MGM is backing a remake of the 1980s musical Fame with producer Mark Canton (300) and Lakeshore Entertainment. The $25 million remake is slated for a summer 2008 release. MGM says it has a writer and director for the project, but has not revealed who they are. Casting is not yet underway. The original starred Irene Cara and Debbie Allen and launched a TV series and stage show. MGM says the remake will be an updated version, but retain many of the musical elements and songs from the original.

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12. Private Resort (1985)

A Jump Street-era Johnny Depp teams up with Rob Morrow to turn a swanky
Club Med-style getaway into their own hottie harem. Hector Elizondo’s
jewel thief and his statuesque trophy wife (Police Academy’s Leslie
Easterbrook) complicate their randy Benny Hill-ish scheme.

11. Hardbodies (1984)

Seeing all the fun the kids were having, a trio of horny middle-aged
shnooks try to get in on the action by renting a Venice Beach bachelor
pad and taking lessons in jailbait seduction from Casanova Scotty Palmer
(Grant Cramer).

10. Class (1983)

Rule No. 1: Never get it on with your prep school roommate’s mom, even
if she is Jacqueline Bisset. Andrew McCarthy ignores this golden rule,
makes an enemy of roommate Rob Lowe, and in the process becomes a man.

9. Losin’ It (1983)

A babyfaced Tom Cruise heads south of the border to lose his virginity
in Tijuana. Along for the ride? Jackie Earle Haley as his horndog buddy
and Shelly Long as a divorcee with a thing or two to teach him about
the ladies.

8. Spring Break (1983)

Two lovable losers share a Fort Lauderdale motel room with a couple of
guys from New York City and get schooled in picking up coeds. Many
beers are drunk and wet T-shirt contests attended. There’s even Foxy
Boxing!

7. Hot Dog: The Movie (1984)

Sex romps aren’t limited to sunny spring break locales and private
resorts. Sometimes the colder it is, the hotter…it…gets! David Naughton
and his posse of ski-bum pals do moguls by day and hit the hot tubs by
night.

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Be still my beating heart! Ahhhh, I freaking LOVED that movie! I so wanted to be Elizabeth Shue - by the way.

According to Variety, Lynda Obst and Walt Disney Pictures are planning a remake of comedy Adventures in Babysitting and have hired the writing team of Hilary Galanoy and Elizabeth Hackett to pen the new script. The 1987 Adventures in Babysitting was penned by David Simkins and was the feature bow of helmer Chris Columbus. Obst and the late Debra Hill produced for Disney’s Touchstone label. Elizabeth Shue starred as a suburban high-school senior whose dull night of babysitting is interrupted by a call for help from a friend stuck downtown. The pic grossed $34 million.

Harry Potter starlet Emma Watson, who plays know it all Hermione Granger, has reportedly refused to commit herself to the final two films in the series.

The 16-year-old actress has become tired of being known as “that girl from Harry Potter”, the News of the World quotes teenage co-star Rupert Grint as saying.

Apparently Rupert, who has starred as the best friend of Daniel Radcliffe’s eponymous Harry in the first five movies, and Daniel himself have moved apart from Emma after she rejected the chance to earn £2 million to film Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

“Daniel and I are distant from her now. We don’t text or talk to her when we are not filming,” he told the Sunday tabloid.

But other reports state that although Emma has not signed up for the final two films, producers Warner Bros still fully expect her to.

The fifth film version of JK Rowling’s best-selling children’s series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will reach cinema screens this summer. And the book upon which the seventh and final movie will be based on, subtitled the Deathly Hallows, will be released on July 21st this year.

Forrest Gump Gets A Sequel It’s been thirteen years since Forrest Gump first ran into theaters, and now it looks like America’s favorite chocolate loving mental deficient may be back for a sequel. Forrest Gump II isn’t a new idea, Paramount has been kicking it around since the original movie made a bajillion dollars, and in 2001 they even hired Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth to pen a sequel screenplay.

An absolutely reliable, unfortunately anonymous source, contacted the source with the latest scoop on Forrest’s impending return. It seems that old 2001 Eric Roth screenplay is being dragged out of development hell for another look by Gump producers Steve Tisch and Wendy Finerman. Remember that the first Forrest Gump movie was based on a novel by Winston Groom. Roth’s sequel script was based on Groom’s followup novel, “Gump & Co”. “Gump & Co” takes place several years after “Forrest Gump” and finds Forrest’s shrimping business failed and Jenny dead, leaving Forrest a single unemployed father. As you’d expect, Gump still stumbles through more important historical events. In this case it’s a cavalcade of history from the 80s and 90s. He even meets Tom Hanks.

So, why didn’t Paramount make this five years ago when Roth first wrote the script? Apparently the project got bogged down in a big legal tiff between Groom, the book’s original author, and the studio. Groom claimed he wasn’t properly paid for Forrest Gump, and so refused to sell them the sequel rights to his other book. Evidently they’ve now worked it out.

The truly important question here is whether or not Tom Hanks will return. Our source says Finerman and Tisch are talking to him, but there’s nothing definitive yet. It is however likely that Gary Sinise will be back as Forrest’s battle damaged buddy Lt. Dan. If Tom can’t be talked into it, will they replace him? Word is they want this in theaters within the next couple of years, so while it’s possible, let’s hope they’re smart enough to scrap it if he’s not interested. No one does a better potty dance.

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