Miro Sorvino back from a sort of hiatus
Miro Sorvino is back on the big screen after a short hiatus (except for 2006′s Leningrad) co-starring oppposite Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix and Jennifer Connolley in Terry George’s Reservation Road. The lives of two families become intertwined when the father from one kills the son from the other in a hit-and-run.

Who’s got the most nods for Oscars 2007?
Which films lead in Oscar nominations this year? Dreamgirls leads the 2007 Oscar run with 8 nominations, Babel seconds with 7 nominations. Pan’s Labyrinth ties The Queen with 6 nominations. Watch the 79th Annual Academy Awards on February 25, 2007 at 5pt/8et.

Alvin, Simon, Theodore… do..do..do-do-do-do…
Just when you think they couldn’t pull another dumb idea out of their collective asses, Hollywood decides to make a Chipmunks movie. That’s right, remember Alvin and the Chipmunks? Well, you’re in for a “treat”. Tim Hill (Muppets from Space, Garfield) will direct Alvin and the Chipmunks. The film will be a CG-live action hybrid, like Hill’s Garfield: Tale of Tow Kitties which totally bombed in theaters. But, hey, perhaps second time’s a charm…or not. Read more here.

The Thomas Crown Affair 2
The sequel to The Thomas Crown Affair, The Topkapi Affair (2008), has a script. Pierce Brosnan will return but Rene Russo will not. The Topkapi Affair is based on the 1964 film Topkapi, a caper film about the theft of a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum, which itself was based on the novel by Eric Ambler called Light of Day. This should be interesting. The Thomas Crown Affair was as good as it was because Brosnan and Russo had exceptional chemistry. No word yet on who else will co-star with Brosnan in the sequel.

Oh, Owen!
“Clive Owen’s narration of the neo-noir thriller Sin City obviously got some producers at Universal Pictures thinking. Daily Variety reports Universal and Strike Entertainment are at work on developing a new round of films based on Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective novels, with Owen starring, and narrating, as Phillip Marlowe.” Read more here.

And the worst film of the year goes to…
Worst film of the year goes to Basic Instinct 2. “The Razzies have anointed the Sharon Stone sequel one of 2006′s top duds with seven nominations, including worst picture, worst screenplay and, of course, worst actress for la Stone (a “footloose and panty-free” femme fatale).” Read more here.

The Mummy III???
I love The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. They’re one of few action-comedies that are both funny and fun without catering to the lowest common demonator for laughs in the form of crude unnecessarily offensive jokes, for dialogue in the form of tacky painfully unoriginal one-liners and for action-sequences in the form of random shit blowing up for no bloody reason. “Al Gough and Miles Millar, the writing team behind the third Mummy installment, have told the Sci Fi Channel’s Sci Fi Wire that they are hoping for – and the studio is negotiating with – Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz to return for a third go around with the undead.” Read more here.