Hollywood actors Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford are teaming up for an as-yet-untitled big-screen drama, CBS Films announced Wednesday. The pair will co-star in what is for now being called The Untitled Crowley Project, said Amy Baer, president and chief executive officer of CBS Films, a division of the CBS Corp. The project, which is based on true events and has an anticipated start date in early April, will be the first movie to go into production for CBS Films. Fraser will play a father who recruits the help of a reluctant maverick scientist (played by Ford) forging an unlikely friendship in a race against time to solve the scientific mystery that could save his family.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Brendan Fraser has signed on to star opposite Harrison Ford in The Untitled Crowley Project for CBS Films, it was announced today by Amy Baer, President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Films, a division of the CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS).

Two action films starring Hollywood actor Brendan Fraser are among the seven movies in the running for the Visual Effects Oscar, it was announced Tuesday. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Fraser's Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, as well as Australia, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Iron Man are eligible for nomination in the Visual Effects category. Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards are to be announced Jan.

THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR DIRECTOR: Rob Cohen CAST: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Luke Ford, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Isabella Leong, Liam Cunningham. RATING: 12A .*** THE MUMMY franchise is in a pretty poor state for this, its third resurrection.

By Nicholas Barber Film 2 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Rob Cohen 113 MINS, 12A Elegy Isabel Coixet 108 MINS, 15 The 1999 fun adventure yarn, The Mummy, and its terrible 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns, were inspired - to put it delicately - by Indiana Jones, so it was a curious move of the producers to bring their franchise back from the grave at the very moment when Harrison Ford and co decided to do the same.