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February 27, 2002: Have you got your calendar yet?? CLICK for a larger version! Check Ebay.com for availability.

June 18, 2001: Sound bytes from AV's London Press Conference, May 2001. Now online! CLICK HERE

May 31, 2001: Check out the Multimedia page for related TMR interviews.

May 10, 2001: 3 new galleries of AV from "The Mummy Returns", CLICK HERE to start. Updates to the Articles page as well.

May 4, 2001: In case you forgot...."The Mummy Returns" opens today!!! I've added a page of pics and video clips from the premiere, held April 29th in L.A.

April 23, 2001: Don't forget! Tomorrow, "The Mummy" Ultimate DVD goes on sale. AV has a commentary track! I'll post details ASAP.

I've added a couple new Pictures.

Chat transcript is up from Saturday's live chat with AV.

Wicked is on newstands now! Get a copy!......but until you can....check out my scans and quotes!

TMR Soundtrack info is now online.

Mark May 2nd on your calendars! Discovery Channel brings you a TMR evening of entertainment, hosted by Arnold Vosloo! Details to follow.

Thanks Black B for all the news!!

April 9, 2001: New article on TMR from Tribute Magazine.

April 6, 2001: Well, the big news this week is the revamping of www.themummy.com. For a look at the new main menu CLICK HERE and for a great article about all the site's features CLICK HERE.

Don't forget to check out updates to the Pictures and Links pages of this site!

Check out the new featured song from "The Mummy Returns". Its available on Live's website. You must register to download the mp3. This song is great!!

Trading card information now available. CLICK HERE. Thanks Kara for the link!

March 31, 2001: Amazon.Com is now filling orders for the new "Mummy Returns" novels by Max Allen Collins (for adults) and John Whitman (for kids).

AICN posted two reviews from preview screenings with lots of spoilers. Its nice to know that the spoilers I was given over 5 months were accurate!! The film was given positive reviews on both counts.

French Premiere scooped some cool new publicity shots today!

The Hollywood Reporter announces that Del Taco will be promoting the movie with tie-in merchandise.

Check out Pictures (TMR gallery #5) and Articles for more new stuff!!

March 25, 2001: Ebay is offering up ads for the new "The Mummy Returns" trading cards series. CLICK HERE to view this 'new look' for AV!

March 22, 2001: From Empire Online, ILM discusses Special FX in the film:

Industrial Light + Magic don't like to advertise. Tucked away in a lush corner of wealthy Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, the headquarters of George Lucas's legendary digital FX house is situated in a dowdy strip mall. Sandwiched between low-rise, blank-faced office buildings and across the street from a donut shop, the unprepossessing smoked glass door, which still bears the insignia of the previous incumbent, offers no clue that beyond lies the most prestigious supplier of movie eye candy in the world.

Once inside though, a parade of glass-cased memorabilia and highly exclusive wall art gives the game away - Captain Hook's hook from, Hook, a Star Wars stormtrooper, a plethora of posters, models and awards (including an Empire "inspiration" award) and, in a corner, dark lord of the Sith and Luke Skywalker's dad, Darth Vader himself.

Two giant spacecraft from Galaxy Quest loom over the boardroom table, matte paintings from ET adorn the walls and in one corridor a vast blow-up of a still from Jason And The Argonauts bears the legend "Best Wishes, Ray Harryhausen."

In the theatre where George Lucas perfected the THX audio system (watched over by R2-D2, who stands in a corner near the screen), John Berton, Visual Effects Supervisor on The Mummy Returns, presides over a screening of dailies. It is, needless to say, a packed house. Every time Berton declares a sequence a pass there is a rousing round of applause. And no wonder. Here are a couple of things to whet your appetite: Good news is, the flesh-eating scarabs are back - and out in force. In one scene a swarm of the things overrun a group of characters clambering out of a pit. One unfortunate has a few burrowing frantically under his skin before they gush out of his screaming mouth. Yesss!

In another spectacular sequence, tens of thousands of Anubis warriors (fearsome, nine-foot tall dog creatures) clash with a similarly vast army of sword-wielding Arab horsemen in the desert - Lawrence Of Arabia meets The Evil Dead.

There's plenty of familiar faces from the first movie, but among other new creatures are the vicious pygmy mummies who patrol the jungle surrounding the Temple Of, sorry, the Pyramid Of Gold, slaughtering anyone foolish enough to seek it out. Described as the "Anti-Ewoks" by Art Director Alex Laurant, these are truly horrible little things. In one great scene they chase human stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah over the ubiquitous rickety wooden bridge. Fraser throws them a stick of dynamite that they squabble over until it explodes, plunging them and the log bridge into the ravine below.

Perhaps the most impressive of ILM's achievements on The Mummy Returns is transforming American wrestling star The Rock into the Scorpion King. Sporting the body of a giant scorpion and the head and torso of The Rock, this is a 100 % digital creation and the first instance of a real character being rendered photorealistically by computer animation. Although we only saw a glimpse of it, the fight scene between this nightmare creation and Brendan Fraser's Rick O'Connell promises to make his punch-up with the skeletons in the first movie look like a chimpanzee's tea party.

March 3, 2001: There is a new trailer online! Visit "AV Clips of the Week" for the link. Stills of Arnold from the trailer are available here.

February 14, 2001: The Rock visited the Toy Fair in New York this past week to promote Jakks Pacific's new line of "The Mummy Returns" toys. Scoop couresy of MovieHeadlines.Net.

February 8, 2001: Lots of little updates today! Universal has bumped up the release date to May 4th! Here's the press release:

Universal Pictures will release "The Mummy Returns," the eagerly-anticipated sequel to its 1999 worldwide hit, on Friday, May 4, 2001, one week earlier than previously scheduled, it was announced today by Nikki Rocco, president, Universal Pictures Distribution.

The film, once again written and directed by Stephen Sommers, reunites original cast members Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, and Patricia Velasquez, who are joined this time by newcomer Freddie Boath and WWF sensation The Rock as "The Scorpion King." James Jacks and Sean Daniel are again the producers.

In announcing the new date, Ms.Rocco said, "We've just seen a very early cut of the film, and it's fabulous. In 1999, the summer movie season really got its start the first weekend in May when we released 'The Mummy,' so we've decided to launch this year's summer movie season that same weekend with 'The Mummy Returns.' We've got the goods, and one more week of summer playing time will be a great bonus for us."

"The Mummy Returns" is set in 1935, 10 years after the events of the first film. Rick O'Connell (Fraser) is now married to Evelyn (Weisz), and the couple has settled in London, where they are raising their 9-year-old son Alex (Boath). When a chain of events finds the corpse of Imhotep (Vosloo) resurrected in the British Museum, the mummy Imhotep walks the earth once more, determined to fulfill his quest for immortality. But another force has also been set loose in the world ... one born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, and even more powerful than Imhotep. When these two forces clash, the fate of the world will hang in the balance, sending the O'Connells on a desperate race to save the world from unspeakable evil, and rescue their son before it is too late.

Sommers brought back his key behind-the-scenes team for this film, including Director of Photography Adrian Biddle, Production Designer Allan Cameron, Costume Designer John Bloomfield, and Editor and Executive Producer Bob Ducsay. John Berton supervised the visual effects wizards at Industrial Light and Magic for "The Mummy Returns."

The film's predecessor, "The Mummy," was the 8th biggest hit of 1999 and number 31 on the list of all-time box office champs, having grossed more than $404 million worldwide. It was also the top-selling live home video action title of 1999, debuting at the top of the Billboard sales charts, where it held the number one spot for three consecutive weeks. In addition, "The Mummy" was the second best-selling DVD title of 1999, shipping more than one million units.

"The Mummy" is coming to a comic book store near you! May 9th, a prequel created by Matt Broome and Marv Wolfman will be available. Meet them in person and receive your free copy at AV Con 2001: The Mummy and Beyond.

February 6, 2001: The poster for TMR is now in circulation! CLICK HERE to view. Thanks BlackB for the heads up!

January 28, 2001: CLICK HERE to view the new trailer, aired during tonight's Superbowl. Thanks to AICN for the quick work! Some new shots of AV, but you can tell this was geared to the male "football fan" audience. Loads of chicks and wrestlers!

January 19, 2001: Details are finally available for "AV Con 2001: The Mummy and Beyond".

January 16, 2001: Football fans take note! Universal Studios has purchased advertising during the broadcast and "The Mummy Returns", among other releases, is likely to be featured. Will we get a new trailer??

Universal has also purchased sole advertising rights at www.espn.com for the entire 3 day Superbowl weekend. Be sure to check it out!

January 15, 2001: New picture added to the Picture page. Check out Brendan Fraser in action (sorry, no AV!)

January 12, 2001: New toys being released this February. For a pic of all the toys, CLICK HERE. Imhotep is fairing much better this time around! These toys rock! Thanks to MovieHeadlines.Net for the tip.

December 31, 2000: An interview today with Christian Simpson, body double for Brendan Fraser in "The Mummy Returns". He found Arnold to be very nice and professional. He also commented that as long as spoilers are marked as such he found nothing wrong with them being posted. That's about all there is of interest to AV fans. The link to the original source can be found on my links page. Thanks to Carol for the scoop.

December 20, 2000: I now have a short .mpg of the trailer featured on "The Mummy" game for pc's. This is a different trailer than the one now known as the 'teaser' trailer and mixes in a lot of footage from the original film. To view, a still and the .mpg, visit the new "The Mummy" Game section of my site.

December 7, 2000: Oded Fehr gives an interview to Popcorn about TMR. There is also a streaming video clip (which I haven't been able to access yet, it keeps telling me there is "net congestion").

November 22, 2000: Well, that may be it for the Trailer! Seems Universal attached the trailer to all copies of "The Grinch" and later issued a directive for theatre owners NOT to show it. The trailer has been deemed inappropriate for younger children (who obviously would be seeing the Jim Carrey flick!). Wakey, wakey! For the full story, CLICK HERE.

November 18, 2000: The official site is now operational: www.themummy.com. New pics, cast bios, screensaver, trailers and more. Nice site, well done!

I've added some new pics from the site to my Pictures page.

November 13, 2000: Entertainment Tonight played the entire trailer this evening. Bob Goen did the voiceover however. To view the segment, visit the "AV Clips of the Week".

Screen captures from the trailer are available HERE.

November 13, 2000: A new website, The Galactic Senate, has a set report from "Bull":

"I spent this summer at Shepperton Studios in the U.K. working for Imhotep Productions on the Mummy Returns. With everything I have seen I have to say that this will be one hell of a movie. The Production has apparently doubled in size and budget from the original and the Universal reps that frequented the set were all very excited and banking on huge box office receipts.

The talk almost execs was that there would definitely be a Mummy 3. The sets are huge and take up 90% of studio space with the remainder being used for advertising and preproduction of "possession" the new Gwenyth Paltrow movie.

The pictures I have mailed you come from the Studio back lot the only place a camera can be taken as security is very tight. These shots were taken while assisting the second unit in filming a key sequence from the movies end shot later that day. The scene involves Brendon Fraser being chased by what could be an army of mummies extras were shot against a giant blue screen with ILM adding the CGI later. Fraser runs through the middle of the tomb entrance while various pyrotechnics explode all around him. It was very spectacular to watch and I can't wait to see the finished shot on screen. In side the studio sound stage J houses what was said to be the world biggest moveable set, Imhoteps tomb. This is very impressive however it's not really an exclusive any more as Universal had a press day and invited many members of the media to see the set for themselves. Several key scenes involving the bus chase were also filmed inside the studio car park.

For your information Shepperton studios will house it's biggest ever movie next year production begins in June 2001 (I'll let you speculate) however as I understand it in involves Dreamworks. Whilst it's shrouded in secrecy my service along with others have been retained by the studio, so I will be in touch again".

4 pictures from "Bull" can be accessed thru my "Pictures" page.

November 10, 2000: Some news tonight from Corona Coming Attractions and an anonymous source. The trailer is likely going to be shown in conjunction with "The Grinch" which opens nationwide November 17th. The trailer is a HARD PG-13 (?) and may not be shown at all theatres.

Entertainment Tonight will be doing yet another story on TMR this Monday, November 13th. I'll post pics and footage ASAP!

November 8, 2000: More pictures from MovieHeadlines.Net and that reel of footage shown in Dallas!

Rick and Evelyn fighting a flood?!


Alex O'Connell getting into the action!

November 7, 2000: Some interesting descriptions from my Anonymous Scooper....

November 6, 2000: More pictures today from MovieHeadlines.Net. More of the Scorpion King in action at the beginning of the film, but what I found interesting was the picture of the bracelet which both the SK and Imhotep are after:

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*Scoops and Spoilers are of course, considered 'rumour only' until the film is released. We all know films can change dramatically in post-production. This is a fan site for actor Arnold Vosloo, however, he is not involved in any way with these scoops/spoilers. All pictures copyrighted by Universal Studios. No infringement intended.