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LAST WEEK'S:

TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

CASTING

* Debra Messing will play the wife of Ben Stiller's character in Universal Pictures/Jersey Films' untitled romantic comedy written and to be directed by John Hamburg. Shooting starts in mid-November. Hamburg's (SAFE MEN) story center on an anal-retentive, risk-averse man who analyzes risk for a living. His life is turned upside down when he gets involved in a risky romance.

* Joy Bryant (upcoming ANTWONE FISHER) joins Jessica Alba and Mekhi Phifer in HONEY for Universal and director Bille Woodruff. Bryant will play Alba's best friend, while Phifer plays Alba's love interest. Lil' Romeo also stars.

* Leslie Hope („24‰) joins Gena Rowlands in the indie pic THE INCREDIBLE MRS. RITCHIE.

* Harry Lennix has joined the cast of SUSPECT ZERO for director Elias Merhige and Intermedia.

* Willem Dafoe will play the villain in Fox Searchlight's drama THE CLEARING opposite Robert Redford and Helen Mirren. He‚ll play a disgruntled employee who kidnaps wealthy executive and negotiates a ransom through the executive's wife. Alessandro Nivola is in talks to play the couple's son. Production begins Sept. 23 in North Carolina.

* Gary Sinise will star in director J. Mills Goodloe‚s AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER about a group forced to examine their lives after a harrowing experience on an airplane. Sinise will play a clean-cut sports broadcaster whose career ends when he makes ugly remarks to a player on the air.

* Rodrigo Santoro (BEHIND THE SUN) will play a villain in CHARLIE‚S ANGELS 2 and will also join the cast of LOVE ACTUALLY, starring Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth and Liam Neeson.

* Jennifer Beals joins Regency Enterprises' RUNAWAY JURY for director Gary Fleder. Beals joins John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz in the John Grisham courtroom drama where she‚ll play a juror.

* Michael Imperiloi, Method Man, Bai Ling and Amy Sedaris round out the cast of Eddie Griffin‚s Miramax comedy MY BABY‚S MAMA. Anthony Anderson, Paula Jai Parker, Marsha Lisa Thomason, Joanna Bacalso, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jason and Randy Sklar, Dee Freeman, Naomi Gaskin and Scott Thompson also star. Cheryl Dune (HBO‚s STRANGER INSIDE) directs.

* James Todd Smith, aka LL Cool J, and Josh Charles join Columbia‚s S.W.A.T., starring Colin Farrell, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner and Michelle Rodriguez. Shooting begins Oct. 19 with Clark Johnson directing.

* Kurt Russell is in talks to star in Disney‚s MIRACLE about how the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team toppled the seemingly invincible Soviet Union squad to capture the gold medal. Russell will play Herb Brooks, who coached the ragtag team of collegiate players to victory. Gavin O‚Connor (TUMBLEWEEDS) will direct from a script by Mike Rich (THE ROOKIE).

* Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke are in talks to star in Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures' TAKING LIVES about a female FBI profiler who must bring in a serial killer who has spent 20 years assuming the identities of the people he has killed.

* Kate Bosworth (BLUE CRUSH) will star in the DreamWorks romantic comedy WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON for director Robert Luketic (LEGALLY BLONDE) about a girl from West Virginia who wins a contest that sends her to Hollywood for a date with the hottest, most eligible movie star. Once in town, on what should be the typical publicity meet-and-greet, she finds herself in the middle of a love triangle between the movie hunk and her longtime best friend.

* Marcia Gay Harden will star opposite Julia Roberts in Revolution's MONA LISA SMILE for director Mike Newell. Shooting begins in New York and Massachusetts in November. Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst and Maggie Gyllenhaal also star.

* Jim Carrey is in talks to star in the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed LEMONY SNICKET, based on the Daniel Handler children's book series, for Paramount and Nickelodeon Films. The saga revolves around a trio of orphans who are passed around to a series of quirky people. The first of those is the mysterious Count Olaf, who is counting on separating the children from their inheritance.

* Kate Winslet is in talks to join Jim Carrey in ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, an eclectic drama written by Charlie Kaufman. The project is set partly in the human mind -- specifically, in the mind of a man trying to put memories of a particularly steamy relationship with his ex-mate behind him. Production is expected to begin in January.

* Nicole Kidman is in talks to star in Columbia Pictures' comedy BEWITCHED, a feature based on the television series of the same name, for Red Wagon Prods.

* Jeremy Sisto ("Six Feet Under") will star in and executive produce the thriller ONE POINT 0 (1.0) for ZentAmerica Entertainment and writer/directors Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson under their directing pseudonym Waterfall/Fjord. It's about a young computer programmer who inadvertently becomes a guinea pig in a major experiment. Deborah Kara Unger and Eugene Byrd will also star.

* English newcomer Rachel Hurd Wood will play Wendy in the live-action PETER PAN for director P.J. Hogan. Shooting begins Sept. 30 on the Universal/Columbia/Revolution project. The cast also includes Jeremy Sumpter as Peter Pan, Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook, Ludivine Sagnier as Tinkerbell and Olivia Williams as Mrs. Darling.

* Roselyn Sanchez (RUSH HOUR 2) will star opposite Derek Hamilton in the indie thriller THE NIGHT STALKER for director Chris Fisher. The pic is loosely based on the serial murders committed by Richard Ramirez in the mid-1980s. Danny Trejo, Evan Dexter Parke and Bret Roberts.

* Richard Gere will star in WITHOUT APPARENT MOTIVE about an L.A. sheriff's detective who's looking for the killer of three high-profile businessmen. Bille August (LES MISERABLES) will direct.

DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS

* Paul Greengrass (BLOODY SUNDAY) is in talks to direct FLIGHT PLAN for Disney based on a high-concept thriller pitch from Peter Dowling with a script by Terry Hayes.

* Writer/director Gigi Gaston will do a rewrite on the Fox 2000 sci-fi thriller ADAPTIVE ULTIMATE from an original script by Jon Cohen (MINORITY REPORT). The plot follows a scientist who discovers a cure for disease, only to end up on the run for his life.

* Real Life Pictures is developing a family comedy based on author W.G. Griffiths' upcoming novel STINGERS, about the escapades of the plucky 12-year-old daughter of a brilliant scientist and her best friend, a 12-year-old boy.

* Disney picked up the animated feature pitch THE FOOL‚S ERRAND from writer David H. Steinberg (AMERICAN PIE 2). The story is said to center on a court jester who goes on a mythical journey to return peace to his kingdom.

* Music video helmer Jessy Terrero will direct SOUL PLANE for MGM. The project is described as an urban version of the classic 1980 comedy AIRPLANE.

* Universal/Imagine have purchased THE SERPENT AND THE EAGLE, which Ron Howard may direct, about how Spanish conqueror Cortez flattened the Aztec nation and plundered its riches with the help of an Aztec princess-turned-slave. Hans Beimler and Robert Wolfe wrote the script.

* Robert Pulcini and Shari Berman (AMERICAN SPLENDOR) have been hired to adapt BROTHER SAM, a project about the late manic comic Sam Kinison that's based on the book written by his brother Bill and Steve Delsohn.

* Lasse Hallstrom is in negotiations to direct thd drama UNFINISHED LIVES for Miramax written by Virginia and Mark Spragg.

* Karey Kirkpatrick (CHICKEN RUN) will co-adapt the screenplay of Douglas Adams' THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. Adams originally penned the adaptation prior to his death last May and will have a posthumous producing credit. Jay Roach (AUSTIN POWERS) is attached to direct and produce.

* Spyglass Entertainment picked up Andy Bellin's romantic comedy spec A PENNY EARNED about a Manhattan debutante who has exhausted her trust fund.

* Morgan Creek Productions grabbed the thriller script MAN ALIVE by Larry Cohen (upcoming PHONE BOOTH). The story unfolds over a few hours as a fugitive tries to save the life of her alleged murder victim.

* Fast Carrier Pictures has optioned three feature properties: the supernatural adventure PANZER SPIRIT, based on the Tom Townsend book about a haunted German tank that causes havoc in contemporary Europe, with Roger Aylward (SILENT NIGHT) scripting; ROUND THE BEND, an epic drama from Nevil Shute (ON THE BEACH) with Gail Morgan Hickman penning the screenplay; and the dark thriller THE TRAP from writer Robert Hinz about a young Chicago woman whose whirlwind romantic affair with a wealthy New Yorker turns into her worst nightmare..

* Scott Wiper (HBO‚S A BETTER WAY TO DIE) will write SALVATION for producer Joel Silver and Warner Bros. Pictures with Walter Hill set to direct. The project is about a band of troubled teens who, after the murder of a counselor at a wilderness boot camp, break out and journey across Texas in search of cash and their own redemption.

* Disney snapped up the pitch FATE OF THE BLADE, based on the Dreamwave comic by Pat Lee and Chris Sarracini. The female action/comedy is about an adopted teenage girl who grows up in a white middle-class San Fernando Valley family, is the sole surviving descendant of a Samurai clan of Japan, and discovers an ancient demon is stalking her. Analisa Labianco will script.

* Alcon Entertainment picked up the comedy script THE WHOLE PEMBERTON THING by Mike Samonek about the volatile relationship between a young executive and his Machiavellian, odd officemate.

* Milo Addica (MONSTER'S BALL) is writing an untitled biker feature for Universal/Imagine. It's about a ruthless gang of hard-core bikers who are betrayed by those they had sworn to protect. The story is being developed as a potential vehicle for Russell Crowe.

* Annette Bening has officially dropped out of Walt Disney's comedy remake of FREAKY FRIDAY for reasons unknown. The project is being directed by Mark S. Waters (THE HOUSE OF YES) and was written by Heather Hach.

* Disney is in talks with Yuen Wo Ping, the Chinese choreographer of THE MATRIX and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, to direct a live-action take on SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. The update is set in the 1890s and follows a woman who returns home to Hong Kong to attend her father's funeral after 20 years abroad. She discovers that her stepmother is plotting against her and escapes to mainland China, where she seeks solace with seven Shao Lin monks who, in turn, come to believe the woman holds the fate of the world in her hands and protect her. Josh Harman and Scott Elder penned the script.

* Adam Rifkin (MOUSE HUNT) will write the UNDERDOG script for Spyglass and Disney as a live action feature.

* Ron Howard is in talks to direct THE LAST RIDE, based on the Thomas Edison novel, for Revolution Studios. Set in New Mexico in 1886, the story centers on a father returning home to make peace with the daughter he abandoned years earlier. When he arrives, his now grown-up daughter shows him no forgiveness. But when her eldest daughter is kidnapped and her husband killed, she enlists her estranged father to ride to the rescue.

* Jason Filardi will write GHETTO BUCK, starring Martin Lawrence, for Columbia Pictures, with Dennis Dugan on board to direct. It's about a lovable and sheltered handyman's rise to fame and fall from grace at the hands of an egotistical TV producer.

* Miramax Films has tapped Charlie Mitchell to adapt THE CHILDREN OF THE DUST BOWL, the nonfiction book by social historian Jerry Stanley. The project will star Jim Carrey as a school teacher in 1939 Bakersfield, Calif. and center on a group of "Okie" immigrant children who were barred from the California school system as being undesirable to educate. The teacher and the children walked into the desert and built their own school, using whatever materials they could find.

* Ember Entertainment has optioned Eric Heffron's comedic screenplay THIRTY MINUTES OR LESS about a twentysomething failed dot-commer who is forced to deliver pizza for a living at a franchise with the highest driver-fatality rate in the country.

* Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon will rewrite THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, the sequel to the summer box office hit. The picture is set to begin shooting early next year and is slated for a May 7, 2004, release.

* Sidney Lumet has adapted and will direct THE SET-UP, based on the 1949 classic of the same name. Benjamin Bratt and James Gandolfini are attached to star, and Halle Berry is in talks to join them. It's about a 35-year-old professional boxer whose glory days have passed. The mob demands he throw a big fight for a cash reward but he's unwilling to accept defeat, as a boxer and as a man. He manages to win the fight and to reaffirm his love for his long-time girlfriend.

* Trigger Street Prods. snapped up the rights to the Ben Mezrich book BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE: THE INSIDE STORY OF SIX MIT STUDENTS WHO TOOK VEGAS FOR MILLIONS. It's the true story of a group of students who trained in the art of card counting and walked away from Vegas with millions of dollars in winnings.

* Douglas Cook and David Weisberg (THE ROCK, DOUBLE JEOPARDY) will rewrite THE OUTER LIMITS for MGM.

* Gregory Hoblit (HART'S WAR) will direct and produce THE RIG for RKO Pictures. It's about a renegade structural engineer who agrees to examine the problems encountered on the largest oil rig in the world, only to deal with tremendous physical and emotional challenges due to a presence that no one could have anticipated. Peter M. Lenkov wrote the script.

MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS

* Paramount Pictures is teaming with Ripley Entertainment Inc. to create a franchise feature film series based on the real-life character and adventures of Robert L. Ripley, founder of Ripley's Believe It or Not!, for Alphaville to produce with Atchity Editorial/Entertainment International Inc. An artist, athlete and explorer, Ripley created the first "Believe It or Not" cartoon in 1918 when, as a sports cartoonist for the New York Globe, he strung together an assortment of sports oddities. Ripley eventually embarked on a worldwide search for the unusual, traveling to more than 200 countries during the 1930s and '40s.

* The drama EDGARDO MORTARA, a drama based on the true story of a Jewish boy kidnapped by the pope in the mid-19th century, has been shut down in pre-production because of financing problems. The $20 million project, which stars Anthony Hopkins and Javier Bardem, was due to begin production Oct. 7 in Rome.

* Paramount Pictures has purchased John Heffernan's remake treatment of the 1961 pic THE NAKED PREY which follows a group of West Point cadets whose spring break turns deadly when their chartered boat runs aground in Nicaragua, leading to a violent confrontation with hoodlums that leaves a young boy dead. The West Pointers are then pursued through the jungle by henchmen of a cocaine warlord, who blames the cadets for the death of his son.

* Walt Disney Pictures has picked up an untitled family comedy by actor/writer Kevin Pollak as a vehicle for Tim Allen to topline, about a wealthy man who comes across an unusual character who ends up having a positive influence on his life and character.

GUNN SHOTS

(NOT from the trades)

* Bazley Films will direct, animate and produce a section of High Eagle Prods‚ animated film for the BBC, THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN. The project will air on BBC2 over the winter holiday.

* Seen the MACHINE HEAD PROJECT? Go to http://www.machineheadproject.com They're looking for distribution.

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THIS WEEK'S:

TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

CASTING

* Dominic West and Topher Grace will play the love interests to Julia Roberts and Julia Stiles' characters, respectively, in Revolution Studios' MONA LISA SMILE for director Mike Newell.

* Ron Eldard will star opposite Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley in the drama HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG for writer/director Vadim Perelman. Based on Andre Dubus III's best-selling novel, the story follows Kathy, whose husband has abruptly departed. After his exit, her home is seized by deputies, and before she can get things back in order, an exiled Iranian air force officer buys her home at a public auction.

* Jamie Lee Curtis has joined Lindsay Lohan in FREAKY FRIDAY, replacing Annette Bening who dropped out for undisclosed reasons, for director Mark S. Waters. Mark Harmon is in talks to join the cast.

* Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to star opposite Ben Stiller and Debra Messing in the Universal Pictures/Jersey Films' untitled romantic comedy for writer/director John Hamburg. Hoffman will play the best friend to Stiller's anal-retentive character. Production begins mid-November.

* Neve Campbell, who will also produce, Malcolm McDowell and James Franco will star in THE COMPANY for Robert Altman and Sony Pictures Classics. Babara Turner (POLLACK) has written a script. Shooting begins Oct. 21. With the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, the project will follow the stories of the dancers, whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close.

* Gena Rowlands and Kevin Zegers star in THE INCREDIBLE MRS. RITCHIE for writer/director Paul Johansson and producer Nick Cassavetes. It's about a troubled youth who develops an unlikely and life-changing friendship with a widow.

* Martin Lawrence, Universal Pictures and Shady Acres are developing an untitled Acapulco project that David Raynr will script for Lawrence to star in. It's based on an experience Lawrence had when he visited Mexico nine years ago with a group of friends. Lawrence accidentally insulted Mexican government officials and found it necessary to flee the country.

* Tom Hanks will star in POLAR EXPRESS for director Robert Zemeckis and based on Chris Van Allsburg's children's book. Hanks will also star in the black comedy THE LADYKILLERS, a remake of the 1955 movie starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, for Joel and Ethan Coen.

* Owen Wilson will join Ben Stiller in STARSKY & HUTCH, tol begin production in February, for director Todd Phillips (ROAD TRIP).

* Nicole Kidman is in advanced talks to star in the psychological thriller BIRTH for director Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST). The project is about a 35-year-old New York woman into whose life comes an infatuated 10-year-old boy, claiming to be the reincarnation of her husband, who died 10 years earlier. Glazer co-wrote the script with Jean-Claude Carriere.

* Def Jam Records, Paramount and MTV Films will produce an untitled military comedy for hip-hop team Method Man and Redman. The story follows the duo's misadventures after they join the military and embark on a covert campaign overseas. Brian Posehn ("Mr. Show") is writing the script.

* Rosanna Arquette joins the cast of MAX AND GRACE for director Michael Parness.

* Olivier Martinez (BEFORE NIGHT FALLS) joins SWAT for director Clark Johnson.

* Nicolas Cage is attached to star in the science fiction thriller BACK UP, written by Tom Vaughan, for Castle Rock Pictures. It's about a cop who is brought back to life to investigate his own murder.

* John Travolta is in talks to star in JOE'S LAST CHANCE for director Andrew Bergman, Outlaw Prods. and Intermedia Films. It's about a dedicated hit man who travels to a tropical paradise to terminate his "mark." However, when the mark inadvertently saves the hit man's life, the hit man gives him a stay of execution and takes a long-overdue vacation, sparking an unexpected friendship with the man he is supposed to kill.

* Eric Bana will star opposite Brad Pitt in Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures TROY for director Wolfgang Petersen.

* Cary Elwes will play Prince Regent Edgar opposite Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy in ELLA ENCHANTED for director Tommy O'Haver.

* Benoit Magimel will reprise Vincent Cassel's role in CRIMSON RIVERS 2, co-starring Jean Reno and written by Luc Besson, for director Olivier Dahan.

* Chris Cooper joins Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges in SEABISCUIT, based on the Lauren Hillenbrand book about the Depression Era racehorse, for Universal and writer/director Gary Ross.

DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS

* John Logan will write a sequel to GLADIATIOR for DreamWorks and Universal picking up 15 years after the end of the first installment.

* Mel Gibson will direct THE PASSION, starring James Caviezel in a chronicle of the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus Christ. The project, to be shot in Latin and Aramaic, will begin production in Italy on Nov. 4. Gibson is in talks with Monica Bellucci to play Mary Magdalene, Sergio Rubini to play the good thief Dismas, and Rosalinda Celentano has signed to appear as Satan. Ben Fitzgerald and Gibson scripted from several sources, freely adapting the diaries of Anne Catherine Emmerich, Mary of Agreda's THE CITY OF GOD and the New Testament Gospels of Luke, John, Matthew and Mark.

* Hyperion Studios has optioned a memoir by Paul Monette BECOMING A MAN: HALF A LIFE STORY about growing up and coming out during the 1960s which Patrick Wilde will adapt.

* Paramount Pictures and Alphaville are planning to remake the Elvis Presley pic KING CREOLE, with Grant Morris penning the script. The two companies are also developing THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE UNIVERSE from an original idea by Tab Murphy (ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE).

* Richard Linklater will direct Jack Black in the comedy SCHOOL OF ROCK, written by Mike White (ORANGE COUNTY, THE GOOD GIRL), for Paramount. It's about a musician who moonlights as a substitute teacher, shaking up the uptight private school with his rock 'n' roll ways.

* Dimension purchased Jeff Davis's thriller script RETRIBUTION for Kevin Williamson's Outerbanks Entertainment to produce about a young woman playing a game of cat and mouse with the man who brutally murdered her first lover.

* Tony Scott will direct THE WARRIORS, a remake of the 1979 action pic about Gotham gang battles, for Paramount and MTV Films. go into battle with "The Warriors," an updated version of the 1979 actioner about Gotham gang battles.

* Fox 2000 has snapped up THE CONSPIRATOR by Gary Horn. The drama centers on a shrink who gets the rude realization that his patients aren't who he thought they were. Suddenly, he is on the run from some bad people and must figure out why.

* Brett Ratner will direct SUPERMAN for Warner Bros. and producer Jon Peters. Preproduction will begin immediately, with an expected April or May start date. J.J. Abrams is writing the script as part of a trilogy.

* Paramount is in talks to purchase the feature rights to BAD GUY, an indie comic book by Jason Harris and Zack Morrissette, which Barry Josephson and screenwriter David Hayter will produce. Harris and Morrissette will write the script about a world in which those who wish to be superheroes can interview at the Oden Co., which then puts candidates through various tests, then give them an appropriate superpower, costume and city in which the chosen ones will be based to fight crime. When the superheroes get bored on the job and begin abusing their powers a mortal named John takes it upon himself to fight the villains via contract killings.

* Paramount picked up the action/comedy script THREE GUN BLUES from scribe Josh Olson for Valhalla Motion Pictures to produce. It's about a young man who is transferred to a new police department and works with three seasoned officers. He becomes the fourth member of the group as they bring down corruption in the city.

* Kevin Bray is in talks to direct NOWHERE TO HIDE for Warner Bros. Pictures and Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures as well as an English-language remake of the 1998 French feature TAXI for 20th Century Fox. HIDE is about a master thief who, masquerading as a cop, is sent to investigate his own robbery. When he discovers that a double murder was committed during the burglary, he must find and implicate the real killers without exposing his identity.

* Shawn Levy will develop and direct COLUMBUS SLAUGHTERS BRAVES for MGM, based on the novel written by Mark Friedman. The story centers on the relationship between two brothers and the mixture of love and jealousy they feel because one is a hugely successful Major League Baseball player and the other is an ordinary guy.

* Antoine Fuqua is in talks to direct the drama THE JACKET for Paramount about a falsely imprisoned man who learns how to see into the future and tries to change his fate.

MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS

* Lakeshore Entertainment has optioned the feature rights to Jane Heller's upcoming novel LUCKY STARS for Off Balance Prods. The book is about a struggling actress whose meddlesome but loving mother moves from Cleveland to be closer to her daughter, only to become a big star herself.

* Warner Bros. Pictures is in final talks to pick up the feature rights to id Software Inc.'s video game property DOOM for John Wells Prods. to produce with Lorenzo di Bonaventura. The feature film version will aim for a PG-13 rating.

* MGM is planning a sequel to BARBERSHOP, starring Ice Cube.

* Producer Lauren Lloyd (FREDDY GOT FINGERED) will produce EASY RIDER A.D., the sequel to the 1969 classic. Sean Jacques is writing the script. The sequel begins with Wyatt "Captain America" Earp alive but in prison, falsely accused of the murder of George Hanson. A new character aims to prove him innocent and the duo then sets out "in search of America" once more.

* Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment will turn the comic book BEAUTIFUL KILLER into an action vehicle for Jessica Alba. The story focuses on a young girl driven to avenge the deaths of her parents, who are killed because of their involvement in the espionage game.

GUNN SHOTS

(NOT from the trades)

* On October 12 and 13, Metreon will present the second annual Metreon Festival of Anime where COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE will screen.

* Rubbergash Productions has recently released it's highly anticipated Sick Puppy Festival DVD: 90 minutes of the most cutting edge independent cinema anywhere in the world. Currently the video is only available through the website: http://www.rubbergash.com.

Until next week...

Elston Gunn

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