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Entertainment News For The Week Of June 11, 2003

Back at ya with some news flashes for all you crazy movie cats out there..we are LIVE!

Watts To Join McGregor In STAY

Director Marc Forster (MONSTER’S BALL) has tapped Naomi Watts (THE RING) to join Ewan McGregor (EPISODE II) in the supernatural thriller STAY. With shooting to being in late September, STAY is set at an Ivy League school where a psychologist (McGregor) tries to prevent one of his students from committing suicide. Watts will play McGregor’s girlfriend.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

From ICE AGE To Space Age With ROBOTS

Director Chris Wedge, Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox have announced their next CGI project, ROBOTS. Production has already begun on the film which was announced Monday evening at the American Museum of Natural History's Imax Theatre in NY. Halle Berry (X2: X-MEN UNITED), Ewan McGregor (DOWN WITH LOVE) , Mel Brooks (BLAZING SADDLES), Jim Broadbent (MOULIN ROUGE) and Jennifer Coolidge (A MIGHTY WIND, BEST IN SHOW) are just a few of the actors who have already closed deals to lend their voices to the film. Some actors have already been in the studio to record voices for the film. ROBOTS is scheduled to be released March 11, 2005.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Ron Howard’s THE MISSING To Be Released In December

Sony Pictures and Revolution Studio’s suspense thriller THE MISSING, which was scheduled to be released wide on January 16, 2004, will now be in limited release Wednesday, December 10. The film will then expand to 125 theaters by Christmas. Wide release is now scheduled a week earlier on January 9. The movie is about the story of a dying father (Tommy Lee Jones) in 1886 that returns home to New Mexico to make peace with Maggie (Cate Blanchett), his daughter that he has not seen since she was a little girl. Although she is quite bitter towards her father, she is forced to rely on him when her own daughter Lily (Wood) is kidnapped and she asks him to rescue her.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

McBride Is Latest For TERMINAL

Chi McBride (BOSTON PUBLIC, CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE) is set to join Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones on Steven Spielberg’s latest, TERMINAL. McBride is replacing Bernie Mac, who was in negotiations for the role. Hanks is playing Victor, an immigrant from Eastern Europe that begins living in a New York airport when his home country is wiped off the map by a war and his passport becomes invalid. He becomes friends with various airport workers and falls in love with a flight attendant (Zeta-Jones). McBride will play one of the airport workers that runs his own business on the side.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Barbershop 2 In The Works

With shooting beginning in August, Dean Edwards (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) and Patrice O'Neal (TOUGH CROWD WITH COLIN QUINN) have auditioned for the roles of Kenard and Ice Cube's father (in a flashback scene). Kevin Rodney Sullivan (HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK and TV’S WATCHING ELLIE) has climbed on board as director of the new film reuniting Ice Cube and Cedric The Entertainer. BARBERSHOP 2 is scheduled to open November 21, 2003 in the US.
Source: Dark Horizons

And from the "GOOD FOR YOU!" File

Tom Sizemore Pleads Innocence

41 year old actor Tom Sizemore (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, BLACK HAWK DOWN) has pleaded innocent to the 16 misdemeanor charges which included hitting, harassing and threatening his ex-fiancee Heidi Fleiss. Sizemore is free on $100,000 bail and due back in court on June 24.
Source: USA Today

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"If somebody said to me, in twelve years you’ll be in a band with your brother and two carrot munching geezers who don’t like football, I would've said 'fuck off, I’m not joining the Bee Gees." -Noel Gallagher 2005

couple more reports for ya...

George Carlin and Ja-Rule In SCARY MOVIE 3

Cameos seem to be the running joke in SCARY MOVIE 3 with George Carlin and Ja-Rule joining the ranks of Jeremy Piven, Simon Rex, Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Anna Farris, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Eddie Griffin, Camryn Manheim, Macy Gray, Method Man, Redman and Master P. The film, which is to wrap filming this month, is scheduled to be released by Dimension Films on October 3.
Source: Variety

Waters Looking For Sex Addicts

Calling all female sex addicts.

DIRTY SHAME director John Waters is looking for a female lead to play a convenience store owner who develops uncontrollable sexual urges after suffering from a concussion. With Johnny Knoxville (JACKASS), Selma Blair (LEGALLY BLONDE) and Paul Giamatti (PLANET OF THE APES) already on board, Waters told Variety "I wish Meryl Streep would do it but I don't think she would. It has to be somebody real, who looks like they could belong in a convenience store and in Hollywood these days, women in their forties who look real are hard to find."

Waters is going back to the craziness of his earlier films POLYESTER and PINK FLAMINGOS. "It's a sex education film that asks the question, 'Can tolerance go too far?' It's also based on a really true fact, and I've of course exaggerated it. But there are a tiny percentage of concussion sufferers who have a carnal lust they cannot control. Of course in this film, they take over a whole neighborhood."
Source: Empire Online

Kidman Battles EMMA’S WAR

Deborah Scroggins’ novel EMMA’S WAR: AN AID WORKER, A WARLORD, RADICAL ISLAM, AND THE POLITICS OF OIL – A TRUE STORY OF LOVE AND DEATH IN SUDAN has been optioned by 20th Century Fox for Scott Free – Tony and Ridley Scott’s studio based company along with Kennedy/Marshall. Nicole Kidman is on board to star with Tony Scott in the directors’ seat. The story, which centers on the real-life story of a young British woman, Emma (Kidman) who moves to Sudan to become an aid worker who then falls in love with a Sudanese warlord in the midst of civil war, will be adapted from the novel for the screen by Steve Knight.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

THE FALL GUY Coming Soon To A Multiplex Near You

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. have been fighting over the rights to the 80’s action adventure show THE FALL GUY which resulted in Warner Bros. winning the rights to the film. Production company Management 360 will produce with a script written by relative newcomer Tristan Patterson.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Gyllenhaal Starring In Harold Ramis Bio-pic

Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to star in a biopic about writer and director Harold Ramis (ANALYZE THIS). Going from a 7 month stint working in a psychiatric hospital to working for Playboy magazine, Ramis has seen his share of surprises. "There's nothing an actor can do that will surprise or intimidate me, having wrestled people to the ground preventing their suicide, cleaning their excrement off the walls, mopping blood off the floor. I can be impressed, but I'm not intimidated." Ramis said in a recent interview.
Source: Moviehole

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"If somebody said to me, in twelve years you’ll be in a band with your brother and two carrot munching geezers who don’t like football, I would've said 'fuck off, I’m not joining the Bee Gees." -Noel Gallagher 2005

M:I 3 pushed back

Paramount Pictures has decided to forget its plans to release MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3 sometime in May 2004. While the film is still in the nascent pre-production phase, the studio had announced it was targeting a May '04 release for the flick. What likely changed the mind of star Tom Cruise was an earlier story that he was thinking of playing the villain in Michael Mann's COLLATERAL which is scheduled to commence filming this fall. Paramount's decision to pull M:I 3 from its May berth might indicate a formal announcement regarding Cruise in DreamWorks' COLLATERAL is imminent.

If Cruise leaps into his IMPOSSIBLE work after completing COLLATERAL, the earliest M:I 3 could be out in theaters would be in time for the '04 holiday season. Conceivably the picture might be rescheduled for a summer 2005 release. Director Joe Carnahan (NARC) is still attached as director for the picture.



DAMN BASTARDS! I was looking forward to this one too

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"If somebody said to me, in twelve years you’ll be in a band with your brother and two carrot munching geezers who don’t like football, I would've said 'fuck off, I’m not joining the Bee Gees." -Noel Gallagher 2005

hehe me too.