Poor Steven Spielberg. He was totally bummed out when all the ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ spoilers started filling the internet, scared it wouldn’t make the $400 million it needs to make him some money — the man is worth an estimated $2.7 billion. Luckily George Lucas was there to assure him people would still want to see the movie for Spielberg’s interpretation.

It seems like in every other interview with Spielberg and Lucas, there are some words about how irritated Spielberg was about the spoilers. I still have no idea why he cares this much about some people reading some spoilers on the net. I’m sure not even 1% of his audience read it, let alone withhold them from seeing the movie. Or is it because there’s just not much else to talk about?

“I know they always do big billboards in L.A., but let’s do them all over,” Steven Spielberg said. In their quest to seek the ultimate buzz for ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,’ Paramount is placing 2,000 billboards all over the nation, with their focus on L.A. Places like Sunset and Vine have buildings with ads plastered on all four sides of the building.

“L.A. in many cases is 10 percent of our boxoffice, so it’s a great market for billboards,” executive vice president advertising and marketing Steve Siskind said. They are going for total domination, with the message spreading over two billboards if possible. “I guess it’s kind of a trains, planes and automobiles strategy,” he said.

With a little over a week to go, the buzz should be here. I have the feeling the internet is lightly indifferent about the movie. Some early reviews have been quite tame, although not overly negative. I’m hoping for some early tracking numbers this week.

Steven Spielberg will be doing Abraham Lincoln after finishing his ‘Tintin’ animation. He earlier announced he won’t be working on ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7′ for the time being, because of the potential actors’ strike. He plans to film ‘Lincoln’ in 2009, so “that it can also open in the same year as Lincoln’s 200th anniversary which comes round then.”

Liam Neeson, next to be seen in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,’ is rumored to play the lead, with Sally Field (’Brothers & Sisters’) as Lincoln’s wife.