Duchovny Alert!

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July 06, 2006

DreamWorks lighting 'Fire' for Duchovny

David Duchovny

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By Tatiana Siegel

David Duchovny has signed on to star opposite Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in DreamWorks' drama "Things We Lost in the Fire."

Penned by Allan Loeb, the story centers on a woman (Berry) whose husband (Duchovny) suddenly dies. The woman invites her husband's troubled best friend (Del Toro) to live with her family, and as the friend turns his life around, he helps the grief-stricken family confront their loss. Duchovny will appear in flashbacks.

Dogme helmer Susanne Bier ("Open Hearts") will direct "Fire," which is scheduled to start filming next month.

Sam Mendes and Sam Mercer are producing, with Pippa Harris co-producing.

Jeremy Kramer and Mark Sourian are shepherding the project for DreamWorks.

Actor-writer-director Duchovny recently acquired the life rights of Linda Brewer, who provided for her family by hosting passion parties and selling sex toys out of her car throughout the Bible Belt. Duchovny's wife, Tea Leoni, is attached to star as the Arkansas woman. Duchovny will produce the film for Touchstone Pictures and Beacon Pictures.

He next appears in Fox Searchlight's ensemble comedy "Trust the Man," written and directed by Bart Freundlich; "The TV Set," opposite Sigourney Weaver; and "The Secret," helmed by Vincent Perez.

Duchovny is repped by ICM, Melanie Greene Management and attorney Peter Nelson

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Wow, he sure has managed to get with some great co-stars!

I really like Duchovny as an actor, and am sad to only hear about him once and a while.

Hopefully he can get in some more critically acclaimed stuff than "House of D"

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July 06, 2006

DreamWorks lighting 'Fire' for Duchovny

David Duchovny

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By Tatiana Siegel

David Duchovny has signed on to star opposite Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in DreamWorks' drama "Things We Lost in the Fire."

Penned by Allan Loeb, the story centers on a woman (Berry) whose husband (Duchovny) suddenly dies. The woman invites her husband's troubled best friend (Del Toro) to live with her family, and as the friend turns his life around, he helps the grief-stricken family confront their loss. Duchovny will appear in flashbacks.

Dogme helmer Susanne Bier ("Open Hearts") will direct "Fire," which is scheduled to start filming next month.

Sam Mendes and Sam Mercer are producing, with Pippa Harris co-producing.

Jeremy Kramer and Mark Sourian are shepherding the project for DreamWorks.

Actor-writer-director Duchovny recently acquired the life rights of Linda Brewer, who provided for her family by hosting passion parties and selling sex toys out of her car throughout the Bible Belt. Duchovny's wife, Tea Leoni, is attached to star as the Arkansas woman. Duchovny will produce the film for Touchstone Pictures and Beacon Pictures.

He next appears in Fox Searchlight's ensemble comedy "Trust the Man," written and directed by Bart Freundlich; "The TV Set," opposite Sigourney Weaver; and "The Secret," helmed by Vincent Perez.

Duchovny is repped by ICM, Melanie Greene Management and attorney Peter Nelson

Thanks for the update Joe! I really wanted to see that little film that he directed which came out (VERY briefly) about a year ago. It honestly seems like his interests are much more in the vein of straight drama and human interest, don't you think??? Like this film here that you are telling us about; I have a strong feeling that Duchovny himself is not terribly 'MillenniuMistic' at all One of my VERY favorite films is of course 'Playing God' which we have talked about before; I think his performance is just awesome in this film (along with everyone else too!) and his character could VERY easily be a Mulder type fellow, even down to the manner and tone of voice (especially in the ulta-coo voiceovers) But, truthfully, I don't get the impression that these kind of stylish or 'MillenniuMistic' things are really HIS kind of thing. Just take notice of the specific kinds of films that he either produces or directs...