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Movie Entertainment News-March 19, 2003

I am going to try my best to give you a weekly update of casting movie news that I find off the net for you guys.

1Wrestling.com reports that The Rock's next feature film, the remake of Walking Tall, will start filming on June 2 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Rock will star as a man who returns home to his native Washington State hometown after serving in the United States Special Forces looking to reopen his family's business, a lumber mill. Once he arrives home however, he has to deal with the corruption of the local town, including a crooked Casino where his old girlfriend works as a "private dancer."

Casting is currently underway for the film, which is slated to be directed by Kevin Bray who previously directed the Ice Cube film All About the Benjamins.

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Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to Tom Clancy's latest thriller Red Rabbit and signing Saving Private Ryan scribe Robert Rodat to adapt the book.

"Rabbit" is set near the beginning of the Jack Ryan franchise, in which the novice CIA analyst must help debrief a high-level defector who reveals that Soviet officials are planning to assassinate the pope and destabilize the West.

Clancy's Jack Ryan franchise has been dusted off recently at Paramount with 2002's Ben Affleck starrer The Sum of All Fears.
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speaking of Affleck


Six Feet Under star Michael C. Hall will star opposite Ben Affleck in Paramount Pictures' Paycheck for director John Woo, says The Hollywood Reporter. The project aims to go into production next month.

Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, Paycheck is a futuristic tale centering on Jennings (Affleck), a man who has part of his memory erased by his employer and begins to find clues to his whereabouts for the past two years. Hall will play the lead FBI agent who is spearheading the investigation on Jennings' memory. Aaron Eckhart also stars as Rethrick, the man who persuades Jennings to give up two years of his life, thus setting in motion a whirlwind of chaos.
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Actor Reubens Appeals Child Porn Charge
Wednesday March 19 6:50 AM ET


Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens is appealing a judge's refusal to throw out a misdemeanor child pornography possession charge.

Reubens' attorneys argued Monday that Superior Court Judge Carol H. Rehm's February ruling was flawed because a 1989 statute does not apply to material produced before the law was enacted.

Lawyers Blair Berk and Benjamin L. Coleman said Reubens' collection of vintage erotica predates 1989.

Berk and Coleman also argued that the statute of limitations for a misdemeanor crime expired before the city filed the charge last November.

Eric Moses, an aide to City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, said he was confident the appellate justices would uphold Rehm's ruling.

"We believe the trial court ruling was well reasoned and consistent with law, and the defendant's petition makes the same exact argument that failed to persuade the trial court judge," Moses said.

It was not immediately known when the appeals court would rule.

Reubens, 50, has pleaded innocent to one misdemeanor count of possessing material depicting children under 18 engaging in sexual conduct. He is free on $20,000 bail.

The charge, which carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $2,500 fine, resulted from a search of Reubens' home in November 2001. Police seized his art collection and personal computers.
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Adam Shankman Helming The Jetsons
Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:53 CST

Adam Shankman (Bringing Down the House) is in talks to direct The Jetsons at Warner Bros. Pictures, says Variety.

Warners-based Denise DiNovi and Hanna Barbera Productions are producing The Jetsons, which is based on the 1962 cartoon TV show that featured the henpecked family man of the future, George Jetson, and his nuclear family. A previous "Jetsons" movie was made in 1990, helmed by Joseph Barbera and the late William Hanna.

The film's script is in the process of being rewritten again, with the studio going out to writers shortly.

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