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Spider-Man
2
Extra
has a Real Media version of a new clip from the film.
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Next Martha Stewart,
The Game Show
CBS is planning a
prime-time search for the next Martha Stewart. Realizing the growing popularity
of the TV talent-search genre, CBS is joing with LMNO Productions (whose
previous credits include Fox network's recent dwarf-dating contest "The
Littlest Groom" and "Celebrity Boot Camp.") to create a 10-episode reality
show that will feature 12 individuals living together, probably in a New
England-style farmhouse, competing in interior decorating, cooking and
party-planning as producers throw them curves to test their imagination
and grace under pressure. A CBS spokeswoman announced Friday that the Viacom
Inc.-owned network had ordered production of the as-yet-untitled series
but had not yet set an air date.
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Batman Begins Begins
Rutger Hauer was cast
this week, and it has now been revealed that Oscar-nominated actor Tom
Wilkinson ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") will take the part
of Gotham City crime overlord Carmine Falcone. Batman
on Film reports that Tilbury Fort in Essex is being used for filming
the Bat-Cave.
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Damn Yankees
For all those people
who discovered Musicals with "Chicago" Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein
has hired Peter Tolan and Mike Martineau script a new screen version of
"Damn Yankees," the 1955 musical and it will be produced by the "Chicago"
team of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron..."
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DVD Sales This
Year Are Flatten Out
After watching sales
of DVDs soar year after year, the trade publication Video Store magazine
asked, "Is the party over?" Reported sales of DVDs this February are virtually
identical with those
for February, 2003. Sales of videocassettes continued their slide,
falling 37 percent
behind the figure for the previous year. DVD sales account for 90 percent
of the total home video market of $1.07 billion.
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The Producers
Playbill
reports that Will Ferrell is in the cast of the Broderick/Lane film
version
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Ever Want To Be
Irresistible?
Playtone Prods. (Tom
Hanks Production Company) has optioned the script "Maynard Dils ... Last
Man on Earth" from Mark Blutman and set up the project with Universal Pictures.
The comedy follows a nerdy guy who receives the blessing and curse of suddenly
being irresistible to every woman on the planet.
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Joey To Take Over
for "Friends"
Matt LeBlanc's Joey
will inherit Friends 8:00 p.m. time period on NBC next season, the network
announced Thursday. It will be followed by Will & Grace at 8:30 p.m.,
The Apprentice at 9:00 p.m. and E.R. at 10:00 p.m.
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Who's The Man?
Luke Goss has been
cast as the villain in the Samuel L. Jackson-Eugene Levy film "The Man" for New Line Cinema, Les Mayfield is directing. The story is about bumbling
salesman Levy who stumbles into an ATF sting and one of the agents (Jackson)
realizes he needs to take on the mild-mannered milquetoast as his partner
in order to bring down the drug lord (Goss).Maybe Levy will begin to get
to headline some films, something he has deserved for a while.
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More Law On Order
NBC announced that
a fourth Law & Order installment will debut next season, Trial by Jury.
NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker told reporters that the network
intends to launch the fall season on Aug. 29, four weeks earlier than usual,
in order to benefit by the network's Summer Olympics telecasts.
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Alien vs. Predator
Offical Site
The official
site is sort of open, according to Dark Horizons you should use
'avp' as a Username and 'weyland' as a password.
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Disney's Plate
Though they have had
some fireworks of late, Disney also had "Pirates" & "Nemo" so they
have set monatary records this year. According to "Dark Horizons" here
are some of the projects they have in the works:
"Entacto" - Clark
Greg is penning.
"Wind in the Willows"
- Mark Friedman is attached.
"Overparenting" -
Offspring producing. Sam Harper writing.
"Ice Princess" - Two
female lead roles currently being sought.
"Other Guy"- Wagner
and Goldberg writing. Shankman directing.
"Operation Prom Dress"
- Teen musical with Amy Veltman writing.
"Extended Family"
- Mel Bordeaux writing, Callie Khouri directing.
"Princess & The
Pauper" - Ellen Vain and Turtletaub are producing.
"Casanova" - The biopic
with Heath Ledger is heading for a July start.
"Navy Seal" - Described
as "Spies Like Us" with a Jack Black character.
"Interior Decorators"
- Michael Lembeck directing. Vic Levin rewriting.
"Guardian" - Ashton
Kutcher no longer attached. Aiming for August start.
"Corporate Retreat"
- Brad Copeland is writing, Tollin/Robbins producing.
"The Regulators" -
Going to be a while because Patterson & Lin are busy.
"Orphan's Club" -
Jane Startz and Beacon producing. J.P. Saladin writing.
"Ashland" - Ron Biggerloff
is writing, Beau Flynn & Tripp Vinson producing.
Currently being written
or seeking writers:
"Harlem Little League",
"Rescued", "Ruprecht", "Enchanted", "Fate of the Blade", "Vikings", "Maid
Marion", "Saturn Returns", "The Twits", "Aftermath", "Tripod Trilogy",
"Renegade", "Pretty Ugly", "Made in Italy", "Reinventing Kate", "The Shaggy
Dog", "Black Chapter", "Nude Beach" and "Kiki's Great Adventure".
Directors are being
sought for:
"Jane Plan", "Gemini
Man", "Finn Magee" & "Dan in Real Life"
In Development:
"McKenzie Mullins
Has Cow", "Corporate Retreat", "Boomerang", "Swiss Family Robinson" "Robert
Capa", "Tale of Teds", and "Fraternity Brothers".
Question
#805: What does
Maximus tell Lucius his horses are
named
in "Gladiator?"
Answer
#804: All five Tracy sons in the 1964 Thunderbirds
series
were named after famous pioneering astronauts of the
1960's:
Scott after Scott Carpenter; Virgil after Virgil Grissom;
Alan
after Alan Shepard; Gordon after Gordon Cooper; and
John
after John Glenn.
Pam
got this one first, then Scott & Max
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Serendipity
Cinema: (This is a Once A Week Feature)
A
Recommended Film You May Never Have Heard Of,
But
Should See.
#1: 7
Faces Of Dr. Lao
This won an Oscar
for Make up, but it is not
the kind of film
that one would think of as an
award winner. It
has the feel of Roger Corman
and George Pal,
with a hint of Harryhausen thrown
in. It is simple,
and while seeming simplistic it
is far from that.
It humbly powerful. There are a
thousand reasons
to belittle and put down this film.
And if you go in
with that mindset, you will find
them all. But,
if you give it a willing suspention of
disbelief and let
the magic that hints around every
corner over take
you, this will be a little gem that
you treasure.
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--posted by Wayne
Saturday, March 27, 2004
--posted by Wayne Saturday, March 27, 2004
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