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C Wayne Owens' Movie & TV News is a daily newsletter featuring news gathered from all over the net with the newest and hottest movie and tv scoops. It is heavily weighted towards SF and Fantasy film, but if it's news (and not just Celeb gossip) it will be here, and be here weeks before the TV News shows even touch on it.

MOVIE & TV NEWS

X-Files: Back From The Dead

While he was promoting his comedic turn in the upcoming "Connie and Carla", Dark Horizon's LA correspondent Paul Fischer asked co-star David Duchovny whether the much-rumoured "X-Files" movie is likely to happen, and to everyone's surprise, he gave a resoundingly positive response. "It's definiely happening", Duchovny said. "Chris has a great idea for the new movie and I expect we'll be able to begin shooting in the next year or so... I think we're going to be introducing a new character in the film which will allow us to cast a major star, male or female, who will want to be part of an exciting supernatural thriller. I think the new movie will appeal to both our core fans and a broad audience. I'm very excited about it."
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Elektra
USA Today notes that production for the Jennifer Garner spin off is set to begin in five weeks. Garner said, "I'm getting ready to train to battle Typhoid Mary." Producer Gary Foster said, "Typhoid Mary is a psychotic. By day she's this normal woman, and at night she loses her mind and drives you into this disease, where you literally get typhoid."
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Magnum P.I. As Magnum P.I.
Who Magazine reports that contrary to rumours that George Clooney will not star. Producer Brian Grazer says he's determined not to upset any of those stringent 80's fans by doing such a drastic re-cast. "Tom [Selleck] is and always has been Magnum. We're not even looking at anyone else. Tom's been trying to get a film version of Magnum made for years, so if anything, imagine's merely the steam to guide his loco. And really, could imagine anyone else carrying that moustache as well as he does?."
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The Blew Lagoon?
The WB is remaking The Blue Lagoon as a TV movie, Variety reports. The film — loosely based on the 1980s feature featuring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins — is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers who brought Chicago to the big screen and It's All Relative to the small screen. If it's better or worse than the original, why do it?
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Long Trailers & Short Films
Besides the Apple.com site already on our links page, we found a nice little UK site with a nice variety of other stuff: Dave's Tariler Page.
------------ Firefly's Resident Vampire?
Gina Torres was at the Sci-Fi Slam convention in Pasadena and revealed a mini-scoop. After talking about how disappointed she was that "Angel" is ending, Torres added "All is not lost, because Joss [Whedon] wants to get David [Boreanaz] on "Serenity" I hear". Yes, Angel might be appearing in the "Firefly" movie. Torres also confirmed Shepard Book (Ron Glass) will definitely be in the movie.
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Xbox Price Cut $30
Microsoft Corp. on Monday cut the price on Xbox video game consoles by $30 to $149.99, a move that had been expected at some point before mid-May in order to spur sales.  Microsoft also said it has trimmed prices on software like the karaoke game "Xbox Music Mixer," "Project Gotham Racing 2" and "Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge." The Xbox price cut will be effective Tuesday, while the software cuts take effect Monday and Tuesday. Xbox was released priced at $299 in November 2001, dropped to $199 in May 2002 at the E3 industry trade show and then went to $179 in May 2003, at the same event. The new price was expected by many to come before this year's E3 show.

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Dark Shadows (TV)
BarnabusUndead is reporting that many more roles from the new Dark Shadows have been cast, including the role of Barnabas Collins. "Dune" star Alec Newman is will play Barnabus, Jessica Chastain as Carolyn Stoddard, Martin Donovan ("The Opposite of Sex") as Roger Collins, Marley Shelton ("Valentine") as Victoria Winters, Alexander Gould (who portrayed Nemo in "Finding Nemo") as David Collins, Bosnia-born actress Ivana Milicevic ("Love Actually", "Buffy") has been cast as Angelique, and Matt Czuchry ("Jake 2.0") as Willie Loomis.
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Doctor Who (TV)
The BBC reports that ex-pop star Billie Piper may play Doctor Who's female companion in the revival of the sci-fi show. A BBC spokesman said the role will not be decided for another eight weeks, but Piper is favoured by the new series' executive producer Russell T Davies. Piper will soon be seen starring opposite Orlando Bloom in "The Calcium Kid".
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Joey Finally Gets A Sister
After a lengthy search, Drea De Matteo (Known for "The Sopranos") has landed the role of Joey Tribbiani's sister for NBC's upcoming "Friends" spinoff series, "Joey." The comedy will center on the relationship between Joey (Matt LeBlanc), who has just moved to Los Angeles, and his sister Gina (De Matteo), a hairdresser & her son. Probably smarter than Joey (but then, who isn't?), Gina has a way with men, like Joey has with women. De Matteo's new gig on "Joey" will not interfere with her contractual obligations to the 10-episode sixth and final season of David Chase's hit series.
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Cartoon Network Web Shows
If you would like to watch some Cartoon Network Programming online, they have set up a site at Web Shows. Enjoy!
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Shadowmancer
A producer and financier who have no track record, they have made no films have paid a fortune to secure screen rights to "Shadowmancer," a fantasy novel. The book has been compared to the "Harry Potter" series. In the book an 18th-century ghost  follows three children's battle against an evil vicar out to control the world. The Vicar has the ability to enlist the dead as his forces.
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New DVD News
Lots of art and such available for titles such as Monster, The Perfect Score, Das Boot: Uncut, The Butterfly Effect, Eurotrip, Everybody Loves Raymond: Season 1 & Club Dread 
------------ Aniston Redoes 'Gambit'
Jennifer Aniston will star in "Gambit," a remake of the 1966 British caper film that featured Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. The project belongs to Universal Pictures, with Burr Steers to write and direct. It is known that Steers did a rewrite of the script -- that had been originally written by Joel and Ethan Coen -- but later left the project due to creative differences. The project went into turnaround and now has production designer-turned-director Bo Welch ("Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat") at the helm. The film is about a British thief who comes up with a fool-proof plan to steal from one of the richest men in the world.
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Law & Order: Trial By Jury: May Have Some Good News
Jerry Orbach has decided to leave NBC's Law & Order. The actor played Detective Lennie Brisco for 12 years on the show but he may be moving to  the fourth "Law & Order" spinoff which will follow a criminal's case from arraignment to verdict by jury.

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Lots Of Lineup Shuffles
ABC is going to perform a time-slot makeover on "Extreme Makeover," while Fox is swapping the Thursday and Friday time slots of "Wonderfalls" and reality-soap "Forever Eden." ABC's reality show about plastic surgery transformations is moving out of primetime's deadliest time slot -- the Thursday 9 p.m. hour, where the competition includes CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and NBC's "The Apprentice" -- to Wednesday 10 p.m. as of April 14. To make room for "Makeover," ABC will move troubled midseason drama "Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital" from Wednesday 10 p.m. to Thursday 9 p.m. as of April 1. "Kingdom's Hospital" had an encouraging two-hour premiere this month but has since done a nose dive in the ratings. Even against its tough competition, the hourlong "Makeover" has consistently posted a ratings spike in its second half-hour. ABC executives hope that the Wednesday switch will allow "Makeover" to capitalize on the strong lead-in from 9 p.m.'s "The Bachelor," which returns to ABC's lineup with a two-hour premiere April 7. Still, "Makeover" will have to face NBC's long-dominant "Law & Order." Meanwhile, Fox is planning to test a Thursday 9 p.m. time-slot shuffle this week by temporarily moving "Wonderfalls" from Friday to Thursday to pair the critically praised series up with fellow freshman drama "Tru Calling." "Forever Eden" will move from Thursday 9 p.m. to "Wonderfalls"' Friday 9 p.m. time slot, there it will run in tandem with 8 p.m. dating-reality show "Playing It Straight."

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I Knew That! Question #807
(Monday, March 28, 2004)
Question #807: Quote Monday: " I ain't like that
no more. I ain't the same, Ned. Claudia, she
straightened me up, cleared me of drinkin' whiskey
and all. Just 'cause we're goin' on this killing, that
don't mean I'm gonna go back to bein' the way I
was. I just need the money, get a new start for them
youngsters. Ned, you remember that drover I shot
through the mouth and his teeth came out the back
of his head? I think about him now and again. He
didn't do anything to deserve to get shot, at least
nothin' I could remember when I sobered up. "
 

Answer #806: What film showed Steve McQueen to
be to draw poker what Paul Newman was to pool in
"The Hustler?" "The Cincinnati Kid"
Max got it first, then Lori & Rachel

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Serendipity Cinema: (This is a Once A Week Feature)
A Recommended Film You May Never Have Heard Of,
But Really Ought To See. #2. The Enchanted Cottage.
Some will call it a "Chick Flick," others just
a "Romantic Love Story" and some might even call
it "Fantasy," but this film is about the power of
hope, the magic of love. With magnificent performances
and simple honesty, it paints a picture that would
never be attempted today. It is glorious, and will
leave no one who sees it unchanged. If you have a
romantic bone in your body seek it out, and you will
thank me for pointing you in its direction.

--posted by Wayne Monday, March 29, 2004

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