Mr Movies: Our Cate in race for skull
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Our Cate Blanchett is about to add to her status as t
he biggest box office-earning actress in cinema history with the worldwide release of Indiana Jones 4: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
It sounds a bit like Monopoly money but Cate’s new film is tipped to earn close to $US1 billion in box office takings around the world, adding to the $US3 billion earned by the three Lord of the Rings films in which Cate played the royal elf, Galadriel.
In Indiana Jones 4: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cate plays a Russian spy, Irina Spalko, who embarks on a desperate race to find the “crystal skull” ahead of Professor Henry Walton Jones, Jr, better known, of course, as Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford, the
character he played in three previous films and in a one-off appearance in a 1993 episode of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
The film also stars Shia LaBeouf, as Indi’s new side-kick, Mutt Williams, and brings back the character of Marion Ravenwood from 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, played then and now by Karen Allen.
Allen is now 57, Harrison Ford 64. They shared adventures - and more! - in Nepal and Egypt in that 1981 film.
This time around? See the film - it adds up to great entertainment with lots of surprises unfolding on screen.
Beckham is actually just one of a dozen international football stars playing themselves.
In the first film, Santiago and his family had travelled from Mexico and were living in poverty in Los Angeles until Santiago, spotted by a talent scout, was invited to England to join Newcastle United.
Goal III, set around the FIFA world Championships in Germany, is now in post-production with a possible Australian release late this year.
It’s a film in which audiences may find it hard to believe Academy Award winner Javier Bardem, playing a love-struck romantic, is the same Javier Bardem who embarked on a killing spree in No Country for Old Men.
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