Hanks sought for Da Vinci movie
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Actor Tom Hanks is being lined up to star in the movie adaptation of the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard, who won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, said Hanks was the man he wanted to play Professor Robert Langdon in the thriller.
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LOS ANGELES  - Tom Hanks will produce a Nazi thriller based on the newly published biography "Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal."
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Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp, from left above, will replace Heath Ledger, above right, in the film he was starring in when he died last month, Ainât It Cool News reported. The future of the $30 million film, âThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,â a morality tale directed by Terry Gilliam, was thrown in doubt halfway through shooting when Mr. Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose. In the film â which a synopsis says is about a traveling theater troupe that tempts its audiences with the chance to âtranscend mundane reality by passing through a magical mirror into a fantastic universe of limitless imaginationâ â Mr. Ledger was playing a character who is transported into three separate dimensions. These will now be inhabited, instead, by Mr. Depp, Mr. Law and Mr. Farrell.
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Moviegoers gave their blessing to the &quot;The Da Vinci Code&quot; over the weekend, spending an estimated &#36;77 million to see the Tom Hanks religious thriller.
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Actor Tom Hanks is keen to see the Oscar ceremony held as usual, and urged studios to return to the negotiating table to end a writers' strike that threatens to disrupt the climax of Hollywood's awards season.
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Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell will play Heath Ledger's character in his unfinished film Doctor Parnassus.
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Tom Hanks&#39; production  company has joined forces with HBO to turn Vincent Bugliosi&#39;s  &quot;Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F.  Kennedy&quot; into a 10-part miniseries.
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Will Tom Hanks crack "The Da Vinci Code"? Director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer, the team behind "A Beautiful Mind" and "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas," said in Newsweek that they wanted the "Saving Private Ryan" star because of the cerebral nature of Dan Brown's best-selling novel.
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LOS ANGELES - Oscar winner Tom Hanks is in talks to star in the big-screen adaptation of the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code. Hanks, who won back-to-back Oscars in 1994 and 1995, is the first choice of director
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Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard reunite for The Da Vinci Code, an adaptation of the best-selling book.
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Props, paintings and statues from The Da Vinci Code are to be auctioned off to raise money for Lincoln Cathedral.
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Ton Hanks is leading the way to star in the big screen adaptation of bestselling drama novel The Da Vinci Code. According to trade paper Hollywood Reporter, Hanks is the favourite to land the lead role of
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FLORENCE, Italy  - After 32 years on the trail of Leonardo da Vinci's lost masterpiece "The Battle of Anghiari", Maurizio Seracini thinks he is on the verge of solving one of the art world's greatest mysteries.
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A new book, âRescuing Da Vinci,â chronicles the efforts of Allied officers and soldiers to save and repatriate stolen treasures during and after the war.
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Tom Hanks will reunite with director Ron Howard to star in "The Da Vinci Code," the film adaptation of Dan Brown's best seller dissecting the origins of Christianity.
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LOS ANGELES  - Tom Hanks' production company has joined forces with HBO to turn Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" into a 10-part miniseries.
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1. The 76ers and Warner Bros., as part of the NBA&#39;s Read to Achieve program, hosted an advance screening Thursday of the upcoming Tom Hanks film, The Polar Express.