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Shrek The Third trailer

When his new father-in-law, King Harold (John Cleese) falls ill, Shrek (Mike Myers) is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) to install the rebellious Artie (Justin Timberlake) as the new king. Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fends off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming (Rupert Everett).

Official Peter Pan sequel

Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J.M. Barrie's classic story, will be adapted for the big screen. BBC Films, the U.K. Film Council and an independent British producer, Headline Pictures, have bought the film rights to the book, which was written by Geraldine McCaughrean.

Peter Pan in Scarlet (you can read a couple of excerpts on the Simon & Schuster website) was released this October and is set about 20 years after Barrie's story, with Wendy a young mother and the Lost Boys now known as Old Boys. They begin having nightmares about Neverland and conclude that dreams and ideas must be filtering through into their world. The League of Pan must return to Neverland and help Peter Pan return both worlds to normalcy.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Chrildren's Charity, which commissioned McCaughrean to write Peter Pan in Scarlet, has authorized the movie deal. Barrie left the rights to Peter Pan to the hospital in his will, and the classic story has helped support their work since 1937. McCaughrean, a former teacher and journalist who has won three prestigious Whitbread literary awards for her children's books, was selected by the hospital to write the official sequel after an international competition.

No release date has been set for the film.

64th Golden Globe Awards nominees

The Brad Pitt-led film 'Babel' leads the field with seven nominations. Pitt is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for his performance, while his co-stars Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi are both nominated for Best Actress (Drama). 'Babel' is nominated for Best Picture (Drama) with director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, scriptwriter Guillermo Arriaga and composer Gustavo Santaolalla also among the nominees in other categories. Iñárritu will be up against Clint Eastwood (nominated twice for his two films about the battle of Iwo Jima) and Martin Scorsese.

Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated twice in the Best Actor (Drama) category for his performances in 'The Departed' and 'Blood Diamond'; he is joined on the shortlist by Peter O'Toole ('Venus'), Will Smith ('The Pursuit of Happyness') and Forest Whitaker ('The Last King of Scotland').

The full list of nominees for the film awards are listed below. Winners will be announced on January 15th, 2007.

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed
Peter O'Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Penélope Cruz for Volver (2006/I)
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal for SherryBaby
Helen Mirren for The Queen
Kate Winslet for Little Children

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Aaron Eckhart for Thank You for Smoking
Chiwetel Ejiofor for Kinky Boots
Will Ferrell for Stranger Than Fiction

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Annette Bening for Running with Scissors
Toni Collette for Little Miss Sunshine
Beyoncé Knowles for Dreamgirls
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
Renée Zellweger for Miss Potter

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson for The Departed
Brad Pitt for Babel
Mark Wahlberg for The Departed

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Adriana Barraza for Babel
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Emily Blunt for The Devil Wears Prada
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel

Best Director - Motion Picture
Clint Eastwood for Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Babel : Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed : William Monahan
Little Children : Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal : Patrick Marber
The Queen : Peter Morgan

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Bobby ("Never Gonna Break My Faith")
Dreamgirls ("Listen")
Happy Feet ("The Song of the Heart")
Home of the Brave ("Try Not to Remember")
The Pursuit of Happyness ("A Father's Way")

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Babel : Gustavo Santaolalla
The Da Vinci Code : Hans Zimmer
The Fountain : Clint Mansell
Nomad: Carlo Siliotto
The Painted Veil : Alexandre Desplat

Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
Laberinto del Fauno, El
Leben der Anderen, Das
Letters from Iwo Jima
Volver

Best Animated Film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Pirates 3 photo

The latest rumours about the third Pirates of the Caribbean, subtitled At World's End, is that veteran Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat will star as the notorious Chinese pirate Captain Sao Feng. The other rumour is that rock legend Keith Richards will make a cameo appearance as Captain Jack Sparrow's father! The film was shot concurrently with the second installment in the series, Dead Man's Chest. It's due to be released in May 2007. An early production photo has surfaced and I've included it below.

Original Mission Impossible series on DVD

Before Tom Cruise starred as Ethan Hunt, and even efore Peter Graves signed on as spy chief Jim Phelps, there was Steven Hill. Hill played Dan Briggs, the head of a super-secret government agency called the Impossible Missions Force. Hill was replaced after the first season due to a conflict over the show's shooting schedule. Mission Impossible ran on CBS from 1966 to 1973 and later returned for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990. The 1966-73 cast members included Martin Landau (disguise-master Rollin Hand), Barbara Bain (femme fatale Cinnamon Carter), Greg Morris (gizmo expert Barney Collier) and Peter Lupus (strongman Willy Armitage).

One of the attractive aspects of watching the show now is to be aware of all the history that has developed since. For example, the show was about the United States government sponsoring IMF, essentially a group of saboteurs who were answerable to no one. In the course of their duties, the IMF could lie, cheat, steal, falsify media, hold persons illegally, falsely incriminate, destroy the property of innocent people, kidnap, plot assassinations and break any civil or criminal rule that stood in their way.

A seven-disc set containing the first 28 episodes of the show has just been released and retails for around $55 US.

Trailer - The Number 23

Here's a sneak peak at the latest Jim Carrey film, a psychological thriller centering on a man who is obsessed with an obscure book titled "The Number 23" and becomes convinced that the book is based on his own life. The film makes use of numerology and clever bits of data like the fact that human gametes (ova and sperm) each contain 23 chromosomes, which pair up to make the DNA for a new person.

The film is directed by Joel Schumacher, one of my favourite directors, and if it equals his other thrillers like Falling Down or Phone Booth, this should be very good. Schumacher is also attached to direct The Crowded Room, a film based on the true story of Billy Milligan, who developed twenty-four different personalities during his horrific childhood, and who would go on to commit several robberies and rapes.

You can find out more about "The Number 23" at its official web site. The site is designed as fragments and scraps of information similar to the flow of clues in the movie.