Father Geek here, con CoffinJoe, Jr. and another edition of our Tuesday Latin-AICN Column. Hope you enjoy it...

Hi there everyone, Coffin Joe Jr. here for another week of Latin-AICN.

Before we get to this week´s column, I just want to report something that has been around the net for a while now. The "Jeepers Creepers" sequel has a title, "Jeepers Creepers II: Like a Bat out of Hell". If you want even more info on the movie, check out the American Zoetrope website (Francis Ford Coppola´s production company site, at www.zoetrope.com), for character info, a plot description, etc. More gory fun is on the way, plus the latest Movie Maniacs line of action figures from Mcfarlane Toys, set to be released later this year, features an action figure of the Creeper. Oh, the joy!

US

-Jimmy Smits´ character in the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones", named Senator Bail Organa, is also going to appear in the next installment of the series, the still untitled Episode III, set for release in 2005. Check out the IMDB page for Episode III, which also has James Earl Jones listed as Darth Vader, plus other returning players, such as Frank Oz as Yoda, and Anthony Daniels as C-3PO.

-Gregory Nava, director of the 1997 Jennifer Lopez flick "Selena" and one of the writers on "Frida", is set to bring to the big screen the book "Killing Pablo", written by Mark Bowden (who also wrote "Black Hawk Down", which was the basis for Ridley Scott´s film currently in theaters in the US). Bowden himself is writing the screenplay. The book chronicles the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

SPAIN

At this years SUNDANCE FESTIVAL in Utah, Lions Gate Films bought the distribution rights to the wonderful flick INTACTO.

ARGENTINA

Somber but moving is "La Ciénaga", Lucrecia Martel's debut and one of the most successful and youngest filmmaker productions from Argentina with its revived and thriving market of new films, as opposed to its tragic and relentless general economic instability.

BRAZIL

-The documentary "A Vida em Cana" ("In Cane for Life"), directed by Jorge Wolney Atalla, received the Golden Satellite Award for best documentary, this last Saturday at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles. Among the other nominees for the same category were the Spanish documentary "Calle 54" directed by Fernando Trueba, and Martin Scorsese´s ode to classic Italian films "My Voyage to Italy".

-Director Beto Brant´s latest film, "The Trespasser", was awarded the Latin America Cinema Award this last week in the closing ceremony of this year´s Sundance Film Festival. Previously, Brant had been to Sundance with his 1998 thriller " Friendly Fire". "The Trespasser", Brant´s third feature film, deals with the story of two businessmen who hire a hitman to kill their other partner in a construction business, but end up being blackmailed by the hitman, as he takes over their company. The cast includes Alexandre Borges ("Bossa Nova"), Malu Mader, Paulo Miklos, Marco Ricca and Mariana Ximenes.

MEXICO

-Go to the following location for more info on Mike Figgis´s latest DV opus, "Hotel", starring Salma Hayek, Ornella Muti, Jason Isaacs, Lucy Liu, Rhys Ifans, David Schwimmer, Burt Reynolds, Valeria Golino, Julian Sands, Chiara Mastroianni and Saffron Burrows: Click right Now

No release date is set for the film. Salma Hayek has two other projects set for 2002, Raoul Ruiz´s "The Ground Beneath her Feet", and the highly anticipated final chapter in the El Mariachi trilogy, "Once Upon a Time in Mexico".

I´m done for this week.

Coffin Joe Jr. says: bye.