"Ben 10 DVD" star Moyer picks pair of pictures

"Ben
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He will join Richard Gere and Ben
10 DVD Set in the thriller "The
Double," and will then star in "The Big Valley" with Jessica
Lange.





"The Double" centers on a retired Ben
10 Alien Force DVD| Ben 10 operative (Gere) forced to partner with a young FBI agent (Grace)
to hunt down the killer of a U.S. senator. Moyer will play a Russian spy.
Shooting starts June 21 in Detroit. The indie project marks the directorial
debut of scribe Ben
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Next month, Moyer will hop to Louisiana for
"24
Hours DVD|
24 Hours,"
a big-screen take on the 1960s ABC series that starred Barbara Stanwyck. The
feature sees Lange stepping into Stanwyck's role of matriarch of the 24
Hours DVD Set, a family of ranchers in 19th
century California.





Moyer will play Jarrod Barkley, the
family's respected 24
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to keep their land from being taken by railroad companies. Richard Long played
him on the TV series. Daniel Adams wrote the screenplay and is 24
Seasons 1-8 DVD.





The "Twilight" stars, Tom
Cruise's funky dance Prison
Break DVD|
Prison Break
and a rainstorm of f-bombs could not stop the MTV Movie Awards from suffering a
13 percent drop in viewership, according to data issued on Prison
Break DVD Set.





The two-hour ceremony averaged 4.6 million
viewers on Prison
Break DVD Box Set, down from 5.3 million for
last year's installment, which was the show's biggest audience since 2004.





The "Twilight" sequel "Prison
Break DVDs" nabbed five awards,
including best movie. Cruise got dirty on the dance floor with Jennifer Lopez,
and few presenters or winners passed up the opportunity to titillate the crowd
with naughty Prison
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British cult TV favorite "CSI
New York DVD" is getting a U.S. upgrade
courtesy of Starz.





The premium cable outlet will share
production CSI
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season in exchange for domestic distribution rights.





The 10-episode run will debut on CSI
New York DVD box set One and Starz next
summer and take on a more international scope. The bulk of the story will shift
from the U.K. to North America, and key U.S. actors will join the cast. Stars
John Barrowman and Eve Myles will CSI
New York DVDs.








The show chronicles a group that keeps CSI
New York box set safe from hostile aliens,
and is led by an immortal named Captain Jack (Barrowman). The most recent
edition was a five-episode miniseries titled "Children of Earth."





Like "Children of Earth," but
unlike the Ghost
Whisperer DVD's two previous seasons, the
international edition of "Torchwood" will be serialized rather than
using the show's Ghost
Whisperer DVD box set"monster of the
week" format.





"It's not a new version, it's not a
reboot," creator Ghost
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to be 'Lost' and take 20 years to find out what's going on. It's going to have
a most remarkable conclusion after 10 episodes."





"Torchwood" previously aired in
the Ghost
Whisperer DVD season on BBC America. The idea
of boosting "Torchwood" into a co-production with a major network
partner was previously developed at Fox, which recently passed on the Ghost
Whisperer DVDs.





Along with its freshman hit "Ghost
Whisperer 1-5 DVD," the upcoming
"Camelot" series and its "Pillars of the Earth" miniseries,
Starz is carving out a niche as a genre-friendly network.





Hollywood actress Demi Moore is all set to
go The
Simpsons DVD in a memoir with details of her
three marriages and showbusiness career spanning three decades.





HarperCollins said on Monday that it had
bought The
Simpsons DVD Box Set rights to a memoir by
the actress that will cover her life and career. The book, as yet unnamed, is
scheduled for release in 2012.





Business news website Crain's The
Simpsons DVD Season quoted unidentified
publishing industry executives with knowledge of the deal saying HarperCollins
had agreed to pay more than $2 million for the book.





HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis
declined to The
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Moore, 47, has starred in a list of movies
including "The
Simpsons Seasons 1-21 DVD," "The
Simpsons 1-21 DVD," and "A Few Good
Men," as well as some widely-panned films such as "Striptease"
and "The
Simpsons Complete Box Set"