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David Foster Revisiting the Works of A.J. Carothers

30 April 2009 6:14 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

Producer David Foster has optioned two unproduced screenplays Fancy Hardware and Ghost of a Chance and a treatment After Paris by A.J. Carothers, the late writer responsible for TV's My Three Sons, and films Never a Dull Moment and The Secret of My Success.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Foster worked with Carothers on the projects decades ago and recently came across the scripts while cleaning out his office. Carothers died in 2007.

Fancy Hardware concerns a womanizing salesman in the 1930s. In 1972, Foster pulled together Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw and director Alan J. Pakula to do the film for First Artists, but it fell apart.

The mystery romance Ghost of a Chance involves a young girl with a memorabilia shop who attends an old movie queen's auction, only to encounter the ghost of the woman's dead boyfriend. After Paris follows an American private eye in the City of Lights who

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Scribe Hired for McQueen Biopic

23 March 2009 9:20 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news

Jesse Wigutow has been hired to pen the screenplay for a biographical treatment of screen legend Steve McQueen for producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writing deal is for seven figures.

Wigutow will adapt Marshall Terrill's biography "Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel", the film rights for which were nabbed by Cerenzie-Peters Prods. in January. The company will produce with Arthaus Pictures' Brian Oliver and Chuck Rock, who brought in the project.

Wigutow's script will trace McQueen's development from reform-school delinquent to the highest-paid actor in Hollywood and cover the star's obsession with motorcycles and racing, his drug abuse, his marriages and affairs and his hard-fought battle with cancer, which felled him in 1980 at age 50. According to the trade, Cerenzie acquired the cooperation of McQueen's widow, Barbara Minty, as well.

"McQueen wasn't only the leading man of his era,

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New Steve McQueen Biopic in the Works

23 March 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news

Jesse Wigutow has been hired to write the screenplay for a big screen Steve McQueen biopic, which will be based on Marshall Terrill's biography "Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel." Wigutow's script will trace McQueen's development from reform-school delinquent to the highest-paid actor in Hollywood and cover the star's obsession with motorcycles and racing, his drug abuse, his marriages and affairs and his hard-fought battle with cancer, which killed him in 1980 at age 50. "McQueen wasn't only the leading man of his era, he was the prototype for the modern-day movie star," Wigutow said. "Between the motorcycles and the paparazzi and his highly publicized relationship with Ali MacGraw, he epitomized fame and intrigue. When the opportunity comes along to really examine what makes a man like that tick, you say yes." The producers are looking to nail down a director and a star in time for a fall production.

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Happy Valentine's Weekend! It's All About Love!

14 February 2009 3:06 PM, PST | From Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news

Yes, I heart y'all! So I compiled All my Valentine-related posts!

First, My Favorite Romantic Films in written form!

A great way to spend Valentine's Day with the one you love is at home with a good romantic film.

Just open your box of chocolates, snuggle up with your sweetheart and be transported into the wonderful world of romance only Hollywood can provide.

Need some ideas? Here's my top 10 romantic films of all time:

1. .Casablanca. (1942): This one just gets better with age. Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart appear in black and white, but the romantic plot set against the backdrop of World War II is replete with colorful passion.

2. .Titanic. (1997): The doomed voyage of lovestruck Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is my favorite guilty pleasure! Whenever this film is on, I forget everything and focus on the incredible romance between Jack and Rose.

3. .Gone with

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