Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

A-list directors are traveling in time. James Mangold, director of 3:10 to Yuma, will helm The Archive. Other than that it’s about time travel, not many other details are known. Earlier this week, Spike Lee signed on to co-write and direct Time Traveler. The film is about Ron Mallett, one of the first African-Americans to get a doctorate in theoretical physics, who also laid out technical specs on how to build a time machine, as well as detailed his rags-to-recognition in his book Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.

In other Spike Lee news, the director announced at the Silverdocs festival that he could return to the New Orleans and the surrounding Mississippi Gulf region to do a follow up to his HBO miniseries When the Levees Broke. He also talked about the possibility of doing a scripted project on Hurricane Katrina, potentially with The Wire-creator David Simon.

Kevin Smith set out to make a movie about making a porno with Zack and Miri Make a Porno, but he may have actually made a porno. OK, that might be overstating the truth, but Seth Rogen told MTV the film is having trouble getting an R rating, but that it’s been deemed NC-17 by the MPAA. You can read the whole article here.

Some changes are in store for the Academy Awards next year. In the Best Original Song category, now only two songs can be nominated from a movie, which prevents repeats of what happened last year when Enchanted dominated the category. When it comes to foreign-language films, the voting process will change so that fewer films are left off the ballot, like Persepolis was last year.

And, since I haven’t had enough links to lists here on Movies Daily, here’s another one. This time, Entertainment Weekly has named the Top 100 movies since 1983. You can check out the complete list here .

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