By Katey Rich
It's been a long while since Doc Brown invented the flux capacitor, so I guess Spike Lee has decided it's time to give another inventor a shot at a time machine. He's acquired the rights to the memoir Time Traveler by Ronald Mallett, one of the first African-Americans in the nation to acquire a Ph.D in theoretical physics and probably the only one who believes he can build a real time machine. Variety quotes Lee as calling the book a "fantastic story on many levels (and) also a father and son saga of loss and love." No word on whether a veiled jab at Clint Eastwood was thrown in there as well.
I knew I should have read that intriguing article in last week's New York Times titled "Mystery on Fifth Avenue." Now the story, about a wealthy family who build a scavenger hunt into their very, very fancy apartment, will become a movie, at the hands of J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot productions. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Paramount, which also handled Abrams-produced Cloverfield and the upcoming Star Trek, will distribute this one as well.
Sacha Baron Cohen isn't done bringing his unique kind of torment to the American people. Bruno, another mock-documentary based on one of his characters from "Da Ali G Show," will be released on May 15, 2009, in the heat of the summer movie season. Variety notes that the movie will open against Angels & Demons, which means those offended by both fuzzy Catholic theology and gay German journalists will simply have to stay home that weekend.
And finally, "Sopranos" fans looking for a fix will find one-- sorta-- in Son of Mourning, which will now star Lorraine Bracco and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, both alums of the HBO drama. The Reporter describes the film, which also stars Joseph Cross, as a "satirical indie comedy," about a disaffected ad writer who returns home following the divorce of his parents.
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