Dedicated screenwriting 101 here: From an interview with Harrison Ford on the MTV Movies Blog in which the inevitability of another Indiana Jones movie is mentioned:MTV: Is the ball in George’s court at this point?

Ford: It is. That’s the process. With some general input he goes off and searches for the MacGuffin and then stumbles [...]

In its never-ending effort to run its valuable properties not just right into the ground but also beat them and shred them and burn, stomp and otherwise destroy them beyond all possible recognition until suddenly they’re new and then begin the whole thing all over again, Hollywood seeks to further “leverage” its X-Men properties into [...]

In an industry like Hollywood where once-famous actors and actresses are thrown upon the heap of public boredom; where today’s hotshot agent can’t get anyone on the phone tomorrow; where crafty and clever screenwriters, having failed to score multi-million dollar spec sales, are stacked on the bottom of a low-level development executive’s weekend read list; [...]

Hollywood’s celebrity actors enjoy fame, piles of money, truckloads of scripts for underlings to read, and regular infusions of narcotics legal, psychological or otherwise that feed particular narcissistic addictions. They keep the showbiz hype machine greased up and moving along with flack-placed stories about personal exploits, wacky political opinions, daftly-named offspring and more.
But what happens [...]

I just want to make sure I’ve got this straight: Just two years ago, Warner Bros. gave us Superman Returns, a reboot of a dead franchise. Now in 2010, according to a number of sites, the studio will reboot the franchise again because the last one “didn’t quite work as a film in the way [...]

Hollywood has reacted quickly to the worldwide blockbuster weekend success of Get Smart with a huge announcement that Sony has secured the remake rights to classic TV skein Happy Days. John Davis of Davis Entertainment (Daddy Day Camp, Norbit, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Fat Albert) will produce for Sony who will distrib after [...]

As I’ve mentioned and speculated again, writer-director Frank Darabont’s rejected Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods draft has reached near-mythic heights of speculation around the bloguverse over the last year or so by fanboys such as myself who wondered why Lucas rejected it and what would come of the final product.
Of course, now [...]