BOP Daily News
September 28, 2004
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This is So Last Week,
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New Line has signed Mena Suvari to star in Tony Scott's Domino opposite Keira Knightley. Filming on the project starts Monday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Domino tells the real-life story of Domino Harvey, daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, who starred in the original version of The Manchurian Candidate. She ditched a career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter. Suvari will play a producer's assistant in the film. Nothing makes a convict run faster than Keira Knightley and Mena Suvari chasing them.
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Director Mike Nichols and Julia Roberts are in talks to develop a romantic comedy called Seven-Year Switch for Columbia Pictures. Roberts would play a woman coming up on the seventh year of a relationship. The proverbial seven-year itch takes a rather extreme turn as the woman gets to see what might have been if she had made different choices in her life. The film is not a remake of the 1955 Marilyn Monroe film of a similar title. Next up for Roberts is Some Like it Warm and Gentlemen Prefer Blands.
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Mel Brooks has revealed to Playbill magazine that he is currently working on a script for a sequel to his 1987 hit Spaceballs, a parody of the Star Wars franchise. Brooks is aiming to have the film ready for release around the same time that the latest Star Wars film, Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, will be released. Brooks would not confirm if Mark Hammill would be cast as the lead actor on the project.
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New Line Home Entertainment has revealed that the special edition DVD of The Return of the King, set to be released on December 14th, will be 50 minutes longer than the theatrical version released last year. The extra 50 minutes will reveal the fate of the evil wizard Saruman in addition to exploring subplots, romantic and otherwise, and will include over 300 additional special effects shots. The DVD will retail for $28,000. The collection of all 3 special edition DVDs will retail for $63,000 and will be 1233 hours long.
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"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!"
Previous edition's quote: The Italian Job
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