LEGAL BRIEFS In another who-composed-what dispute, former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp is suing his old band, claiming he is owed songwriter royalties for the band's 1994 hit ''Undone (The Sweater Song)'' and all but one of the songs on the group's 1996 album ''Pinkerton.'' In papers filed in federal court in Los Angeles on April 18, Sharp claims a partial interest in all these songs, even though they're credited solely to frontman Rivers Cuomo. Sharp contends that Cuomo acknowledged as much in an April 2001 email, saying, ''It's [sic] looks like we're gonna start making money again so we (you and I) had better get this thing squared away sooner rather than later so the money flows to all the right places without getting hitched up.'' A founding member of the quartet, Sharp left the band in 1998. Also named in the suit are the band's accountants, former managers, and current members, including bassist Scott Shriner, who joined the band just last year, replacing Sharp's own replacement, Mikey Welsh....
''Cruisin''' singer D'Angelo was cruisin' down FDR Drive in Manhattan Tuesday evening in his BMW SUV when police stopped him and charged him with reckless driving. The 28-year-old soul singer was also charged with driving with a suspended Virginia license.
REEL DEALS Although he's attached to star in Ron Shelton's untitled cop drama with Josh Hartnett, Harrison Ford is taking a look at another sleuth drama. It's an adaptation of Lawrence Block's novel ''A Walk Among the Tombstones,'' a grim story about a private eye who finds himself helping a drug dealer avenge his wife's murder. Screenwriter Scott Frank (''Out of Sight,'' ''Minority Report'') is doctoring the script to Ford's specifications, meaning that Ford won't sign on to star unless he approves the changes....
Ford is also waiting for a script he likes for ''Indiana Jones 4.'' He wants playwright/screenwriter Tom Stoppard (''Enigma,'' ''Shakespeare in Love'') to take a crack at the long-gestating project. Ford will be at least 60 before cameras ever roll on the movie, but Paramount's desire to revive the franchise, whose last installment came out 13 years ago, is only one example of the sequelmania currently driving Hollywood. The studios are so desperate for any brand-name property to capitalize on that they're developing sequels to some seemingly sequel-unfriendly movies, including ''The Thomas Crown Affair,'' ''Ocean's 11'' (yes, the sequel would be called ''Ocean's 12,'' and even ''Seven.'' (would it be called ''Eight?''). That last one is a retooling of an existing script called ''Solace,'' about a psychic cop pursuing a psychic serial killer. Maybe the character can predict whether Morgan Freeman, whose already being courted for a third Alex Cross movie (after ''Kiss the Girls'' and ''Along Came a Spider'') and who just did ''High Crimes'' with Ashley Judd, really wants to do yet another world-weary sleuth role....
Nicolas Cage is in talks to star in ''Matchstick Men,'' Ridley Scott's drama about an obsessive-compulsive conman whose orderly life is disrupted by his discovery that he has a daughter. The film will shoot this summer....
