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13 October 2008 11:59 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Harrison Ford has denied reports his Indiana Jones sidekick Shia LaBeouf will replace his role as the action hero in a new installment of the franchise film.

LaBeouf starred alongside the 66-year-old actor as the whip-cracker's young friend Mutt Williams.

And the Star Wars actor insists there are no plans for the young star to take on the role he made famous, despite the open ending in summer blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Ford brushed off the rumours, sparked after he passed the archaeologist's trademark hat to LaBeouf's character, alluding to the switch.

He tells Moviefone: "No, that's never been (the idea)... I think it just doesn't work that way. And there's definitely a distinction between passing the fedora and someone picking it up."

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13 October 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Two films that are set to be released on DVD later this month are already the most-downloaded movies on BitTorrent sites. According to the website torrentfreak.com, Paramount's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull topped the list for the second week in a row. It is due to be released on DVD on Tuesday, October 14. Coming in second was Universal's The Incredible Hulk, scheduled to be released the following Tuesday, October 21. Rounding out the top five: 3. Get Smart; 4. Iron Man; 5. Adulthood (British).

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12 October 2008 9:08 AM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull about to his stores on Tuesday, Paramount Home Video has alerted us to the five variant editions that will be available at various retailers.

To show how things have changed, Iron Man had eight exclusives when it hit the street on September 29 and Indy gets just five.  Still, these sound pretty cool for the diehard fan.

Circuit City - 2 lithographs of concept art from the movie.

Best Buy - Gift Set with replica crystal skull from Sideshow Collectibles and a $25 gift card to Sideshowcollectibles.com. (pictured above, left)

Target - Exclusive Packaging is a beautiful hard cover book from Palace Press with 80 pages of behind the scenes photos, including many never-before-published images.

Kmart & Sears - Four Exclusive Lego mini-posters. Each poster is a Lego replica of the original theatrical poster from all four Indy films.

Trans World - Exclusive Steelbook Packaging.

Robert Greenberger

12 October 2008 12:35 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

For Karen Allen, her first day filming "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" with Harrison Ford involved excitement, adventure and very painful elbows.

"For our first scene, we're in a truck that's barreling down a very bumpy road," remembers Allen, "and we have to throw ourselves through this metal frame. The stunt guys were saying, 'Do you want elbow pads?' And we were both, 'Oh, no.' Then around take three, we were like, 'Could you throw those elbow pads in here?

By LARRY GETLEN

12 October 2008 12:15 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Paramount Pictures just sent out this brand new DVD release movie trailer for the upcoming action film “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” aka Indiana Jones 4 by director Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Shia Labeouf, Cate Blanchett and John Hurt. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” will make its highly anticipated debut on DVD and Blu-ray October 14. Synopsis: Everyone’s favorite archeologist adventurer dusts off his hat and trusty whip for yet another globetrotting trek as Indiana Jones returns to the big screen nearly 20 years after racing for the Holy Grail alongside his father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Harrison Ford reprises his role as the iconic, snake-loathing [...]

Brian Corder

9 October 2008 6:07 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but a lot of us saw this happening going in. I didn't love Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I didn't hate it, either, although there are parts of that movie that stink even by George Lucas' steadily sinking standards. I thought it was Ok, entertaining if you're a fan. Harrison Ford probably should hang up the fedora and Steven Spielberg needs to make more interesting movies.

The bottom line is that we didn't really need a fourth adventure.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park have, uh, another opinion. Here's a clip from this week's episode of South Park, featuring Indy Jones and his two creators.

I must warn you: It gets pretty graphic...

Well. They should have at least had the decency to do that in private.

And on that note: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Colin Boyd

9 October 2008 11:00 AM, PDT | From Spout.com | See recent Spout news

Whether you're a South Park viewer or a reader of many film blogs, you've probably seen the disturbing (though not disturbingly funny) clip of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas raping Indiana Jones. As much as I too was disappointed with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, though, I find the South Park thing more upsetting, and I'll probably have a ...

Christopher Campbell

9 October 2008 8:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

So who watched the season premiere of South Park last night? I tell you, just when you think those boys are starting to get a bit weak in their old age, you're shown a scene featuring Steven Spielberg and George Lucas physically raping Indiana Jones as the poor man cries out for help. Oh yeah ... and did we mention Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull comes out on DVD this Tuesday? Yup ... and it's, er, loaded with extras!

Obviously this was their way of saying the latest Indiana Jones film sorta raped their childhood, but count me among those who kinda enjoyed watching the flick. (And I'm not alone -- here's Jeffrey's passionate post in defense of the sequel.) Sure, I could do without a few scenes here and there, but overall it wasn't terrible. What do you think? Did South Park cross a line last night?

Erik Davis

9 October 2008 6:20 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

South Park is back! The biggest balls on television had its return last night, and it couldn't have been more satisfying, especially to all of us who had to suffer the indignation of watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In the episode, the boys confront the traumatizing experience of watching the film, which they remember vividly as "George Lucas and Steven Spielberg raping Indiana Jones." The phrase "they raped my childhood" gets thrown around a lot on the internet, but when you're Trey Parker and Matt Stone, you don't just say that. You take it to the full extent of that statement.

Arya Ponto

9 October 2008 2:02 AM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

By now, you’re fully aware that Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull hits DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday.  You may even have your eye on an exclusive at your favorite retailer.  But do you know about all Five retail exclusives?  Read on and learn how, come Tuesday, you can be just like Indy as you search from store to store on a quest to obtain these collectable packages.  Sure, you’ll have five copies of a film you’ll only buy again in the Blu-ray box set of all four films when that eventually hits the shelves.  Who cares?  We’re talking an awesome miniature Crystal Skull here!  We waited nineteen years for this.  It doesn’t even matter if you loved or hated it.  You know it.  Papa Lucas knows it.  We have no choice but to obey.

9 October 2008 1:20 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler have signed on to star in the next film from writer/director Frank Darabont, the psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen. In the film Butler will star as a successful Da who becomes the target of revenge by a man (Foxx) who feels victimized by the legal system when his family's murderers are set free. Darabont, who was famously and unfairly jettisoned Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (read his Lucas rejected script here), co-wrote the script...

Mike Sampson

9 October 2008 1:09 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

Last night saw the season premiere of "South Park" on Comedy Central and as you might expect it was hilarious in a completely disturbing way. While the main storyline revolved around Cartman's paranoia that the Chinese are taking over the United States, the B-story followed the rest of the South Park kids struggling to overcome something terrible and scarring they saw earlier that summer - Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. I'm sure you've all heard the...

Mike Sampson

8 October 2008 4:10 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Those interested in picking up Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when it hits DVD on October 14th might want to pay attention to this post because there are several different options available to you. For example, above you can see an image of what's being offered at Best Buy -- a gift set with replica crystal skull from Sideshow Collectibles and a $25 gift card to Sideshowcollectibles.com. Pretty cool for you cats who'd have no problem staring at that freak-ish alien skull for all eternity.

Okay, the alien skull is a bit much -- I get it -- but, like I said, you have options. Case in point:

Circuit City is handing out 2 lithographs of concept art from the movie. Target is fooling around with a very sweet looking 80-page hardcover book with behind the scenes photos and never-been-published images. Kmart and Sears will give you four exclusive Lego mini-posters,

Erik Davis

8 October 2008 2:21 PM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

Assuming you enjoyed Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, you'll probably be heading out next week to snatch the flick on DVD. Well, depending on where you decide to crack your whip, you can get various other treats along with the disc. The retailer specific packages are: Circuit City - 2 lithographs of concept art from the movie. Best Buy -Gift Set with replica crystal skull from Sideshow Collectibles and a $25 gift card to Sideshowcollectibles.com. Target -Exclusive...

Dave Davis

8 October 2008 2:12 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree? Everyone enjoys reading a Best of/Worst of list every now and again. We occasionally publish a Top 10 Whatever here on the website and the damn things are hit magnets. Their easily digestible format and promise of no heavy intellectual lifting for the reader make for fun, breezy reads. Plus, we all love to bitch, and if there's one thing everyone can agree on, it's that whatever particular list you come across, it sure blows compared to your list. And your list sucks compared to my list. And my list stinks compared to some other dude's list (humph, so says him). Limiting lists to 10, 50, or even 100 is what kicks, punches, and shakes the wasps' nest. Keeping the overall count small forces more editorial decisions, which is what leads to debate. Sorry, that film, that scene, that character is damn good, but not good enough.

David Frank

7 October 2008 2:01 AM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

Harrison Ford told The La Times that momentum is building for a fifth movie in the Indiana Jones franchise and that George Lucas is already cooking up a suitable plot for the project. “It’s crazy but great,” the 66-year-old Ford said. “George is in think mode right now.” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” grossed $318 million in the U.S. alone and $770 million worldwide and is expected to be powerhouse seller on DVD and Blu-Ray when it arrives in stores Oct. 14. It was a film that many people in Hollywood assumed would never be made considering the difficulty in finding the right time and the right script to reunite Ford, Lucas and franchise director Steven Spielberg after the 1989 hit “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” Now, though, the latest success and the fact that the franchise’s old machinery was revived has Ford thinking a fifth

6 October 2008 8:50 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

When I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in theaters I was completely unafraid to say just how much adored and loved the first two-thirds and was moderately okay with the final climactic sequences. While I was not alone in that assessment (this film sits at 77-percent to the positive at Rotten Tomatoes), you'd think in the time after it was released I was bona fide insane, so many people willing to give you an earful on just how underwhelming they felt this action-adventure was. Watching it again on DVD I say phooey to all the naysayers and stick to my guns on the picture itself. This, almost two-decades in coming, sequel to George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford's last outing bringing globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones to the screen is one heck of a lot of fun, and as far as old-fashioned Saturday matinee

Sara Michelle Fetters

6 October 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

George Lucas is working on a fifth Indiana Jones movie, according to the film franchise's star, Harrison Ford.

The actor insists Lucas was inspired by the worldwide success of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which has already grossed over one billion dollars around the globe, and is expected to be a big seller on DVD and Blu-Ray when it arrives in stores on 14 October.

Ford says, "George is in think-mode right now."

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5 October 2008 9:15 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Now that Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" grossed $316.8 million domestically and about $770 million worldwide, it's no surprise the guys behind the film are already thinking about another sequel. After all, it's all about the money and not the quality, right?

In a recent interview with Geoff Boucher at the Los Angeles Times, Harrison Ford said George Lucas is already working on an idea for a fifth "Indiana Jones" film.

"It's crazy but great. George is in think mode right now," Ford told Boucher. "It's automatic, really, we did well with the last one and with that having done well and been a positive experience, it's not surprising that some people want to do it again."

While I didn't exactly hate "Crystal Skull," I wasn't really impressed by the latest installment either. I personally don't need to see another Indy adventure, but who knows,

Franck Tabouring

5 October 2008 7:47 PM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

After the critical drubbing George Lucas has received as a writer and storyteller, the news that he’s conceiving the plot for a fifth Indiana Jones movie must be met with skepticism.  Still, Harrison Ford told The Los Angeles Times that Lucas has a plan. "It's crazy but great," Ford said. "George is in think mode right now."

While Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull may have grossed $318 million domestically and $770 million worldwide, it was also poorly reviewed noting it lacked the spark and originality that fueled the franchise earlier.

"It's automatic, really, we did well with the last one and with that having done well and been a positive experience, it's not surprising that some people want to do it again," the 66-year old actor told Geoff Boucher.

He spoke further about franchising the character in other media and said outright he would never consent to voicing an animated incarnation.

Robert Greenberger

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