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26 June 2008 12:07 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Sarah Jessica Parker is deeply in love with New York City. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the “Sex and the City” star is in talks to topline “The Ivy Chronicles,” another comedy set in the Big Apple.

Based on the novel by Karen Quinn, the film centers on Ivy Ames, a wealthy Upper East Side mother who relocates into a cheapo downtown apartment after losing her dream job and getting a divorce.

In a quest for money to feed her children, Ivy opens a business to help upper-middle-class mothers get their kids into New York’s best kindergartens.

Warner Bros. will develop and distribute the project, which does indeed sound like a crossing between “The Devil Wears Prada” and “The Nanny Diaries.”

Besides the big-screen adaptations of “Sex and the City,” Parker recently starred alongside Dennis Quaid and Ellen Page in “Smart People.”  

Franck Tabouring

23 June 2008 12:06 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Sienna Miller was forced to wear fake breasts for her role in forthcoming action movie G.I. Joe - because her own cleavage was not big enough for director Stephen Sommers.

The Alfie star joins Dennis Quaid and Brendan Fraser to play femme fatale The Baroness in the upcoming movie, which is based on the popular U.S. play figure and TV series.

But Miller admits she was left slightly stunned when Sommers told her her small chest had to be given an extra boost so she would look more curvaceous on screen.

She says, "(I wear a) tight black leather outfit. And much bigger boobs.

"They gave me these things that looked like chicken fillets. The director said, 'I'm gonna be honest, I like girls with big boobs', and I don't have them so we made them bigger.

"At least he's honest. But I was mildly offended."

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13 June 2008 10:26 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Dennis Quaid is quitting Hollywood because he wants to bring up his baby twins well away from the paparazzi and Tinseltown fuss.

The actor is selling up in Los Angeles and moving to his wife Kimberley's hometown of Austin, Texas.

The Texan, who also owns property in rural Montana, says, "The train is going down the tracks. We have a lot of family there and we have a really nice plot of land.

"We have 30 or 40 friends and family members within two miles of us. It's kind of a no-brainer."

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15 May 2008 5:06 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Dennis Quaid is calling on the U.S. government to preserve patients' rights to sue drugmakers for injuries.

The actor's twin babies had to fight for their lives last year when they were mistakenly given a near-fatal overdose of blood thinner Heparin, and Quaid insists the mishap could have been avoided if there was a better system of marking medicines.

California regulators fined hospital bosses $25,000 (GBP12,500) after concluding the failure of staff at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to follow their own procedures resulted in incorrect doses of the drug being administered to Quaid's infants and other children.

Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington have sued Baxter International Inc, the maker of the blood-thinning drug given to his twins

On Wednesday, Quaid said victims of harm from medicines should be able to seek damages from manufacturers in state courts.

He says, "I believe if preemption of lawsuits is allowed to prevail, it will basically make all of us, the public, uninformed and uncompensated lab rats."

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8 May 2008 2:45 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Overture Films is boarding the sci-fi action film Pandorum, with Dennis Quaid (Legion, The Horsemen) and Ben Foster (30 Days of Night) in final negotiations to star. The movie is being produced by Germany's Constantin Film with its subsidiary Impact Pictures; the pair are behind the "Resident Evil" franchise. "Pandorum" centers on mysterious events aboard an abandoned space craft, with Quaid and Foster as crewmen who must discover what's happened to them and to the planet they're orbiting. German helmer Christian Alvart (Case 39, Antibodies) is directing from a script he wrote with Travis Milloy. The movie is scheduled to shoot this summer in Berlin; there was no word on whether Overture had acquired a waiver from SAG. Overture Films will release the film in North America.

16 April 2008 6:37 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Movie star Dennis Quaid has quietly bought 500 acres (202.3 hectares) of Montana countryside from his famous dead neighbours.

The actor first bought a home near Yellowstone National Park in 1978 when he was 24, and he has since bought property once owned by actor Warren Oates and moviemaker Sam Peckinpah.

His sprawling estate now includes bridleways, rolling fields and a three mile (4.8 kilometres) stretch of his own private creek.

Of his retreat, Quaid boasts, "I can walk out my door and walk about 100 miles without crossing a road."

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16 April 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Acting has cost Dennis Quaid his title as the world's top celebrity golfer - he thinks Samuel L. Jackson deserves the crown.

The Rookie star admits he likes to play a round of golf daily when he isn't working on a film, but he has been so busy on sets since the golfing world crowned him the best celebrity on the circuit, he fears his game isn't what it used to be.

He tells Outside's Go magazine, "I was a scratch golfer two years ago for about 30 minutes. Then I got a job and worked for about an entire year straight.

"In order to be good, you have to be there five days a week."

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14 April 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Slasher film Prom Night scored the top horror film opening of 2008 at the weekend (11-13Apr08), when it scared up $22.7 million (GBP11.35 million) at the U.S. box office.

Keanu Reeves' new cop drama Street Kings debuted at number two and gambling film 21 ran out of luck after spending two weeks as America's top film - it fell to three.

The only other new entry in the box office top 10 was Dennis Quaid's Smart People, which debuted at seven with $4.2 million (GBP2.1 million).

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11 April 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

You won't be reading any reviews for it, but Sony Screen Gems's horror flick Prom Night is the favorite among box-office analysts to win this weekend's movie competition. Today's (Friday) Los Angeles Times reported that tracking surveys indicate that the film will take in $18-22 million, about the same as it cost to produce. The likely No. 2 film, according to the analysts, is the Keanu Reeves-Forest Whitaker drama Street Kings, which analysts figure will bring in $10-12 million. But Daily Variety pointed out that, with the exception of Cloverfield, horror films have performed weekly this year. It suggests that Street Kings could best it. Also opening this weekend, but in only about 1,100 theaters, is Miramax's Smart People, with Ellen Page of Juno, Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker. In limited release, France's controversial award winner Persepolis, an animated film -- it now has an English soundtrack -- about a girl's experiences growing up in Iran at the time of the Islamic revolution, is due to open in 136 theaters.

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10 April 2008 2:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Even without Thomas Haden Church's familiar presence as a grubby ne'er-do-well, Smart People would still strongly recall Alexander Payne's Sideways, with its story of an unloveable, acerbic, pretentious middle-aged clot tentatively pursuing redemption through the love of a good woman. But even more so than in Sideways, there's a question of whether he actually deserves either redemption or love. Dennis Quaid's arrogant professor character isn't just the cinematic stereotype of a mildly off-putting geek who needs a wardrobe change and some dancing lessons to become a suave hero; he's an obnoxious, self-absorbed ass, the kind of guy who deliberately parks his beat-up old Saab across two parking spots, and who covers his bad behavior with sloppy lies, then gets angry at anyone who isn't fooled. He could stand in for Jeff Daniels' similarly toxic snob in The Squid And The Whale, if only he were a little smarter and a.

Tasha Robinson

7 April 2008 6:10 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

Prom queens and street kings hold court this week at the multiplexes while the college professors of "Smart People" and "The Visitor" preside at the art houses.

"Body of War"

Talk show legend Phil Donahue hands over the mic to Iraqi war veteran Tomas Young in this hard-hitting documentary that contrasts Young's struggle to re-enter civilian life as a paraplegic and anti-war activist with archival footage of an overeager U.S. Congress and what the filmmakers view as their hasty decision to greenlight the invasion. Although the film, co-directed by Donahue and Ellen Spiro, was named best documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review, "Body of War" has earned equal attention for its soundtrack led by two tracks from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, with all proceeds going to the non-profit organization Iraq Veterans Against The War. (Check out our interview with Spiro and Donahue.)

Opens in New York.

Neil Pedley

6 April 2008 10:18 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Richard T. Jones (pictured inside; Tyler Perrys Why Did I Get Married) is set to co-star in David Ellis Final Destination 4, which deserves to be in 3-d. Jones will play a security guard whose wife is killed in a car accident. Jones stars on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and recently appeared in Vantage Point, starring Forest Whitaker and Dennis Quaid. He joins Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andy Fiscella, Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Haley Webb and Mykelti Williamson in the film that is currently lensing for a 2009 release. The story kicks off when a teenager's premonition of a deadly racecar crash spares his life and those of a few lucky others. But death continues to stalk those who escaped it.

4 April 2008 10:30 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Sideways star Thomas Haden Church has developed a reputation for flashing his genitals to male co-stars on the sets of his films.

The actor admits he did it for laughs on the Sideways set and ruined Dennis Quaid's composure on the set of new film Smart People.

Church reveals he uses nude scenes to surprise his co-stars.

In Smart People, he's supposed to be lying naked on his belly but he rolled over for one hilarious take.

He says, "I did one that was frontally nude to Dennis. Dennis and the cameraman enjoyed that... Dennis whirled in disgust and left the set.

"I did the same thing in Sideways too but they're never big fans of your sticky fruits flopping around back at the studio. They're never big fans of that activity."

Church and Quaid's co-star Sarah Jessica Parker regrets the fact she was not on the set that day: "I was not privileged to be there for the sticky fruit alert."

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1 April 2008 6:57 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Dennis Quaid quit smoking when his twin babies were born last year - and he's determined this time will be for good.

The movie star admits he's tried to quit many times, without success, but so far his babies have kept his nicotine urges at bay.

He tells Outside magazine, "I quit smoking when the kids were born. I've gone over two months, and this is the one.

"I've quit a hundred times, but I've really quit this time because I want to be around for them."

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28 March 2008 11:26 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson and Lucas Black have joined Paul Bettany in the cinematic search for the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Bettany will play the Archangel Gabriel in the latterday Nativity Story, titled Legion.

The deep film, which is about to start shooting in New Mexico, follows the fortunes of a group of strangers who must deliver Christ to avoid the acopalypse.

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28 March 2008 11:26 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Dennis Quaid has threatened to sue staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles if they refuse to introduce a bar-code system to prevent medical mishaps.

The actor's twin babies had to fight for their lives there last year when they were mistakenly given a near-fatal overdose of blood thinner Heparin and Quaid insists the mishap could have been avoided if there was a better system of marking medicines.

California regulators have already fined hospital bosses $25,000 (GBP12,500) after concluding the failure of staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to follow their own procedures resulted in incorrect doses of the drug being administered to Quaid's infants and other children.

And the actor has revealed he may also take legal action if hospital chiefs don't act to improve patient safety.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Association of Healthcare Journalists on Thursday, Quaid said, "We want them to do the right thing. We're still waiting, although time is running short for us."

The Rookie star is championing the implementation of a bar-code system that scans all medication before it is administered to patients - to avoid mistakes like the one that almost cost his babies their lives.

This system has been recommended by America's top medical experts.

He adds, "They have a bar-code system in every checkout stand of every supermarket in the country, so how could it be so complicated."

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28 March 2008 4:45 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

The joys of being a new dad are especially sweet for Dennis Quaid, whose four-month-old twins survived a near-fatal drug overdose while hospitalized late last year. "It's the greatest thing to hold those kids and see their faces because we had a happy ending," he told People. "It's great be a normal dad with the normal problems of not having enough hands for both of them." The 53-year-old actor and his wife Kimberly, 36, welcomed twins Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace on Nov. 8. (The babies were born via gestational carrier). But later that month, the two were accidentally given

25 March 2008 12:09 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood star Dennis Quaid has banned his son with Meg Ryan from acting until he's 18.

Quaid wants 16-year-old Jack to study first, so he is properly prepared for the movie world.

He reveals, "He won't do it until he's 18 - at least not on my watch. He's trying to learn his craft. Some (actors) coming up seem to want to be famous first."

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21 March 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been fined $25,000 by the California Department of Public Health on Thursday in the matter of giving overdoses of a blood thinner to three infants, including the newborn twins of Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly. In all, 11 hospitals were fined for violations that caused or were "likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients," the Associated Press reports. Cedars spokesman Richard Elbaum said the facility cooperated with state authorities and intends to pay the fine. The hospital has since apologized to the patients' families and said it has taken steps to better train staff to staff.

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20 March 2008 6:35 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

California regulators have fined a Los Angeles hospital $25,000 (GBP12,500) for giving overdoses of a blood-thinning drug to three children, including Dennis Quaid's newborn twins.

Following an investigation, the California Department Of Public Health concluded the failure of staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to follow their own procedures resulted in incorrect doses of Heparin being administered to children.

The report rules the overdoses were "preventable medication errors".

The Traffic actor and his wife Kimberly's babies Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace were given almost fatal overdoses of the injectable anticoagulant in November - Cedars-Sinai staff gave the babies 1,000 times the normal 10-unit dose of Heparin shortly after they were born to a surrogate mother.

The Quaid twins have since recovered from the incident.

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