Movie Minesweeper - The Wheelbarrow And The Carrot Cake Edition

- The new Sony Pictures Podcast is up on YouTube. Plenty of I Know Who Killed Me footage, followed by Daddy Day Camp and, finally, Superbad. I'm holding out hope for just the one of those, I'm afraid...

- MTV have spoken to Kevin James about I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and One Nation Under Bob.

- Just to clarify: The Valkyrie crew have been banned from the Benderblock building but they are receiving plenty of other support from the German film community. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck said the film "would do more to promote Germany's image than 10 World Cup soccer championships could ever do".

- Spike Lee has been talking up his next, Miracle at St. Anna.

- Nathan Fillion may well be joining Desperate Housewives too - as Dana Delaney's husband.

- Murdoch's digital-terrestrial pay service here in the UK may come to PCs as well as set-top boxes.

- Cinematical have a first look at the new Invasion poster. It's certainly nothing special.

- Seems like Andrew Divoff is going to be in Indiana Jones IV. Perhaps. I saw the link at JoBlo.

- Douglas Pipes has been recording his score for Trick'r Treat.

- The Guardian have profiled MoviePol, an online 'virtual cinema' that will offer new distribution possibilities to unlucky filmmakers, and if we're lucky, some real gems for the audience. Fingers crossed...

Direct Download Links For The First Trailer For The Invasion

See the alien contaminants come and harass Nicole Kidman. Download it now in FLV or Quicktime.

In one scene Kidman is advised to not show any emotion at all. It's virtually a one-stop joke shop for knocking both her acting and her sad past with the king of scientology. Poor Nicole.

Nicole Kidman's Handwriting?

Mike Markus found the following poster for The Invasion, at least part directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, possibly with a late substitution of the Wachowskis. It looks like the plot either features a mother abandoning a child during a zombie-alien invasion, the child being taken away during said time or - and this is entirely possible, knowing the logic in films like this - a note written by a mother to the child she has already been seperated from even though she doesn't know where this child is. How is she going to deliver the note? Broadcast it on TV?

It's hardly spoiler material then. But it does sound rather War of the Worlds, don't you think?

And what are the odds on this being Nicole Kidman's real handwriting?

Kidman Hopsitalised Reshooting Invasion

[EDIT: TMZ now have video of the accident]

TMZ sez: Nicole Kidman has been put in hospital after a stunt on the set of The Invasion went awry. A car went out of control and crashed.

What dey didn't sez (ahem) is that these are reshoots, with principal photography long since completed, even forgotten. So, if Kidman's injuries somehow mean she can't finish the reshoots... what then? Go with the original version? That'd be a double catastrophe in PR terms, I think.

My lord.... what if the worst happens?

Sadly, a total of eight people were hurt in the accident, including a number of actors - one of them a young boy - and stuntmen.

[EDIT: Ms. Kidman was released after two hours. The boy, in the passenger seat, was apparently a trained stunt person. Thankfully, seatbelts were in use and no serious injuries have yet been reported]

Daniel Craig And Nicole Kidman

Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman have taken part in a fashion photoshoot together, for W magazine, and Style are running a preview slideshow right now.

As well you know, Craig and Kidman are starring in The Golden Compass, New Line's end-of-year fantasy cash cow from the wonderful Phillip Pullman book (what you may not know, if you haven't read the book is that - SPOILER ALERT! - they are playing the parents of the tween lead, Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra Bellacqua)

Already the film is being hyped on an almost daily basis by the studio, and these shots won't hurt the cause any. People tend to find this pair rather easy on the eye, I've noticed.

Before Golden Compass, however, Craig and Kidman will be seen on screen together in The Invasion, Olvier Hirschbiegel's dust-gathering remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, long since completed but still months from release. I don't know a soul who has seen the whole thing, but I do have it on very good authority that producer Joel Silver consulted his Wachowski-chums over a last act rejig, and that their suggestions led to some dispute between producer and director. This is probably the first and last argument in which I can imagine myself siding with Oliver Hirschbiegel.

Even if Invasion tanks - and it's not going to be a smash, I'm pretty sure of that - it will at least keep the Craig-Kidman flame flickering. It might turn out, in the worst case scenario, to be nothing more than a very expensive, overlong and rather boring trailer for their Golden Compass match-up.