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| High Noon - 4th November 2003 |
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Yeehaw!
Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek as sharp-shooting cowgirl bankrobbers? Where do we sign? The Fifth Element director Luc Besson has offered the pair parts in a Mexico-set comedy western he is producing, based on an idea he dreamt up. Details are scant, but the project is further proof of the western's resurgence as a bankable genre, with Ron Howard's The Missing and Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain other high-profile horse operas heading your way.
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Nispel Feels Need
Scarily-bearded director Marcus Nispel will follow his The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake with Need. Unfaithful star Diane Lane is already attached to play a psychiatrist who discovers one of her patients is boffing her husband. Shooting will start in LA in February.
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Burns Baby Burns
Confidence, um, star Edward Burns has inked to topline The River King. The supernatural murder mystery is based on a novel by Alice Hoffman, who previously penned the source material for Sandra Bullock/Nicole Kidman flop Practical Magic. Goodie goodie.
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Jones In ****
Tommy Lee Jones is "**** out of luck". The Missing star was given the nickname, in Chiricahua, because his character in Ron Howard's western is so unfortunate. Howard thought the name, given by the film's technical advisors, so funny that it's apparently been included on screen. Jones spent months learning the Chiricahua language in order to play a man who abandons his family to live with Apaches, but returns years later to help his daughter (Cate Blanchett) find her kidnapped child.
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Die Film Die!
Acclaimed indie flick Die, Mommie, Die may not reach these shores, unless a legal broohaha blows over. An LA court has ruled that director Charles Busch has pinched the showbiz satire from Charles Casillo's play One Night Stand In A Lonely Hotel. Any theatres playing the picture have mounted cards outside stating, "We are required by court order to state that the film... is a story by Charles Casillo and that the film is based on a play by Charles Casillo." The picture pokes fun at films such as Sunset Boulevard and What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, and stars Jason Priestley and Natasha Lyonne.
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A Date For Your Diaries
It's either A) The news you've all been waiting for. Or B) A desperate attempt to plump up today's anorexic news. Either way, the sequel to The Princess Diaries will shoot in January. Co-star Caroline Goodall tells us, "They're keeping the story so under wraps! I'll be back as her [Anne Hathaway's] mad painter mother who's always arguing with Julie Andrews. I'll be there wielding my paint brush and having fun. I'm really looking forward to it." There, wasn't that interesting?
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