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Wow, Routh looks a dead ringer for Christopher Reeve in that pic, which is agreat thing! A pic of Kate Boswell can be seen as Lois Lane has also beenreleased (see below-right)

DIE HARD 4.0In an interview at ‘AlloCiné.com’, director Florent Siri (Hostage) says thathe has been asked by Bruce Willis to direct Die Hard 4.0.

Hostage screenwriter Doug Richardson is currently rewriting a script by MarkBomback, who redrafted Die Hard 4 from an existing script calledWorldWar3.com.

In the article, Siri says that he hasn’t read the Die Hard 4 script yet andis waiting to read it before giving his response. He also adds that hedoesn’t only want to make action movies, so it will be interesting to seewhether or not he takes on another actioner so soon.

SAHARA IIMatthew McConaughey has told ‘USA Today’ that he’d like to continue thefranchise based on Clive Cussler’s series of bestselling books starringmaritime adventurer Dirk Pitt.

McConaughey: “I’d been looking for that renaissance guy. Everything I’d readthat was a possible franchise character in the action-adventure genre waseither too roadhouse, just fighting and running around, or they were tooprim and proper, never getting their hands dirty.”

“[Dirk Pitt is] a senator’s son, but a scavenger of the deep. He can talkmarine biology with you at noon and then at one o’clock be dealing goldbullion with smugglers and pirates.”

However, is McConaughey wants to return as Pitt, he’s better get authorClive Cussler onside. Cussler went along with plans to film Sahara, buttried to block the movie’s production when he became unhappy with storylinechanges in the screenplay. Previously, Cussler’s novel Raise The Titanic wasturned into a turgid movie, so the author is already particularly suspiciousof book-to-movie adaptations…

STAR WARS EPISODE IIIGeorge Lucas has spoken about his hopes for the final Star Wars movie,saying: “A lot of my life has been wrapped up in this one thing. I can walkaway from this now ’cause I feel it’s the best I could do… this is thefilm that people want to see.'” THE X-FILES 2The ‘Associated Press’ ran an article with X-Files star David Duchovny, whorevealed that a second X-Files movie is in the works:

AP: What’s going on with another X-Files movie?
Duchovny: I talked to [X-Files creator] Chris Carter last week, and he saidall systems go for next winter, early 2006.

AP: Do you know the story?
Duchovny: I do, but I wouldn’t want to give it away. There’s no script, so Ihaven’t read a script. But Chris has told me some of the story, and itsounds good to me.

X-MEN 3Apparently, Vinnie Jones is likely to win the role of Juggernaut in X-Men 3,no doubt partly due to his affinity with the director, Matthew Vaughn, whoproduced Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.

A source said: “Vinnie thinks it’s a great laugh and can’t wait to get intothe suit.”

All figures are weekend box-office gross.

• 1. The Amityville Horror (2005) ($23.5m)
• 2. Sahara ($13.1m)
• 3. Fever Pitch (2005) ($8.52m)
• 4. Sin City ($6.69m)
• 5. Guess Who ($4.88m)
• 6. Beauty Shop ($3.74m)
• 7. Robots ($3.61m) (total to date: $116m)
• 8. Miss Congeniality 2 ($2.98m)
• 9. The Pacifier ($2.41m)
• 10. The Upside of Anger ($2.07m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

• 1. The Interpreter (£1.58m)
• 2. The Amityville Horror (2005) (£1.33m)
• 3. Sahara (£0.82me)
• 4. Valiant (£0.52m)
• 5. Hitch (£0.48m)
• 6. Be Cool (£0.46m)
• 7. Robots (£0.43m)
• 8. The Ring Two (2005) (£0.40m)
• 9. Miss Congeniality 2 (£0.30m)
• 10. Der Untergang (£0.19m)

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

• 22nd April 2005: Mean Creek, Beauty Shop, Chicken Tikka Masala, Scandal, Tarnation, Cursed, The Wedding Date
• 29th April 2005: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, In Your Hands, XXX: State of the Union
• 6th May 2005: Palindromes, Andrew and Jeremy Get Married, Kingdom of Heaven, Twin Sisters, Brothers
• 13th May 2005: A Good Woman, Friday Night Lights, Seed of Chucky, Monster-in-Law, Ong-bak, The Jacket
• 20th May 2005: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (19th), What the Bleep Do We Know?, Only Human
• 27th May 2005: House of Wax, The Pacifier, Slander, Strings
• 3rd June 2005: Adam & Paul, The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, Sin City, Brotherhood
• 10th June 2005: Silver City, Danny the Dog, Kung Fu Hustle, Insidde Deep Throat
• 17th June 2005: Mr and Mrs Smith, Mindhunters
• 24th June 2005: Wonderful Days, Torremolinos 73, Evil, Batman Begins
• 1st July 2005: Stray Dogs, Madagascar, DiG!
• 8th July 2005: War of the Worlds (2005), Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Overnight
• 15th July 2005: A Lot Like Love, The Debutantes, Clean, The Wedding Crashers, One Love
• 22nd July 2005: Whisky, Fantastic Four (2005), The Devil’s Rejects
• 29th July 2005: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), The Descent
• 5th August 2005: Stealth, Because of Winn-Dixie, Nanny McPhee, The Skeleton Key, Dear Wendy
• 12th August 2005: The Island, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Fever Pitch (2005)
• 19th August 2005: Doom, Bewitched (2005), Dark Water, The Cave, The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3D, Domino
• 26th August 2005: The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), Goal!, Bad News Bears
• 2nd September 2005: Cinderella Man, The Last Days, The Business, The Honeymooners
• 9th September 2005: The Man, Everthing is Illuminated, The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• 16th September 2005: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Four Brothers, Must Love Dogs
• 23rd September 2005: Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• 30th September 2005: The Perfect Man, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, The History of Violence
• 7th October 2005: Red-Eye, Night Watch, Oliver Twice (2005)
• 14th October 2005: Wallace & Gromit Movie: Curse of the Wererabbit, The Longest Yard
• 21st October 2005: Aeon Flux, Sky High, Corpse Bride, The Pink Panther (2005)
• 28th October 2005: Noel, Flightplan, Halloween 9 (31st), The Dark, Final Destination 3D, Tickets
• 4th November 2005: Serenity, Legend of Zorro
• 11th November 2005: The Tiger and the Snow, In Her Shoes, The Moguls
• 18th November 2005: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The New World
• 9th December 2005: Underworld: Evolution, The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Shopgirl
• 14th December 2005: King Kong (2005)
• 16th December 2005: The Hawk is Dying, Walk the Line
• 23rd December 2005: Brokeback Mountain

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

• APRIL: 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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