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The first photo of Hugh Jackman as the titular vampire slayer has been released (see right)

BAD BOYS III

Looks like Bad Boys 3 may be gearing up already, with producer Jerry Bruckheimer commenting recently that "when we had about two weeks of shooting left to go on Bad Boys II, Will [Smith] and Martin [Lawrence] were having such a good time, they phoned [Columbia studio honcho] Amy Pascal and said, 'We want to sign up for another one.' So, hopefully we'll get them all back together again in a year or two."

BATMAN 5

'E! Online' have commented that Ashton Kutchner is the only candidate for the role of Batman in Christopher Nolan's new film. Apparently director Christopher Nolan wants Guy Pearce (Memento), but the studio would prefer Kutchner.

THE BOURNE SUPREMACY

British director Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday) is in talks to direct The Bourne Supremacy, the sequel to the Matt Damon hit The Bourne Identity.

Production is expected to begin in late-2003 with screenwriter Tony Gilroy again adapting from Robert Ludlum's second novel.

Matt Damon will reprise his role as Jason Bourne, a man on a search to find out his real identity as he evades the CIA and assassins. This time, the story focuses on a Chinese vice premier supposedly assassinated by Bourne...

CATWOMAN

'Filmjerk' reported that Catwoman is preparing for principle photographer to begin this September.

Screenwriter Ed Solomon (Men In Black) has replaced John Rogers on the project. A source stated that Solomon's draft is a "tear-down-and-build-again-from-the-ground-up" effort that will incorporate several key aspects of the film's previous drafts.

GREASE 3

'Moviehole' reported that John Travolta has turned down the chance to return as Danny Zuko for Grease 3. According to a source, Travolta was advised against the sequel will be concentrating on more lucrative projects like the Get Shorty sequel Be Coiol.

HULK 2

Producer Avi Arad has confirmed that The Hulk's screenwriter/producer James Schamus is already working on Hulk 2.

Schamus says his sequel script further delves into Bruce Banner's struggle with his inner demons, resulting in the emergence of an evil, grey-hued Hulk. Shamus says he's toying with the idea of incorporating two possible villains: The Leader (described by Lee as "a giant-head brainiac") and The Abomination ("a big ugly guy the same size as the Hulk").

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JURASSIC PARK 4

'Hotdog' magazine reports that Steven Spielberg is trying to snare Keira Knightley (Bend It Like Beckham, left in picture) to play an older version of John Hammond's granddaughter Lex for Jurassic Park 4.

ROCKY VI

Sylvester Stallone gave a brief interview to ESPN's 'Sportcenter' program this week and commented on Rocky VI, saying: "Actually, [referring to his movie opponent], he's kind of in the same situation that Rocky was."

"Even though he's the champion, it's the same situation that Rocky was in in Rocky 1. You know, it's kind of like, an uncertain point in his life and even though he has all the skills, we don't know if he has the real heart for it".

SPY KIDS 3D

Sylvester Stallone also recently spoke to 'USA Today' about his villainous role as The Toymaker in Spy Kids 3D: Game Over.

Stallone: "This is a man who's having all these struggles in his own brain. I'm stretching the emotional rubber band. Part of him is The Dictator, this hell-bent, military, crush-them-all guy. I do a little takeoff of George C. Scott, but perhaps under the influence of a gallon of espresso."

"One of them is The Scientist. And one of them is The Hippie, the peace-and-love and why-can't-we-get-along-and-let's-join-hands-and-we-are-the-world kind of guy. He's definitely a throwback to Haight Ashbury."

SUPERMAN

'Birdchasm' reports that Jonathan Frakes, currently shooting Thunderbirds, is now the top contender to direct Superman. The studio have apparently screen-tested actor Jason Behr for Superman and Colin Hanks (son of Tom) as Jimmy Olsen.

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TERMINATOR 4

A source has commented on the possibility of Terminator 4: "[Director] Jonathan [Mostow] cracked the script and established the right balance of action, storytelling and comedic balance. The picture needs legs - a second and third weekend - and Jonathan has given us that chance."

"A fourth film will be more difficult, but the story opens the door for another and we'll do one as soon as is feasible. We'd like Jonathan back - if he hasn't gotten too expensive."

In related news, effects wizard Stan Winston also commented on his continued behind-the-scenes role on the Terminator movies: "When we did T1, what we did was far advanced from anything that anybody had seen in movies then. We took technologies that were there, performance technologies that were created by Jim Henson and the Muppets, and created The Terminator as a full sized organic puppet."

"It was the first time that anybody had seen something that life size, using animatronics for the head and neck, to be able to operate it. We broke ground with Terminator 1."

"Terminator 2, we broke ground. It was the first time in motion picture history that a character was created by seamlessly blending CGI technology, and robots, and animatronics the way they were developed in T2."

"T3 is far advanced. We didn't have the robotic technology that we have today because of the Jurassic Park series when we were doing T2. Now we have advanced our robotic technology, our computer technology, everything. The reason we were able to design the TX as a more advanced robot is we used more advanced tools to design her."

"When the fist terminator was built, which was designed by Jim Cameron, you're talking about pencil and paper, you're talking about clay sculpture, you're talking about carving, you're talking about making moulds."

"TX is developed and designed in a computer. We were the same artists. Same drawing skills, same painting skills, same sculpting skills but the tool is a more advanced tool, so she can be designed to be a more perfect character. Completely symmetrical, we can spin her around to make sure that she's designed from every angle perfectly."

"We can make sure that every joint is going to work in the computer because we know that in fact once we've finished designing her, we're going to be shipping that design off to ILM. They're going to have to bring her to life using CG, and a lot of it. Therefore, the design has to function."

"In the case of Terminator 3, I had a very important job. It was to do something with Arnold, the character that we have brought to life, the endo part of him, the robotic part of him in the first two movies, beyond what we have seen before. It was to create and design a new terminator, the TX, which was going to be female, had to be more powerful than Arnold, had to be more advanced than Arnold, had to be able to kick his butt and had to fit inside the body of Kristanna Loken."

"And you had to believe, looking at that design, that it was that far advanced. We also had to create the first terminator, the T1's, which were actually, when after reading the script and realizing that they were not bi-peds, that they were going to roll on tank treads, in reading it, I could say to the director, 'We can build these robots. We'll create these robots, these characters.' Because of these advances in technology. Whereas in Terminator 1, we pretended to build robots, in Terminator 2 we pretended to build robots, in Terminator 3, we built robots. The T1's are robots."

"At the end of this film, we designed a look of [Arnie] that is beyond anything that you've seen in the previous Terminator movies. We literally took half his body off. We exposed the entire endo-skeleton. We designed to see a whole arm, a whole leg, part of its body, knowing the technique we would use would be a combination of Arnold, prosthetic effects, CGI and puppeted animatronics."

"And in fact the moment Arnold steps out of that helicopter, that character is a combination of Arnold, prosthetic effects, CGI and animatronics. We also built a full puppet of him that is actually seen in some shots."

Director Jonathan Mostow has also recently spoken about the difficulties in creating T3: "It goes back to why I was interested in doing the movie in the first place, because of the psychological change [in John Connor]."

"Biologically, yes, John Connor is the same person technically, but from a character point of view, he's a very different character now. So I felt I wanted to throw out all assumptions and start from scratch and say okay, who's the best actor to play this part."

"Here I have a character, who at the age of 22 is literally carrying the weight on his shoulders. I needed an actor who had a tremendous amount of soulfulness and is also a hell of an actor."

"Nick Stahl to me seemed, based on the work I'd seen of his prior and meeting with him and him reading some scenes for me, to be unique in that at 22, it's very hard to find actors that have that kind of soulfulness to them. And he does, he's been a working actor since the age of 13 and he's lived by himself since the age of 15. And, he's missed out on high school and college and he carries that with him into his work."

"[The decision to excise the character of Sarah Connor from the movie] was interesting because I didn't originate this, Jim Cameron created this thing, so it was about a two month curve for me, as I had to sort of really get my head into it and figure out what is the story I really wanted to tell."

"When I initially signed on to the movie, I said, 'Ok, here's a couple of conditions. I have to have Linda Hamilton.' Absolutely had to have her. But then as I began to think about the movie and the characters who are developing, I realized that while John Connor had had this very interesting psychological evolution since T2, Linda Hamilton's psychological evolution had happened between T1 and T2."

"In T1 she's sort of this na�ve innocent and we meet her in T2, she's this hardened, frustrated, angry woman who's battle hardened. And I thought, what would have happened to her over the last ten years? And I realized, not too much. She'd still be pretty much on guard, a hardened kind of person."

"So I realized that the story, emotionally, had to focus on John Connor. Sarah Connor would become kind of a third wheel in that and Linda Hamilton is too important to the franchise to stick her in as the third wheel. So then I realized it's actually better if she's not in the movie."

"Then I had to figure a way to sort of still acknowledge her presence and deal with that so that we felt whatever impact she should have on John Connor. That's how we wound up with the scene in the cemetery."

The new character of Kate Brewster had a difficult evolution too. Mostow originally cast Sophia Bush in the role, but after a week, had to replace her with Claire Danes. "It was heartbreaking because initially I wanted Claire Danes and then sort of like Hollywood deal making silliness, it didn't work out. So then I started casting for the part and I found this actress, Sophia Bush, who I thought was fabulous, and still do. And I cast her in it."

"I was more excited about casting her than I was anyone else in the movie. I thought I'd made a real find. And after a week of filming it became clear she was too young. She was 19 and the other actors were 22. And there's just a difference. Three years at that age is a big difference. And I tried everything I could to make her look older, but ultimately the camera doesn't lie."

"So I had to replace her and it was heart breaking because it was a huge break for her. And all I can think of is to recall The Big Chill. Remember The Big Chill when Kevin Costner got cut and everyone thought, 'Oh, that's the end of that guy's career.' And he did OK. So I have no doubt in a couple of years from now, hopefully she'll be sitting at one of these tables with some movie, dissing me of course. But I think she's unbelievably talented."

And is Mostow thinking about a Terminator 4? "It's something that certainly under consideration. But I think it's presumptuous to come out and talk about T4 before people decide whether they like T3."

1. The Hulk ($62.1m)
2. Finding Nemo ($21.1m)
3. 2 Fast 2 Furious ($11.0m)
4. Bruce Almighty ($9.8m)
5. The Italian Job (2003) ($7.1m)
6. Rugrats Go Wild! ($6.9m)
7. Alex and Emma ($6.1m)
8. Hollywood Homicide ($5.9m)
9. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd ($4.3m)
10. The Matrix Reloaded ($3.9m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

The latest figures were not available at the time this issue went online.

1. 2 Fast 2 Furious (�2.74m)
2. The Matrix Reloaded (�0.64m)
3. Identity (�0.51m)
4. Anger Management (�0.45m)
5. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (�0.29m)
6. Basic (�0.24m)
7. Chalte Chalte (�0.14m)
8. Bringing Down The House (�0.13m)
9. Kangaroo Jack (�0.08m)
10. Igby Goes Down (�0.05m)

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DAN'S MOVIE DIGEST
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