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Chicago – “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” star Kevin Grevioux will be in Chicago on Jan. 19, 2009 to give away a limited amount of autographed posters for the film as well as admit-two passes to the movie. Want to know where and when to show up for this special event? Read on as HollywoodChicago.com dishes to you the scoop.

Rhona Mitra in “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans”.
Image credit: Ken George, Screen Gems
Originally born in Chicago, Kevin Grevioux is a Marvel Comics writer and is one of the originators of the “Underworld” series. Along with starring in “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans,” he joins Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra and Steven Mackintosh in the film.
The “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” event with Kevin Grevioux will take place from noon to 1 p.m. on Jan. 19, 2009 at Graham Crackers Comics, which is located at 77 E. Madison between Wabash and Michigan in downtown Chicago.
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What is “Quartermain”? No idea. And apparently not a lot of people know what it is, either, although The Hollywood Reporter does know that genre fave Mark Verheiden has been hired to pen the original screenplay for DreamWorks. The film is described as a “sci-fi adventure”, so that makes it right up our alley. THR has more on the project’s background, though not necessarily more on the project itself: The sci-fi adventure springs from an original idea, though no plot details are available. Holly Bario and Jonathan Eirich are overseeing the project for the studio. “Quartermain” is one of the 17 projects DreamWorks developed then paid to take with it when it left the Paramount fold last year. Paramount retains the right to co-finance and co-distribu Genre fans should know Mark Verheiden’s name by now. Besides producing and writing shows like Heroes, Smallville, and Battlestar Galactica, he’s also
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Variety is reporting that two actors who get a lot of digital ink around these parts have been attached to the latest big-screen musical. The guys behind the recent Hairspray are looking to revive the 1950's classic Damn Yankees, and have attached Jake Gyllenhaal and Jim Carrey to the project as the male leads.
Carrey is a hot topic in these parts lately thanks to I Love You Phillip Morris (which is still ironing out distribution after its well-received Sundance premiere), where he plays a gay con man. And Gyllenhaal ... dammit, I know he was in some gay movie somewhere, I just can't remember ... Donnie Darko? No ... Bubble Boy? Eh, it'll come to me. Anyway, trust me, the gays love him!
Jakey-poo is set to star as Joe Boyd, a baseball player who sells his soul to the devil, played by Carrey.

I have a few thoughts on the casting: One,
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