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News Bites: Monday, October 4th 2004

By Garth Franklin Monday October 4th 2004 11:37PM

Boogeyman: Coming Soon reports that the Barry Watson/Emily Deschanel horror/thriller from Sam Raimi's recently established Ghost House Pictures, will be skipping theaters and heading directly to DVD and video. DVD News: Details are out for Millennium: Season 2, Collateral, Top Gun: SE, The Village, I, Robot & Las Vegas: Season 1. In My Father's Den: The film has just won the Mercedes Benz Youth Jury Prize at the 52nd San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain. In My Father's Den will be released in New Zealand by Hoyts Distribution (on behalf of Icon) on 7 October 2004 and in Australia through Icon Films on 28 October. King Kong: Filming will continue in Wellington until the end of the year, before moving to Thailand for the Samutran jungle scenes. Some post-production work will be undertaken in Los Angeles. PJ is pretending the 1976 (with Jessica Lange) film never existed. Ladder 49: The stars of the firefight drama talk about their real life training to ABC News. Layer Cake: Daniel Craig and Matthew Vaughn talk about new Brit Gangster flick to icLiverpool. Million Dollar Baby: Clint Eastwood's new flick, "Million Dollar Baby", is going to be released on December 15 in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and Chicago with a wide release sometime in January. P.S.: Stills from this drama are up at Monsters & Critics. Revenge of the Nerds: David Carradine confirmed to CHUD that he's in talks to direct. River Queen: Filming will recommence this Monday once Samantha Morton and Kiefer Sutherland have returned to New Zealand. Will finish in November. Filming will take place in the Wanganui Region, primarily around the Wanganui River. Team America: World Police: A new chat with Trey Parker and Matt Stone about "Team America," musicals and "South Park" for the trade mag Infocus is up. Terminator 4: If you thought Brit tabloids were bad, now two of their shows (Big Brekkie & TRL) are rumouring that Orlando Bloom may be cast opposite Arnie. Oi!!. The Green Hornet: News Askew reports that Kevin Smith said that he will the script for The Green Hornet finished up next week. Smith is not expected to direct. The World's Fastest Indian: Sir Anthony Hopkins will be filming the movie between November and December in Invercargill. Transformers: Tom Hansk shoots down the Optimus Prime rumours to IESB. Thanks to 'Kenny', 'B. Payne', 'Alex', 'Robert', 'Julez', 'Antoine', 'Devin', 'Aaron', 'Michael' & 'James'

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