If you take a moment, you might remember back in 2006 when Spike Lee and Denzel Washington worked together for the fourth time on the crime heist flick Inside Man, which featured additional starring turns from Jodie Foster and Clive Owen.

Well, it’s been rumored that a followup bearing the “elaborate” title Inside Man 2 was in the works for a couple of years now but, according to Spike “Mars Blackmon” himself, the project died awhile ago — something the rest of the Internet has been slow to catch up on.

Truth be told, I’m glad that Inside Man 2 looks like it’ll never come to fruition.  The original was a fairly clever, fun cat-and-mouse thriller that was a return to critical form for Lee (after his atrociously-received previous flick She Hate Me) and a moderate financial hit that pulled in ...

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This week:

We look at the weekend box office and why Robert De Niro doesn’t like the Edge of Darkness, Spike Lee and Denzel Washington make a sequel, we get to see Where the Wild Things Are, Russell Crowe goes Holmes and Tom Cruise might go to Florence.

Weekend Box Office

It looks like Nic Cage will capture the weekend with a pretty low $8 million dollars for Bangkok Dangerous. The film wasn’t screened for critics and it looks like the public didn’t like the look of Cage’s hair. Tropic Thunder managed another $2.1 million on Friday, so the film should shoot up close to $7 million over the weekend. The Dark Knight should manage another $5 million this weekend bringing its total to a mighty $511 million.  Don Cheadle’s Traitor dropped 40% on the second weekend and the film should have bagged a total of  $17 ...

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