Fifteen years ago, buxom archeologist and adventurer Lara Croft made her heavily-pixellated debut on Sony's original Playstation console.  The voluptuous, hot-pants-wearing, dual pistol-wielding spelunker turned Tomb Raider into a surprisingly resilient pop-cultural franchise, with a whole mess of subsequent videogames and two movies, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and the clumsily titled Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.  Those two films, though never particularly popular with critics or audiences, managed to earn $432 million globally, due largely to the presence of Angelina Jolie in short shorts.  Well, GK Films is putting those hot pants back in action, with a Jolie-less Tomb Raider reboot that they're hoping to have in theaters by 2013.

The legend of Mulan is being made into a film once again, this time a live-action epic starring Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), to be directed by Jan De Bont (Speed). The film will be an independently-produced, English-language co-production of the classic tale of Hua Mulan, the legendary young heroine soldier who joins an all-male army.