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		The Quiet Man Tobey Maguire is lost for words. The Spider-Man star will play a small-town mute who aspires to be a conductor (orchestras, not buses) in romantic comedy Quiet Type. The Mirror Has Two Faces scribe Richard LaGravanese has just finished a rewrite of a script by 40 Days And 40 Nights scribbler Rob Perez. Hmmm... The Mirror Has Two Faces and 40 Days And 40 Nights? Doesn't exactly thrill, but the film's producer Michael London was behind the superb Sideways and has Edward Norton drama The Illusionist in the can, so let's not speak too soon (boom boom).

		Marital Bliss There is no such thing as bad publicity. After all the tabloid headlines and hoo-ha, Mr & Mrs Smith has scored big at the US box office. Audiences flocked to see Brad and Angelina get it on, with the action comedy kerchinging $51.1 million at the weekend. Rather less stellar was The Adventures Of Shark Boy And Lava Girl In 3D, the kiddie flick Robert Rodriguez wrote with his son Rocket, which grossed $12.5 million. George Lucas, meanwhile, needs to buy a new piggybank after Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith strolled past the $330 million mark. That will buy you a lot of check shirts.

		Get The Goat All The Real Girls writer/director David Gordon Green will make Goat, a true-life tale about "fraternity hazing" - the tradition of setting silly/extremely dangerous tasks for male students hoping to join daft social clubs (imagine Students Union Rugby clubs, without the, er, rugby). The drama's adapted from Brad Land's memoir about a 19 year old who struggles to recover from a particularly brutal introduction to college life, with Emile Hirsch (very good in the forthcoming Lords Of Dogtown) set to star.

		And Finally... After school sports drama Coach Carter proved surprisingly successful at the US box office, director Thomas Carter (no relation) will helm another real-life tale. Entitled Marcus Dixon, it'll tell the story of an 18-year-old football recruit imprisoned for child abuse after having sex with his teenage girlfriend. The Punisher writer/director Jonathan Hensleigh has inked to script and shoot Darksiders, a thriller about vampires who work for the FBI (could anyone tell the difference?). Similarly supernatural is Billy Grimm, a romantic comedy about the first Grimm Reaper (you know - big black cowl, rather white and skinny face) born with a heart. Brad Peyton will direct. Which meant nothing to us either, but we looked him up and he's made a few short films, including one with the rather ace title of Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl. Veer-Zaara cleaned up at the International Indian Film Academy awards on Saturday, nabbing six awards - including best picture. The love story, about the relationship between an Indian army officer and a Pakistani woman, also won best director for veteran helmer Yash Chopra, who announced it would be his last picture.