TMMC's Weekly Round Up

It appears the Oscar race isn't the only thing heating up this week - we've got ourselves quite a race going in TMMC's Poll of the Week.  It looks like readers are neck in neck in how they feel about Hollywood's latest darling Sandy B.  Will you end up siding with the Oscars or the Razzies?  Can you overlook Speed 2:  Cruise Control and just focus on Crash?  Only a few more hours left to vote, so get your last licks in now and come back on Monday to find out the official results.

Speaking of a few more hours, you've almost made it to the weekend.  Soon you'll be able to kick your legs up, fix yourself a stiff drink and forget about your inbox till Monday - just a little while longer, you can do it!

The TMMC team whined that they could barely find any juicy bits for you this week because of the dominant Oscar news.  So I strapped them in and forced them to watch the Rock's new movie The Tooth Fairy.  Following the screaming and clawing, they finally subsided and found you some interesting articles after all, proving sometimes you just need tough love.  Now then, here's your weekly round up...

• Once again those "other" Smurfs are dominating the movie news cycle.  Before we can even cue the music to end their acceptance speeches and usher them off the stage, Papa Murdoch has already announced his desire to see Avatar II.  Potential title - Avater II:  Now with Writers?  Read more.
• Da Vinci Code 3:  Keeping Tom Hanks Relevant, is also already in the works.  Move over Mr. President, Dan Brown's latest novel The Lost Symbol will hit the streets of D.C. soon enough.  With a writer now signed on, it'll take two days for a script, maybe two months of filming and we should see it by Christmas 2010.  God bless the Hollywood machine.  Read more.
• It's rumored that there will be more movie commercials during this year's Superbowl than ever before, previewing some of this year's biggest blockbusters.  Keep tight Wonderland fans, there's supposed to be a new trailer released during the game too!  Almost as interesting, Universal Orlando will air the first commercial ever for the new theme park, "Wizarding World of Harry Potter," expected to open later this year.  I'll be there faster than you can say merchandising - Mickey Mouse who?  Take a sneak peak.
• Johnny Depp takes his obsession with Keith Richards a bit overboard by directing a new documentary about the rock veteran.  Is it life imitating art or art imitating life? Regardless, if either one of them says aye matey, I'm turning it off.  Read more.
• Didn't see enough movies last year?  Tired of feeling left out of the Oscar circle?  Check out the Oscar-nominated short films, coming to a theater near you.  Since they're shorts, you can get em out of the way all at once and say you saw all the movies in at least one category.  Read more.
• Dreamworks is poised to turn the blog the Museum of SuperNatural History into a movie.  Sounds like David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson's careers may come back from the dead.  That would supernatural in and of itself.  Maybe one day they'll turn TMMC into a movie?  They can call it TMMC & Roger. Bon Cinema, I'm The Monday Morning Critic.  Read more. 

That's all folks - have a great weekend and get your movies on!