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CHARLIE'S ANGELS 2

The 'Daily Mirror' spoke with John Cleese about his cameo in next summer's "Charlie's Angels 2". He said: "I was asked to be in the film and they sent me the script and I said 'I don't see which part I'm playing' and they said 'Well we haven't rewritten it yet'."

"It was rewritten three days before I was due on the set. This is a $66 million movie and I get the scene an hour before I'm supposed to do it. The wardrobe people said they didn't know what they were filming the next day. Crazy."

In related news, here's a gratuitous shot of Demi Moore from the "Charlie's Angels 2" beach set - where she plays a lead villainess. Late news has also arrives that Robert Patrick ("Terminator 2", "The X-Files") also has a role as a villain in the movie.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

Ted Raimi, brother of director Sam Raimi, talked briefly with 'Comics Continuum' about the "Spider-Man" sequel, saying: "'Spider-Man 2' has begun shooting already, and we don't even have a script. That's very typical Hollywood: 'Let's shoot it!', 'What are we shooting?', 'I don't know, roll cameras! Get Tobey Maguire in here, where is he?'"

"I have more scenes with J.K. Simmons, who is J. Jonah Jameson [in this]... there's a bunch more scenes. We've done some preliminary rehearsal, even if we don't have a script."

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CONSTANTINE

'Variety' confirms that Keanu Reeves will indeed start shooting "Constantine" next year - a film based on the character John Constantine from the "Hellblazer" comic-books.

Constantine is a working-class British occultist who stars in a series of graphic-novels that satirize politics and society through demonology. Already the screenplay is making some fundamental changes to the "Hellblazer" series - most notably the Americanization of actors/locations.

In relates news, Reeves will also complete a love triangle with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in an as-yet-untitled comedy, and also star in "Thumbsucker"; an independent adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel.

HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES

The website 'Bloody Disgusting' interviewed Rob Zombie about his upcoming schlock horror movie "House Of 1000 Corpses".

Rob Zombie revealed the film's premise, saying: "There are four college-age kids driving cross-country, researching a book on weird roadside attractions... This stuff has kind of disappeared now, but it was very prevalent in the 70's - like 'World's Biggest Ball of String,' 'Bigfoot Museum', things like that."

"So they stumble upon this place called 'Captain Sapulding's Museum of Monsters And Madmen.' It's basically a serial killer museum in the middle of nowhere, and Captain Sapulding is played by Sid [Spider Baby] Haig - he's the crazy-looking clown guy."

"So they go there and learn about this local legend in that area, a murderer called Doctor Satan, whom they find out was killed not too far away. So they want to go take pictures of this site, and once they go off-road in search of this thing, that's when all hell breaks loose..."

HARRY POTTER III" / "LORD OF THE RINGS 3

'The Guardian' printed an article about upcoming IMAX movies for 2003. IMAX's joint chief executive Brad Wechsler said the company plan to release one re-mastered classic: "like 'Lawrence Of Arabia', and two big event-type pictures like 'Harry Potter III' and 'Lord Of The Rings [The Return Of The King'] on the same day as the normal release next year".

The article revealed that tests have already been done by IMAX technicians on "Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone" and the first two "Lord of the Rings" instalments - with director Peter Jackson adding: "This is the way I dreamt my movie would be shown."

Should "The Return Of The King" be shown on IMAX, it will apparently not be cut down in duration or have scenes deleted (like the trimming of 20-minutes from "Star Wars Episode II" because IMAX reels can only handle a 2-hour running time). Instead they will incorporate an intermission to change the movie reel and give audiences a break from the visual onslaught.

HELLBOY

Composer Marco Beltrami has been chosen to score the music for "Hellboy", and will also be in charge of musical duties for "Terminator 3".

Beltrami has previously scored the films "Mimic" and "Blade II" - both for "Hellboy" director Guillermo Del Toro.

INVISIBLE

'Spyglass Entertainment' has reportedly hired screenwriter Mick Davis to pen a US remake of his Swedish supernatural drama "The Invisible".

The original film, directed by Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist, revolves around a teenager who is assaulted and killed, only to return as a ghost to find his killer. Yeah, that old chestnut...

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IRON MAN

'Coming Attractions' have revealed that the adaptation of the "Iron Man" comic-book franchise appears to be dead - for now. The news came as "Buffy" creator/writer/director Joss Whedon left the troubled project. Screenwriter Tim McCanlies draft has also bitten the dust.

"Joss Whedon decided that he should spend time on properties he creates, and opted to do [his new TV series] 'Firefly'... so you can count him out of this one. He was off the film before he ever got on. The McCanlies script is dead, and so is the project for now."

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SPAWN II

Screenwriter Steve Niles has commented on his official website that the "Spawn II" screenplay he wrote with Todd McFarlane is now in the hands of a new writer.

Steve Niles explains: "The version Todd and I wrote was handed off to another writer. We were pretty sure this was going to happen from the beginning. The script had some pretty big problems, anyway. The biggest being that Spawn never actually appeared in it! From what I hear, the script is in very good hands now and there's a great producer [Don Murphy] attached."

He goes on to say that he is no longer involved with the project. The new screenwriter is now known to be Hans Rodionoff - who will move the focus back a little toward the title character rather than sticking entirely on the 'Sam' & 'Twitch' detective characters as McFarlane's draft did.

Producer Don Murphy explains: "The problem is it became solely a Sam and Twitch movie and there wasn't enough Spawn. The way that I see these two characters... these guys are more like Riggs and Murtaugh [from "Lethal Weapon"]. If you dropped Blade into 'Lethal Weapon', you've got sort of what I'm going for."

"When the Spawn elements play out it'll be more about watching him scare the crap out of bad guys. His power comes from how damn scary he is. He's a character who is evil for the sake of good. He comes down out of the rafters and, if you're a bad guy, you know you can't escape this thing".

Rodionoff's new first draft is expected early next year.

SPIDER-MAN 3

'Zentertainment' received an interesting rumour about the villains for a possible third "Spider-Man" movie - with Venom and Carnage the likely candidates.

'Marvel' have apparently already petitioned director Sam Raimi to use these characters as the lead villains instead of supporting characters - in an effort to avoid the mistake 'Warner Brothers' made in 'Batman & Robin', when Bane was recast as a retarded henchman.

Extremely early casting suggestions have action heroes Vin Diesel or WWE's The Rock as Eddie Brock, and Sam Rockwell ("Charlie's Angels") or Christian Bale as Cletus Kassady.

Of course, this kind of speculation should always be taken with a fistful of salt...

STAR TREK - NEMESIS

Screenwriter John Logan ("Gladiator") talked with 'Dreamwatch' magazine about why we won't see either Spock or "The Next Generation" character Sela - played by Denise Crosby - in the new movie.

He said: "We had a great deal of discussion about Ambassador Spock and how he may or may not have played into what's happening, because of the way the plot developed there wasn't really a need for him."

"As much as I love Spock - and what writer in the world wouldn't want to write Spock - there was just no way to make it work elegantly, so it wouldn't just seem like we were throwing Spock in there. Believe me; thought was given to every possible Romulan permutation that you could possibly imagine. But because of what we have to do with our featured Romulans we could not use Denise [Crosby]."