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"A perfect Murder" Trailer (9.8Mb, MOV) : Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow thriller.

Summer of Sam : According to Mr.Showbiz, Leonardo DiCaprio is very interested in playing a lead role in a new Spike Lee "joint" called Summer of Sam. The film is an ensemble drama about a group of New York-area youths that takes place against the backdrop of a rash of killings that gripped the New York area in 1976 and 1977. DiCaprio is eyeing the role of a young guy living with his family in the Bronx who yearns to be a punk-rock musician. If everything comes together, Lee will direct the drama from his script later this year.

A source who spoke with DiCaprio over the weekend says the actor met Lee in Los Angeles on Sunday to discuss the project. The agency source also says that Benicio del Toro (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) is also interested in playing a role in Summer of Sam. We're also hearing that, as the Hollywood trades reported last fall, Leo still plans to star in The Stanford Prison Experiment, a drama based on an original script by Michael Lazarou. The film is about an actual 1971 psychology experiment in which 18 Stanford University students were put inside a realistic prison environment, resulting in animosity and, ultimately, violence.

Psycho : Sources say Julianne Moore and Anne Heche have committed to co-star in the pic for director Gus Van Zant, who will begin lensing this summer. Heche, according to sources, will take on the role made famous by Janet Leigh and which earlier had been offered to Nicole Kidman, who passed because of scheduling issues. And Moore is understood to be playing Heche’s sister.

Bulworth : 20th Century Fox has postponed for one week the national release of its Warren Beatty-helmed political satire, Bulworth. The film, which stars Warren Beatty as a hack U.S. senator who suddenly begins speaking out about America’s corrupt political system, will now open only in exclusive runs in New York and L.A. on May 15. On May 22, the start of the Memorial Day weekend, it will go out in approximately 1,800 theaters, according to the studio.

Dancing About Architecture : E.R. star Anthony Edwards is laying aside his scalpel to join the ensemble cast of Dancing About Architecture. The drama, which is being written and directed by Willard Carroll, already stars Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Gena Rowlands, Ellen Burstyn, Angelina Jolie, Ryan Phillipe, Dennis Quaid, Jay Mohr and Madeline Stowe.

Ghetto Fabulous : Nicole Jefferson is close to a deal to direct Fox 2000’s Ghetto Fabulous for producers Lynda Obst and Howard Rosenman. The music-driven drama, scripted by supermodel Veronica Webb, focuses on the trials and tribulations of a young African American women trying to make it as R&B singer in New York. The 27-year-old Jefferson is also attached to direct Party Over Here for MTV Films. 

A Good Baby : Henry Thomas, who appeared in the USA Network's recent Moby Dick has been cast to star in the independent adaptation of the Leon Rooke novel A Good Baby . He Stars with David Strathairn and Jennifer Ehle. Katherine Dieckmann directs.

Mad About Mambo : Actress Keri Russell has signed for the lead role in romantic comedy Mad About Mambo. The project is about a West Belfast boy who longs for a better life. To emulate his soccer heroes, Pele and Carlos Riga, he decides to learn the Samba, which leads to his meeting Russell's character. Irish writer/dirctor John Forte begins shooting in Ireland on May 25.

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Artemisia : The film which opens this Friday is a biopic about an Italian female painter, was awarded the best French feature prize at the 1998 Avignon/New York Film Festival.

"Artemisia" Trailer (2Mb MOV)

"Artemisia" Trailer (2Mb AVI)

"Small Soldiers" Trailer (6.8 Mb MOV)

"Saving Private Ryan" Trailer (7.8Mb MOV)

"Lethal Weapon 4" Official Trailer (7.7 Mb MOV)

"Halloween7 :H20" Trailer (0.5 Mb ZIP) : From Aint it cool news site .

The Next Best Thing : Variety reports that Lourdes' mommy and British actor Rupert Everett have signed to headline the Paramount dramedy The Next Best Thing. Filming on the Tom (Look Who's Talking Now) Ropelewski-scripted pic is scheduled to commence at the end of the year, though no director has yet been assigned to the project.

Madonna will play a thirtysomething single woman who convinces her best friend (Everett) to father her child. The couple hits something of a sticky wicket when she meets and falls in love with another man five years down the road. The co-stars have become quite chummy in recent months, and Madonna convinced Everett to interview her for a televised documentary earlier this year. The singer-actress recently backed out of the indie film The Red Door, in which she was to have played a woman who comes to terms with her dying brother. 

American Psycho : American Psycho is being made into a film, with production of the $10 million picture set to stat by the end of the summer. Lion Gate Films says it will finance producer Ed Pressman's project in exchange for worldwide distribution rights. Bret Easton Ellis' book (which details methods of torture and murder) revolves around a banker who commits acts of violence as an intellectual exploration and as an emotional release. Mary Harron will direct.

Killing Mrs. Tingle : Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day) heads a half-dozen actors who have signed up for Dimension Films' Killing Mrs. Tingle, the directorial debut of Scream scribe Kevin Williamson. Molly Ringwald, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael McKeon and Barry Watson have also joined the cast of the Williamson-scripted dark comedy. Shooting begins this month. The film also stars Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes and Marisa Coughlan. 

The Suburbans : Party of Five star Jennifer Love Hewitt is set to play a lead role in independent film The Suburbans for Michael Burns' HSX Films, Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films and J.J. Abrams. Stiller also has a featured role in the project. Hewitt is expected to join the production this summer after wrapping on the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer , now in production for Columbia Pictures. The Suburbans follows the travails of a group of former teen rock stars (now in their mid-30s) and their significant others as they get dragged onto the nostalgia-comeback wagon by a young, eager record executive played by Hewitt. 

Desert Flower : A biopic of fashion model and human rights activist Waris Dirie will be jointly produced by Elton John’s Rocket Pictures and Lysette Anthony’s Barnaby Films, the companies announced Tuesday. Pic will be based on Desert Flower a bio due for publication in September. Dirie, who escaped an arranged marriage in Somalia, was discovered working at a fast-food restaurant. Within weeks, she was modeling for the Pirelli Calendar and found herself thrust into the cutthroat world of high-fashion modeling.

Office Space : Alexandra Wentworth (Fox TV's In Living Color) has joined Jennifer Aniston and Ron Livingston in the cast of 20th Century Fox's Office Space. Wentworth will play Livingston's controlling and ambitious girlfriend, who ultimately loses her boyfriend when Aniston enters the picture. The film is the first live-action feature for director Mike Judge, the creator the animated Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill. The film is being produced by Fox in association with 3 Arts Entertainment. The film is shooting in Austin, Texas. 

Toscano : Judith Light, best known for her role on the ABC sitcom Who’s the Boss? , will make her feature film debut in the indie drama Toscano which shoots in Italy in June. Light joins Donald Sutherland, Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave and Linda Grave in the pic about a couple whose love affair is rekindled in middle age. Light is to portray the couple’s best friend. Dan Gordon (Murder in the First) scripted Toscano and will also direct and produce. 

Groucho Marx : Variety reports that Universal and Jersey Films are near a deal for a biopic of Groucho Marx that will be hatched by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the scribes who wrote the Jersey-produced Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon to star Jim Carrey.

The writers are setting up the project based on a pitch they came up with. The plan is for them to either write the film themselves and possibly co-direct, or they’ll give their Marx manifesto to a scribe and oversee the screenplay in hopes of co-directing.

The Groucho package was brought to Jersey partners Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher by producer David Michaels with Robert Finkelstein and Groucho Marx Prods. Michaels, who will come aboard as a producer, has spent several years tying up the life rights for the Groucho project, and though no deals have yet been finalized, Michaels said Alexander and Karaszewski will come aboard as executive producers.

“Groucho was one of the greatest anarchists in a time when the studio system controlled each and every move of their artists, on every level,” said Michaels. “Groucho challenged these ideals, professionally, politically, socially. He laid the groundwork for people like Lenny Bruce, Robin Williams and Jim Carrey to do what they do.” The scribes are Endeavor repped.