MOVIE NEWS

9/11

'Paramount' executive Wayne Lewellen has said of the release date: "First of all, you wanted to be out before September 11th,. You really didn't want to be on that date because you don't want it to appear that we were trying to exploit it."

In related news, director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy) is also readying a 9/11 movie, entitled Flight 93 - about events on the hijacked plane that crashed into a field. Interestingly, the movie will take place in real time.

GONER

Whedon: "It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics. It's certainly darker than Serenity, and there are a lot of left turns along the way. It is something I had in mind for a while, and it just poured out of me when I finished my film."

GRINDHOUSE

Tarantino: "His movie is called Planet Terror, and mine is called Death Proof. Mine is sort of a slasher film, but instead of a knife, it's a car... his, he's dealing with zombies and all that stuff. I think his might end up being more violent, but I'm not finished with my [script] yet, so you never know."

The writer-director elaborated that he's particularly excited about filming the in-movie trailers for fake movies, saying: "That's one of the things we're looking the most forward to, shooting the phoney trailers that will play in between the movies. I'm working out my blaxploitation trailer, and possibly a kung-fu trailer, a sexploitation trailer, a spaghetti-western trailer. I just need to kind of work them out a little bit. I'm just getting them down there, but I think for sure I'm going to do the sexploitation trailer, which is called Cowgirls In Sweden."

HEADHUNTERS

Sibling screenwriters Jez and John Henry Butterworth have been brought on to write the screenplay, focusing on four New Jersey women who jet to Monte Carlo and pretend to be rich heiresses in hopes of landing wealthy husbands. There, they are targeted by four down-on-their-luck gigolos trying to pass as wealthy playboys.

Jez Butterworth previously wrote Birthday Girl, which also starred Kidman.