Angelina Jolie to Play Medical Detective

Angelina Jolie

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After meeting with best-selling author Patricia Cornwell, Angelina Jolie has agreed to star in an adaptation of Cornwell’s books whose main character is the opera loving medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Fox 2000 is acquiring the screen rights to Cornwell’s series of novels that center on Scarpetta.

Cornwell has written 16 Scarpetta novels, which gives the film the opportunity to turn into a franchise, but the first film will not be based on one specific Cornwell title.

Once Jolie confirmed that she was interested in the series, her agency, ICM, and Fox 2000 representatives negotiated for months to come up with a plan acceptable to Cornwell, who was extremely protective of her literary property. Eventually, Jolie and her manager met with Cornwell and agreed to a shared creative direction for the feature film.

The latest Cornwell novel, titled simply Scarpetta, was released in December 2008 by Putnam.

Jolie is currently starring in the movie Salt, directed by Phillip Noyce for Columbia. She is also set to once again lend her voice to the Tigress character in a sequel to Kung Fu Panda, and is considering a yet-to-be-written script for a sequel to the movie Wanted.

Celebrity Look of the Day: Ali Larter

Ali Larter

Ali Larter April 23, 2009: The Cinema Society and MCM “Obsessed” premiere, held at the School of Visual Arts theater in New York City, tonight.

Beyonce wants to do Broadway

Beyonce

Celebrity news…

Having conquered the worlds of music and film, multitalented star Beyonce says she wants to work on Broadway in a few years. The star is busy promoting her new movie Obsessed, and in an interview in New York, she said she would love to settle down, have children, cut back on touring, and make her debut on Broadway. The more regular working hours would be an added bonus, she told Reuters.

In her new movie, 27-year-old Beyonce plays Sharon Charles, a woman who takes on a stalker. But the stalker isn’t after her, but her husband. This is Beyonce’s first non-musical movie role in a while. In recent years she had singing roles in Dreamgirls and Cadillac Records.

Besides promoting her movie and dreaming of starring on Broadway, the singer is also beginning her I Am … world tour in Croatia. She’s sold more than 50 million albums all over the world, and the tour, she says, is “really theatrical.” All her hit singles will be featured in the tour.

The only recent glitch Beyonce has had to deal with lately is a doctored video that popped up on YouTube, purportedly featuring un-altered audio of a very off-key rendition of the song “If I were a Boy.” The creator of the video recently admitted that he doctored the audio to make it sound bad, and removed the video from YouTube.