Haunted Mansion, Blade 3 & More

• Ain't It Cool News has posted a link to "The Haunted Mansion" trailer. What's scary is that I loved the ride but don't think that the movie is going to be for me!
• "Blade III" starts filming on September 23rd and Filmjerk .com has the scoop! [A tip of the hat to Dark Horizons as well!] I didn't like "Blade" but loved "Blade II" so I don't know what to expect with "3."
• Dark Horizons reports that there are talks of making "Predator 3" from a script done by Robert Rodriguez a few years ago. Can I buy my ticket now?
• MTV announced Tuesday it has signed "The Osbournes" for 20 more episodes, scheduled to begin airing early next year. Well that's just #$!@^ great!
• Burt Reynolds plays an inmate and Bruce Dern, plays a sheriff who team up to track down an escaped felon in the late 1800s-era Western "Hard Ground," a new Hallmark Channel movie airing Saturday. You know, I just may just have to check this out.
• DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A former stripper is demanding an end to the new cable television show "Stripperella," an animated series featuring Pamela Anderson as the voice of a stripper who moonlights as a superhero. Daytona Beach, Florida Stripper!?! I'll bet we could talk Big Beatty into following up on this story in person!
• LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - An Arkansas lawyer has been charged with using the U.S. Postal Service to send a man a deadly poisonous copperhead snake, federal prosecutors say. Man, I find that kind of behavior totally objectionable.
• BERLIN (Reuters) - A German oil delivery man who got his addresses mixed up accidentally pumped 5,280 pints of heating oil straight into a house's basement. I don't think that saying "sorry" is going to cut it for this one.
• HARRISBURG, Pa. - An escaped inmate made it easy for police to track him down: He used his prisoner ID card to check into a hotel. Sometimes I wonder how these criminal masterminds ever get caught... and then again...
• Terry Wallis, who slipped into a coma after a 1984 car accident, spoke last month for the first time in 19 years to the surprise of doctors and the delight of his family. He'll be like a man out of time for a while... cell phones, personal computers, dvds, Big Beatty.com..