'Spy Kids 4' is in production?

I'm used to the secretiveness of the Robert Rodriguez camp (I even had to sign one of those ubiquitous confidentiality agreements when my nephew was an extra in the first Spy Kids), but it's always surprising how quiet the ramp up of production of a new film is. Here's a little hint from The Hollywood Reporter that the production of Spy Kids 4 is under way for the Weinstein Company with a release date set for August 2011. (IMDB.com lists the complete title as Spy Kids 4: Armageddon.) I know that casting has been active. Anyone know anything else?

Here's what Rodriguez told me in May:

Rodriguez said the “Spy Kids” reboot is for the Weinstein Co. and will include new child secret agents with actors — whom he did not identify — already in line to play the roles.

“I thought it could be good to reboot my own series,” he said. “That's my most loyal audience — not the film geeks, but the kids.”

The film's script already has been turned in.

“The Spy Kids Division has been closed down seven years ago,” Rodriguez said. “We will see some of the characters from the previous films.”

Texas Film Hall of Fame

The biggest moment of the 2010 Texas Film Hall of Fame was when Bruce McGill strummed the William Tell Overture on his neck just as he’d done in 1978’s Animal House. Tim Mathison held up a microphone so we all could hear. The University of Texas alumnus McGill followed it by flashing a hook ‘em Horns sign.

Quentin Tarantino--rumor was he didn't want to talk about his Oscar losses--zoomed through and barely stopped for one photo. I didn't get it.

Tim "Otter" Matheson and Bruce "D-Day" McGill.


Bruce McGill with Richard Linklater lurking behind him.


Catherine O'Hara accepted an award for Lockhart-shot Waiting for Guffman


Michael Nesmith of The Monkees!


Robert Rodriguez later gave a replica of his signature hat to Tarantino.


Lyle Lovett.


Lukas Haas.