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    Scifiwire Movie News - 5/27/2003 - Mark Hamil directs, God's phone #, Matrix scoop

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    Mark Hamil helms Comic
    Bruce Almighty gives a wrong number for God
    Matrix Revolutions Scoop: Pic of the new oracle
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    Mark Hamil helms Comic

    Star Wars actor Mark Hamill will star in and direct Comic Book: The Movie, a semifictional documentary for Creative Light Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Slated for a fall release, Comic Book is an improv film that follows the world's biggest comic fan, who has been hired to direct a documentary about his favorite comic-book heroes of all time, the trade paper reported.

    The movie was filmed on location at San Diego's Comic-Con International and features cameos from Spider-Man creator Stan Lee, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and Simpsons creator Matt Groening, among others, the trade paper reported.
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    Bruce Almighty gives a wrong number for God

    Bruce Almighty is causing headaches for Dawn Jenkins, a glassmaker from Pinellas Parks, Fla., and other people who share a phone number with God (Morgan Freeman), as depicted in the hit fantasy film, the Zap2it Web site reported. Instead of the usual 555 prefix most films use for phone numbers, God's number matches Jenkins' cell-phone number, the site reported. Jenkins told the Associated Press that she's contemplating hiring an attorney.

    And Jenkins isn't the only person with the same phone number. A South Carolina woman, whose pager number is the same as Jenkins', said she's been ''getting aggravated to death'' by the incessant calling, the site reported. The number also matches a call center to a group of five Colorado talk-radio stations, including KWYD in Colorado Springs, KLMO in Longmont, KSKE in Vail, KDMN in Buena Vista and an FM station in Gunnison, the site reported.
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    Matrix Revolutions Scoop: Pic of the new oracle



    The Dark Horizons Web site has posted an image of the new Oracle from the upcoming third Matrix movie, The Matrix Revolutions, which opens in November. Tony-Award-winning actress Mary Alice steps in for Gloria Foster, who died during filming last year.
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    Tidbits and Rumors

    The New Zealand Dominion Post newspaper reported that New Line Cinema will hold the world premiere of the third Lord of the Rings film, The Return of the King, on Dec. 1 in the kiwi capital city of Wellington.
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    Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty) confirmed to radio shock jock Howard Stern that he met with Nicole Kidman about co-starring in a proposed film version of TV's Bewitched and that he's interested in the part.
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    Producers of the new Indiana Jones movie and the upcoming Star Wars: Episode III had considered Morocco as a location for filming, but observers said the recent terrorist attacks in Casablanca, the capital of Morocco, could have them seeking alternatives, CNN.com reported. Previous Star Wars films have shot in neighboring Tunisia, which doubled for Tatooine.
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    Why, oh why did they not use 555? It's just pointless... I feel sorry for those folks.
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    Wtf... Why do they even need the oracle? She admitted that she's a program in the matrix which makes her unreal...
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    I've read from the creators saying that the Oracle is quite important and they have explained why she looks different. She undergoes some transformation.... upgraded?
    Since Gloria Foster died, they said it wasn't a problem for the story since she changes anyway. Perhaps the independant programs take over the Matrix and learn to co-exsist without the slavery with humans. A sort of new bond forms that humans learn to trust the matrix and they together defeat the evil Matrix OS. Just a thought.
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    Hmmm... Interesting... It's kinda sad though... IMO it's almost like they decided to change her appearance in the movie to cover up her death in real life... Of course, this would never have happened if she was still alive. But hey, it wouldn't make any sense to remove her completely from the trilogy if she is relevant to the story.

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    They use the new oracle to replace the gloria in the Enter The matrix game aswell....i didnt really find it much of a big difference....wasnt much of a big deal........

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    IMO...

    I think that they should've gone with someone completely different, a little girl perhaps. If they want to say she changed forms, that's fine, but she should change considerably or else it looks like a cheap cover-up of Foster's death. Which it is.

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