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    Scifiwire Movie News (6/27/2003) - Massive Rumors and tibits issue

    In this issue

    Rumors and tidbits galore!
    (As always my source is www.scifi.com/scifiwire)
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    Charlie's Angels screenwriter John August will write a new, live-action, big-budget feature film version of Tarzan for Warner Brothers-based Jerry Weintraub Productions, Variety reported.
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    Dark Horizons reported that director Mimi Leder (Deep Impact) is attached to direct The Cold, a Warner Brothers thriller film about a woman whose rental mountain cabin turns out to be haunted.
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    The Moviehole.net Web site reported a rumor that Warner Brothers has secured studio space on Australia's Gold Coast, where it plans to begin shooting the sequel film Son of the Mask in the summer. Jamie Kennedy will star, and X2 star Alan Cumming will also appear, the site reported.
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    The Z Review Web site reported that producer Dean Devlin and director Roland Emmerich have settled on a storyline for their proposed Independence Day sequel film.
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    In a creative bit of cross-promotion, Fox is marketing its upcoming League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie to fans of its X-Men sequel, X2, with an exclusive film clip designed just for X2 fans. League opens July 11.
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    Warner Brothers confirmed for SCI FI Wire that it will hold early screenings of its upcoming sequel film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, in select theaters starting at 8 p.m. on July 1. The movie officially opens on July 2.
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    Marvel Enterprises shareholders saw its stock drop by 11 percent following the opening of the feature-film adaptation of its Hulk series, Variety reported. Marvel stock fell 11.56 percent on June 23, to close at $18.75
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    In a classic example of company synergy, Disney's upcoming film The Pirates of the Caribbean will have its premiere at Disneyland on June 28. For the first time since its 1955 opening, the entire park will be closed to all but invited guests, who will view the film from New Orleans Square as it is projected across the water onto a screen on Tom Sawyer's Island.
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    Columbia Pictures has picked up the family comedy pitch Grown Ups for producer Ricky Strauss and his Sony-based production company, Ricochet, Variety reported. Written by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson, the project is about the overprotective parents of a 13-year-old boy, who find themselves transformed into youngsters and enroll in their son's school.
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    Former X-Files star David Duchovny will make his feature writing/directing debut with House of D, which is described as a movie fable about New York and friendship, TV Guide Online reported. Duchovny's former co-star, Gillian Anderson, meanwhile, will star in My Scorpion Soul, a thriller film with Peter O' Toole.
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    Rob Schneider is the latest name to join the cast of Around the World in 80 Days, starring Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Jim Broadbent for director Frank Coraci, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, currently in production, previously lined up cameos from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathy Bates, Johnny Knoxville, Cecile de France and others.
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    Bruce Campbell told fans on his official Web site that he won't play Lizard in the upcoming Spider-Man movie sequel. "I play the 'Snooty Usher,' another pivotal role, where I deny Tobey Maguire [Peter Parker] access to see Kirsten Dunst [Mary Jane] in her first big play," Campbell said.
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    Minnie Driver has been set to co-star in The Phantom of the Opera, Joel Schumacher's upcoming film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Variety reported. Driver will play Carlotta, the reigning opera house diva, who becomes infuriated when a young rival (Emmy Rossum) upstages her.
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    Because of a dispute over an elaborate in-lobby marketing effort, Paramount Pictures will not book its upcoming movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 47 of Regal Entertainment Group's theater complexes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film opens July 25.
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    American Idol champ Ruben Studdard will make a cameo appearance in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, currently shooting in Vancouver, B.C., Warner Brothers told SCI FI Wire.
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    Last edited by Granite; 06-27-2003 at 03:47 PM.
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