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D20 Tlfl YANCorYl KSl'N. SATURDAY. SI ITFMW 14. 2(M)2 MIX THE EOfiGPBlMf i Disney taking Lizzie McGuire to the big screen Teen actress Hilary Duff returning to Vancouver this fall to film Lizzie's graduation and Rome vacation By LYNNE McNAMARA (Susan Sarandon's teen daughter) and Chris Evans will join the cast and that Brian DanneUy (He Bop), who also co-wrote the script, will make his feature Unique Approach to Documentary Film-making, citing family obligations and traveL But another interesting trade forum if" Hilary Duff, who recently wrapped a role in the Frankie Muniz flick, Agent Cody Banks, returns later this fall for her starring role in Walt Disney Pictures' Ciao Lizzie! Her popular DisneyABC character Lizzie McGuire visits Rome in the teen comedy to be released next spring. The series features 13-year-old Lizzie (Duff turns 15 on Sept.

28), her parents, her KV younger broth- I er and her trior, Ac CinrAn panel, Creating Cult Classics, will explore the not-so-subtle nuances that turn marginal, often low-budget productions into enduring cult favourites. Writersdirectorsproducers Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Larry Cohen (It's Alive!) discuss the possibilities for creating cult classics. In How To Score, two accomplished composers will shed light on the pivotal role of music in film. Panelists Rolfe Kent (Legally Blonde) and Basil Pole-douris (Cecil B. DeMented) look at the defining impact of music in film and analyze the creative collaboration between the director and composer.

They'll all be at the Roundhouse Com-munity Centre (Pacific Avenue at Davie). For more information and registration call 604-685-3547. Yum At Vickram Vij's Indo-fusion eatery, Vij's on 11th Avenue near Granville, and Miranda, with Lizzie's thoughts Mary-Louise Parker In a scene with Marco Leonardi in The Five Senses. animated form Y', --( 'I il ir, ridr mil ft in live-action. film debut.

It's the story of a teen girl who finds herself pregnant and experiences Christian peer pressure, becoming an outcast at her Baptist high school. Producer Michael Stipe (of R.E.M. fame) told Variety magazine the show was "like those monster vampire high school kind of movies, only here the monsters are Jesus-freak teenagers." Nice to see Culkin carving out an adult career; he's also starred in The Pagemaster and Party Monster, both also indie films. Even darker Jason Ritter, the star of the 20th Century Fox hit Swimfan (it debuted last weekend, bringing in an estimated $12.4 million US) has replaced Brad Renfro in the New Line horror flick sequel, Freddy vs. Jason, which began shooting here last Monday with Ronny Yu (Bride of Chucky) at the helm.

Ritter, who is the son of John Ritter, and Monica Keena (The Devil's Advocate) are joining Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland and local actors Katharine Isabelle, Brendan Fletcher, Christopher Marquette, Lochlyn Munro and Gary Chalk in the film about a group of friends who team up to spark a battle between the legendary evildoers dream master blabbermouth Freddy Krueger (of Nightmare on Elm Street fame) and silent stalker Jason Vorhees (of the Friday the 13th franchise). Robert Englund will reprise his role as Freddy, while the production team hopes to have Jason cast by the" American public, but just wait! (He's also good pals with fellow Aussie Hugh Jackman.) And Doe's loft apartment set at Lions Gate Studios is a knockout, wood floors, stainless steel kitchen the day I visited, veteran ER director Mimi Leder was helming the episode "Blood Lines." Reunion If you were a fan of the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning 1977 TV comedy Soap, you would have enjoyed watching two of its stars reuniting recently. While shooting some scenes here for Mr. Saint Nick, Katherine Helmond, who played dippy Jessica Tate on the series, found herself working in a studio next door to the Da Vinci's Inquest home base in Burnaby, where DV star Donnelly Rhodes, who was Dutch Lightner on Soap, hangs out. On a break, he dropped by to visit Helmond, who was visibly moved to see her old pal.

recently. Sir Ian McKellen, here shooting X-Men 2, dined on buffalo. Hughjackman and friends ate lamb, mutton, beef and chick-en, and a few months ago, Monty Python vet John Cleese and a -J .,10" 1 1 production here and starring Dominic Purcell as a mysterious man who emerges from the sea on an isolated Pacific Northwest island, will premiere Sept. 20 at 9 p.m. on Fox and Global.

Doe possesses encyclopedic knowledge, yet has no memory of who or what he is. He manages to get to Seattle (played by Vancouver) where he befriends the police and uses his special gift to help them crack unsolvable crimes. John Marshall Jones plays Hayes, a cop assigned to the case of a missing girl who Doe intuitively feels may have some connection to his previous life. Hayes is impressed with Doe's extraordinary talents, and decides to work with him. Jayne Brook plays Lieutenant Avery, another cop who's not quite sure what she thinks of Doe.

Young New York actress Sprague Graydon, is Doe's friend Karen in the show. It's Graydon's first big role until just a few months ago, she worked at a bar in Lower Manhattan serving refreshing beverages to firefighters and Ground Zero cleanup workers. In July, after being cast in the role in Los Angeles, Graydon headed back to the bar to give her two weeks notice and finish up the job before flying to Vancouver. Purcell, by the way, is a hunky Australian actor not yet known by the Although the Hilary Duff cast has not been officially announced, members of the TV show Lalaine, who plays Lizzie's best friend, Miranda, Adam Lamberg, who's Gordo, Jake Thomas, who plays her brother, Matt, and Hallie Todd and Robert Carradlne who play her parents are expected to join her on screen. The show recently ended production after 65 episodes, which aired on the Disney Channel in 2001-2002 as part of their Zoog Weekendz schedule.

The show also airs on ABC Saturday mornings. The movie follows Lizzie as she graduates from junior high and goes to Italy for her summer vacation. They'll begin shooting in Rome on Oct. 14 for a few scenes, then head back to Vancouver, where they'll shoot for several weeks. More Saved We reported here a few weeks ago that Macaulay Culkin, Mandy Moore, Patrick Fugit and Jena Malone would be arriving shortly to shoot the dark teen comedy, Saved.

'A little more info has now trickled in: we now hear that Heather Matarazzo, Mary-Louise Parker, Eva Amurri John Cleese lady friend ordered everything on the menu. Dining on such delicacies as garnet yam and green chili dumplings in pureed onion and tomato curry, tiger prawns in serrano pepper and coconut masala with grilled kale, Cleese had everyone in the joint in stitches with his foreign accents and wacko antics. time you read this. Muckraker Moore cancels Gutsy, anti-establishment film-maker Michael Moore, winner of the 55th Anniversary Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his newest film, Bowling for Columbine, has cancelled his visit to the 17th Annual Film and Television Trade Forum on Sept. 27, where he was to have been a panelist on Reality Bites: A Postponed We've just heard that the release of Slap Her, She's French, starring Vancouver's Jane McGregor, has been moved to a tentative Nov.

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