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Entertainment News For The Week Of March 29, 2003

Thanks to Cc for doing the thread last week..

The Fat Cat Finds a Voice

20th Century Fox has tapped Bill Murray to provide the voice for Garfield the Cat in the upcoming GARFIELD. Peter Hewitt is directing the film, which is an adaption of the long running Jim Davis comic strip. Breckin Meyer is set to play Jon Arbuckle, while Jennifer Love Hewitt will play his girlfriend. Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (TOY STORY) wrote the script.
Source: Variety

Howard Takes Dunst's Role in THE WOODS

Bryce Howard, daughter of director Ron Howard, has landed the role previously occupied by Kirsten Dunst in M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming THE WOODS. Ashton Kutcher and Joaquin Phoenix (SIGNS) are in negotiations to star in the film which centers around a Pennslyvania community in 1897 that lives with the knowledge that a mythical race of creatures lives in the forest surrounding their town. Dunst left the role to begin negotiations for Cameron Crowe's next film ELIZABETHTOWN.
Source: Reuters

Jet Li Works on LABOR DAY

Jet Li (THE ONE) has agreed to star in LABOR DAY for Disney. The story is about a politically ambitious district attorney who has made his career prosecuting a crime lord. When his wife is taken hostage by the crime lord, he must turn to his wife's ex-boyfriend for help, a Chinese gangster (Li). The move is risky for the D.A. because the gangster is not only obviously a criminal, but he's still in love with the D.A.'s wife and thinks rescuing her will make her love him again. Robert Schwentke is directing.
Source: Zap2It.com

Fox Nurtures THE KIDS

20th Century Fox has acquired the rights to Jeffrey Kahn's (THE TICK) spec script THE KIDS. The film is about a divorcee who brings home a new man to her children. However, the kids are naturally convinced that they will not accept him and so devise a scheme to drive him away. After they succeed, they find that he really was the right man and must find a way to get him back. Barry Josephson (THE TICK) is producing.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Cage Goes TREASURE Hunting

Walt Disney has tapped Nicolas Cage to star in NATIONAL TREASURE. Jon Turtletaub is directing the film, which is about a secret code U.S. Constitution that supposedly gives the location of a treasure buried in the 1700s. Jerry Bruckheimer, Turtletaub and Christina Steinberg are producing.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

(This one'll break Mystic's heart)

No More LIZZIE MCGUIRE For Duff

Despite the success of the recent LIZZIE MCGUIRE movie, star Hilary Duff will not be reprising the role any time soon either in a film sequel or on television. Negotiations between Duff and Disney failed last week. "We gave them a very generous offer and unfortunately they passed. Hilary is a great girl and we truly wish her the best of luck," said a Disney spokeswoman.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Hanson Plucks Dunst's PETAL

Curtis Hanson is in final negotiations to develop and direct THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE for Columbia Pictures. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst, focuses on a prostitute in 19th century London that becomes a major player in a wealthy family. "Even though it's a Victorian novel, it has a contemporary sensibility," producer Laura Ziskin said. "It's about a woman who is in many ways ahead of her time. It's a very surprising, very triumphant and very sexy story."
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Spitfire Gets ADDICTED

Spitfire Entertainment and Vertigo Entertainment are teaming up to develop ADDICTED, an English-language remake of the Korean film JUNGDOK. Michael Petroni is set to adapt the film, which is a thriller about a woman whose husband has a car accident with his brother that places them both in a coma. However, the brother wakes up first, believing that he is really the woman's husband.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Sheen Feels the ATTRACTION

Michael Sheen (THE FOUR FEATHERS) has joined the cast of THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION, starring Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, and Parker Posey. Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore will play two high-powered divorce attorneys who continually meet each other and argue in and out of court. Eventually they fall in love. Sheen will play a rock star that hires Moore to handle his divorce from his wife (Posey).
Source: Hollywood Reporter

and thats the way the cookie crumbles....

a little Bruce Almighty haha

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Re: Entertainment News For The Week Of March 29, 2003

Fellowes on 'Way' to first directing gig
Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson will topline the British feature "A Way Through the Woods," which will mark the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes. Paul Smith's Celador Prods. is producing the project, which goes into production in September. "Way" is loosely based on Nigel Balchin's novel of the same name, which Fellowes also adapted. Wilkinson and Watson play a married couple whose lives are complicated when a third party enters the picture. "It's a triangle about people who should be happy but aren't -- people who have everything society deems will give you a fulfilled life, yet they are unfulfilled," Fellowes said in an interview. "The central plot theme is how, in a split second, you make a bad decision, and from that spreads an endless seam of mistakes, and it's impossible to go back and correct it."
Source: The Hollywood Reporter