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		Smith Makes Pounds Will Smith will star in heavyweight drama Seven Pounds. He's also co-producing this story of a man intent on killing himself, but who falls in love before he can take that leap. This cheery script was penned by TV scribe Grant Nieporte who has episodes of Sabrina The Teenage Witch to his credit. A director has yet to be hired but we hear the guy who does Dick & Dom In Da Bungalow is free... Smith will next be seen in drama The Pursuit Of Happyness about a struggling salesman looking for a new direction in life. Does anyone else sense Big Willie in a midlife crisis?

		Break-Up Shakes Up BO Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn have kicked mutant butt at the US box office. The Break-Up has taken $38.1m (£20.2m) over the weekend, the biggest opening for a romantic comedy in the summer season and the third highest opening of all time for the genre behind Hitch and 50 First Dates. Meanwhile X-Men: The Last Stand followed its record-breaking opening last week by setting a new record this week... for the biggest ever second weekend drop for a Memorial Day opener. Ticket sales for Hugh Jackman and co. tumbled a massive 67% to put it in second place with $34.4m (£18.2m). It saw exactly the same percentage decline at the UK box office although it still holds the top spot with an estimated $4.4m (£2.3m). No doubt the beancounters at Fox will be issuing some X-rated memos today.

		Leguizamo Turns Blue After a stint on TV's ER, John Leguizamo and That 70s Show regular Wilmer Valderrama are teaming up for Something Blue. Disney are producing this distinctly Latino family comedy written by Danielle Sanchez-Witzel - part of the team behind sitcom My Name Is Earl. The plot follows a dad who becomes unhinged when his first-born daughter gets engaged to a young police officer. According to Variety, the project is an attempt by Disney to hold the attention of Hispanic moviegoers who make up around 40% of opening-weekend audiences in the US. Cue the jokes about hot tamales!

		McTiernan Makes Exchange Die Hard helmer John McTiernan has signed up for a Deadly Exchange. It's the first deal he's made since pleading guilty in April to charges that he lied to the FBI in the case against LA-based private investigator Anthony Pellicano. He later admitted asking Pellicano to put a wiretap on producer Charles Roven with whom he worked on 2002 flick Rollerball. Deadly Exchange sounds much less exciting than McTiernan's real life, following a terrorist as he hunts down the FBI agent who killed his father 10 years earlier.

		Zombie Resurrects Halloween House Of 1000 Corpses helmer Rob Zombie will remake John Carpenter's seminal 70s slasher flick Halloween. Dimension Films have hired him to write, direct, and compose the music with a view to release in October 2007. That's 29 years after masked psycho Michael Myers was first unleashed to do battle with a fresh-faced Jamie Lee Curtis. "This is a bit of a prequel and a remake combined," says Zombie. "Over 25 years and a lot of movies, a very scary character became something of a Halloween cliché, with Michael Myers dolls that play the Halloween music when you press their stomachs. By the end of the sequel cycle, there was little connection to the original. I take that film very seriously and I want to make it terrifying again." After the mess that was House Of 1000 Corpses, we're already terrified...