Hot Off the Wire

Since I haven't been to a movie in almost a month, I'll just have to tide you over with some news again this morning.

Kevin Smith has started work on a low budget sequel to Clerks entitled The Passion of the Clerks. We'll see if that working title sticks. All the buzz about Mel Gibson's flick, which hits video shelves next Tuesday, will be long gone by the time Smith's ditty hits the big screen.

Bruce Willis just has been slapped with a $21,000 fine by the EPA. You can read all about it over at USA Today and make up your own mind about the fairness of it all.

Sandra Bullock is out of her Prime and Uma Thurman might be stepping into her Prime.

Mister T and the Muppets? Director Quentin Tarantino will have a cameo in the Muppets next great television adventure.

Spike Lee has wrestled control of his cyber namesake back from pornographers.

ET has an interesting bit of PR on Monica Belluci.

There's some kind of LOTR connection brewing with an upcoming animated feature called Flushed Away.

Here's some publicity on Josh Hartnett's upcoming film Wicker Park and some buzz about Lucy Liu as a possible co star for his next film, Lucky Number Sleven.

And finally, here's an article confirming what we've all been thinking for the past month--every film coming out this time of year is just about worthless.