Jodie Foster was on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno tonight, talking about her upcoming movie, Nim’s Island, hitting theaters this Friday, April 4, 2008. It’s about a young girl (Abigail Breslin), who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father (Gerard Butler) and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she’s reading. Chaos ensues when the girl’s dad goes missing.

Does Jodie look better than ever or what? I’m glad to see her do a family flick after a few years of dark movies. She said this is the first movie her two kids will see in the theater.

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No Fools on THIS April 1st. Just three great movies hitting store shelves. What’s in YOUR Netflix Queue?

Images: Sweeney Todd, Dreamworks SKG, 2007; Alvin and the Chipmunks, Fox 2000 Pictures, 2007; The Good Night, Yari Film Group Releasing, 2007

Oh, George (Clooney, that is), looks like your desperate plea in February to avert an actor’s strike hasn’t really helped the situation.

Despite the suave one’s attempts at a liaison — along with fellow Oscar winners Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep — the two Hollywood unions representing performers suddenly split this weekend. It came as a shock to those hoping for a meeting of the minds.

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Henry Lee Hopper, son of bad-boy Dennis Hopper, has signed to star in Wes Craven’s new horror thriller tentatively titled “25/8″ for Rogue Pictures.

The 17-year-old Hopper will play the lead role of Bug, one of seven teens haunted by a serial killer who supposedly died when they were born 15 years earlier, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film takes place over the course of a day as the mystery of who — or what! — is stalking the teens plays out.

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Here’s a peek at the box office numbers this weekend, as reported on Box Office Mojo. Looks like movie-goers were lured in by Sin City.

1-21 - $24.10M

2-Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! - $17.74M

3-Superhero Movie - $9.51M

4-Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns - $7.48M

5-Drillbit Taylor - $5.71M

6-Shutter - $5.22M

7-10,000 B.C. - $4.94M

8-Stop-Loss - $4.55M

9-College Road Trip - $3.45M

10-The Bank Job - $2.78M

11-Never Back Down - $2.35M

12-Run Fat Boy Run - $2.34M

Image: 21, Columbia Pictures, 2008

If you’re a teenaged boy — or have one in the house — Superhero Movie might enter your life at some point. It’s one of those goofy, boy-humor movies with plenty of crude humor — including an opening scene with various animals and birds humping a person all at the same time, and a fart scene that goes on for several minutes.

Like Epic Movie and Date Movie, Superhero Movie spoofs other movies in that genre, including Spider-Man, X-Men, Superman, Batman, Fantastic Four, and so on and so forth.

Rick Riker (Drake Bell) is an awkward high schooler mooning over a blonde classmate, Jill (Sara Paxton). When he’s bitten by a genetically engineered dragonfly, he’s transformed into a superhero…well, sort of…

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Is Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire becoming the comic book/sci-fi go-to guy?

Now he’s chasing another comic book flick, the sci-fi adventure Afterburn, a new series from Canadian publisher Red 5 Comics. Maguire is planning a big-screen adaptation, along with Neal Moritz, producer of The Fast and The Furious. No writer is attached yet.

Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, the series follows treasure hunters who seek items like the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and England’s Crown Jewels while battling rival hunters, mutants and pirates.

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We’ve been getting bits and pieces of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, set to hit theaters May 22, 2008. Now we can add a new TV spot, just released by Paramount Pictures.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, the action-adventure flick stars Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent. I think I’m most excited about seeing Karen Allen’s sassy self again - she’s 56 now.

Writer George Lucas is concerned that Indy fans may have built up unrealistic expectations (Who, me?…

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Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is an MIT math whiz, just about ready to enter Harvard Medical School. Getting in is no problem. Paying for it’s another story. And while he’s smart and hard-working, Ben’s life experience is nil, having sacrificed his social life for school.

Enter the lure of Vegas. Professor Mickey Rosa (Kevin Spacey) has a plan to gather the best of the best students, teach them the fine art of card-counting, and fly them to Sin City for money-making weekends. Along with Ben, there’s Jill (Kate Bosworth), Choi (Aaron Yoo), Kianna (Liza Lapira), and Fisher (Jacob Pitts).

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“The Ruins” hits theaters April 4, 2008 (next Friday!), and it looks awesomely scary. Based on the Scott Smith novel, it centers on a group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a tragic turn when they accompany a fellow tourist on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle. <insert creepy music here> Of course, something evil lurks among the ruins.

Directed by Carter Smith and written by Scott Smith, The Ruins stars Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, and Joe Anderson. It’s rated R for strong violence and gruesome images, language, some sexuality and nudity. Sure, it’s from Dreamworks Pictures, but you didn’t really expect talking pigs, did you?