The next “Spider-Man” movie may have as many as six new villains for the hero to face. That is what director Sam Raimi would like to do if he is brought back again to make the fourth movie. Raimi would like to bring the Sinister Six, a team that is made up of a half-dozen Spider-Man adversaries such as The Vulture, The Lizard, Mysterio, Kraven the Hunter and the Sandman and Doctor Octopus, two bad guys introduced in the last two “Spider-Man” movies.

While speaking with MTV at a special event awarding winners of “Spider-Man” fan films Raimi said that he would like to include The Lizard in the next movie. “The Lizard is probably one of my favorite characters,” Raimi said. The human side of the character has already been introduced and has appeared in the past two movies, one of Peter Parker’s professors at college, Dr. Curt Conners (played by Dylan Baker.) “But [’Spider-Man 4′] will probably have to start with the central journey of the main character to arrive at the proper villain.”

As for returning behind the camera lens for “Spider-Man 4”, Raimi explains that it all depends on whether Sony Pictures wants him to come back and if he can develop a tale that excites him. If either one of those two considerations can’t happen then Raimi will move on and be happy to see what happens next in the continuing adventure of Peter Parker and Spider-Man. “But if it’s a great story and Sony will bring me back to the screen, I would love to,” added Raimi.

Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman will play South African President Nelson Mandela in a new movie set during the country’s 1995 Rugby World Cup matches. The movie will be based on a soon to be published book by John Carlin titled “The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed the World”.

Freeman will produce with his Revelations Entertainment partner Lori McCreary and Mace Neufeld (“The Hunt For Red October”). The “Shawshank Redemption” and “Batman Begins” star is a longtime friend of the Nobel Prize winning Apartheid crusader and is eager to start production on a film honoring Mandela’s achievements. “I have known Nelson Mandela personally for quite some time, and am continually in awe of his enormous presence in the world,” Freeman said. “The opportunity to portray him in this film is a great honor.”

The man behind Halle Berry’s topless scene in “Monster’s Ball” will direct the next James Bond picture. Director Marc Forster has been selected to shoot the 22^nd 007 movie which is scheduled for release on November 7, 2008. Daniel Craig will play the British secret agent for the second time in the movie which still doesn’t have a title. The screenplay was written by “Crash” director and “Million Dollar Baby” screenwriter Paul Haggis.

One rumor that has surfaced about the new Bond movie is that “Black Book” actress Carice Van Houten may be cast as the new Bond lady. If that rumor does indeed come to pass then the blonde starlet will only be able to play in the new 007 film after she finishes making “Valkyrie” this year. Van Houten has just been cast to play the love interest of Tom Cruise’s character in that film.

Bruce Willis will soon be making a picture with one of his daughters. Rumer Willis has been cast along with her more famous father and former “The O.C.” star Mischa Barton in the dark comedy “The Sophomore”. The daughter of Demi will play the sidekick to the most popular girl in a Catholic high school (Barton’s character) while Dad will be the school’s demented principal, a former Desert Storm army soldier that can’t let go of his glory days. The movie will be played as a dark comedy that finds the school’s students discovering a conspiracy involving the theft of the SAT exams and corruption at the school.

Music video director Brett Simon will start filming the movie this August. This is the second film that Willis has starred in with his daughter after Rumer played his character’s daughter in 2005’s “Hostage”. She has also starred in two of her mother Demi’s films, “Now and Then” and “Striptease”.

“One Night at McCool’s” and “Agent Cody Banks” director Harald Zwart has been selected to shoot the sequel to “The Pink Panther”. Columbia Pictures and MGM want Zwart to begin filming the second movie in the reboot of the Peter Sellers comedy franchise starting in August. Steve Martin will once again play the part of French police Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The movie’s screenplay is being rewritten by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel while Zwart preps.

Shawn Levy directed the 2006 remake and will also act as an executive producer on “Pink Panther 2”. After the box office success of Levy’s last movie, “Night at the Museum”, he currently has five movies in development for his next job including a comedic update on The Hardy Boys that may star Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller as the two sleuthing siblings and a superhero movie about the fast-moving “Flash”.

Sean Connery has decided that he will not star in “Indiana Jones 4”. The 76-year-old Scottish born actor has issued a statement on the official Indiana Jones website stating that his reason for not reprising the part of Indy’s stuffy dad is due to enjoying his time off. “I thought long and hard about it and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film. I love working with Steven and George, and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison as my son. But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun.”

Also announced at the time was the long rumored involvement of Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett (“The Lord of the Rings”) and actors Ray Winstone (“The Departed”) and John Hurt (“V for Vendetta”). The three join the already announced Shia LaBeouf who will play the son of Indiana Jones. Filming has started on the movie in Connecticut and it will be out in theaters next May 22.

As momentum continues to build towards the release of “Live Free or Die Hard”, Bruce Willis has gone on the record about the possibility of making a fifth movie in the franchise. According to ISEB.net, Willis said “I told them I’d only do it if Len [Wiseman] was involved and Maggie Q and Justin [Long] of course. It’s been since ‘95 so [it’s been] 12 years and 21 years is the span of all four of ‘em. So, you can see me when I’m 31 and you can see me when I’m 52. So you guys will decide.”

There has also been a little bit of controversy with fans of the popular action film series. Unconfirmed reports have surfaced that the new “Die Hard” was about to receive a rating of PG-13 which would make it the only picture among the four films that didn’t get an R rating. There has been speculation that the more timid rating would be issued because of the film’s toned down violence and swearing, even going so far as to not have Willis’s character say his trademark “Yippee-kay-yay-#$@!” line. So far the film’s owner, 20^th Century Fox, hasn’t commented on the rumors and the final rating for “Live Free and Die Hard” hasn’t been released. We will know for sure when the movie opens in theaters on June 27.

Warner Bros. has moved up the release of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” by two days to take advantage of the buzz. The hotly anticipated fifth movie in the franchise will now play on movie screens starting Wednesday, July 11 instead of Friday the 13^th.

Plans have also been revealed for an amazing Harry Potter theme park to open in late 2009 at Universal Florida’s Islands of Adventure. “The Wizardring World of Harry Potter” will feature some of the franchise’s most famous locations including the village of Hogsmeade, the mysterious Forbidden Forest and Hogwarts castle itself. There will also be interactive rides, attractions, shops and even Harry Potter themed restaurants for fans of the magical series to dine at. Several of the staff involved in the movie series will also be lending a hand to help with the design and construction of the new park. Even J.K. Rowling herself has given the endeavor her nod of approval, saying “The plans I’ve seen look incredibly exciting, and I don’t think fans of the books or films will be disappointed.”