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Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the feature rights to Robotech, a 1980s Japanese cartoon series featuring giant lizards robots. Tobey Maguire is being eyed for the lead role, and will also produce, says the Reporter.... Per Variety, Will Smith will star in Seven Pounds, about a man who falls in love while trying to kill himself.... Ralph Fiennes will play opposite Keira Knightley in The Duchess, a period romance based on the historical bio Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. I'm already asleep.... Sony Pictures Animation is developing Open Season 2 as a made-for-DVD 2009 release.... Did I mention that the Shrek 3 DVD streets on Nov. 13, aka my sons' birthday? Kismet, I tell you.

Posted by Matt Webb Mitovich
Sep 7, 2007 10:23 AM
I wouldn't start yawning just yet, Matt. Georgiana, 5th Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the Spencers (think Princess Diana's family) and was a great beauty and leader of fashion. She was best friends with her husband's mistress and the three lived together for 25 years, each woman having children by the duke, before the duchess died and the duke married the mistress.

There are a lot of sex-scandal types of things and political machinations in her life, too. She had one known affair, with the 3nd Earl Grey by whom she had a child, and was also addicted to gambling. If the movie half does justice to her actual life, it will be far from yawn-worthy.
Posted by Katcon
Sep 7, 2007 11:42 AM
I'd pay money for TV Guide Talk, Matt!
Posted by Marcus Dixon
Sep 7, 2007 5:02 PM
I also have a son with a November 13th birthday. Why do I feel the need to share this?... I have no idea
Posted by mbarnett731
Sep 9, 2007 11:56 AM
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