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MO' FILM/TV BITS: MTV’s ‘Life’; Chadha does ‘Dallas’; Latifah explains 'Hairspray'; ‘Tucker’ music.
*“Bend it Like Beckham” director Gurinder Chadha is in talks to take over the big-screen version of “Dallas” for Regency Enterprises/20th Century Fox. As previously reported, the film’s former director Robert Luketic walked away from the gig over a dispute with casting choices. Jennifer Lopez is in talks to play Sue Ellen, and John Travolta is mulling the part of J.R. Luke Wilson and Shirley MacLaine are also in discussions to join the project. The film is scheduled to be released on Nov. 10. Luketic, meanwhile, has signed on to direct “21,” the adaptation of Ben Mezrich's best-selling nonfiction book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions."
*Queen Latifah tells MTV that her upcoming big-budget remake of "Hairspray" will be adapted from both the Broadway version, and John Waters’ 1988 cult film that inspired it. "[The filmmakers are] gonna kinda step away from [previous versions] a little bit — as much as they can — to make it as contemporary and edgy as it can be," she said of the film, which stars the rapper as Motormouth Maybelle and John Travolta as Edna Turnblad. "They want to try some more interesting things with it. ... It's already given you whatever you need, and we can only enhance it by adding more to it and making it as edgy and fresh as we can."
*MySpace and Wind-Up Records are teaming for a contest that gives unsigned artists a chance to have their music appear in the upcoming movie "John Tucker Must Die" and its soundtrack. The film stars Ashanti, “Desperate Housewives” heartthrob Jesse Metcalfe, Sophia Bush, Brittany Snow and Jenny McCarthy. The winner will be chosen May 26 by a panel of celebrity judges and will score a $10,000 production budget for a professional recording of their song. The soundtrack will be released on July 18.
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