Sheepish Shia"[Steven Spielberg] needs to hear this. I love Steven. ... I think he's a genius, and he's given me my whole life. But when you drop the ball, you drop the ball." That was Shia LaBeouf, speaking a few months ago about "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." Bold words. But now, after being called to face the principal, LaBeouf is sold on "Indy 5." "I got called into Steven's office and he pitched a little bit to me, and it sounds crazy; it sounds really cool," LaBeouf says. Ball's in his court now, it seems.
The final reelSandra Bullock and Tom Hanks (why have they never worked together before?) are on board for Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close."... Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy star in "Hysteria," a Victorian-era romantic comedy about, um, the invention of the vibrator. ... Tim Burton has hired his "Ed Wood" writers for a stop-motion "Addams Family." ... Ron Howard's new comedy is "Dilemma," starring Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder and Jennifer Connelly. ... Disney will produce Ahmet Zappa's "Monster Witness Relocation Program" as a vehicle for Jaden Smith. ... Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore star in the mother-daughter "LOL (Laughing Out Loud)," described, OMG, as more "Thirteen" than "Freaky Friday."
CYNTHIA DICKISON
