Blade 2: Courtesy of Dark Horizons, some new about the sequel to Blade has arrived: According to, The Mexican News, the trade reports that Guillermo Del Toro is hard at work prepping the eventual film. Del Toro was apparently planning to film "La mano izquierda de la oscuridad" ("The Left Hand of Darkness"), a remake of the old "Count of Monte Cristo" tale with Antonio Banderas, but due to his contract with New Line he has had to hold off on it and start pre-production on the vampire sequel. Shooting begins in November, and Del Toro promises a few surprises "This is the first project in which I didn't write the story, but it has a script that I really liked, besides, when I finished 'Cronos' I still had a lot of vampire ideas that I couldn't develop due to budgetary constraints". Toro met with scribe David S. Goyer three weeks ago to discuss changes to the script which will have a different emphasis than the first movie "The first part explored his interaction with society in a modern city and now the idea is to see how he functions from within".

Tomb Raider: The Movie: The deal is signed, filming begins this summer: Oscar winner Angelina Jolie has signed on the dotted line and will portray Lara Croft this summer along with director Simon West (Con Air). Paramount hopes to get the film going this summer in time for a summer 2001 release.

Stonehenge 2000: From Cinescape, we learn that Germany's Constantin Film and Impact Pictures (Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon) are joining forces to bring Bernard Cornwell's novel, Stonehenge 2000, to the big screen. The book tells a fictionalized account of the construction of the historic site focusing on a rivalry between three brothers happening concurrently. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film's script is in early stages, though no scribe is mentioned. Furthermore, no cast or crew has been tapped to bring it all to the big screen.

Prozac Nation: Jason Biggs (American Pie) will join Christina Ricci in this big-screen adaptation of the Elizabeth Wurtzel novel which will begin filming on May 15th. The eventual film will tell the story of a troubled young woman suffering from depression as she makes her way through Harvard and the journalism world. Biggs will portray her boyfriend in the picture which will be directed by Erik Skjoldejaerg.

From Hell: Heather Graham is interested in joining Johnny Depp in the big screen version of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's novel. Graham would take on the role of an Irish prostitute being sought after by Jack the Ripper. Depp will take on the part of Scotland Yard detective Frederick Abberline who has been assigned the Ripper case in White Chapel in 1880. Production of the film starts this summer in Prague.

The X-Men: Avoid the long line to get to the main movie site, version 2.0 of the trailer is here! Click on the link below to download the various versions of the trailer that are available. Screenshots will be included in tomorrow's update...I'm done for the night. See ya!

"X-Men" Full Trailer (Quicktime)

Road Trip: When a trailer is too raunchy for TV, too wild for the big-screen, but it effectively describes the movie, where do you premiere the rated R trailer? On the Internet, of course! Cinema Confidential has the rated R trailer that they have and ladies and gentlemen, here it is! Now it's got nudity, drug use, so you have to be 18 years or older (but hell, like that's going to stop many of you). Enjoy!

"Road Trip" Rated R Trailer (4.3 mb QT)

More Trailers: Even more cool trailers have erupted on the Internet...the first two links are for new clips for Final Fantasy (though they are extremely short in length). The second trailer is for the Samuel L. Jackson movie Shaft Returns and finally, the third trailer is from director Ang Lee and the Michelle Yeoh/Chow Yun Fat film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

"Final Fantasy" Clip 1 | Clip 2
"Shaft Returns" Full Trailer
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Trailer