Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

Money, money, money … MONEY!!!! Prince Caspian looks will both save Narnia and rake in the dough this weekend. Industry estimates have the film making upwards of $85 million dollars. Critics have accepted the film moderately well; the film has a 69% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, with an average rating of 6.5/10. Their “Top Critics,” meaning critics that don’t include silly Web folks like me, give average 6.3/10.

James Cameron will continue to make his films in not one, not two, but three dimensions. Cameron is reportedly keen on doing the story of Pipin Ferreras and Audrey Mestre. The two were world-champion free divers and were romantically involved until Mestre’s death during a competition in 2002. Cameron hopes that their romance and tragedy, combined with 3-D underwater photography, will prove that 3-D movies can work for dramas and just not cartoons and action spectacles.

Tobey Maguire’s Spider Sense may be tingling. It seems Zodiac scribe James Vanderbilt turned in a draft of a new Spider-Man that would actually be a two-film arc. There’s not much word by way of plot or story, but apparently, Sony liked it .

Now that iTunes offers HBO shows for a flexible price (that is, Apple is changing it’s pricing plans to accommodate HBO), it seems the remaining studios that held out on selling movies on iTunes now will . Apple will sell new releases on iTunes so that they will be as profitable to studios as DVDs.

If you’re already trying to figure out what you’ll watch on TV in the fall, here ’s what the line-up may look like.

Finally, you can find a cute little video of Wall-E in Los Angeles here .

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