Jimmy Stewart sez: Well, golly, I'll be darned I can spot Hitch's cameo in 'Rope!'As a longtime fan of Alfred Hitchcock, I've always wanted something exactly like this: It's a list of every cameo Hitchcock made in his films, courtesy of VideoETA.

VideoETA's list tells you where to spot his cameos and gives you the time code, even. Hot diggity.

Christopher Reeve
as Evil Superman in 'Superman III'Witnessing the enormous commercial success of "The Dark Knight," Warner Bros. now wants to explore Superman's dark side in a forthcoming franchise reboot.

Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Rabinov recently told The Wall Street Journal his studio is planning a revamp of the Superman film series as part of a new slate of upcoming DC Comics movies. Time Warner, the studio's parent company, owns DC Comics.

The 2006 film "Superman Returns" was more of a long-delayed sequel to 1980's "Superman II" than a franchise reboot, and it generally pleased neither fans nor critics.

Don't try this at a roundabout near you.OK, I guess I have another reason to catch "Death Race" this coming weekend. JoBlo.com reports the film will have a two-minute trailer for the fourth installment in the "Fast and Furious" franchise attached to it.

I was never a fan of the series until I saw the third one, "F&F: Tokyo Drift." It was actually the first F&F I'd ever seen, because the trailers for both "The Fast and the Furious" and the cheesily named sequel "2 Fast 2 Furious" made me yawn.

Tyrese Gibson in 'Death Race'Tyrese Gibson, who plays Machine Gun Joe in the upcoming remake of "Death Race," recently told The Can magazine that a new ending to the film was shot just weeks before its opening this Friday.

The new ending was apparently a response to "feedback from the fans." I'm guessing he means reactions from test audiences, because it's unlikely a film that hasn't been theatrically released can have that many fans. The new ending apparently sets up the possibility of a sequel better than the original one did.

Alfred Hitchcock: One weird fellaIf Alfred Hitchcock were alive today, he'd be celebrating his 109th birthday. Ordinarily I would write a mini-tribute to Hitch, but it seems almost like a futile exercise.

"The Master of Suspense" was one of the most influential forces in cinema and countless others have analyzed his films and his career in microscopic detail.

I don't know how much more I can add, other than this rather odd piece of trivia. Hitchcock once confessed that he was frightened by eggs.

Winona Ryder and Gary Oldman
in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'Director Alex Proyas recently told Moviehole his next project will be a re-interpretation of the Dracula myth entitled "Dracula Year Zero."

As the title suggests, Proyas' film will explore the bloodthirsty Count's origins. It will be a "medieval epic" incorporating elements of the real-life Vlad the Impaler's story, according to Proyas.

"Well, it's actually a composite of that," Proyas said, "of the origins of the legend, and the Bram Stoker. You could see it as a prequel to Bram Stoker's novel, in some ways. All the cool bits out of Francis Coppola's 'Dracula.' You can see it that way as well."

LaBeouf and Ford in this summer's top-grossing ... documentary?Indiana Jones creator George Lucas has lost his marbles. He told the folks at Sci Fi Wire that research is under way for a fifth installment in his period adventure series.

"It's very hard to come up with stories for that thing," Lucas explained. "You know, It's really impossible. Because it has to be real. It has to be something that actually happened."

That's news to me. I didn't realize that aliens actually buried a ginormous flying saucer beneath a Mayan temple, thousands of years ago.

Lance Henriksen is creepier
than usual in 'Pumpkinhead'For years, fans of the cult-classic horror flick "Pumpkinhead" have settled for a weak DVD release.

Since 2000, the only DVD version of this film available in the U.S. has been a fullscreen edition with nothing more than a theatrical trailer included as an extra.

Now, just in time for its 20th anniversary, MGM has announced it will give "Pumpkinhead" the deluxe treatment it deserves.

Richard Dreyfuss in 'American Graffiti'Before anybody had heard of "Star Wars," filmmaker George Lucas gave the world "American Graffiti."

Lucas' ode to rock & roll, classic cars and adolescence premiered in the U.S. on Aug. 1, 1973, and would become the highest cost-to-profit success in film history, according to Lucas biographer Dale Pollock.

The film captures a moment in American history right before a tragic loss of innocence. Lucas set his Saturday-night-cruise-on-celluloid in the summer of 1962, in his hometown of Modesto, Calif., before the JFK assassination and Vietnam War changed everything for his generation.

Jack White and Alicia KeysIt's an unlikely pairing, but I think it'll work. The Associated Press reports Jack White and Alicia Keys have collaborated for the next James Bond theme song, "Another Way to Die."

The next Bond flick is actually called "Quantum of Solace," but as Paul McCartney (who wrote 1973's theme to "Live and Let Die") once noted, it's hard to find good words that rhyme with "solace." The best he could come up with? "Wallace."