Actress Vivica A. Fox has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges of drink driving. The Kill Bill star's plea was entered by her lawyer Richard Hutton during a hearing in Van Nuys, California on Thursday . The 43-year-old was apprehended in March after she was allegedly caught driving under the influence of alcohol on a Los Angeles freeway. Police officer Leland Tang told Thursday's hearing he spotted Fox's car traveling at around 80 miles per hour in a 65 mile per hour zone. He said, "Fox exhibited signs of alcohol intoxication. A field sobriety test was administered and she scored over (California's legal limit) 0.08." A trial date has been set for 29 October. If convicted, Fox faces a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
- 9/28/2007
- WENN
NEW YORK -- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Prods. has acquired rights to "Nine Mile Falls", Deb Caletti's five-book series for young adults.
Seattle-based Vulcan will work with producer-director Rick Stevenson and Caletti to develop the Simon & Schuster coming-of-age novels into a series of TV films, marking the production outfit's first foray into small-screen features.
The company is in preliminary talks with several networks interested in co-producing the films, all of which revolve around the challenges of 16- to 19-year-old girls in the fictional Seattle-area town of Nine Mile Falls. "They are tough, smart young women navigating the minefield of growing up," Vulcan vp media development Richard Hutton said.
The first film will be Stevenson's adaptation of Caletti's 2005 National Book Award-finalist novel, "Honey, Baby, Sweetheart". It follows Ruby, a girl who falls for a dangerous motorcyclist over the objections of her mother.
Other "Falls" books planned for the small screen are 2004's "The Queen of Everything", 2006's "Wild Roses", 2007's "The Nature of Jade" and "The Fortunes of Indigo Skye", which is set for release in April.
Seattle-based Vulcan will work with producer-director Rick Stevenson and Caletti to develop the Simon & Schuster coming-of-age novels into a series of TV films, marking the production outfit's first foray into small-screen features.
The company is in preliminary talks with several networks interested in co-producing the films, all of which revolve around the challenges of 16- to 19-year-old girls in the fictional Seattle-area town of Nine Mile Falls. "They are tough, smart young women navigating the minefield of growing up," Vulcan vp media development Richard Hutton said.
The first film will be Stevenson's adaptation of Caletti's 2005 National Book Award-finalist novel, "Honey, Baby, Sweetheart". It follows Ruby, a girl who falls for a dangerous motorcyclist over the objections of her mother.
Other "Falls" books planned for the small screen are 2004's "The Queen of Everything", 2006's "Wild Roses", 2007's "The Nature of Jade" and "The Fortunes of Indigo Skye", which is set for release in April.
- 7/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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