The 3PM Dispatch The Hobbit, Tintin, X-Men 2, Sandler, Candy Land

Wannabe Hobbits Break New Zealand.
The New Zealand Newswire is reporting that an open casting call for extras to appear in Sir Pete's The Hobbit were "abrubtly canceled" yesterday due to safety fears. The producers had expected 1200 folks under five feet four inches to turn up but a crowd of more than 3000 arrived, causing mass gridlock and traffic chaos around the audition area. It has since been announced that all further extras auditions will be conducted over the Internet.

Adam Sandler Is The Star Of 'Candy Land'.
InsideMovie.com have the inside word that Adam Sandler is now attatched to star and produce the movie adaptation of the board game Candy Land. He is also in talks to "take a fresh attempt" at the film's current screenplay with his regular writing partner Robert Smigel. Whether they will keep the previuos premise of being "Lord of the Rings in a world of candy" remains to be seen. Or not seen, depending on how much of a Sandler fan you are... 

Forrest Gump To Present Oscar.   
Variety report that two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks will present an award at the 84th Academy Awards. 

'Ben 10' Movie In Works
Cartoon Network fave Ben 10 is heading to the silver screen, reports Variety. Power producer Joel Silver (Matrix trilogy) is onboard and has hired writer Albert Torres to knock up a script. Torres has just finished work on the script for the American remake of Akira. No word on whether the film will be animated or live action, but as Silver produced Speed Racer we think it's a fairly safe bet to expect a similar sort of vibe to that.

X-Men Assembling For Second Class.  
Heat Vision have the scoop that 20th Century Fox has sealed the deal with director Matthew Vaughn and the cast of X-Men: First Class to get to work on the sequel to the superhero prequel.

'Tintin' Owns New Zealand's Summer
Steven Spielberg's and Sir Pete's The Adventures of Tintin has crossed the $5million mark in New Zealand, making it the biggest movie hit of the school holidays. It's other notable achievement is that 70% of Kiwi filmgoers opted to see the film in three dimensions rather than two. 

Today In Pixar: Hmmm... we're not sure if their new "darker, grittier" intro will take off...

Today In Trivia: Before Tom Hanks was cast, Bill Murray, John Travolta and Chevy Chase all turned down the chance to play Forrest Gump. While ex-Monty Python Terry Gilliam and M.I.B's Barry Sonnenfeld both rejected offers to direct. 

Today's Bad Movie Tagline: The tagline for Adam Sandler's 1999 comedy Big Daddy: "Nature called. Look who answered". Let me hazard a guess at who answered... a grown man-child with explosive anger issues and begrudging sense of maturity perhaps? Thought so. 
*Bonus trivia: The film's poster also serves as an entirely accurate review...

Happy Birthday!: To Justin Timberlake - the man who brought back what no one else had noticed had even gone away - who turns 31 today.

TODAY'S POLL

Now Adam Sandler is involved my interest in 'Candy Land' has..
Are you more into this board game adapatation now that funny man Sandler has signed up?

The poll results will be in Thursday's edition of The 3PM Dispatch.

FRIDAY'S POLL RESULTS
Of course the majority of Flicksters will go!

Will You Go See 'Jay And Silent Bob Get Old' Live In NZ
68.00% - Oh hell yeah!
32.00% - Nah

And please remember to tweet your support to @JayMewes @ThatKevinSmith @thisguyjeff @FlicksNZ with your message of touring encouragement and the hashtag #KevinandJayCometoNZplease