"Snakes" leads Jackson, New Line to movie deal
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New Line Cinema has  signed a two-year, production deal with Samuel L. Jackson, who  starred in the studio's much-hyped "Snakes on a Plane," as well  as its 2005 bomb, "The Man."
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It's likely to be a  photo finish at the box office this weekend when three wide  releases targeting adults -- "Blood Diamond," "Apocalypto" and  "The Holiday" -- are sent out into the marketplace.
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You know the drill: Peter Jackson devotes the same treatment to the Academy Award-winning conclusion of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King &#151; Extended Edition" as he did to parts one and two.
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LOS ANGELES  - Court TV will next month  air a special on the psychological state of Michael Jackson,  the first of many documentaries the cable network will screen  throughout the year.
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617 Squadron wants a chat Our recent piece on Peter Jackson's forthcoming remake of The Dam Busters provoked quite a flurry of emails - much of it concerning how the screenplay writer will deal with the delicate matter of Guy Gibson's dog.â¦
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LOS ANGELES  - Ashton Kutcher is in talks to join Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington in the thriller "Lakeview Terrace."
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Tom Cruise's business partner says a new deal has been struck to secure the actor's place in the film business.
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Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie reportedly spent three days living with snakes, to get accustomed to them during the shooting for her film Alexander.
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All anyone really needs to know about this amusingly crude, honestly satisfying artifact is snakes + plane + Samuel L. Jackson.
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Universal Pictures has  scored a bull's-eye, winning a heated bidding war for a  revisionist take on the legend of Robin Hood with Russell Crowe  attached to play the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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Beleaguered pop star Michael Jackson, responding to a recent TV movie about his life and legal troubles, said in a statement he was tired of being &quot;vilified&quot; and taunted as &quot;Wacko Jacko&quot; in the public eye.
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These days the production houses have started a new trend of striking film deals with big actors.
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Even before "Alien vs. Predator," the resurrection of two tired movie franchises, captured the top spot at the weekend box office, New Line Cinema began plotting a new face-off for its horror favorites, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, who had their own moment atop the box office last August with "Freddy vs. Jason."
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Peter Jackson is  expanding his relationship with Microsoft Corp. by creating a  video game studio and confirming two upcoming titles.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Dec. 14 home video  release of director Peter Jackson's extended version of the  Academy Award-winning "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the  King" will feature 50 additional minutes of new footage, a new  musical score and a cameo appearance of Jackson being felled by  an arrant arrow.
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Microsoft taps Peter Jackson to add some magic to the Halo franchise.
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Apparently moviegoers had enough of all the mother-bleepin'   hype about the mother-bleepin' snakes on that mother-bleepin' plane.