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SUPERMANKal Penn (Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle) will play Lex Luthor’sright-hand man in the new Superman movie.

Famke Janssen (X-Men, right) has met with director Bryan Singer, and is likely toplay Superman’s birth mother Lora. Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs Of New York) isalso rumoured to be playing Superman’s birth father Jor-El.

Jude Law (Cold Mountain) has signed on as General Zod (the role made famousby Terence Stamp in Superman II), and Kevin Bacon (Apollo 13) has signed asJohn Corbin. Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan) will also star as a DailyPlanet reporter who becomes Clarke’s rival after his return.

THE HILLS HAVE EYESA remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 cult classic The Hills Have Eyes is scheduledto begin filming late April for nine weeks, reports ‘Production Weekly’.

Wes Craven, who wrote and directed the original, will produce at ‘DimensionFilms’. Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, the duo behind High Tension,wrote the script and Aja will direct.

The new version follows a suburban American family who take a tripcross-country. However, when their trailer breaks down mysteriously in theNew Mexico desert, they are preyed upon by a family of deformed hill people.The family members must defend themselves against these horrors.

INDIANA JONES 4’Contact Music’ talked to Sean Connery’s publicist, Nancy Seltzer, who gavean update on the actor’s career.

Seltzer: “He’s not interested in just doing anything, to work for the sakeof working… He’s taken some time off to write his memoirs but he hasn’tretired.”

“When I asked him if he’d play Indiana Jones’ father again in anothersequel, he said, ‘Of course I would. Don’t be ridiculous.'”

All figures are weekend box-office gross.

• 1. Hitch ($43.1m)
• 2. Boogeyman ($19.0m)
• 3. Are We There Yet? ($8.24m)
• 4. Million Dollar Baby ($7.45m)
• 5. Pooh’s Heffalump Movie ($5.81m)
• 6. The Wedding Date ($5.51m)
• 7. Hide and Seek ($5.41m)
• 8. The Aviator ($4.67m)
• 9. Sideways ($4.47m)
• 10. Meet the Fockers ($3.46m) (total to date: $270m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

• 1. Meet the Fokkers (£2.95m)
• 2. Ocean’s Twelve (£2.13m)
• 3. Sprung! The Magic Roundabout (£1.56m)
• 4. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (£1.25m)
• 5. Racing Stripes (£0.78m)
• 6. Son of the Mask (£0.72m)
• 7. Closer (£0.37m)
• 8. Sideways (£0.33m)
• 9. The Aviator (£0.28m)
• 10. Creep (£0.21m)

All the following are U.K. release dates, and are subject to change.

• 18st February 2005: The Wedding Date, Shall We Dance, The Yes Men, Stay
• 25th February 2005: Spanglish, The Woodsman, Hide and Seek, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Coach Carter
• 4th March 2005: Hitch, Somersault, Kinsey, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Boogeyman, Flight of the Phoenix, King’s Ransom
• 11th March 2005: Hungry Heart, The Choir, 9 Songs, Hostage, The Machinist, Stalker
• 18th March 2005: 5×2, Non ti muovere, Robots, Monster Man, Constantine, The City of No Limits
• 25th March 2005: Melinda and Melinda, Maria Full of Grace, Wild Side, Valiant, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
• 1st April 2005: Be Cool, The House Keys, The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse (London), Mean Creek, The Rage in Placid Lake, The Ring Two
• 8th April 2005: The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Cave, Bullet Boy, Sahara, DiG!
• 15th April 2005: The Edukators, The Weather Man
• 22nd April 2005: Tarnation, Sin City, Palindromes, Machuca, The Wedding Date, Unleashed, The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse
• 29th April 2005: In Your Hands, One Love, XXX: State of the Union
• 6th May 2005: Rubber Johnny, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Mysterious Skin, Twin Sisters, Kingdom of Heaven, Monster-in-Law
• 13th May 2005: The Eye 2, Friday Night Lights, A Good Woman
• 20th May 2005: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (19thh), Saint Ralph, What the Bleep Do We Know?
• 27th May 2005: Clifford’s Really Big Movie, Torremolinos 73, Ong-bak, The Pacifier
• 3rd June 2005: House of Wax
• 10th June 2005: Silver City, Screaming Blue Murder
• 17th June 2005: Mr and Mrs Smith
• 24th June 2005: Batman Begins, Wonderful Days
• 1st July 2005: Stray Dogs, Madagascar
• 8th July 2005: War of the Worlds (2005)
• 15th July 2005: Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
• 22nd July 2005: The Wedding Crashers, Whisky, Fantastic Four (2005)
• 29th July 2005: The Skeleton Key, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• 5th August 2005: Stealth, Because of Winn-Dixie, Nanny McPhee
• 12th August 2005: The Island, Herbie: Fully Loaded
• 19th August 2005: Doom, Bewitched (2005), Dark Water
• 26th August 2005: The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), Edison, Goal!
• 2nd September 2005: Cinderella Man, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
• 9th September 2005: Elizabethtown
• 16th September 2005: TBA
• 23rd September 2005: Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• 30th September 2005: The Perfect Man
• 7th October 2005: TBA
• 14th October 2005: Wallace & Gromit Movie: Curse of the Wererabbit
• 21st October 2005: Aeon Flux, Sky High, Corpse Bride
• 28th October 2005: Noel, Flightplan, Halloween 9 (31st)
• 1st November 2005: Bad Blood
• 18th November 2005: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• 9th December 2005: Underworld: Evolution, The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
• 14th December 2005: King Kong (2005)

All the following are U.S. release dates, and are subject to change.

• FEBRUARY: Constantine (18), Son Of The Mask (18), Cursed, (25)
• MARCH: Be Cool (4), A Sound Of Thunder (11), The Ring 2 (18),
• APRIL: Sin City (1), Amityville Horror (15), XXX State Of The Union (29),
• MAY: Kingdom Of Heaven (6), Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (6), Star Wars Episode III (19)
• JUNE: Mr & Mrs Smith (10), Batman Begins (17), War Of The Worlds (29)
• JULY: Fantastic Four (1), Bewitched (8), Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (15), The Island (22), The Dukes Of Hazzard (29)
• AUGUST: 3001 (5), Doom (5), Deuce Bigelow European Gigolo (12),
• SEPTEMBER: Birth Of The Pink Panther (23), Legend Of Zorro (23), Serenity (30), Spy Hunter (30)
• OCTOBER: Wallace & Gromit (7), The Fog (14), Land Of The Dead (21)
• NOVEMBER: Cars (4), Harry Potter 4 (18), Brother Grimm (23)
• DECEMBER: Chronicles Of Narnia (9), Underworld 2 (9), King Kong (14), The Producers (24), Zathura (21), Mad Max Fury Road (31), Die Hard 4 (31)

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