Gabriel Mann (The Bourne Supremacy) and Eliza Dushku will star as an attorney and his assistant in The Thacker Case, an indie based on the 1983 real-life wrongful-death case of repeat drunk-driver Kevin Thacker.... Also per the Reporter, Michelle Williams is in final talks to play Leonardo DiCaprio's dead wife in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.... Comedian Katt Williams is a former CIA agent who starts a business that lends out "temps from hell" who get unwanted employees to quit in Mission: Intolerable.
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(And no, he wasn't discovered atop this news blog.) Rather, Aurora, Colorado, science teacher Gionni Thompson is the winner of DIY Network's Stud Finder contest, and as such will host his own home-improvement series in 2007.... With eight nods, ATL's T.I. (I'm woefully lost already) leads the nominees for the inaugural BET Hip-Hop Awards, to air Nov. 15 and be hosted by Katt Williams. Busta Rhymes netted six nods, followed by Chamillionaire with five.... Over the Hedge topped the DVD sales chart last week, while The Break-Up was the No. 1 rental.... This year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert, to be held Dec. 11 in Oslo, Norway, will be hosted by Sharon Stone and Anjelica Huston, and will feature performances by Lionel Richie, Simply Red and others.
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Terminator 3 baddie Kristanna Loken has been recruited to star as Painkiller Jane in Sci Fi Channel's spring 2007 series about a DEA agent who is impervious to injury, Variety reports.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Laura Harris (24, The Dead Zone) has inked a talent-holding deal with ABC and Touchstone, which calls for her to be cast in a fall 2007 pilot or join an existing series.... Stand-up comic Katt Williams will costar on Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz, a new MTV series debuting early next year.
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