With Angels & Demons fast approaching for release on May 15, it's no surprise Variety reports that Columbia Pictures has jumped ahead about 5 months to begin negotiations for Dan Brown's third novel in the Robert Langdon centered series, The Lost Symbol.

The book isn't set to be published until September 15, but since Sony has the rights to the Robert Langdon character, they are acting fast to finalize a deal. Since negotiations have just began, there's no official word on the return of Tom Hanks, or series director Ron Howard returning, but since this franchise is such a huge investment and payoff for Columbia Pictures, I imagine they will do everything in their power to get them back for a third go-round.

Seriously though, how much trouble can a symbologist get into? I mean it's the same damn problem with something like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. You're investigating a crime scene. How dangerous can that be? Robert Langdon needs to calm down or he's going to get into some Mr. Bean type of trouble here before too long. Oh, he's so wacky!

Angels & Demons releases this summer on May 15. Check out the trailer right here.

Here's the new poster for Sony Pictures blockbuster prequel, Angels & Demons, with Tom Hanks reprising his role as symbologist Robert Langdon from the 2005 film The Da Vinci Code. While the poster isn't anything remarkable, it's a little harder to market a movie that doesn't have some sort of clear artifact or plot device to easily illustrate. The Da Vinci Code marketing was easy because of all the iconic pieces of art that could be used, and several more items from the story that lead Langdon from one clue to the next. My personal favorite from The Da Vinci Code marketing was a poster seen only at Las Vegas ShoWest theater exhibition conference that you can see right here. My only wish was that they would have made it so that you could only see the "So dark the con of man" when the poster was under blacklight and it was positioned in the lower right hand corner like it's supposed to be.

As I commented, when the trailer was released awhile back, this looks like it could trump its predecessor. And of course the ole Christian backlash will come sooner or later to ensure that all those who weren't going to see the movie still don't see it, and those planning on the movie may still do so, but with a bit more spite. Enjoy, you blasphemous buffoons!

No Michael Cera didn'tpull a Lindsay Lohan. But he did however, make an Arrested Development movie a bit more realistic. According to Kristin Dos Santos over at E! Online, sources close to the negotiations of said TV-to-film venture said that longtime hold out Michael Cera has agreed to reprise his character George-Michael Bluth for the big screen. His holdout hasn't been one of holding himself in high-esteem and not looking back at his career, but rather of caution in his thriving career (especially after warming teenage girls hearts in Juno).

This comes after a great bit of news from executive producer (as well as the show's narrator) Ron Howard that he let out to Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet at the Oscars this past weekend. Howard said, "It's looking very much like we're going to make [the movie], but we've now been asked to stop offering any details. It's cloaked in a little mystery, but it's looking good."

I'm usually not too keen on any television shows making their way to the big screen. Some concepts work better on television than they do on screen, so when I hear about a Lost movie or anything like that I don't feel any excitement. However, this is one show that never got the time or respect it deserved on air, and with such a great cast and amazing writing, this is sure to impress.

Let's be honest here, Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's best selling novel The Da Vinci Code, was nothing to marvel at. It wasn't terrible by any means, but it wasn't captivating either. I was expecting more of the same when it came time for the prequel, Angels and Demons, to go into production. The teaser trailer and the Super Bowl spot for the film pretty much confirmed that for me.

And then comes this new trailer that sweeps the rug out from under me. Whoever edited this trailer should edit every trailer from here on out. It does exactly what a trailer is supposed to do: get people excited to see the movie (and that's coming from someone who had little interest and no excitement to see it). My friends and I have talked before about how trailers are better than the movies most of the time, and are inherently misleading. I hope this isn't the case with this one. Check it out below. Does this get you excited for Angels and Demons?

When I'm watching a true story put to film, I always find it intriguing what is real, what's been pumped up a little bit for the purposes of attempting to making a good film, and what's complete crap.

That thought kept running through my mind during Frost/Nixon, the Ron Howard film that chronicles the struggle that David Frost (Michael Sheen) and his team went through to interview Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) after his presidency had ended in the ashes of the Watergate scandal.

The flick is nominated for four Oscars, including Langella for Best Actor, Howard for Best Director, Peter Morgan for adapting his original Broadway play for the screen, and Best Picture. Sam Rockwell and Oliver Platt join Sheen as the team that tries to put Nixon away with words and debate and, in the words of Rockwell's character, "give Richard Nixon the trial he never had." On the opposite side, they have the foreboding Nixon, played pitch-perfectly by Langella and Kevin Bacon as Nixon's right hand man and protector, both physically and emotionally.

The film approaches the events in a talking heads/flashback form, something that lends itself better to the stage, but still works on screen. It starts about a month before the interview and spends the rest of the film giving a blow-by-blow of the out-of-his-league British journalist and the disgraced, evil politician.

This film is, without a doubt, right in my wheelhouse. I think, when they wrote the script, under the title was a little dedication, "For Phil" because it was meant for me: A political plot, mixed with journalism, an underdog story and several deep discussions on the way words can be used to get a point across...all partially/mostly true. Frost/Nixon takes what might be a boring concept to some and turns it into the ultimate competition, with everything on the line for both people involved.

Langella has gotten the most attention for his portrayal of Nixon, which isn't an impersonation but more of an amalgamation of parts of Nixon: his mannerisms, parts of his looks, and, for the most part, his larger-than-life personality. It's easy to say, and probably true, that without Langella, Frost/Nixon isn't the exciting/inspiring piece of film it turns out to be.

But, really the shining light of this film for me was Sam Rockwell. How does this guy NOT get more work?! He's a chameleon. He can take any role he's given and knock it out of the park, which is exactly what he does here. Every scene he's in, including talking head moments where he's talking about the past, is completely engrossing and exciting.

Frost/Nixon isn't an essential to see in the theater, but it's definitely a must-see, if not for the amazing performances and quick moving, inspiring script.