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What's the best foreign movie you haven't seen? That'd be 2004's
twisty-turny drama Infernal Affairs. Claire Danes was so impressed that she's just signed on for IA codirector Andrew Lau's first American flick, The Flock. ''My character [who's a federal agent] is about to replace Richard Gere's character because he's 'retiring,' a.k.a. being fired,'' says Danes. ''He has an unorthodox method of getting information from sex offenders — he really empathizes with them to become aware of their thought process — and during these two weeks [of training], we share
an intimacy and rescue each other literally, but emotionally too.''
Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder has been a busy boy. In addition to playing sidekick to Rob Schneider and David Spade in The Benchwarmers and to Billy Bob Thornton in School for Scoundrels, as well as having a minor role in Just Like Heaven, the gyrating dynamo will headline Mama's Boy, an indie comedy about a spoiled brat none too pleased with his single mom's new beau. Righteous!
Though he's only coming aboard as an executive producer, Super Size Me star — and product of a family of educators — Morgan Spurlock is high on Class Act, a Sundance-bait doc about America's arts-education crisis. ''It follows a teacher in Florida who has had a really incredible base of students, including Andy Garcia and Brett Ratner, and using this guy as the anchor, the film explores what's going on in the rest of the country.''
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Laurence Fishburne has a confession to make: ''I'm not a gamer!'' says the Matrix star, who — along with Mariska Hargitay and Mickey Rourke — lends his
velvety tenor to Activision's True Crime: New York City. ''I really said yes to the game because I love [voice-over costar] Christopher Walken,'' admits Fishburne. ''I did a movie with him [1990's King of New York]almost 15 years ago and figured, Christopher Walken, gangsters, New
York — let's do that.''
(With additional reporting by Geoff Keighley)
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