TMMC Weekly Round Up

Once again work travel reared its ugly head, causing me to slip in this week's postings.  Sorry about that TMMC readers!  Luckily, I've made it back just in time to get a good Weekly Round Up in under the gun.  If you're anything like me, you're patting yourself on the back right now just for making it through another work week without melting down or running away to Tijuana.

Folks, ease up on Tim Burton in this week's poll!  I know Alice in Wonderland wasn't Batman, but he's getting slaughtered out there.  Geez, no party loyalists here.  If you haven't already, vote in the poll and help save the master of the macabre from losing his head!

Here's all the movie news you missed this week...

• Christian activists, start sharpening your pitchforks and gassing up your torches!  Paramount Pictures is reportedly developing a 3-D movie on the Book of Genesis and the story of creation.  Adam and Eve nude in 3-D?  Sounds spiritual to me.  Read more.
• Warner Brothers is making Leonardo DaVinci their next action hero a la National Treasure and Indiana Jones.  Now that DaVinci's career is going to blow up, you know he's going to end up divorcing Dan Brown.  So sad.  Read more.
• Suicidal Munchkins Wanted.  Warner Brothers is also looking into making a fantasy series out of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.  Likely more true to the books than the 1939 classic movie, the series could potentially include up to 14 movies!!  Suck on THAT Harry Potter.  Read more.
• In between his naps, Clint Eastwood has his sight set on making a biopic of J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous founder and director of the FBI.  Dan Lance Black, screenwriter of Milk, has already completed the script - if he includes enough cross dressing scenes, think he can squeeze out another Oscar win?  Read more.
• We're getting closer to knowing who will play the iconic 1940's comic book character Captain America.  Not so fast John Krasinski (that's what she said).  After The Office star reportedly nabbed the part, rumors have surfaced that he's not even on the shortlist. Read more.
• And most importantly, more than 1,100 female aviators received the Congressional Gold Medal for their service as WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).  With less than 300 members still alive, these trailblazing women were pioneers in flying planes and serving the nation as part of the U.S. military before women were even allowed to serve.  With no benefits, military rights or acknowledgment from the government for nearly 66 years, WASP left their civilian lives and logged millions of flight hours in every mission except combat.  Overlooked for generations, they finally received what they deserved with the nation's top honor on Wed.  TMMC was lucky enough to experience this emotional ceremony first hand and celebrate these women.  See it for yourself here.  So what does this have to do with movies?  Walt Disney provided the logo for the WASP - a flying little spitfire of a gremlin, Fifinella.

And so ends another edition of the Weekly Round Up.  With that, I'm off to catch a flight to Vegas for my own cliche version of The Hangover.  Hope I come back with all my teeth.  Enjoy the weekend!