HITCHING POST Geena Davis said ''I do'' for the fourth time on Saturday. The Oscar-winning actress, 45, married surgeon Reza Jarrahy, 30, in a small, private ceremony in Wainscott, N.Y. The couple met through mutual friends two years ago and became engaged in November. Davis' previous husbands were restaurant manager Richard Emmolo, her ''The Fly'' costar Jeff Goldblum, and her ''Cutthroat Island'' director Renny Harlin.
REEL DEALS It would have been a snap for Steven Spielberg to direct the ''Harry Potter'' movies -- and that's why he chose not to. ''I purposely didn't do the 'Harry Potter' movie because for me, that was shooting ducks in a barrel. It's just a slam dunk,'' the New York Post quotes him as saying. ''It's just like withdrawing a billion dollars and putting it into your personal bank accounts. There's no challenge.'' He also said he now prefers to tell stories that are not so fantasy-based. ''I really believe that as I grow up, I have a responsibility to tell stories that are more authentic.'' So...''A.I.'' was a docudrama?...
Kate Beckinsale is in talks to join Frances McDormand in ''Laurel Canyon'' for writer/director Lisa Cholodenko (''High Art''). Beckinsale would play the aristocratic girlfriend of a Harvard Medical School graduate whose mom is a Los Angeles record producer (McDormand)....
It's always remake time in Hollywood. In development is ''Willard,'' an update of the 1971 rats-'n'-revenge classic, from ex-''X-Files'' writing team Glen Morgan and James Wong. Also, DreamWorks has picked up the option to redo 1956's ''Forbidden Planet'' (itself an outer space remake of Shakespeare's ''The Tempest,'' starring a young and serious Leslie Nielsen), after New Line let its option expire....
''Pearl Harbor'' may have drawn the scorn of movie critics and of industry-watchers who considered it a flop for its failure to break $200 million at the U.S. box office, but it stands as the summer champ in worldwide ticket sales. Add the $197 million it's earned here to the $234.4 million it's taken in abroad, and you have a film that, at $431 million, has done even better than ''Shrek'' ($425.8 million worldwide) and ''The Mummy Returns'' ($417.9 million). That number also makes it Disney's third most successful live-action release ever, after ''Armageddon'' ($554 million) and ''The Sixth Sense'' ($530 million). That whirring sound you hear is the gears turning in the brains of Disney executives trying to figure out how to capitalize on this success with a sequel....
You loved the multicultural California drag-racers in ''The Fast and the Furious.'' Now, get ready for multicultural California drag-racers on motorcycles, in ''Biker Boyz.'' The project, inspired by a real-life annual race in Fresno, will mark the directing debut of screenwriter Reggie Rock Bythewood (''Get on the Bus'').
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