Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation will be screened in Mississippi next friday, March 3rd! This screening will also feature a question and answer session with the Raiders: Adaptation co-creators, Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala.

This rare screening will take place at the Lafayette and Oxford Public Library in Lafayette County, Mississippi at 6:00 PM - on March 3rd, 2006. The Raiders: Adaptation event will begin at 5:00 PM with a reception with Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala, and will be followed by a Q&A session after the screening.

Visit the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council site for more information about this event. And check out our own Raiders: Adaptation section if you want to know what Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation is all about.

Thans to Eric Zala for letting us know.

The modest Indy fansite Indiana Jones and the Sacred Community is 1 year online as of today. And to celebrate its first anniversary the fan site is offering a few special Indy media files:

• Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular Soundtrack
  For the first time ever, on any site
• Indiana Jones Adventure Soundtrack
  From Disneyland California
• Classic music pieces from all three Indy films.
• Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular video
  As far as I know Sacred Community is the only fansite showing video scenes from the Epic Stunt Spectacular.

Thanks to the webmaster of Indiana Jones and the Sacred Community for these cool updates to his site. And I wish him and his Sacred Community many more years online!

Cool fan film news, Ramon Cabello has finished his animated film version of Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece!

This animated fan film is based on the Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece comic book published by Dark Horse in 1994. Despite its comic inspiration, the original story has been adapted and some changes were made to the main story.

Ramon's Golden Fleece fan film has been divided into 18 chapters which can all be viewed online here. And be sure to visit Ramon's site or TheRaider.net's Golden Fleece page for more information on this special Indy fan film.

A New York based sketch comedy group called A Week of Kindness has made a satire on the famous "Choose wisely" scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Their fun sketch is titled A Week of Kindness and the Last Crusade and can be viewed online here.

The official A Week of Kindness site also features more funny sketch videos including World War II On the Moon!

Thanks to Nate Kushner for letting us know.

Great film site JoBlo.com has a weekly column titled The Ten Spot in which Jim Law gives a list of the 10 "Best Movie Friends" or the top 10 "Moments in Bed" scenes. Always a fun read! But this week's subject was "The Top 15 Action Heroes"! And guess which hero took the first place from James Bond, John McClane & the Terminator... yup, Indiana Jones.

Take your everyday fedora-wearing archaeologist with a pissy attitude towards snakes and throw him into the world's greatest adventures and sure enough, you'll get the world's greatest action hero...

Actually, as far as I can remember, I have yet to see a list of top film heroes in which Indiana Jones isn't positioned on #1. And that's quite remarkable for a college professor!

Click here to read The Top 15 Action Heroes column.

Indyfan Russell was so kind to let me know that Raiders of the Lost Ark will be shown in the Act I and II theater this weekend, Feb. 17 and 18th, at midnight. Raiders will also be screened as the noon feature on Feb. 18 and 19th.

Also very interesting is that to celebrate Raiders its 25th birthday Act I and II will be using a brand-new 35mm print of Raiders of the Lost Ark . So you will get to see the film on big screen looking as good as the day it opened!

The Act I and II theater is located in Berkeley, California, next to UC Berkeley. Visit the Landmark Theaters site for exact theater location info.

Russell added that parking will be easy at midnight, but hard to find close by at noon showing. (and beware the mighty parking meter; most but not all are off on Sundays.)

Thanks to Russell English for informing us.

Column writer Jeffrey Wells announced on his site Hollywood Elsewhere that Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln film, planned to start filming around March, won't begin production anytime soon, if at all. Here follows what Wells wrote:

I spoke to Liam Neeson twice last summer at a couple of post-movie-premiere parties, and he said that the plan was for Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln movie, in which he'll play the title role, to start shooting sometime around March '06. Forget it -- Spielberg's spokesperson Marvin Levy told me yesterday the Lincoln project (which will be based in part upon Doris Kearns Goodwin's recently published book about Lincoln) won't roll anytime soon and is basically up in the air.

If this will have any effect on the production of Indiana Jones IV is unknown at the moment. But it does give Spielberg the space to start making the fourth Indy film this summer. Lucas is also available plus Harrison Ford has been hinting that Indy IV might start shooting this summer as well.

Thanks to Brett Hopkins for the news.

Award winning writer Jim Hill has published a very interesting article on his site JimHillMedia.com in which he unearths the site plan for an Indiana Jones attraction that was originally proposed for Disneyland nearly 20 years ago. One that would have combined a jeep ride, a mine car-themed roller coaster, the Jungle Cruise as well as Disneyland's own railroad into one mega-sized Indiana Jones-themed attraction.

Given how much Indiana Jones IV has been in the news lately, and given how WDI's new Principal Creative Advisor John Lasseter is reportedly reviewing all of the ride & show concepts that the Imagineers never quite got around to building over the past 20 years ... I thought that now might be a good time to talk about the big one that got away.
You know the one that I'm talking about, folks. It's that attraction that was originally proposed for Disneyland back in the 1980s. The one that hardcore Disney geeks have been obsessing about for years & years now...

Jim Hill's article about the Indiana Jones and the Lost Continent attraction plans is very interesting and strongly recommended to read!