In Into the Blue 2: The Reef, a made-for-unrated-DVD sequel streeting this week, Laura Vandervoort (Smallville) and Chris Carmack (The O.C.) pick up where Jessica Alba and Paul Walker left off, playing young lovers whose diving business gets them into trouble as deep as the water. Alias alum David Anders, who plays a cash-flashing client with an ulterior motive, gave us a peek at the pretty-to-look-at drama.
TVGuide.com: Working alongside a bikini-clad Laura Vandervoort, Marsha Thomason and Audrina Patridge (The Hills).... How did you do it, man? Was there hazard pay?
David Anders: Yeah, it wasn't a bad deal at all! To get paid to get certified for scuba-diving, and work with all those great people... .
TVGuide.com: Then again, you did have to film this in some idyllic locale.
Anders: On Hawaii, the main island. When the offer came across last spring ...
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This is one unexpected sequel that just might be worth renting on DVD the week after it hits theaters Laura Vandervoort aka Smallvilles Kara and The Hills Audrina Patridge will star in Into the Blue 2 a follow-up to the oh-so-pretty-to-look-at 2005 treasure hunt starring Jessica Alba the absolute flimsiest of bikinis and a bare-chested Paul WalkerThis time around Vandervoort and Chris Carmack The OC play a married couple hired to dive deep in search of buried treasure Per the Reporter Audrina plays a no-nonsense beach babe whose boyfriend caters to her every command Hmm better start studying TMZ vids of Heidi MWM
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Dennis Miller, Joe Mantegna and Lauren Tom have joined Bonnie Hunt's untitled ABC comedy about a divorcée detective.... CBS has picked up You've Reached the Elliotts, Chris Elliott's semiautobiographical comedy about a man juggling a so-so showbiz career and his home life.... John Terry (Jack's dad on Lost) is the latest addition to ABC's Secrets of a Small Town.... Ashley Scott (who was so nasty to Jessica Alba in Into the Blue) has come aboard CBS' Jericho.... Richard Coyle (BBC's Coupling) will play Cryptic Man on CBS' superhero drama, Ultra.
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According to papers obtained by TheSmokingGun.com, Jessica Alba is threatening to sue Playboy for using a bikini-clad photo of her — from the movie Into the Blue and obtained in an "outrageous, unethical" manner from Columbia Pictures — on its March cover, thus making it appear that she is featured in a "nude or semi-nude pictorial." Arguing that the cover has caused the actress "immeasurable harm," Alba's lawyers demand that Playboy cease distributing the issue and tender a monetary settlement for the image's unauthorized use.
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Jodie Foster's Flightplan, which is being boycotted by flight attendants' unions, ruled the box office for a second week by scoring another $15 million, besting buzzed-about sci-fi newcomer Serenity (with $10.1 million), Tim Burton's Corpse Bride ($9.8 million) and the crime drama A History of Violence ($8.2 million). Into the Blue, meanwhile, having placed fifth with a scant $7 mil, wants to remind pirating unions that it paints an awfully unflattering picture of treasure hunters.
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