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December 30, 2007
Happy New Year & Exclusive: Crystal Skull Universal Soundstage Set
HAPPY NEW INDY YEAR 2008...with exclusive Crystal Skull soundstage pics
| We thought we'd bring you a little extra for New Year's: a couple of exclusive shots from the Universal soundstage sets for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Sorry, no actors, but hopefully enough to whet your appetite, keep that imagination active and those ants in your pants vibrantly alive. PS. You need to go to the HFW forum for bigger pictures and a few descriptive details. | |
 Universal soundstage set Photo: A HFW Source |
 Universal soundstage set Photo: A HFW Source |
 Universal soundstage set Photo: A HFW Source |
 Universal soundstage set Photo: A HFW Source |
Posted by Grethe at 05:47 PM
December 27, 2007
New Indy4 Pic on Franchise Tie-In Book
NEW INDY4 PIC ON HARPER-COLLINS TIE-IN BOOK Photo: www.amazon.de |
| Marcel Jähde over at indianajones.de did a nice find on the amazon.de pages: A new picture of Dr. Jones i whipping action on the cover of one of the Harper-Collins' tie-in books to KOtCS: Meet Indy: I Can Read. A new picture of Shia LeBeouf as Mutt is also available on the cover of another volume in the same series: Meet Mutt. Click on picture above to go to the relevant page at Amazon's German outlet. Website throwmetheideol.com also has a nice overview of other KOtCS tie-in books - but alas no more news re: new cover pictures. |
indianajones.de
amazon.de
throwmetheidol.com
Posted by Grethe at 11:08 PM
December 25, 2007
Revealing Indy Lego Sets
REVEALING INDY LEGO SETS Lego Set #7627 Source Photo: www.brickset.com Thumbnail image blurred by HFW |
Website brickset.com has published pretty revealing pictures of three Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull brick sets: sets #7625, #7626 and #7627. A fourth set, #7624, is still undocumented. For spoiler reasons we have omitted the set titles and direct links to the relevant pages but if you really want to have a look we're sure you can find your own way around. |
brickset.com
Posted by Grethe at 04:53 AM
December 24, 2007
Merry Christmas!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!from members at staff here at HFW. |
 Winter Night in the Mountains (1913 version) by Harald Sohlberg |
Posted by Grethe at 02:25 AM
December 23, 2007
Lockerbie Goes to Hollywood?
LOCKERBIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD? |
The Scotsman reports today that the terrororist bombing and subsequent crash of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988 may be up for Hollywood treatment. Names mentioned around this possible project are Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford. |
| The former Mossad agent Juval Aviv is planning to turn the Lockerbie disaster into a big screen hit blaming Iran (not Libya) for the atrocity, in which 270 people lost their lives. Mr. Aviv is not just anybody: he and his company were hired by Pan Am to help investigate the bombing. Aviv also penned the book that inspired Munich, furthermore he worked on the Steven Spielberg movie as a consultant and is a friend of the director. Mr. Aviv, also a dual US-Israeli citizen, has revealed he is in talks with a number of high-profile Hollywood directors over the film rights on the book he's writing; among those considering adapting the script is Steven Spielberg. The central character in Aviv's novels is a retired and disaffected Mossad agent called Sam Woolfman. One industry insider suggested that Harrison Ford would be ideal in the role of the rugged, secret agent. He said: "Harrison has already played a similar character in Patriot Games where he was Jack Ryan, a CIA agent who becomes embroiled in a terrorist plot." Read the full report in The Scotsman here. For a recap on the Lockerbie bombing and more background info on Juval Aviv: have a look in the sources list below. | |
news.scotsman.com
Portrait of Juval Aviv from The Independent
Interactive presentation of the Lockerbie Crash
BBC Key Facts Report
BBC News Collection on Lockerbie
Posted by Grethe at 03:53 AM
HFW On EW's Best of the Web List
HFW ON ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S BEST OF THE WEB LIST |
| Entertainment Weekly has done a rundown on 25 Essential Websites and 10 More Awesome Fansites. Grats & cheers to Gilles V, Mitchell Hallock and everybody at theraider.net for the impressive top ranking on the EW Essential Fansites list. Also grats to Steven Awalt and the community at spielbergfilms.com: the site is on EW's 10 More Awesome Websites list. But most of all - as seen from our perspective: BIG THANKS TO ALL VISITORS AND MEMBERS AT HFW, especially to those of you who have been with us through thin and thick, good and bad: HFW is also on the 10 More Awesome Websites list. We couldn't have wished for a better Christmas present (well, almost-) !! Thank you everybody and Entertainment Weekly!!! |
EW.com
Posted by Grethe at 02:18 AM
December 21, 2007
Serious Indy 4 Promo is a Go -- in Madrid
SERIOUS CRYSTAL SKULL PROMO IS A GO -- IN MADRID Display at the Kinépolis in Madrid Photo: Indiana Jones: Comunidad Fan Española Dec.20, 2007 |
Spanish Indiana Jones fan site indianajones.es has a scoop today: the first pictures of the Indy 4 promo displays we can expect to see at the bigger cinemas from now on. Indianajones.es writes:* Some of our forum members went to the Kinépolis in Madrid to see Blade Runner: The Final Cut and we got a major surprise when we saw a promo display for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The display consisted of a cardboard suitcase with an English logo and typical souvenir stickers. There was also a huge crate, as seen in one of the posters presented at Comic-Con and also presently adorning the official Indiana Jones website. The crate also featured souvenir stickers and the logo in Spanish. The crate is made of real wood and looks old. The text on the front says: Property of Dr Jones 9906573 and the reverse side says in Spanish Do not open until May 22, 2008. The only stuff that looked a bit off key in our opinion was the fedora and the whip hanging on the crate: they appeared somewhat puny. |
| Indianajones.es also remarks that they would have regarded the display as nothing but expected promo for a big tentpole if it weren't for the coincidence that it appeared yesterday, the day before the Spanish premiere of National Treasure: Book of Secrets - one of the movies rumored to feature the long awaited Indy 4 teaser trailer. The site doesn't believe the trailer will be screened with Book of Secrets today but assumes we'll get no further warning as to when it will actually appear. Go to indianajones.es to read the full report and see their pictures from the Madrid Kinépolis. Indianajones.es just reported that the Indy 4 teaser trailer was not screened today. They also say that the promo campaign is not a Kinépolis exclusive: a similar display is up at the Dreams cinemas in the Palacio de Hielo (Ice Palace), also in Madrid | |
| * Our translation. All errors courtesy the undersigned. | |
Indiana Jones: Comunidad Fan Española
Posted by Grethe at 01:19 PM
December 19, 2007
ICG Lifetime Award, IGN Stars Icons
INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHERS GUILD LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO HARRISON...and more kudos
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Harrison will be honored with the International Cinematographers Guild Lifetime Achievement Award at the 45th annual Publicist Awards on Feb 5, 2008. Previous winners of this award include Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Julie Andrews and Kirk Douglas. |
| Harrison also finally gets kudos from one of the big net hipsters: website IGN.com has introduced a new feature called IGN Stars Icons and he was chosen as the first entry in their series. Check out no less than three screens of acclaim - no cheap jokes, not a trace of envy badly concealed as irony, not even the G-word (geezer) - over at IGN here. |
Variety.com
International Cinematographers Guild website (ICG logo)
IGN.com
Posted by Grethe at 11:40 AM
December 10, 2007
First Teaser Poster by Drew Struzan, More on Indy 4 Characters & Locations
FIRST TEASER POSTER BY DREW STRUZAN, MORE ON INDY 4 CHARACTERS & LOCATIONS |
| As previously promised by the producers: A very nice piece of work was added to the official Indiana Jones site today: The first Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull teaser poster by Drew Struzan. Click on excerpt image above to go to there and get a copy. Should you want the poster in full glory: visit StarWarsShop.com (Price: USD 19.99 + p&p). The poster has been very very well received by fans and the general audience - with the exeption of the usual nitwits (Perez Hilton, Hollywood Elsewhere). A very interesting article has also appeared in USA Today re: the announcement of the poster. Producer Frank Marshall spills more beans: We now get to know the surname and job description of Cate Blanchett's character and (some of??) the geographical locations where Indy 4 action will take place. Bonus: we even get a comment on the inofficial lore surrounding crystal skulls. more than suggesting that a persistent and controversial rumor will be dealt with one way or the other when the movie opens on May 22nd next year. Read the the article in entirety here. |
Official Indiana Jones Site
USA Today
Posted by Grethe at 11:29 PM
December 07, 2007
Marshall Reveals Characters; Some Are Still A Mystery
PRODUCER FRANK MARSHALL REVEALS INDY 4 CHARACTERS...but one in particular still remains clouded in mystery
 Cate Blanchett: [Villain] |
 Ray Winstone: [Competitor and Friend] |
 Jim Broadbent: [Yale Colleague] |
 John Hurt: Still A Mystery |
| MTV.com has landed an exclusive interview with producer Frank Marshall, who had a thing or two to say about the nature of some of the characters in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (Highlight to see the text between the brackets under the pics above). The only real news concern Ray Winstone's character. However, what we find most interesting is the total silence on anything whatsoever on John Hurt's character - something that makes us even more certain his role is indeed as important and revealing as we suspect. The silence re: Mutt a.k.a Shia LaBeouf is also thundering. Marshall took the time to shoot down a recent rumor about Crystal Skull being the start of a series of new Indy movies . "I don't think so. We're all getting too old," Marshall said, "We have to hand the torch to somebody else. I don't know who that's going to be." Marshall also reveals he feels none the wiser after actually having visited a crystal skull - residing in Texas. PS. To avoid any unfortunate misunderstandings: his name is Max. Read the highly interesting interview here. | |
MTV.com
Posted by Grethe at 06:45 PM