Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind) has joined the cast of The Secret Life of Bees, playing the widowed father of Dakota Fanning.... Phillip Noyce (The Bone Collector) will direct (a presumably corseted, meow) Scarlett Johansson in Mary Queen of Scots, which is set for an April start.... As snuck in here late Tuesday, Kate Winslet is replacing expectant Nicole Kidman in the WWII drama The Reader.
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Carly Schroeder got her first big break when she was spotted in a Shake 'N Bake commercial by Kin Shriner and subsequently went on to play the soap vet's angelic TV daughter, Serena, for six years on the General Hospital spin-off, Port Charles. Schroeder has also shared girl time with Hilary Duff in The Lizzie McGuire Movie and "lisp-synched" Cindy Brady in the TV-movie Growing Up Brady. Now, the 15-year-old lovely is playing Harrison Ford's spunky daughter in the hostage thriller Firewall (in theaters today). Here's what Schroeder had to tell TVGuide.com about leaving soaps to cross Hollywood's velvet ropes.
TVGuide.com: Firewall was your first big Tinseltown movie premiere, right?Carly Schroeder: Yes! Jessica Mc
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Remember Port Charles cutie Carly Schroeder? The tot who played Serena Baldwin, the TV daughter of Kin Shriner's Scotty, has grown up into a 15-year-old lovely with hot prospects in Hollywood. Next month Schroeder costars in the Warner Bros. hostage thriller Firewall as the offspring of Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen. Other notables in the cast include A Beautiful Mind's Paul Bettany and 24's Chloe herself, Mary Lynn Rajskub. Nice going, Carly!
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Question: Which Sherlock Holmes movie — starring Basil, of course — has a floor that's a chessboard? Holmes looks over the second-floor balcony and sees the board. — Tawnya
What is the piece of music played over the end credits of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking? It features violin and cello, and was also played by Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany in the last scene of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Answer: As a longtime Sherlock Holmes fan, I was delighted to find not one but two questions pertaining to the world's first consulting detective. The Basil Rathbone movie in which a floor designed like a giant chessboard features into the mystery is Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943),
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Question: I've been hearing rumors that someone's making a movie based on Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code. Do you have any info?Answer: Ron Howard is directing the movie version of The Da Vinci Code, a thriller that hinges on a conspiracy to cover up the marriage of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Frequent Howard collaborator Tom Hanks stars as symbologist Robert Langdon (he's rather older and less athletic than I saw the character, but perhaps that's just me); Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu, the granddaughter of the Louvre curator whose murder begins the story; and Paul
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