"Life on a Desert Island" - an interactive guide to surviving the wilderness and respecting the environment, based on Daniel Defoe's 1719 classic story of Robison Crusoe, will be performed as a one-man outdoor spectacle play this summer, with premiere performances beginning Saturday, July 11th at 4:30Pm in Central Park (68th Street and Central Park West) and Sunday, July 12th at 4:30Pm at Brooklyn's Prospect Park (5th Street Next to Litchfield Villa).

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Kathy Bates, Tim Curry, Colm Meaney and Philip Winchester have been set to join Sci Fi's four-hour miniseries Alice, which stars Caterina Scorsone (Starz's Crash) in the title role.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the mini-series is a modern-day take on Lewis Carroll's classic, is in production in Vancouver, B.C., for a December 2009 premiere.
Bates plays the Queen of Hearts, Curry plays Dodo, Colm Meaney plays the King of Hearts and "Crusoe" star Winchester plays the Jack of Hearts.
Additionally, Matt Frewerplays has been cast as the White Knight, Andrew Lee Potts as Hatter, Alessandro Juliani as 9 of Clubs, Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as Ratcatcher, Zak Santiago as 10 of Clubs and Eugene Lipinski as Doctors Dee and Dum.
The new version, from writer-director Nick Willing, centers on Alice Hamilton, a fiercely independent twentysomething who suddenly finds herself on the other side of a looking glass.

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Fox 2000 is definitely fast-tracking its upcoming fantasy adventure "Percy Jackson," recruiting Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan and Sean Bean to star in the big-screen adaptation of Rick Riordan's children's book series.
The story follows Poseidon's 12-year-old half-human son Percy (Logan Lerman), who sets out to save his mother and prevent a war between gods in modern America.
According to Variety, Thurman is set to play Medusa, while Brosnan stars as Chiron. Bean is playing Zeus. Other recent castings include Kevin McKidd, who plays Poseidon, and Melina Kanakerides, who's set to star as Athena.
Just a couple of days ago, Alexandra Daddario also joined the project, which Chris Columbus is ready to direct. Columbus wrote the screenplay with Craig Titley.
Thurman was last seen in "The Life Before Her Eyes." She will also soon star in "Motherhood." Brosnan, one of the stars's of "Mamma Mia!," has "The Ghost" coming up. As for Bean,
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British composer James Brett is currently working on his score for the upcoming animated sci-fi comedy Planet 51, according to agency Hothouse Music. James' previous credits include Gladiator spoof Gladiatress, last year's UK horror film Outpost and the new TV series Crusoe. Planet 51 is a Spanish/British co-production directed by Jorge Blanco and featuring an impressive voice cast including Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Jessica Biel, Gary Oldman and John Cleese. Graham Walker and Liz Schrek are handling music supervision duties on the film.
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