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High Noon - 16th April 2008
Written by Paul Arendt
听 Gere Woos Swank
Richard Gere is keeping busy with a pair of high profile movie projects. First up, he's marrying Hilary Swank in Amelia, the story of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Mira Nair is directing from a script by Ron Bass. And my golly, could there be any more perfect casting than Hilary Swank? Take a look at and tell me the similarity isn't spooky.

Next, Gere will star in Antoine Fuqua's film Brooklyn's Finest, a police thriller about three cops drawn together by deadly circumstance or something. Cops two and three are Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke, according to . Sadly, all this proper factual information has left us with no room for the now tradional "Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany" joke. Bet he's relieved.
听 Farrellys Quaff Beaujolais
Gross-out kings the Farrelly Brothers have landed themselves a new comedy project. According to , Fox has bought a script called Beajolais for the brothers to produce and possibly direct.

Despite the title, Beaujolais has nothing to do with wine. Instead, it's described as a redneck action adventure in the spirit of Austin Powers. With the Farrellys on board, we can expect plenty of dodgy gags about banjos and, um, family relations. You know.
听 Milla Heads North
Milla Jojovich is set to star in The 4th Kind, a mystery flick for Gold Circle Films. Details on the project are scarce, but tells us that it's a fact based thriller set in an Alaskan town where there have been a series of disappearances over the course of four decades.

Of course, if they're sending Milla to investigate, the culprit is probably zombies.
听 Janney's Double Whammy
Alison Janney, still best known to viewers as the indomitable CJ from the West Wing, has landed a pair of comic movie roles. She'll appear first in This Must Be The Place, the Sam Mendes-directed relationship tale, opposite Toni Collette.

Then it's straight on to A Thousand Words, a high concept Eddie Murphy comedy directed by Brian Robbins. According to , Murphy plays a man who finds he has only a thousand words left to say before he dies. Ah, if wishing made it so... Anyway, Janney has apparently been cast as his avaricious boss. With all this and a Broadway role in the stage musical version of Dolly Parton's 9 To 5, Janney's career is looking rosy.
听 Hulk Sighted
Finally, for those of you who just can't wait to see Edward Norton losing his rag in The Incredible Hulk, Universal has released a rather splendid poster for the forthcoming superhero blockbuster. You can see it . Note the excellent muscle tone.

And if that's not enough for you, check out the , which promises a surfeit car smashin', monster mashin' carnage, and none of those arty shots of rock and lichen that made up the bulk of the last movie.