Big News About Movies

AP - The car being used in the latest James Bond film plunged into a lake in northern Italy while being driven to the set.

AP - Sandra Bullock and her husband were unhurt after a head-on crash with a drunken driver, police said Saturday.

AP - British comedian Eddie Izzard, whose acting career is taking off, is eyeing yet another possible career — politician.

AP - A martial arts dream team — Jackie Chan and Jet Li — won the weekend as their movie matchup “The Forbidden Kingdom” debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Reuters - Moon Bloodgood, who
starred in NBC’s short-lived series “Journeyman,” is in final
negotiations for the female lead in the fourth installment of
the “Terminator” movie series.

E! Online - Forget Sarah Marshall. The weekend box office was about Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Reuters - An acclaimed movie producer and the
former head of Fox Television Entertainment have built a new
kind of studio that taps into an aspiring community of
moviemakers on the Web to cultivate the next great talents.

Reuters - The latest flurry of rumors
ahead of the Cannes Film Festival next month concerns a fat
martial arts panda and a trio of high-profile documentaries.

Reuters - “The Forbidden Kingdom,” a first
collaboration between action heroes Jackie Chan and Jet Li,
kicked its rivals at the weekend box office in North America,
also becoming the first martial arts movie to open at No. 1 in
almost four years.

E! Online - There’ll be no frothy rom-com needed to ease new mama Halle Berry back into the Biz.