Movie Minesweeper - The Only 65p Edition

Every Movie Minesweeper from here on - for a while, at least - I'm going to tell you just what piece of music I'm listening to as I start the post, and then, later, when I end the post.

Currently, I can hear Self Control by Laura Brannigan. Shut up. I like it.

- Either Masters of Horror or The Dresden Files is to shoot in Alberta from September. My money is on The Dresden Files. Whichever it ends up being, the city of Alberta is to take a stake in the show.

- Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me is to premiere at Toronto.

- The Guardian attended a screening of 10 minutes from The Simpsons Movie.

- Andrew Cosby and Johanna Stokes are writing the next draft of First Ascent, Disney's 'monster on Everest' movie.

- A few months back, Britney Spears attacked a car with an umbrella, like some kind of half-baked rainy day Jack Nicholson. Was she just flipping out? Of course she was, no doubt about it but that's not the offical line. No, according to a statement, she was trying out a method acting technique to help her get in character for a movie. That's right: she's telling lies that stupid now. She said "I apologize to the pap for a stunt that was done 4 months ago regarding an umbrella. I was preparing my character for a role in a movie where the husband never plays his part so they switch places accidentally. I take all my roles very seriously and got a little carried away. Unfortunately I didn't get the part."

- According to James Marsters, his role in Torchwood is going to "offend some, titillate others - to the point where they would need to finish themselves off afterwards".

- A sitcom version of Monster in Law is in development. That film was genuinely criminal.

- Afroman is making a spoof of Waiting to Exhale. This film sounds genuinely criminal.

And now I'm listening to Let Your Love Flow by The Bellamy Brothers.

Movie Minesweeper - The Wedding Day Edition

No, I'm not getting married today. But I am going to a wedding, and filming it too. So, I'm in a real rush - but I can't not update at all today, can I? No. So, here's a very rapid Movie Minesweeper to try and keep things relatively smoothly running.

- SuperHeroHype have the final Transformers one sheet. I was going to see the film today, but that wedding interfered. I'll survive.

- The first image of Harrison Ford in costume for the new Indiana Jones shows that his dress sense hasn't altered much.

- Morgan Freeman is to play Nelson Mandela. It was only a matter of time.

- Variety have published their 2007 list of hot screenwriters to watch. I spotted two that were, previously, actors on Buffy the Vampire Slayer but I wouldn't be surprised if you told me there were more.

- Sharon Morrill, the mastermind behind Disney's direct-to-DVD operations, has lost her job. Ostensibly, it's because of the delays and spiralling costs of Tinkerbell, but seeing as Tinkerbell seems to be the first of these projects to finally start going right, it's really because of everything else. She has done quite a bit of damage, if you ask me, and she really should have to carry the can.

- There's even more evidence that a Sex and the City movie is coming.

- A deliberately obscure and mysterious Saw IV still has turned up.

- Terence Stamp is now in Wanted too. I understand it's not a huge part (fans of the comic probably know which role I'm getting at).

- Only one witness to Cillian Murphy on the Dark Knight set? Hmmmm. I'm not saying the Scarecrow isn't in the film, just that this is no more proof of his appearance than all these dappy e-mails I've received are of Edward Nygma turning up. I'm shrugging at both, though, to be honest.

- Woody Allen and William Friedkin are to direct opera.

- Tonight, He Comes is being retitled John Hancock. Not sure about either of those. How about An Alan Smithee Movie 2?

- Apparently, James Marsters is to appear in the next series of Torchwood - presumably before knuckling down to write the script that will make him one of 2008's hot screenwriters.

- MTV have secured a much nicer version of the Where the Wild Things Are still.

- The Munchkins are getting a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. Just one star - to share. Is there some sort of height-to-star ratio that we don't know about? I'd get the man from the lollipop guild on the case, this simply can't be fair.