Grindhouse director Robert Rodriguez is currently in talks with Warner Bros to work on a live-action version of the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons. 

Rodriguez is going to be a very busy man in the next few months, as the director is also meeting with Will Ferrell & Universal Studios to helm Land of the Lost duties. 

I wonder if Robert will have to choose between the two.  If so, I’m going to be voting for Land of the Lost myself.  What about you?

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I may have said it before now, but this has to be the worst week ever for DVD releases.  I mean, come on!  Not even a goodie out there!  I guess it’s back to the theater to see Spider-Man 3 again for my movie fix.

Well, here they are, the DVD releases for Tuesday May 8, 2006: 

Because I Said So
Cagney & Lacey: Season One
Catch and Release
Dirty Dancing
Donnie Brasco
Everybody Loves Raymond: Complete Eighth Season
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Music and Lyrics
The Painted Veil
That ’70s Show: Season Six
The Waltons: The Complete Fifth Season

SlashFilm:   Balls of Fury release date change

The Movie Blog:  The five golden rules for comic book films 

Celebrific:  Actor David Hasselhoff banned from seeing kids after drunk video aired 

Cinematical:  Sam Raimi worried that Dunst/Maguire breakup would ruin Spider-Man movie series  

Film Fodder:  Robot Chicken: Star Wars movie trailer 

Warner Bros, in an attempt to halt “rampant” movie piracy, has cancelled all its preview screenings in Canada.  The Hollywood company has stopped all ”promotional and word-of-mouth screenings” of new releases.

The studio has blamed the Canadian government for not making camcording illegal in movie theaters. 

“We regret having to cancel our screenings in Canada,” a spokesperson for Warner Bros commented.

“But our studio must take steps to protect not only our branded assets, but our commitment to film-makers and to our distributors.”

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Comedian Mike Myers is set to reprise the role of super spy Austin Powers in the upcoming fourth installment of the spy series.

The next installment of Austin Powers, as of yet unnamed, will focus more on Dr. Evil this go-round.

Myers reveals, ”There is a fully conceived idea for a fourth and I can just say that it’s from Dr. Evil’s point of view, so if you balanced how much it was Austin with Dr. Evil, it’s more Dr. Evil than Austin.”

What do you say?  Another Austin Powers movie a good idea or no?

TV mogul & HBO head honcho Chris Albrecht was arrested on Sunday in Las Vegas for reportedly assaulting his girlfriend.  I thought what happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas….

Apparently the HBO chairman assaulted his girlfriend in the wee hours of the morning Sunday right outside the MGM Grand Casino after watching the big fight Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

A police source revealed, ”Some of our guys observed a domestic dispute between him and his girlfriend. It was a physical confrontation.”

Maybe Chris has been watching “The Sopranos” just a little too much…

SlashFilm:  The Power of the Game, reviewed

The Movie Blog:  Why Spider-Man 3 could have been better….

Celebrific:  Uh oh!  Lindsay Lohan caught doing cocaine!

Cinematical:   Keira Knightley still ready to move on from Pirates movies

Film Fodder:  Lucky You, reviewed

With the recent incredible box office success of Spider-Man 3, Sony Pictures has announced that they will do at least three more Spidey movies. 

Sony’s chief exec, Michael Lynton stated, “Everybody has every intention of making a fourth, a fifth and a sixth and on and on.  (We’ll make) as many as we can make good stories for.”

“I think it had a lot to do with timing,” Lynton reveals about the success of the third installment.  “The fact we were the first out in the summer.

Spider-Man 3 saw its U.S. release this weekend & my did Spidey show it off!

Breaking numerous records, Spider-Man 3 has become the record holder for the biggest opening weekend in movie history.  The movie’s $148 million was almost $13 million more than the previous winner Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

Wowzers!  Spidey made $59.3 million on Friday alone, giving the comic film a single-day new record.  Spider-Man 3 can now also boast the largest ever IMAX debut!

All in all, it looks like Spidey was a winner after all.

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Well, the summer blockbusters are officially here, as far as I’m concerned.  The much-awaited, highly-anticipated, much-talked-about Spider-Man 3 is finally here!

Tobey Maguire takes on the Spidey mask once again in this crime-fighting, web-slinging powerful new Spider-Man movie.  Spider-Man 3 promises to entice us with not only one villain, but two- and really three if you think about it enough. 

It’s going to be an amazing & crowded movie theater experience, so you had better get those tickets soon!

Lucky You, also premieres this weekend.  The Eric Bana-starring film is about a card player who sets out to win the World Series of Poker, as well as the  interest of actress Drew Barrymore.