit on their investments’ before pouring money into another big project like the Sin City sequel.

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It worked for Pirates of the Carribean and now another theme park attraction is getting the big screen treatment.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, plans are in the works for Corkscrew Hill, an animated 3-D stereoscopic theme park ride at Busch Gardens Europe in Williamsburg, Va., to become the basis of a 3-D CG feature film.

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After much confusion about who would take up the directing reins on the Castlevania movie adaptation, the void created by Paul W.S. Anderson’s recent exit has finally been filled by Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard).

Anderson originally penned the script with the intention to direct, but stepped aside to helm Death Race. White will work with Anderson on a rewrite reports Variety.

The script sets up a generational clash between Vlad the Impaler and the Belmont family, a clan that unleashed the original vampire and battles to defeat him.

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Following the controversial ending to The Sopranos at the weekend, the executive producers of hit TV show Lost have told the Hollywood Reporter that they aren’t planning a murky ending to the ABC drama.

‘We will not be ending with a blackout‘ executive producer Carlton Cuse told an audience at the Promax/BDA’s annual conference yesterday.

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Variety reports that Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have recruited David Goyer to write and direct a new take on the H.G. Wells classic The Invisible Man. Conceived as a sequel to Wells’ original tale, the story revolves around the British nephew of the original Invisible Man. After discovering his uncle’s formula for achieving invisibility, he is recruited by British intelligence agency MI5 during WWII.

‘I’ve always been a fan of the original H.G. Wells book as well as the Universal film and felt the property was ripe for reimagining’ Goyer said.

Brian Grazer will produce the project.

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Superhero Hype! has been talking to Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige on the set of Iron Man about the company’s upcoming projects.

‘I have a writer on Captain America right now’ said Feige, ‘hoping to get a director on that very soon to get that into the pipeline within the next year. Same thing with Thor. Mark Protosevich has delivered a Thor script, David Self is writing Captain America.’

With regard to Captain America, Feige explained ‘We’ll have to play with Captain America as being a patriotic propoganda machine on one hand but also being a very human Steve Rogers interesting fascinating hero in his own right.‘ He added that the piece would probably have both a contemporary and period setting with the action split 50/50.

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