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		The Rock Plays Ball Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson will star in an untitled Disney comedy set against the world of American football. He'll play a superstar quarterback and committed bachelor whose life changes when an ex-girlfriend dies and the seven-year-old daughter he never knew he had turns up on his doorstep. Our teeth hurt just thinking about it.

		Moore's Love/Hate Project Julianne Moore will headline an adaptation of the Alice Munro short story Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. She'll also produce this tale of a nanny hired to care for a teenage girl (whose mother has just died) and winds up falling for the girl's ailing father. The rest of the plot is cleverly hidden in the title... Up-and-coming scribe Mark Poirier will write the script after recently landing the job of adapting Douglas Coupland's comic novel All Families Are Psychotic.

		Jackman On The Rebound 20th Century Fox have snapped up the romantic comedy pitch Rebound Guy as a potential starring vehicle for Hugh Jackman. The story follows a bachelor who only dates girls on the rebound because they never want a serious relationship. The trouble starts when he falls in love with a girl on the rebound and recruits a substitute "rebound guy" to pave the way for him. Jennifer Robinson and Dyanne Stempel made the pitch, which results in their first produced screenplay.

		Potter Putters On It's been a slow weekend at the US box office. Harry Potter remains top of the heap with a modest $20.5m (£11.8m) in its third week of release while Charlize Theron's sci-fi vehicle Aeon Flux opens at No 2 with a disappointing $13.1m (£7.6m). The numbers have yet to be confirmed at home, but the boy wizard looks to have conjured up a healthy $8.7m (£5m). That puts him well ahead of The Rock actioner Doom, which opened with around $1m (£57,7721). We bet that football-and-fatherhood comedy isn't looking so hot to Disney now...

		Director's Chair Tim Story will return for megaphone duty on Fantastic Four 2 and receive a seven-figure pay packet that triples his salary for the first film. 20th Century Fox have already booked the release for 4th July 2007. We've already booked our ticket to somewhere else... British director Iain Softley will follow up The Skeleton Key with family fantasy Inkheart. It's based on Cornelia Funke's best-selling novel about a girl whose father has the power to bring characters from books to life by reading aloud. "What attracted me was the central idea of the power of imagination," he says. Shooting begins in spring with a view to release on the Easter weekend 2007... Peter Segal (The Longest Yard) will call the shots on a big-screen version of 60s sitcom Get Smart. 40-Year-Old Virgin Steve Carell is already on board to star as the bumbling secret agent after Will Ferrell bowed out due to his increasingly hectic schedule... Bride & Prejudice helmer Gurinder Chadha will remake South Korean romantic comedy My Sassy Girl. Cameras roll in spring for the story of a dolt who falls in love with a girl who has an anger management problem. (It probably sounds funnier in South Korean.)