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DIE HARD 4

Actress Bonnie Bedelia (John McClane's wife in the first two Die Hard movies, right) has spoken about her views on a fourth movie.

Bedelia: "I wasn't in the last one. One minute Holly was in the script, the next minute she was out. But as it worked out, I was tied up with two tele-movies that year anyway, so who knows if I could've done it anyway."

"[Die Hard 4 is] being written right now. I'm definitely doing this one. It's going to feature John and Holly's kids too, I believe. It's taken a while to do another one because Bruce wasn't sure whether he really needed to do one and the studio wasn't so sure that it was the best time to do a Die hard film with all that's going on in the world right now. So they've waited a few years, worked on a story that doesn't necessarily concentrate on the whole terrorist theme, and everyone feels it's time to make it happen."

"All I know is that John McTiernan, who is just wonderful, he did the first film, wants to do it. Hopefully it'll be underway soon. I look forward to it."

ANTHEM

Director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow) is hoping his next project will be Anthem, a thriller being produced by his Independence Day cohort Dean Devlin.

The project involves an impeached president who refuses to leave the White House, while an FBI agent is racing to find the truth behind a conspiracy that threatens to undermine the Constitution.

Devlin and Emmerich have written the first draft of the script, according to 'The Hollywood Reporter', but other writers may be hired to polish the story.

THE AVIATOR

'USA Today' interviewed Kate Beckinsale (Van Helsing) about her role in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, in which she plays Ava Gardner opposite Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes. Jude Law plays Errol Flynn, Cate Blanchett is Katharine Hepburn and Gwen Stefani takes on Jean Harlow.

Beckinsale: "It was a little bit intimidating. On every page of the script she is described as the most beautiful woman in the world."

As for the relationship between Hughes and Gardner: "It was a cantankerous flirtation. They were good friends, and she was attracted to him and his largesse. But she was worried that something might be required in return. [As a result] he constantly proposed, and she would turn him down. He proposed to everyone, though."

CATWOMAN

'Warner Brothers' have unveiled the Catwoman one-sheet poster for the Halle Berry movie co-starring Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone, and Lambert Wilson. (see right)

THE FOUNTAIN

'Sci Fi Wire' talked to Hugh Jackman, who will be playing three characters in writer-director Darren Aronofsky's upcoming sci-fi epic The Fountain.

Jackman: "It's basically about the search for the Fountain of Youth. It is really an extraordinary [film]. I think Darren could become, in the final analysis, another Kubrick."

"I think he's an amazing director, and he's written a script that is just phenomenal. I'm honoured to be a part of it, I really am; I'm very excited about it."

The film is about the journey of one man in the present as well as both 500 years in the past and into the future. Among the issues it tackles are love, death and immortality.

JARHEAD

Director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) is set to helm Jarhead, a drama based on Anthony Swofford's Persian Gulf War memoir. Cast Away screenwriter William Broyles wrote the script, and the movie begins filming this Autumn.

Drawing on his own experiences as a Marine in Vietnam, Broyles wrote a script that studio and producers felt captured Swofford's voice and vivid descriptions of war.

While Mendes has no background in soldiering, he liked the world enough to commit after reading the script and doing some work on it with Broyles.

Mendes: "This is equal parts black humour, honesty, rage, lyricism, profanity and the mixture of machismo jarhead culture. With the exception of Three Kings, this is a war that has been overlooked but which has a burning relevance to what is happening right now in the Middle East."

The production will start casting and scouting locations immediately, with the deserts of the Southwest a possible destination, after they made a convincing backdrop for Three Kings.

Mendes has now postponed his film adaptations of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd and Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner.

CONSTANTINE

The logo for Keanu Reeves' next movie, Constantine, has been unveiled on the official website (see right)

Constantine is scheduled for a 11 February 2005 release.

OLIVER TWIST

'Variety' reports that Ben Kingsley will play Fagin and 10-year-old English actor Barney Clark has the title role in director Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist.

Polanski has also cast Jamie Foreman as Bill Sykes and Frank Finlay as Mr. Brownlow in his adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous novel.

The film, which starts a four-month shoot on 12 July in Prague, is produced by Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa, the team behind Polanski's Oscar-winning movie The Pianist. It will be shot entirely in the Czech Republic, with interiors and exteriors built on Barrandov Studios' backlot.

PATTERN RECOGNITION

Director Peter Weir (Master & Commander) is attached to direct Pattern Recognition, a thriller by sci-fi author William Gibson, to be adapted by Weir and David Arata.

The film follows the adventures of a marketing expert who finds herself in a dangerous puzzle when she's hired to track down the source of a strange collection of video footage on the Internet.

KING KONG

'Entertainment Weekly' interviewed director Peter Jackson about his upcoming adaptation of King Kong. Jackson: "We are not reinventing it. Our story follows the same structure. It starts in New York, goes to Skull Island, and there's dinosaurs on the island. Then it comes back to New York and there's the Empire State Building and the biplanes and the whole thing."
"[We're trying to make it more] emotionally truthful. I put that ahead of anything else, including technology and the realism of the effects."
"Everybody's image of King Kong is that it's this amazing beauty-and-the-beast love story. And when you look at the original film, there is as sense that Kong is feeling an attraction toward Ann - probably the first empathy he's felt in his life toward another living creature."

"But Ann is not giving him a thing. She just looks at him as an object of horror the entire time. She screams at him, she's terrified. Her relationship with Kong doesn't go beyond that. We're having a lot of fun making it more psychologically real."

King Kong will be released in December 2005.

THE LOVELY BONES

Director Peter Jackson and writing partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are in talks to adapt Alice Sebold's best-selling novel The Lovely Bones after completing their King Kong remake, reports 'Variety'.

The Lovely Bones is a heartbreaking tale narrated by a 14-year old girl after she has been raped and murdered. From heaven, the girl observes her shattered family's attempt to heal, as a detective tries to solve the case and her killer moves along his demented path...

The film rights are held by 'FilmFour' and producer Aimee Peyronnet, who made an option deal in 2000 based on the book's first 100 pages.

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

Screenwriter Mark Protosevich (The Cell) is writing a remake of The Poseidon Adventure for director Wolfgang Petersen's 'Radiant Pictures' and 'Warner Brothers'.

The original movie, released in 1972, told the story of a group of survivors trapped on a passenger ship after it was capsized by a monster wave. A sequel followed in 1979, Beyond The Poseidon Adventure.

The new movie will be set in the present day and follow a new set of characters that attempts to survive after a tidal wave capsizes the S.S. Poseidon.

SIN CITY

'The Hollywood Reporter' states that Jessica Alba (Honey) is in talks to star in Sin City for 'Dimension Films', co-written, directed and produced by Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn) and Frank Miller.

Miller wrote the graphic novel series that has inspired the film, which is comprised of three intertwining vignettes revolving around a dark set of characters who call the fictional corrupt town home.

Alba will star in a section with Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke, playing Nancy, a beautiful exotic dancer known as "the sweetheart of Sin City." Jaime King, Elijah Wood and Brittany Murphy have also been cast.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3

Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation, right) has joined the cast of Mission Impossible 3 for 'Paramount Pictures'. She will portray an ally of Cruise's Ethan Hunt character.

SUB-MARINER

A rumour is circulating that The Rock is attached to star in another 'Marvel' superhero comic-book adaptation - The Sub-Mariner.

THE VEGA BROTHERS

'Rolling Stone' magazine interviewed writer-director Quentin Tarantino about Kill Bill Volume 2, and Tarantino also revealed the often rumoured Vega Brothers could be his next film.

Tarantino: "It's a sequel to both Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, actually, it's a sequel and it's a prequel. It's The Vega Brothers, played by Michael Madsen [Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs] and John Travolta [Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction]."

"I have been trying to do it for years, and the more time I take, the older these two guys get. But I've come up with an idea that won't much matter how much they age... the magic of movies. It's going to be great. It'll be funny, and these guys are so great, alright, they're going to be like two oversized mob-men fighting over the last bowl of pasta, that we can't go wrong.

"It's just going to be John and Michael, and I hope to make this my next movie. We're laying down the pipework for it now."