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PRODUCTION DELAY
Source: <Sydney Sun-Herald>

Thanks to: <The Matrix Online>

Production on The Matrix sequel has slipped even further back with industry insiders estimating the producers are as much as four months behind schedule. (This means that, if true, The Matrix Reloaded will not appear in theaters untill fall 2003 - Code 808)

Not that this is bothering visiting international star Keanu Reeves, who has been seen at various restaurants across town dining with an attractive dark-haired woman. If Reeves is to be believed , the woman is not a love interest but his sister Kim, the one woman he keeps going back home to when all his glamorous relationships fail.

Kim was born in Sydney at Paddington's Women's Hospital in the 1960s when the Reeves family called Dover Heights home. The Diary would welcome a call from anyone who knows the exact house, incidentally. Reeves remains fond of the city he once called home, but fonder still of the sister who helped him weather the emotional storm after the death of his girlfriend Jennifer Syme last year.

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FIRST MATRIX COMIC BOOK
Source: <Freecomicbookday>

Thanks to: <CountingDown>

El Capitán's Free Comic Book Day Flip Book Marks the First Time the Matrix Comic Has Been in Print!
Fans of The Matrix have thrilled to special comic book stories set in the world of the Wachowski Brothers on the website WhatIsTheMatrix.com. Now, one of those stories will be downloaded into the real world for the first time, courtesy of El Capitán Books and the creators of The Matrix...and it's only available in the special Free Comic Book Day Edition!

This extraordinary 48-page flip book features a double cover and two dynamic stories written and illustrated by Eisner Award-winning cartoonist David Lapham. One side reprints the acclaimed Stray Bullets story "Victimology," while the other presents "There Are No Flowers in the Real World" from WhatIsTheMatrix.com.

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RELOADED TRAILER COMING THIS SUMMER
Thanks to: <Corona>

One of CA's most trusted sources reported late Friday evening that, attached to copies of 20th Century Fox's Minority Report, will be the trailer for The Matrix Reloaded. Minority Report comes out in theaters on June 21.
Please note that it is possible that Warner Bros., the studio distributing The Matrix Reloaded, might very well release the trailer earlier than June 21st attached to one of its own pictures. What's are the best candidates? How about Insomnia, released on May 24, or on June 14 (just one week earlier than Minority Report), Scooby-Doo?

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27-ACRES INSUFFICIENT FOR SEQUELS
Thanks to: <CountingDown>

Just to show you how massive a project the Matrix is, according to Bloomberg News, the 27-acre Fox Studios lot in Sydney proved to be insufficient for filming the sequels. According to the New South Wales state government: "A lack of studio space has been the biggest brake on film- making in the state. The makers of the latest Matrix movies have had to use outside warehouses, as well as Fox Studio space, to keep to schedule." In response, the Fox Studios Australian site will add 5.2 acres.

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ET TALKS TO KEANU AND LAURENCE
Source: <ETonline>

'The Matrix' sequels are underway, and ET has your sneak peek into the world of 'The Matrix 2,' otherwise known as 'The Matrix Reloaded'!

After boning up on their martial arts and high-wire training, KEANU REEVES, LAURENCE FISHBURNE, CARRIE-ANNE MOSS and bad guy HUGO WEAVING are back and hard at work in Sydney, Australia filming back-to-back sequels to the box office smash.

"The sequel carves a continuation of [my character] Neo's journey and his quest to find out the truth," Keanu reveals to ET. "It's more about the conflict with the machines and the humans."
And this time around, the stunts and special effects in 'Reloaded' are even more spectacular than the first go-around!
"We are trying to do some crazy things out here," offers Keanu. "The kung-fu sequences are more sophisticated and more challenging than the first film. Some of the wire work [allows me to] do back flips and cartwheels all in one shot."
"It's pushed me to my limits. Before it was like, 'Can you do two kicks?' and now it's like, 'Can you do three kicks, but with a jumping backspin hook-kick?' So it's like you have learned to walk -- now can you fly."

[...] "These sequels are going to blast the original off the screen, and that's exactly what the fans want," says Jada [Pinkett Smith].

For the Laurence Fishburne interview, watch it in video-format on <ETonline.com>

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IT'S HARD TO TELL NOTHING
Source: <The Matrix Online>

The Matrix Online got a report from 'Jezbeck', who took a closer look to the Matrix: Revisited DVD.

There is more information about reloaded in revisited than you can imagine. Just like the movie, there are many hidden things about the meaning and the plot from the sequel.

First, check out the interviews, every time they take a crew member on the set, look behind him and you’ll appreciate guys practicing with swords and stuff.

Then listen to the comments of many of the guys there, and look between the lines. For example, check one of Hugo Weaving’s comments about Agent Smith in the torture room.
“… Smith, prior to that scene, is totally in control… cold, he doesn’t show much emotion, if any. And during that scene he starts to feel angry and frustrated because he can’t get the information out of Morpheus…”
“…He’s starting to smell things and he’s starting to be like a person, and he doesn’t like it. He doesn’t like feeling emotions, he doesn’t like being weak…”
“… By all intents and purpose he’d be PARTLY HUMAN, I suppose… PARTLY REAL…” (he then smiles, like if he was trying to tell something).

How was that uh?… Then others like Keanu Reeves find themselves almost giving something away…
“… I really like it. I like the revelations. I like… I like what (after a long pause)… neo finds out… uh… he found what the matrix was to a certain extent. I this piece, he gets even more insight into how the Matrix works…”

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