Pop Culture Roundup Feb. 13, 2007

Today in stunt casting: Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller as grown-up Hardy Boys.

The long-in-development project sees the Hardy Boys grown up but not speaking to each other, having been estranged for many years. They are forced to overcome sibling rivalry when they reunite to solve a mystery.

Shawn Levy is attached to direct the film for 20th Century Fox, which is hoping for a shoot in 2008.


Sounds funny, but will it be? Such high-concept ideas usually tend to be low on laughs.

Best real Hardy Boys Sites.

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Paging Sam Spade: Somebody's heisted the original Maltese Falcon.

John Konstin, the owner of San Francisco's John's Grill on Ellis Street, said someone broke into a locked cabinet on the second floor of his establishment and took a signed reproduction of the Maltese Falcon -- one used for publicity stills for the movie -- along with several vintage and signed books by and about Maltese Falcon author Dashiell Hammett.

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While the Silver Surfer appears in the second Fantastic Four movie, we won't actually see the Surfer's boss Galactus, says Ioan Gruffudd, who plays Reed Richards.

...his presence is felt in the movie. He doesn't physically appear, no.

It's like peanut butter without jelly, Abbott without Costello, Laurel without Hardy if you ask me. No Galactus? What's the point?

Best Fantastic Four Sites.

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Actress Michelle Ryan, a star on the British soap "EastEnders," has been cast in NBC's "Bionic Woman" series pilot. Ryan had previously auditioned to replace Billie Piper as Doctor Who's companion but didn't get the part. She looks like this:



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A backwards message played during the brainwashing scene in last week's episode of "Lost" reportedly says "Only fools are enslaved by time and space."

Best "Lost" Sites.

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