Per Variety, Edward Norton will set aside his indie cred to play Dr. Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk, a more fun follow-up to Ang Lee's Eric Bana-fronted venture.... Christina Ricci is Speed Racer's girlfriend, Trixie.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Lost's Evangeline Lilly will make her feature debut opposite John Malkovich in the supernatural thriller Afterwards.... Ted Danson has joined Mad Money, the heist comedy starring Katie Holmes, Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah.... Harvey Weinstein tells the New York Post that he's hot to round up Paltrow, Kidman, Dench, Zellweger, Zeta-Jones and Hathaway for a big-screen take on Nine.
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Per Variety, Marvel has set a June 27, 2008, release date for its new Hulk, which is not being fancied as a sequel to Ang Lee's tepidly received feature. Among summer '08's other biggies: Marvel's own Iron Man (May 2); the Batman Begins follow-up, The Dark Knight; the new Narnia film; and possibly Hellboy 2 and Indiana Jones 4.... DreamWorks is putting a new polish on the script for Dinner with Shmucks, a French remake to star the now Borat-hot Sacha Baron Cohen.... Per the Reporter, Morgan Freeman is in final talks to star opposite James McAvoy in the sci-fi actioner Wanted.... Kirsten Dunst will star in and produce A Jealous Ghost, a supernatural thriller inspired by the A.N. Wilson novel.
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Jack Colvin, best known for playing relentless tabloid reporter Jack McGee in the 1970s series The Incredible Hulk, died last Thursday of complications following a stroke. He was 71. Recalling his most memorable TV foray, Colvin once told the Los Angeles Times, "When they told me the title, I laughed. But then they gave me two scripts to read and I knew the series would go." Hulk, with Bill Bixby in the lead, ran from 1977 to 1982.
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