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The University of Chicago's admissions department received an interesting package this week addressed to Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr., otherwise known as Indiana Jones.

The official Tumblr of the university's admissions department featured a blog post about the package, which they said they received earlier in the week. The university also featured the post on their official Twitter and Facebook accounts. In the 1981 film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" it is revealed that Jones' mentor, Professor Abner Ravenwood, is a professor at the university.

Harrison Ford, 70, joined director Steven Spielberg and Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Brad Grey at a special screening of the 1981 movie "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California on Sept. 13, 2012.

The event was held to celebrate the upcoming release of the newly-mastered 'Indiana Jones' movie series, which is coming to Blu-ray for the first time on September 18. Following a one-week IMAX engagement, the Paramount Pictures Corporation announced that 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark' will have an extended theatrical run, starting on September 14. Check out photos from the screening.

Betty White and Tom Hanks are the most trusted personalities, according to results of a Reuters/Ipsos poll, released in August 2011.

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Ridley Scott has signed on to direct and produce a new installment of "Blade Runner," Deadline.com.

The director, who helmed the original 1982 film starring Harrison Ford, will team up with Alcom Entertainment, who bought the rights to the film back in March.

This episode of "On The Red Carpet" was filmed at Universal Studios City Walk Hollyoowd.

In this episode, Harrison Ford meets his out of this world match, Smurfs turn New York City blue, and T.V. trailblazer Geri Jewell gets candid.

Daniel Craig has nothing but praise for his "Cowboys & Aliens" co-star, Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford.

"I'm a huge fan of his and have been and I remain so," Craig, 43, told OnTheRedCarpet.com host Rachel Smith at the Comic-Con International 2011. "He's a lovely man, very funny and is sort of bigger-than-life than he is really on screen."

Harrison Ford was reunited with his "Star Wars" co-star Chewbacca during his appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Wednesday, however the meeting was not as harmonious as the on-screen friendship between their two characters once was.

In the clip, which can be seen below, Ford verbally harasses Chewbacca for making the movies on an old flame. "She was my wife," Ford screams. "She's still spitting up hairballs!"

Olivia Wilde says potential viewers of her new film "Cowboys & Aliens" can expect "something really original and unpredictable."

The movie is set in 1873 and tells of a loner named Jake, played by Daniel Craig, who wakes up one day with no memories. He learns that he is a criminal who is wanted by the likes of Colonel Dolarhyde, the ruler of the town, who is played by Harrison Ford. The two must unite for a greater purpose - to defeat invading aliens. Wilde plays Ella Swenson, a traveler.

Jon Favreau plans to debut "Cowboys & Aliens" at Comic-Con next week and to promote the sci-fi western, the director did a series of hilariously candid interviews with his star-studded cast.

Favreau sat down with his stars and collaborators, including Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Steven Spielberg. The director talked to them about their entire careers, on-set accidents, their passion projects and their experience working with Hollywood legends.

Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig take the focus back from Olivia Wilde in the new trailer for the Universal Studios science fiction western, "Cowboys & Aliens," which was released on Friday.

The trailer still features a nude Wilde, but Ford and Craig demonstrate their star power in the third trailer for the film, which is slated for a July 29 release. Executive producer Steven Spielberg recently told OnTheRedCarpet.com that science fiction has replaced westerns as the "new identity of Hollywood," but the action flick appears to successfully combine the two genres.

Olivia Wilde appears nude in the new trailer for the Universal Studios science fiction Western, "Cowboys & Aliens," which premiered during Thursday's "American Idol."

In the film, Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) wakes up with no memory of his past and a shackle around his wrist. He goes into the town of Absolution and learns he's a wanted criminal and the man who runs the town (Harrison Ford) wants him gone, but when aliens start attacking the town and stealing their people, it becomes clear that Lonergan holds the key to defeating them.

Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind "The Blind Side" and "The Book of Eli" are in final negations to purchase the rights to make a movie based on the 1982 film "Blade Runner."

The statement released by the company appears to imply that sequels and prequels to the sci-fi film could be developed by the company in the near future, rather than an outright remake.

Harrison Ford has denied a recent online rumor that said he wants his famed Indiana Jones character to be killed off in the next sequel.

The 68-year-old actor has, however, said in the past that he thinks his "Star Wars" character, Han Solo, should have died in the final film of the first trilogy, "Return of the Jedi".