Ready Or Not...

The latest on United 93 (AKA Flight 93) and the trailer controversy:

A New York City movie theater has pulled the trailer for ''United 93," which chronicles the hijacked United Airlines flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11. The AMC Loews Lincoln Square 12 theater in Manhattan made the decision after viewers complained they found it too upsetting.

''I don't think people are ready for this," said theater manager Kevin Adjodha. ''One lady was crying. She was saying that we shouldn't have played the trailer. That this was wrong."...

The trailer begins with images of passengers boarding the plane on a sunny morning and builds to a disturbing scene that includes news video of a plane about to hit the World Trade Center. It then shows the inside of Flight 93 as terrorists begin the hijacking.

Director Paul Greengrass, whose past films include ''Bloody Sunday," a dramatization of a 1972 massacre in Northern Ireland, consulted with the families of Flight 93 victims while making the film. Families of Flight 93, a nonprofit group that represents some relatives, has praised the movie, and Universal Pictures has pledged to donate 10 percent of the first three days of the film's grosses to the Flight 93 National Memorial.

The trailer, though, caught some viewers by surprise in New York, where it was being shown before ''Inside Man," a Spike Lee thriller...

Click here to read the entire article from The Boston Globe

Meanwhile, Universal Pictures, the studio releasing the film is standing by the trailer:

"We expect that some moviegoers will have a strong response to its images and narrative," Universal Studios said in a statement, but said that it had no plans to pull the trailer or produce a substitute. Universal marketing president Adam Fogelson said the film-makers had worked closely with families of the victims to ensure sensitivities were respected, and that family members had voiced their support for the film. The trailer begins with images of passengers boarding the plane on a sunny morning, and builds to a disturbing scene that includes news video of a plane about to hit the World Trade Center. It then returns inside Flight 93 as terrorists begin the hijacking. (Courtesy Guardian Unlimited)

While I sympathize with those who were affected by the trailer... As long as the passengers families are behind the film I support it and them...

On a much lighter note:

Have you seen the exclusive internet trailer for Clerks 2 yet? Just in case you haven't-- Here It Is...and IMHO it's freakin' hilarious!

And finally, IGN FilmForce reports some news about the fourth Indiana Jones flick:

...Australia's Herald Sun newspaper recently caught up with producer Frank Marshall who... gave an expected timeline for the film's story.

Marshall, who was in Australia promoting Eight Below, said, "My job as producer is to get the movie made so if I can do it better and cheaper here in Australia, then I am going to do it. Australia is a definite possibility for Indiana Jones and a couple of other things I am working on at the moment." He also gave Europe and the United States as other possible production locales for the long-awaited film.

Indiana Jones 4 is expected to go into production next year, once Steven Spielberg returns from his planned year-long filmmaking hiatus. At last report, the much-delayed script for the film now appears to have been completed to the satisfaction of all parties involved. The supposedly approved script was penned by Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour, Catch Me if You Can) with a final polish by David Koepp.

And while we don't know anything about the film's storyline, Marshall has revealed that the film will take place roughly a decade after the events of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. "It is going to be 10 or 12 years later," said Marshall. By our calculations, that would place it roughly around 1948-50.

While that's great and all...Enough talk already! If you're gonna make the movie...MAKE THE MOVIE!!! My patience grows thin...