Thanks to Vittoria for this :) There is a Katie movie rumor/tidbit at E! Online Remember..this is not a definite deal, so.. Movie Scoop with Anderson Jones The Race Is On: You may have heard about the upcoming movie about the President's daughter who gets into trouble when she starts hanging around her new boyfriend. In fact, you may have heard about two such upcoming movies. That's Hollywood, a town that never met an idea it didn't like enough to do it twice. Kangaroo Jack star Jerry O'Connell wrote First Daughter years ago, and it got stuck in development hell until Forest Whitaker showed up. O'Connell tells me he picked Whitaker because "he can handle the balance between the guy's story and more emotional girl's story," he says. "He was the only man for the job." Essentially, First Daughter follows the exploits of the President's teenage daughter, who wants to date a regular guy. O'Connell says he isn't bothered by the fact that a very similar story is being made at another studio, with Mandy Moore attached. "That's how it goes," he says. "I may have been the first one to write the script, and while it's in the WGA, it's no patented invention. It actually helps my project, because it's been in development for years, and it was only after they heard about the Mandy Moore project that they put it on the fast track. We've been developing it for a couple of years. It's not a script we made from a TV movie." So, that other project may have Moore, but there's talk that Katie Holmes may sign on to O'Connell's project. Although he intends to exec produce, he doesn't have plans to star. He's just hoping they'll attach starlets to knockoffs of his other projects in development. "That way, they'll get made, as well." Link to story Another Phone Booth review: The Mediadrone More on DC's syndication deal with TBS is available at Zap2it: 'Dawson's Creek' Gets a Syndication Paddle

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