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Duff’s TV party
features KauaiBlue skies are on the horizon for Hawaii's film and TV production industry in the second half of 2003, with two more productions committed to or considering filming in the isles.
Hilary Duff of "Lizzie McGuire" fame will celebrate her 16th birthday next month on Kauai in an hour-long music special for the WB with the working title of "Hilary Duff Birthday Celebration" that will air concurrent with the fall release of her debut CD.
The show will feature musical performances by Duff and special guest stars to be announced later. There will be four days of filming on Kauai, including the concert and music video at the Hyatt Regency Kauai, as well as outdoor activities around the island featuring Duff and friends...
20th Television's "Extreme Dating" is considering Oahu for a series of shows in September. The show follows couples on their dream dates with their supposedly perfect-profile match. Throughout the date, the participants' ex-squeezes - provide intimate details - on each "datee" as they watch the date progress...
The name of the Kauai-based feature film "Aloha Mr. Mori," which was to star Pat Morita, has been changed, along with Morita being dropped. Michael Caine, Justin Timberlake and producer Jerry Weintraub are being wooed for the eight-week shoot scheduled to start as soon as next month...
According to sources, Universal Pictures has reserved some 80 rooms at a Hawaii hotel in the fall of 2004 for the crew of "Jurassic Park IV," slated for a summer 2005 release. Scouts were in Hawaii recently, a source said. Several Hawaii helicopter tour pilots are telling clients -- including "Reel News" -- that the sequel will film here.
Sam Neill will return as paleontologist Alan Grant. As for the plot: Twelve years after the first movie, billionaire John Hammond's dinosaurs have become an urban legend. The public is skeptical they ever existed. Then previously unidentified lizard-like animals show up around Costa Rica, causing problems with the locals. A scientific team heads to one of the offshore islands, discovering the dinosaurs are thriving and breeding uncontrollably. That poses a threat, so the scientists must find a way to slow the spread of the number of dinosaurs or face an ecological disaster.
It's likely that producers Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy will team up again for the sequel.
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