CALL IT “CAREER SURVIVAL 101”
Meg Ryan is in talks to star in an erotic thriller titled “In The Cut.” The film is slated to be directed by Jane Campion, who made “The Piano.” According to Variety, the film is about a New York writing teacher who becomes sexually involved with a detective tracking a murder.
TRIBUTE TO HEROES
Robert De Niro will host “9/11”, a two-hour CBS documentary that will include never-before-seen footage from inside the Twin Towers during the September 11 evacuation. The special will air March 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
MAN OF STEEL?
Charlie’s Angels director McG has signed on to shoot the next installment of Warner Bros.’ Superman franchise. Felicity and Alias creator J.J. Abrams is writing the script.
Fingers crossed, fingers crossed!
SHE SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT COMING
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit charging Miss Cleo and the operators of her psychic hotline with fraud. The FTC has received more than 2,000 complaints over the past 18 months.
Hopefully now we won’t have to see those commercials ever again!
Cujo gets the call in goal for Game One versus Sweden!
Go Canada, go!!!!!
I WANT TO WRITE “SHOW ME THE DVD”, BUT I WON’T
Finally announced are the full specs for that long-in-development special edition of Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire, due out from Columbia TriStar on 4/30. This two disc set looks pretty dang impressive, featuring a new 1.85;1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, English 5.1 and English, French, Spanish and Portuguese 2.0 surround and subtitle tracks, and plenty of additional extras.
Disc one also features an audio commentary with director Cameron Crowe, and actors Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and making his first audio commentary appearance ever, Tom Cruise.
Disc two features a separate transfer of the film featuring a new video commentary, also with Crowe, Cruise, Zellweger and Gooding, deleted scenes and rehearsal footage with optional commentary (and including Courtney Love’s screen test with Cruise!), the original making-of featurette as well as the “My First Commercial” and “Drew Rosenhaus: Sports Agent” clips, the Bruce Springsteen “Secret Garden” music video, trailers, and text supplements including the original Jerry Maguire “Mission Statement,” filmographies and production notes.
Two new Tragically Hip songs will appear on the soundtrack to the film “Men With Brooms.”
Sweeeeeep!!!! Sweeeeep!