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News Roundup: Seriously, dudes, they're making a sequel
News Roundup: Seriously, dudes, they're making a sequel
By
Guylaine Cadorette
, Hollywood.com Staff
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Tuesday, April 16, 2002
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Sweet! Twentieth Century Fox is planning a sequel to its 2000 low-budget hit comedy Dude, Where's My Car?. The studio is in final negotiations to sign original Dude scribe Philip Stark as well as producers Gil Netter and Wayne Rice. The sequel, entitled Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?, will follow party-hearty dudes Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott as they set out to find their car, which this time they've lost thanks to some potent marijuana, Variety reports. Fox plans to shoot the film next year while Kutcher is on summer break from the hit sitcom That '70s Show.Celebs
Kelsey Grammer has made a donation to his high school alma mater in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., The Associated Press reports. The money will be used to help the 1,600-student private school build a middle school campus and renovate athletic facilities. Although the exact amount was not disclosed at Grammer's request, the amount is reported to be in the six-figure range.Queen of comedy Phyllis Diller gave her last live performance at California State University, Northridge, Sunday night. According to the AP, Diller is not retiring but ending her live routine to focus more on painting and writing. "It isn't as easy as it looks," Diller, 84, said of standup comedy.In the Biz
DreamWorks' new animated feature about Sinbad is expected to be released in May 2003. Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of DreamWorks' co-founders along with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, said at a recent junket interview that the "tradigital" animated movie would feature the voices of Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer and Joseph Fiennes.Paramount Pictures is planning a remake of the 1966 romantic comedy Alfie, Variety reports. The film, which originally starred Michael Caine as a womanizer who rethinks his superficial existence after a near-death experience, will be directed by Charles Shyer (The Affair of the Necklace).The Tom Cruise-narrated film Space Station 3D will open to the public on April 27 at London's Science Museum and at the British Film Institute London IMAX Cinema the following day, the BBC reports. Twenty-five international astronauts, who were trained to use 3D IMAX cameras, compiled the film, which shows the complex engineering work used to build the International Space Station.Tube News
Following the success of the MTV series The Osbournes, Variety reports that the family has signed with the Endeavor talent agency to help orchestrate a possible second season of the show. According to Entertainment Weekly, the Osbournes would film the second season from their 100-year-old farmhouse located in a small town in England. Last week's episode drew more than 6 million viewers, beating everything else on cable and the major broadcast networks.In a last-ditch effort to save the show, fans of ABC's Once and Again are appealing to Disney Studio's Michael Eisner to keep the show on the air. Fans are expected to drop off more than 34,000 petitions today that were signed online.A new Emmy will be given out by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the best interactive television programming. According to the AP, the award will recognize original interactive enhancements that are integrally related to a program. Rather than receiving the Emmy statuette, winners will be presented with a plaque, which will be awarded Aug. 21 during the engineering awards presentation.Music News
The Mancunian rock quartet The Smiths have been declared the most important rock group of the last 50 years by music bible NME, dubbing them more important than Madonna, Elvis Presley or the Sex Pistols. In second were the Beatles, followed by the Stone Roses and David Bowie, Reuters reports.Blame it on piracy, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said on Tuesday. According to the trade association, global recorded music sales fell 5 percent to $33.7 billion in 2001 due in part to a sluggish economy, competition from DVDs and mass copying, which it says widely devalued the commercial value of music.Keith Richards, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crowe and the Dixie Chicks paid tribute to singer Willie Nelson on Sunday at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., the AP reports. The event was taped for the upcoming TV show Willie Nelson & Friends: Stars & Guitars, which is set to air on the USA Network May 27.
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